was born in Anklam, Germany, in 1980 and now lives in Berlin. In addition to writing poetry and prose, she translates English literature and is currently translating an early collection of poems by Sylvia Plath. Her first novel, Dinge, die wirheute sagten, [Things We Said Today] was published in 2010, and her first collection of poetry, oder tau, [Or Dawn] the following year. She has received numerous awards for her work.

poet and engineer, is the author of Bathsheba Transatlantic, which won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was published in 2010 by Anhinga Press. After job–hopping across Europe and the Americas, she currently divides time between New York and Tel Aviv, Israel. Her poems and essays appear in American and Israeli publications including Barrow Street, Valparaiso, Quiddity, Rattle, Folly, ilanot Review, TwoReview, CALYX, Nimrod, and others.

has published two books of poems, Rags of Prayer and Ordinary Time, both from Moon Pie Press, with a third collection due out this year. He received a master’s of fine arts from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1975. Since 1983, he has taught English at Southern Maine Community College, where he is department chairman and shop steward of his union. He recently joined The Café Review as a poetry editor.