Jeanne Marie Beaumont is the author of Placebo Effects, which was a National Poetry Series winner (Norton, 1997), and the co-editor of The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (due out in Spring of 2003 from Story Line Press). Her work is forthcoming in Pleiades, Verse, The Greensboro Review, Manhattan Review, Conduit, and elsewhere. She is currently teaching at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd St Y in New York.

About River Styx:
Poets in this issue: Ron Koertge, William Trowbridge, Nancy Mayer, William Doreski, Catie Rosemurgy, Joseph Campana, Fred Muratoi, Elaine Terranova, Lawrence Raab, Phebe Davidson, John J. Ryan, Gaylord Brewer, Laura Hamblin, Virgil Suarez, Charles Harper Webb, William Greenway, Paula Adams Nelson, Joanne Lowery, Jarret Keene, Kevin Griffith, Andrew Hudgins, Susan Swartwout, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Ray Gonzalez