Brian Blanchfield is the author of Not Even Then (University of California Press 2004) and The History of Ideas, 1973-2012 (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming) and has new poems and nonfiction in recent or eventual issues of The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Nation, The Brooklyn Rail, Maggy, Boston Review, A Public Space, Web Conjunctions, Likestarlings, The Paris Review, Seneca Review, and Volt. Currently he is at work on a collection of essays entitled Onesheets. He is a poetry editor of Fence Magazine and lives at the western edge of Tucson, Arizona.

Anthony Madrid lives in Chicago. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI Online, Boston Review, Fence, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Lana Turner, LIT, Poetry, Washington Square, and WEB CONJUNCTIONS. His first book, called I AM YOUR SLAVE NOW DO WHAT I SAY, was published this past April by Canarium Books.