Angela Patten
is the author of two poetry collections, Reliquaries and Still Listening, both published by Salmon Poetry, Ireland. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies and in numerous literary journals. A native of Dublin, Ireland, she now teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont.
Daniel Lusk
is author of Lake Studies: Meditations on Lake Champlain (LCMM, 2011), Kissing the Ground: New & Selected Poems (Onion River, 1999), and other books. Besides The Café Review, his poems have appeared in Poetry, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, North American Review, Nimrod, and other literary journals. He teaches at the University of Vermont.
Mariela Griffor
was born in the city of Concepcion in southern Chile. She is the author of Exiliana (2007) and House (2007) and founder of Marick Press. Her work has appeared in Passages North, Cerise Press, Washington Square Review and elsewhere. She holds a bachelor’s in journalism from Wayne State University and a master’s of fine arts in creative writing from New England College. Her forthcoming publications include several translations including Canto General by Pablo Neruda (Tupelo Press, 2013). She is Honorary Consul of Chile in Michigan.
Polly Giantonio
lives in Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania. Her poems are forthcoming in The Wisconsin Review and have appeared several times in the Aurorean and in Seeding the Snow. An interview with Herb Leibowitz, editor and publisher of Parnassus: Poetry in Review, appeared in Poets & Writers ( July /August 2007). An interview with author Joseph Chilton Pearce appeared in Lilipoh ( Winter, 2004; Spring, 2005).

