Robin Behn is Professor of English at The University of Alabama. She is author of three books of poems, most recently "Horizon Note", winner of the Brittingham Prize from The University of Wisconsin Press. She also co-edited "The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach". She has received grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and is the recipient of UA's Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award and an Arts and Sciences Leadership Board Faculty Fellowship. Behn founded the Creative Writing Club in 2004.

Breanne LeJeune is the first 22 seconds of the Duran Duran song “Notorious,” and believes that there is far too little glamour in this world. In the early nineties LeJeune was married and divorced to every member of Run DMC, before entering into an explosive love affair with Montell Jordan, singer of the goodtime party jam, “This Is How We Do It.” Recently, she bought a pair of extreme terrain running shoes which a Shoe Carnival salesman claimed were capable of everything short of scaling a mountain. She is skeptical of whether or not they can handle her ferocity in Hip-Hop dance class. A poet, LeJeune is from Michigan, the state that first made her wish she were a mermaid.

Chapin Gray spent her entire childhood in Alabama but doesn't like sweet tea. A recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Asheville, she enjoys strikes, unsolved mysteries, C-Span, and blueberry-cobbler- flavored coffee. On your birthday, she will sing to you in the voice of a kindergartner. She is currently teaching EN 102 at UA, where she is getting her M.F.A. in poetry, and is also teaching creative writing in an Alabama prison through the Alabama Prison Arts Program.

Kirk Pinho's name, backwards, is Ohnip Krik. He once ate Lucky Charms at every meal for an entire year while attending Western Michigan University. The Detroit native enjoys writing off-beat and nonsensical poems about things like an African dictator flying around the world in a hot air balloon, eating paczkis, and lepers in New Dehli shaking their badonkadonks to Phil Collins. He has been known to consume his weight in Tagalong Girl Scout cookies, make spaceship and pterodactyl noises using his guitars, and do incredible horse impersonations. He has rewritten this blurb several times to make himself sound more interesting than he really is.

Kristin Aardsma is a poet from Chicago, where she used to sling lattes at a local café. Now that she lives in Alabama, she enjoys riding her bike through the heckles of local drivers while eating sandwiches. Since becoming vegetarian in 2000, she has experimented in the kitchen with all kinds of meal options, although she believes breakfast is the most delicious meal of the day. When not reading or writing or watching X-Files, she enjoys talking about and/or eating food.

Brian Oliu is a non-fiction writer from New Jersey. On a fieldtrip in the 3rd grade, Brian and his class visited Washington's Crossing, the site where our fearless first president crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Day to launch a surprise attack on the Hessians guarding Western Pennsylvania. He forgot to ask his mom to pack him a lunch that day, and while the other kids ate, he wrote a poem about how hungry he was, and the rest, as George Washington would say, is history. Much like George Washington, Brian Oliu is awesome. Some of his awesome activites include DJing dance parties, catching touchdown passes, and writing about computer viruses, Odysseus, and himself all at the same time.