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Brian Trimboli recently graduated from NYU’s MFA program, where he received a fellowship to assist with the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Writers Workshop. He has poems forthcoming in The Indiana Review, Third Coast, LIT, and Forklift, Ohio.

Florencia Varela completed her MFA in poetry at Columbia University. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Drunken Boat, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, Western Humanities Review, and Washington Square Review. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

Eric Kocher is working on his MFA at the University of Houston, where he also will be teaching literature and creative writing. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, DIAGRAM, H_ngm_n, Rattle, Sixth Finch, and Washington Square Review.

Geoffrey Nutter was born in San Francisco and attended San Francisco State University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His previous books include Water’s Leaves and Other Poems (Winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize) and A Summer Evening, winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize. He lives in New York City with his wife, daughter and son. His latest book of poetry is Christopher Sunset.