Ruth L. Schwartz's most recent book is Edgewater (HarperCollins), which was selected by Jane Hirshfield for the National Poetry Series. She is a two-time winner of the Nimrod/Pablo Neruda Award, as well as over a dozen other literary prizes. She teaches at California State University, Fresno, and lives in Oakland.

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Poets in this issue: Elsa Arnett, Rachel Berghash, Wendy Bishop, Lorna Knowles Blake, Catherine Bowman, Linda Casebeer, Victoria Chang, Huan-Hua Chye, Geraldine Connolly, Chauna Craig, Deborah Cummins, Chad Davidson, Susan Elbe, Cherryl Floyd-Miller, Jeffrey Franklin, Ana Garza, Rigoberto Gonzalez, John Guzlowski, Yona Harvey, Ava Leavell Haymon, M. Ayodele Heath, Christopher Hennessy, Julie Hensley, James Hoch, Anna Maria Hong, Robin Leslie Jacobson, Terry Kirts, Karen Kovacik, Anya Krugovoy, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Gareth Lee, Joseph O. Legaspi, Nan Leslie, Shara Lessley, TimothyLiu, Joel Long, Bog Lucky, Jeff Mann, Adrian Matejka, John McNally, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Soo Jin Oh, Lucia Perillo, Marlene Phipps, Rohan Preston, Meredith Reiches, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Gianna Russo, Ruth L. Schwartz, Rebecca Seiferle, Amar Gaurav Shah, Nancy Shih-Knodel, Evie Schockley, Renee Soto, Virgil Suarez, Ira Sukrungruang, Margaret C. Szumowski, Molly Tenenbaum, Jennifer TOnge, Judith Vollmer, Ronald Wallace, Charles Harper Webb, J. Weintraub, Tina Wiseman, S. L. Wisenberg, Terry Wolverton, Jake Adam York, Zhang Er.