is a member of the English Department at the University of Massachusetts — Amherst.  She formerly taught at Trinity College, Dublin.  She has published two collections of poetry, Frog Spotting and Sudden Thaw.  She is also the editor of the Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry and a critical book about Irish poetry, Writing Lough Derg: from William Carleton to Seamus Heaney.

is the author of the chapbook Faith (Finishing Line Press, 2008).  Her writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, Indiana Review, and others, as well as on Verse Daily.  Meserve lives in San Francisco, where she teaches, writes, and takes care of her 1– year – old son.

has published four collections of poetry, including Brilliant Water and Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; translations of Aleš Debeljak’s Anxious Moments and The City and the Child; several edited volumes, among them, The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature; and four books of nonfiction, including Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars and Things of the Hidden God: Journey to the Holy Mountain.  Merrill’s work has been translated into 25 languages.  He directs the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa.

earned an MFA at the University of Massachusetts — Amherst when Shahid ruled poetry.  Lack of poetic – DNA led to a Pushcart nomination and Kiriyama Notable Book whatsis for nonfiction, and literary thingies for Fourth Genre, Hayden’s Ferry, etc.  Resorting to trade – trash, currently, she’s stuck a gender – bender post – apocalyptic novel while teaching writing at the University of Massachusetts — Amherst to young science – heads.