Ellen Dudley (Marlboro) has collected her poetry Slow Burn (1997) and The Geographic Cure (2007). She is founding editor/publisher of the Marlboro Review.

Estela Gonzáles (Middlebury) earned her MFA from Pine Manor College. She teaches at Middlebury College and her fiction has appeared in the Barcelona Review.

Sydney Lea (Newbury) will become Vermont Poet Laureate on November 4. He has published eight collections of poems, most recently, Young of the Year (2011), and, with Jay Parini, co-founded NER in 1978.

Leath Tonino (Charlotte) has published essays and articles in Orion, High Country News, Adirondack Life, and Vermont Magazine.

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