is the editor of Lilliput Review, which marks its 20th year of publication in 2009. A poet and reviewer, Wentworth’s work has appeared in two chapbooks, The Nostalgia Papers and Tenpenny Stamens; in magazines and journals, including Rolling Stone, Cotyledon, The Small Press Review, and Bear Creek Haiku; as well as the anthologies To Life: Occasions of Praise, Prairie Smoke, and Factional Fuckheads: Contemporary American Poetry. Wentworth has two publications forthcoming from Sixth Gallery Press, both as yet untitled: a 20th anniversary anthology of Lilliput Review and a new collection of his own work. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pa.

in addition to co–editing the Beloit Poetry Journal, with which she has been affiliated since 1987, she has published three full–length collections of poetry, most recently A Darker, Sweeter String (Off the Grid Press, 2008). Of Sharkey’s newest collection, Betsy Sholl writes, “If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they’d wake us up to the urgency of our times.” Sharkey, who lives in Vienna, Maine, teaches a writing workshop for adults with mental illness, walks in the woods each morning, and stands in a weekly peace vigil with Women in Black.

has had poems published in more than 100 poetry journals, including The Ledge, Poetry, and Slant. His five books of poetry include Poet As Bad Guy, Instead of Gifts, Questions/Answers, God’s Haircut and Other Remembered Dreams, and Off–Target. In response to Off–Target, chicagopoetry.com named him a “Top Dog” in Chicago poetry. Offen, who lives in Glenview, Illinois, is founding editor of Free Lunch: A Poetry Miscellany, which has been around for 19 years. The magazine won a Literary Award from the Illinois Arts Council and had a poem it published included in the annual The Best American Poetry series.

is the editor and publisher of The Ledge Poetry & Fiction Magazine, which he founded in 1988 at the age of 19. “The Ledge” was the name given to the concrete loading dock in back of a factory adjacent to the elevated freight train tracks where he spent a large portion of his adolescence. His own poems have appeared over the years in various publications, including 5 AM, Poet Lore, New York Quarterly, Slipstream, and Rattle. Also an avid photographer, he spends much of his free time exploring abandoned places and railroad stations on the eastern end of Long Island. He lives in Bellport, N.Y.