Jay Ponteri has recently published short fiction in Clackamas Literary Review, NW Edge iii: The End of Reality, Del Sol Review, Cimarron Review, and Eye Rhyme: A Journal of New Literature. He interviewed David Shields, Jim Shepard, and David Means.

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of The Red Bird and The Commandrine and Other Poems, both from Fence Books. The co-founder of Action Books, a press for poetry and translation, and Action, Yes, a web quarterly for international writing and hybrid forms, she has recently joined the MFA faculty at the University of Notre Dame. She interviewed Carlos M. Luis and Derek White.

Gary Shteyngart is the author of the novels Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante's Handbook. He interviewed Sam Lipsyte.

Currently on hiatus from his Ph.D. program in American History at the University of California, Berkeley, Owen Wozniak is a NOLS instructor and an aspiring bureaucrat. He is working on an essay about Lewis Mumford's intellectual legacy. He interviewed Jonathan Raban.

Emily Moore teaches English at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Her own poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Ploughshares, and on Poetry Daily. In 2004, she received a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. She interviewed Kimiko Hahn.

Douglas A. Martin's books include Outline of My Lover, They Change the Subject, and the haiku year (co-author). He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He interviewed Alice Notley.

Eisa Davis is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. Her play Bulrusher was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. She'll be acting on Broadway in early 2008 in Passing Strange. She interviewed Michael John Garcés.

Vinnie Wilhelm is an itinerant writer and house sitter living temporarily in a converted nunnery in Seattle. He interviewed Daniel Alarcón.

Wendy Cheng (cover) is a Ph.D. student in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is also an artist whose photographs can be seen at wendycheng.com. She interviewed Pankaj Mishra, Karen Tei Yamashita, and Nina Revoyr.

Ramsey Scott is a Teaching Fellow at Brooklyn College and an English Ph.D. student at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He likes writing prose. He interviewed Ammiel Alcalay.

Jesse Lichtenstein, a poet and journalist living in Oregon, is a director of the Loggernaut Reading Series. He interviewed James Longenbach and Paula Fox.