Marianne Boruch
 Marianne Boruch is the author of six collections of poetry: Grace, Fallen from, recently released in paperback; Poems: New and Selected; A Stick that Breaks and Breaks; Moss Burning; Descendant; and View from the Gazebo. Her two books of essays on poetry are Poetry’s Old Air in Michigan’s “Poets on Poetry” series (1993) and In the Blue Pharmacy: Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations (Trinity, 2005). Her most recent books include The Glimpse Traveler, a memoir (Indiana University Press, 2011), and The Book of Hours, poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). Her awards include two Pushcart Prizes, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, residencies from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center and the MacDowell Colony, and she served as artist-in-residence at Isle Royale National Park (the country’s most isolated national park). She has received a number of teaching awards from Purdue University where she developed the graduate writing program, directing it from 1987 until 2005, and where she remains on the MFA faculty. Since 1988, she has also taught in the low-residency Warren Wilson College Program for Writers; in August 2010 she was on faculty at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference near Middlebury, VT. In 2012, she will be on a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Paul Hostovsky
 Paul Hostovsky's poems have won a Pushcart Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey Award from The Comstock Review, and chapbook contests from Grayson Books, Riverstone Press, Frank Cat Press, and Split Oak Press. His work has been featured six times on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac and on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Best of the Net 2008 and 2009. He has four full-length collections of poetry, Bending the Notes (2008), Dear Truth (2009), A Little in Love a Lot (2011), all published by Main Street Rag Press, and Hurt Into Beauty (2012) published by FutureCycle Press. He works in Boston as a sign language interpreter at the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf. More information and poems are available on his webpage.
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Jacqueline Osherow
 Jacqueline Osherow is the author of six books of poems: Looking for Angels in New York (1988) and Conversations with Survivors (1993), from The University of Georgia Press; With a Moon in Transit (1996) and Dead Men’s Praise (1999), from Grove Press; The Hoopoe’s Crown (2005) from BOA Editions, and Whitethorn (2011) from LSU Press. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, as well as the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry (Thomson Wadsworth, 2006), Twentieth Century American Poetry (McGraw Hill, 2004), The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Norton, 2001), Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies (Norton, 2001), The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (Penguin, 2001), The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Literature (Norton, 2000), and Best American Poetry (1995 and 1998). She is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Utah.
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Dave Smith
 Dave Smith is the Chairman of the Writing Seminars Department and Elliot Coleman Professor of Poetry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He was previously the Boyd Professor of English and coeditor of The Southern Review at Louisiana State University. He has also taught at the University of Florida, the University of Utah, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Binghamton, and Bennington College. His 18th collection of poetry, Hawks on Wires, was published in November 2011 through Louisiana State University Press. He has also published a novel and a collection of stories, two books of essays, and his most recent book is a collection of essays co-edited with Robert DeMott, called Afield: Writers on Bird Dogs. Smith's books have earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, and a Lyndhurst Fellowship. Two of his books of poetry, Cumberland Station and Goshawk, Antelope were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He is an elected member of the Fellowship for Southern Writers.
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