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Contributors L.S. ASEKOFF, former coordinator of the M.F.A. Poetry Program at Brooklyn College, has published three books of poetry: Dreams of a Work (1994), North Star (1997), both with Orchises Press, and The Gate of Horn (2010) with TriQuarterly Books (Northwestern University Press). A fourth book, Freedom Hill, is due out with Northwestern in 2011. NED BALBO’s third book is The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Story Line Press/WCU Poetry Center, 2010 Donald Justice Prize). His second book, Lives of the Sleepers (U. of Notre Dame Press, 2005), received the Ernest Sandeen Prize and a ForeWord Book of the Year Award. His recent chapbook is Something Must Happen (Finishing Line Press, 2009). New poems are out or forthcoming in Able Muse, Cimarron Review, The Hopkins Review, Iowa Review, River Styx, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. He teaches at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore. North Carolina native BRAD BARKLEY’s novel, Money, Love (Norton), a Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection and a “BookSense 76” choice., was named one of the best books of 2000 by the Washington Post and the Library Journal. Brad was named one of the “Breakthrough Writers You Need To Know” by Book Magazine. His novel Alison’s Automotive Repair Manual (St. Martin’s) and his YA novels, co-authored with Heather Hepler, Scrambled Eggs at Midnight and Dream Factory, were also “BookSense 76” selections. Dream Factory was also a Library Guild Book of the Month pick and was voted the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters Best Young Adult Book for 2007. Their most recent title, Jars of Glass, was published by Dutton-Penguin. Brad’s short fiction has appeared in nearly thirty magazines, including Southern Review, Georgia Review, the Oxford American, Glimmer Train, Book Magazine, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, which twice awarded him the Emily Balch Prize for Best Fiction. His work was anthologized in New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2002 and collected in Circle View (SMU) and Another Perfect Catastrophe (St. Martin’s). He has won four Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. TODD BEHRENDT lives in the Adirondacks with his wife. His house is built from trees he cut himself, then put together despite the rain and snow. He is hard at work on a new series of artwork concern-