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Dawn Raffel’s new story collection, Further Adventures in the Restless Universe, is out from Dzanc Books in March, 2010. She is the author of a previous collection, In the Year of Long Division (Knopf) and a novel, Carrying the Body (Scribner). Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including NOON, O, The Oprah Magazine, Conjunctions, The Quarterly, The Mississippi Review, Opium, Fence, Open City, The Antioch Review and The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. 

Jane Ciabattari is author of the short-story collection Stealing the Fire as well as short stories online at KGB Bar Lit, Literary Mama, Ms., Verbsap and Lost magazine, among others. She has been awarded a NYFA grant in fiction, fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a book reviewer for NPR.org; her reviews and features have appeared in Bookforum, The Guardian online, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, among others. She is president of the National Book Critics Circle and a blogger on Critical Mass.

Loyal Miles is Loyal Miles’s real name.  An itinerant Midwesterner, Loyal is fond of telling the folks back home that he likes his Brooklyn neighborhood because it’s the one place in New York where he can really see the sky. Loyal has published fiction in Cottonwood Review and criticism in the Indiana Review, the latter of which was reprinted in a Harold Bloom guide, in some small way validating countless hours spent reading Bloom guides in library stacks as an English major. He has an MFA in fiction writing from Indiana University and recently woke up one morning and began writing poetry. Loyal is the director of development and marketing at Teachers & Writers Collaborative, a nonprofit that brings writers into public schools across New York City.