Loretta Clodfelter is managing editor of there. She was the poetry editor of 580 Split Issue No. 8 and a recipient of the Mary Merritt Henry Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pom2, Mirage #4/Period(ical), Deep South, Coconut, The Walrus, listenlight, and VEX. She was born in Chico, grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills, and now lives in the Bay Area.

Her chapbooks (box canyon: square poems from valley/ridge and After Ovid: Metamorphoses, as well as the letterpress book fit to be tied) and broadsides (including "pipe dreams" and a limited edition of "valley/ridge") are available for purchase. Email therejournal@gmail.com for more information.