was educated at Dartmouth College, Kiel University (Germany), and Yale.  He was a member of the 1964 Olympic Nordic Ski Team.  For many years he taught German, Latin and English and coached cross – country skiers at Gould Academy.  He has written many articles on the culture and science of endurance training and a book entitled No Pain, No Gain? (2002), which includes both the science of training and a cultural history of American attitudes towards sport.  His poems have been published in Ice River  and The Spoon River Poetry Review.  He lives with his wife, Sally, in Bethel, Maine.

is a former teacher.  She believes that poetry can help us find ourselves and each other.  The idyll of Peaks Island, Maine, where she lives, is 360 degrees of pure poetic inspiration.

his poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2008, Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Dark Horse and others.  In 2007 – 08 he served as the New York Times Fellow in poetry at New York University.  His currently runs a small stonework company, Perennial Stone, specializing in natural stone construction.

poetry has appeared in Amoskeag, Great River Review, The Midwest Quarterly, River Styx, Bitter Oleander, Rhino, Potomac Review, Paterson Literary Review, and others.  Her first book, Trying to Speak, was published by Kent State University Press in 2005.  She was awarded the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s 2006 New Writers Award in poetry.