Satish Jayaraj, Hamline MFA Graduate and Fiction Writer, with Friends at AWP. Precisely who those friends are--well, that's hard to say.

Writer Ralph Pennel and Lynette Reini-Grandell, poet and professor and one of the hosts of Write-On! Radio. And perhaps the only person at AWP wearing purple plaid leggings.

Eric Lorberer (far right), editor of Rain Taxi Review of Books.

Jocelyn Hale of the Loft Literary Center (far right), manning the Loft booth.

Fiona McCrae and Jeffrey Shotts of Graywolf Press.

Todd Boss, St. Paul poet and founder of Motionpoems, temporarily not in motion himself.