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Dana Wilde

of Troy, Maine, is an editor and columnist for the local daily newspaper.  He has been a Fulbright lecturer of American Literature in China and South Africa; taught literature and writing in Bulgaria, Maine, and New York; managed a publisher of legal books and directories; played in small-time rock and roll bands; and coached college basketball.  His writings on nature, outer space, and literature, some of which have won press and academic awards, have appeared widely over decades and many are now collected at The Mind Errant.  Recent essays can be seen in the Amateur Naturalist pages of the Bangor Daily News.

Jessica Purdy

holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College.  She teaches Creative Writing online at Southern New Hampshire University.  Her poetry has most recently appeared in Flycatcher 3, The Foundling Review, Literary Mama, Halfway Down the Stairs, and What is Home, the 2007 Portsmouth Poet Laureate program’s publication.  She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two children.