Kim Addonizio, the editor of Best New Poets 2009, has published five poetry collections, including Lucifer at the Starlite and Tell Me, two novels, two instructional books about poetry, and a CD. She lives in California.

Genre:Poetry

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Marva Barnett created Victor Hugo on Things That Matter to share Hugo's modern ideas, passion for life, and exquisite language with English-speaking readers of French. Marva teaches French literature at UVA, where she founded and directs the Teaching Resource Center.

Genres:Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry

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Michelle Boisseau is the author of four books of poetry including A Sunday in God-Years and Trembling Air. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Society of America.

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James Brasfield, a native of Savannah, GA, is the author of Ledger of Crossroads. He has received fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Brasfield teaches at Penn State University.

Genre:Poetry

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Oni Buchanan is the author of Spring, selected by Mark Doty for the National Poetry Series. Her first poetry book, What Animal, was published in 2003. Oni is also a concert pianist and actively performs across the U.S. and abroad.

Genre:Poetry

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David Caplan is the author of In the World He Created According to His Will (poems), Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form, and Poetic Form: An Introduction. He teaches at Ohio Wesleyan University.

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John Casteen's Free Union was published by the University of Georgia Press in spring 2009. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, where he serves on the editorial staff. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Sweet Briar College.

Genre:Poetry

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Temple Cone is the author of No Loneliness, winner of the 2009 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. He is an associate professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Genre:Poetry

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Carolyn Creedon, included in Best New Poets 2009 has also been published in Kiss Off: Poems to Set You Free and The Hell With Love. She has been a student, a stripper, an escort, and a junkie. Now she is a lover of writing.

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Laura Davenport is an MFA candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work has appeared in Breakwater Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, the Academy of American Poets' Helen Burns Anthology, and Best New Poets 2009.

Genre:Poetry

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Ben Dombroski, whose poetry appears in Best New Poets 2009, is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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