Laurel Blossom’s most recent book is Degrees of Latitude, a book-length narrative poem published by Four Way Books in 2007, sections of which appeared at friggmagazine.com. Earlier work includes Wednesday: New and Selected Poems (Ridgeway Press, 2004); The Papers Said (Greenhouse Review Press, 1993); What’s Wrong (Cobham & Hatherton Press, 1987); and Any Minute (Greenhouse Review Press, 1979). Blossom’s work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (edited by Billy Collins), and in national journals including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Pequod, The Paris Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Deadsnake Apotheosis, Many Mountains Moving, and Harper’s, among others. Her poetry has been nominated both for the Pushcart Prize and the Elliston Prize. Blossom is the editor of Splash! Great Writing About Swimming (Ecco Press, 1996) and Many Lights in Many Windows: Twenty Years of Great Fiction and Poetry from the Writers Community (Milkweed Editions, 1997). She serves on the editorial board of Heliotrope: a journal of poetry. Blossom has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Ohio Arts Council, among others. She lives in rural South Carolina. Daphne Buter is a Dutch mailman. She lives with her family and several red dogs in a house in the Anusstraat in the Netherlands. She’s been attacked by dogs in one of her stories, in the summer of 2010. Since then her face is a mess, a mosaic of meat and scrambled eyeballs and gloppy stuff. If you want to send her a postcard she’ll appreciate it. Thomas Cooper lives in New Orleans. His stories are forthcoming or have appeared in Oxford American, Willow Springs, New Orleans Review, Sonora Review, Quick Fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly, Blackbird, and Memorious, among other places. Visit him at his Web site. Neil de la Flor’s publications include Almost Dorothy (Marsh Hawk Press, 2010), winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, Facial Geometry (NeoPepper Press, 2006), co-authored with Maureen Seaton and Kristine Snodgrass, and Sinead O’Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds (Firewheel Editions, forthcoming 2011), co-authored with Maureen Seaton and winner of the Sentence Book Award. His work, both solo and collaborative, has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Barrow Street, PANK, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Court Green, among other journals. He can be reached at neildelaflor.com. He has nothing to say about the pope. He just hopes he’ll right the controversy plaguing the church. Donora Hillard’s poetry collection, Theology of the Body, a feminist response to the teachings of Jason Evert, Pope John Paul II, St. Paul, Christopher West, and other religious figures, was recently released in print by Gold Wake Press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best of the Web 2010 (Dzanc Books, 2010), Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (W.W. Norton & Company, 2010), Night Train, PANK, and Spork, among others. She has taught writing at King’s College, Penn State University, and elsewhere. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she is composing a dissertation on the intersection of composition with other art forms, specifically contemporary dance and the work of Billy Bell. She is presently at work on both a poetry manuscript entitled Extraordinary Question and a collaboration with Sean Kilpatrick entitled who else is here and why. Jessica Hollander is in the M.F.A. program at the University of Alabama. Recent and forthcoming publications include Corium, Emprise Review, Gargoyle, Quarterly West, and Sonora Review. She blogs for Fringe Magazine and catalogs her failed beginnings at jessicahollanderwriter.com. Billy Middleton is a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. His work has previously appeared in Vestal Review, The Bicycle Review, Word Riot, and many other publications. Ethel Rohan writes, and blogs here: ethelrohan.com. Her little book, Hard to Say, is forthcoming from PANK in 2011. Sam Rasnake’s poetry has appeared recently or will appear in OCHO, Shampoo, Oranges & Sardines, Naugatuck River Review, Press 1, Istanbul Literary Review, Otoliths, MiPOesias, Metazen, and BluePrintReview, as well as the anthologies Best of the Web 2009 (Dzanc Books), Deep River Apartments (The Private Press), and BOXCAR Poetry Review Anthology 2. His third collection, Inside a Broken Clock, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Maureen Seaton’s recent publications include her sixth solo poetry collection, Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009) and a memoir, Sex Talks to Girls (University of Wisconsin, 2008), winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Her first book of collaborations with Neil de la Flor won the Sentence Book Award and is due out in 2011. It’s called Sinead O’Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds. There is an oblique reference to a pope halfway through, but, apparently, that was de la Flor’s idea, not Seaton’s, although, according to the team, the opposite may also be true. Tim Tomlinson is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He is the fiction editor of the webzine Ducts. In 2010 his fiction and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in BlazeVOX, Corium, Foliate Oak, The Legendary, Lunarosity, Medulla Review, Milk Money, PANK, Scythe, Tattoo Highway, Tipton Poetry Review, Tom’s Voice, Underground Voices, Word Riot, and the anthology Multi-Culti Mixterations. Jeanann Verlee is a former punk rocker who collects tattoos and winks at boys. She is author of Racing Hummingbirds, recipient of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal in Poetry. Her work has appeared in The New York Quarterly, PANK, decomP, Danse Macabre, and Not A Muse, among others. She shares an apartment with her dog and a pair of origami lovebirds. Table of Contents