Sarah Gorham
President and Editor-in-Chief

Sarah Gorham is a poet and publisher who currently resides in Louisville KY. She was born in Santa Monica, California in 1954. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1978 and her BA in 1976 from Antioch College. She is the wife of poet Jeffrey Skinner and the mother of Laura and Bonnie Skinner.

Four Way Books published her third collection of poetry The Cure in 2003. The others include, The Tension Zone (1996), which won the 1994 Four Way Books Award in Poetry, judged by Heather McHugh, and Don't Go Back to Sleep, published by Galileo Press in 1989. She co-edited the anthology Last Call: Poems on Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance, with Jeffrey Skinner, published in 1997 by Sarabande Books.

Gorham's poems and essays have been published widely in Best American Poetry 2006, Poetry, The Nation, Antaeus, American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Grand Street, DoubleTake, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Ohio Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Poets & Writers, Fourth Genre, Quarterly West, and Poetry Northwest, where in 1990 she won the Carolyn Kizer Award. In 2002 she and poet Jeffrey Skinner served as poets-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut. Other awards include grants and fellowships from The Kentucky State Arts Council (twice), The Kentucky Foundation for Women (three times), The Delaware State Arts Council, The Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Yaddo, and MacDowell. In 1983, she received the Gertrude Claytor Prize from the Poetry Society of America and, in 2000, won the 2000 Prairie Schooner Reader's Choice Award.

Kirby Gann
Managing Editor

Kirby Gann is the author of the novels The Barbarian Parade (Hill Street Press, 2004) and Our Napoleon in Rags (Ig Publishing, 2005), which was a nominee for the Kentucky Award in Literature, a finalist in the Litblog Co-Op Read This! series, and was named one of the Top Five Novels published in 2005 by Frontiers Magazine. He is also co-editor (with poet Kristin Herbert) of the anthology A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play, a finalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (Anthologies). The recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship and two Professional Assistance Awards from the Kentucky Arts Council, Gann also teaches in the brief-residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University. Please visit www.kirbygann.net for more information.

Nickole Brown
Director of Marketing and Development

Nickole Brown is a poet and fiction writer. She graduated from the M.F.A. Program for Creative Writing at Vermont College in January 2003. She has received grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Kentucky Arts Council. She graduated summa cum laude from University of Louisville in 1996, studied English Literature at Oxford University as an English Speaking Union Scholar, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson in 1997. She has also served as the Program Coordinator for the Union Institute & University writing residency in Slovenia and as Publicity Consultant for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival.

Her work has been featured in The Writer's Chronicle, Poets & Writers, Another Chicago Magazine, Diagram Magazine, 32 Poems, The Cortland Review, and Mammoth Books' Sudden Stories anthology. Her chapbook, mud, was published in 1996 by WhiteFields Press. She also co-edited the anthology, Air Fare: Stories, Poems, & Essays on Flight, for Sarabande in 2004. Most recently, her work has been featured in the Starcherone Press anthology PP / FF , Florida Review, and Chautauqua Literary Journal. Her debut collection of poetry, Sister, is due for publication with Red Hen Press in September 2007.

You can visit her homepage at www.nickolebrown.com.

Jennifer Woods
Associate Editor

Jennifer "Woodsy" Woods is a poet residing in Louisville, KY, with her two dobermans, Taylor and Henri. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Lumberyard, a visual/literary arts letterpress magazine produced in conjunction with The Firecracker Press. Her most recent work can be viewed in 52nd City and the upcoming 2006-07 Observable Anthology.

Katie Byrum
Intern

Katie Byrum graduated from Guilford College with degrees in African-American Studies and Sociology and concentrations in English and Dance. She is the three-time winner of the Betty Place Prize in Poetry, and her resulting fame landed her a job as a server at Volare Italian Restaurant. Her intense yearning for an intimate knowledge of the United States Postal Service led her to Sarabande, where she impresses the staff with her organizational skills and ability to bake incredibly small cookies. In her spare time, Katie enjoys writing, reading, running, and avoiding clowns like it's her job.

Billie Holiday
Mascot

Our official office puppy. Responsibilities include keeping the floor clean of any dropped lunch items, acting as chief reliever-of-tension during staff meeetings, and barking at the mailman.