Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s first poetry book, the bilingual The Air around the Butterfly (Fakel Express, 2009), won the 2010 Pencho’s Oak award, given annually to recognize literary contribution to contemporary Bulgarian culture. She is the author of Indivisible Number (Fakel Express, 2011, Bulgarian only) and The Porcupine of Mind (Broadstone Books, forthcoming). Katerina is the editor of the anthology Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems, (Accents Publishing, 2011). Katerina is the founder of poetry and prose groups in Lexington, Kentucky. She hosts Accents – a radio show for literature, art and culture on WRFL, 88.1 FM, Lexington. In January 2010, Katerina launched Accents Publishing – an independent press for brilliant voices. www.katerinaklemer.com

Alyssa Knickerbocker received her MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently the Axton Fellow at the University of Louisville. Her work has appeared in Brooklyn Magazine, The Bat City Review, Meridian, Sou’wester, Avery Anthology and others, has been nominated numerous times for the Pushcart Prize, and is anthologized in The Best of the West 2011: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. Her novella, “Your Rightful Home,” was published by Flatmancrooked in 2009 and is now available as an e-book from Nouvella (nouvellabooks.com). She lives in Louisville with her husband and son.