INFORMATION ABOUT
CLAUDIA KEELAN:
Claudia Keelan is the editor-in-chief
of Interim and the author of 6 books
of poetry, including Refinery
(Cleveland State University 1994),
The Secularist (University of Georgia
Press, 1997), Utopic, which won the
2000 Beatrice Hawley Award from
Alice James Books, Of and Among
There Was a Locus(t), (Ahshata Press,
2003) The Devotion Field (Alice
James Books, and the forthcoming
Missing Her (2009) from New
Issues Press Green Rose series .

Her essays and criticism have
appeared in Tailsman, Denver
Quarterly, Pequod, Review/Revue,
and have been anthologized in
The Grand Permission (Wesleyan
University Press), Innovative Women (University of Iowa Press) and elsewhere.
She teaches in the poetry program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The Secularist, her second book which was a finalist for the PEN and Los Angeles Times
book award is available by ordering here.

To order her books, go to:
www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/
www.alicejamesbooks.com
www.wmich.edu/newissue/
ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/

Assistant Editor,
Christopher Arigo:

Christopher Arigo’s first poetry
collection Lit interim won the
2001-2002 Transcontinental
Poetry Prize (selected by
David Bromige) and was published
by Pavement Saw Press (2003).
His second collection In the archives
(2007) was published by Omnidawn
Press. Currently a Schaeffer Poetry
Fellow at the University of Nevada,
Las Vegas, he will begin his position
as Assistant Professor of English at
Washington State University at
Pullman in the Fall of 2008.
His translations of Italian poet
Dome Bulfaro are forthcoming in
a bilingual edition of his collection
Bones and flesh (Le Voci della
Luna, Bologna, 2008).