Rhett Iseman Trull’s The Real Warnings was selected by contest judge Sheryl St. Germain as winner of the 2008 Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2008, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other publications.
Her awards include prizes from the Academy of American Poets and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation. She received her B.A. from Duke University and her M.F.A from University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she was a Randall Jarrell fellow. She and her husband publish Cave Wall in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Chad Sweeney was born in Norman, Oklahoma. He is the author of Arranging the Blaze, An Architecture, and A Mirror to Shatter the Hammer. Chosen for Best American Poetry 2008 by Charles Wright, Sweeney’s work
has appeared in journals such as Barrow Street, Crazyhorse, New American Writing, Verse, Colorado Review, Hunger Mountain, Black Warrior Review, Passages North, Runes, and American Letters & Commentary.
He edits Parthenon West Review with David Holler, and is the editor of Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds (City Lights, 2009), an anthology of poetry, fiction and memoir by the teaching artists of the national WritersCorps. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Oklahoma and an MFA in poetry from San Francisco State University. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in literature and poetry at Western Michigan University, where he teaches creative writing and serves as assistant editor for New Issues Press. He lives in Kalamazoo with his wife, poet Jennifer Kochanek Sweeney.
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