Authors
Laura Cherry's chapbook, What We Planted, was awarded the 2002 Philbrick Poetry Award by the Providence Athenaeum. She is co-editor of the anthology Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press). Her work has been published in journals including Asphodel, Argestes, Forklift: Ohio, H_NGM_N, Agenda, and The Vocabula Review. It has also appeared in the anthologies Present Tense (Calyx Press), and Vocabula Bound (Marion Street Press). She received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She lives near Boston, where she works as a technical writer.
Jill Alexander Essbaum's publications include the full-length collections Heaven, Harlot, and Necropolis, and a chapbook of sonnets, Oh Forbidden. Her poems have appeared in religious journals, hoity-toity journals, online journals, formalist journals, and erotic publications. She is obsessed with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, her five cats, puns, sex, Old Time Radio, and God. And: Words. An an associate editor for the online journal Anti-, and a blogger for the Best American Poetry blog, she's presently at work on a novel vaguely based on the time she spent living in Zürich, Switzerland. She believes most firmly that wit trumps irony, clever beats disaffected, and, in all things, sincerity is key.
Gary L. McDowell was born and raised in suburban Chicago. He earned a BA in English from Northern Illinois University and an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University. He’s currently teaching writing at Western Michigan University where he is studying for his PhD in Contemporary Poetics and American Literature. His first collection of poems, American Amen, won the 2009 Orphic Prize and will appear in late 2010 from Dream Horse Press. He is also the author of two chapbooks, They Speak of Fruit (Cooper Dillon, 2009) and The Blueprint (Pudding House, 2005) and is co-editor, with F. Daniel Rzicznek, of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press, 2010). His poems have been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in various literary journals, including Colorado Review, Indiana Review, The Laurel Review, New England Review, Ninth Letter, Poetry Daily, and Quarterly West. He lives in Kalamazoo, MI with his wife and their young son, Auden.
Nate Pritts is the author of two previous full length books of poetry - Sensational Spectacular and Honorary Astronaut - as well as several chapbooks. He has his MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and his Ph.D. in British Romanticism from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. The founder/editor of H_NGM_N, an online journal of poetry & poetics, Nate works as a freelance proofreader as well as technical editor, and teaches poetry at the Downtown Writers Center/YMCA in Syracuse, New York. You can find him online at NatePritts.com.