Black Warrior Review 35.1
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis’ book, Intaglio, won the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Award and was published by Kent State University Press in 2006. She currently lives and works in Columbus, where she waits to have the song “Hang on Sloopy” and the colors scarlet and gray ruined for her the way “Sweet Home Alabama” and the color crimson took a hit during her MFA program.
Lance Larsen’s third collection of poems will appear in 2008 from University of Tampa Press. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in River Styx, Tampa Review, Raritan, Gettysburg Review, Orion, Iowa Review, Brevity, Field, Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He has received a number of awards, including a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Sewanee, the Ragdale Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at BYU, where he serves as poetry editor of Literature and Belief.
Shara Lessley is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her awards include an O’Connor Fellowship from Colgate University, the Gilman School’s Tickner Fellowship, and the “Discovery”/The Nation Prize. Lessley’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Fence and Mid-American Review, among others. She was the 2007-2008 Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.
Dinty W. Moore is the author of the memoir Between Panic & Desire (University of Nebraska). His other books include The Accidental Buddhist, Toothpick Men, The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes, and the writing guide, The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction. He has published essays and stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harper’s, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse, and teaches in the creative nonfiction Ph.D program at Ohio University.
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