July 19, 2007

Peter Pereira is a family physician in Seattle, and was a founding editor of Floating Bridge Press. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, and Journal of the American Medical Association, and have been widely anthologized, including in the forthcoming 2007 issue of Best American Poetry. His books include The Lost Twin, Saying the World, and What’s Written on the Body, which was newly released by Copper Canyon Press in February, 2007.

Nancy Pagh’s book No Sweeter Fat won the Autumn House Press book competition and was published in 2007. Her poems have appeared on the Poetry Daily site, in Poetry Northwest, Rattle, The Bellingham Review, Crab Creek Review, Pontoon, and in other journals. Her work has been nominated three times for the Pushcart literary prize. She teaches at Western Washington University and lives in Bellingham.