co-directs the creative writing program at Emporia State University and co-edits Flint Hills Review.  He has published five books: Bird’s Horn; Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano, a Kansas Notable Book and Nelson Poetry Book Award Winner; Sonny Kenner’s Red Guitar; Green Bike: a group novel; and Spider Face: stories.

is the author of several books of fiction, non -fiction, and poetry.  Her writing has won the Eugene Kaden Award, the Asian -American Studies Award, and the Minnesota Book Award.  Born in Shanghai, she earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Beijing University, her master’s degree in English literature from Long Island University, and her doctorate in comparative literature from New York University. The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bush Foundation, the New York State Council for the Arts, and the Minnesota State Arts Board, among others, Ping is also a translator, photographer, and teacher.  She is a professor of English at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

is the author of Porthole, winner of the 2012 Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry (Briery Creek Press, 2012), and a chapbook, Back of the Envelope (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2009).  His awards include the Boulevard Emerging Poet prize and a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.  A Vietnam veteran and a lawyer, he edits The Innisfree Poetry Journal.

is a retired college lecturer in English living in Scotland.  He has published work in numerous anthologies and literary magazines, including Orbis, Poetry Nottingham, Lamport Court, Poetry Now, and previously in The Café Review.  His work is in response to a world constantly closing its doors to common understanding.