Mark Wunderlich is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is God of Nothingness, published by Graywolf Press. His other books include The Earth Avails which received the Rilke Prize, Voluntary Servitude, and The Anchorage, which received the Lambda Literary Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Stanford University's Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program and elsewhere, and his work has been widely anthologized. He is Executive Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars graduate writing program in Vermont, and he lives in New York's Hudson Valley near the village of Catskill.
Leslie Ullman has published seven poetry collections and a hybrid book of craft essays, poems, and writing exercises titled Library of Small Happiness. A seventh collection will be published by University of New Mexico Press next year. Her awards include the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award, and two NEA Fellowships. Professor Emerita at University of Texas-El Paso, she is a faculty member in the low-residency MFA Program at Vermont College of the Fine Arts. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.