has published 19 books of poems, most recently After the Point of No Return, (Copper Canyon Press, 2112). He has also published ten novels, one of which, The Escape Artist, was made into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Lilly Prize in 1991, six yearly prizes from Poetry, two yearly prizes from Prairie Schooner, and the Arthur Rense Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2011. In 2007, his play First Class was given 43 performances at A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle. He was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets for 23 years. He edited Poetry Northwest from 1966 to 2002, and is professor emeritus of English at the University of Washington. He teaches at the low–residency M.F.A. program of the Whidbey Island Writers Workshop.

her roots are in the Rio Grande Valley, San Benito, Texas. She earned a B.A. in Sociology at Metropolitan State University of Denver and a Master of Arts in Theology at Oblate School of Theology in May 2012. For twelve years, she has lived in San Antonio, Texas with her husband Paul and their four children. Her work has appeared in Texas Poetry Calendar and San Antonio –Express News. Her forthcoming collection of poetry, Pulp, will be published Autumn, 2013 by Mouthfeel Press.

75, has been a teacher of German in colleges and Latin and English in private secondary schools. He was a member of the 1964 Olympic Nordic Team and for many years a coach with the National Team and at Gould Academy. He continues to coach as a consultant, but a life–long impulse to write has more recently become his first concern. Two of his poems appeared in The Café Review, Fall, 2010.