The Editors

John Lucas

Michael Dumanis was born in 1976 in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union, and grew up in Buffalo and Rochester, New York. He holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University, an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD from the University of Houston. His poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, Verse, and many other journals. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the James Michener Foundation, and Yaddo, he has previously served as Poetry Editor of Gulf Coast and the Poetry Curator at Brazos Bookstore. He now lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, and is an Assistant Professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

The Corporation of Yaddo/Rick Gargiulo

Cate Marvin was born in 1969 in Washington, D.C. She holds a BA from Marlboro College, an MFA in Poetry from the University of Houston, an MFA in Fiction from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Her first book, World’s Tallest Disaster (Sarabande, 2001), was awarded the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize by Robert Pinsky and the 2002 Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University. Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books. She is an Assistant Professor of English at College of Staten Island, City University of New York.