About the Editors

JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT was born and raised in the Philadelphia suburbs. She is the author of Placebo Effects, selected by William Matthews as a National Poetry Series winner and published by W.W. Norton in 1997, and Curious Conduct, published by BOA Editions in 2004. Her poems have appeared in more than a dozen anthologies and textbooks, including Good Poems for Hard Times, The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 20th Annual Collection, Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website, and The Norton Introduction to Literature, 9th ed. Journals in which her work has appeared include Boston Review, Colorado Review, Double Take, Fairy Tale Review, Harper’s, Manhattan Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Pool, and World Literature Today. Her poem "Afraid So" was made into a short film by filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt and was screened at numerous film festivals in 2006, garnering several awards. She has taught at Rutgers University and at The Frost Place, where she now serves as director for the Frost Place Seminar. She also teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City and in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. See her website for more information.

CLAUDIA CARLSON was born in Bloomington, Indiana and raised in college towns across the U.S. She double majored in English and Art History at Stony Brook University. Her first book of poetry, The Elephant House, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in 2007. Court Green, Heliotrope, Divide, Tupelo Press Poetry Project, NYCBigCityLit.com, and Southern Poetry Review, among others, have published her poems. Her poem, “The Bees” is currently a semi-finalist for the Pushcart Prize. She is the co-author of The Bulgarian Americans, Chelsea House, 1990. She co-founded River Writers of Manhattan, a writing workshop now entering its 17th year, their most recent group readings were at the Mercantile Library and Cornelia Street Cafe. Divide, The Cream City Review, and Gargoyle have featured her photos. She is currently collaborating with artist Nathaniel Hester on a chapbook and a series of serigraphs using her poems. She is an art director and lives in Manhattan with her husband, lyricist, Jim Racheff. She is editing a volume of her mother's poems Postscripts: Helen Carlson Collected.