Lisle Dalton earned his Ph.D. in Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara in1998, and teaches at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. He is a specialist in American religious history and currently is at work on a book about phrenology and popular religion in antebellum America.

Phil Dansdill is a retired high school English teacher who is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Northern Michigan University. He has published poems in The English Journal, The Connecticut English Journal, The Leaflet, and Blurb. He resides in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Joel Dinerstein is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and History at Ithaca College and received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of the forthcoming Swinging the Machine:
Modernity, Technology, and African-American Culture Between the World Wars (University of Massachusetts, 2003).

Zoe Forney recently finished the graduate program in English at Rutgers-Camden, where she teaches writing part-time and works with the Center for Children and Childhood Studies. She has completed a poetry manuscript, "The Paper Room," begun under a grant from Vermont Studio Center.

Andrew Higgins is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana Tech University, specializing in nineteenth-century American poetry. His work has recently appeared in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, and he is currently working on a book on the development of Whitman’s poetics in the years leading up to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass.

Bill Koch is an adjunct instructor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. He earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from St. Louis University in 1989, and has published essays, reviews, and poetry in The Merton Seasonal and Lyrical Iowa.

Thomas David Lisk’s fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in many literary magazines and newspapers, including American Letters and Commentary, Boston Review, Boulevard, and Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. He is Professor of American Literature and Creative Writing at North Carolina State University.

Ian McGuire is a Lecturer in American Literature and Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester, England. He has previously published articles and stories in Victorian Poetry, The Journal of American Studies, The Chicago Review and The Paris Review.

William Pannapacker was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1968. He is now Assistant Professor of English at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He has published articles on Whitman, Emerson, and Poe and is currently polishing his dissertation, Revised Lives: Self-Refashioning in Nineteenth-Century American Autobiography (Harvard, American Civilization, 1999). He is also working on a second book tentatively called Walt Whitman’s Philadelphia.

Kenn Pierson received his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Minnesota (1994). His scholarly work has focused on the influence of theatre on American literary figures, including Whitman. He has served as playwright-in-residence at the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis and other small professional theatres, and has taught English at the State University of New York, University of Michigan, Wayne State University, University of Washington-Bothell, and Rio Hondo College, where he currently is Assistant Professor of English.

Kim Roberts is the author of a book of poems, The Wishbone Galaxy, and editor of Beltway: An On-Line Poetry Quarterly.

Alan Botsford Saitoh teaches at Kanto Gakuin University in Japan. His book of poems, mamaist: learning a new language, was published in 2002.

Reinaldo Francisco Silva has a Master’s degree from Rutgers University at Newark, NJ, and a Ph.D. from New York University in English and American literature. He currently teaches nineteenth-century American literature and contemporary ethnic literatures (with a special focus on Portuguese-American writers) at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. He is revising his manuscript, "Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature," for publication by Brown University. Recent publications include "The Corrosive Glance from Above: Social Darwinism, Racial Hierarchy, and the Portuguese in The Octopus" in Frank Norris Studies and "Mark Twain and the ‘Slow, Poor, Shiftless, Sleepy, and Lazy’ Azoreans in The Innocents Abroad" in Journal of American & Comparative Cultures.