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Paula Bohince is the author of a poetry collection, Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods, (Sarabande Books, 2008).  Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Kenyon Review, Slate, and The Yale Review.  She has received the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellowship and a 2009 Fellowship from the NEA.  She has taught at NYU, the New School, and elsewhere.  She lives in Pennsylvania.

Jeanne Marie Beaumont is the author of Curious Conduct, published by BOA Editions in 2004, and Placebo Effects, selected by William Matthews as a winner in the National Poetry Series and published by Norton in 1997. Her third collection of poems, Burning of the Three Fires, is forthcoming from BOA in 2010. With Claudia Carlson she coedited the anthology The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines including Barrow Street, Court Green, Denver Quarterly, Good Poems for Hard Times, LIT, The Manhattan Review, The Nation, New American Writing, Poetry Daily, The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2007, World Literature Today, and others. Her poem “Afraid So” was made into a short film by award-winning filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt which has been shown at over two dozen international festivals, including the TriBeCa Film Festival and the 2008 Split This Rock Poetry Festival; it won 2nd prize at the Black Maria Film Festival, among other awards. She has taught at Rutgers University and the Frost Place in Franconia, NH, where she is now the Director of the annual Frost Place Advanced Seminar. She currently teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y and in the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program in Maine. A native of Pennsylvania, since 1983, she has made her home in Manhattan.