OUR EDITORS Susan Cowger graduated with a BA in fine arts in 1977 and received her MFA in creative writing with a secondary emphasis in art in 1997. Her award-winning sculpture, paintings, etchings, and mixed media art have been commissioned into many personal and corporate collections nationwide. Her art has also been featured in numerous public and private gallery showings. Susan has worked as an artist-in-residence in public schools and has taught at the Spokane Art School and in the Spokane Public School system. Since receiving her advanced degree, writing has taken over most of her creative efforts. A former associate editor at Eastern Washington University Press and co-founder of Rock & Sling, Susan writes prose and poetry. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Calyx, Thema, Healing Muse, Mars Hill Review, and Pontoon: An Anthology of Washington State Poets, as well as the anthology Milk Fever, which also featured her artwork on the cover. Her latest work, “Scarab Hiding,” a chapbook by Susan, explores living, dying and the taboo called grief (Finishing Line Press 2006). Kris Christensen earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Eastern Washington University where she directed the Writers in the Community Program and taught undergraduate creative writing. For two years, she taught creative writing at the Corbin Arts Center in Spokane. Kris received a 1999 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship in Literature for her poetry and a 2001 Artist Trust GAP Award to support her work on a novel set in Eastern Washington's Kettle River Mountains. She has been nominated for the Associated Writing Programs Intro Award and the Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Sycamore Review, Puerto del Sol, Permafrost, Pontoon: An Anthology of Washington State Poets, Hubbub, The Iowa Review, Passages North, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Many Mountains Moving, among others. She was a finalist for Kalliope's Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Prize. Kris is currently writing a memoir that explores her mother's struggles with alcoholism and cancer, her own healing from depression and anxiety, and their respective journeys in faith. EDITOR OF REVIEWS Chuck DeGroat teaches at Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando), where he is also the Director of Spiritual Formation.  In his role, he introduces future pastors to the ancient rhythms of curam animarum, or the "care of souls." In part, this involves developing the prophetic imagination of pastors through the full menu of biblically-sanctioned forms of dialogue – story, poetry, art, music, proposition, parable, and more.  Chuck is also a Mental Health Counselor who specializes in sexual and emotional abuse.  He is completing a doctoral dissertation on the realities of pastoral life.  In his spare time, Chuck enjoys time with his wife of 13 years, Sara, and their two girls Emma and Maggie.  Chuck and Sara love to do interior decorating, and enjoy long, quiet days on the beach with a good book. CONSULTING EDITOR Laurie Klein earned a BA in Art from St. Olaf College, and her award-winning prints and calligraphic collages have appeared in exhibits and magazines such as Gallery and Somerset Studio. Her post-baccalaureate studies in Theatre Arts at Whitworth College led to an adjunct position with the department as well as the AudioFile Earphone award for audio book performance excellence. Her spoken word selections can be heard on radio, CDs, and videos. Winner of the 2007 Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred, Laurie also won New Letters’ 2006 Dorothy Churchill Cappon Nonfiction Award and was shortlisted for the 2007 Cider Press Review Book Award. Designated 2006 Writer of the Year by the American Christian Writers Association (a regional honor), she has also earned two Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest annual writing contest. Her chapbook is Bodies of Water, Bodies of Flesh, a Predator Press competition winner. Laurie’s prose and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and periodicals, including: Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women on the Homefront, Southern Review, Commonweal, Mars Hill Review, Stonework, Tiferet, The New Pantagruel, Mid-American Review, Atlanta Review, Iris, Many Mountains Moving, Puerto del Sol, and others. She is a past recipient of the San Juan Writers' Fellowship. As a co-founder and consulting editor of Rock & Sling, she sponsors the annual Virginia Brendemuehl Poetry Prize in honor of her madcap, arts-loving aunt. Laurie is represented by Alive Communications, and her spiritual memoir-in-progress celebrates the three-decade, world-wide journey of her best-loved contemporary hymn, “I Love You, Lord,” previously honored by an RIAA Certified Platinum Sales award for its inclusion on Wow Worship Blue.