Jack Christian is the author of the chapbook "Let's Collaborate" from Magic Helicopter Press. His poems have appeared recently in DIAGRAM and Phoebe.
Michael Earl Craig is the author of Can You Relax In My House and Yes, Master (Fence Books). He lives near Livingston, Montana.
Ben is moving to Amherst in the fall. He would like you to keep him in mind. His chapbook "Lamp like l'map" is published by Factory Hollow Press.
Jane Gregory's poems have appeared in Absent, Cannibal, The Hat, muthafucka, Saltgrass, Soft Targets, and Typo. A chapbook was published by Cannibal Books in 2007. Soon she will live in California.
Natalie Lyalin is the author of Pink & Hot Pink Habitat (Coconut Books). She lives in Philadelphia where she co-edits GlitterPony Magazine.
Ryan MacDonald is an artist and writer from Kansas City, Missouri. Additional writing, video work and sculpture is soon to be seen, heard, and read at the Continental Review, Fast Forward Vol. 2 as well as various film festivals and galleries around the country/internet, including his blog of artwork and reviews at www.briefepigrams.blogspot.com.
Ata Moharreri lives in Massachusetts.
Amanda Nadelberg's first book, Isa the Truck Named Isadore, was published by Slope Editions in 2006. Her poems have appeared in places like Conduit, jubilat, No: a journal of the arts, and Cannibal. Originally from Boston, she currently lives in Iowa City, where she is attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Tomaž Šalamun's most recent books translated into English are Woods and Chalices (Harcourt, 2008), Poker (Ugly Duckling Press, second edition, 2008) and There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair (Counterpath Press, 2009). Blue Tower is due out by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Fall 2010. He is this year's Struga's Golden Wreath (Struga Poetry Evenings)
Zachary Schomburg is the author of The Man Suit (Black Ocean, 2007) and Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean, 2009). He is also the author of the two chapbooks, I Am a Small Boy (Factory Hollow), The Pond (Greying Ghost), and the forthcoming collaborative chapbook with Emily Kendal Frey, Team Sad (Cinematheque Press). He co-edits Octopus Magazine and Octopus Books and live in Portland, OR.
Lauren Shapiro received her M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have been published in POOL, Passages North, Forklift, Ohio, Drunken Boat, 32 Poems, and Locuspoint, among other publications. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Herzing University in Madison, Wisconsin.
Lori Shine’s poems have appeared in 6x6, Boston Review, Conduit, New American Writing, and other magazines. A chapbook, Coming Down in White, was published by Pilot Books. She lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Jordan Stempleman is the author of five books of poetry. His most recent collection, String Parade, was published by BlazeVox Books. His forthcoming collection, Doubled Over, will also be released through BlazeVox in the Summer of 2009. He teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute and is the Associate Editor of The Continental Review.
Michael Thomas Taren is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. His poems will appear in Colorado Review. His translations of Salamun were published in 7 Poets, 4 Days, 1 Book (Trinity University Press, 2009), Slovene Sampler (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) and are accepted or published by Chicago Review, Fulcrum, Colorado Review, The Ninth Letter, Circumference and elsewhere.
Emily Toder is a translator, student, teacher, and New Yorker residing in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she runs Nor By Press. Her work has appeared in jubilat, Bird Dog, Skein and Invisible Ear, and her chapbook, Brushes With, is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky.
Jono Tosch lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. He keeps a blog about food called OilChanges. He co-founded the Chicago-based art collective, Infidel Group. He makes and hangs collages when he can. He is the assistant managing editor of jubilat magazine. His chapbook, Under Sea, was recently published by The Chuckwagon. www.oilchanges.blogspot.com
Dara Wier's SELECTED POEMS is forthcoming from Wave Books. New work appears in FOU, BAT CITY REVIEW, SUPERSTITION REVIEW, THE FAIRY TALE REVIEW, CONDUIT and THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW. She directs the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts; her editing projects include Factory Hollow Press and the Juniper Poetry Series for University of Massachusetts Press. For the MISSISSIPPI REVIEW'S new poetry series she'll be able to select three books to be published in 2010.
Matthew Zapruder is the author of American Linden and The Pajamaist. His third full-length collection of poems, Come On All You Ghosts, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2010. He lives in San Francisco, works as an editor for Wave Books, and teaches in the low residency MFA program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert.
(Issue 3 Website by UMass student Paula Lavalle)