Andrew Cooper is a Ph. D. candidate in the Michigan State University department of Mathematics. His chapbook, Courting the Muse and Other Poems, was published in 2002 by Gutenberg’s Folly, an imprint of Wings Press in San Antonio, Texas. In addition to his
work in poetry, Cooper is a photographer. He is originally from San Antonio, Texas
Michael Swellander studies German and English as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to gathering and editing material for this website, he is a poet and musician. Michael was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He is studying at universities in Germany for the next year and half.
If you are a poet and wish to have some of your work considered for a future broadcast, contact him at Michaelswellander@mail.utexas.edu
Patrick Rosal is currently a visiting poet at UT Austin, and for many years has taught creative writing at various other universities, at high schools, and in prisons. He has had published two full-length books of poetry, most recently My American Kundiman (Persea 2006).
Thomas Whitbread has worked as a professor of English and Creative Writing at UT Austin since 1959. His most recent book of poems, The Structures Minds Erect, was published by Pecan Grove Press in 2007.
Donika Ross is currently a James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2007, and are forthcoming in the anthology Temba Tupu!/Walking Naked: Africana Women’s Poetic Self-Portrait. She is originally from Magnolia, Arkansas.
Franzi Roesner began writing poetry in 10th grade when she took a Creative Writing course at her high school. She majors in Plan II and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and is graduating in May, 2008, after which will teach English in France for a year before going to graduate school for computer science. Born in Germany, but raised most of her life in Austin, Franzi visits Germany often and speaks German at home with her family.