Evangelina Vigil-Piñón is the author of three books of poetry and a bilingual children’s book. She is a recipient of numerous literary awards, including an NEA Fellowship for Creative Writers. She is also the translator of Tomás Rivera’s, Y No Se Lo Tragó la Tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, and a contributing editor of Woman of Her Word: Hispanic Women Write. A native of San Antonio, Vigil- Piñón resides in Houston where she works as a TV producer.

Elizabeth Wallace is a poet and psychiatrist living in Toronto. She has attended poetry workshops at Inprint in Houston, Gemini Ink in San Antonio, and the University of Toronto. She was a Featured Poet at the Houston Poetry Fest 2004, and her work has been published in the Houston Poetry Review, The American Psychoanalyst, and Five Inprint Poets. She was recently a finalist for the Random House Canada Student Writing Award.

Randall Watson is the author of Las Delaciones del Sueño, published by the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico, and The Sleep Accusations, recipient of the 2004 Blue Lynx Prize in Poetry at Eastern Washington University Press. Petals, published under the pseudonym Ellis Reece, was the winner of the 2006-07 Quarterly West Novella Competition, and is currently available in the Fall/Winter 2007-2008 issue.

Chuck Wemple is a poet and environmental scientist who recently moved from Galveston Island to the Heights neighborhood in Houston. Infected by poetry while attending a reading by Russian poet Yevtushenko in 1986, Chuck believes that poetry must be shared to be complete. Born in Montana, raised in Utah, Chuck has lived in Texas since 1997.

Sasha West’s poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, The Canary, Pebble Lake Review, Third Coast, Margie, Born, Chelsea, American Poet, and Ninth Letter. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. She received her doctorate from the University of Houston, where she was the managing editor of Gulf Coast for three years. She currently teaches creative writing at Rice University as the Parks Fellow.

Lowell Mick White’s work has been published in three dozen or so journals, most recently in Callaloo, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Short Story. In 1998 he was awarded the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters. He is currently a PhD student at Texas A&M University in College Station, where he specializes in creative writing, teaches prose fiction and freshman composition, and co-edits the journal Big Tex[t].

Scott Wiggerman has published one book of poetry, Vegetables and Other Relationships (Plain View Press, 2000) and been published in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Windhover, Midwest Poetry Review, Spillway, Poesia, Paterson Literary Review and others. Most recently, he has been published in the anthology In the Arms of Words: Poems for Disaster Relief (Sherman Asher, 2006). In addition, he is one of the two “cats” (i.e., editors) of Dos Gatos Press, which publishes the Texas Poetry Calendar, now in its tenth year. He lives in Austin.

Susan Wood is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Asunder, a National Poetry Series selection (Penguin 2001). A former Guggenheim fellow, she is the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice University.

Christopher Woods is the author of a prose collection, Under A Riverbed Sky (Panther Creek Press), and a collection of stage monologues for actors, Heart Speak (Stone River Press). He is a native Houstonian.

Adam Zagajewski was born in Lvov, Poland, and lives in Krakow and Chicago, where he teaches at the University of Chicago. He taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston for 19 years. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and is the author of Eternal Enemies, A Defense of Ardor and Without End: New and Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). He is also the editor of Polish Writers on Writing (Trinity University Press).

Jane Zimbaldi grew up in Houston where she attended the University of St. Thomas and earned a BA in English. Since graduation she has pursued a career in marketing, first at The Blood Center and currently at Ernst & Young. In her spare time she is a volunteer reader at Taping for the Blind.