AARON TIEGER was born in New Hampshire in 1974. His most recent chapbooks are The Collected Typos of Aaron Tieger (Editions Louis Wain, 2009), Necco Face (with Jess Mynes and Michael Carr; Editions Louis Wain 2009) and Anxiety Chant (Skysill Press, 2009. Secret Donut (Pressed Wafer, 2009) is his first full-length book. A member of SOON Productions from 2004-2007, he is currently a curator of the Unaffiliated Reading Series in Cambridge, MA. Formerly the publisher of CARVE Poems, he now runs Petrichord Books. He lives in Cambridge, MA.

STEPHEN COPE's poems, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Jacket, Postmodern Culture, The Germ, Sagetrieb, Mirage: A Period(ical), XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics, and elsewhere. He is the editor of George Oppen: Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers (University of California Press, 2007). His chapbooks of poetry include Versiones Vertiges (Meow Press, 1999), and his poem “Bellerophonic Sonnet” earned a PIP-Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry in 2005. He received his PhD from UC San Diego in 2005, and has since taught at UCSD, Drake University, and Ohio University, and is currently on the faculties of both Ithaca College and the Poetics Program at the University of Buffalo. With Eula Biss and Catherine Taylor, he is co-founder of Essay Press, an imprint that publishes innovative, culturally relevant essays in book form.

Also, congratulations to SOON emerita Karen Leona Anderson on the publication of her new book of poems, Punish Honey, from Carolina Wren Press.