Sue Ellen Thompson is the author of This Body of Silk, which won the 1986 Samuel French Morse Prize, The Wedding Boat (Owl Creek Press), as well as The Leaving: New and Selected Poems and The Golden Hour, both published by Autumn House.  She is also the editor of The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. She has been a Robert Frost Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Visiting Writer at Central Connecticut State University, and Poet-in-Residence at SUNY Binghamton and at the Frost place in Franconia, New Hampshire. Her poems have reached a large national audience through Garrison Keillor's radio show Writer's Almanac and Ted Kooser's column, “American Life in Poetry.” She’s received a number of national prizes and has been nominated twice for the Pulitzer, most recently in 2006 for The Golden Hour.

Alexander Long is the author of Vigil (New Issues Press Poetry Series, 2006) and Noise (RockWay Press, 2007). With Christopher Buckley, he is co-editor of A Condition of the Spirit: the Life and Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington University Press, 2004). A five-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize, his work has appeared in American Writers (Charles Scribner's Sons), Blackbird, The Cream City Review, 5 AM, Pleaides, The Prose Poem: an International Journal, Quarter After Eight, Quarterly West, Rivendell, The Southern Review, Three Candles Journal, Third Coast, ad elsewhere. Long has received a fellowship from the Prague Summer Seminars and a residency from the Vermont Studio Center. In 2007, he was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in Creative Non-Fiction. A native of Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, he is a member of the writing faculty at Philadelphia University, and writes, plays, and travels with the band Redhead Betty Takeout.  Alexander Long www.alexanderlonghome.com

Anne Agnes Colwell - a poet and fiction writer, is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware.  Her work has appeared in several journals, including:  California Quarterly, Mudlark, Evansville Review, Phoebe, Eclectic Literary Forum, Southern Poetry Review, Stickman Review, Poetry Bay, and Octavo.  An online chapbook of her poems appears in The Alsop Review.  Her first book of poems, Believing Their Shadows, has been a finalist for the University of Wisconsin’s Brittingham Prize, the Anhinga Prize, New Issues Poetry Prize and the Quarterly Review of Literature.  Her critical book, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1997.  She received an Established Artist Award in Poetry and an Emerging Artist Award in Fiction from the Delaware State Arts Council. She lives in Milton, Delaware with her husband James Keegan and son, Thomas

 

Meredith Davies Hadaway’s collection of poems, Fishing Secrets of the Dead, was published by Word Press in 2005. Her work has also appeared in Gulf Stream, Spillway, Isotope, Margie, Poet Lore, the Delmarva Quarterly, and in a 2006 anthology entitled Here On The Chester. She is a contributing editor for Hunger Mountain and a book reviewer for Poetry International as well as a harpist who performs Celtic music. Hadaway earned her MFA in poetry from Vermont College. She lives in Chestertown, Maryland, where she is Vice President for College Relations & Marketing at Washington College.

Barbara Crooker is the author of ten chapbooks, two of which won prizes in national competitions: Ordinary Life (ByLine, 2001) and Impressionism (Grayson Books, 2004). Radiance, her first full-length book, won the 2005 Word Press First Book competition, and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize. Line Dance, her second book, is forthcoming from Word in December. Recently, Garrison Keillor read eleven of her poems on The Writer's Almanac, National Public Radio. She is the recipient of numerous prizes including the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, and the 2004 Pennsylvania Center for the Book Poetry in Public Places Poster Competition. She’s received three Writing Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. and eleven residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poems appear in anthologies, books, and magazines such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Smartish Pace, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, and The Denver Quarterly. She was nominated for  a 1997 Grammy for her part in the audio version of the popular anthology, Grow Old Along With Me--The Best is Yet to Be (Papier Mache Press).  http://www.barbaracrooker.com/              info@barbaracrooker.com

Erin Murphy is the author of three poetry collections: Science Of Desire (Word Press, 2004), Dislocation And Other Theories (Word Press, forthcoming December 2007), and Too Much Of This World (Mammoth Books, forthcoming 2007). Her awards include the National Writer's Union Poetry Award judged by Donald Hall, the Foley Poetry Award, and a $5,000 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize. She teaches English and creative writing at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College.