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Erik Anderson’s poems and reviews have appeared in Jacket, Cranky, Bombay Gin, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Rain Taxi, The Denver Quarterly, Ellipsis, The American Drivel Review and others. He is also the author of two chapbooks. Currently, he hangs his hat in Denver, Colorado, where he is a PhD candidate in the Creative Writing program at the University of Denver.

Peter Conners (www.peterconners.com) is fiction editor and marketing director for BOA Editions. His own prose poetry collection Of Whiskey and Winter is forthcoming from White Pine Press in fall 2007. He is also editor of PP/FF: An Anthology (Starcherone Books, 2006) and a founding editor of the literary journal Double Room. His writing appears regularly in such journals as Mississippi Review, Fiction International, Salt Hill, American Book Review and Sentence.

Mary Crow , poet laureate of Colorado, is the translator of Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems by Roberto Juarroz; From The Country of Nevermore: poems by Jorge Teillier; and translator and editor of Woman Who Has Sprouted Wings: Poems by Contemporary Latin American Women Poets. A Professor of English at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, Crow has received many writing awards including a poetry fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Creative Writing Award. One of her editors at BOA Editions, Peter Conners, will be on hand to introduce.

Danielle Dutton has two books forthcoming in 2007: a novel, S P R A W L, from Clear Cut Press, and a story collection, Attempts at a Life, from Tarpaulin Sky Press. Her poetry, fiction and reviews appear in various journals including NOON, Fence, 3 rd bed, Octopus, The Review of Contemporary Fiction and Parakeet. She is currently completing her PhD in English and creative writing at the University of Denver, where she also serves as the associate editor of the Denver Quarterly.

Michael Friedman’s new book Martian Dawn will be out this September from Turtlepoint Press. Friedman is also the author of six books of poetry and the editor of the literary journal Shiny. He has taught in the MFA program at Naropa University and is a practicing attorney in Denver.

Critic and fiction writer Keith Gessen is co-founder and co-editor of the literary and political journal n+1, and he is a contributing editor at New York Magazine. He has also written for The New Yorker, Dissent, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic Monthly, AGNI and other publications. His English translation of Svetlana Alexievich’s book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, published by Dalkey Archive, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 2005.

Tim Z. Hernandez is a writer and performer originally from Central California’s San Joaquin Valley. He has studied extensively in a variety of mediums including creative writing, physical theater and murals, and his written work, performance texts and art have been published in various anthologies. His performances have been featured in prestigious venues such as Los Angeles’ Getty Center Museum, The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts, Stanford University and at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He’s the recipient of several notable awards including 2006 American Book Award for his debut collection of poetry Skin Tax; 2006 Zora Neale Hurston Award for writers of color who exemplify literary promise and dedication to their communities offered by Naropa University; and for his one man show, Diaries of a Macho the 2003 Best Solo Production Award; as well as the 2003 James Duval Phelan Award for best manuscript by an emerging writer sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation.

Allan Kornblum studied poetry at the St. Marks Poetry Project and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, and published poems in a wide variety of little magazines in the 1970s and early 1980s. He began his publishing career with Toothpaste, a mimeographed magazine, in 1970. From 1972 to 1983 he ran the Toothpaste Press, publishing seventy letterpress books and pamphlets. Since 1984 he has served as publisher at Coffee House Press, which currently has 230 books in print. He is the recipient of an American Book Award for his work as an editor, and an American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) 50 Best Designed Books of the Year Award for his typography.

Kalen R. Landow began her career with nearly eight years as a bookseller at Denver’s Tattered Cover Book Store where she worked on the sales floor and handling the store’s international ordering. She has held positions as a regional sales manager for Ingram Book Company, the sales and marketing manager for Roberts Rinehart Publishers, the marketing manager for Bradford Publishing, and the marketing director for Speck Press. She is currently the executive director of Publishers Association of the West.

Daron Mueller is a curator of the Left Hand Reading Series in Boulder, Colorado and is an editor of SNOUT magazine. He has worked as a layout designer for local small press editions of poetry including the Left Hand Series of chapbooks (which he also publishes for each Left Hand reading) as well as Potato Clock Editions (with the School of Continuation) and Braincase Press (with Noah Eli Gordon). Recently, he edited the Anne Waldman feature of Jacket magazine with Alan Gilbert appearing on line in issue #27 ( http://jacketmagazine.com/27/index.shtml). Last summer he worked as the assistant director for the Anne Waldman and Ed Bowes' film, Flip. Daron studied biology at Reed and Colorado College and poetry at Naropa University. His poetry has appeared in the magazines of the Naropa Summer Writing Program, including Melancholy Breakfast, Sagen Kase, Antenae and Bed.

Maureen Owen is the author of nine books of poetry and editor of Telephone Books Press. American Rush: Selected Poems was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and AE (American Earhart) received the Before Columbus American Book Award. Her latest book, Erosion’s Pull (Granary Books), is a collaboration with artist Yvonne Jacquette. She is currently an adjunct professor at Naropa University’s Kerouac School.

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Apostrophe from Apogee Press. A winner of the National Poetry Series and the Fence Modern Poets Prize, Robinson teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and is the co-editor of 26 magazine, EtherDome Chapbooks and Instance Press.

Jennifer Rogers is a poet and letterpress printer from Austin, TX. With her partner Michael Koshkin, she runs Hot Whiskey Press here in Boulder. Having recently graduated with an MFA from Naropa University, she now teaches composition at Front Range Community College.

Selah Saterstrom , faculty at the University of Denver starting this autumn, has been the editor of Soul Collections, an anthology of prose and poetry written by at-risk teenagers in North Carolina, and her fiction has appeared in 3rd Bed, Tarpaulin Sky and Monkey Puzzle. Her first novel is The Pink Institution (Coffeehouse Press) and Coffee House publisher, Allan Kornblum, will be on hand to introduce.

Stephen White is the author of the New York Times–bestselling Alan Gregory novels. Born on Long Island, White grew up in New York, New Jersey and Southern California and attended the University of California campuses at Irvine and Los Angeles before graduating from Berkeley in 1972. Trained as a clinical psychologist, he received his PhD from the University of Colorado in 1979. White began his first novel in 1989 while he was still practicing full time. Since then he has published thirteen novels in the series, the latest, Kill Me, was released this year. He lives with his family in Colorado.

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