Susan Carol Hauser: DirectorSusan Carol Hauser is the Chair of the English department at Bemidji State University. She earned an M.F.A. in Poetry from Bowling Green State University. She has published a number of books of nonfiction and poetry. They include Meant To Be Read Out Loud and Wild Rice Cooking, both of which won the Minnesota Book Award and Outside After Dark: New & Selected Poems, You Can Write a Memoir, Outwitting Ticks, and Sugartime: The Hidden Pleasures of Making Maple Syrup. She has also received a Jerome Student Study and Travel Grant and a Region 2 Arts Council Individual Artist Grant and was a Charter Resident at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.
Sean Hill: AdministratorSean Hill earned an M.F.A. from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where he was awarded the 2003 Michener Fellowship for poetry. A fellow of the Cave Canem Retreat and Workshop for African American Poets, he has also received scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He has been awarded the Academy of America Poets Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Painted Bride Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Pleiades, as well as in the anthology Blues Poems (Everyman's Library). His debut book, Blood Ties and Brown Liquor, is a collection of poems built around the poetic landscape of his hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia. Recently he was awarded a grant from the Region 2 Arts Council.
Tammi Hartung recently earned a BFA from Bemidji
State University and is now a Graduate Assistant in the Masters of English
program at BSU.
She works as a freelance editor, publishing
editor, and website editor. Her work has
been published in Dust and Fire and CompassPoint.