is a poet and translator living in East Calais, Vermont.  Her most recent poetry collection is Rooms and Their Airs.  She has translated many books from French, including The Serpent of Stars by Jean Giono and Small Lives by Pierre Michon, which won the 2008 French–American Foundation Translation Prize.  She has also won the Yale Younger Poets Prize and Whiting Writers Award.  She teaches at Vermont College of the Fine Arts.

is a poet from Sonora, Mexico where she has taught literature in the secondary school system for 35 years.  She has received a variety of literary awards for her many books of poetry, which include Escrito Sobre El Fuego and Galería de Instantes from which the poems in this issue were translated.

is the author of four poetry collections, Vanishing Act, Entering Earthquake Country, Red Horses, and The Calamity Jane Poems.  (The latter two published under the name Lignell.)  She is co–editor of The Eloquent Edge: 15 Maine Women Writers and has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Maine Arts Commission. Her poetry and translations have been published in Another Chicago Magazine, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Common Ground Review, Latin American Literary Review, New England Review, New Letters, North American Review, Rhino, and Southwest Review, among others.  She teaches English and Honors at the University of Maine in Orono.

practiced cardiology in Portland, Maine for thirty years after receiving degrees at Yale University and Tufts University Medical School.  He is now retired.