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Mrigaa Sethi '05 won a prize in the 12th annual Amy Awards Contest. The Amy Award is presented to women poets age 30 and under living in the New York City metropolitan area or on Long Island. Winners receive an honorarium and a reading in New York City. Sethi took part in a reading with two other winners this fall at the New York Society Library in New York City. She is currently an MFA candidate at New York University. She is also involved with the Asian American Writers Workshop, the country's largest literary arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation, development, publication and dissemination of Asian American literature.

Trahan's poems have appeared in *Word Riot*, *Redivider*, *Coe Review* and *The TMP Irregular*. She is also a freelance writer and editor with a focus on independent film.

Jennifer Markell wrote the book *Leaving the Green Elm Market* (Sheltering Pines, 2006) in addition to the anthologies *Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology* (University of Illinois Press, 2004) and *National Poetry Competition Winners* (Chester H. Jones Foundation, 1996). Her journals include: *Aurorean, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal*, *Comstock Review*, *Consequence*, *Eclipse*, *Gulf Stream*, *Heliotrope*, *Rhino Magazine*, *Schuylkill Valley Journal*, and *Talking River Review*.

Ellen Goldstein was born and raised in Virginia. Her poems have appeared in *The Formalist*, *Measure*, *StorySouth*, *Mid-American Review*, and *Three Candles*. She lives in eastern Massachusetts.

Michael Rebell is the Executive Director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is an experienced litigator in the field of education law, and he is also Professor Law and Educational Practice at Teachers College and Columbia Law School. Rebell was co-counsel for the plaintiffs in Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. versus State of New York, a school funding adequacy lawsuit that claimed that the State of New York was not adequately funding public schools in New York City. Rebell argued the case three times before the New York Court of Appeals, New York's highest court. Rebell calls himself a child of the 60's, and says he was inspired by John F. Kennedy's call to public service. He attended Harvard College as an undergraduate and subsequently served in the Peace Corps for two years in Sierra Leone. After returning from the Peace Corps, he attended Yale Law School.

Askold Melnyczuk is Associate Professor for Creative Writing at UMass Boston. His publications include Ambassador of the Dead (Counterpoint Press, 2001), What Is Told, Blind Angel (novella, 2002); Short Fiction, Poems and Reviews in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Nation, The Partisan Review