is an eighty year old woman, fifties expatriate, writer, translator, teacher, and mother of the funk musician, MiloZ.  Her collection of stories, Notes of A Nude Model, was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2003.  Her work has appeared in the anthology The Bold New Women issued by Fawcett, the Brooklyn Rail in 2006, and as an afterword in Alfred Chester’s novel Jamie Is My Heart’s Desire, in little mags such as Raritan and Provincetown Review.  She translated Les Infortunes de la Vertu of the Marquis de Sade for Obelisk Press.

her first collection of poems, Slipstream, will be published in 2010.  A former teacher and editor, she currently directs communications at Vermont Law School and lives with her partner in Hanover, New Hampshire.  She earned a BA from Duke, MAT from Stanford, and MFA from Vermont College.

her latest book, Slow Work Through Sand, winner of the 1997 Iowa Poetry Prize, came out in 1998.  Her first collection of poems, Natural Histories (Yale, 1978), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award.  Her second collection, Dreams by No One’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987), was part of the Pitt Poetry Series.  Her poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry, The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, The Writer’s Chronicle, and Kenyon Review.  She is the recipient of two NEA Fellowships and has taught at Vermont College since 1981.

is a former landscaper and horticulturist. His debut full–length poetry collection, Capturing the Dead, won the Stevens Poetry Prize and was published in 2008 by NFSPS Press.  His poetry has appeared in The MacGuffin, Weber: The Contemporary West, and Oberon.  He is currently enrolled in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at University of North Carolina, Wilmington, where he also teaches.