Lara Glenum is the author of two books of poetry: The Hounds of No (Action Books, 2005) and Maximum Gaga (Action Books, 2008). She is also the co-editor, with Arielle Greenberg, of Gurlesque, an anthology of contemporary women's poetry and visual art ( Saturnalia Books, 2010). With Josef Horacek, she translates 20th C. Czech poetry. They are currently translating the selected poems of Vladimir Holan, a project that has received a Fulbright Fellowship and an NEA Translation Award. She is now collaborating with a group of sound, digital, and visual artists on Meat Out of the Eater, a multi-media installation piece based on the second half of Maximum Gaga. Her poems have appeared in New American Writing , Fence, Conjunctions , Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at LSU.

Maureen Foley is a freelance writer , teacher, poet and novelist. Her work has appeared in Wired Magazine, Santa Barbara Magazine, the New York Times , Destination Wine Country , the San Francisco Bay Guardian , and elsewhere. In 2002, her collection of poems , Epileptic, won the Dead Metaphor Press Chapbook Award and was published in a limited edition. She also received a Master of Fine Art in Prose from Naropa University in 2002. Currently, she teaches writing at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge , and she shares a house with her husband, their dog, two pecan trees and some fire ants.

When Christopher isn't scurrying around Baton Rouge publicizing Readers and Writers events he is writing poetry. Shipman's poems have appeared or are Forthcoming in journals such as Carolina Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Exquisite Corpse, Louisiana Review, Redactions and Salt Hill, among others. His poem “From all the Purple Deer” was featured on Verse Daily, and a review of Andrei Codrescu's Jealous Witness appeared in American Book Review. Shipman is teaching poetry and composition at LSU as a post-doc Instructor.

Samuel Oliver studies Latin and History with a special interest in Late Roman comedy. While not seething over a Latin passage, he spends the average day assisting at The Southern Review , coordinating for Readers & Writers, and running Delta Journal. Sam splits his spare time between art-handling for the LSU Museum of Art and studying canne de combat .  

Matthew Heron is a poet, musician and community volunteer in organizations such as Big Buddy, Readers and Writers and the Delta Journal. A recent LSU graduate in English and German, Matthew is currently working his first collection of poems set in the Gulf Coast region.