Kevin Prufer is the author of National
Anthem (Four Way Books, 2008), Fallen from a Chariot (Carnegie
Mellon, 2005), The Finger Bone (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002)
and Strange Wood, the 1997 winner of The Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry
Series. He serves as Secretary/Vice President of the National Book Critics Circle and
is also editor of The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University
Press, 2000), Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems
(University of Illinois, 2007; w/Joy Katz), and New European Poets (Graywolf Press, 2008; w/Wayne Miller). His poems appear in the 2002,
2004, & 2007 Pushcart Prize anthologiesand Best American
Poetry,Boston Review, The New Republic, Kenyon Review,
and VQR. His personal website is here.
Wayne
Miller, Co-Editor of Pleiades and Senior Editor of Pleiades Press
Wayne Miller's first book, Only
the Senses Sleep, was published in 2006 by New Issues Press and his translation
of Moiqom Zeqo's I Don't Believe in Ghosts was published by BOA in 2007. With Kevin Prufer, he recently edited New European Poets
for Graywolf Press. He has received both the Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the
Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine. He's also the recipient of several prizes from the Poetry Society of America and
has poems in Paris Review, Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, Crazyhorse, Lit,
and Notre Dame Review. His personal website is here.
Matthew Eck's first novel, The
Farther Shore, was published in 2007 by Milkweed Editions.
He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Montana.
G. B. Crump is the
author of The Novels of Wright Morris (University of Nebraska Press).
He has published scholarly articles on such authors as D. H. Lawrence, Tom
Stoppard, and R. M. Koster in journals like Critique, Contemporary Literature,
Mid-America, Western American Literature, and The D. H. Lawrence Review.
Phong Nguyen has recently received
his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he was Editor of
Cream City Review. He has new fiction in Agni, Iowa Review, Massachusetts
Review, Florida Review, Meridian, and elsewhere. His personal website
is here.
Susan Ludvigson
is the author of several collections of poems, the most recent of which are
Trinity (Louisiana State University Press, 1997), Sweet Confluence:
New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2000), and Escaping
the House of Certainty (Louisiana State University Press, 2006). She teaches
at Winthrop University in South Carolina where she founded the Lena-Miles
Wever Todd Poetry Series.
Joy Katz,
Senior Editor of Pleiades and Pleiades Press
Joy Katz is the author of Fabulae
(Southern Illinois Univerisity Press, 2002), which won the Crab Orchard Award,
and The Garden Room, which won the 2005 Tupelo Press chapbook prize.
Her poems appear in Conduit, Boulevard, Fence, Ploughshares, Bomb, and
Best American Poetry 2003 & 2006. With Kevin Prufer, she is editor
of Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems (University of Illinois Press,
2007). She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
R. M. Kinder is the author of the
story collections Sweet Angel Band (Helicon Nine Editions, 1991) and
A Near Perfect Gift (University of Michigan Press, 2006) and the novel
An Absolute Gentleman (Counterpoint, 2007). Her stories appear widely
in magazines like Notre Dame Review, Connecticut Review, Descant,
and elsewhere.