Mark Brazaitis is the author of The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, winner of the 1998 Iowa Short Fiction Award, and Steal My Heart, a novel published in 2000 by Van Neste Books. His latest book of fiction, An American Affair: Stories, won the 2004 George Garrett Fiction Prize from Texas Review Press.
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Ben Doller (previously Doyle) was born in Warsaw, New York, in 1973. He completed his undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Oswego and West Virginia University.
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Jacqueline Gens is a co-founder of the New England College MFA Program in Poetry where she has been co-director since 2001.
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Christopher Buckley’s 17th book of poetry, Rolling the Bones, won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry and will be published by the University of Tampa Press in April, 2010.
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Александр Блок (Aleksander Blok) November 28, 1880-August 7, 1921 was one of the most gifted lyrical poets produced by Russia after Alexander Pushkin.
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Brian Henry is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Stripping Point (Counterpath). His translation of the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun’s Woods and Chalices (Harcourt) appeared in 2008, and his translation of Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things is forthcoming from BOA Editions.
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Maggie Glover earned a BA from Denison University and an MFA from West Virginia University, where she was awarded the James Paul Brawner Poetry Award in 2007.
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Laura Kasischke has published seven collections of poetry, most recently LILIES WITHOUT (Ausable Press) and seven novels.
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Paula McLain has published two collections of poetry
Less of Her and
Stumble, Gorgeous, both from New Issues Poetry Press, as well as a memoir about growing up in foster care
, Like Family: Growing Up In Other People’s Houses, and the novel,
A Ticket to Ride, which was published by Ecco in 2008 and named a “top read” by the
Today Show.
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Alan Michael Parker is the author of five collections of poems, Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor Vehicles, A Peal of Sonnets, and Elephants & Butterflies, as well as a novel, Cry Uncle; he is also Editor of The Imaginary Poets, and co-editor of two scholarly works.
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Mary Ann Samyn's most recent book of poetry is
Beauty Breaks In (New Issues, 2009). She teaches in the MFA program at West Virginia University.
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Eleni Sikelianos is the author of six books of poetry, most recently
Body Clock and
The California Poem, as well as a hybrid memoir,
The Book of Jon. Her translation of Jacques Roubaud’s
Exchanges on Light appeared in 2009.
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Aleš Šteger is a Slovenian poet and editor. He was born in the town of Ptuj in Lower Styria, Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia. He studied Comparative Literature and German at University of Ljubljana.
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