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Philip White’s collection of poems, The Clearing, won the Walt Macdonald first book prize and has just been published. His poems have won a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in The New Republic, Slate, Southern Review, New England Review, Hudson Review, Antioch Review, Southwest Review, The Journal, Quarterly West, and other magazines and journals.
Oliver de la Paz was born in Manila, Philippines. He is a co-founder and a board member of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization committed to the discovery and cultivation of emerging Asian-American poets. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
PATRICIA SMITH is the author of four acclaimed poetry volumes—“Teahouse of the Almighty” (a 2005 National Poetry Series selection), “Close to Death,” “Life According to Motown” and “Big Towns, Big Talk.” She is also winner of the 2007 Chautauqua Literary Journal Award in Poetry and the 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize.
Elizabeth Leigh Palmer Hadaway lives in Kingsville, Maryland. She was an instructor at Virginia Commonwealth University and worked as an historical interpreter at Agecroft Hall in Richmond, Virginia.

Debra Kang Dean is the author of three collections of poetry: "Precipitates" (BOA 2003), which was nominated for the William Carlos Williams Award.

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