Daniel Anderson’s work has appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Harper’s, The New Republic, and Best American Poetry, among other places. He is the author of two poetry collections, Drunk in Sunlight and January Rain, and the editor of The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov. His honors include a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bogliasco Foundation. Educated at the University of Cincinnatti and The Johns Hopkins University, he is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon.

Chris Bachelder is the author of the novels U.S.!, Bear v. Shark, and Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography (an e-book available free at www.mcsweeneys. net/bachelder/). His short fiction and essays have appeared in a number of magazines and journals, including Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, The Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Mother Jones, The Cincinnati Review, and New Stories from the South. His new novel, Abbott Awaits, was published in 2011, to strong reviews: “Not since John Cheever,” said novelist Brock Clark, “has an American male fiction writer written so ingeniously, so beautifully, so heartbreakingly about the pain and sweetness of domestic life.'' Bachelder received an MFA in fiction from the University of Florida and taught at New Mexico State, Colorado College, and the University of Massachusetts before joining the Creative Writing faculty of the University of Cincinnati in 2011.

Ron Briggs is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College and teaches language and literature classes there and at Columbia. A specialist in the literature and culture of Latin America, he has published essays and reviews in Estudios, Caribe, Revista de Humanidades, and other scholarly journals. His first book, Tropes of Enlightenment in the Age of Bolívar: Simón Rodríguez and the American Essay at Revolution, was published in 2010; he’s now at work on another with the working title “Exemplary American Lives: Education and Narrative in the Post-Independence Americas.” Ron Briggs earned his M.A. at Middlebury College and his Ph.D. at New York University.

Ann Jennalie Cook is the author of The Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeare’s London, 1576-1642, and Making a Match: Courtship in Shakespeare and His Society, both published by Princeton University Press. She has served as an officer of the International Shakespeare Association, on the Board of the Folger Shakespeare Library, and—from 1975 until 1987—as Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her work has been supported by fellowships from both the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations. Recently she was named a Life Trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-Upon-Avon, the only American to hold this honor. She taught for more than twenty years at Vanderbilt University.

Mariana Johnson is Assistant Professor of Film Studies, and Associate Chair of the Film Studies Department, at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where she teaches courses in Latin American Cinema, History of Documentary, Hitchcock, and Film Theory, among other subjects. A former Fulbright Scholar, Johnson was awarded the Grand Marnier Film Fellowship from the Film Society of Lincoln Center and was a visiting scholar at the Instituto Riva-Aguero in Lima, Peru. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Film International, Film Comment, and The Oxford Handbook to Film Studies, among other publications. Mariana Johnson earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Cinema Studies at New York University, where she also earned a graduate certificate in ethnographic filmmaking from the Program for Media, Culture and History. She is currently editing the Directory of World Cinema: Cuba (Intellect Press) and working on a project about film preservation in Latin America.

Holly Goddard Jones’s fiction has appeared in such journals as The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and The Gettysburg Review and been anthologized in New Stories from the South and Best American Mystery Stories. Her first book, Girl Trouble, was published by Harper Perennial in 2009, to enthusiastic acclaim from oracles as diverse as Erin McGraw and O magazine. A graduate of the University of Kentucky and the Ohio State University, she has taught at Denison University and Murray State University and now serves as Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Among her honors are the Peter Taylor Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. To learn more visit www.hollygoddardjones.com.

Jennifer Lewin is a remarkably versatile young scholar whose interests range from the Bible to Modern Poetry. Her essays and reviews, on topics as diverse as Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Eighteenth-Century poetry and Twentieth-Century New Criticism, have appeared in Modern Philology, Shakespeare Studies, the Boston Review, Blackwell's Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, and Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same, a collection of essays in honor of John Hollander which she also edited. She has articles forthcoming in the Shakespeare Encyclopedia, and her contribution to . Educated at Brandeis and Yale, Jenn Lewin taught at both those institutions, the Harvard summer school, the University of the South, and the University of Kentucky before taking up her current post as Assistant Professor of English at Boston University.

Mark Rasmussen is Professor of English and Chair of the Division of Arts and Humanities at Centre College, where he has been teaching courses on Medieval and Renaissance literature since 1989. The editor of Renaissance Literature and its Formal Engagements (to which he also contributed an essay), he has also published scholarship in Sixteenth Century Studies, Spenser Studies, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, and other journals. He has presented scholarly papers in venues from Kalamazoo to Cambridge, with stops in Galway, London, and Venice. A graduate of Harvard, Rasmussen received his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins, where he also taught before taking up his post at Centre. There he has received the Kirk Award for Teaching Excellence among many other honors.