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Anne Marie Macari's first book, Ivory Cradle, won the APR first book prize in 2000. Her second book, Gloryland, was published by Alice James Books in 2005. In 2005, she won the James Dickey Award for poetry from Five Points magazine
Michael Spring is the author  of two poetry books: blue crow (LitPot Press, Inc.,  2003) and Mudsong (Pygmy Forest Press, 2005). His  poems have appeared in The Atlanta Review, Dublin  Quarterly, The Midwest Quarterly, NEO, and New Works  Review. He is  poetry editor for The Pedestal Magazine.  
Penelope Schott has  published a novel, four chapbooks, and six full-length books of  poetry, including three historical narratives and three  collections of lyrics. The poems here come from May the  Generations Die in the Right Order(2007) and Baiting the Void  (2005)
Victoria Chang's first book of poetry, Circle, won the Crab  Orchard Review Award Series in Poetry, and was published by  Southern Illinois University Press in 2005. It won the  Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, and was a  Finalist for the 2005 PEN Center USA Literary Award, as well as a  Finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award. Her  second book will be published in the Fall of 2008 by the  University of Georgia Press, as part of the VQR Poetry Series.
Judith MontgomeryHhas been awarded two fellowships in poetry from Literary Arts, as well as an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission to work on new manuscripts (Blue Field, Burning and Inter/View); residencies from Soapstone and Caldera; first prizes in poetry from the National Writers Union, Portland Pen, Americas Review, Red Rock Review, Chaffin Journal, and The Bellingham Review.   Her chapbook, Passion, received the 2000 Oregon Book Award 
Gary Margolis  Gary Margolis is Director of the Center for Counseling and  Human  Relations and Associate Professor of English at Middlebury  College. His  most recent book of poems is "Fire in the Orchard"(Autumn House  Press).
Evie Shockley Shockley is a Cave Canem graduate fellow, recipient of a residency at the Hedgebrook retreat center for women writers, and a three-time nominee for a Pushcart Prize.  She teaches African American literature and creative writing at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and is at work on a study of the relationship between race and innovation in African American poetry. . 
Lynne Potts  has appeared in Paris Review, Southern Humanities Review, Oxford Magazine, Cumberland Review, Art Times, River Oak Review, Green Hills Literary Review, Drumvoices, AGNI,  and many other journals
Judith Roche is the author of three collections of poetry, Wisdom of the Body,  which won an American Book Award, Myrrh/My Life as a Screamer and Ghosts, is co-editor of First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim, also an American Book Award recipient.