editors

James Grinwis graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in World Politics and from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with an MFA and teaching certification.

He spent only two years teaching high school English before moving into the corporate world where he spent time between projects scratching out poems on post-it notes. His writings have appeared in many literary magazines such as Conduit, Conjunctions, and American Poetry Review.

His first book, The City from Nome, was published in 2011 by the National Poetry Review Press. His second book won the National Poetry Series selected by Eleni Sikelianos and was published in late 2011 by Coffee House Press.

Ashley Schaffer graduated from Loyola New Orleans, worked at UT Press in Austin, and did the MFA thing at UMass Amherst. She co-founded Bateau Press with James. If you have a question, ask her. If you have a complaint, tell James.

She's really into the aesthetics of Bateau and so wishes she had more time to get her hands dirty in the making of it. But for now, it does her heart good to know she is supporting friend and local artisan, Amy Borezo of Shelter Bookworks.

Lynette Baker lives in Greenfield, Mass., sharing the mutt and daughters mentioned by husband Andrew.

She never won The Discovery/Nation Award, but her AP English students have thrown her some mean parties.

Kristin Bock teaches at the University of Massachusetts and restores religious art with her husband in the village of Montague.

Her book, CLOISTERS, was published by Tupelo Press in the fall of 2008. She serves as ship's beauty counselor.

Carrie St. George Comer's first collection of poetry, The Unrequited, was published by Sarabande Books.

Her recent work has appeared in POOL, The Florida Review, and Gulf Coast.

She lives in Miami Beach, Florida with her daughter Evelyn, her son Joseph, and her husband Ben.

Corwin Ericson lives in western Massachusetts where he works as a professor, writer, and editor.

His poems, essays, and stories have been published in a variety of magazines and journals.

His collection of police reports, Checked Out OK, which appeared in jubilat and Harper's, will be published as a chapbook by Factory Hollow Press soon.

His novel, SWELL, was published by Dark Coast Press in September 2011.

Elizabeth Hughey is the author of Sunday Houses the Sunday House (University of Iowa Press, 2007).

She teaches creative writing and literature at the Spencer Honors House at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. She is also a founder of the Desert Island Supply Company.

New poems have appeared in Free Verse, 42 Opus, Lungfull, Invisible Magazine and Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days.

Daniel Mahoney is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, DIAGRAM, The Laurel Review, Illuminations, Northwest Review and various other places.

He is a visiting professor at Western New England College and hopes to become a full professor somewhere/someday once all the charges have been dropped.

David Roderick's first book, Blue Colonial, won the APR/Honickman Prize and was published in 2006.

Recent poems have appeared in Memorious, Poetry, and Slate.

Turn-ons include the Red Sox, ping-pong, the farmers' market, and Old English alliterative verse.

Karen Skolfield earned her MFA in writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

She currently teaches travel writing at UMass, writes freelance magazine articles, and backpacks as time permits.

Once upon a time, Andrew Varnon was a The Nation/Discovery Award winner, with poems published in American Poetry Review and elsewhere.

Now he's a dad living with his wife Lynette, 2 daughters, and terriermutt in Greenfield, Mass.