Craig Arnold teaches for the MFA program of the University of Wyoming. Last year Ausable Press published his second book of poems, Made Flesh. He is currently a Fulbright fellow in Colombia.

Randy Blasing's latest book is Choice Words: Poems 1970–2005 (2007), and his most recent translation, Nazim Hikmet's Human Landscapes from My Country, appeared in paper late last year. He continues as editor of the Copper Beech Press in Providence, Rhode Island.

Bert Cardullo teaches in the media and communications department at the Izmir University of Economics in Turkey. He is the author of Soundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists (State University of New York Press, 2008), and the editor of Akira Kurosawa: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2008).

Scott Dalgarno makes his home in Portland, Oregon. He has published poems in The Antioch Review, America, and The Yale Review.

Wes Davis is editor of an anthology of contemporary Irish poetry to be published next year by Harvard University Press. He has written on British and American literature for publications ranging from Southwest Review and Parnassus to the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

C. J. Driver is the author of five novels, a biography, and six collections of poems, the latest So Far, Selected Poems 1960–2004. He was for many years a prohibited immigrant in the country of his birth and upbringing, South Africa.

Joseph Fasano's poems have appreared or are forthcoming in RATTLE, The Western Humanities Review, and other journals. He was awarded the 2008 RATTLE Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2008 Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition. Currently, he is a lecturer at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York.

Laura Furman is the author of Tuxedo Park, The Shadow Line, The Glass House, Watch Time Fly, and Drinking with the Cook, and a memoir, Ordinary Paradise. She teaches at the University of Texas. This year she is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose.

Allan Gurganus is the author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, White People, Plays Well with Others, and The Practical Heart, among other work. He first trained as a painter, studying at the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His paintings are represented in both private and public collections. His political editorials often appear in The New York Times. He lives in his native North Carolina.

Jeffrey Harrison's fourth book of poems, Incomplete Knowledge (Four Way Books), was a runner-up for the 2008 Poets' Prize. In 2006, The Names of Things, a selection from his previous books, was published by the Waywiser Press in the U.K.

Amy Hungerford teaches American literature since 1945 at Yale University. She is the author of The Holocaust of Texts (Chicago, 2003), a study of genocide and literature, and Postmodern Belief (Princeton), on the intersection of religion and literature since 1960.

Frannie Lindsay's two volumes of poems are Lamb (Perugia Press, 2006) and Where She Always Was (Utah State University Press, 2004).

George Martin has written a number of books on operatic subjects, among them three on Verdi, and also books on other subjects, including the biography CCB: The Life and Century of Charles C. Burlingham, 2006 recipient of the U. S. Supreme Court Historical Society Griswold Prize.

D. Nurkse's nine collections of poems include The Border Kingdom, Burnt Island, and The Fall (all Knopf). Recent work appear in the Times Literary Supplement and The Atlantic. He received a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship.

Barbara J. Orton's poems have appeared in anthologies including Under the Rock Umbrella (Mercer University Press, 2006) and in Ploughshares, Pleiades, and Verse. She received her MFAW from Washington University and is currently in the doctoral program in English at Tufts.

Siobhan Phillips is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Claude Rawson has written numerous articles and reviews for the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review, and London Review of Books. He is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale.

Mary Jo Salter's A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems was published by Knopf last year. She is a professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.

Sherod Santos is author of five books of poems, most recently The Perishing (W. W. Norton, 2003). In 2005 he published Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation (W. W. Norton). He currently lives in Chicago, where he is finishing a play called The Flaying of Marsyas.

Gary Schmidgall is professor of English at Hunter College, the City University of New York. The author of Literature as Opera, he has most recently published a biography, Walt Whitman: A Gay Life, and three Whitman editions: his poetry, conversations, and early attempts to conserve his reputation.

Dorothea Tanning is a painter and sculptor. She has lived and worked in Arizona, New York, and, for more than thirty years, in France. Her collection of poems, A Table of Content, was published by Greywolf in 2004.

Richard Wilbur, poet and translator, is author of many books, including New and Collected Poems, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, his second one, in 1989. Other books include Responses: Prose Pieces, 1953–1976 and Collected Poems: 1943–2004.