Richard Deming is a poet and a theorist who works on the philosophy of literature. His poems have appeared in such places as Sulfur, Field, Indiana Review, and The Nation, as well as Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present. He is the author of Let's Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman Books), about which Susan Howe has written, "Deming restlessly calculates the split between promised and actual experience. The poems in his impressive new collection balance at an edge of danger syntax can only shadow." Currently a lecturer at Yale University, he is also the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford University Press). A conversation between Deming and Roberto Tejada on poetics is available as part of the Rust Talks series at http://epc.buffalo.edu/ezines/rust/rustIII.pdf.See his personal website at http://www.phylumpress.com/richarddeming.

Nancy Kuhl’s first full-length collection of poems, The Wife of the Left Hand, was published in 2007 by Shearsman Books. She is the author of two chapbooks,The Nocturnal Factory, published in 2008 by Ugly Duckling Presse, and In the Arbor, which was a winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Kent State University Press.  A third chapbook, Means of Securing Houses &c. from Mischief by Thunder and Lightning, is forthcoming from Propolis Press. She is Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, where she curates the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series; she is the author of two exhibition catalogs published by the library and distributed by the University Press of New England: Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/awia/) and Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten’s Portraits of Women (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/cvvpw/). See her personal website at http://www.phylumpress.com/nancykuhl.htm.