Joseph Campana is the author of The Book of Faces (Graywolf, 2005). His poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Hotel Amerika, New England Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, and TriQuarterly, and are forthcoming in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Subtropics, Field, Green Court, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a 2007 Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the NEA. Currently, he is completing a book of poems called Sheltering Bough. He teaches Renaissance literature and creative writing at Rice University.

Native Texan, Mary Margaret Carlisle is the founder of PST’s Gulf Coast Poets, Executive Director of Sol Magazine’s Projects, Ampersand Poetry Journal Editor, and a Poetry Society of Texas Councilor. Recent works appeared in TimeSlice, Bayousphere, Texas Poetry Calendar, HPF Anthology, Mountain Time, and In the Yard.

Cyrus Cassells is the author of four acclaimed books of poetry: The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path Through Shouting, Beautiful Signor, and More Than Peace and Cypresses. His fifth book, The Crossed-Out Swastika, is forthcoming. Among his honors are a Lannan Literary Award, a William Carlos Williams Award, a Pushcart Prize, two NEA grants, and a Lambda Literary Award. He is a tenured Associate Professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos, and lives in Austin and Paris.

R. T. Castleberry is an assistant editor at Lily Literary Review, the former co-editor/co-publisher of the poetry monthly, Curbside Review and a co-founder/director of The Flying Dutchman Writers Troupe. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Green Mountains Review, The Alembic, Texas Review, Concho River Review, Poet Lore, Common Ground Review and Pacific Review.

Jim Cavanaugh teaches English at the high school level. He recently completed a four year sabbatical leave to travel and compose original poetry. Prior to entering the field of Education, he had a career in social services which included work in drug and alcohol counseling, community mental health, institutional schooling, and family casework services. He was born in Buffalo, New York and had lived in New Jersey, Tennessee, and New Mexico before settling in Texas in 1977. His poems have been published in English In Texas, The Buffalo News, The Laurel, and the Limerick Leader, a newspaper in Limerick, Ireland.

D. B. Cherry received a Glenn C. Cambor / Inprint fellowship to attend the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. As an undergraduate, he was awarded the Sylvan Karchmer Prize for Fiction and the Howard Moss Prize for Poetry. He lives in Houston with his wife and daughter.

Dr. Mary Cimarolli, retired professor of English at Richland College, Dallas, Texas, has published poems in several anthologies and literary journals. Her memoir, The Bootlegger’s Other Daughter (Texas A&M University Press, 2003), was chosen as one of three finalists in 2004 for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir.

Sandra Cisneros is the author of three volumes of poetry: Bad Boys, 1980; My Wicked Wicked Ways, 1987; and Loose Woman, 1994, in addition to short stories, novels and essays. In 1995 Cisneros was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Most recently she was awarded the Texas Medal of the Arts, 2003. She has worked as a teacher, a poet-in-the-schools, and as a visiting writer at a number of universities across the country. Cisneros lives in San Antonio with her partner, a filmmaker, and several animals, little and large.

SuzAnne C. Cole has had more than 300 essays, poems, short stories, articles, and plays published in commercial and literary magazines, anthologies, and newspapers. She was a juried poet at the 2003 Houston Poetry Fest and a featured poet at the 2004 event.

Wm. Anthony Connolly is the author of three novels, The Jenny Muck, Get Back, and The Obituaries. He earned an M.F.A. at Goddard College in 2002, and is an English lecturer at Texas A&M University at Galveston. Connolly’s poetry and prose have appeared in numerous literary journals in his native Canada and the United States, including Clockhouse Review (Vermont), Nieve Roja (Colorado), Spiky Palm (Texas), and on Canada’s public broadcast network, CBC.

Karon Cook is a native West Texan and vocational vagabond. She has been a science teacher, college counselor, and United Methodist pastor. Currently, she telecommutes from her home in Houston and is Senior Research Scientist with the University of Washington. In addition to writing poetry, Karon has begun a memoir exploring the impact of the “recovered memory” movement on her family. When not writing, Karon is often sailing with her partner on their 30 year old sailboat.

Kathleen Cook is a life-long admirer of the possibilities of language. She is an instructor of English-as-a-Second-Language and German. For many years, Houston has been her home. South Texas, the Hill Country, and the Coastal Plains are backdrops to her poetry.

Sarah Cortez is a poet and a police officer. Her first volume of poetry How To Undress A Cop was published in 2000 and contains the poems which won her the 1999 PEN Texas Literary Award in Poetry. She has recently edited an anthology of short memoir by young Latinos across the U.S. entitled Windows into My World: Latino Youth Write Their Lives. (Arte Publico Press, 2007).

Carol K. Cotten teaches writing and literature classes at Texas A&M University at Galveston. Her poetry has appeared in Avocet, Bayousphere, English in Texas, Bayou, Edgar, and the 2004 Houston Poetry Fest Anthology. Many of Carol’s poems originate from the long walks she takes in the marshes and pastures on Galveston Island’s West End.

Maryke Cramerus is a psychotherapist practicing in Houston, Texas. She has published articles on trauma, self-distancing and self-disavowing, and has a poem published in Poetry Midwest.

Stan Crawford lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas with his wife Dawn, their cat Kismet and dysfunctional Chow-Labrador mix Java. He practices civil trial law when not writing poetry. His poems have been published in Poet Lore, The Comstock Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and Water-Stone Review, among other journals, and he was a juried poet in the Houston Poetry Fest 2003.

Carolyn Dahl’s poems have been published in Sojourn, TimeSlice, Suddenly, Echoes for a New Room, The Texas Poetry Calendars, and the coming 2008 Women Artists’ Datebook. She has been a juried poet twice and a juror for the Houston Poetry Fest. Also an artist, she writes for textile magazines, has appeared on Home and Garden Television and PBS, and is the author of two books: Natural Impressions (Watson-Guptill Publications) and Transforming Fabric (Krause Publications).

André de Korvin was born in Berlin, Germany from Russian parents, and raised in Paris, France. Studied math at the Sorbonne and graduated with a Ph.D. in mathematics from UCLA. His first book of poems The Four Hard Edges Of War came out in 1992. His second book of poems Dreaming Indigo Time has been published in 2005 by Sulphur River Press.

Ysabel de la Rosa is a fourth-generation native Texan whose feature writing and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous publications in the U.S. and Spain, including Calyx, Nimrod, Oregon East, and Southwest American Literature. She was a finalist for the 2006 Pablo Neruda Poetry Award. She lives in Wichita Falls.

Carol Denson writes poems and essays, often about the pleasures of being the mom of her nine-year-old son. She teaches second grade, is a very proficient sleeper, is very grateful there’s water in the creek behind the house, and loves to contra dance. She lives in Austin.

Marco A. Domínguez currently resides in Lubbock, Texas, where he is working on his Ph. D. at Texas Tech University. He is an assistant poetry editor for both 32 Poems and Iron Horse Literary Review and his poetry has appeared in DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, Rattle, Willow Springs, and elsewhere.