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John J. Ronan

was a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry (1999 –2000). His poems have appeared in numerous publications, among them: Threepenny Review, Hollins Critic, New England Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Greensboro Review. His latest book is Marrowbone Lane (Backwaters Press, 2009). He lives in Massachusetts.

Rochelle Owens

has had her work featured in magazines and journals like First Intensity, Golden Handcuffs, and The Iowa Review. Her latest books are Triptych (Texture Press 2006), Solitary Workwoman (Junction Press, 2011), and Out of Ur: New and Selected Poems 1961 2012 (Shearsman Books, 2013). She is married to the poet George Economou.

David Linebarger

earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of CaliforniaDavis after an injury forced him to leave a career as a classical guitarist. He is the author of two chapbooks: War Stories (Pudding House Publications) and Bed of Light (Finishing Line press). His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Bitter Oleander, Borderlands, Slipstream, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. He teaches at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.