Mark Amerika
Mark Amerika is the author of two novels, The Kafka Chronicles and Sexual Blood, has edited two anthologies, In Memoriam To Postmodernism: Essays on the Avant-Pop and Degenerative Prose: Writing Beyond Category, and two ebooks which, along with his digital art work, are available at markamerika.com

J. R. Carpenter
J. R. Carpenter is a poet, fiction writer and web artist based in Montreal. She is a two-time winner of the CBC Quebec Short Story Competition (2004 & 2006) and a Web Art Finalist in the Drunken Boat PanLiterary Awards 2006. More information about her writing and web art projects can be found at http://Luckysoap.com

Roxanne M. Carter
Roxanne Carter lives in Providence, Rhode Island, which is not an island at all. In the Fall of 2006 she will begin a MFA in Fiction at Brown.  Her work has appeared in smallspiralnotebook, 3AM, Wicked Alice, horseless review and Mobilivre. You may visit her at www.persephassa.com

Joe Clifford
Joe Clifford is currently working toward his M.F.A. at Florida International University. His work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in the Connecticut Review; Traveling: An Anthology of Award-Winning Poetry; The Dos Passos Review; and 3AM. The 2004 recipient of the Connecticut Review’s Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize, Joe was also that year’s representative on the Connecticut Poetry Circuit.

Mark Cunningham
Mark Cunningham received an MFA from the University of Virginia, and still lives in the Charlottesville area.  The E, F, O, H poems come from a series on numbers and letters.  His poems have appeared in Paragraph and Rhino; a larger selection, of poems on parts of the body, is on the Mudlark website.

Christopher Garlington
Christopher Garlington lives and writes in Chicago, IL, where he lives with his wife and two children. But he’s from Alabama and can’t shake it. No matter what he writes, somewhere in it is a mule, a dog, a preacher, red-dirt tomatoes, or a honeysuckle vine. And thank God. Birdhouse is Mr. Garlington’s first published fiction. He hasn’t won any awards, written any books, plays, movies or novellas--but give him time, give him time.  You can reach Christopher at g@garlingtoncg.com.

Diane Greco
Diane Greco's award-winning fiction has appeared most recently in Fence and Saint Ann's Review. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her family.

Mary Kasimor
Mary Kasimor has been writing for many years, and has been published in print and online journals, including most recently, MIPOesias, Coconut, also, Big Bridge, Blazevos2K3, Gutcult, Volt, moria, Nedge, Cross-Cultural Poetics and an upcoming eye-rhyme. She is an instructor at a small technical/community college. She teaches research writing and literature, and many of her students are being introduced to literature for the first time in their lives. She also has an e-book, entitled A Pure Bowl of Nothing, published through BlazeVox.

Braxton Soderman
Braxton Soderman is a second year Ph.D. candidate in the Modern Culture and Media Department at Brown University. Pre-Ph.D. he completed a MFA in Writing at the California Institute of the Arts where he participated in the Integrated Media Program. He dreams of Alaska, though he's never been. More work can be found at www.thefollowingphrases.com

Lynn Strongin
Lynn Strongin, born in New York City in 1939, grew up in its environs with parents of Eastern European Jewish background. Early studies in musical composition led to writing in her twenties in Berkeley, California where she worked for poet Denise Levertov. She began publishing in anthologies and will have 12 published books by mid-year, including one anthology The Sorrow Psalms:A Book of Twentieth Century Elegy. She has poetry in over thirty anthologies and seventy journals and her work was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Currently, her work can be found in The Dublin Quarterly.