is a data analyst for a health management company in Phoenix, Arizona.  He graduated from San Jose State University (B.A. 1994, M.A. 1996) with degrees in modern European history before studying and teaching as a doctoral fellow at Tulane University and Freie Universität Berlin.  For the past five years, Hardin has been working on poetry and short stories under starry nights in the American Southwest.  These poems are the first he has published.

has had poems published in many journals and was awarded a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.  She teaches at Southern Maine Community College, is theater critic for the Portland Phoenix, and curates literary happenings at Mayo Street Arts, a former Danish Lutheran church in Portland, Maine.  She is the book reviews editor for The Café Review.

is a writer from Los Gatos, California.  Her poems, reviews, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Caveat Lector, Zoland Poetry, Main Street Rag, and Pearl, among other journals.  She teaches poetry and art in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the South Bay Arts Reporter for Examiner.com.

lives and works in the other Portland, in Oregon. Other poems have been published recently in Free Lunch, The Tule Review, Off the Coast, Third Wednesday, and Windfall. A chapbook, Night Verse, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005; a second, The Landscape There, by Stone City Press in 2009.  Filer’s wife, Marlene Anderson, created and manages the AIDS prevention education /orphan support organization, Imani Project, in eastern Kenya (www.imaniproject.org).