KEVIN ALLARDICE grew up in California and Colorado. He recently graduated UCLA with a BA in English and this fall will attend the MFA program at the University of Virginia.

NIN ANDREWS is the author of several books including The Book of Orgasms and Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane. Her next book, Sleeping with Houdini, is forthcoming in 2007.

ANTLER is the author of Selected Poems, Ever-Expanding Wilderness, Deathrattles vs. Comecries, and several other volumes. His work appears in such anthologies as Poets Against the War and An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11.

ELLEN BASS’s most recent book of poetry, Mules of Love (BOA 2002), won the Lambda Literary Award. Her next book, The Human Line, is forthcoming by Copper Canyon Press in 2007.

ERINN BATYKEFER, the 2007-08 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University, has poems andcreative nonfiction in the Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.

MARVIN BELL's nineteenth book is Mars Being Red (Copper Canyon, 2007). Retired from the Iowa Workshop two years ago, he now teaches for the brief-residency MFA based in Oregon at Pacific University.

ELINOR BENEDICT has published several chapbooks and a collection of poetry, All That Divides Us (Utah State University, 2000), which won the May Swenson Award.

MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL is the author of the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers (Harper Collins, 2002) and of Dusty Angel (BOA, 1999), his sixth collection of poetry.

MICHELLE BONCZEK is a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Writing at Western Michigan University. Poetry Assignments: The Book, which she co-authored with her two other coeditors at Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, will be published by Sage Hill Press in 2007.

ANNIE BOUTELLE is the author of Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry. Her first book is Becoming Bone: Poems on the Life of Celia Thaxter. Her second, Nest of Thistles, won the 2005 Samuel French Morse Prize from Northeastern University Press.

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY’s most recent book is And the Sea, published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2006. Sheep Meadow also published his 13th book of poetry, Sky, in 2004. His latest book of nonfiction is Sleep Walk (Eastern Washington UP, 2006).

R.T. CASTLEBERRY is a co-founder and director of the Flying Dutchman Writer’s Troupe, a literary performance group. His work appears in Texas Review, Pacific Review, Poet Lore, ACM, and elsewhere.

DAVID CAVANAGH’s collections include The Middleman (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2003) and several chapbooks. His poems appear in the Malahat Review, Dalhousie Review, and elsewhere.

ROBIN CHAPMAN’s newest collection is The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead (WordTech Editions, 2007). Her poems have appeared recently in Appalachia, Fiddlehead, and elsewhere.

MICHELLE CHIHARA received her MFA from UC Irvine in 2006. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.

WILLIAM CONESCU’s first novel, Being Written, will be published by Harper Perennial in 2008. His short stories appear in The Gettysburg Review, Manhattan Literary Review, and New Letters.

MATTHEW COOPERMAN is the author of Daze (Salt Publishing, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001). Recent work appears in Verse, Volt, New American Writing, and elsewhere.

RITA D. COSTELLO’s work appears in ACM, Glimmer Train, Feminist Studies, and in anthologies such as Red, White and Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise of America and Mischief, Caprice and Other Poetic Strategies.

TRACY DAUGHERTY is the author of four novels, a book of essays, and three short story collections, the most recent of which is Late in the Stand-off (SMU Press). He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA.

JIM DANIEL’s most recent book is Street, a collection of his poems and the photos of Charlee Brodsky (Bottom Dog, 2005). In 2005, he also wrote and produced Dumpster, an independent feature film.

GREG DELANTY has a new book out from LSU Press: The Ship of Birth. His Collected Poems 1986-2006 was published last year from the Oxford Poet’s series of Carcanet Press.

ADAM L. DRESSLER serves as an assistant editor at Parnassus: Poetry in Review and as the review editor for Perihelion. His poems appear in the Mississippi Review, Raritan, Western Humanities Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere.

DENISE DUHAMEL’s most recent poetry titles are Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005), and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001).

JOSH EXOO received his MFA in Poetry from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (’07). He now serves as a lecturer at UNCG and as an editor for Backwards City Review.

B.H. FAIRCHILD received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2003). Trilogy, with illustrations by Barry Moser, will appear in 2007, and Usher is forthcoming in 2008-09 from W.W. Norton.

STEVE FELLNER’s first book of poems, Blind Date with Cavafy, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in 2007. He currently teaches at SUNY Brockport.

GARY FINCKE’s latest collection of poetry, Writing Letters for the Blind, won the 2002 Ohio State UP Poetry Prize, and his collections of stories, Sorry I Worried You, won the 2003 Flannery O’Connor Award for fiction.

ALLEN C. FISCHER brings to poetry a background in business where he was director of marketing for an international firm. His poems have appeared in the Indiana Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

GREGORY FRASER has published poetry in the Southern Review, Paris Review, Chicago Review, and elsewhere. His first book of poems, Strange Pietà, was published in 2003 by Texas Tech University Press.

JOHN GALLAHER is the author of the books of poetry Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls, and The Little Book of Guesses, winner of the Levis Poetry Prize from Four Way Books. Recent poetry appears in Field, Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, and PLEIADES.

CHRISTINE GELINEAU is the author of Remorseless Loyalty, winner of the Richard Snyder Prize, from Ashland Poetry Press (2006). She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at SUNY Binghamton.

PATRICIA GOEDICKE’s twelve books of poetry include As Earth Begins to End (Copper Canyon, 2000), which was an ALA “Top Ten Poetry Books of the Year” selection. Green Mountains Review dedicates our 20th anniversary issue to Patricia, who died last year in July.

LOLA HASKINS has two books coming out this year: a poetry advice book (Backwaters Press) and a book of prose poem fables about women whose names start with A (Modernbook Press).

WILLIAM HATHAWAY lives in Surry, ME, and his most recent book is Promeneur Solitaire, a hand-set special edition from Chester Creek Press.

SUSAN HAZEN-HAMMOND is the author of nine books, including Thunder Bear and Ko and Spider Woman’s Web (both published by Penguin Putnam). Awards include a Benjamin Franklin Award and a South Carolina Book Award.

BRIAN HENRY has published five books of poetry: Astronaut, American Incident, Graft, Quarantine (2003 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America), and most recently, Stripping Point.

BOB HICOK’s fifth book of poetry, This Clumsy Living, is just out from UPitt Press.

H.L. HIX’s poem in this issue is part of a sequence of Bush and bin Laden poems to be collected under the title God Bless and published by Etruscan Press.

DAVID HUDDLE’s sixth book of poems, Glory River, will be published by LSU Press in Spring 2008. An early collection of his short stories Only the Little Bone is being reprinted in paperback by Harmon Blunt in Fall 2007.

RHODA HUFFEY is the author of The Hallelujah Side from Houghton Mifflin. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, and Amherst Review.

WAYNE JOHN’s poems appear in Image, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner, among others, and online at Lodestar Quarterly and Atlanta Rainbow Muse.

PETER JOHNSON’s most recent books are Eduardo & “I” (White Pine, 2006), a book of prose poems, and What Happened (Front Street Books), a novel.

CHARLENE LANGFUR, a Syracuse University Graduate Writing Fellow, teaches at the College of the Desert in Palm Desert, CA. Her work appears in The Adirondack Review, Literal Latte and Poetry East.

TIMOTHY LIU is the author of six books of poems, most recently For Dust Thou Art and Of Thee I Sing. He is on the Core Faculty in Bennington College’s Graduate Writing Seminars.

ROBERT HILL LONG’s most recent book is The Effigies. He was awarded a 2005 NEA poetry fellowship, and his recent work appears in Birds in the Hand (Knopf), North Carolina Literary Review, and Marlboro Review.

MARK MCKAIN’s poetry appears in The New Republic, Atlanta Review, Blue Mesa Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook Ranging the Moon was published by Pudding House Publications in 2003.

T. M. MCNALLY is the author of five works of fiction, most recently The Goat Bridge, a Booklist Editors’ Choice for 2005. A new collection of stories, The Gateway, is forthcoming this fall.

MARYLEE MCNEAL’s novel Home Again, Home Again won San Francisco State University’s 1989 Clark award, and her poetry chapbook The Space Between Us won the Bear Mountains Press award for poetry in 2002.

SANDRA MEEK is the author of two books of poems, Nomadic Foundations (2002) and Burn (2005), both of which earned her Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry awards, as well as a chapbook, The Circumference of Arrival (2001).

WAYNE MILLER is the author of a book of poems, Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006), translator of I Don’t Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007), by Albanian poet Moikom Zeqo, and co-editor of The New European Poets (Graywolf 2008), an anthology.

JEFF MOCK is the author of Evening Travelers, a chapbook of poems published by Volans Press, and You Can Write Poetry, a guidebook published by Writer’s Digest Books. His poems appear in The Atlantic Monthly, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere.

There’s no place MICHAEL NASSBERG would rather spend the apocalypse than his hometown of Freehold, NJ. Currently he is a graduate student at SUNY Binghamton, finishing his MA in English and creative writing.

PAUL NELSON has given up the ethic of hardship, left his beloved Maine, now trolls nine miles off the North Shore of O’ahu, sure he is the first human being to see the island. Several recent magazines, a Pushcart Nomination, two new manuscripts of poetry.

VALERIE NIEMAN’s work appears in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. Her books include a poetry book, a short fiction collection, and two novels. She has won an NEA fellowship, two Elizabeth Simpson Smith prizes and the Greg Grummer Prize.

CHEYENNE NIME’s first novel, The Dead Elvis Ball, was a semi-finalist in Starcherone Press’s 2006 contest. Her first book of poems, Passing through 90 Degrees (SF State, 2000), was award an NEA.

ALEXIS ORGERA lives in Santa Monica, CA. She is fully aware of the danger of California falling into the ocean should the apocalypse occur, but she is a fantastic swimmer. She is also a high school librarian, creative writing teacher, and Poetry Editor of Swink magazine.

BENJAMIN PERCY is the author of two books of short stories, The Language of Elk (Carnegie Mellon UP, 2006) and Refresh, Rfresh (Graywolf, 2007). His prose appears in Esquire, The Paris Review, Best American Short Stories, and the Pushcart Prize anthology.

ALLAN PETERSON is the author of two books: All the Lavish in Common (2005 Juniper Prize) and Anonymous Or (Defined Providence Press ) and four chapbooks. Recent poems appear in Prairie Schooner, Marlboro Review, and Massachusetts Review.

DIANA PINCKNEY has published three collections of poetry, Fishing with Tall Women, winner of Persephone Press Book Award 1996, White Linen, Nightshade Press, 1998 and Alchemy, Main Street Rag Press, 2004.

NICOLE LOUISE REID is the author of the novel In the Breeze of Passing Things (MacAdam/Cage, 2003). Her stories and poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere.

SUSAN RICH is the author of two poetry collections: Cures Include Travel and The Cartographer’s Tongue – Poems of the World (White Pine Press), which won the PEN USA Award for Poetry.

DAN RIEHLE-MERRILL’s work has appeared in journals such as Fence, Boston Review, and Upstairs at Duroc. He earned a MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University.

ELIZABETH ROLLINS has published in The New England Review, GW Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of a chapbook, The Sin Eater (Corvid Press, 2004).

WILLIAM PITT ROOT’s books include White Boots: New & Selected Poems of the American West (2006), The Storm and Other Poems (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary series, 2005), Nominated for the Pulitzer, he has won awards from the NEA, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations.

STEPHEN SANDY’s new collection of poems is Weathers Permitting (2005); The Way of Things, A Poem in Eight Parts was published in 2002, both from LSU Press.

MATT SCHUMACHER’s work, which has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Eleventh Muse, and the Manic D Press anthology, It’s All Good, was recently nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize.

DAVID SCHUMAN’s fiction appears in Missouri Review, Conjunctions, and the 2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology, among other publications. He lives in St. Louis where he teaches fiction writing in the Washington University MFA Program.

MAUREEN SEATON’s fifth collection of poems, Venus Examines Her Breast (Carnegie Mellon, 2004), won the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde award.

ROY SEEGER’s poems have recently appeared in Mississippi Review, Verse, Nimrod, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, and Verse Daily. He lives in Kalamazoo.

LEE SHARKEY is the author of To a Vanished World (Puckerbrush Press), a poem sequence in response to Roman Vishniac’s photographs of Eastern European Jewry in the years just preceding the Nazi Holocaust. She edits the Beloit Poetry Journal.

REGINALD SHEPHERD is the editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (University of Iowa, 2004). He has published five volumes of poetry, all from UPitt Press, including Fata Morgana (2007) and Otherhood (2003), a finalist for the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

BETSY SHOLL’s most recent book is Late Psalm (University of Wisconsin, 2004). She teaches in the Vermont College MFA Program and at the University of Southern Maine, and was recently named Poet Laureate of Maine.

EMILY TAYLOR’s stories have appeared in Lost, Hobart (online), Peeks & Valleys, and Dispatch . Currently, she is pursuing an MFA at the The New School, where she is also a prose editor for LIT.

SAM TAYLOR spent the past several years caretaking a wilderness refuge in the San Juan Mountains of Northern New Mexico. He is currently the Dobie Paisano Fellow at the former writing ranch of J. Frank Dobie in Central Texas. His first book is Body of the World (Ausable Press).

RICHARD TERRILL has published a collection of poems, Coming Late to Rachmaninoff, and two books of creative nonfiction, Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz and Saturday Night in Baoding: A China Memoir , winner of the AWP Award for nonfiction.

ALEXANDER THEROUX is the author of four novels Three Wogs, Darconville’s Cat (nominated for a National Book Award), An Adultery , and most recently, Laura Warholic . He has also published several books of essays, fables, and poetry.

DANIEL TOBIN is the author of four books of poems: Where the World Is Made (UP of New England, 1999), Double Life (LSU, 2004), The Narrows (Four Way Books, 2005), and Second Things (Four Ways Books, 2008).

WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE’s books are Enter Dark Stranger, O Paradise, Flickers, and The Complete Book of Kong . His poems appear in the Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Georgia Review, and elsewhere.

CHARLES HARPER WEBB’s recent books of poetry are Amplified Dog (Saltman Prize for Poetry, Red Hen Press, 2006) and Hot Popsicles (UWisconsin, 2005).

JONATHAN WEINERT has poems appearing in American Letters & Commentary, Pleiades, Third Coast, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in Writing from Spalding University, and recently completed a residency at Caldera Arts Center in Oregon.

WALTER WETHERELL is the author of sixteen books; his latest novel is A Century of November, set in Flanders in 1918; in 2008, the University of Nebraska Press will publish his memoir, Yellowstone Autumn.

J.P. WHITE is the author of four books of poetry, including The Salt Hour (Univ. of Illinois, 2001) and The Sleeper at the Party (Defined Providence, 2001). His poems appear in Sewanee Review, North American Review, Poetry, and elsewhere.

KEVIN WILSON was born, raised, and still lives in Tennessee. His fiction appears in Ploughshares, One Story, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. He has twice been included in the New Stories from the South anthology.

ANNE HARDING WOODWORTH is the author of two chapbooks. Her poetry appears in TriQuarterly, Cimarron Review, Antigonish Review, Dalhousie Review, and elsewhere.