Wanzer, Lyzette

Lyzette Wanzer is a native New Yorker now in San Francisco. She’s written for Potomac Review, Illumen, Specs, Pleiades, and Gender on Our Minds. She’s had writing residencies at Blue Mountain Center and Kimmel Harding Center for the Arts.

Stein, Melissa

Melissa Stein’s poetry collection Rough Honey won the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Southern Review, Best New Poets 2009, New England Review, Harvard Review, and many other journals and anthologies.

Greenberg, Miriam Bird

Miriam Bird Greenberg grew up on an organic farm in rural Texas. She earned an MFA in Poetry from the Michener Center for Writers, is a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, and received a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship.

Duncan, Aja Couchois

Aja Couchois Duncan is of Ojibwe, French and Scottish descent; a fictional writer of non-fiction; and an MFA (Creative Writing, San Francisco State University). Her most recent chapbook is Nomenclature, Miigaadiwin, a Forked Tongue (CC Marimbo Press).

Dumesnil, Cheryl

Cheryl Dumesnil is the author of In Praise of Falling, editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall, and co-editor, with Kim Addonizio, of Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos.