Patrick Donnelly, director of The Frost Place Advanced Seminar, is the author of The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press) and Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012). He is a current associate editor of Poetry International and a former associate editor (1999 - 2009) at Four Way Books. He has taught at Colby College, the Lesley University MFA Program, The Frost Place, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and elsewhere. He was a 2008 recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and of the 2004 Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His poetry has appeared in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review. He lives in western Massachusetts with his spouse, Stephen D. Miller, with whom he translates classical Japanese poetry and drama. Donnelly and Miller's translations will be included in The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period, Miller's scholarly history and analysis forthcoming from Cornell East Asia Series. Their translations have appeared in or are forthcoming in Bateau, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Circumference, The Drunken Boat, eXchanges, Kyoto Journal, Metamorphoses, New Plains Review, and Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem. His website is found at: http://web.me.com/patricksdonnelly/
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a husband and a father of a young son. As a poet, essayist and national spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice, Betts writes and lectures about the impact of mass incarceration on American society. In 2011 Betts was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship to Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies. The author of the memoir, A Question of Freedom (Avery/Penguin, 2009) and the collection of poetry, Shahid Reads His Own Palm (Alice James Books, 2010), Betts' work possesses a careful, complicated and often difficult-to-confront intimacy that challenges conventional ideas about crime, masculinity and redemption. In 2010 he was awarded an NAACP Image Award for A Question of Freedom, and a Soros Justice Fellowship to complete The Circumference of a Prison, a work of nonfiction exploring the criminal justice system's role in the everyday lives of Americans who have not committed crimes. His website is found at: www.rdwaynebetts.com
Diane Seuss's most recent collection, Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, received the Juniper Prize for Poetry and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2010. She also won the Cultural Center of Cape Cod Poetry Prize in 2011. Her poems and short essays have appeared widely in literary magazines. Seuss was raised in a small town on the state line between Michigan and Indiana. She is writer in residence at Kalamazoo College, where she received the Florence J. Lucasse Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her faculty website is found at: http://reason.kzoo.edu/english/faculty/seuss/
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