is a graduate of Knox College and now lives, writes, and paints in Chicago.  His poetry and short fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Midwest Literary Review, The Ante Review, Chiron Review, Red River Review, and Town Creek Poetry, among others.  Davis’ first poetry chapbook is forthcoming from Mite Press.  In addition to the arts, he travels the world as an international semi – professional football player.

has published in The Boston Review, New England Review, Green Mountains Review, American Authors, Christopher Street, Bay Windows, Art and Understanding, Vermont magazine, among others.  His work has received a Pushcart Prize and a Heekin Award.  A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Coyle has also served for a number of years on the admissions board for the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, where he first met Shahid.  He lives in Middletown Springs, Vermont.

is a poetry editor at The Café Review and the editor of this issue.  An award – winning journalist, Chase has published in The Boston Globe Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Green Mountains Review, Newsweek, Poets & Writers, Vermont Life, and elsewhere.  She was a contributor to the book Leap of the Heart: André Dubus Talking.  Chase has been the Bernard J. O’Keefe Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, where she met Shahid, and the Judith Davidson Moyers Scholar at her alma mater, Middlebury College.  She is currently at work on a book – length memoir.

teaches in the Stardome Theater at the Southworth Planetarium in Portland, Maine and writes content for online science and ecology venues.  In addition to writing, she is a wire artist and potter who lives between ocean and river in Brunswick, Maine with her 16 – year – old son.