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Chris Ware lives outside of Chicago, Illinois, and is the author of Jimmy Corrigan−the Smartest Kid on Earth. He is currently serializing two new graphic novels in his ongoing periodical the ACME Novelty Library, the 18th and 18th & 1/2 issues of which will be released in late 2007. An infrequent contributor to the New Yorker, Mr. Ware was also chosen to be editor of Houghton-Mifflin´s Best American Comics for 2007.

Prose

Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, a book of essays, and three short story collections, the latest of which is Late in the Standoff. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He lives in Oregon with his wife, Marjorie Sandor.

Leslie Lawrence´s publications include essays in Fourth Genre, the Massachusetts Review, and the Colorado Review as well as fiction in the Boston Globe Magazine, the Marlboro Review, and Prairie Schooner. She teaches at Tufts University and the Lesley Seminars.

Daniel Mueller´s collection of stories, How Animals Mate (Overlook P), won the Sewanee Fiction Prize. His fiction has appeared in Playboy, Mississippi Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Story Quarterly, Cutbank, Orchid, and elsewhere.

Lon Otto has published two collections of stories−A Nest of Hooks (U of Iowa P), and Cover Me (Coffee House P). His work may be found in Flash Fiction and Flash Fiction Forward (Norton), Townships (U of Iowa), and Best Words, Best Order (St. Martins).

Nancy Zafris is the fiction editor of the Kenyon Review. She received her second NEA grant in 2006 for a portion of her latest novel, Lucky Strike. She is also the author of The Metal Shredders, a NY Times notable book of the year, and The People I Know, winner of the Flannery O´Connor award for short fiction.

Poetry

Beth Bachmann´s poems have recently appeared in the Southern Review, the Antioch Review, Image, and elsewhere.

Edward Beatty is retired and lives in rural northern Illinois. In 2007 his poems appeared in Poetry International, River Oak Review, Evansville Review, Pinyon, Thema, and California Quarterly and poems are forthcoming in Fulcrum, Out of Line, and HazMat Review.

Kristin Bock´s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Black Warrior Review, the Cream City Review, FENCE, Gulf Coast, and Quarterly West. She lives in Mantague, MA with her husband where they currently refurbish religious iconography.

Marianne Boruch´s second book of essays on poetry, In the Blue Pharmacy, is available from Trinity University Press. Her sixth poetry collection, Grace, Fallen from, will be published this January by Wesleyan Press.

Sharon Dolin won the 2007 AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry for her fourth collection, Burn and Dodge, which will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2008. Her most recent books are Realm of the Possible (Four Way) and Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk P).

Alice Friman´s new collection of poems is The Book of the Rotten Daughter (BkMk). Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, Georgia Review, Boulevard, and others. Her book Zoo (U of Arkansas P) won the Ezra Pound Poetry Award and the Sheila Motton Prize.

Maria Mazziotti Gillan has published eight books of poetry, including Where I come From, Things My Mother Told Me, Italian Women in Black Dresses, and All That Lies Between Us. She and her daughter have co-edited three anthologies published by Penguin/Putnam: Unsettling America, Identity Lessons, and Growing up Ethnic in America.

Eloise Klein Healy is the author of six books of poetry and three spoken word recordings. Her most recent collection is The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho from Red Hen Press. Healy is the co-founder of ECO-ARTS, an eco-tourism/arts venture and founding editor of Arktoi Books.

Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of the poetry collections World as Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon U P) and Dog Angel (U of Pittsburgh P). Her poetry has appeared in the Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and the Denver Quarterly, among others. Her fiction manuscript, The Alice Stories, winner of the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize is available from the University of Nebraska Press.

John Kinsella is the author of more than thirty books, most recently The New Arcadia (Norton), Doppler Effect (Salt) and Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems (Norton).

Ginny MacKenzie´s manuscript, Skipstone, won the 2002 Backwaters Press Poetry Award. Her poems, creative nonfiction and short stories have appeared in New Letters, Ploughshares, the Threepenny Review, the Agni Review, and others.

Anna George Meek´s poems have appeared in Poetry, the Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She was a finalist for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the National Poetry Series. Her first book, Acts of Contortion, won the 2002 Brittingham Prize.

Constance Merritt has published two collections of poems: A Protocol for Touch (U of North Texas P) and Blessings and Inclemencies (Louisiana State U P). A third collection, Two Rooms, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press.

John Morgan has published three books and a number of chapbooks. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, APR, and many other journals. He lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, the New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

Susan Blackwell Ramsey lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in the Indiana Review, Poetry Northwest, Tar River, and Poetry East.

Liz Rosenberg is the author of four books of poems, two novels, and numerous books for young readers. Her newest collection of poems is Demon Love (Mammoth P).

Beth Simon´s poems appear in Beloit Poetry Review, Epoch, NAR, and elsewhere. Her fiction and memoir pieces appear in Gettysburg Review, New Letters, Quarterly West, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry collection Out of Nowhere, The Body´s Shape was published by Pecan Grove Press.

Katherine Soniat´s The Fire Setters is available through Web Del Sol-Online Chapbook Series. Her fourth collection, Alluvial, was published by Bucknell University Press, and A Shared Life won the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her work is published or forthcoming in Willow Springs, Iowa Review, Southern Review, and others.

Lynn Strongin is the author of two recent books of poetry, Rembrandt´s Smock (Plain View P) and The Girl with Copper-Colored Hair (Conflux P). A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she is hard at work on her new anthology Crazed by the Sun: Poems of Ecstasy, a companion volume to The Sorrow Psalms: A Book of Twentieth Century Elegy (U of Iowa P). She currently lives in British Columbia, Canada but considers her voice intrinsically an American voice in poetry.

Phyllis Hoge Thompson´s two most recent books are Letters from Jian Hui and Other Poems, which emerged from a year of teaching in Beijing, and The Painted Clock, Memoirs for a New Mexico Ghost Town Bride. Both books are from Wildflower Press. She lives in and travels from Albuquerque.

David Wagoner has published seventeen books of poems, most recently Good Morning and Good Night (U of Illinois P), and ten novels. He won the Lilly Prize in 1991. He was the chancellor of the Academy of American Poets for 23 years and the editor of Poetry Northwest until its end in 2002.

Julia Wendell´s most recent collection of poems, Dark Track, was published by Word Tech Press in 2005. She is a three-day event rider.

Jeff Worley´s work has appeared in Green Mountain Review, Connecticut Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. His third collection of poems, Happy Hour at the Two Keys Tavern, was published by Mid-List Press.

Reviews

Stephen C. Behrendt is George Holmes Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His collections of poetry include Instruments of the Bones, A Step in the Dark, and History.

Willis Goth Regier is the author of Book of the Sphinx (U of Nebraska P) and the forthcoming In Praise of Flattery.

Robert Haller is professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a student of the architecture of the Nebraska Capitol.

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