Bio Notes
	Peter Bruveris was born in Riga in 1957, and after graduating from the Department of Art and Culture at the Latvian State Conservatory worked as a literary consultant to the newspaper Latvijas Jaunatne (Latvian Youth) and as the director of the literary department of the newspaper Literatura un Maksla (Art and Literature).  Eight collections of his poetry have been published: Black Thrush, Red Cherries (1987), Amber Skulls (1991), Sitting On A Park Bench (1994), Black Bird's Nest in the Heart (1995), Flowers for Losers! (1999), Love Me God (2000), The Landscape of Language (2004), and Behind Glass (2006). His poetry has been published in Lithuanian, Russian, Swedish, German, Slovenian, Ukrainian and English translation. He has received the Klavs Elsbergs Award (1987), the Publisher Preses Nams Award in Literature in 2000 and 2001, the Days of Poetry Prize in 2001 and 2005, the Award in Literature from the Baltic Assembly in 2004, the Ojars Vacietis Poetry Prize (2006) and the National Prize for Best Book (2007). Jennifer Berney's work has appeared in the Coe Review and Wheelhouse Magazine.  She received her MFA from the University of Washington.  She currently lives in Olympia, Washington and teaches writing at South Puget Sound Community College. Katherine Bogden is a poet living in Brooklyn, NY and has studied poetry at Lafayette College with Lee Upton and in NYC with Sharon Dolin and Jeanne Marie Beaumont. Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives in Texas. She is the author of Reading Berryman to the Dog (Jacaranda Press, and After Happily Ever After(2River Chapbook Series, #15). Her work appears in print and on-line.   Rochelle Cashdan is a fiction writer and poet living in Guanajuato, Mexico after three decades in the Pacific Northwest. “Therapy” first appeared in Talus & Scree #2, Waldport, Oregon, and more recently as “Terapia” in El Correo, Leon, Mexico. Inara Cedrins is an American artist, writer and translator who went to China in 1998 to learn to paint on silk, and remained for five years to teach writing and lecture on art at universities including Tsinghua University and Peking University in Beijing, as well as to the People's Liberation Army and students at the Central Academy of Fine Art. Two chapbooks of her poetry were published by the Chinese Literature Press in Beijing, about China and Egypt. A collection of poetry titled Fugitive Connections was published last year by the Virtual Artists Collective. Her poems, stories and translations fr