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As a photographer,听听is self-trained. He received his master鈥檚 in painting at the Academy of Visual Arts (Groningen, Netherlands). Through the years van Rees used photography to document his ideas for paintings and drawings. Since 2000 he has worked exclusively with photography, seeking the tension between documenting what is there and using the photographic document to trigger the imagination about what could have been. In 2007, van Rees published a photo book,听One Wall Away鈥揅hicago鈥檚 Hidden Spaces, commissioned by U.S. Equities in Chicago. Spring 2013, van Rees will publish Hidden City, a survey of the photographs he made of dismantled museums and theaters in Amsterdam between 2003 and 2012. His work has been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Museum of Jewish History in Amsterdam. Van Rees works as an art instructor for Central College of Iowa at the Study Abroad program in Leiden, Netherlands.

"December"听鈥斕�Jennifer Luebbers听currently serves as editor for听Indiana Review at Indiana University, where she is an MFA candidate in creative writing. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in听Best New Poets 2011, Crab Orchard Review, cream city review,听Ninth Letter, and Washington Square Review, among others.

"Ramshackle Ode to Two Syllables" & "Ramshackle Ode in the Headwinds of a Fable"听鈥斕�Keith Leonard听was born and raised on the island of Martha鈥檚 Vineyard. He has held scholarships from the Sewanee Writers鈥� Conference and Indiana University, where he received an MFA. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize, his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in听Best New Poets 2009,听Hayden鈥檚 Ferry Review,听The Journal,听Mid-American Review, and听Washington Square Review, among other journals.听

"Stone" & "Manzanar: Desert Voices"听鈥斕�听is the author of the poetry collection听The Palace of Contemplating Departure, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award and forthcoming from Red Hen Press (March, 2013). Her poetry has been anthologized by Helen Vendler and Ishmael Reed; it has also appeared in听Ninth Letter,听Hayden鈥檚 Ferry Review, Pleiades, and听Drunken Boat. Brynn was born in the Central Valley of California to a Korean American mother and a Japanese American father. She received an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in religious studies from NYU. Currently, Brynn lives in the Bay Area and teaches in San Francisco.

"Reliquary for the Finger Bone of Galileo Galilei" & "On Chan Sho-an's听Sunflower (Autumn Colors After the Rain)"听鈥斕�听is the author of听Litany for the City, selected by Jane Hirshfield for the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and published by BOA Editions. His poems have appeared in听Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review,听The Southern Review, and other journals. He was formerly a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and this year he is the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College.

"suicide note #10: wet condoms"听鈥斕�听is originally from Detroit and has recent work appearing in Rattle,听Ploughshares,听Hanging Loose, and听Meridian. Her first collection,听allegiance, published in the spring of 2012, reached the number one spot on the national poetry bestseller's list within a month of publication. She is a Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and received her MFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she lives, teaches and writes.听

"Kissing the Fire Eater"听鈥斕齣s a poetry editor at the museum of americana听and a teaching artist at The Rooster Moans poetry cooperative. Her work has appeared in several journals such as听Iron Horse Literary Review,听PANK,听The Collagist,听Vinyl, and听Arsenic Lobster, and she holds an MFA from the Stonecoast Program at University of Southern Maine. Recipient of the 2012 Pocataligo Poetry Prize and a Pushcart nominee, Karrie has also received critical acclaim for听LONG GONE: A Poetry Sideshow, a one-woman show based on her collection of circus poems. She really wishes she could tame tigers and swallow swords.听

"Family Portrait at Boi Bumb谩" & "Litany for the Agnostic Minister"听鈥斕齣s the author of听Our Lady of the Ruins听(W.W. Norton, 2012), winner the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and听Rookery听(SIU Press, 2010), winner of the Crab Orchard Series First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review,听Slate,听VQR,听New England Review, and elsewhere. A former Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, she鈥檚 currently a doctoral candidate and King/Ch谩vez/Parks Fellow at Western Michigan University.听

"Against Grief"听鈥斕�Sean Thomas Dougherty听is the author or editor of fourteen books including the forthcoming听All I Ask for Is Longing: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014听(BOA Editions),听Scything Grace听(2013 Etruscan Press), and听听(2010 BOA Editions). His awards include two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowships in poetry and a Fulbright Lectureship for poetry to the Balkans. He currently works in a pool hall, gives readings around the nation, and teaches creative writing part-time at Cleveland State University.

"How to Preserve" & "How to Time the Kill"听鈥斕�听is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Jules Chametzky Prize in Literary Translation, and longterm support from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her translation of听Amal al-Jubouri鈥檚 Hagar Before the Occupation/Hagar After the Occupation听(Alice James Books) was selected by the听Library Journal听as a Best Book of 2011 and by Three Percent as a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award. Her collection of poems,听Render / An Apocalypse, was selected by Nick Flynn to receive the CSU Poetry Center's 2012 First Book Prize; it will be published this spring.

"Gorge"听鈥斕�听currently resides in Ithaca, NY, where she is working toward completing an MFA in creative writing at Cornell University. Her first full-length collection of poetry,听Good Grief, was published by Write Bloody Publishing in April 2012. She is currently working on her second book, tentatively titled听No Apocalypse. She is the editor-in-chief of听MUZZLE Magazine, editor of听4th & Verse Books, assistant editor of听EPOCH, and a proud alumna of Chicago's Real Talk Avenue. Her work has appeared in听Verse Daily,听Rattle,听Night Train,听PANK, and a number of other publications.

"Hunting Rabbits"听鈥斕�Brad Johnson听is an associate professor at Palm Beach State College, FL and has published two chapbooks,Void Where Prohibited听and听The Happiness Theory, with Pudding House Press. His third chapbook,听Gasoline Rainbow, was published by Finishing Line Press. Work of his has recently been accepted by听Nimrod,听Poet Lore,听The South Carolina Review,听The Southeast Review,听Willow Springs, and others.

"Sea Anemones" & "Hippopotamuses"听鈥斕�听is the author of听The Black Ocean听(Southern Illinois University Press, 2011), winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition, and of The Animal Gospels听(Tupelo Press, 2006), winner of the Tupelo Press Editor鈥檚 Prize. His poems, reviews, and interviews have appeared in such journals as听Poetry,听Ploughshares,听Quarterly West,听American Book Review,听The Writer鈥檚 Chronicle,听Indiana Review,听Blackbird,听Pleiades,听fugue, and听storySouth. His awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize and the 2009 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. He has earned degrees in Creative Writing and Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University, and the University of Houston. Barker is married to the poet Nicky Beer and teaches at the University of Colorado Denver, where he co-edits听Copper Nickel.

"Paper Tiger to Wind" & "Looks Like a Boy"听鈥斕�听is the author of听Hum听(Alice James Books 2013), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award, as well as two poetry chapbooks (The God Engine, 2009 and听The Whetting of Teeth, 2012). Recent work has appeared in听New England Review,听Michigan Quarterly Review,听Verse Daily,听Blackbird,听Callaloo,听Indiana Review, WDET Radio, and elsewhere. Honors include scholarships and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Cave Canem, and听Callaloo, as well as multiple nominations to both the听Pushcart Prize听and听Best New Poets听anthologies. Jamaal is a graduate of Warren Wilson鈥檚 MFA program for writers and recipient of the 2011-2013 Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University.

"We're Only Good at Making Things that Kill"听鈥斕�Taylor Collier听currently lives in Syracuse, NY. Work is forthcoming in听The American Poetry Journal,听DIAGRAM,听the Minnesota review, and听Yemassee.

"[You Learn to Pattern Everything]" & "[I am at My Best]"听鈥斕�has been a Bread Loaf Writers鈥� Conference work-study scholar, a writer-in-residence at the Montana Artists鈥� Refuge, and is a Cave Canem alumna. Her poetry has appeared in听Black Warrior Review,听Callaloo,听Gulf Coast,听Harvard Review,听Indiana Review,听Narrative Magazine,Subtropics, and other journals. She received first place in the 2011 Summer Literary Seminars poetry contest, has won the听Gulf Coast magazine Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, and has received second place in听Narrative Magazine鈥檚听poetry contest. Bertram is a graduate of the writing programs at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a 2009-2011 Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow at Williams College where she taught creative writing and literature. Her first book,听But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, won the Red Hen Press 2010 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, judged by Claudia Rankine.

"Nightmare Before the Foreclosure"听鈥斕�Anna Journey听is the author of two collections of poetry:听Vulgar Remedies听(Louisiana State University Press, 2013) and听If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting听(University of Georgia Press, 2009), selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. She received a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California.

"At the Moment of Composition: Brian Barker and the Gospel of Poetry"听鈥斕鼵ontributing听editor听poems, essays, reviews, podcasts, and interviews recently appear or are forthcoming in听The Writers Chronicle,听The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume VI,听The Spoon River Poetry Review,听Poet Lore,听The Missouri Review,听storySouth,听Glimmer Train, and听InsideHigherEd.com听among others. He is editor of an E-anthology,听Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days, to be published by Upper Rubber Boot Books on December 21, 2012. He is also founder and editor of听听and managing editor of听听and is a lecturer of creative writing and English at the University of Colorado-Denver.

"The Girl at the Party"听鈥斕�Meghan Wynne听is a graduate of the MFA program at The Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in听The Sun,听StoryQuarterly, and听The Journal. She teaches in the English Department at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio, where she lives with her daughter and her husband-to-be.

"The Faces of Christ"听鈥斕�Gary Fincke鈥檚听fifth collection of stories,The Proper Words for Sin, will be published by West Virginia University Press in 2013. His collection听Sorry I Worried You听won the Flannery O鈥機onnor Prize and was published by the University of Georgia Press. His latest collection of poems, titled The History of Permanence, won the Stephen F. Austin University Press Poetry Prize and was published in the fall of 2011. He is the Charles Degenstein Professor of Creative Writing at Susquehanna University.

"Leave"听鈥斕�听recent work has placed as winner/finalist/semifinalist in the 2012听Glimmer Train听Fiction Open, the 2012听Carve Magazine听Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, the 2012 RopeWalk Press Editor鈥檚 Fiction Chapbook Prize, the 2011听Zoetrope: All-Story听short fiction contest, and the 10th Annual Slope Edition Book Prize contest, among others. Her work has earned praise from Robert Olen Butler, Nikki Giovanni, and Jim Shepard.

鈥淪ecrets of the Sun鈥澨�鈥斕�2012 Thomas A. Wilhelmus Nonfiction Award winner听听first novel,听One Hundred and One Ways, was published by Bantam in 1999. A national bestseller in the States, it has been translated into six languages. Her second novel,听Once Removed, was published by Bantam in 2003. Writing awards include fellowships from the Bunting Institute of Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College, Boston.