Jeff Hardin teaches at Columbia State Community College. He was educated at Austin Peay State University and the University of Alabama, where he twice received the Academy of American Poets Award. His poems have been nominated several times for the Pushcart and appear in recent and forthcoming issues of Crab Orchard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The New Republic, Mid-American Review, Nimrod, Rattapallax, New Orleans Review, The Laurel Review and others. His chapbook, Deep in the Shallows, recently appeared from GreenTower Press.

In this issue of Crab Creek Review:

Doug Anderson, Barry Ballard, Kenneth Baron, James Bertolino, Ian Chorao, Rich Christman, Beth Cooley, Susan Denning, Richard Diguette, Joe Max Emminger, Gary Ettari, Taryn Fagerness, Kathleen Flenniken, Carmen Germain, Joseph Green, Jeff Hardin, Gregory Hischak, Philip K. Jason, Phebe Jewell, Roger Jones, Cal Kinnear, Daniel J. Olangton, Mercedes Lawry, Lyn Lifshin, Laurie MacDiarmid, Tom McCarthy, Frances Ruhlen McConnel, Robert McNamara, Kevin Miller, B. Z. Niditch, Maureen O'Neill, Paisley Rekdal, Michael Riley, Mary Lou Sanelli, Al Sim, Judith Skillman, Kristine Somerville, Joannie Kervran Stangeland, Virgil Suarez, Mark Sullivan, Mark Taksa, Judith Temime, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Tommy Zurhellen