Síol Bhodhú worked in the Four Courts, Dublin, before being sacked for cursing in a public area. He was homeless for three months, sleeping in the Trinity College library stacks (early German history), before taking up with a gang of transient workers recently emigrated from Africa. At the time of writing, Síol is bed-ridden in rural Westmeath with the gout. This is his forty-eighth published poem. (In this issue: "Shift on Balls.")

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) served as the director of the National Public Library of Argentina and taught literature at the University of Buenos Aires.

Xurxo Borrazás was born in Galicia in 1963. His novels include Ser ou non, La aldea muerta, and Na maleta. Borrazás has translated works by Henry Miller and William Faulkner into Galician, and frequently publishes articles on Galician culture and politics.

Keith Botsford is Editor of The Republic of Letters. His recent published works include Josef Czapski: A Life in Translation and Fragments I and II, parts of his autobiography covering the years 1928-1945. When not elsewhere, he lives on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica where he is free to smoke.

Lindsey Gould studies English and theatre at Boston University.

David Green's novel Atchley was published in 1998. His short stories include "The Reader" (Salt Hill) and "Accidents" (Notre Dame Review). His scholarly publications include studies of Samuel Beckett and the Irish poet Brian Coffey. He has taught at universities in Spain, China, and Texas.

Melissa Green's The Squanicook Eclogues (Norton) won the Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Her latest book is the poetry collection Fifty-Two (Arrowsmith). Her writing has appeared in Yale Review, AGNI, Paris Review, and The New York Review of Books.

Marj Hogan left the banks of the Charles and is now living near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers in Portland, Oregon.

Daniel Hudon has new work appearing in Tiferet, Neon, Two Hawks Quarterly and Diagram. His first book, The Bluffer's Guide to the Cosmos, (Oval) was published in 2009. Other of his writings can be found at http://people.bu.edu/hudon.

George Kalogeris teaches humanities and literature at Suffolk University. The poems in his collection Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer) are based on the notebooks of Albert Camus. His poems and translations have appeared in Harvard Review, Hawk & Whippoorwill, Ploughshares, Salamander, The Warwick Review, and Poetry.

Lauren Malone is a past editor of Long River Review. Her photography can be seen online at http://flickr.com/people/wildefrost.

Essie Martsinkovsky lives in the Boston area. The ink drawings in this issue depict exterior architectural details discovered around building entrances in Boston's Downtown Crossing neighborhood.

Zachary Mason lives in California.

Floyd J. Miller has been a newspaper reporter and editor, college history teacher and, for almost 30 years, a union organizer and official. He is also a lawyer. He is currently completing a novel. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Laura Mueller, a native of New Jersey, graduated from Boston College in 2007. She now lives in rural Tanzania and works as a secondary school math and physics teacher.

Samantha Mineo Myers has taught writing at Boston University for the past seven years. Her work has appeared in New Orleans Review, Washington Square, and other journals.

Vivek Narayanan is Consulting Editor for the journal Almost Island. He usually lives and works in Delhi, India, but is in Chennai this year on a sabbatical.

Jay (Toshibumi) Otsuka lives in Kanagawa, Japan. He has been writing and translating with the Boston Poetry Union since 2007.

Daniel E. Pritchard is founder of The Critical Flame, and managing editor of Fulcrum. During the day, he works at David R Godine, Publisher. (In this issue: "Shift on Balls.")

M.A. Schorr was born in Chicago in 1944 but has lived, worked, and taught in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts since 1974. He teaches literature at Cambridge College and serves as Executive Director of the Robert Frost Foundation in Lawrence.

Akehiro Shirai's work has been featured in Gendai-shi tecyou ("Modern Poetry Notebook") and other journals.

M.A. Whitten is the author of An Island in Istanbul: At Home on Heybeliada, a National Geographic Traveler "Ultimate Travel Library" selection. She is now working on a play about Leon Trotsky's exile on Istanbul's Princes' Islands in the 1930s.

Jon Wooding was raised in Southington, Connecticut. An editor, blogger, and poet, he makes a living in Boston, Massachusetts.

Jason Zimba teaches at Bennington College in Vermont. His interests include mathematical and theoretical physics, the history and philosophy of science, and education policy.