Amanda Auchter is the founding/managing editor of Pebble Lake Review. Her manuscript, Glossolalia, was a finalist for the 2008 Beatrice Hawley Book Award (Alice James Books) and for the 2008 Walt Whitman Award. Her awards include the 2007 Theodore Morrison Scholarship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the 2006 BOMB Magazine Poetry Prize, and the 2005 James Wright Poetry Award from Mid-American Review. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Court Green, Crab Orchard Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Daily, and others. Her recommended reading list: Colosseum by Katie Ford and Indeed I Was Pleased With The World by Mary Ruefle. Visit her blog.

Matthew Siegel is the assistant editor of Pebble Lake Review. He has received an Academy of American Poets Award, a 2006 Bucknell Younger Poets Seminar fellowship, and a 2007 work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. An MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, his work appears in Cimarron Review, Gulf Coast, Passages North, Paterson Literary Review, and Poetry Daily. His recommended reading list: Songs of Jerusalem and Myself by Yehuda Amichai and Tar by C.K. Williams.

Marissa Sinisi is Co-Poetry Editor of Pebble Lake Review and will graduate with an MFA in poetry from Bennington College in June 2008. She has taught at The Pennsylvania State University’s Greater Allegheny Campus and at the Community College of Allegheny County. Her recent poetry has appeared in Renovation Journal. Her recommended reading list: Buffalo Head Solos by Tim Seibles and Declension in the Village of Chung Luong by Bruce Weigl.

Rebecca Wadlinger is Co-Poetry Editor of Pebble Lake Review and an MFA candidate and James A. Michener Fellow in poetry and playwriting at the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers. A 2005 June Fellow in the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, her writing has appeared in Best New Poets 2007, Cimarron Review, Pebble Lake Review, and Verse Daily. Her play, No One Else in the Woods Tonight, is a nominee for the 2008 Austin Critics Table/ David Mark Cohen New Play Award. Her recommended reading list: The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton and Une Semaine de Bonte: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage by Max Ernst.

Margaret MacInnis is the nonfiction co-editor of Pebble Lake Review. Her awards include the 2007 William Raney Scholarship in Nonfiction from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the 2005 Literal Latté Ames Essay Contest, and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. An MA candidate in nonfiction at the University of Iowa, her nonfiction appears in Crab Orchard Review, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere. Her recommended reading list: Dog Years by Mark Doty and On Looking: Essays by Lia Purpura.

Eddie Gonzalez, Jr. is the fiction editor of Pebble Lake Review. He is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program. He has worked at World Literature Today magazine and the University of Oklahoma Press. His recommended reading list: Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino and Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.

Jeffrey Wood is the web editor at Pebble Lake Review. His specialties are endless patience, HTML code, and bringing the editor cups of Earl Grey tea. His recommended reading list: The Subsequent Blues by Gary Copeland Lilley, Jelly Roll by Kevin Young, and Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer.

Elizabeth McDonnell is a contributing editor of Pebble Lake Review and works at the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and a 2005 Bucknell Younger Poets Fellowship, her work has recently appeared in Rapportage, Prolog, and Pebble Lake Review. She is working on an MS in Arts Administration at Drexel University. Her recommended reading list: My Brother is Getting Arrested Again by Daisy Fried and Selected Poems by Rita Dove.