has had work published in The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Review, StoryQuarterly, the anthology Husbands and Malfeasant Dogs, and elsewhere. His essay “Ordinary Blessings” was anthologized in Fathering Daughters, Reflections by Men (Beacon Press, 1999).  A novel, The Gravity of Desire, was excerpted in Chicago Quarterly Review in Summer 2013.

is the associate director of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, where she also teaches history and women’s studies.  She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, with her husband and two teenage daughters.

grew up in California, received his master of fine arts in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently finishing his doctorate in English at Harvard University.  His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, Conjunctions, The Massachusetts Review, Southwest Review, and elsewhere.

was educated at Indiana University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  He has taught English at Miami University of Ohio and is currently teaching at Tennessee Technological University.  His work has appeared in Poetry East, Artful Dodge, The South Carolina Review, The Midwest Quarterly, and other journals.