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James Grinwis graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in World Politics and from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with an MFA and teaching certification. He spent only two years teaching high school English before moving into the corporate world where he spent time between projects scratching out poems on post-it notes. His writings have appeared in many literary magazines such as Conduit, Conjunctions, and American Poetry Review. His book, The City from Nome, will be published in 2011 by the National Poetry Review Press.
Ashley Schaffer graduated from Loyola New Orleans, worked at UT Press in Austin, graduated from UMass Amherst with an MFA, got married and had two kids, Rollie and Amelia, all within the past 10 years. She admits she's not great at the business side of her own poetry but likes helping others get their work out into the ether. And she literally dreams of her poems.
Lynette Baker lives in Greenfield, Mass., sharing the mutt and daughter mentioned by husband Andrew. She never won The Discovery/Nation Award, but her AP English students have thrown her some mean parties.
Kristin Bock teaches at the University of Massachusetts and restores religious art with her husband in the village of Montague. Her book, CLOISTERS, was published by Tupelo Press in the fall of 2008. She serves as ship's beauty counselor.
Carrie St. George Comer's first collection of poetry, The Unrequited, was published by Sarabande Books. Her recent work has appeared in POOL, The Florida Review, and Gulf Coast. She lives in Miami Beach, Florida with her daughter Evelyn, her son Joseph, and her husband Ben.
Corwin Ericson lives in western MA where he works as a college instructor, writer, and editor. Work of his has appeared in a variety of publications, including X: An Erotic Treasury, The Believer, Harper's Magazine, and Fence.
Elizabeth Hughey grew up in Alabama and now lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband, Chip, and son, Angus. Her first book, Sunday Houses the Sunday House, won the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize, and was published in 2007.
Daniel Mahoney is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, DIAGRAM, The Laurel Review, Illuminations, Northwest Review and various other places. He is a visiting professor at Western New England College and hopes to become a full professor somewhere/someday once all the charges have been dropped.
David Roderick's first book, Blue Colonial, won the APR/Honickman Prize and was published in 2006. Recent poems have appeared in Memorious, Poetry, and Slate. Turn-ons include the Red Sox, ping-pong, the farmers' market, and Old English alliterative verse.
Karen Skolfield earned her MFA in writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She currently teaches travel writing at UMass, writes freelance magazine articles, and backpacks as time permits.
Once upon a time, Andrew Varnon was a The Nation/Discovery Award winner, with poems published in American Poetry Review and elsewhere. Now he's a new dad living with his wife Lynette, 6-month old daughter and terriermutt in Greenfield, Mass.
Loki has been cited as 'the coolest dog' by several sources. When he was taken from the shelter he seemed indifferent to people but a little curious about butterflies, snails, and unusually shaped stones, and has lived with James for 12 years. His bark has been heard and his tail has wagged and his body doused in frog ponds all over Western MA and in places like Fort Worth, DC, Nova Scotia, NYC, Maine, Boston, the Adirondacks, Vermont, and Buffalo. He likes to chase squirrels, barbeques, cats, porcupines, and skunks, but bears are worrisome to him. He stands about 4 hands tall and seven hands long and weighs around 70 pounds, but you can't find him on eharmony.com, you can only find him here, on his bed in the office. He does not like fennel.
