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Richard Burgin is the author of twelve books. His most recent collection of short stories, The Conference on Beautiful Minds, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2007. His stories have won five Pushcart prizes over the years. He is the editor of the magazine Boulevard. His new collection of stories, Shadow Traffic, will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in Fall 2011.

Myron Ernst’s poems have appeared in the Hollins Critic, Poetry East, and The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.

Linda Delibero is Associate Director of Film and Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

R. L. Friedman is a freelance writer living in New York City and an Advisory Editor of The Hopkins Review.

William Giraldi’s first novel, Busy Monsters, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton in 2011. He is senior fiction editor for AGNI.

John Hart was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas. He currently resides in Winter Park, Florida.

John Meredith Hill is a professor of English at the University of Scranton. He lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and Provincetown, Massachusetts with his wife and large dog.

Helen Hooper’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, New South, and elsewhere. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, and is currently working on a collection of stories.

Jefferson Hunter is the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English and Film Studies at Smith College. His book English Filming, English Writing was published by Indiana University Press in 2010.

Stephen Kampa’s first volume of poems, Cracks in the Invisible, will be published in the spring of 2011 by the Ohio University Press. He currently works as a musician in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Johanna Keller is founding director of the Goldring Arts Journalism Program at the S.I. Newhouse School, Syracuse University. She writes frequently [End Page 150] on classical music for The New York Times, LA Times, London Standard, Chronicle of Higher Education, and has been the recipient of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. She divides her time between Manhattan and Syracuse, NY.

William Kentridge’s work meshes the personal and political in an innovative use of charcoal drawing, animation, film, and theatre. In 2009 a new large touring exhibition of his work began in San Francisco, moved on to museums in Texas and Florida, then to MoMA in New York, before continuing to the Jeu de Paume in Paris and the Albertina Museum in Vienna, with museums in Jerusalem, Melbourne, and Vancouver to follow. Kentridge has received the Carnegie Medal in 1999/2000, the Goslar Kaisserring in 2003, the Oskar Kokoschka Award in 2008, and in 2010 was the recipient of the Kyoto Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Arts and Philosophy.

Jerome Klinkowitz has written books on literature, art, jazz, philosophy, baseball, and air combat. An editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, he teaches at the university of Northern Iowa.

Mark Kraushaar has new work appearing or forthcoming in Ploughshares, Hudson Review, and Missouri Review. He is a recipient of Poetry Northwest’s Richard Hugo Prize. His collection Falling Brick Kills Local Man was published by the University of Wisconsin Press as winner of the Felix Pollack Prize.

Jill McCorkle, a native of North Carolina, is the author of five novels and four collections of short stories, the most recent being Going Away Shoes. Her work has appeared in numerous periodicals and collections including Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. She teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at North Carolina State University.

Elizabeth Murphy is a freelance editor and poet and co-founder of the online interdisciplinary magazine The Straddler. She is currently seeking a publisher for the completed manuscript A Literary Friendship: Donald Justice and Richard Stern.

Ronald Paulson’s most recent book is The Art of Riot in England and America.

Jay Rogoff’s chapbook of sonnets, Twenty Danses Macabres, was published in the fall of 2010 by Spring Garden Press as winner of the Robert Watson Poetry Award. His next full-length collection, The Code of Terpsichore, will appear from LSU Press in 2011. He has new work in Literary Imagination, Notre Dame Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review...

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