Mary M. Brown is Professor of English and Chair of the Division of Modern Language and Literature at Indiana Wesleyan University. She has published poetry and essays in many journals including Artful Dodge, Fourth River, and The Christian Century.

James Owens lives in New Carlisle, Indiana. Two books of his poems have been published: An Hour is the Doorway (Black Lawrence Press 2007) and Frost Lights a Thin Flame (Mayapple Press 2007). His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared widely in literary journals. He walks in the dunes along the southern shore of Lake Michigan and watches the waves and the gulls.

Jeanne Murray Walker is Professor of English at the University of Delaware and mentor in the Seattle Pacific University MFA Program. Her poems and essays have appeared in many periodicals including Poetry, The Georgia Review, Image, The Atlantic Monthly, and Best American Poetry. Her most recent book of poems is New Tracks, Night Falling (Eerdmans 2009).