Socorro Venegas was born in 1972 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Her most recent story collection, Todas las islas, was published in 2002. Her first novel, Será negra y blanca, won the 2004 Premio Nacional de Novela Ópera Prima "Carlos Fuentes." Toshiya Kamei has published translations of her stories in Concho River Review, Literal, The Modern Review, The Listening Eye and elsewhere.
Toshiya Kamei is an MFA student in translation at the University of Arkansas. Kamei's translations of Mexican poetry and fiction have appeared in various literary journals, including The Dirty Goat, Burnside Review, and International Poetry Review.
David Taylor work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Wind, Jabberwock Review, Pindeldyboz, Baltimore Review, Rio Grande Review, Eclectica’s Best Fiction and Potomac Review. His nonfiction book on ginseng and its travels is being published by Algonquin Books.
Jason Heroux is the author of “Memoirs of an Alias” (Mansfield Press, 2004). His poems have appeared in literary journals in Canada, the US, Belgium, England, Ireland, and India, and were included in “Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets.” He lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Sheila E. Murphy's most recent book publication is titled
Continuations, a collaborative volume with Douglas Barbour, available
from The University of Alberta Press. Murphy co-founded and for 12 years coordinated with Beverly Carver the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series. The series specialized in commissioning poets to create and perform work in response to traveling exhibitions of visual art. Murphy's home is in Phoenix, Arizona.