Maggie Dietz is the author of the poetry collections That Kind of Happy and Perennial Fall, which won New Hampshire’s Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry. For many years she directed the national Favorite Poem Project, and is coeditor, with Robert Pinsky, of three anthologies related to the project: Americans’ Favorite Poems, Poems to Read and An Invitation to Poetry. Her poems appear widely in journals such as Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Agni, and Salmagundi. Her awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize, the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy, and fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She teaches in the creative writing concentration at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Maureen Stanton’s book, Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider’s Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques and Collecting(Penguin 2011), was the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction. Her essays and memoirs have appeared in Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, River Teeth, Crab Orchard Review, Sport Literate, Florida Review, The Sun, and many other journals and anthologies. Her nonfiction has been awarded the Iowa Review Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the American Literary Review prize, a Mary Roberts Rinehart award, the Thomas J. Hruska Prize from Passages North. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Maine Arts Commission fellowship. Stanton has an M.F.A. from Ohio State, and is Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.