Jeremy Axelrod edited and wrote book reviews for The New York Sun, and has edited for Contemporary Poetry Review. His criticism has appeared in Parnassus, Commentary, and other journals. He lives in New York City.

Don Bogen’s fourth book of poetry, An Algebra, is just out from the University of Chicago Press. He teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

Robert Boyers is editor of the quarterly Salmagundi and director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute. His most recent books are Excitable Women, Damaged Men (stories) and The Dictator’s Dictation (essays on the politics of novels and novelists).

Ben Downing’s first book of poems, The Calligraphy Shop, was published in 2003. He is the co-editor of Parnassus.

Anne Frydman translated three books by Sergei Dovlatov (The Compromise, The Zone, and Ours) and introduced and translated At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel, by A. N. Pirozhkova, Babel’s widow. Her poems have recently been published in Pequod, Boulevard, and Percontra. She taught in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University for fifteen years. She died on February 23 of this year.

David Galef is a professor of English at Montclair State University and the author of a dozen books. His latest work is A Man of Ideas and Other Stories.

Barry Goldensohn’s recent books are The Marrano, Dance Music, and with his wife, Lorrie, East Long Pond. He taught English at Skidmore College.

Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. The most recent of her many books of poems is Laws (Zoo Press).

Langdon Hammer, professor of English and American studies at Yale, is the editor of Hart Crane: Complete Poetry and Selected Letters (Library of America, 2006) and the author of Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism (Princeton, 1993).

Siri Hustvedt is the author of the novels The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, and The Sorrows of an American, as well as two books of essays, Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting and A Plea for Eros. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

John Kinsella’s new volume of poetry is Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography (W. W. Norton, 2008). He is an Extraordinary Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University, and a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.

Jeredith Merrin is author of the poetry collections Shift and Bat Ode (both University of Chicago Press), as well as a critical study of Marianne Moore’s and Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry, An Enabling Humility (Rutgers University Press). She teaches at Ohio State University.

Jeffrey Meyers has published more than twenty biographies, including The Genius and the Goddess, a study of Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe (Random House, 2009). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Barbara A. Mowat is consulting editor of Shakespeare Quarterly and editor (with Paul Werstine) of the New Folger Library Shakespeare editions. From 1985 until July 2009, she was director of research at the Folger Shakespeare Library and chair of the Folger Institute.

David Philip Mullins is author of the forthcoming collection of stories True Love vs. the Cigar Store Indian (Sarabande Books), which won the 2009 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches creative writing at Creighton University.

David Quint is Sterling Professor of English and and professor and chair of the comparative literature department at Yale University. He is author of, among others, Origin and Originality in Renaissance Literature, Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy, and Cervantes’s Novel of Modern Times.

Nancy Reisman is the author of the novel The First Desire and the story collection House Fires. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories 2001 and 2005 O. Henry Award Stories. She lives in Nashville and teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University.

Marc Robinson is the author of The Other American Drama and the editor of The Theater of Maria Irene Fornes and Altogether Elsewhere: Writers on Exile. He is a professor of English and theater studies at Yale University and teaches at the Yale School of Drama.

Tony Sanders is the author of the collection Partial Eclipse (University of North Texas Press). His poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.

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

John Taylor’s latest book is Into the Heart of European Poetry, a collection of essays published by Transaction in 2008. He is also the author of the two-volume Paths to Contemporary French Literature (also issued by Transaction), which includes an essay on Pierre-Albert Jourdan.

Craig Morgan Teicher’s first book, Brenda Is in the Room and Other Poems, won the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His second, a collection of fiction and fables called Cradle Book, will be published by BOA Editions in 2010. He is a vice president of the board of the National Book Critics Circle.

Greg Wrenn’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, LIT, and The Laurel Review, among other journals. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, he is currently an MFA candidate at Washington University in St. Louis.

Timothy Young, curator of modern books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, is author of Drawn to Enchant: Original Children’s Book Art in the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection.