a sensualist writer of martial literature emerging under the alias Lolita Enchanté, she is an eccentric Macedonian bohemian who loves to write for pleasure.  She comes from an old Skopje family with a background in Haute Couture.  She is an ex humanitarian worker having been involved in the international countering of trafficking in human beings and combating organized crime.  At an early age her poetry was featured in the Macedonian Poetry Society Literary Magazine, Stozer and was also featured in The Bone Orchard.

born in 1948.  He edited, with Stephen Dignazio, 26 issues of the little magazine :that: (1992–1996), and was the editor and publisher of over 120 broadsides and fascicles under the imprint Oasis Press (1996 –2005).  His publications include A Book of Currencies (1997), The Long and Short of It (1999), Interface (1999), White Gravity (1999), A Natural History of Suchness (2001) and Opulence (2010); his essays have appeared in a variety of journals and his work has been translated into Italian, Latvian and Spanish.

was born in Beijing.  He is the author of three volumes of collected works and one book of criticism on contemporary Chinese poetry in Chinese.  In English translation, he has published four full-length books, Across Borders, Another Kind of Tenderness, An Ordinary Day, and Heart into Soil, and four chapbooks, Forgive, Cat’s Eye in a Splintered Mirror, Circumstances, and Flames.  His work has appeared in numerous American journals and anthologies and has been translated into several languages.  Xue Di is a two-time recipient of the Hellman / Hammett Award and a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Fellowship.

has been teaching creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University since 1981.  Recent books include Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry; and All of the Above, poetry; and Trigger Man, short fiction.  Street, a book of his poems accompanying the photographs of Charlee Brodsky, won the Tillie Olsen Prize from the Working-Class Studies Association. His poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac,” in Billy Collins’ Poetry 180 anthologies, and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” series.  He has received the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.  His poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies.