VASSILIS ZAMBARAS was born in Greece, and returned there after twenty-five years in the USA. He teaches at the language school he founded in 1977 in Meligalas, and has published two small volumes of poetry: Sentences (Querencia, 1976) and Aural (Singing Horse, 1984). More recent work can be found in The London Magazine, First Intensity, and Shearsman.
ALESSIO ZANELLI, born in 1963, lives and works as a private financial advisor in his hometown, Cremona, northern Italy. His work has appeared in magazines like California Quarterly, Potomac Review, Poetry Monthly, Pulsar and The Journal. He is the author of 2 collections, Loose Sheets (Upfront Publishing, 2002) and Small Press Verse & Poeticonjectures (Xlibris, 2003), whereas a third book of poetry is currently in preparation.
ANDREW ZAWACKI (born 1972) is an American poet, critic, editor, and translator. He has co-edited the literary magazine Verse with Brian Henry since 1995 and has taught at the University of Georgia since 2005. He is the author of three collections, Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House, 2009), Anabranch (Wesleyan UP, 2004), and By Reason of Breakings (U of Georgia P, 2002), and a chapbook, Masquerade (Vagabond, 2001).
MOTOKIYO ZEAMI (1363-1443) was the principal figure in the development of the Japanese Noh play. Kinuta is one of his most favoured plays and is highly valued today for its beauty and the difficult and demanding role of the main female role.
JENNIFER ZIELINSKA is an American freelance translator who makes her home in Sopot, Poland.
DAVID ZIEROTH's sixth book of poems is Crows Do Not Have Retirement (Harbour Publishing, 2001). He won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for his fifth book, How I Joined Humanity at Last (Harbour, 1998). His poems have appeared in more than thirty-five anthologies, including A Matter of Spirit: Recovery of the Sacred in Contemporary Canadian Poetry (Ekstasis, 1998). His memoir, The Education of Mr. Whippoorwill: A Country Boyhood will be published in fall 2002 by Macfarlane Walter & Ross.
ZORAN ZINZOVSKI is a Sydney-based poet. Born in Bitola, Macedonia. His poetry has been published in Australia and Japan. Educated at the University of Tasmania School of Art, and at the Sydney College of the Arts. He has received a 1998 Editor's Choice Award from the International Library of Poetry, and was equal second in the 1998 Clarissa Stein Multicultural Poetry Prize Competition.
RACHEL ZUCKER was born in New York City in 1971. After graduating from Yale with a BA in Psychology, she attended the University of Iowa where she received her MFA in Poetry. She has published three collections: The Bad Wife Handbook (2007), The Last Clear Narrative (2004), and Eating in the Underworld (2003; all Wesleyan UP). Her poems have appeared in many journals including American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Iowa Review, Pleiades, and Prairie Schooner.
MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI lives in Philadelphia. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Temple University and is currently at the Macdowell Colony. She is writing a novel entitled M. Her chapbook, Bruised Nickelodeon, from which "A Book of Felled Musing" and "Noise the we took grimaced" were selected, is reviewed in PSR No. 2.
FREDRICK ZYDEK is the author of eight collections of poetry. Formerly a professor of Creative Writing and Theology at the University of Nebraska and later at the College of Saint Mary, he is now a farmer when he isn't writing. He is the editor for Lone Willow Press. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Cimmaron Review, The Hollins Critic, New England Review, Nimrod, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Yankee, and others.