is the founder and, until recently, managing editor of Hunger Mountain, an arts journal published by the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She teaches writing at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, N.C., and online for Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield, Maine. Her poems have been published in the Asheville Poetry Review, Louisiana Literature, and Vermont Magazine, among others. Mercurio has a master of fine arts degree from Vermont College and, while there, designed and edited the Stinehour Press Broadside Series and an anthology of the college’s fiction. A freelance editor, designer, and publisher, she lives in Asheville, N.C..

is senior editor of Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women and a member of Calyx Journal’s editorial collective. She has bachelor’s degrees in English and journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s in international studies from Oregon State University. She is co–editor of several Calyx Books anthologies, including A Fierce Brightness and A Line of Cutting Women. AliceAnn Eberman: is also a member of Calyx’s editorial collective. She is a writer, artist, editor, and teacher whose poetry has been published in Calyx, Fireweed, and From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry (OSU Press). Both McFarland and Eberman live in Corvallis, Ore.

is a registered nurse for the Lewisville Independent School District in Texas and publishing editor of Oak Bend Review, a bimonthly journal out of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Her poetry, fiction, reviews, essays, and art have appeared in various journals and anthologies. She hopes to complete her first chapbook, The Paper Mill, sometime this summer. Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, she grew up in California, New York, North Carolina, Washington, and the south of France. She lives in Flower Mound, Texas, with a house full of teenagers, animals, and her husband, Jack.

born and raised in Portland, Maine, continues to live just outside the city with his wife, Catherine, and their dog, Digger. He is a graduate of Franklin Pierce College and the author of 10 books of poetry, including his latest, Twelve Moons, Twelve Poems. In 1989, Luttrell founded The Café Review to promote poetry and art in the Portland area. In addition to publishing quarterly, the journal has produced a dozen chapbooks and poetry broadsides by Robert Creeley, Donald Hall, and Franz Wright. Luttrell is also the drummer for a Portland–based surf rock band, The Hi–Tides.