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Bert Stern was born in Buffalo, New York in 1930. He was educated at the University of Buffalo, Columbia, and at Indiana University, where he earned his PhD in English.

Stern taught for forty years at Wabash College, where he is now Milligan Professor of English, Emeritus. He also taught from 1965–67 at the University of Thessaloniki and from 1984–85 at Peking University. He presently teaches in the Changing Lives Through Literature program. 

He is the author of Steerage (Ibbetson Street Press, 2009) and a chapbook, Silk/The Ragpicker's Grandson (Red Dust, 1998). His poems have been published in New Letters, The American Poetry Review, Indiana Review, Poetry, Spoon River Poetry Review, among others, and in a number of anthologies. His essays and reviews have appeared in Sewanee Review, Southern Review, Modern Language Review, The New Republic, Southern Review, Columbia Teachers’ College Record, Adirondack Life, and a number of anthologies. His critical study, Wallace Stevens: Art of Uncertainty, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 1965.

Tam Lin Neville was born in New York City in 1944. She received her BA in Religion from Temple University in Philadelphia and her MFA in poetry from Vermont College in 1989. 

She spent four formative years living in China and Japan, studying the language and teaching, and returned to this country with a strong interest in Eastern poetry, particularly the Tang Dynasty poets of China. 

Her poems have been published in The American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Harvard Review, Ironwood, Mademoiselle, The Massachusetts Review, and Sulfur. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Agni, The American Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, Hungry Mind Review, and The Threepenny Review. Her interview with Tomas Transtromer was published in Painted Bride Quarterly. She has received fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission and the Somerville Arts Council. Her chapbook Dreaming in Chinese won Calypso Press’ first chapbook competition in 1995. In 1998 her book of poems, Journey Cake, was published by BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her second book, Triage, was published in 2010 by Cervena Barva Press and has recently been selected as “must read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

Neville presently administers and teaches in Changing Lives Through Literature, a program designed for women and men on probation.

Elizabeth Murphy is an independent scholar, freelance editor, poet, and cofounder and editor of The Straddler, a journal of arts, politics, and culture.

Rob Arnold is a poet and editor living in Boston. He cofounded the online journal Memorious, and was managing editor of Ploughshares, Fence, and Fence Books. He also serves as Associate Director of PEN New England.