Jim Tomlinson lives and writes in Berea, Kentucky.  His work has appeared in Five Points, Shenandoah, Bellevue Literary Review, and New Stories From The South 2008. Jim is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to Sewanee Writers' Conference.  His newest book of stories, Nothing Like An Ocean (University Press of Kentucky, 2009) is the follow-up to his award winning debut, Things Kept, Things Left Behind. 

Frannie Lindsay's third volume of poetry, Mayweed, will be released in January 2010 as the winner of the Word Works Washington Prize.  It won, concurrently, the 2009 Del Sol Prize for Poetry.  Her other two books are Lamb (Perugia Press, 2006, runner-up for the Laughlin Award), and Where She Always Was (Utah State University Press, 2004).  She is the 2008 winner of the Missouri Review Prize.  Lindsay has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.  She lives in Belmont, MA with her two retired greyhounds.  She is also a classical pianist.