Apoala with Tree #4;听Aztec Calendar;听Toltec Elegy;听Solola Market;听Labna with Flowers, Mexico;听Sacred Valley, Peru;听Edzna with Tree, Mexico;听Machu Picchu, Peru;听Xochimilco, Mexico; 补苍诲听Apoala with Cactus鈥� After graduating from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville with an MFA,听Michael Aakhus听received a grant to continue his work at the Roswell Artist in Residence Program in New Mexico. His internationally-exhibited artwork takes a primary interest in Latin American indigenous cultures, and is represented in many public and private collections throughout the United States and other countries.
Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award First Prize Winner: "Skin"鈥�Kristine Rae Anderson鈥檚听poems have appeared in听Crab Creek Review,听Entelechy International,听Phase and Cycle, the anthology听Active Voices IV, and elsewhere. In 2005 Anderson was awarded a Tomales Bay Fellowship in poetry, and she was awarded a Fishtrap Fellowship for 2006. She teaches English at Riverside Community College in Riverside, California.
Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award Second Prize Winner: 鈥淒irge for the White Birds Standing in a Marsh, Seen Through a Train Window on the Day After Thirty-fifth Birthday鈥浓赌�听first book of poetry,听Everlasting Quail, won the Katherine Nason Bakeless First Book Prize in 2000, sponsored by Breadloaf, and was published by UPNE the following year, at which time Witt received a Fulbright Fellowship to live and write in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Witt has participated in poetry festivals at Druskininkai and Vilnius at the invitation of the Lithuanian government; he has been a resident at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference and at Yaddo; and his poems have been published in Virginia Quarterly, Harvard Review, Georgia Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Fence, and New England Review, among other journals. His second book,听Sunflower Brother, won the Cleveland State University Press Open Book competition for 2006. Witt is currently looking for a publisher for his new manuscript,听Occupation: Dreamland, while serving as a visiting assistant professor of English at Whitman College.
Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award Third Prize Winner: 鈥淯nrepeatable Poem鈥浓赌�Christina Hutchins听has worked as a biochemist and a Congregational (UCC) minister, and she currently teaches philosophy of religion/aesthetics at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley. Recent poems are published in听The New Republic,听The Missouri Review,听Antioch Review,听Prairie Schooner,听Denver Quarterly,听The Southern Review,听补苍诲听Sycamore Review. She lives in Albany, California.
Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award Third Prize Winner: 鈥淟ambing Season鈥浓赌�Cora Stryker听is a former tropical field biologist and urban gardener and the recipient of the University of California Poet Laureate Award, the Bobette Bilble Gugliotta Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing, and the 2008-09 Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State. As a Steinbeck Fellow, she will be working on her first novel,Manzanita, which is set in a post-petroleum San Francisco.
鈥淐olored Store,鈥� 鈥淐ome-Along,鈥� 鈥淢oment of Here,鈥澨� 鈥淕oose Blind鈥� & 鈥淚ncident with Black Woman in a Truck鈥浓赌�Dave Smith听is the author of听Little Boats, Unsalvaged听(Louisiana State University Press, 2005), his fourteenth collection of poetry;听The Wick of Memory, New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000;听Onliness,听a novel;听Southern Delights, a collection of stories; and two collections of essays: Local Assays: On Contemporary American Poetry听补苍诲听Hunting Men: A Life in the Life of Poetry听(Louisiana State University Press, 2006). He was the editor of听The Southern Review听from 1990-2002 at Louisiana State University, where he also was the Boyd Professor of English, and has edited听The Essential Poe,听The William Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets听补苍诲听The Pure Clear Word: Essays on the Poetry of James Wright. Currently, he is the editor of the Southern Messenger Poetry Series at Louisiana State University and the Eliot Coleman Professor of Poetry at Johns Hopkins University. Smith has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in Poetry, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Lyndhurst Fellowship, as well as the Virginia Prize in Poetry and an Award in Poetry from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
鈥淭he Hinckley News,鈥� 鈥淐hoir School,鈥� 鈥淕irl Sleeping on a Trampoline,鈥� 鈥淪now Angels,鈥� & 鈥淭he Book Thief鈥� 鈥�听is author of five books of poetry,听The Resurrection Trade听补苍诲听Eat Quite Everything You See听from Graywolf Press, 补苍诲听Yesterday Had a Man in It,听Ungodliness, 补苍诲听Staying Up For Love听from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Miller is a professor of English at the University of Saint Thomas, in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
鈥淗is Heart鈥浓赌�Michelle O鈥橲ullivan听lives on the west coast of Ireland. Her work has appeared in The Sunday Tribune, Iota, Mobius, Mslexia, The Shop, New Voices, and Crannog and various other publications. Forthcoming work will appear in The London Magazine, PN Review, The Interpreters House, Obsessed with Pipework and Equinox. Nominated for The Hennessey Award 2007, she is currently working on a collection of poetry, as well as a collection of short fiction.
鈥淪he Yells George Shrinks from the Basement,鈥� "My Life in Sunglasses," "Mostly Ever After," "I'm Your Huckleberry," & "Jerusalem"鈥�Austin Hummell鈥檚听books are听Poppy听(Del Sol Press) 补苍诲听The Fugitive Kind听(University of Georgia Press). He teaches at Northern Michigan University and is poetry editor of听Passages North.
鈥淎 Thousand Words鈥浓赌�Sarah Kennedy听is the author of four books of poems, including听Consider the Lilies听(David Robert Books),听Double Exposure听(Cleveland State University Press), 补苍诲听Flow Blue听(Elixir Press). Her fifth book,听A Witch鈥檚 Dictionary, is forthcoming from Elixir Press and her sixth,听Home Remedies, is forthcoming from LSU Press. Kennedy has received grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and she is a contributing editor for听West Branch听补苍诲听Pleiades. Kennedy is an associate professor at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia.
鈥淭he News Today" & "Vortex: The Super-Sized Supermarket"鈥�听poetry has appeared recently in听Pindeldyboz听补苍诲听Diagram. His first book,听Sudden Anthem, winner of the 2007 American Poetry Journal Book Prize, is now available from Dream Horse Press. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife Julie and two unruly cats.
鈥淔unhouse at Night鈥浓赌�James Doyle's听new book,听Bending Under The Yellow Police Tapes, was published by Steel Toe Books in June, 2007. He has poems coming out in听The Briar Cliff Review,听Paper Street,听Skidrow Penthouse,听Slant, and The Paterson Literary Review.听
"Two breathings,鈥� "Waiting," "Memory, if I recall," "In a time of biblical references," & "Perhaps I'm in the wrong mood to write a Christmas carol"鈥�Bob Hicok's听most recent book is听This Clumsy Living听(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007).
"Leaf Blowers,鈥� "Ambushed,鈥� & 鈥淗ow the Future Might Work Out鈥浓赌�Stephen Dobyns听is the author of 10 books of poems, 21 novels, and a book of essays on poetry,听Best Words, Best Order. His books of poetry include听Mystery, So Long(2005);听The Porcupine鈥檚 Kisses听(2002);听Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides(1999);听Common Carnage听(1996);听Velocities: New and Selected Poems, 1966-1992听(1994);听Cemetery Nights听(1987), which won a Melville Cane Award;听Black Dog, Red Dog听(1984), which was a winner in the National Poetry Series;听Heat Death听(1980); 补苍诲听Concurring Beasts听(1972), which was the 1972 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. His fiction includes the short story collection听Eating Naked, the novel听The Church of Dead Girls, and the Saratoga mysteries featuring Charlie Bradshaw.
鈥淟etters from Mrs. Chenowith鈥浓赌擨n 2007,听闯颈濒濒听奥补濒蝉丑听received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana. She has several creative projects underway, including a novel, a collection of short stories and a children鈥檚 book, which she will also illustrate. She lives with her husband and dogs in Scarborough, Maine.
鈥淒eclensions of the Verb To Buy鈥� & "Implements"鈥�Susan Neville鈥檚听essay collections include听Indiana Winter听补苍诲听Fabrication. She is the author of the story collections听Invention of Flight, which won the Flannery O鈥機onnor Award for Short Fiction, 补苍诲听In the House of Blue Lights, selected as one of the "Best Books of 1998" by the Chicago Tribune, 补苍诲听Iconography, a memoir and meditation on writing. Her most recent book is听Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writing, Literature, and Land听(Quarry Books, 2007). A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, Neville teaches at Butler University in Indianapolis.
鈥淕ood Enough for Guppies鈥浓赌�听is a graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at New York University. His short fiction has recently appeared in the听Greensboro Review,听The Missouri Review,听StoryQuarterly,听Southwest Review听and elsewhere. Appel currently teaches at the Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City.
鈥淔our Postcard Captions鈥浓赌�Michael Martone听has recently published听Double-wide, a collection of his work over the past two decades, 补苍诲听Michael Martone: Fictions, a memoir in contributor鈥檚 notes. He is the author of many books of short fiction including听Seeing Eye,听Pens茅es: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle,听Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List,听Safety Patrol, 补苍诲听Alive and Dead in Indiana.听Michael Martone Answers Some Questions听
鈥淭he Pyromaniac's Chickens鈥浓赌�Adam听Peterson听graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in听The Cream City Review听补苍诲听Flint Hills Review.
鈥淭he Fates Embodied: Nickole Browns听Sister鈥浓赌�Melanie Jordan听received her PhD in creative writing and literature at the University of Houston. Her work has appeared in听Iowa Review,听Black Warrior Review,听Southeast Review,听Diagram,Poetry Southeast, 补苍诲听Pebble Lake Review.
鈥淧athos and Paradoxes鈥浓赌�Patrick Shaw听is director of composition at the 黑料吃瓜.听 Previously, he taught at Lindsey Wilson College, in south-central Kentucky.
鈥�Water Cure听by Percival Everett: A Review鈥浓赌擟ontributing editor听Brenda DeMartini鈥檚听stories and poems have appeared in听Confrontation,听Kansas Quarterly,听Minnesota Review,听Mississippi Mud,听The Sun, 补苍诲听Three Rivers Poetry Journal.
"The Task of Truth鈥浓赌�Mihaela Moscaliuc鈥檚听co-translations of Romanian poetry appear in听Arts & Letters,听Connecticut Review,听Mid-American Review,听Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. Other publications include articles in听Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal and History of the Literary Cultures in East-Central Europe听and听Interculturality and Translation; book reviews in听TriQuarterly,听Prairie Schooner,听Georgia Review,听Fugue, 补苍诲听Poetry International; and poems in听Great River Review,听Near East Review,听Crab Orchard Review,听New Letters,听The English Record, 补苍诲听Meridians.
鈥淪omething Like Love: Review of Benjamin Percy's听Refresh, Refresh鈥浓赌�Ken Gillam听is an assistant professor in rhetoric and composition and assistant- director of the writing program at the 黑料吃瓜.
