Michael Dumanis, Director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Assistant Professor of English at Cleveland State University, and CSU Campus Coordinator for the NEOMFA, Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program.
Michael is the author of My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and co-editor of Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande, 2006). He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop, and a PhD from the University of Houston. He has lived in Cleveland since 2007.

Krysia Orlowski, Publicist and Book Production Graduate Assistant
Krysia is pursuing her MFA in Poetry at Cleveland State University through the NEOMFA , Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program, with many years of prior work experience in book publishing, publicity, project management, technical writing, and online publishing.

Chris Smith, Order Fulfillment and Inventory Graduate Assistant
Chris is an MFA student in poetry through CSU at the NEOMFA , Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program. He holds a BA from Butler University.

Elena Tomorowitz, Writers / Reading Series Graduate Assistant, and Poetry Center Videographer
Elena is an MFA student in poetry through CSU at the NEOMFA , Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program. She holds a BA from Case Western Reserve University.