Sandra Simonds
Mother Was a Tragic Girl
Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2008), which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her poems have been published in several journals including Poetry, The Believer, The Colorado Review, Fence, The Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, New Orleans Review, Court Green, and Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion. She earned a PhD in Literature from Florida State University and lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

Winner of 2011 Cleveland State University First Book Prize, selected by Matthea Harvey forthcoming Spring 2012

S.E. Smith
I Live in a Hut
S.E. Smith holds degrees from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and Carnegie Mellon University. She is the founding editor of OH NO magazine and her poems have appeared in Fence, jubilat, Best New Poets, and the Black Warrior Review, among others.

Winner of 2011 Cleveland State University Open Competition forthcoming Spring 2012

Jon Woodward
Uncanny Valley
Jon Woodward's previous books are Rain (Wave Books) and Mister Goodbye Easter Island (Alice James Books). He lives in Boston and works at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Please visit him at jonwoodward.net.