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Jeff Bens is the author of the novel Albert, Himself. His short fiction and essays are published widely. Jeff directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Manhattanville College and is contributing editor for Manhattanville's national literary magazine Inkwell. His short documentary film, Fatman's, has been screened in festivals around the world and on North Carolina PBS.
Sally Bliumis-Dunn received her B.A. in Russian language and literature from U.C. Berkeley and her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared in BigCityLit, Lumina, Nimrod, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry London, RATTLE, Rattapallax, Spoon River Poetry Review and the anthology Chance of A Ghost. Her collection Talking Underwater will be published in 2007.
Jacquie Gordon received her degree from Yale University and is the author of the memoir Give Me One Wish and the novel Flanders Point. Give Me One Wish was chosen by The American Library Association as a Best Book for Young Adults and Flanders Point received the Yale Willets Prize for fiction.
Van Hartmann is an Associate Professor of English and teaches neoclassical and romantic literature, American literature, and film studies, along with courses in poetry within the creative writing program. His poetry has been published in numerous journals, including Confluence, Confrontation, Inkwell, Red Wheelbarrow Magazine, WinningWriters, Pennsylvania English, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Snake Nation, Texas Review, and The Worcester Review. His first book of poems, Shiva Dancing (Texture Press), was published in June, 2007.
Kevin Pilkington is the author of five collection of poetry including Ready to Eat the Sky, St. Andrew's Head, and la Jolla Poets Press National Book Award winner Spare Change. His poetry has appeared in anthologies including Birthday Poems: A Celebration, Western Wind, and Contemporary Poetry of New England, and in numerous magazines including Poetry, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Boston Review, Tankee, Hayden's Ferry, Columbia, Greensboro Review, The Louisville Review, Gulf Coast, Valparaiso Review.
Adam Piore is a New York City based freelance journalist. A former general editor and correspondent for Newsweek, he covered 9-11 from ground zero for the magazine, and spent two months in Iraq in 2003. He has also reported from Southeast Asia for the Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun and the Christian science Monitor, among others. From 1995-1998, Piore was the Washington Correspondent for the Bergen Record. Piore is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Anthony Rudel received his BA from Columbia University and is the author of three books, two on music, Tales from the Opera and Classical Music Top 40, as well as the novel Imagining Don Giovanni. He has written articles for major magazines, and a short story, Trumpet Blues, was included in the anthology Meeting Across the River. Mr. Rudel's book about radio’s early days will be released in the Fall of 2008 for Harcourt publishing. Mr. Rudel is a media consultant, and has spent the last thirty years working in the broadcasting, publishing, and music businesses.
Alison Stine is the author of the poetry chapbook Lot of My Sister, winner of the Wick Prize of Kent State University Press. She was a 2005 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and the 2004 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. Her poems and prose have appeared in The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, and others.
Emily Taylor's short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Green Mountains Review, The Baltimore Review, Inkwell, Lost Magazine, and Hobart (online). She holds an MFA from The New School, where she continues to serve as prose editor for LIT.
Jonathan Tropper is the author of How To Talk To A Widower, Everything Changes, The Book of Joe, which was a Booksense selection, and Plan B. How To Talk To A Widower is an official summer selection of the United Kingdom's Richard and Judy Show, and was optioned by Paramount Pictures. Everything Changes and The Book of Joe are also in development as feature films.