February 16, 2012

Jeannine Hall Gailey is the author of Becoming the Villainess (Steel Toe Books, 2006) and She Returns to the Floating World (Kitsune Books, 2011.) Her work has been featured on NPR’s “The Writer’s Almanac,” Verse Daily, and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Iowa Review, The Seattle Review, and Prairie Schooner. She volunteers as an editorial consultant for Crab Creek Review and currently teaches at the MFA program at National University. Her website is www.webbish6.com.

Martha Silano is the author of three books of poetry—What the Truth Tastes Like (Nightshade Press, 1999), Blue Positive (Steel Toe Books, 2006), and The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception (Saturnalia Books, 2011), chosen by Campbell McGrath as the winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, AGNI, American Poetry Review, and The Best American Poetry 2009, among others. A 2010 and 2011 Seattle 4Culture fellowship recipient, Martha teaches at Bellevue College. Her website is http://bluepositive.blogspot.com/.