Sarah Bein, a native Angeleno, received her M.D. from Stanford University. She is the author of three collections of poetry, and her latest book, Thirty-Three Hats for Julia, published by Red Hen Press, is her first work combining the topics of illness and doctoring into the medium of poetry. She is the recipient of several grants, including two Stanford University School of Medicine Arts and Humanities Scholars Grants as well as a Katherine McKormack Traveling Grant. She is one of the recipients of the Lenore Marshall Barnard Prize for Poetry and her poetry has appeared in both medical and literary journals. She currently practices medicine in Los Angeles and continues to write poetry.

Terry Wolverton is the author of six books: Embers, a novel-in-poems; Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building, a memoir, Bailey's Beads, a novel; and three collections of poetry: BlackSlip, Mystery Bruise and Shadow and Praise.  She has also editedfourteen literary anthologies, including Mischief, Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies.  She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creativewriting center in Los Angeles, where she teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.

Elizabeth Bradfield's first book of poems, Interpretive Work, was published in 2008 by Arktoi Books, a new imprint of Red Hen Press.  Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and Field as well as the anthologies Best New Poets 2006 and Joyful Noise: An Anthologyof American Spiritual Poetry.  A native of the Pacific Northwest who has since called Cape Cod and Alaska home, she holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage and is founder and editor of Broadsided (www.broadsidedpress.org). Currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, when not writing, she works as a web designer and naturalist.

Poet, essayist, and short story writer, Charles Hood has given readings from Guadalajara to Papua New Guinea.  In UC Irvine's MFA program he studied with Pulitzer Prize-winners Charles Wright and Louise Gluck.  His work often combines history, nature, humor, and a strong narrative line.  His photographs and mixed media art pieces have appeared on book covers and in thirty art shows.  Besides poetry healso publishes in ornithology journals and has identified over 4,000 bird species in the wild.  He teaches at Antelope Valley College and has been a ski instructor, a dish washer, a factory worker, and a private bird guide in Africa.  He is a contributing editor to Los Angeles Review.

Ron Koertge received his BA from the University of Illinois and his MA from the University of Arizona. He taught English at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California from 1965 to 2001. Koertge is the author of many books of poetry including Fever, Sex Object, 12 Photographs of Yellowstone, The Hired Nose, The Father Poems, The Jockey Poems, Men Under Fire, Diary Cows, Life on the Edge of the Continent, High School Dirty Poems, and Making Love to Roget's Wife, and Geography of the Forehead. He is the recipient of an NEA fellowship in Literature (Poetry) and a California Arts Council grant (Poetry). His work has been included in Best American Poetry (1999).

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