Lyn Lifshin has published many books, including Another Woman Who Looks Like Me (Black Sparrow Press, 2006), The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian (Texas Review Press, 2006), Before It’s Light (Black Sparrow Press, 1999), among others. In the spring of 2012, NYQ will publish A Girl Goes into The Woods. Also forthcoming is For the Roses, poems after Joni Mitchell. For more about her books, full-length biography, and images, please visit www.lynlifshin.com.

Derek Gromadzki currently lives in Iowa City, where he is an MFA and PhD student at the University of Iowa.  His poetry has recently appeared in Cavalier Literary Couture, The Brooklyner, and CutBank, and is forthcoming in The Journal, American Letters & Commentary, Front Porch, and other publications.

Amy Newman is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Dear Editor, the winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award. Her recent work appears in The Missouri Review, Image, Hotel Amerika, The Gettysburg Review, Witness, and elsewhere.