Amy M. Clark’s debut book of poems, Stray Home (University of North Texas Press), was selected by the Massachusetts Center for the Book as a Must-Read for 2011. Her poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily, Cave Wall, and in Southern Poetry Review, and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems, American Places. She lives in Concord, MA.

Philip C. Kolin is University Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Southern Mississippi. His most recent book of poems is A Parable of Women (Yazoo River Press, 2009). He is also the publisher and editor of Vineyards: A Journal of Christian Poetry.

Yvonne B. Robery currently works for an adjudicatory federal agency as a paralegal specialist. She earned an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, and a Master’s Degree in English Literature from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Tania Runyan’s poems have appeared in dozens of publications, including Poetry, Atlanta Review, Indiana Review, and The Christian Century. She has been awarded an NEA grant for 2011 and the 2007 Book of the Year Citation by the Conference on Christianity and Literature for her chapbook, Delicious Air. Her most recent collection of poetry is Thousand Vessels (WordFarm, 2011).