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Barbara Robinette Moss received her mfa from Drake University and her bfa from Ringling College of Art & Design. She has participated in over one hundred juried art exhibitions, including the Los Angeles Print-making Society’s Contemporary American Printmakers and the Museum of American Art’s Drawing Midwest. She began writing while in graduate school. She has two memoirs, Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter and Fierce, both published by Scribner. Of her work, Moss writes: My art and writing are the same—a way to sing praises for this gift of life.

Prose

Allison Amend’s work appears in One Story, Black Warrior Review, Story Quarterly, and the Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. A collection of her short stories will be published by Other Voices Press in the fall of 2008. She lives in New York City where she is a founder of Wordfarm NYC, a tutoring and education services organization. Her debut short story collection, which includes “Dominion Over Every Erring Thing,” will be published in October 2008 by OV Books.

Marilyn Chin’s most recent book is the poetry collection Rhapsody in Plain Yellow. Her work in this issue will be included in Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen which is forthcoming from W. W. Norton.

Rolaine Hochstein is the author of the novels Stepping Out and Table 47. Her short stories have won two O. Henry Prizes and a Pushcart Prize. She is a member of the New York City Writers Room and a mentor at Girls Write Now.

Nicholas Rinaldi’s most recent novel, Between Two Rivers, is available from HarperCollins. He was awarded the 2007 Artist of the Year Award from the Fairfield Arts Council. He resides in Connecticut with his wife, Jacqueline.

Valerie Sayers is the author of five novels, including Brain Fever and Who Do You Love. Her work appears in Ploughshares, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize.

Asako Serizawa is currently working on a collection of linked stories (of which “Luna” is a part). Her worked has appeared in the Southern Review, and she has been awarded a fellowship to attend the Vermont Studio Center.

Poetry

Maggie Anderson’s most recent book of poetry is Windfall: New and Selected Poems (U of Pittsburgh P). She is the coeditor of After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose about School and Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School. Both volumes are available from the University [End Page 179] of Iowa Press. Anderson is also the editor of the new and selected poems of Louise McNeill and coeditor of A Gathering of Poets.

Hadara Bar-Nadav’s book of poetry A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/IntuiT House) won the Margie Book Prize. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, and TriQuarterly.

Bill Brown is the author of three chapbooks, three poetry collections, and a writing textbook. His new collection, Late Winter, is forthcoming from Iris Press. His work has recently appeared in North American Review, Southern Poetry Review, Rattle, and Borderlands.

Scott Cairns’s work appears in the Paris Review, the New Republic, the Atlantic Monthly, and Poetry. His most recent book, the memoir Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven—A Pilgrimage, is available from HarperSanFrancisco. His book Compass of Affection: Poems New & Selected and a translation entitled Love’s Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life are both available from Paraclete Press.

Joseph Campana’s work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, New England Review, Gulf Coast, and TriQuarterly, among other publications. His first collection, The Book of Faces, is available from Graywolf Press. He is the recipient of a 2007 Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and is completing a book of poems called Sheltering Bough.

Denise Duhamel’s most recent book, Two and Two (U of Pittsburgh P), won Binghamton University’s Milt Kessler Book Award. She is an associate professor of English at Florida International University in Miami.

Matthew Echelberger’s work appears in Wind Magazine, Zone 3, and The Driftwood Review...

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