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Radames Ortiz work has appeared in numerous literary journals including, Gulf Coast, Texas Observer, Open City, Hayden's Ferry Review, Cortland Review, and Exquisite Corpse. His work has also been collected in various anthologies which include, US Latino Literature Today, Regeneration: Telling Stories from Our Twenties, and Is This Forever, Or What?: Poems and Paintings from Texas. He was nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize. He was also awarded a 2003 Archie D and Bertha Walker fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He was the 2006-2008 Naomi Shihab Nye Scholar and was a featured poet at the Poetry at Roundtop Festival. You can follow him on twitter @radameso and read his blog at http://theamplifiedbard.blogspot.com/

Ernest Hilbert is the editor of the Contemporary Poetry Review. He was educated at Oxford University, where he edited the Oxford Quarterly. He later became the poetry editor for Random House’s magazine Bold Type in New York City. He is an antiquarian book dealer in Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, an archaeologist. He hosts the popular blog and video show www.everseradio.com. and is a video curator at Ryberg.com. His debut collection is Sixty Sonnets (2009).

Dara Wier was born in Louisiana in 1949. She received her MFA in 1974 from Bowling Green University. Wier is the author of nine collections of poetry: Reverse Rapture (2005), Hat on a Pond (2002), Voyages in English (2001), Our Master Plan (1998), Blue for the Plough (1992), The Book of Knowledge (1988), All You Have in Common (1984), The 8-Step Grapevine (1980), Blood, Hook & Eye (1977). She was a Phi Beta Kappa award finalist for Our Master Plan. In fall 2006, Wave Books will publish Remnants of Hannah, Wier's tenth book. About her work, John Ashbery has said: “It may not be for the faint of heart—most intense experiences aren’t—but those who stay with it will find themselves face to face with a world whose eerily sharp focus suggests recent satellite photographs of Mars. And they will never be the same again.” The Harvard Review has said "Recalling at moments the philosophical comedy of Wallace Stevens and Wislawa Szymborska, many of Wier's colloquial stanzas draw a reader away from a recognizable world into one in which women waltz with bears, houseflies chat with colonels, and the absence of sound makes a material presence." Her work has been included in recent volumes of Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. The American Poetry Review awarded her the Jerome Shestack Prize in 2001. She received a Pushcart prize in 2002, and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. She directs the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and along with Noy Holland and Lisa Olstein co-directs the University of Massachusetts' Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action.

EDUCATION University of California, Riverside / Creative Writing, Master of Fine Arts: Creative Writing for the Performing Arts, 2009 CSU, Fullerton / American Studies, minor History, Bachelor of Arts, 1994 Fullerton College, Associate of Arts, 1989. TEACHING CSU, Fullerton, LARC, Instructor. 1992-1993. American Studies/History.Undergraduate. Corona-Norco USD, Substitute. 2008-pres. Grades K-12. PENDING WRITINGS A Garden of Flies. Scintillating Press. Chapbook. Autumn 2009 Crunked. Epic Rites Press. Chapbook. Spring 2010 With the Patience of Monuments. NeoPoiesis Press. Autumn 2009. PUBLISHED WRITINGS Laying the Groundwork. Scars Publications. 2009. Anthology Survival of the Fittest. Scars Publications. 2009. Anthology Empty Houses. Kendra Steiner Editions. 2009. Anthology Dark Matter. Scars Publications. 2008. Anthology Hope and Creation. Scars Publications. 2008. Anthology The Downtown Cafe. Erbacce-Press. 2008. Anthology Snow in Summer and the Playground is Closed. Scars Publications. 2008. Chapbook Chasing Screaming Monkeys w/o Any Clothes. Chapbook. d/e/a/d/b/e/a/t press. 2008. Scrawl. K3 Publications. 2006.

Erica Bernheim was born in 1974 in New Jersey, and grew up in Ohio and Italy. She holds a BA from Miami University of Ohio and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared in 26, The Black Warrior Review, Bridge, The Canary, Gulf Coast, Volt, and other journals. Currently, she teaches literature and creative writing in the Chicago area, and is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals. In 2008, his poem “What They’re Doing” was selected for Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses. A graduate of the MFA program at UNC Greensboro and former poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, Albergotti currently teaches creative writing and literature courses and edits the online journal Waccamaw at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC.