The Editors:

Kirby Gann is the Managing Editor at Sarabande Books. His fiction has appeared in American Writing, bananafish: short fiction, The Crescent Review, The Southern Indiana Review, and Witness, among other journals. His work has received Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize, and is anthologized in The Best of Witness. Also a musician, he plays guitar in the band Jakeleg, whose CD is available on ear X-tacy records.

Kristin Herbert has been awarded grants for her poetry from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her stories and poems have been recognized with an Academy of American Poets Prize, four Pushcart Prize nominations, and publication in journals including Colorado Review, The Cream City Review, 5 AM, Kingfisher, Phoebe, Red Brick Review, New Delta Review, The Louisville Review, Controlled Burn, The American Voice, Green Mountains Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Antioch Review as well as in the anthologies Present Tense: Writing and Art by Young Women and ChickLit2: No Chick Vics. She lives in Santa Monica, California.

A Fine Excess is the second on the list for The Writer’s Studio, a new series to feature books that challenge, stimulate, and support the writer of poetry and short fiction. These titles are not be how-to books, but books for writers who already know how and are looking for further stimulation, or to deepen and expand their sense of community with other writers. It is a varied and interesting group of books, dedicated to the pleasures and value of the writing life. Other titles now included in this series are:They Have A Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslateable Words & Phrases, and Passing the Word: Writers on Their Mentors.