Christina Olson is the
author of the forthcoming collection of poetry Before I Came Home Naked (Spire
Press, 2010). Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Best Creative
Nonfiction Volume 3, Gulf
Coast, Brevity, and other
publications. Originally from Buffalo, New York, she is currently a visiting assistant professor
of writing at Grand
Valley State
University, and lives
online at <www.thedrevlow-olsonshow.com>.
Matthew Gavin Frank: Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the poetry
manuscripts WARRANTY IN ZULU (Barrow Street Press) and SAGITTARIUS AGITPROP
(Black Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books), the poetry chapbooks, FOUR HOURS TO
MPUMALANGA (Pudding House Publications) and AARDVARK (winner of the West Town Press
Prize) and the food-and-wine memoir, BAROLO (University of Nebraska
Press).
His recent work appears in The New Republic, Field, Epoch, Crazyhorse, Agni, Indiana
Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Best Food Writing and Best
Travel Writing anthologies, and others. He recently ate cock's combs for the
first time in Monforte d'Alba, Italy,
and woke the next day early, guttural, and way too loud.