Holly Iglesias coordinates a middle school peer mediation program in western Massachusetts. Boxing Inside the Box: Women's Prose Poetry is forthcoming from Quale Press and her current project is a prose poem collection, Natives at the Fair, about the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.

Joanne Lowery's poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Spoon River Poetry Review, Laurel Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, New Delta Review, and River Styx. Her most recent collection is Leper Woman and Other Poems from March Street Press. She lives in Michigan.

Peg Peoples is the former Director of Alice James Books, and is the Associate Director of The Academy of American Poets. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Verse, Graham House Review, River Styx and other journals. She lives in NYC.

Yosefa Raz was born and raised in Israel. Her poems and stories have been published, or are forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Glimmer Train, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry and Gumballpoetry.com. Her poetry book In Exchange for a Homeland will be out this fall through Swan Scythe Press. She currently teaches text study in the Berkeley Jewish community.

Tegan Rieske lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is 23 years old and a student at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Jorge Sanchez completed, a few moments ago, his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. He will soon move to Chicago, and perhaps elsewhere, and will, at the very least, be occupied with his writing.

Lisa Swanstrom earned a master's degree in creative writing from the Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, where she won an AWP Intro Journals Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Mid-American Review, Northwest Florida Review, and Moxie Magazine, among others. Currently, she is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Donna D. Vitucci lives with her family in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is a grant writer and development associate for 25th Hour, a consulting firm for local nonprofit organizations. Her fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Beloit Fiction Journal, Mid-American Review, Southern Indiana Review, Faultline, Natural Bridge and other journals. She is currently working on her second novel.