Britta Ameel

10/20/10 • 22 min

Britta Ameel received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has published poems in American Poetry Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and New Orleans Review, among others. She is currently pursuing a medical education and finishing her first full-length collection of poems in a tiny Avenues Victorian apartment.

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Shari Zollinger

Native of Utah, Shari Zollinger has worked in the trenches of independent bookselling for over ten years. She has a BS in History from Utah State University and Certificate of Completion from the Stanford Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, Taiwan where she spent six years of her life.
Shari Zollinger’s poems have appeared in the Sugar House Review, 9Handed (a chapbook), and a Helicon West broadside. Her inspiration for poetry among many other things comes from travelling. She was fortunate to spend this last year visiting many different countries including England, Israel, Sweden, Indonesia and France. She just returned from living in Paris where she was working on a manuscript inspired by the sculptor, Auguste Rodin.

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Michael McGriff

Michael McGriff is the author of two collections of poetry, Dismantling the Hills (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and The Sequence of the Night (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2012). He is the editor of To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill (Truman State University Press, 2010), and is the translator of Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer's The Sorrow Gondola (Green Integer, 2010). Michael is the co-founder and editor of Tavern Books, an independent poetry press devoted to publishing books in translation. Michael is the 2010 recipient of a literary fellowship from the Lannan Foundation, and is happy to call Salt Lake City his new home.