Indigo Moor's Tap-Root was published in 2006 as part of Main Street Rag's Editor's Select Poetry Series .

His 2nd book Through the Stonecutter's Window is scheduled for an April 10 release by Northwestern University Press as winner of their 2nd Book Prize. He is a 2003 recipient of Cave Canem 's Writing fellowship in poetry, former vice president of the Sacramento Poetry Center, and  editor for the Tule Review. He is the winner of the 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Poetry Prize for Emerging Writers, a 2009 Pushcart Prize nominee and 2009 Jack Kerouac Poetry contest winner.

Other honors include: finalist finishes for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Crab Orchard First Book Prize, Saturnalia First Book Award, Naomi Long Madgett Book Award, and WordWorks Prize.  He has received scholarships to the Summer Literary Series in St. Petersburg Russia, the 2006 Idyllwild Summer Poetry Program, the Indiana University Writer's Conference, and the Napa Valley Writer's Conference.

His work has appeared in the Arkansas Review, Xavier Review, LA Review, Mochila Review, Boston University's The Comment, the Pushcart Prize nominated Out of the Blue Artists Unite, Poetry Now, Cave Canem Anthologies VIII and IX, The Ringing Ear, the NCPS 2006 Anthology, Blue Moon Literary & Arts Review, Breathe 101: Contemporary Odes, and Gathering Ground. He was recently the featured artist for the Suisun Valley Review.

Judith McCombs grew up in almost all the continental states, in a geodetic surveyor's family. Her work appears in Calyx, Nimrod (a Neruda Award), Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, Potomac Review  (Poetry Prize), Prairie Schooner, Prism, Sisters of the Earth, and online in Beltway, Innisfree Poetry Journal, and Not Just Air.  She has held NEH and Canadian Senior Embassy Fellowships, and Michigan and Maryland Arts Awards. She teaches at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, edits for Word Works, and arranges the Kensington Row Bookshop Poetry Readings.

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