Joel Brouwer is the author of three books of poems: Exactly What Happened (Purdue, 1999), Centuries (Four Way Books, 2003), and And So (Four Way Books, 2009). He has held fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in AGNI, Boston Review, Chelsea, Crazyhorse, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Parnassus, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Progressive, Tin House, Washington Post Book World, and other publications. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and teaches at the University of Alabama.

Camille T. Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press, 2006), a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award and the Library of Virginia 2007 Literary Award. Dungy has received fellowships from organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the American Antiquarian Society. Dungy is Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books, due April 2009) and assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Her second poetry collection, Suck on the Marrow is due from Red Hen Press in 2010. Dungy’s poems have been recently appeared in anthologies and print and online journals including, American Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, Drunken Boat, Electronic Poetry Review and When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Poetry by Contemporary American Women. You can read all her Harriet blog posts here.

Martin Earl’s first book of poetry Stundenglas was published, with six lithographs by the Swedish painter, Ponuts Carle, by Edition Maldoror (East Berlin, 1992). Martin’s current manuscript, Obscurity, was a finalist in the 2006 Truman University T.S. Eliot Prize, but has still not found a home. His poems have been published over the years in a variety of journals, including The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, PN Review, Metre and Denver Quarterly. On line, he has published poetry at Webdelsol and Poetry Daily. His column, Cyber Rambler, was featured in the proto-blog days at Webdelsol and is still available online. His essays have appeared in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, World Literature Today and Irish Pages. Recent works of translation include Nietzsche and the Metaphysics of the Tragic, by Nuno Nabais (Continuum, London, 2006) and The Satyricon of Petronius, Genre, Wandering and Style (Coimbra, 2008). Martin has lived outside the United States since 1984, first in France and, since 1986, in Portugal. He works as a freelance translator, specializing in film, theatre, philosophy, classical studies and the social sciences. His own work has been translated into German, Portuguese and Swedish. You can read all his Harriet blog posts here.

Annie Finch is the author of four books of poetry, The Encyclopedia of Scotland, Eve, Calendars, and the forthcoming Among the Goddesses: An Epic Poem and Libretto, and author or editor of eight books about poetry, most recently Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form coedited with Susan Schultz and The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self in the Poets on Poetry series. Author of the libretto for the opera “Marina,” translator of the poetry of Louise Labé, and a frequent collaborator with composers and other artists, she has performed her poetry nationwide and in England, France, Greece, Ireland, and Spain. She lives in Maine, where she is Director of the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing. Her website is at http//www.anniefinch.com. Read all of Annie’s Harriet blog posts here.

Eileen Myles is a poet (Sorry, Tree, School of Fish, Not Me, etc.) who writes fiction (Cool for You, Chelsea Girls), and whose The Importance of Being Iceland/Travel Essays in Art, for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant, will be out in July from Semiotext(e)/MIT. She was the Artistic Director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project in the 80s. In 1992 she conducted an openly female write in campaign for President of the United States. She is now a Professor Emeritus of Writing at UCSD. She writes for Parkett, The Believer, Vice, The Nation, The Stranger, AnOther Magazine, and now here. The Inferno/A Poet’s Novel will probably be out next year. She lives in New York. Read all of Eileen’s Harriet blog posts here.

Rebecca Wolff is the author of three books of poems, most recently, The King (W. W. Norton, 2009), and is the founding editor and publisher of Fence and Fence Books. She is a program fellow at the New York State Writers Institute and lives in Athens, New York with her family-of-choice.