Scott Beal’s poems have appeared recently in Indiana Review, Dunes Review, The Legendary, and in a split book with Rachel McKibbens and Aracelis Girmay entitled Jangle the Threads (Red Beard Press, 2010). Scott Beal’s first chapbook, Two Shakespearean Madwomen vs. the Detroit Red Wings, was published in 1999 by White Eagle Coffee Store Press. He earned his MFA in 1996 from the University of Michigan. He teaches poetry and fiction workshops at The Neutral Zone and serves as Dzanc Writer-in-Residence at Ann Arbor Open School. He recently co-authored Underneath: The Archaeological Approach to Creative Writing with Jeff Kass (Red Beard Press, 2011).
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francine j. harris has recent work appearing in Rattle, Callaloo, Michigan Quarterly Review, and is the author of the recent chapbook, between old trees. She is a Cave Canem fellow, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is entering a Zell Postgraduate Fellowship year at the University of Michigan. Her first collection, allegiance, is scheduled for publication in the spring of 2012.
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aarala received her MFA in Creative Writing from University of Southern Maine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Iron Horse Literary Review, PANK, Arsenic Lobster, The Orange Room Review, two national poetry slam anthologies, and on a coffee shop floor in Arizona. Karrie recently debuted her one-woman show, LONG GONE: A Poetry Sideshow, which is based on her collection of poems about the circus. She really wishes she could tame tigers and swallow swords.
