received her bachelor’s in English from the College of Staten Island and holds a master’s of fine arts in poetry from Hunter College. She participated in the CUNY Turn Style reading series in 2010 and was selected as a commended poet for the Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Prize in 2012. Her works have appeared in Barrier Islands Review, The Flea, Hawaii Pacific Review, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, and others. She lives in Staten Island, New York.

has poems forthcoming in — or has work previously published in — a number of journals, including, Massachusetts Review, Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner, Barrow Street, and Poetry Ireland Review. His poems have been anthologized in Hacks: The Grub Street Anthology, Unlocking the Poem, and the Poets for Haiti anthology. A resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he is a past recipient of the Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Academy of American Poets poetry prize.

recently retired as a part–time lecturer at Vanderbilt University. He has authored five poetry collections, three chapbooks, and a textbook. His three current collections are The News Inside (Iris Press, 2010), Late Winter (Iris Press, 2008) and Tatters (March Street Press, 2007). Recent work appears in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Tar River Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, and Asheville Poetry Review. He received the Writer of the Year 2011 award from the Tennessee Writers Alliance.

now calls Ohio home after spending most of his life in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Several of his poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Sou’wester, Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, The New Shetlander, and The Journal (England).