Molly Fisk was born in San Francisco. She earned her B.A. from Radcliffe College/Harvard University, her M.B.A. from Simmons College Graduate School of Management, and began writing at the age of 35. She's the author of Listening to Winter, Terrain (with Dan Bellm and Forrest Hamer), and the letterpress chapbook Salt Water Poems. (See Books/CDs)
John Parras received a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction Writing, and my book Fire on Mt. Maggiore (Univ. of Tenn. Press, 2005) won the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel. His poetry and prose has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, XConnect, Oasis, The Dominion Review, Gulf Stream Magazine and other literary journals. He currently teach writing and literature at the William Paterson University of New Jersey.
George Kalamaras is the author of five books of poetry, three of which are full-length, Even the Java Sparrows Call Your Hair (Quale Press, 2004), Borders My Bent Toward (Pavement Saw Press, 2003), and The Theory and Function of Mangoes (Four Way Books, 2000), winner of the Four Way Books Intro Series. His poems have appeared widely in many anthologies and journals, including The Best American Poetry 1997.
Amy Small-
McKinney's debut chapbook, Body of Surrender (2004), was published by Finishing Line Press. Small-
McKinney is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her poems have appeared in numerous on-line and print journals like The Cortland Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Elixir, Manhattan Poetry Review and Poetica. Her work will also appear in a forthcoming online issue of Off Course, a literary journal supported by University of Albany.