Dan Chelotti's poems have appeared in the Boston Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Mary, Kulture Vulture and other journals. He holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Program for Poets and Writers, where he spent three years working as an Assistant Managing Editor for Verse Press. In the summer of 2006, he received a fellowship from the Slovenian Arts Council to live, write and translate in Ljubljana for one month. He lives in Amherst, MA.

Jessica Fjeld received the George Edward Woodberry Prize from Columbia University in 2005. A native of Vermont, she now lives in Brooklyn.

Maya Pindyck grew up in Massachusetts and lives in Brooklyn. She recently won Bellingham Review's 49th Parallel Poetry Award. She received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and is co-founder of Project Voice, a website documenting women's experiences with abortion (www.theabortionproject.org).

Maureen Thorson was born in Newport, Rhode Island, and grew up wherever the Navy happened to stick her. She currently lives in Washington, D.C., where she runs the tiniest press in the world, Big Game Books.

Stuart Greenhouse's poems have been published in Antioch Review, Bellingham Review, Fence, Paris Review, and Ploughshares, among other journals. He received his MFA from NYU, and currently lives in New Jersey with his family.

Cecily Parks was the recipient of the Margaret Bridgman Scholarship in Poetry for the 2005 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She lives in New York City.

Idra Novey was born in western Pennsylvania and has since lived in Chile, Brazil, and New York. Her selected translations of Brazilian poet Paulo Henriques Britto, winner of a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award, is forthcoming from BOA Editions. She currently teaches in the Undergraduate Writing Program at Columbia University

Misty Harper grew up in Georgia. She received an MFA from Indiana University and now lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where she studies the Book Arts. Her poems have been published in Hotel Amerika, Swink, and Willow Springs.

K.E. Allen lives in Ann Arbor, with a very good man, two cats, and newly born daughter, Nora Medbh Gillard. Her work has been awarded, among other prizes, the Hopwood Major Prize in Poetry and the Meijer Award. She currently teaches writing and classical literature in the Honors Program at the University of Michigan.

Joshua Poteat has recently won awards from American Literary Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, San Francisco State University/American Poetry Archives, and Catskill Writing Workshop. In 2001, he was the Summer Writer-in-Residence at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center and, in 2002, was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. He lives in Richmond, Virginia, where he edits assorted texts.

Andrea Baker's individual poems have appeared in journals such as The Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Fence, How 2, La Petite Zine, Octopus, St. Elizabeth Street, Vert, and Volt. She is Poetry Editor of 3rd Bed and lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and son.

Justin Goldberg was born in 1980 in St. Louis, raised in Baltimore, and currently resides in Brooklyn. Since graduating from Princeton University in 2002, he has worked at PEN American Center. To learn more about his recent and ongoing projects, visit www.justingoldberg.com.

Dawn Lundy Martin was selected by C. D. Wright as one of the inaugural PSA National Chapbook Fellows for her manuscript The Morning Hour. She is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, a co-founder of the Black Took Collective and the Third Wave Foundation, and is currently co-editing The Fire This Time: Young Feminists, Activism, and the Global City (Anchor Books, March 2004).

Kerri Webster was selected by Carl Phillips as one of the inaugural PSA National Chapbook Fellows for her manuscript Rowing Through Fog. She received her MFA from Indiana University, where she was a Lilly Fellow, and her work has appeared widely in journals such as the Antioch Review, The Boston Review, Ploughshares, Pleiades and VOLT.

Paul Killebrew was selected by John Ashbery as one of the inaugural PSA New York Chapbook Fellows for his manuscript Forget Rita. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee and currently lives in Brooklyn, where he writes for social service agencies and tutors adults with mental disabilities.

Tess Taylor was selected by Eavan Boland as one of the inaugural PSA New York Chapbook Fellows for her manuscript The Misremembered World. She studied at Amherst College, where she won the Rolphe Humphries and Laura Ayres Snyder prizes for poetry.

Jeffrey Encke's work has appeared in the Cream City Review, American Writing, Barrow Street, Salt Hill, Poetry Hotel, Third Bed, and Quarterly West. He has taught poetry seminars and writing workshops through the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. His current projects include a full-length collection of poems, Hydrography, a study of the influence of technological innovation on the production and reception of art, Rogue Magic, and his doctoral dissertation, Manifestos: A Social History of Proclamation.

Frances Brent was the co-translator of Beyond the Limit: Poems by Irina Ratushinskaya. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Yale Review, the Denver Quarterly, and most recently in New American Writing).

Justin Jamail is a poet living in Brooklyn. His poems are appearing or forthcoming in various journals including: eleven bulls, and The Hat.