Quarterly, Pedestal Magazine, and a number of other publications. She currently holds an assistant professorship in English and creative writing at Lake Superior State University, where she edits prose and supervises student interns in fiction for Border Crossing, a journal of literature and art. Daniel D. Marin made his debut with the volume Oră de vârf /Peak Hour, which received the Poetry Prize at the “Duiliu Zamfirescu” National Festival in 2003, and he was nominated for the “Mihai Eminescu” National Poetry Prize–Opera Prima (the most prestigious literary prize for a first work in Romania), in 2004. He is the editor of the first retrospective anthology for the 2000 generation in Romanian literature. He is Associate Editor at the journal Zon@ Literară, where he initiated a section for contemporary Italian poetry. The poems selected for Sleipnir are part of the book Trupurile care nu ne vin niciodată bine/The Bodies that Never Fit Us Well (2013). Lucian Merişca is a well known Romanian science fiction writer and journalist. He published the novella Deratization in 1987. He was the first Romanian writer nominated for the Hugo Prize, in 2008. He is considered the father of Romanian punk and of postreality, postvirtuality as cultural movements. His other books include: Adventures in the Exterior, Deratization, and Vincent and Karlenstein: Good Death, Children—. Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of Father Dirt (Kinereth Gensler Award, Alice James Books, 2010). Her poems, reviews, translations, and articles appear in The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. Izabela Pavel, lives in Bucharest, Romania. She studied at the Technical University of Lisbon. Joshua Polinard, artist, lives in South Texas. He is inspired by iconic representations of figures and archetypes venerated by ancient civilizations. Ron Riekki edited The Way North: Upper Peninsula New Works, (Wayne State University Press, 2013). He wrote the novel U.P. and is editing books upcoming for Michigan State University Press. He’s twice been nominated for the Pushcart (once for poetry, once for fiction) and Verse Wisconsin nominated his poetry for Best of the Net. Esteban Rodriguez works as an elementary reading and writing tutor in the Rio Grande Valley, promoting both English and Spanish literacy. His poetry is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, The
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