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Paul Bone Founding Editor
Paul Bone is from Vandalia, Illinois. After graduating from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, he earned an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas in 1999. His manuscript Momentary Vision of the Assistant Meteorologist won the 2005 Uccelli Chapbook Contest and is forthcoming from Uccelli Press, and his poems have been published in The Cream City Review, Quarterly West, and Farmer’s Market.

He teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Evansville.


Rob Griffith Founding Editor

Rob Griffith grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. He's a graduate of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the University of Arkansas, where he received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing. A collection of his poems, Necessary Alchemy, was chosen as the winner of the 1999 Tennessee Chapbook Prize, and his newest collection, Poisoning Caesar, was published by Finishing Line Press in fall, 2004. His poetry has been published in numerous journals including Poetry, The Formalist, Prairie Schooner, The Oxford American, Another Chicago Magazine, and Parnassus among others. He has also won various awards for his writing including the ACM Literary Award for Poetry, The University of the South's Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Colgate University's Chenango Valley Scholarship, the Felix Christopher McKean Award for Poetry, and a Lily Peters Fellowship from the University of Arkansas. His first full-length collection, A Matinee in Plato's Cave, was recently released from Water Press & Media.

He teaches creative writing and American literature at the University of Evansville in southwest Indiana.

 

William Baer Contributing Editor
Former editor of The Formalist, William Baer grew up in the Bronx and Wayne, New Jersey. A graduate of Rutgers and N.Y.U, he completed his dissertation in creative writing at the University of South Carolina under James Dickey. After attending the Johns Hopkins' Writing Seminars, where he studied under John Barth and David St. John, he was a Fulbright Professor in American Literature at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. He then attended the University of Southern California's Graduate School of Cinema where he received the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award. In 1995, he received a Creative Writing Grant in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts.

He has published two books of poems: The Unfortunates, which received the T.S. Eliot Prize in 1997; and "Borges" and Other Sonnets (2003). His poetry has appeared in The Hudson Review, The New Criterion, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, The New York Quarterly, and other periodicals. He has also edited two books of interviews: Conversations with Derek Walcott (1996), and Elia Kazan: Interviews (2000).

He currently teaches creative writing and cinema at the University of Evansville in southwest Indiana.

 

Carol Dibble Administrative Assistant
Carol came to the University of Evansville in September 2002 after working for the Vanderburgh School Corporation. Carol is also an active volunteer and served as the University's Office Staff Association President for two consecutive years and now serves on the executive committee for the Office Staff Association. Carol served as Chairman of the board for Scott Township Park in northern Vanderburgh County for a two year term and headed a committee to develop a five year plan for the park. She is currently a student at the University of Evansville seeking a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree.