J. Kates
J. Kates is a poet, literary translator and the president and co-director of Zephyr Press. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry in 1984 and a Translation Project Fellowship in 2006, as well as an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts in 1995. He is the translation editor of
Contemporary Russian Poetry, and the editor of
In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era. A former president of the American Literary Translators Association, he is also the co-translator of three books of Latin American poetry, and has a chapbook of his own poems,
Mappemonde (Oyster River).

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Jude
Lally
Jude Lally writes and recites poetry as an outlet for his creative needs and as a means of enlightening, inspiring, engaging and entertaining listeners. Fortunately, Jude's main source of inspiration in his writing is easily accessible; unfortunately, so many places in the world are not: in 1998 Jude was diagnosed with a rare, degenerative neuromuscular disease called Friedrich's Ataxia. Jude received a BA in Business Administration in May of 2006. Jude is a member of the poetry group Poezia, occasionally attends The Poet's Supper and the Artcroft writer's group outside of Carlisle, KY, and is a regular presenter at the Holler Poets series events.

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Brian Russell
Brian Russell spent more than 20 years working in the theater as a director and producer of plays,
musicals, and operas before shifting his focus toward writing. He was artistic director of Chicago's
American Theater Company from 1997-2002, where he directed more than a dozen shows. In 2007, he graduated with honors with a BGS from Roosevelt University, where his short story, "Rutherford" won the first Annual Keenan-Kara Writing Award. In May 2010, he will graduate from Spalding University's brief residency MFA in Writing Program. His prose, poetry,
and critiques have recently been published at public-republic.net and at thereviewreview.net.

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Georgi
Borissov
Georgi Borissov is the author of a number of books of poetry in Bulgarian. He graduated from the Maxim Gorky Institute for Literature in Moscow. He has worked as an editor for the literary newspaper
Literaturen Front, as head of the Fiction and Documentary Prose Department at the publishing house
Profizdat and producer at the Fiction and Journalism Department of Bulgarian National Television. Co-founder of the literary magazine
Fakel in 1981, he has been the Editor-in-Chief since 1990. He is the founder and director of the publishing house Fakel Express. He has been the recipient of the Vladimir Bashev National Prize for Poetry, the Golden Chain Prize for Poetry and the Ivan Nikolov National Poetry Award.

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