Alexander Adams is an artist and writer based in Berlin. He is a regular reviewer for Apollo, The Burlington Magazine and The Art Newspaper.

Donald Atkinson’s collections of poems include In Waterlight (Arc, 2004).

Margaret Atwood, Canada’s most celebrated living writer, has been equally productive in fiction and poetry. Her many awards include, most recently, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2008) and the Nelly Sachs Prize (2010).

Tony Barnstone’s most recent collections of poetry are The Golem of Los Angeles (Red Hen Press, 2008) and Tongue of War (BkMk Press, 2009). His books of Chinese poetry in translation include The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry (Anchor, 2005) and Chinese Erotic Poetry (Everyman, 2007). He is the Albert Upton Professor of English at Whittier College, California.

S. J. (Sarah) Butler is a freelance writer and editor, and lives in Sussex. The story in this issue of WR is the first piece of fiction she has published.

Maxine Chernoff is a prolific writer of fiction and poetry. Her most recent book of poems is The Turning (Apogee Press, 2008).

Claire Crowther has published two books of poems, Stretch of Closures (2007) and The Clockwork Gift (2009), both from Shearsman.

Helen May Dennis has published on Ezra Pound and on native American literature.

Lisken Van Pelt Dus is a poet, teacher, and martial artist raised largely in London and now living in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in US journals and anthologies, and her chapbook, Everywhere at Once, was published by Pudding House Press in 2009.

Roger Finch has published two collections of poetry, According to Lilies (Carcanet, 1992) and Fox in the Morning (Leviathan, 2000). After teaching for thirty years at universities in Japan he recently retired to Maine.

Forrest Gander’s new collection, Core Samples from the World (New Directions), and his translation of Pura López-Colomé’s Xavier Villurrutia Prize-winning book of poems, Watchword (Wesleyan University Press), are both published in spring 2011.

Paul Hoover’s most recent poetry publications are Edge and Fold (Apogee Press, 2006) and Sonnet 56 (Les Figues Press, 2009).

Judith Infante’s Love: A Suspect Form was published by Shearsman in 2008.

Tim Liardet’s most recent book of poems, The Blood Choir (Seren, 2006), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Carcanet publish The Storm House in 2011.

Camille Lindsay is a Jamaican poet, and has taught in Jamaica, England and the US.

Anita Mason’s most recent novel, The Right Hand of the Sun, was published by John Murray in 2008.

Chris Miller is a freelance translator and editor in Oxford.

José Luís Peixoto’s most recent publication in English translation, The Piano Cemetery, is reviewed on p. 25.

Ian Revie is a freelance writer, poet, critic and occasional broadcaster who lives in Edinburgh.

David Rose’s short stories have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies over the past twenty years.

Jamie Ross’s Vinland was reviewed in September’s WR.

Nicholas Royle is the author of five novels, two novellas and one short story collection, Mortality (Serpent’s Tail). He teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, reviews fiction for the Independent and runs Nightjar Press, publishing original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks.

John Saul was for a long time the translator for Greenpeace in Germany. He has published three collections of short fiction with Salt, most recently As Rivers Flow (2009).

Grace Schulman’s most recent collection of poems is The Broken String (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007). For thirty-four years she was poetry editor of The Nation, and she is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, after teaching at Princeton, Columbia, Wesleyan and other US universities. Her numerous honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Delmore Schwartz Award for Poetry.

Susan Stewart’s most recent collection of poems is Red Rover (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Her many awards include Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships.

Jackie Wills’ most recent collection of poems is Commandments (Arc, 2007).