Gerald Costanzo is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has published more than three hundred poems, articles about poetry, and literary essays in addition to three limited edition collections of poems, four full-length collections, and two edited anthologies. He has been the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Pushcart Prizes, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Writing Fellowship, and an Editorial Fellowship from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines. A graduate of Harvard University and of The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, his collections of poems include In the Aviary (winner of Devins Award), Wage the Improbable Happiness, Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard, and The Laps of the Bridesmaids. He founded both Carnegie Mellon University Press (as Three Rivers Press in 1972) and Three Rivers Poetry Journal (in 1973). He has directed the Press, a leading publisher of contemporary poetry, for more than 35 years.
Tom Crawford is the author of five books of poems: If It Weren’t for Trees; Lauds, winner of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry; China Dancing; The Temple on Monday, winner of the ForeWord Book of the Year Award; and Wu Wei (Milkweed Editions, 2007). Widely published in journals and anthologies, Crawford has been recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Oregon Arts Commission. For thirty years he has taught throughout the Western U.S. as well as in the People’s Republic of China and at Chonnam National University in Kwangju, Korea. In 2008 he was Poet in Residence at Harborview Hospital in Seattle. He lives with his partner Mary and their dog Walt in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Monica Drake has an MFA from the University of Arizona and teaches at the Pacific NW College of Art. She is a contributor of reviews and articles to The Oregonian, The Stranger, and the Portland Mercury and her fiction has appeared in the Beloit Fiction Review, Threepenny Review, The Insomniac Reader, and others. She has been the recipient of an Arizona Commission on the Arts Award, the Alligator Juniper Prize in Fiction, and a Millay Colony Fellowship, and was a Tennessee Williams scholar at Sewanee Writers Workshop. Her debut Novel, Clown Girl, is published by Hawthorne Books.
William Kittredge taught for the University of Montana for 29 years, where he was Regents Professor of English and Creative Writing. Kittredge has held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Awards for Excellence. He was winner of the Montana Governor's Award for the Arts, co-winner of the Montana Committee for the Humanities Award for Humanist of the Year, and winner of the PEN West Award for non-fiction book of the year. He was co-winner of the Neil Simon Award from American Playhouse for his work on the script for Heartland, coeditor with Annick Smith of The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology, and co-producer of A River Runs Through It. In 1993, he was elected to the American Academy of Achievement, and, in 1994, he was co-winner of the National Endowment for the Humanities' Charles Frankel Award. Kittredge has published essays and articles in over fifty magazines, including Atlantic, Harper's, Esquire, Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. His books include two collections of short fiction, The Van Gogh Fields and Other Stories (1979) and We Are Not In This Together (1984), two collections of essays, Owning It All (1987) and Who Owns the West (1996), and a memoir Hole in the Sky (1992). His novel, The Willow Field, was published in 2006 by Alfred A. Knopf.
Vern Rutsala is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including The Window, Laments, The Journey Begins, Walking Home from the Icehouse, Little-Known Sports, Selected Poems and The Moment's Equation, which won the 2003 Richard Snyder Publication Prize and was a 2005 National Book Award Finalist. In 2004, A Handbook for Writers: New and Selected Prose Poems was published, and How We Spent Our Time was the Akron Poetry Prize Winner. Among other awards for his work are a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Juniper Prize, an Oregon Book Award, two Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prizes, the Duncan Lawrie Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Northwest Poetry Prize, the Richard Snyder Prize and a Masters Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission. He taught at Lewis and Clark College from 1961 to 2004 and currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Annick Smith is a writer and filmmaker from the Blackfoot Valley in Montana. She is the author of the memoir Homestead and a collection of essays, In This We Are Native. Smith was co-editor with William Kittredge of the Montana anthology The Last Best Place as well as co-editor of the recently published anthology The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie. She was a producer of the feature films "Heartland" and "A River Runs Through It," as well as documentaries about Native Americans in the Northwest. She also produced and directed a portrait of the poet, Richard Hugo, "Kicking the Loose Gravel Home."
Ceiridwen Terrill specializes in literary nonfiction, including environmental journalism, science writing and memoir, with a focus on urban ecology, urban/wild conflicts and the intersections of gender, culture and science. In 2006 the University of Arizona Press published her book Unnatural Landscapes: Tracking Invasive Species. She has published work in Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing,Oxford American and the anthology, What Wildness is This: Women Write about the Southwest. An avid backpacker, kayaker, and sailor, she teaches writing at Concordia University in Portland.
Gerald Costanzo is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has published more than three hundred poems, articles about poetry, and literary essays in addition to three limited edition collections of poems, four full-length collections, and two edited anthologies. He has been the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Pushcart Prizes, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Writing Fellowship, and an Editorial Fellowship from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines. A graduate of Harvard University and of The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, his collections of poems include In the Aviary (winner of Devins Award), Wage the Improbable Happiness, Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard, and The Laps of the Bridesmaids. He founded both Carnegie Mellon University Press (as Three Rivers Press in 1972) and Three Rivers Poetry Journal (in 1973). He has directed the Press, a leading publisher of contemporary poetry, for more than 35 years.
Tom Crawford is the author of five books of poems: If It Weren’t for Trees; Lauds, winner of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry; China Dancing; The Temple on Monday, winner of the ForeWord Book of the Year Award; and Wu Wei (Milkweed Editions, 2007). Widely published in journals and anthologies, Crawford has been recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Oregon Arts Commission. For thirty years he has taught throughout the Western U.S. as well as in the People’s Republic of China and at Chonnam National University in Kwangju, Korea. In 2008 he was Poet in Residence at Harborview Hospital in Seattle. He lives with his partner Mary and their dog Walt in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Monica Drake has an MFA from the University of Arizona and teaches at the Pacific NW College of Art. She is a contributor of reviews and articles to The Oregonian, The Stranger, and the Portland Mercury and her fiction has appeared in the Beloit Fiction Review, Threepenny Review, The Insomniac Reader, and others. She has been the recipient of an Arizona Commission on the Arts Award, the Alligator Juniper Prize in Fiction, and a Millay Colony Fellowship, and was a Tennessee Williams scholar at Sewanee Writers Workshop. Her debut Novel, Clown Girl, is published by Hawthorne Books.
William Kittredge taught for the University of Montana for 29 years, where he was Regents Professor of English and Creative Writing. Kittredge has held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Awards for Excellence. He was winner of the Montana Governor's Award for the Arts, co-winner of the Montana Committee for the Humanities Award for Humanist of the Year, and winner of the PEN West Award for non-fiction book of the year. He was co-winner of the Neil Simon Award from American Playhouse for his work on the script for Heartland, coeditor with Annick Smith of The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology, and co-producer of A River Runs Through It. In 1993, he was elected to the American Academy of Achievement, and, in 1994, he was co-winner of the National Endowment for the Humanities' Charles Frankel Award. Kittredge has published essays and articles in over fifty magazines, including Atlantic, Harper's, Esquire, Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. His books include two collections of short fiction, The Van Gogh Fields and Other Stories (1979) and We Are Not In This Together (1984), two collections of essays, Owning It All (1987) and Who Owns the West (1996), and a memoir Hole in the Sky (1992). His novel, The Willow Field, was published in 2006 by Alfred A. Knopf.
Vern Rutsala is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including The Window, Laments, The Journey Begins, Walking Home from the Icehouse, Little-Known Sports, Selected Poems and The Moment's Equation, which won the 2003 Richard Snyder Publication Prize and was a 2005 National Book Award Finalist. In 2004, A Handbook for Writers: New and Selected Prose Poems was published, and How We Spent Our Time was the Akron Poetry Prize Winner. Among other awards for his work are a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Juniper Prize, an Oregon Book Award, two Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prizes, the Duncan Lawrie Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Northwest Poetry Prize, the Richard Snyder Prize and a Masters Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission. He taught at Lewis and Clark College from 1961 to 2004 and currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Annick Smith is a writer and filmmaker from the Blackfoot Valley in Montana. She is the author of the memoir Homestead and a collection of essays, In This We Are Native. Smith was co-editor with William Kittredge of the Montana anthology The Last Best Place as well as co-editor of the recently published anthology The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie. She was a producer of the feature films "Heartland" and "A River Runs Through It," as well as documentaries about Native Americans in the Northwest. She also produced and directed a portrait of the poet, Richard Hugo, "Kicking the Loose Gravel Home."
Ceiridwen Terrill specializes in literary nonfiction, including environmental journalism, science writing and memoir, with a focus on urban ecology, urban/wild conflicts and the intersections of gender, culture and science. In 2006 the University of Arizona Press published her book Unnatural Landscapes: Tracking Invasive Species. She has published work in Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, Oxford American and the anthology, What Wildness is This: Women Write about the Southwest. An avid backpacker, kayaker, and sailor, she teaches writing at Concordia University in Portland.