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Caedra Scott-Flaherty is from Rochester, New York. A graduate of Brown University, she served as an AmeriCorps member in North Carolina, and is currently an MFA candidate at New York University’s Creative Writing Program. She teaches playwriting and visual arts to incarcerated youth, and is a dancer and choreographer. Her fiction has appeared in Open City, where she was the winner of the 2008 RRofihe Trophy Short Story Award.

Paul Hlava is poet and teacher from Southern California now living in New York.

Jasreen Mayal is from Bombay, India and is studying fiction at NYU. Her passion for writing surfaced when she was sixteen and sent a teen angst ridden article to her favorite columnist who was kind enough to write a few encouraging words back. Since then she’s been published in Ego and ArtChic magazine and is currently working on a novel set in Hyderabad.

Ethan Stebbins is a poet and stonemason from Portland, ME.

Gerald Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925. His recent books of poetry are Save the Last Dance: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2008); Everything Is Burning (2005); American Sonnets (2002); Last Blue: Poems (2000); This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), which won the National Book Award; Odd Mercy (1995); and Bread Without Sugar (1992), winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize.

His other books include Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems (1990); Two Long Poems (1990); Lovesick (1987); Paradise Poems (1984); The Red Coal (1981), which received the Melville Caine Award from the Poetry Society of America; Lucky Life, the 1977 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; and Rejoicings (1973).