Karen Moulding, Hilary Schwartz, and Olena Jennings

Karen Moulding has an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. Her fiction has been published on nerve.com and sliptongue.com, and her novel, The Untrainable Heart, was a finalist in the 2007 Parthenon Prize for Fiction contest. She is the Author of the biannually-updated legal treatise, Sexual Orientation and the Law, and has taught writing at Gotham Writers Workshop, the Westside YMCA, City College of New York, the Fashion Institute of Technology, CUNY, and Columbia University (for the late Kenneth Koch). She's received fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

Hilary Schwartz is a musician and comic from the Manson Family Singers.

Olena Jennings completed her MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Alberta and her MFA at Columbia University.  Her translations have been published in Chelsea, Poetry International Web, and Poetry International.  Her translation of Oleksiy Koshel’s collection of poetry A Chapel for Angels was published in Ukraine.  Her novel Temporary Shelter is forthcoming from Impetus Press in 2009.