Candace Adams (2004) is the project editor/coordinator for a book packager in Texas. She also works with Aspen Publishers.

Matthew Apple (1997) teaches at Doshisha University in Kyoto.

Francisco Aragón (2003) is the director of Letras Latinas, the literary component of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He edited the collections Mark My Words: Five Emerging Poets (Momotombo Press, 2001) and The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2007). He was also coeditor of the Berkeley Poetry Review (University of California, Berkeley, 1990). He has published a book of poetry, Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press, 2005), and his chapbooks include Light, Yogurt, and Strawberry Milk (Momotombo Press, 1999), In Praise of Cities: 3 Poems (Momotombo Press, 2001), and Tertulia (BOOKlyn, 2002). His poetry has appeared in The Journal and in the anthologies American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (2001), Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies (2001), Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California (2002), How to Be This Man (2003), Bend, Don't Shatter: Poets on the Beginnings of Desire (2004), Red, White, and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America (2004), Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality (2006), and Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (2007). He won the 2002 AWP Intro Journal Award for poetry.

Robert Archambeau (1996) is the winner of the 2006 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. He has published a book of poetry, Home and Variations (Salt Publishing 2004), and edited the book Word Play Place (Swallow Press, 1998). His book Laureates and Heretics is forthcoming. His poems and essays have appeared in Notre Dame Review, Chicago Review, ACM, Seven Corners, Sharkforum, Keltoi, Avant-Post: The Avant-Garde in the Age of Post-Ideology, Poetry, and the anthology The Possibility of Language: Seven Young Poets (iUniverse, 2001). He blogs.

Kelley Beeson (1999) teaches at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Her poetry has appeared in Kalliope.

Mark Behr (1998) is an associate professor of Creative Writing and English at the College of Santa Fe. He has published a novel, Embrace (Little, Brown, 2001).

Shannon Berry (2005) is working on a Ph.D. in systematic theology at the Catholic University of America. She also teaches writing to homeschoolers via email, helps a psychology professor write grants, and prepares high school students to take standardized tests that she is ideologically opposed to. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Dappled Things.

Karni Pal Bhati (2001) teaches at Furman University. He has published a book of poetry, On Another Ground (Ninety-Six Press, 2006).

J. Jackson Bliss (2007) ) is the winner of Notre Dame's 2007 Sparks Prize. His writing has appeared in 3:am Magazine, African American Review, BlazeVox, Cadence, Connecticut Review, Denver Syntax, DJ Booth, Fringe Magazine, Kenyon Review, Ink Collective, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Pology Magazine, Right Hand Pointing, SoMa Literary Journal, South Loop Review, Stand Magazine, Syntax, The Voice, Word Riot, Writer Advice, and Writers Post-Journal.

Jenny Boully (2002) has published several books and chapbooks including The Body (Slope Editions, 2004), Moveable Types (Noemi Press, 2007), The Book of Beginnings and Endings (Sarabande Books, 2007), one love affair (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007), and of the mismatched teacups, of the single-serving spoon (Coconut, forthcoming). She won the 2002 Sparks prize. Her poetry won the AWP Intro Journal Award in 1997 and 2000, and received an honorable mention in 2002. She was featured as a "Sampler Poet" by Boston Review in 2006. one love affair was nominated for five awards by Coldfront Magazine, of which it won two. Boully’s poems and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry 2002 (Scribner), Nerve, Maisonneuve, McSweeney's, Tarpaulin Sky, MiPoesias, Diagram, Coconut, Siren, and Aiden Starr: The Journal. She is an Assistant Professor of creative writing at Columbia College Chicago, and blogs.

Sarah Bowman (1999) is tenured in the Department of English at Wright College, City Colleges of Chicago. She also teaches online for Boston University and the University of California, Irvine.

Anne Bracewell (2001) teaches English at a high-needs school and is completing an M.S. in English Teaching at Brooklyn College. She is a member of the NYC Teaching Fellows.

Jenny Bryant (2002) has published poetry in Shenandoah. She won the 2002 AWP Intro Journal Award for poetry.

Kathleen Canavan (1999) is the managing editor of Notre Dame Review. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yinzer.

Stacy Cartledge (2000) is the poetry editor for Georgetown Review and teaches at Delaware County Community College. He has published a book of poetry, Within the Space Between (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2009), and his poetry has appeared in Samizat.

Brenna Casey (2008) received the 2007-08 AWP Intro Journal Award for her creative nonfiction.

Lynne Chien (2007) has published poetry in Stone Table Review, RHINO, Susurrus, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Collaged Verse. She started on a PhD in history at UC Irvine in the fall of 2009.

Tim Chilcote (2007) is currently working as an editor for the University of Michigan, where he conducts interviews, writes articles, and edits books for professors. He also blogs.

Michael Collins (1991) teaches at Southwestern Michigan College. His books include Emerald Underground (Phoenix House, 1999), The Keepers of the Truth (Scribner, 2001), Lost Souls (Viking/Penguin, 2004), The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton (Bloomsbury, 2006), and Death of a Writer (Bloomsbury, 2006). The Keepers of the Truth was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. He has also published an essay in the anthology Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage (Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 2004). He was recently the keynote speaker at Notre Dame Mendoza Business College for the Undergradate Scholars Conference (May 2009). His website is michaelcollinsauthor.net.

Dawn Comer (1998) was awarded the 2008 Paul Somers Prize for Creative Prose from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML). Her winning story, “Raised in a Corn Palace,” is part of her collection Born Beneath Pedro’s Sombrero, Raised in a Corn Palace: Stories from the National Association of Tourist Attraction Survivors. At SSML’s 2009 Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars and Writers, Dawn also presented a selection from her newest project, Fella With an Umbrella: Finding Joy on the Autism Spectrum. She has also published fiction in The Café Irreal and The Dream People. Dawn teaches creative writing part-time at Defiance College where she also edits the journal of the McMaster School for Advancing Humanity.

Beth Couture (2007) co-founded an online journal for shorts, Squid Quarterly. She has published in Georgetown Review.

Tom Coyne (1999) published A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in Search of a Country with Gotham Books in February 2009. The book was a Barnes & Noble Recommended Selection, and made the American Booksellers Association bestseller list. He is also the author of a novel, A Gentleman's Game (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001; Grove Press, 2002) and the nonfiction book Paper Tiger: An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros (Gotham Books, 2006), and has published in Virgin Fiction and Sports Illustrated. He is a visiting writer at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

Christopher Crossen (1992) is the author of Ask the Doctor: Hypertension (with Vincent Friedewald, Andrews and McMeel Press, 1994) and Ask the Doctor: Asthma (with Vincent Friedewald, Andrews and McMeel Press, 1994). His articles have appeared in CalBusiness, Pacific Discovery, Backpacker, Outside, and Couloir.

Renée D'Aoust (2006) is an instructor at North Idaho College. She has received a Puffin Foundation grant, an NEA fellowship, and several awards for her drama and essays. Her prose and poetry has appeared in Bathyspheric Review, Touchstone, Brevity, Mid-American Review, Kalliope, North Central Review, Harpur Palate, 13th Moon, Dance Insider, Under the Sun, Notre Dame Review, Open Face Sandwich, Redwood Coast Review, RHINO, Idaho Farm Bureau Quarterly Magazine, Tree Magic CD Anthology, Cloven Sphere Poetry Anthology, Mid-America Review, Ballet-Dance Magazine, Dance Insider, Brooklyn Rail, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Cadillac Cicatrix, and Explore Dance. Her essay "Graham Crackers" was published in the anthology Reading Dance (Pantheon, 2008), and received the 2004 AWP Intro Journal Award for nonfiction.

Tony D'Souza (2000) is the winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2008–2009. His novels include Whiteman (Harcourt, 2006), Scent of Sandalwood (Harcourt, 2007), and The Konkans (Harcourt, 2008). His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Album, Black Warrior Review, Notre Dame Review, Electronic Book Review, Hollins Critic, Scholastic Magazine, Stand Magazine, Elysium, Iron Horse, The Juggler, Imago, Takahe, Barbaric Yawp, Front & Centre, The Literary Review, Teaparty, Nimrod, The New Yorker, Chicago Quarterly Review, Playboy, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Poets & Writers, Wall Street Journal, Prospect, Tin House, Salon, World View, Zembla, McSweeney's, Subtropics, Fiddlehead, and Darkhorse, and the anthology Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction (Story Press, 1997). He has also appeared on Dateline, the Today Show, NPR, and the BBC. His website is tonydsouza.com.

Colby Davis (2007) has published poetry in Harpur Palate.

Lisa De Niscia (1993) has published the novel My Valley is Icky Too (Firetrap Press, 2003). Her fiction has appeared in Brentwood Bla Bla, Noe Valley Voice, and Beach Reporter.

Jeanne De Vita (2000) works for Food Rescue, a nonprofit in Chicago, as the Chapter President.

Sandy Dedo (2006) has published poetry in Sojourn.

Catherine Denby (1994) is on the faculty at Ivy Tech Community College. She wrote a chapter in the anthology Love the Second Time Around (Outrider Press, 2005).

Kevin Carrizo di Camillo (1995) is an editor at Paulist Press/HiddenSprings Books. He has published the book of poetry Why I Drive Alfa Romeos (Typographeum, 1997), edited James Martin's Becoming Who You Are (HiddenSpring, 2007), and co-edited John Paul II in the Holy Land (2005). His poetry has appeared in National Poetry Review, Deadalus: Journal of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Prairie Fire, Antigonish Review, Poetry East, and the anthology Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana (Fordham University Press, 2008).

Shaun Dillon (2004) is an assistant editor at Da Capo Press. He edited Notre Dame and the Game that Changed Football (2007). His poetry has appeared in FIELD and South Carolina Review.

Mary Dixon (2006) is an instructor of English for Liberty University's Distance Learning Program and a fulltime faculty member in English at Central Community College in Nebraska. She has published a poetry chapbook, Eucharist: Enter the Sacred Way (Franciscan University, 2008), and her poems and articles have appeared in Relief Journal, Great Plains Quarterly, Fox Cry, The Bend, Echoes, Ruminate, A Prairie Journal and Dance Macabre XXIII.

Joseph Doerr (1998) teaches writing at St. Edward's University in Texas. He has published a book of poetry, Order of the Ordinary (Salt Publishing, 2003), and his poetry and criticism has appeared in Stand Magazine, Notre Dame Review, and the anthology The Possibility of Language: Seven Young Poets (iUniverse, 2001). His website is available through Salt Publishing, and his exploits in rock music can be viewed here.

Kevin Ducey (2004) is the managing editor of Scientific Journal. He has published a book of poetry, Rhinoceros (Copper Canyon Press, 2004).

Stephanie Dunn (2000) is an assistant professor of English at Morehouse College. Her essay, “Standing Up for Bad Words,” was included in the Best African American Essays (Random House, 2009). She authored, "Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermammas: Black Power Action Films (University of Illinois Press, 2008), and her poetry and articles appear in Still, Denver Post, and NewBlackMan. Her play Titty was performed at the Southwest Fulton County Arts Center in August 2007. In 2009 her play Chem-Girls was performed by the Horizon Theatre Company, Atlanta, GA.

Nora Edwards (2002) has published poetry in Thin Air.

Kristen Eliason (2008) is the recipient of the 2008 Sparks Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Liquid Magazine, thepaperbagwriter, Reed Magazine, Juked, brownpaper, Reed, Six Little Things, Scrivener Creative Review, Diagram, Two Review, Makeout Creek, Robert Melon, and Squid Quarterly . A video of her reading at the Hammes Bookstore is available here.

Danna Ephland (2006) is an adjunct teacher at Kellogg Community College in Michigan and manages facilities and groups for Transformations Spirituality Center, also in Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in Indiana Review, Letterhead, Rhino, Permafrost, and the anthology Saints of Hysteria: A Half Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull Press, 2007). She is the recipient of the 2008 Tea Party poetry prize and her chapbook Needle Makes Tracks is forthcoming.

Michael Estes (2005) teaches at Poudre High School in Colorado. His poetry has appeared in Court Green and Margie.

David Ewald (2003) is an instructor at Front Range Community College in Colorado. His prose has appeared in Urban Seen, Spectrum, Eclectica, The Harrow, Morbid Outlook and Syntax. His play "Mormania" was selected as part of the 2009 season of The Trench series and given a staged reading by Paragon Theatre. His website is davidmichaelewald.com.

Veronica Fitzpatrick (2008) had two poems published in O Tempora! Magazine. She is pursuing her PhD in English/Film at the University of Pittsburgh.

Clare Frohrip (Christina) (2000) edits WIN magazine and is at work on an anthology for The Icarus Project.

Esteban I.V. Galindo (1997) has published poetry and fiction in Sin Fronteras: Writers Without Borders and The Crown.

Chris Gerben (2003) is an English instructor at the University of Michigan.

Lisa Gonzales (2005) is a science writer for NASA. She has published a poetry chapbook, Arroyo (Momotombo Press, 2004), and her fiction has appeared in Chattahoochee Review.

Dónal Kevin Gordon (1996) blogs. He is now on the teaching faculty of the Cedar Rapids Family Medicine Residency in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and holds a concurrent appointment as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Already Board-certified in Family Medicine, he will soon begin the process required to obtain Board certification in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Darin Graber (2008) has published a poem translation in das geforene meer. His has published in KULT, Magpie Magazine, and Weisz auf Schwarz.

Kurt Haenicke (1996) is the director of communications for the College of Health and Human Services at Western Michigan University.

Jarett Haley (200Weisz auf 8) placed third in Playboy's 2007 College Fiction Contest. He has been published in the Notre Dame Review, Pear Noir! and Word Riot. He is the founding editor of Bull Men’s Fiction.

Kevin Hattrup (2007) teaches English at the Catholic High School of Baltimore.

Justin Haynes (2003) received a fiction fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a Djerassi fiction fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sean Henry (1996) has published the novel Limbo (Akashic Books, 2004), and his fiction has appeared in Callaloo, Obsidian II, and Salamander.

Lily Hoang (2006) is a visiting assistant professor at St. Mary's College in Indiana. Her novel Parabola (Chiasmus Press, 2007) was a winner of the Chiasmus Press First Book Contest. She is also the author of Changing (Fairy Tale Review Press, 2008) and Woman Down the Hall (Lamination Colony, 2008). Her prose has appeared in Alice Blue Review, Black Warrior Review, Quarter After Eight, Mad Hatters' Review, and the anthologies The Evolutionary Revolution (Les Figues Press) and Wreckage to Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2008). She has another book, Invisible Women, forthcoming from StepSister Press.

Andrew Hughes (1995) is the arts and entertainment editor of the South Bend Tribune in Indiana.

Joseph Hughes (2006) has published poetry in the anthology Best New Poets 2006. He is pursuing a PhD at Syracuse University in New York.

Kathryn Hunter (2007) is the recipient of the 2004 Academy of American Poets Prize. She is a technical editor for the Pipeline Renewal Program in Alaska.

Angela Hur (2005) is the recipient of the 2005 Sparks prize, and she has published a novel, The Queens of K-Town (MacAdam Cage, 2007). She was a featured reader and panelist at the PEN USA Symposium on Korean-American literature. She has been appointed as a full-time lecturer at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea, where she will be part of the English Literature Department.

Robert Imbur (2001) is a lecturer in the English department at the University of Toledo.

Cecile Kandl (1995) earned a PhD in 2001 and is now an assistant professor of English at Bucks County Community College, where she has taught writing and literature courses.

Kelly Kerney (2004) won the 2004 Sparks prize, and she has published a novel, Born Again (Harcourt, 2006).

Desmond Kon (2009) has had poetry and prose published in Agni, Confrontation, Faultline, Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review, Parcel, Pinch, Seneca Review, Sonora Review, and Versal.

Christina Kubasta (1993) teaches Composition and Literature at Marian College in Indiana.

Evan (Petee) Kuhlman (2004) has published a novel, Wolf Boy (Shaye Areheart/Random House, 2006), and his fiction has appeared in Madison Review, Third Coast, Glimmer Train, and Notre Dame Review.

Alan Lindsay (1991) is a professor in the Department of English/Fine Arts/Foreign Languages at the New Hampshire Technical Institute. He has published a novel, A: A Novel (Red Hen Press, 2004), and his fiction has appeared in The Crucifix Is Down (Red Hen Press, 2005).

Wei Liu (2003) has published a book, Biking Out (ProStar Publications, 2002). He received an honorable mention in the 2003 AWP Intro Journal Awards for nonfiction.

Alex Lobdell (1997) has published fiction in the anthology Infinite Space, Infinite God (Twilight Times Books, 2006), which won the 2007 EPPIE Award for Best Science Fiction.

Brian Lysholm (2008) published a story in the Spring 2009 issue of Bull Men’s Fiction

Alexander MacLeod (1997) is an assistant professor at St. Mary's University in Nova Scotia. His collection of fiction, Light Lifting, is forthcoming (Biblioasis, 2009), and his fiction has appeared in Notre Dame Review.

Marinella Macree (2000) works in Atlanta as a writer and editor.

Corey Madsen (2004) is a production editor for a West Virginia University press. His novel An Evensong for Father Bob, won 2nd place at the 2006 West Virginia Writers’ Conference.

Jessica Maich (1997) teaches at Saint Mary's in Indiana. She has published a chapbook, The West End (Green Bean Press, 2001), and her poetry has appeared in Notre Dame Review and the anthology Twenty-Four Questions for Billy (Finishing Line Press, 2006).

Jayne Marek (2005) teaches at Franklin College in Indiana. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in Utah English Journal, Poetries of the 1940s/National Poetry Foundation, and the anthology Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections, and she published a poem in the anthology And Know This Place: Poetry of Indiana (Indiana University Press, 2005).

Jessica (English) Martinez (2009) has had poetry published in Helix, Cahoots, Fogged Clarity, The Bend, and Calliope.

Mark Marino (1996) teaches writing at the University of Southern California and edits Bunk Magazine. He has published an electronic novel, 12 Easy Lessons to Better Time Travel (MIT Press, 2006), and his writing has appeared in Notre Dame Review, Hyperrhiz, New River, Bunk Magazine, and Iowa Review Web and Second Person: Role Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media (MIT Press, 2006). He is the founder of the online forum Writer Response Theory.

David Mayer (2001) writes for American Greetings in Ohio. His poetry has appeared in Spoon River Review and North American Review.

Will McGee (1993) has published fiction in Notre Dame Review.

Janet McNally (2005) teaches at Canisius High School. Her fiction has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review.

Elizabeth Meyer (2000) teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Oak Bridge Montessori Middle School in Indiana.

Thomas Miller (2006) teaches English at Duquesne University and works as an EMT. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Science Creative Quarterly, Harpur Palate, Cream City Review, Knock Magazine, brownpaper, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and the anthologies The New Book of Masks (Raw Dog Press, 2006) and Dark Distortions (Scotopia Press, 2008).

Tom O'Connor (1999) is the winner of the 2001 AWP Intro Award in poetry for Binghamton University. He has published a critical book, Poetic Acts & New Media (University Press of America, 2006), and his poetry and criticism have appeared in Poetry Southeast, Pebble Lake Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Plainsongs, Burnside Review, Danta, Mankato Poetry Review, Nebula, No Exit, Notre Dame Review, Soul Fountain, Touchstone, Curbside Review, Prism Quarterly, Aurora Review, Skidrow Penthouse, Journal of Film & Video, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Social Semiotics.

Jere Odell (1995) has published poetry in Pleiades and in the anthology The Possibility of Language: Seven Young Poets (iUniverse, 2001).

Grant Osborn (2009) has published poems in The Bend. He was an Honorable Mention Winner in the W.B. Yeats Poetry Society 2009 Poetry Awards.

Gwendolyn Oxenham (2006) is the recipient of the 2006 Sparks Prize, and she is currently at work on The Soccer Project .

She received an honorable mention in the 2005 AWP Intro Journal Awards for her nonfiction.

Ann Palazzo (1993) is a tenured professor at Columbus State Community College.

Rumit Pancholi (2008) has published poetry in The Banyan Review, Double Dare Press, Foliate Oak, Antithesis Common, The Clemson Poetry Review, High Altitude Poetry, SNReview, Iodine Poetry Review, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Rainy Day, Emerson Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, Blue Earth Review, The Avatar Review, Santa Clara Review, Lines and Stars, The Houston Literary Review, Gertrude, Other Poetry, brownpaper, High Desert Journal, Pank, Flint Hills Review, Harpur Palate, The Strip, Iron Horse Literary Review, Stirring, The Laurel Review, Gulf Stream Magazine, Folio: A Literary Journal, Red Clay Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Kennesaw Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly. He works at Heldref Publishing as a managing editor.

Rebecca Hazelton (Stafford) Pennell (2005) teaches at Florida State University. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in Margie, Salt Hill, Chattahoochee Review, Notre Dame Review, Crab Creek Review, Puerto del Sol, RHINO, Slipstream, LaFovea, Midway Journal, SHAMPOO, Coconut, American Book Review, Pleiades, and FIELD.

Krista (Peterson) Quinby (2003) has published fiction in Quirk. She works at a media company, writing scripts.

Joanna Philbin (2003) was a staff writer for NBC's Las Vegas and is developing a pilot and writing a novel for Alloy Entertainment.

Kathryn Pilles-Genaw (2007) is an English and Math teacher at CITE Business School in Pennsylvania. Her poetry has appeared in Mimesis and Philadelphia Stories.

Danielle Rado (2005) teaches Composition at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her fiction has appeared in SNReview, Clackamas Review, Mochila Review, and Inspired Pen Magazine. She is teaching poetry at inner city schools through a non-profit and continuing to pursue her PhD at the University of Denver.

NoNi Ramos (2001) is a middle school English and drama teacher in Texas.

Susan Blackwell Ramsey (2008) won the 2007 Marjorie J. Wilson Award from Margie Review: American Journal of Poetry, and she has been selected for publication in Best American Poetry 2009. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and Marlboro Review. She interviewed Bonnie Jo Campbell, a National Book Award Finalist, on Maud Newton's Blog.

Dylan Reed (2006) works for the Dean of Students at Vanderbilt University and has fiction forthcoming in Kenyon Review. You can follow his blog.

Amy Reese (2001) has published poetry in Permafrost.

Stephanie (Guerra) Reidy (2004) teaches Children’s Literature in the Department of Education at Seattle University, and creative writing to female inmates at the King County Jail. She has had research published in Children’s Literature in Education and is the editor for Headonfire Books.

Michael Richards (2002) teaches in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Texas. He has published a collection of short stories, Floating Midnight (River Lily Press, 2005), and his fiction has appeared in Southeast Review, Quirk, and Pecan Grove Review.

Matthew Ricke (2006) has published fiction in Harpur Palate.

Jeffrey Roessner (1998) is the chair of the English department at Mercyhurst College in Pennsylvania. He edited The Possibility of Language (Writers Club Press, 2001), and his book Creative Guitar: Writing and Playing Rock Songs with Originality is forthcoming from Mel Bay. His nonfiction has also appeared in Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and the Fab Four (SUNY University Press, 2006).

Pablo Ros (2007) is a weekly columnist and criminal courts beat writer for South Bend Tribune. He received a state award in 2007 for a series on local immigration enforcement.

Michael Russell (1996) teaches at Emerson College. His fiction has appeared in New England Review, Third Coast, and Salt Hill.

Dustin Rutledge (2006) is a lecturer at Boston College.

Blake Sanz (2001) teaches in the Writing Program at the University of Denver. His fiction has appeared in Xavier Review.

Cynthia Searfoss (1995) is the Alumni Affairs and Campus Ceremonies director at Indiana University South Bend.

Sheheryar Sheikh (2007) has published fiction in Bewildering Stories, Black Warrior Review, New Orphic Review, and 5_Trope.

Mike Smith (2001) teaches at American University and George Washington University. He was a writer-in-residence at American University in 2006–2007. He has published two poetry chapbooks, Anagrams of America (Mudlark Online, 2005) and Small Industry (South Carolina Poetry Initiative at the University of South Carolina), and the book How to Make a Mummy (CustomWords, 2008), and his poetry has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Borderlands, DIAGRAM, Hotel Amerika, Quarter After Eight, Faultline, Nebraska Review, Notre Dame Review, North American Review, Fugue, Gulf Stream, Main Street Rag, Zone 3, Iowa Review, and the anthology The Possibility of Language: Seven Young Poets (iUniverse, 2001).

Ryan Glenn Smith (2009) had a story published in BULL Men’s Fiction.

Mark Stafford (2005) is enrolled in the MFA program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL in sculpture.

Marcela Sulak (1992) is an assistant professor of Literature at American University. She translated the book of poetry May by Karel Hyneck Macha, (Twisted Spoon Press, 2005), and she has published a chapbook, Of All the Things That Don't Exist, I Love You Best (Finishing Line Press, 2008). Her poetry has appeared in Daughters of Sarah, The Other Side, Greenfuse, Notre Dame Review, Kalliope, Borderlands, Texas Poetry Review, X-Connect, Indiana Review, Jabberwock, Spoon River Review, South Dakota Review, Quarterly West, River Styx, Sulphur River Review, Third Coast, and Harpur Palate. She also has a book of poems, Immigrant, coming out with Black Lawrence Press; a translation of Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha’s book of poems, Bela-Wanda, coming from Host Publishing; and an essay, “Translation and Transgression,” in Poet Lore.

Daniel (Casey) Sumrall (2003) is an adjunct English instructor at Manchester Community College in Connecticut. He runs the monthly online journal, Gently Read Literature, and his poetry has appeared in Autumn Sky, Dispatch, Ditch, Pettycoat Relaxer, Paperstreet, Right Hand Pointing, Tattoo Highway, The Wild Goose Poetry Review, The Smoking Poet and Ouroboros Review.. In 2008, Gold Wake Press published his electronic chapbook of poetry entitled Well Enough.

Sara Swanson (2003) won the 2003 Sparks Prize, and the 2003 AWP Intro Journal Award for fiction. She has published fiction in Tampa Review, Connecticut Review, and Arkansas Review.

Silpa Swarnapuri (2008) published a series of articles called “Inside the Fortress,” for Outlook Traveller magazine, January 2009, and edited for Harper's Bazaar. She attends the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and blogs.

James Ellis Thomas (1998) has published fiction in The New Yorker and in the anthologies New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2001 (Algonquin Books, 2001), and The Beacon Best of 2001: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures (Beacon, 2001).

Michael Valente (2009) was the 2009 Sparks Prize Winner. His fiction has been published in Monkeybicycle.

Charles Valle (2003) is the managing editor of Fence Magazine. His poetry and articles have appeared in Quirk, Hiram Poetry Review, Good Foot, Kiosk, Eye-Rhyme, Berkeley Poetry Review, Lungfull!, Blue Sky Review, 42Opus, and Flyaways.

Cynthia VanderVen (1998) teaches at a college preparatory high school in Georgia. She also runs an online business doing writing, editing, graphic arts, and web design.

Josephine Cameron Vodicka (2000) has released the CDs Close Your Eyes, American Songs, Every Night When the Sun Goes In, and American Songs, vol. 2. Her song “Long Track Blues” appears on the Poetry Speaks project Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Her website is josephinecameron.com and she blogs.

John Michael Vore (1993) has published the books The Raft: Notes Towards Rules of Order for a Digital Age (Firetrap, 2001), Tell Me What Home Is Like (Firetrap, 2001), and Moving Into History (Firetrap, 2004). His website is informatics411.com.

Nathan Wallace (2002) teaches at the Ohio State University at Marion.

Charles Walton (1999) teaches at Morehouse College in Georgia.

Stephanie White (2009) started her PhD in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She published an interview with Mary Karr in the Winter/Spring 2009 issue of the Notre Dame Review.

James Matthew Wilson (2005) writes a monthly column for First Principles ISI Web Journal, and is on the faculty in the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University. His work has appeared in Danta, Edge City Review, Measure, The Dark Horse, Contemporary Poetry Review, and Christianity and Literature.

Timothy Worall (1995) teaches at Trinity Valley School in Texas.

Amy (Irish) Wray (1998) has published a chapbook, Creations Stories (Green Fuse Press, 2008).

Christina Yu (2008) has published fiction in Gargoyle, Indiana Review, New Letters, and the anthology Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories. She and Rumit Pancholi run the literary magazine Cavalier.