a native of New Orleans, she grew up in Alexandria, Louisiana, graduated from Harvard University, and now lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Her poetry has been published in several literary magazines including Spoon River, New Delta Review, Arkansas Literary Forum, and Slant.  She is also a writer of fiction, and the author of two published novels, The Errand of the Eye (August House, 1988) and Dry Bones (August House, 1990); one children’s book; and several short stories.  Other recognition for her work includes Arkansas’s Porter Fund for Literary Excellence, the Short Story Award of Louisiana Life magazine, and a residency at the Dairy Hollow Writers’ Colony.  She teaches creative writing at Hendrix College and is currently a student in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University.  Her most recent novel, Precarious, is not yet published.  She is at work on a fourth novel.

with the British Petroleum disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this past summer, he decided to revisit “The Fugitive Oil,” written after a mere one million gallons of oil spilled into the Monongahela River outside Pittsburgh January 2, 1988.  “It was eerily relevant,” he observed.  “I cut some lines and only added a few words for clarity.  The ghosts that haunt the poem haunt us still.”  This is his first poetry submission in twenty years.  His last publication was in Six Portland Poets, the first issue of The Café Review.  Since then his attention has been directed toward music.  He describes himself as “an amateur in the best sense, doing it not for money but out of love.”  He will soon simultaneously release Improve on Silence 1, The Hypnotise EP and The Pluck EP representing his interest in instrumental, pop-rock and experimental/contemporary classical music respectively.

is a writer and teacher originally from New Jersey, currently living in Columbus, Ohio, where he is on the faculty of the English Department at Ohio State University.  His poetry has been published in Poet Lore, Artful Dodge, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Frogpond, Acorn, Simply Haiku, Riverbed, The Heron’s Nest, Daily Haiku and Modern Haiku. His reviews and fiction have appeared in The Indiana Review, The Cortland Review, The Journal, The Long Story, Iron Horse Literary Review, Parting Gifts, and Ohioana.

newest book of poems, Happy Life, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in September of 2011.  He is the author of two other Copper Canyon Press books: Moment To Moment  (1999) and While We’ve Still Got Feet  (2005).  His newest play, A Song for My Father, received two separate productions this year.  He lives in the mountains of northern Vermont.  His website is http://www.davidbudbill.com/