lives in Northern New Mexico in an old roadhouse on the Santa Fe Trail. A widely published short story writer and poet for over 20 years, he has won several awards for his work as well as being nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. His most recent book of poetry is Underground Sky. He is also the author of Adventures in the Gun Trade, Woman of the Disturbed Earth, and Las Montanas de Santa Fe, among others.

is the 2009 winner of the Francis Locke Memorial Poetry Award from Bitter Oleander and the 2012 winner of the Creative Nonfiction Prize from Thin Air magazine. The Spring 2011 Bitter Oleander includes an interview and eighteen of his hybrid works. He lives in the state of Washington.

is an editor and writer currently based in the metro Washington D.C. area. He completed an English degree at the University of New Hampshire. This is the second time he has been published in The Café Review. In addition, his work has been published in Eclipse, Fugue, Southern Poetry Review, Subtropics, The Louisville Review, The South Carolina Review, West Branch, and others.

has published eight full–length collections of poetry, including two new books in 2013: Translations from the Flesh (University of Pittsburgh Press) and The Law of Falling Bodies (University of Arkansas Press), winner of the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize. He has published poems in three editions of The Best American Poetry and in the 2013 Pushcart Prize anthology.