Alex Phillips (Poetry) is an Assistant Professor and Director of Assessment and Curriculum Development at Commonwealth College, the honors college at the University of Massachusetts. His poetry and translations have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Open City, and jubilat, and in Ted Kooser's newspaper column American Life in Poetry. His recent book-length poem, CRASH DOME, is published by Factory Hollow Press.

Christian Hawkey graduated from University of Massachusetts, Amherst He is author of three books of poetry: The Book of Funnels (Winner of the 2006 Kate Tufts Discovery Award), HourHour (published by Delirium Press in 2005), Citizen Of (released by Wave Books in 2007); and has been featured in Conjunctions, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Crowd, BOMB, Chicago Review, Best American Poetry, Conduit, and PEN America. His work has recently been translated into German Slovene, French, and Portuguese; and he translates several contemporary German poets including Daniel Falb, Sabine Scho and Steffen Popp, and Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger. He taught at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he edited jubilat. He is an associate professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He teaches in the English department, and the Writing for Publication, Performance, and Media Program.