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Henry Rappaport

received his bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and his master’s degree from the University of Washington.  He co founded Intermedia Press, which published four books of his poetry.  A winner of the Whiffin Prize for poetry, Rappaport is a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.  His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Poetry Northwest, The Cape Rock, Juked, Quiddity, and other journals.  He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Renée Olander

has published poems in Artword Quarterly, Verse and Universe Poems About Science & Mathematics, Margie, 5am, Hawai‘i Pacific Review, Dogwood, South Loop Review, Controlled Burn, Sistersong: Women Across Cultures, and many other journals.  A chapbook collection of her poems, A Few Spells, will be published by Finishing Line Press later this year.  She lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

David Moreau

is the author of a chapbook, Sex, Death, and Baseball (Moon Pie Press, 2004), subjects he considers “the three greatest subjects of poetry.”  Inclusion Press of Toronto, Canada, recently published a full length collection about his work with adults with developmental disabilities, If You’re Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hand.  Moreau lives in Wayne, Maine, and listens to the Red Sox on the radio nearly every day during baseball season.

Lynn Levin

is the author of three collections of poems, Fair Creatures of an Hour (2009), Imaginarium (2005), and A Few Questions about Paradise (2000).  Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Washington Square Review, 5 AM, Boulevard, and on Verse Daily and Garrison Keillor’s radio show, The Writer’s Almanac.  Levin teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and at Drexel University, where she also produces the TV show “The Drexel InterView.”