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an unabashed fan of hair metal, was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, but fled for the sun and now writes in San Jose, CA. She lives with a husband who misses the Wasatch mountains, a squirrel-obsessed Ibizan hound, and a debonair cat named Shamrock.
first poetry collection, Lit interim, won the 2001–2002 Transcontinental Poetry Prize (selected by David Bromige) and was published by Pavement Saw Press (2003). His second collection, In the archives (2007), was released by Omnidawn Publishing. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, New American Writing, Barrow Street, and many others. He co-edits the literary journal Interim with poet Claudia Keelan, and is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University.
work has appeared or is forthcoming in failbetter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Nimrod, Sycamore Review, Drunken Boat, and other publications.
has published in Cold Mountain Review, James Dickey Review, Orange Coast Review, New South, Tulane Review, Santa Fe Review, and Rattle, among others. Her chapbook, All Things are Ordered, is recently out from Finishing Line Press. She is from Yakima, WA, and lives in Winterville, GA, with her daughter, husband, and two goldfish that she feeds three times a day plus one late-night snack (despite everyone telling her she overfeeds them, they seem pretty happy and healthy).
poems and reviews have appeared in publications such as The Progressive, CutThroat, and Colorado Review. An MFA recipient from Goddard College, she lives off-grid on a remote hilltop in the mountains of western Maine with four dogs, two cats, twenty-seven chickens, and four pigs.
teaches in the First Year Writing Program at Emerson College where she received her MFA in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including the Minnetonka Review, Squaw Valley Review, Poets & Artists, Silk Road, and Boston.com’s Passport. She lives in Cambridge, MA.
lives on Bainbridge Island, WA, with his husband and their two whippets, Spencer and Elvis. While preparing applications for MFA programs, he takes classes at his community college where, at fifty-five, he is one of the oldest students on campus. After grad school, he plans to teach and write.
is the author of three collections—Story Problems (Somon-
doco, 2011), Weather Report (Somondoco, 2006), and Boasts, Toasts, and
Ghosts, winner of the 2002 Pinyon Press National Poetry Book Contest—and
two chapbooks, New Fables, Old Songs, winner of the 2002 Dream Horse Press
National Chapbook Competition, and This Is One Sexy Planet, winner of the
Frank Cat Press Poetry Chapbook Award in 2005. Home Appraisals, a new
chapbook, including several poems that first appeared in Sugar House Review,
is forthcoming from Plan B Press in fall 2012. He is a Professor of English and
Literature at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.
is a Cave Canem fellow and graduate of Sarah Lawrence Col-
lege, where she received the Lucy Grealy Prize in Poetry. She is an MFA can-
didate at New York University. Her work has appeared in Clementine, Cratelit,
and Tidal Basin Review. Born and raised in Salt Lake City, she loves and lives
in Queens, NY.
fifth collection is Clangings (Sarabande Books, 2012). In addition to Sugar House Review, other excerpts from Clangings have appeared in Crazy Horse, Denver Quarterly, Field, The Journal, Little Star, Memorious, Salamander, and Slate. Cramer is the author of four previous collections, including Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande, 2004), which won the 2005 Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club and was named a 2005 Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. He directs the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.
is the author of two books from small presses: Wander Luster is
a poetry chapbook from Finishing Line Press, and Palms Are Not Trees After
All is the winner of the 2007 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize from Texas Review
Press. Her shortest story ever appears in Hint Fiction (W.W. Norton).
first collection, black seeds on a white dish, published by
Shearsman Books, was nominated for the 2011 PEN/Osterweil Award. She’s
also the author of a chapbook, Leaf Weather, and a forthcoming hybrid prose/
poetry collection, door of thin skins. She is Reviews Editor at Drunken Boat and
her work appears in many journals, including APR and The Iowa Review. Her
awards include Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poem Award and the Cecil
Hemley Memorial Award. Dentz is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop
and has a PhD from the University of Utah. Visit her at shiradentz.com.
grew up throughout Germany and the United States, and now lives with his wife and three daughters in Minneapolis. Dop received a Special Mention in the 2011 Pushcart Prize Anthology, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, New Letters, Agni, New York Quarterly, and Rattle, among others.
poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in journals like Arts and Letters, Borderlands, and Lilliput Review. She’s received honors in several contests, including the 2008 Joan Johnson Award in poetry, the 2004–2005 Parley A. and Ruth J. Christensen Award, and two Honorable Mentions from the Academy of American Poets in 2003 and 2004. Earley completed a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Southern Mississippi and lives in the Boston area, where she works as a development editor at Bedford/St Martin’s.
teaches creative writing and literature at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in FENCE, Permafrost, Poet Lore, The Madison Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and other journals.
grew up in Bellingham, WA, and explores the area on her bike, Argentina. When not hitting the pavement, you can find her hiking around the mountains and forests. She enjoys her orange portable space heater (a cat), Ern Malley, and shiny things. In poetry she likes to experiment with the line between sense and nonsense.
is a Zen Buddhist, poet, and Assistant Professor of New Media, Rhetoric, and Professional Writing at SUNY-Cortland. His creative work can be found in Santa Clara Review, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, Slant, Reed, and Eclectica. He is still trying to figure out where his own style fits within the increasingly divergent conversation that is contemporary American poetry. Visit him online at: www.guiseppegetto.com.
is an MFA in Creative Writing candidate at Bennington College and earned a BA in English & Writing from Rollins College. She is currently the Production and Website Editor for SPECS, a journal of contemporary art and literature. Her poetry won an Academy of American Poets Prize in 2010. A mother of three children, she’s a late bloom with hands full and arms wide open. Chocolate is her weakness.
is the author of The Last 4 Things and case sensitive, both from Ahsahta Press. Her work can be found in recent or forthcoming issues of Boston Review, Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, and other journals. Ahsahta will publish her third book, Young Tambling, in 2013.
first book of poems, Good Eurydice, was published in December 2011. His short stories, essays, translations, and other poems have appeared in BlazeVOX, Fanzine, Stop Smiling, Girls With Insurance, Quarterly West, Zone, Otis Nebula, Western Humanities Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and other magazines. He lives in Portland, OR.
lives in Irvine with his wife and cat, trying to complete an MFA and not worry (overly) about the end of the world. He recently won the Gerard Creative Writing Endowment Award, and is poetry editor of UC Irvine’s literary journal Faultline.
is a graduate of the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University, and earned a MA in English literature from Bucknell University, where he studied under G.C. Waldrep. Currently enrolled in the MFA program at Rutgers University, he is the author of On Writing Short Stories (Oxford University Press, 2010), a creative writing text edited by Tom Bailey. Patrick’s essays have appeared in Modern Language Studies, and his short fiction is forthcoming in The Writing Disorder and Revolution House.
lives in St. Louis where he teaches at the Stevens Institute of Business and Arts and at the Center for Humanities at Washington University. Other poems can be found in issues of Transom, Barnwood Poetry Magazine, and Existere.
has published poems and reviews in AGNI Online, Open City, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She holds an MA in creative writing from Boston University, where she is now pursuing a PhD in modern European history. She spent last July doing research and writing poems in Bertolt Brecht’s thatched-roof cottage on the Danish island of Fyn.
holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska, where she was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Beloit Poetry Journal, Willow Springs, South Dakota Review, and New York Quarterly. Her chapbook, Something To Help Me Sleep, was released by dancing girl press in January of 2012. Liz lives in Omaha where she is a founding editor of the journal burntdistrict.
has work currently appearing or forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander, Cider Press Review, Magnapoets, Palooka, and The Clackamas Literary Review, among others. When he’s not writing he’s either building furniture or out selling wine.
is the author of Freezing (New Issues, 2001), Notes on Exile and Other Poems (Backwaters, 2005), and Meet Me at the Happy Bar (BlazeVOX [books], 2009).
splits his time between Salt Lake City and Nuthanger Farm, where he’s engaged in a series of furious doe-raids with cohorts Hazel and Pipkin.
lives in Fort Collins, CO, where he edits a quarterly, ultra-local newszine, Matterhorn, and curates the poetry for Matter Journal. Both publications belong to Wolverine Farm Publishing. Charlie went to school for many years at Kent State and Colorado State; he liked it just fine. His work has appeared in Laurel Review, Phoebe, Harpur Palate, Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac, Luna Negra, and Permafrost.
lives in Omaha with his wife and two lovely daughters. His first book of poetry, Things We Don’t Know We Don’t Know, won the 2007 Nebraska Book Award for Poetry. Matt has helped with poetry events in Nepal and Belarus through the U.S. State Department, and for U.S. bookstores, colleges, state fairs, ice cream shops, and more.
has poems recently or forthcoming in APR, Free Lunch, Paterson Poetry Review, 5 A.M., Chiron Review, Verse Wisconsin, and Nerve Cowboy, among others. His book, River Architecture was published in 1999, and a collection of newer work, Near Occasions of Sin, appeared in 2006. More recently, Adastra Press published Marginalia, his translations of Old Irish monastic poems. Still Life, a chapbook of poems, has recently been issued from FootHills Press, and Jamming, a prize winner, from TLOLP. His 1987 collection, No Matter, was republished by Seven Kitchens Press in 2011.
is editor of A cappella Zoo. He envies dancers and muses, but still enjoys his own life quite a bit. He grew up in Idaho and now lives in Seattle with his partner and the five-foot tree they raised from an avocado pit.
work has appeared in Connecticut Review, Cortland Review, South Dakota Review, and is forthcoming in Atlanta Review and War,
Literature, and the Arts. He is a finalist for the 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship Prize. A
veteran of both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, he
lives in Alaska.
lives with his wife and nine-year-old daughter just outside Boston, where he does various tech-type things during the day, including database
administration and microwave oven repair. He writes and bakes vegan desserts at night. His poetry has appeared in RHINO, Packingtown Review, and Harpur Pal-
ate. If you like, you can find more information at http://www.jack-miller.org/about/.
is currently the Poet-in-Residence at the Endangered
Wolf Center in St. Louis, MO. He was awarded the 2011 May Swenson Poetry
Award by contest judge Garrison Keillor for his first collection of poems, About
the Dead (USU Press, 2011), and in 2010 his poem “Decampment” was adapted
to screen as an animated short film. He currently resides in St. Louis with his
wife, Regina, and their daughter, Cora.
is a Brooklyn-based teaching artist and poet. Nixon recently completed her MA in Arts Politics from New York University. Recent and forthcoming publications include Tulane Review, apt, Jelly Bucket, Rougarou, Umbrella Factory, Spillway, No, Dear, and In Posse Review. Visit her at www.laurennicolenixon.com.
earns her living by teaching writing and literature courses at Utah State University in picturesque Logan, UT. Though her poems have appeared elsewhere as well—in wordriver, Loose Leaves, and the annual chapbook of her local poetry group, Poetry@3—she considers being published in Sugar House Review one of her greatest accomplishments, right next to her triplet sons.
is an artist of little renown who dreams big. In days gone by he was a graphic designer and a muralist. He is now an illustrator for hire. He is a native of Salt Lake City (Go Jazz!) who now lives in Oklahoma City (Boo Thunder!). You can view his work online at gavinottesonart.deviantart.com or at facebook.com/gavinottesonart.
teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. His 12th book of poems, Silverchest, will be out in the spring of 2013.
is currently writing poems in Portland, OR, where she also enjoys foaming milk for cappuccinos at a small café, attempting to grow tomatoes in a climate hostile to their needs, and the company of her husband, a blacksmith and jeweler. She is Managing Editor of Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac. Read more at www.theinstantlibrarian.com.
is a poet, adventurer, and lover of Africa and Old World primates. She has a BS in Evolutionary Anthropology from Rutgers University, and is currently working on her MFA in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University.
lives near Rochester, NY, and teaches English in the International Baccalaureate program at Hilton High School; vacations allow him time for writing, but rarely for submitting. He received his MFA from Warren Wilson College, and enjoyed a residency at Jentel Arts, in Sheridan, WY. His poems have been published in Yankee, Poet Lore, North American Review, 88, Mudfish, and others.
books of poetry include Divination Machine (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2009) and Neck of the World (Utah State University Press, 2007). Recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2010, he is co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press, 2010). Rzicznek lives and teaches in Bowling Green, OH.
manuscript, Play Button, won the 2010 Cider Press Review Book Award, judged by Patricia Smith. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Cimarron Review, Greensboro Review, New Ohio Review, Rattle, Barn Owl Review, Bayou, and Poet Lore. Poems from her first book, Hope, As the World Is a Scorpion Fish (Backwaters Press), appeared on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily. She’s an assistant professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL, and recently presented poems at a New York Institute of Technology conference in Nanjing, China.
is the author of Baby (Pudding House Press), The Orange
Juice is Over and Gold & Other Fish (both from Finishing Line Press). She lives
in Brooklyn and works for The City University of New York, where she devel-
ops programs for first-generation college students. Her poems have appeared
recently in Eclectica, Forge, Grey Sparrow, and Zocalo Public Square.
is the author of three collections of poetry: Party of
Black, A Day of Presence, and Bottle of Life. Some of his work has appeared
in Alehouse, Quiddity Literary Journal, Houston Literary Review, and The 100
Best African American Poems (edited by Nikki Giovanni).
work has appeared or is forthcoming in 5 AM, Blast Furnace, Barn Owl Review, Harpur Palate, Cave Wall, Copper Nickel, River Styx, and The Tusculum Review. Her first chapbook, Stealing Dust, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. She lives in rural Pennsylvania, but crosses the New York state border to teach at Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, NY.
This is first publishing credit. As a child of separated
parents, he considers himself a native of both Sacramento, CA, and Bullhead City,
AZ. He is currently studying as an undergraduate at San Diego State University.
is the author of seven books, two of which—Swamp Isthmus and The Courier’s Archive & Hymnal—are forthcoming. He’s also an editor of The Volta, Letter Machine Editions, as well as two anthologies from University of Iowa Press. He lives in Tucson and teaches at the University of Arizona.
is an editor and publicist in Portland, OR, where he recently completed his MA in Book Publishing. He is the author of six chapbooks, and his poetry was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize and won the 2011 Heart Poetry Award. Some of his over 200 previous or upcoming publications include The Evansville Review, RHINO, Rosebud, Ellipsis, Flint Hills Review, and Poetry Quarterly. His website is TheArtOfRaining.com.
poems have appeared in the Yale Review, Pleiades, and Smartish Pace, among other journals. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Missouri.
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