Erika T. Wurth is thirty-two. She was born in LA, raised in Colorado and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is American Indian, mixed blood (Apache, Chickasaw, Cherokee). Her collection of poetry, Indian Trains has just been released by the University of New Mexico’s West End Press. She has published poetry in Boulevard, SAIL, AMCRJ and Cedar Hill Review, fiction in Fiction, Raven Chronicles, and Pembroke, a non-fiction essay in Generation What? and has an upcoming poetry publication in Global City Review and fiction publication in The Bryant Literary Review. Her novel and short story collection are represented by The Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency, LLC. She teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University. Currently, she is a visiting writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Gabe Gomez is currently the Residency Director at the Santa Fe Art Institute. He received a BA in creative writing from the College of Santa Fe and an MFA in creative writing from St. Mary's College of California. He is a poet, playwright, and a freelance music journalist. He has taught English at the University of New Orleans, Tulane University, the College of Santa Fe and the Institute of American Indian Arts. His first book of poetry The Outer Bands won the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and was published in 2007 by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Sheryl Luna was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. Her collection of poetry Pity the Drowned Horses won the first Andres Montoya Poetry Prize sponsored by the Institute of Latino Studies and the creative writing department of the University of Notre Dame. The judge was Robert Vasquez. The collection was profiled in '18 Debut Poets who Made their Mark in 2005' by Poets and Writers Magazine. A graduate of Texas Tech University, she earned a doctorate in contemporary literature from the University of North Texas and a M.F.A. from the University of Texas at El Paso. She also holds a M.A. in English from Texas Woman's University. Her work has appeared in Feminist Studies, Notre Dame Review, Georgia Review, American Literary Review, and many other nationally acclaimed journals. She’s received scholarships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Napa Valley Writer's Conference. Pity the Drowned Horses was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the 2006 Colorado Book awards. Her second manuscript of poems, titled 7, was recently runner-up for the Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize sponsored by University of Notre Dame. She currently teaches at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.

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