her poems have been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poetry East, Third Coast, Birmingham Poetry Review, Louisville Review, Agni, and others.  Between This Quivering won the Coreopsis Press Poetry Award.  She is the translator of Slovene poet Sreckop Kosovel’s Look Back, Look Ahead, and has given readings and workshops in the United States and Europe.  Her translations have appeared in The Literary Review, International Poetry Review, and The Sulphur River.  In 2005 and 2006 she participated in an international poetry translation workshop in Slovenia.

is the author of eight books of poems, eight plays, a novel, a collection of short stories, a picture book for children, and dozens of essays, introductions, speeches, and book reviews. His three most recent books of poems are Happy Life (Copper Canyon Press, 2011), While We’ve Still Got Feet (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) and Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse (Copper Canyon Press, 1999).  His collection of narrative poems, Judevine, was republished in an expanded edition by Chelsea Green Publishing Company in 1999.  His honors and prizes include an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from New England College, in Henniker, New Hampshire, in January 2009; a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry in 1981; a National Endowment for the Arts Play Writing Fellowship in 1991; The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for Fiction in 1978; and The Vermont Arts Council’s Walter Cerf Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts in 2002.  He lives in the mountains of northern Vermont with his wife, painter Lois Eby.

is a poet, musician and visual artist.  His work has appeared in magazines, anthologies, online publications, and books for almost three decades.  His books include Species of Abandoned Light (Pantograph), Brambu Drezi (Books 1–3) (Barrytown/Station Hill), Cyclones in High Northern Latitudes (with Jeffrey Side and Rich Curtis) (Lavender Ink) among many others.  For information about his music, solo and with ensembles, visit: frontporchrecordings.blogspot.com or jakeberry.bandcamp.com.  He lives with his wife Bridget and three cats in Florence, Alabama.

is a poet, painter, and essayist living in Paris and Sausalito, California.  She was born in Beirut Lebanon in 1925 to a Syrian father and a Greek mother.  Her novel Sitt Marie Rose has been published in six languages worldwide and is considered a classic of Middle Eastern literature.  She is the author of numerous books of prose and poetry, and is also a painter, sculptor, and weaver whose art has been exhibited internationally. Her collections of poetry include Seasons (2008); There: In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and the Other (1997); The Spring Flowers Own & Manifestations of the Voyage (1990); The Indian Never Had a Horse (1985); and Moonshots (1966).  In addition to Sitt Marie Rose, her prose includes Of Cities and Women (Letters to Fawwaz) (1993), a series of letters on feminism that she wrote to exiled Arab intellectual Fawwaz Traboulsi; Paris, When It’s Naked (1993); and Master of the Eclipse (2009), winner of the Arab – American Book Award.