Susanna Lang
a collection of her poems was published in 2008 by The Backwaters Press. More recently, her poem “Condemned” won the Inkwell competition. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as New Letters, Mobius, The Baltimore Review, Kalliope, Green Mountains Review, Jubilat, and Rhino. She won a 1999 Illinois Arts Council award. She lives with her husband and son in Chicago, where she works as a curriculum coach for the Chicago Public Schools.
Preston Hood
has published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Rattle, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and other literary journals. His book, A Chill I Understand (2006), received Honorable Mention in the 2007 Maine Literary Awards. He recently completed a chapbook of poetry entitled, The Hallelujah of Listening. He resides in Lyman, Maine.
Leonore Hildebrandt
grew up in Germany and lives “off the grid” in Harrington, Maine. At home in two languages, she teaches writing at the University of Maine. Hildebrandt serves as an editor for the Beloit Poetry Journal and is a member of the Flatbay Collective. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Denver Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Quercus Review, among other journals.
Jeff Hardin
teaches at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, Tennessee. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, The Southwest Review, and Meridian. He is the author of two chapbooks, Deep in the Shallows (GreenTower Press) and The Slow Hill Out (Pudding House). His first collection, Fall Sanctuary, received the 2004 Nicholas Roerich Prize from Story Line Press.