Hannah Baker-Siroty has studied writing at The University of Wisconsin, Madison (B.A.) and Sarah Lawrence College (M.F.A.). She has received poetry fellowships from The Writers' Room and The Vermont Studio Center. Her poetry has appeared in Lumina, Breadcrumb Scabs, and stopbuyingstuffmagazine.com and the anthology Eashtshot: The First Offenders. Her first full-length collection of poems, Odd of the Ordinary, was completed in 2010. She teaches writing at Pine Manor College and is the Administrator at The Writers' Room. Find out more on her website poetrying.com.

Mary Bonina’s new poetry collection Clear Eye Tea was released October 2010 by Cervena Barva Press, which also published her chapbook Living Proof (2007). Her poetry and prose has been featured in Salamander, Hanging Loose, English Journal, Gulf Stream, in many other journals and several anthologies, including Voices of the City, a project of the Rutgers University Institute for Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience (Hanging Loose Press, 2004). Excerpts from her memoir, My Father’s Eyes received Honorable Mention in the University of New Orleans Study Abroad Competition and earned her the designation of “first alternate” for the Goldfarb Family Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, where she has been a fellow since 2002. Additionally she received a residency fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. Her poem “Drift” won the UrbanArts, Inc. “Arts on the Line” competition and was inscribed in a granite monolith, a permanent public art installation outside a busy Boston subway station in Jamaica Plain. Bonina, who earned her M.F.A. in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, is a member serving on the Board of Directors of the Writers Room of Boston, Inc. Find out more on her website: http://www.marybonina.com

Rosemary Booth is a native of New Jersey who has lived in Massachusetts most of her life, with side trips to mid-coast Maine. She writes personal essays and poetry and has completed a series of essays on the intersection of writing and aging. One essay, “Marjoram, Cinquefoil” was published in the Imagination and Place anthology for 2010, Seasonings, and a second, “Linked In,” will appear in the Summer 2011 issue of Under the Sun, the literary journal of Tennessee Tech University. Her poem “Crossings” was published in The Oak and a photo essay, “Emergence,” can be seen in the April issue of Epiphany Magazine, an online publication. Earlier book reviews and articles appeared in Commonweal, The Boston Globe, and A Climate for Art, a publication of The Boston Athenaeum. She holds a B.S.Ed. from Fordham, an M.A. in American Studies from Boston College, and a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from Harvard and is a member of the International Women’s Writing Guild.

Louie Cronin's short stories have been published in Compass Rose and the Princeton Arts Review and were finalists for both Glimmer Train and New Millenium Writing Awards. She has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center and was the Ivan Gold Fiction Fellow at the Writers Room of Boston in 2008. She earned a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from Boston University. She lives in Boston and was a producer for "Car Talk" on National Public Radio for ten years. She is currently at work on a novel, Bob Boland, set in her hometown of Cambridge, MA in the mid- 1990's.

Robert Dall is a fiction writer from Cambridge, Massachusetts. His short stories have been published in Hunger Mountain, the Evansville Review, the Blue Moon Review, Acorn Whistle, and the Beacon Street Review. He received his M.F.A. from Emerson College, has completed two residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, and has been a member of the Writers’ Room of Boston since 2001 (and a board member since 2009). Currently, he is finishing and hoping to find a home for his novel In the Box, the dystopian tale of a New England fishing town that decides to mix 17th-century punishments with 21st-century media saturation.

Gail Fenske is the author of the recent book, The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York (University of Chicago Press, 2008), the first history of the noted New York landmark, and she is currently preparing a co-edited book, Aalto and America for publication. She has also published several essays as chapters in books, recently among them The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Inventing the Skyline (Columbia University Press, 2000). The Skyscraper and the City received the New York City Book Award, Book of the Year, and a PROSE Award, Honorable Mention, Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, from the Association of American Publishers. She holds a Ph.D. in the History, Theory & Criticism of Architecture from MIT, is a registered architect, and teaches in the School of Architecture, Art & Historic Preservation at Roger Williams University.

Anne Gray Fischer received her M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from Emerson College, where she was the events coordinator for Ploughshares and the nonfiction editor of Redivider. Her book-in-progress, Bodies on the March: How Prostitutes Seized the Seventies, received the 2010 Emerson College Dean’s Award and has been funded by the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Key West Literary Seminar Writers’ Workshop. Anne, who lectures on the history of the prostitutes’ rights movement, is the recipient of the 2011 Writers’ Room of Boston Emerging Writer Fellowship and a Fulbright grant. In 2004, she earned her B.A. cum laude from the University of Chicago. Anne is currently a lead representative at the Service Employees International Union, Local 615, in Boston.

William G. Henry is an emerging writer of literary fiction. In 2010 he was the recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant and was selected as a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. He now lives on the Massachusetts coast, where he is completing a novel, Seven Acts of Mercy. He was recently named the 2011 Ivan Gold Fellow in Fiction at the Writers’ Room of Boston.

Courtney Humphries is a freelance journalist and author in Boston specializing in science, health, and nature. She contributes regularly to the Boston Globe and her work has appeared in publications such as Seed Magazine, Body+Soul Magazine, Conservation Magazine, and Technology Review. Humphries is the author of Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan....And the World, published in August 2008 by Smithsonian Books, which was acclaimed in the New York Times Book Review, New Scientist, and Audubon, among others. She is also a co-author with Dr. W. Allan Walker of two guides to nutrition from Harvard Health Publications, Eat, Play, and Be Healthy, and The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating During Pregnancy. Humphries is a graduate of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing.

Amy Marcott's fiction has appeared in Salt Hill, DIAGRAM, Dogwood, Memorious, Juked, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Somerville Arts Council fellowship, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and won third place in Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Contest, among other honors. She received a BA in English from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Penn State University, where she also taught creative writing and composition. She has been a professional writer and editor for many years and currently plies her trade at MIT and teaches at Grub Street. She is currently at work on a novel.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Alice Hayes Fellowship for Social Justice Writing from the Ragdale Foundation, as well as a work-study scholarship (“waitership”) to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her personal essays appear or are forthcoming in The New York Times, TriQuarterly Online, Fourth Genre, and Bellingham Review (as the winner of the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction); additional work appears in Southeast Review, The Smart Set, Bookslut, and other publications. She is writing her first book, a work of combined memoir and literary journalism about a Louisiana murder, in support of which she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award in Nonfiction. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Emerson College. Currently, she teaches creative writing at Grub Street. Visit her online at: www.alexandria-marzano-lesnevich.com

Lenore Myka’s fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, HOW Journal, Upstreet Magazine, Talking River Review, and the anthology Further Fenway Fiction, and was selected as one of the 100 Distinguished Stories of 2008 by The Best American Short Stories of 2008. She has been the recipient of a City of Somerville, Massachusetts Cultural Council grant and the Corrine Steele Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College and is currently at work on a short story collection inspired by her experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in Romania. Check out her blog at furtherthanyourheadlights.wordpress.com

Lisa Nold holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University. She is a 2008 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for fiction writing and is the former managing editor of Harvard Review. She currently works as freelance editor and adjunct professor of creative writing at Clark University.

Lisa Heiserman Perkins studied the Romantic poets and writing fiction at Bennington College, and then went on to earn a PhD in British literature from the University of Chicago. She taught at Tufts, Harvard, and Emerson College, but left academia in 1993 to write screenplays and to make documentary films. She is the writer, producer, and director of a film now in post-production called Secret Intelligence: Decoding Hedy Lamarr. In 2009, the Vermont Studio Center granted Lisa a fellowship, and her stories appeared in Dislocate, Quiddity, Under the Sun, and Front Range Review. She also has a story, and an interview, forthcoming in The Fourth River, and one that was featured as “Piece of the Week” in the Painted Bride Quarterly, Issue #82. It will appear in print this fall. Lisa currently working on a short story collection and a novel.

Maureen Rogers, a native of Worcester, has spent more than twenty years in the field of high-technology product marketing. She left a full-time corporate position in 2002 to forge a new career as a marketing consultant, a move designed to enable her to devote more of her time and energy to writing fiction (and creative nonfiction that has absolutely nothing to do with technology). She is working on a collection of short stories at the Writers' Room. Her story, "At the Lake," appeared in the anthology Next Parish Over: A Collection of Irish American Writing. Her blog is: http://pinkslipblog.blogspot.com

Rebecca Givens Rolland is a writer, teacher, and photographer. She studied English literature at Yale and Boston University and has taught at Grub Street, Wheelock College, and Athens College in Greece. Currently she is a doctoral candidate and Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has been the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, as well as the Clapp, Bergen, Meeker, and Veach prizes from Yale University. Her poems have won an Academic of American Poets Prize and the Dana Award and have appeared in journals including Witness, Gettysburg Review, Georgia Review, Florida Review, Cincinnati Review, American Letters & Commentary, Meridian, and The Literary Review. Her website is: www.rebeccarolland.com.

Mark Schafer is a literary translator, visual artist, and instructor of Spanish at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Schafer's translation of the poetry of David Huerta, Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poetry of David Huerta (2009, Copper Canyon Press). For more information on this book and to hear Huerta reading his poetry in Spanish, go to www.beforesaying.com. Schafer has translated novels, short stories, essays, and poetry by many other Latin American authors, including Virgilio Piñera, Gloria Gervitz, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, Jesús Gardea, and Antonio José Ponte. The Scale of Maps, Schafer's translation of Belén Gopegui's first novel, will be published by City Lights in January 2011. Schafer is also a visual artist who makes provocative collages with maps that can be viewed at www.marksonpaper.us.