Eric Hoffman is the author of four collections of poetry, Things Like This Happen All the Time (2000), Threnody (2006), Of Love and Water and There (http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/OPPEN2.HTM). (both 2008). He recently edited “All This Strangeness: A Garland for George Oppen” that was a part of the new issue of Big Bridge.

Burt Kimmelman has published five collections of poetry – Musaics, First Life, The Pond at Cape May Point, Somehow, and There Are Words; his volume of poems titled As If Free is forthcoming in 2009. He is a professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of two book-length literary studies: The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters and The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona, as well as scores of essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry.

Madeline Tiger’s work includes a large number of poetry volumes. Her recent collections of poetry are Water Has No Color, Mary of Migdal, and My Father's Harmonica. Recent poems appear in The Journal of NJ Poets, Anti-Lawn, and the forthcoming anthology, The XY Files. She teaches in the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Writers-in-the-Schools program and in the Dodge Foundation poetry programs. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, where she raised her daughter and four sons.