| Marjory Wentworth's poems have appeared in numerous books and magazines, and she has twice been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. Noticing Eden, a collection of poems, was published by Hub City Writing Project in 2003. She is the Poet Laureate of South Carolina. Ms. Wentworth teaches poetry in an arts and healing program at Roper Hospital in Charleston, S.C. She reviews poetry and writes a poetry column for THE CHARLESTON POST AND COURIER . |
 | Cathy Smith Bowers’ poems have appeared widely in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and The Kenyon Review. Smith Bowers is the author of three collections of poetry: The Love That Ended Yesterday in Texas, Texas Tech University Press, 1992; Traveling in Time of Danger, Iris Press, 1999; and A Book of Minutes, Iris Press, 2004. Her craft essay “A Moment of Intensity” is featured in the 2007 edition of Poet’s Market. |
 | Carol Ann Davis is as Associate Professor of English at The College of Charleston and Creative Writing Concentration Editor for Crazyhorse. Carol Ann Davis' first book, Psalm, was runner up for the 2005 Dorset Prize and will be published in October 2007 by Tupelo Press. Her poems have recently appeared in Agni, The Threepenny Review and The Southern Review. |
 | Richard Garcia's previous books of poetry include The Flying Garcias from the University of Pittsburgh Press and Rancho Notorious from BOA. His new book is The Persistence of Objects, also from BOA. His poems have recently appeared in The Colorado Review, The Georgia Review, Crazyhorse and Ploughshares. His work is in many anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2005. |
 | Robert Morgan is the author of the award-winning and bestselling novel GAP CREEK, an Oprah Book Club selection in 2000 and his earlier novel THE TRUEST PLEASURE was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Morgan has published five previous books of fiction, and nine volumes of poetry and has published poems in many magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, Poetry, the Southern Review, the Yale Review, the Carolina Quarterly, and the New England Review. |