Chad Vogler

Chad Volger received his B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2007. He is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh.

Charles Legere

Charles Legere lives in Oakland, volunteers at the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory, co-curates the Holloway Series in Poetry at UC Berkeley, and is writing a dissertation about the teaching of contemporary poetry. The poems that appear in Vibrant Gray are taken from the series "My Oakland," published online as a Deep Oakland Edition at: http://www.deepoakland.org/text?tag=Deep%20Oakland%20Editions

Dimiter Kenarov

Dimiter Kenarov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. His first book of poems (in
Bulgarian) received the Yuzhna Prolet/Literaturen Vestnik National Award
in 2001 for best debut by a young writer. His English language poetry and
journalism has appeared in The New England Review, The Virginia Quarterly
Review, and The Gettysburg Review. Most recently, he translated the
selected poems of Elizabeth Bishop into Bulgarian.

Erika T. Wurth

Erika T. Wurth is mixed blood (Apache, Chickasaw, Cherokee) and was born in Los Angeles. She grew up in Colorado between Idaho Springs and Evergreen, although she has lived different places off and on. She is the author of Indian Trains (West End Press, 2007). Her work, both poetry and fiction, has appeared in Raven Chronicles, Fiction, Cedar Hill Review, AMCRJ, and SAIL.

Adam Shellhorse

Adam Shellhorse—from Georgia; is currently writing his dissertation on the matter of violence in the historical literary vanguards of Argentina and Brazil at UC Berkeley; his poem, “Perseus,” was a finalist in the 2008 Marjorie J. Wilson Poetry Contest and published in MARGIE—The American Journal of Poetry; his first book length manuscript of poetry has been submitted for review (2009).

Chloe Garcia Roberts

Chloe Garcia Roberts is a poet, editor and translator living in the Boston area. She has received awards and grants from the Jerome Foundation, Summer Literary Seminars, the Vermont Studio Centers and the Center for Book Arts. Recent work is forthcoming in CutBank and Isotope. She is an editor at Zoland Poetry.

James Henschen

James Henschen is the author of the award winning short film "Looking in the Fishbowl" as well as a film adaptation of the short story "The Monkey's Paw" which screened in film festivals throughout the country.  His work has appeared in Whiskey Island Review and Glassfire Magazine.  James currently resides in Orlando, FL.