Alex Lemon is the author of Happy: A Memoir (Scribner), the poetry collections Mosquito (Tin House Books), Hallelujah Blackout (Milkweed Editions), Fancy Beasts (forthcoming, Milkweed Editions), and the chapbook At Last Unfolding Congo (horse less press). His writing has appeared in Esquire, Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI, BOMB, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Open City, Pleiades and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 Minnesota Arts Board Grant. He co-edits LUNA: A Journal of Poetry and Translation with Ray Gonzalez and frequently writes book reviews. He lives in Fort Worth,Texas and teaches at Texas Christian University.
Éireann Lorsung is the author of Music for Landing Planes By (Milkweed Editions, 2007) and Projet Linguistique (forthcoming, Milkweed Editions). Her writing has appeared in, among others, Prairie Schooner, Barrelhouse, Staple, Maize, Diode, and Caffeine Destiny, as well as in anthologies. She received a Judd Grant to write and make prints in Venice, Italy, and has also lived in France. The organizer of the Nottingham Poetry Series, she is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Nottingham; she is writing about love. She teaches at De Montfort University in Leicester.
Laressa Dickey’s poems appear in numerous journals and are included in the anthologies Life in Body: Writings from the House of Mercy and Sierra Songs & Descants: Poetry and Prose of the Sierra. She is a poet, dancer and teacher working with diverse communities to increase access to movement and writing. Her artistic work has been influenced by the exploration of many forms, including painting, gardening, site-specific performance, contact improvisation, and mosaics. She grew up on her family’s tobacco farm in rural Tennessee amidst tall poplars and to this day likes to take to the woods for solace of every kind.
Kerri French’s poems have recently appeared in PANK, The Southeast Review, Barrelhouse, DIAGRAM, Brooklyn Review, Blotter, and other journals. Her poem ‘After Her Stroke, Our Family Remembers the Hurricane’ was chosen by Mark Strand for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2008. She received her MFA from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and lives in Cambridge.
Zachary Carlsen is the founder and publisher of Gendun Editions, a fine art press in the United States. Besides designing, setting, printing, and binding books for Gendun, he has published poems in Poesy, Camas, Dislocate, The Cimarron Review, and Cerise Press. He recently spent two years living in France, where he translated the complete works of Blaise Cendrars. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Montana-Missoula, where he teaches Creative Writing.
