Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Lock Haven University, Marjorie Maddox has published 8 poetry collections, and over 350 poems, stories, and essays in journals, magazines, and anthologies. She is the co-editor of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania(PSU Press 2005) and author of two children’s books from Boyds Mills Press: A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry and The Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems. Her short story collection, What She Was Saying, was one of three finalists for the Katherine Anne Porter Book Award and a semifinalist for Eastern Washington University’s Spokane Fiction Book Award. The recipient of numerous awards, Marjorie lives with her husband and two children in Williamsport, PA.
Brad Johnson is an associate professor at Palm Beach Community College, FL, and has two chapbooks Void Where Prohibited and The Happiness Theory available at puddinghouse.com. His two-year-old daughter has been offered a volleyball scholarship to Stanford University but she prefers the East Coast. His wife is the most beautiful woman in the world. This not debatable.
Steve Almond is the author the story collections My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott), and the non-fiction books Candyfreak and (Not That You Asked). His new book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, will be out in Spring 2010. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Steve-Almond/105908579252