January 15, 2015

Anne McDuffie writes poetry, essays, and reviews. Recent work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review and Colorado Review online. She was a 2011 Jack Straw fellow, and received a 2012 4Culture grant for “Deep Geography,” a poetry and painting collaboration with Ann Vandervelde. Since 2007, she has also worked with poet Madeline DeFrees on her archive and publications, and maintains a website for her. A graduate of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, Anne lives with her husband and two daughters in Seattle, Washington. You can find her online at www.annemcduffie.com. Photo credit: Sherwin Eng and Jack Straw Productions

Michael Schmeltzer earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop. His honors include numerous Pushcart Prize nominations, the Gulf Stream Award for Poetry, and the Blue Earth Review’s Flash Fiction Prize. He has been a finalist for the Four Way Books Intro and Levis Prizes, Zone 3 Press First Book Prize, as well as the OSU Press/The Journal Award in Poetry. He helps edit A River & Sound Review and has been published in Pank, Rattle, The Journal, Natural Bridge, Mid-American Review, Water~Stone Review, New York Quarterly, Bellingham Review, and Fourteen Hills, among other journals.