Ned Balbo received the 2004 Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize for his second collection, Lives of the Sleepers, which will appear in 2005 from University of Notre Dame Press. He is also recipient of the 2003 Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award and, in 2002, the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. In 2003, he was second runner-up in nonfiction in the William Faulkner/Pirate's Alley contest for his previous Die Cast Garden essay "Paul is Dead, and We're All Listening: Rumor and Revelation, 1969." His first poetry collection is Galileo's Banquet (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 1998).

Elizabeth Bradfield lives in Anchorage, Alaska and works variously as a naturalist, kayak guide, web designer, and writing instructor. Her poems have appeared in Epoch, Gulf Coast, Field and elsewhere..

Angela O'Donnell teaches English and American Lit at Loyola College in Baltimore and writes essays on contemporary poetry as well as poems. Her work has appeared in such journals as Runes, Hawaii Pacific Review,
Potomac Review, America, First Things, The Cresset, Xavier Review,
Windhover, and ThePedestalMagazine.com.

Michael Row, Editor, put this issue together while packing boxes, getting ready for life in London.

Allyson Shaw, Editor, is a writer and soon-to-be-expat. She is a poetry editor for Del Sol Review and Perihelion. Her collection of poetry, The Bon Bon and Love Token was published last year.