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NICK ADMUSSEN's poems have appeared in the Boston Review, Seneca Review, at DIAGRAM, and in the Pebble Lake Review. He is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at Washington University in St. Louis and currently studies modern Chinese literature at Princeton University.
DUNCAN BOCK the editor in chief at Melcher Media, a New Yorkbased book packager. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.
THOMAS BOLT writes poetry and fiction. Yale University Press published his first book, Out of the Woods, in 1989, and he was awarded the Rome Prize for Literature in 1993. More of his writing can be found at tbolt.com.
BRADFORD BROOKS works episodically in war-torn countries throughout Latin America and Africa. Mostly, though, he lives in Coyote, New Mexico, where he has a forge and is an American Bladesmithing Society apprentice.
GEORGES-OLIVIER CHÂTEAUREYNAUD's faithful pursuit of his fabulist muse outside the fashions of contemporary French fiction has not gone unnoticed: his novel La Faculté des songes (Grasset, 1982) won the prestigious Prix Renaudot, while his most recent collection of stories, Singe Savant tabassé par deux clowns (Grasset, 2005), was awarded the Bourse Goncourt de la nouvelle. The author of eight novels, he has founded his reputation on more than ninety-five short stories, translations of which have been published in Germany, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, China, Russia, Mexico, Venezuela, Slovenia, Hungary, and Croatia.
MARTHA COLLINS is the author of the book-length poem Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006), which won an Anisfield-Wolf Award and was chosen as one of "25 Books to Remember from 2006" by the New York Public Library. Collins has also published four collections of poems, two collections of co-translations of Vietnamese poetry, and two chapbooks of poems. Editor-at-large for FIELD magazine, and an editor of the Oberlin College Press, she currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
JENNIFER COOKE lives and writes in New York City. She was an English major at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1985. In New York, she studied under Phil Schultz at The Writers Studio. She has been published in a handful of literary magazines and newspapers. When she's not writing, she is taking care of her husband and two children.
KAREN CROOKS grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and now resides in southern Wisconsin. She studied studio art and continues to paint in her free time. Her experience is in working backstage in musical theater and showing her paintings in art exhibits. Her first book, Chronic Limbo, was completed in early 2008.
VICTORIA DAVIS was born and resides in Maine. She currently works at Starbucks as a barista and plans to complete her B.A. in Secondary Education with a focus in English. She has always been passionate about reading and writing poetry. This is her first publication.
ISABELLE DECONINCK writes in both English and French, depending on which side of the bed she wakes up. Although French is undeniably part of her biological makeup, she is thankful to English for letting her say things she might never say in French. She is the recipient of a 2004 and 2006 Writing Residency from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. Her fiction has appeared in KGB Bar Lit and her non-fiction in World Literature Today, The Villager, and Ear magazine. Isabelle lives in New York, where she works as a press agent for performing artists, and is a member of the Writers Studio.
D. E. FREDD lives in Townsend, Massachusetts. He has had fiction, poetry, and essays published in several journals and reviews. He received the Theodore Hoepfner Award given by the Southern Humanities Review for the best short fiction of 2005 and was a 2006 Ontario Award finalist. He won the 2006 Black River Chapbook Competition and received a 2007 Pushcart Special Mention Award. A novel, Exiled to Moab, will be published by Six Gallery Press later this year.
EDWARD GAUVIN was a 2007 Fellow at the American Literary Translators Association conference. His work has appeared in Words Without Borders and AGNI Online, where his translations of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud were the author's first to appear in English. He also translates graphic novels for First Second Books and three ongoing bimonthly comics series for Archaia Studios Press.
ROBERT LAMB teaches writing at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and is the author of two novels: Striking Out, a PEN/Hemingway Award nominee, and Atlanta Blues, nominated for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and is a free-lance reporter for the New York Times. He may be reached at robertlamb@myway.com.
MARGE LURIE lives in Chelsea, in New York City. She has studied writing at both the Writers Studio and the New School, where she earned her M.F.A. Her fiction has appeared online at ducts.org, Pindeldyboz.com, fictionwarehouse.com, and onelastcarcrash.net.
DANIELLE MAILER has a B.A. from Bowdoin College and studied painting at the New York Studio School and the School of Visual Arts, in New York City. She has shown her work in numerous galleries in Connecticut (Beaux Arts Gallery, in Woodbury; Bachelor Cardinsky Gallery, in Kent; the Silo and the Washington Art Association, in Washington; the New Arts Gallery and the Wisdom House Gallery, in Litchfield; the Norfolk Library, in Norfolk; and the Mattatuck Museum, in Waterbury), New York City (the Blue Mountain Gallery, the Roger Smith Lab Gallery, Columbia Teachers College, and the Bodell/Fahey Gallery), and Provincetown, Massachusetts (Berta Walker Gallery and Little Gorgeous Things Gallery). The Norfolk Library purchased two of her outdoor sculptures, where they remain on permanent display. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, musician Peter McEachern, and their three children, two cockatiels, and a Jack Russell terrier, Simon. She is chairman of the Art Department at Indian Mountain School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
MARK MATOUSEK is the author of two best-selling memoirs, Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story and The Boy He Left Behind: A Man's Search for His Lost Father, as well as contributing editor to O, The Oprah Magazine and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. His new book, When You're Falling, Dive, will be published this spring.
ANDREW McCORD, a contributing editor to Fulcrum, is currently collaborating with the Pakistani rock guitarist Salman Ahmad on the lyrics for a set of English songs. He lives in New York City.
WILLIAM OLSEN is the author of four collections of poetry, The Hand of God and a Few Bright Flowers (Illinois, 1988), Vision of a Storm Cloud (Triquarterly, 1996), Trouble Lights (Triquarterly, 2002), and Avenue of Vanishing (Triquarterly, 2007). He teaches creative writing and literature at Western Michigan University and at Vermont College, and is editor of New Issues Press.
STEPHANOS PAPADOPOLOUS was born in North Carolina and raised in Paris and Athens. He is the author of Lost Days, published by Leviathan Press in London and Rattapallax in New York. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The Yale Review, Poetry Review, Stand, and numerous international journals and anthologies. He has translated the Greek poets Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Yiannis Ritsos, and Kostas Karyotakis. Selections of his own work have been published in Greek, French, Italian, and Spanish. He is the editor and co-translator of Derek Walcott's Selected Poems, published in Greek by Kastaniotis Editions in 2007. His second collection is entitled Hôtel-Dieu, and he is at present completing a collection of poems about the Black Sea Greeks.
ROXANA ROBINSON is the author of the three novels, Sweetwater (2003), This Is My Daughter (1998), and Summer Light (1988); the three short-story collections A Perfect Stranger (2005), Asking for Love (1996), and A Glimpse of Scarlet (1991); and the biography Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life (1989). Four of these were named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. She has received fellowships from the N.E.A., the MacDowell Colony, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
VIJAY SESHADRI is the author of Wild Kingdom and The Long Meadow, both from Graywolf Press. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
RONALD STEWART has an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He has been published in Perceptions, Harvest, Creek, Strange Tales of an Unreal West, agumsfa, and Elephants of Style. He lives and works in Los Angeles. His writing can be found at www.irradiatedpoets.com, www.poetsagainstthewar.org, www.writerscafe.org, and www.writershaunt.com.
DAVID UPDIKE, author of the story collection Out on the Marsh and of several books for children and young adults, is a professor of English at Roxbury Community College, in Boston.
