shipped out of San Francisco as a merchant seaman to the Far East and beyond, studied and spent time with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, and his lived in Germany since 1984, where he has worked as a shipyard welder, road manager for rock bands, cook, and postal worker. He is the author of Bread & Fish (The Figures, 2002), The United Colors of Death (Pathwise Press, 2003), The Salvador –Dalai –Lama Express, (Main Street Rag, 2009), Laughing Butcher Berlin Blues (Poetry Salzburg, 2010), and twenty other collections of poetry, prose, memoir, and translations.

is an Associate Professor of Italian at Texas Tech University. She is a scholar of modern and contemporary Italian poetry and Italian cinema, a poet, and a translator. She has written on the relationship between poetry and painting in Giambattista Marino, on Federico Fellini, and on the poetry of Franco Loi, Giancarlo Majorino, Giampiero Neri, and Andrea Zanzotto. She is completing a volume on Italian actresses. Her website is, www.victoriasurliuga.com.

has published poems, stories, plays, essays, and translations from French, German, and Russian in Poetry, The Paris Review, and Agni as well as in The Ardis Anthology of New American Poetry, An Anthology of Jewish –Russian Literature, and The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov.

is a native Kentuckian who lives in Tallahasse, Florida. A Ph.D. candidate in English at Florida State, he works with the UFF–FSU teachers’s union and on local sustainability issues. Steel Toe Books has released his first book, Romeo Bones.  He has published in Colorado Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Asheville Poetry Review. Find more at www.salutsky.com.