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 Mary Biddinger
received degrees in English and creative writing from The University of Michigan, Bowling Green State University, and The University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Akron and NEOMFA: Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, where she teaches workshops and craft and theory courses on a variety of topics, including poetry of the body. Biddinger's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous journals including ACM, American Literary Review, Crazyhorse, Harpur Palate, The Iowa Review, Notre Dame Review, Ploughshares, and Salt Hill, and her first book, Prairie Fever, is now available from Steel Toe Books. For several years she has been an Associate Editor of the literary magazine RHINO , and she is the founding editor of Barn Owl Review, a new literary annual published in Northeast Ohio.
 Jeannine Hall Gailey
has a Master's Degree in English from the University of Cincinnati, and is currently studying for her MFA in Poetry at Pacific University. She volunteers as a literary magazine and book reviewer at NewPages.com and also as Web editor (and currently, Guest Poetry Editor) at The Raven Chronicles. Becoming the Villainess was also a finalist for Kent State's Wick Prize, the Winnow Press First Book contest, and the Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series and was a semifinalist for the Bakeless Poetry Prize in 2004. She also has a chapbook, Female Comic Book Superheroes, published by Pudding House Press.
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