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Curtis Bauer

Assistant Professor | M.F.A. Sarah Lawrence College | Ph.D. Texas Tech University

Bauer specializes in creative writing (poetry) and Spanish translation. His areas of interest are American and world poetry, poetry and fiction in translation and chapbook publishing. His collection of poems, Fence Line, won the 2003 John Ciardi Poetry Prize. His poems, prose and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Rivendell, and Ninth Letter, among others. He has been a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center and a Lannan Writer in Residence at IAIA in Santa Fe. He is the publisher of Q Ave Press Chapbooks.

Dennis Covington

Professor of Creative Writing | B.A. University of Virginia, M.F.A. University of Iowa

Author of five books, including Lizard, which won the Delacorte Press Prize for a First Young Adult Novel, and Salvation on Sand Mountain, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1995 and winner of the Boston Book Review's Rea Prize for the best nonfiction book of that year. His articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Redbook, Georgia Review, Oxford American and other magazines. He served as a judge in nonfiction for the 2005 National Book Awards.

Jacqueline Kolosov

Associate Professor | B.A. and M.A. University of Chicago, Ph.D. New York University

She works in poetry, creative nonfiction and fiction (literary and young adult). Her first full-length collection of poems is VAGO. A young adult novel, The Red Queen's Daughter, is forthcoming from Hyperion in October 2007, and the press has just purchased from her a second Renaissance novel. Modigliani's Muse, a second poetry collection, will be published in 2009. Recent poetry and prose have appeared in Orion, The Southern Review, Shenandoah and Passages North.

Jill Patterson

Professor and Editor of of Iron Horse Literary Review | Ph.D. Oklahoma State

She served as the lead editorial assistant for the definitive edition of James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy and as editorial assistant for the seventh volume of Cooper's letters. An expert in nineteenth-century American literature as well as in creative writing, she recently received the Writer's League of Texas Fellowship in Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, Quarterly West, South Dakota Review, Fourth Genre and other journals.

John Poch

Associate Professor | M.F.A. University of Florida, Ph.D. University of North Texas

He was the Colgate University Creative Writing Fellow from 2000-2001and was the 2007 Thornton Writer-in-Residence at Lynchburg College. His most recent book, Dolls, was released in September 2009 with Orchises Press.  Two Men Fighting with a Knife (Story Line Press 2008) won the Donald Justice Award. His first book, Poems, was published in January 2004 by Orchises Press and was a finalist for the PEN/Osterweil prize.  The Essential Hockey Haiku (a poetry/fiction collaboration with Chad Davidson) was published by St. Martin’s Press in Fall 2006.  A limited edition letterpress/art book, Ghost Towns of the Enchanted Circle was published by Flying Horse Editions in 2007. Poch was a recipient of the “Discovery”/The Nation Prize in 1998.    He is the editor of 32 Poems Magazine. 

William Wenthe

Professor | B.A. College of the Holy Cross, M.A. and Ph.D. University of Virginia

Wenthe has written three books of poems: Words Before Dawn (forthcoming LSU Press, 2012; Not Till We Are Lost (2003); and Birds of Hoboken (1995).  Not Till We Are Lost won the Best Book of Poetry Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts, and two Pushcart Prizes. He has published poems in journals including Poetry, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, Tin House, Orion, TriQuarterly, and The Southern Review. In addition, he teaches 20th Century British Poetry and has written articles on Yeats, H. D., poetic form and literary theory.