WENDY VARDAMAN, www.wendyvardaman.com, lives in Madison, Wisconsin and is the author of Obstructed View (Fireweed Press). She works for The Young Shakespeare Players, a children’s theater company, co-edits Verse Wisconsin, www.versewisconsin.org, and does not own a car.

In November 2008, following a highly competitive application process, Governor James Doyle appointed Marilyn L. Taylor as Poet Laureate for the State of Wisconsin. Previously she served a two-year term as Poet Laureate of the city of Milwaukee. Even before her latest honor she was in high demand to lead poetry workshops locally [...]

John Lehman is the founder and original publisher of Rosebud, a national magazine of short stories, poetry and illustration for people who enjoy good writing. He is the poetry editor of the Wisconsin People & Ideas as well as managing partner of Zelda Wilde Publishing and—with editors Andrea Musher and Marilyn Taylor—for three [...]

Scott Zieher is co-owner of the New York City contemporary art gallery ZieherSmith (est. 2003). He was the winner of the Emergency Press 2004 annual contest for his book-length poem, VIRGA, published in 2005. His second book-length poem, IMPATIENCE was also published by Emergency Press in September, 2009. A book of found photography [...]