Chris Bachelder, Fiction
Bachelder is the author of the novels U.S. ! , Bear v. Shark , and Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography (an e-book).  His short fiction and essays have appeared in Harper's , The Believer , McSweeney's , The Oxford American , The Cincinnati Review , New Stories from the South , and elsewhere.  Originally from Virginia , Bachelder has taught writing at New Mexico State University and Colorado College. 

Peter Gizzi, Poetry
Gizzi is the author of Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum. His editing projects have included The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, the international literary anthology The Exact Change Yearbook, and o-blek: a journal of language arts. He has been awarded artist grants from The Fund for Poetry, Rex Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. He is also a recipient of the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Noy Holland, Fiction
Holland is the author of The Spectacle of the Body, a collection of stories. Her work has appeared in several literary magazines, including The Quarterly, Ploughshares, Story Quarterly, Glimmer Train, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, and Open City. She has taught at Phillips Academy and the University of Florida, and has received fellowships from the University of Florida, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sabina Murray, Fiction
Murray is the author of The Caprices, a collection of stories which won the P.E.N./Faulkner award, and the novels A Carnivore's Inquiry and Slow Burn. She also wrote the screenplay for the film Beautiful Country. A former Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Academy, she has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and from the Bunting Institute at Harvard University.

Lisa Olstein, Associate Director
Olstein is the author of Radio Crackling, Radio Gone , winner of the 2005 Hayden Carruth Award from Copper Canyon Press. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Centrum. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review , American Letters & Commentary , Denver Quarterly , and elsewhere. With Dara Wier and Noy Holland, she co-founded the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action. She serves as Associate Director of the MFA Program and Juniper Initiative.

James Tate, Poetry
Tate is the author of Memoir of the Hawk: Shroud of the Gnome; Worshipful Company of Fletchers, which won the National Book Award; Selected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award; Distance from Loved Ones; Reckoner; Constant Defender; Riven Doggeries; Viper Jazz; Absences; Hints to Pilgrims; The Oblivion Ha-Ha; and The Lost Pilot, selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has published two books of prose, Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee and The Route as Briefed. His awards include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.

Dara Wier, Poetry
Wier is the author of Hat on a Pond, nominated for a Phi Beta Kappa Award; Voyages in English; Our Master Plan; Blue for the Plough; The Book of Knowledge; All You Have in Common; The 8-Step Grapevine; and Blood, Hook & Eye. Recent work has appeared in the Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is also a recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review.