Dorianne Laux
author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990) and What We Carry (1994), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Smoke (2000).  She is also coauthor, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasure of Writing Poetry (W. W. Norton, 1997) among her awards are a Pushcart Prize for her poetry and a fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts. 
 

 Philip Terman
His chapbook, What Survives, received The Sow's Ear Press Award in 1993. His first full-length collection, The House of Sages, was published by Mammoth Books in 1998.
Poems and essays have been published in numerous journals, including POETRY, The Kenyon Review, The New England Review, The North American Review, and Tikkun Magazine.