Ruth Daigon was founder and editor of POETS ON: for twenty years until it ceased publication. Her poems have been widely published in poetry collectiions (hard cover and E magazines. She also won the Ann Stanford National Poetry Prize, 1997 (University of Southern California Anthology, 1997) and the Greensboro Poetry Award (Greensboro Arts Council, 2000).
My books include the collection Settling for Beauty (Cherry Grove Collections, www.cherry-grove.com/smith.html), my first collection, The Hypothetical Landscape (Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Series), and the edited anthology Northern Music: Poems About and Inspired by Glenn Gould (John Gordon Burke, Publisher). My children's book The Best Mariachi in the World is forthcoming from Raven Tree Press ( www.raventreepress.com) in 2008. My essays have received three Pushcart nominations, and my essays and reviews have appeared in American Book Review and Pleiades, and my commentary has appeared in the Los Angeles Times. I am presently circulating a third collection of poems and writing essays.
Kenneth Ryan short fiction and poetry can be found online with Pindeldyboz, Word Riot, Thieves Jargon, Ward 6 Review among others, and is forthcoming in print from The Binnacle and Greatest Uncommon Denominator. For the latest news on his recently completed first novel, Hiders, please visit
www.kennay.com, the online home he shares with the preternaturally perfect Nadine Darling.
Leonard Orr is originally from New York, studying English at SUNY-Binghamton and Ohio State University, receiving his doctorate in 1983. He taught in Arkansas and Indiana before moving in 1991 to Washington State University (he is a full professor in the English Department and Director of Liberal Arts Programs).