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Contributors’ Notes
Christopher Ankney was born and raised in Defiance, Ohio. His
poetry has appeared in MARGIE and some conspicuous places. He
lives in Chicago, Illinois, where he teaches writing to students and
patience to his longtime girlfriend, Lynn.
William Baer, a recent Guggenheim recipient, is the author of twelve
books, including The Ballad Rode into Town, “Borges” and Other
Sonnets, Writing Metrical Poetry, Fourteen on Form: Conversations
with Poets, and Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets. He is also the director
of the Richard Wilbur Poetry Series, the consulting editor at Measure,
and the director of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize.
Erinn Batykefer earned her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-
Madison, where she was the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished
Poetry Fellow. She is currently the Stadler Poetry Fellow at Bucknell
University. Her poetry and creative nonfiction appear in Gulf Coast,
Denver Quarterly, and Maisonneuve Magazine.
Jeanne Marie Beaumont’s most recent book is Curious Conduct (BOA
Editions). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Court
Green, Jacket, Pool, Volt, RUNES, Natural Bridge, and The Year’s Best
Fantasy and Horror anthology. She teaches in the Stonecoast MFA
program, at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92 nd Street Y, and is
director of the Frost Place Seminar.
Sally Bellerose has received many awards, including a National
Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Barbara Deming Prize, and
the Rick DeMartinis Award. Her work appears in current issues of
Rock and Sling, The Journal of Humanistic Anthropology, Passager,
Cutthroat, Cup of Comfort for Writers, and Saint Ann’s Review.
Tamiko Beyer’s work has appeared or will be forthcoming in numerous
journals and anthologies, including Calyx, Boxcar Poetry Review,
The Drunken Boat, WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly), and Cheers to
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