Sarah Maclay’s poems have appeared in Field, Pool, Hotel Amerika, Lyric, Solo, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Bay, forpoetry.com, Runes, ONTHEBUS, Cider Press Review, and numerous other publications including Poetry International, where she now serves as a contributing book review editor. Whore, her first full-length collection, won the 2003 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. She was also a finalist for the 2003 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry, and a semi-finalist for both the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize (Zoo Press) and the 2002 Tupelo Press First Book Prize, and she has received a Pushcart nomination. The author of three chapbooks, Ice from the Belly (FarStarFire Press), Shadow of Light (Inevitable Press), and Weeding the Duchess (Black Stone Press), she also co-edited the anthology Echo 6 8 1 for Beyond Baroque, where she has been a poet in residence and periodically conducts workshops. A Montana native, she grew up on a ranch in the Bitterroot Valley, and received degrees from Oberlin College and Vermont College.
 

Mariano Zaro was born in Borja (Spain) in 1963 and since 1994 he has lived in Santa Monica, California. He attended the University at Zaragoza where he earned a master´s degree in Spanish Literature in 1986. He has published in Spain's literary magazines such as El signo del gorrión and Luces y sombras. His poetry has been included in the anthologies Al aire nuevo (San Luis Potosí, Mexico) and New Baroque (Los Angeles, USA). Among his translations are The California Mission poems/Poemas de las Misiones de California by Philomene Long and a collection of poems from Hair Pieces by Alicia Vogl Sáenz. His short fiction has appeared in The Louisville Review and The Baltimore Review. His first poetry book Where From/Desde Donde was published by Bay Books, Santa Monica CA in 1995. In September 2003 Carayan Press, San Francisco, CA, published Poems of erosion/Poemas de la erosión.