John J. Ronan
is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry, 1999–2000. His book Marrowbone Lane appeared in 2009 (Backwaters Press). He has published poems in Confrontation, Folio, Threepenny Review, Hollins Critic, Southern Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, and NYQ.
Ivana Rogar
was born in 1978 in Zagreb, Croatia. She is an editor of a literary journal Quorum and a journal for cultural theory Libra Libera. She translated numerous works of fiction and poetry and published many literary reviews. Her short story collection Dark Mirror is to be published shortly.
Marko Pogacar
was born in 1984 in Split, Yugoslavia. He is an editor of Quorum, a literary magazine, and Zarez, a bi–weekly for cultural and social issues. His publications include four poetry collections, three books of essays, and a short story collection. His texts appeared in twenty five languages. He was a fellow of, among others, Civitella Ranieri, Passa Porta, Milo Dor, Brandenburger Tor, Internationales Haus der Autoren Graz and Récollets –Paris fellowships.
Michael Palma
was born in the Bronx, New York. He has published one full–length collection of poems, A Fortune in Gold (Gradiva, 2000), and two poetry chapbooks, Antibodies (1997) and The Egg Shape (1972). He has also published translations of nine modern and contemporary Italian poets, including: Luigi Fontanella (The Transparent Life and Other Poems, 2000); Franco Buffoni (The Shadow of Mount Rosa, 2002); Paolo Valesio (Every Afternoon Can Make the World Stand Still, 2002); Maura Del Serra (Infinite Present, 2002, with Emanuel di Pasquale); and Ljuba Merlina Bortolani (The Siege, 2002). In January 2002, his terza rima translation of Dante’s Inferno was published by W. W. Norton & Co. His awards are numerous. He lives with his wife in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

