<h4>Lynn Melnick’s first collection of poetry, If I Should Say I Have Hope, was published by YesYes Books in 2012.</h4>

Lynn Melnick

<h4>Liam O'Rourke lives in Brooklyn, NY and teaches English at Pierrepont School in Westport, CT.</h4>

Liam O'Rourke

<h4>Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the poetry collections Halflife and Once, and the memoir The Long Goodbye.</h4>

Meghan O'Rourke

<h4>PAISLEY REKDAL&nbsp;is the author of a book of essays,&nbsp;The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee&nbsp;and four books of poetry.&nbsp;A hybrid photo-text memoir that combines poems, nonfiction and fiction entitledIntimate&nbsp;has just been published by Tupelo. Her work has received a Village Voice Writers on the Verge Award, an NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the University of Georgia Press&rsquo; Contemporary Poetry Series Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship. </h4>

Paisley Rekdal

<h4 class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea. 2005) and Apocalyptic Swing (Persea. 2009), which was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer's Award and a fellowship to Civitella di Ranieri in Umbria. She was recently awarded a prestigious Writing Residency Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation in Marfa. Her poems have been featured in the Washington Post and on Garrison Keillor's Poet's Almanac and in numerous journals. She lives in Los Angeles where she is the Poetry Editor for The Los Angeles Review of Books. She is currently at work on her third book of poems, Rocket Fantastic and a book of prose, The Year I Didn&rsquo;t Kill Myself.</h4>

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

<h4>Lytton Smith is Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Plymouth University. He is the author of a book of poems, The All-Purpose Magical Tent, and two translated novels from the Icelandic.</h4>

Lytton Smith

We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the 2012 Summer Games

Liam O'Rourke lives in Brooklyn, NY and teaches English at Pierrepont School in Westport, CT.