February 21, 2008

Carol Levin’s chapbook, Sea Lions Sing Scat, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2007, and Red Rooms and Others is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press. Levin’s poems have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Third Coast, The Seattle Review, Rock Salt Plum Review, The Cortland Review, The Comstock Review, Seattle Woman, Umbrella, and in other publications. Her poems have been performed as a choral work set by composer Carol Sams. Levin collaborated in translating Anton Chekhov’s four major plays, now being offered in a manuscript: The Three Sisters and Three More: Plays by Anton Chekhov. She is an editorial assistant at The Crab Creek Review and teaches the Alexander Technique in Seattle.

Victoria Ford graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A. 1975) and Indiana University (M.A. 1978). Chapbooks include Following the Swan (Fireweed Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1988) and Rain Psalm (Rose Alley Press, Seattle, Washington, 1996). Recent publication credits include the “Poets Against the War” website and Petroglyph. A former part-time English instructor at Seattle Central Community College and Antioch University Seattle, she is currently an instructional designer for an educational software company.