Matt Briggs ---- fiction

Matt Briggs is the author of three novels and five collections of short stories including The Remains of River Names. His first novel, Shoot the Buffalo was a finalist for the 2006 Washington State Book Award and won the 2006 American Book Award. Portland's The Publication Studio recently released Virility Rituals of North American Teenage Boys (stories), and a novel, The Double E.

Dr. Keith Holyoak, Ph.D. --- poetry

Keith Holyoak, poet, translator of classical Chinese poetry, and cognitive scientist, was raised on a dairy farm in British Columbia, Canada. Currently a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, he has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see www.keithholyoak.com). A collection of Holyoak's translations, Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu appeared in 2007. He has also published a collection of his own poems, My Minotaur. His spoken-word CDs are available from Broken Electric Records (www.BrokenElectric.com).