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Sarah Vap is the author of Dummy Fire, which won the 2006 Saturnalia Poetry Prize, and American Spikenard, which won the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize. She is co-editor of poetry for the online journal 42 Opus, and lives with her husband and their two sons on the Olympic Peninsula. Her next book, Faulkner’s Rosary, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in 2010.

Tenney Nathanson is the author of the book-length poem Home on the Range (The Night Sky with Stars in My Mouth) (O Books, 2005), the collection Erased Art (Chax Press, 2005), and the critical study Whitman’s Presence: Body, Voice, and Writing in Leaves of Grass (NYU, 1992). He is currently at work on a book-length poem, Ghost Snow Falls Through the Void (Globalization), and a critical study of contemporary American “formally innovative” poetry (sometimes post-fordist, sometimes Buddhist, sometimes not). He lives in Tucson, where he directs the PhD program in Literature and teaches American poetry and, from time to time, creative writing in the English Department at the University of Arizona.