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	Kate Aspengren Adjunct Assistant Professor of English B.A. The University of Iowa M.F.A. The University of Iowa, Playwrights Workshop Kate Aspengren's plays include Flyer, Rule of Nines, Too Fast to Fall, Adrift, and Blue Yonder. Her work has been published by Samuel French, Inc. and has been produced throughout the United States and Canada, including productions by Actors Theatre of Louisville, The New American Comedy Festival, Three Graces Theatre Company and Six Figures Theatre Company. She teaches annually in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and holds a yearly residency at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware.

	Charles Aukema Professor of English A.B. Calvin College M.F.A. University of Iowa, Iowa Writers' Workshop In addition to teaching creative writing, Professor Aukema teaches studies computer applications in writing. These include writing hypertext fiction. He is the founder of The Coe Review, the college's nationally known literary magazine.

	Terry Heller Howard Hall Professor of English A.B. North Central College A.M., Ph.D. University of Chicago Dr. Heller is author of The Delights of Terror and The Turn of the Screw: Bewildered Vision, and editor of Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Fiction. He has written reference articles, short fiction, and literary journal essays. He is the current manager of the on-line archive, the Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project. Dr. Heller teaches Russian, American, and popular literature. One of his favorite courses is Monsters in Film.

	Gordon Mennenga Assistant Professor of English B.A. University of Northern Iowa M.F.A. University of Iowa, Iowa Writers' Workshop Professor Mennenga is a fiction writer whose short story, "Peepers" won a Nelson Algren Award. He has written monologues for Garrison Keilor and a film based on a monlogues was released in 1999. Professor Mennenga teaches film and creative writing and is the academic advisor for Coe's nationally circulated magazine, the Coe Review. His academic interests include hip hop music and popular culture.

	Daniel Poppick Adjunct Assistant Professor of English B.A. Kenyon College M.F.A. University of Iowa Writers' Workshop Daniel Poppick teaches creative writing and literature with an emphasis on poetry and poetics. His poetry and criticism appears in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, The Claudius App, New American Writing, and elsewhere. With Rob Schlegel, he coedits The Catenary Press.