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David Catron's poetry has appeared in various literary publications, including recent issues of Exquisite Corpse, Free Lunch and Half Tones to Jubilee. He lives in Duluth, Georgia.
L.A. Costa lives with her son in Massachusetts. She is a full-time working mother and a free-lance calligrapher with a Bachelor of Arts degree in writing from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
Mike Davidson is a public defense attorney who has published and performed a variety of creative works, including short stories and poems. He was featured in the Emerging Artists Project and "Memoirs" at the Cafe Voltaire in Chicago, and was a winner of an Illinois Arts Council award.
Robert Klein Engler lives in Chicago. His poems and stories have appeared in Borderlands, Evergreen Chronicles, Hyphen, Christopher Street, The James White Review, Fish Stories: Collective II, American Letters and Commentary, Literal Latte, and many other magazines and journals. He has two books of poetry, Shoreline and Stations of the Heart, published by Alphabeta Press. Other works are published on disk by Spectrum Press. He was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award for his poem "Flower Festival at Genzano," which appeared in Whetstone.
Gary Esary works for Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, as director of the foreign language media center where he coordinates technologies in support of foreign language instruction. For many years he has taught English in the USA, Thailand, and Singapore. He has published poetry in many small journals and has one book, How Crows Talk and Willows Walk, with Ahsahta Press.
Scott Keeney works as a proofreader for Harmon Publishing in Danbury, Connecticut, where he lives on the second floor of a three-family Victorian with his girlfriend, Kristin Citrone. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Elm, Mudfish, Noctiluca, Lost and Found Items, The Silver Web, Poetry Motel, O!!Zone, Cicada, and a handful of other little magazines.
Hiram Larew's poetry has appeared in several journals including The Grasslands Review, Antietam Review, SpoonFed, and The Great Lawn. He received the Louisiana Literature poetry prize. He is a scientist with the federal government.
Lyn Lifshin has published around 100 books of poems and edited four anthologies of women's writing. Her poetry has appeared in Ms., Rolling Stone, the American Scholar, and countless small-press journals. Her latest book, Cold Comfort, will be published by Black Sparrow Press this summer.
Karl Lorenzen has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize oodles of times and been published in scads of rambunctious magazines. His drawings are an autochtonic splurge of prehistoric mischief. His poems are rumpled knots of fragrant conundrum. His life is calm, ordered, and precise.
Orlando Ricardo Menes is a Cuban-American who is presently completing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Illinois in Chicago. His poems and translations have recently appeared in the Indiana Review, Chelsea, the Antioch Review, and the Seneca Review. His collection Borderlands with Angels won the 1994 Bacchae Press Chapbook Contest.
Rochelle Natt reviews poetry for American Book Review and ACM. She has published poetry in Iowa Review, California Quarterly, Negative Capability, The Mac Guffin, Fresh Ground, and in many anthologies.
Fernand Roqueplan has published with Indiana Review, Atom Mind, Poem, Florida Review, Poetry Ireland, and the anthology Anyone Is Possible, just released by Red Hen Press.
Dennis Saleh's poetry, prose, and artwork appear widely, in such places as Artlife, Artword Quarterly, Caprice, Lucid Stone, and Santa Barbara Review. His most recent book of poems won the first chapbook competition from Willamette River Books: This is Not Surrealism.
J.D. Smith is a 1989 graduate of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. He is the recipient of a fellowship at the Bucknell University Seminar for Younger Poets and of a Finalist Grant in poetry from the Illinois Arts Council. His poems have appeared in many journals including the Denver Quarterly, Seneca Review, Kansas Quarterly, and Visions International, The Christian Century, and Lilliput Review.
Nadia Swerdlow has an MA in literature from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is working on a doctorate in writing. She is interested in multimedia art forms which incorporate writing.
Mary Winters works as a poverty lawyer. Her poems have appeared in College English, Commonweal, Gulf Coast, Kansas Quarterly, Literary Review, Poet Lore, Poetry East, and RE:AL; they are forthcoming in Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry and Free Lunch. She was a Pushcart Prize nominee in 1994, and a featured poet in the 1995 Palanquin Poetry Series. In 1996, her book A Pocket History of the World was published by Nightshade Press. Her chapbook Grace Itself Invisible was published as a competition prizewinner.
R. Richard Wojewodzki is a poet and painter currently residing in Baltimore, Maryland. His work has been published in Ant Magazine, Bartleby Literary Magazine, the Baltimore City Paper, the annual anthology of the Association of Independent Writers, and The Urbanite. He has been a featured author and performer at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Cornwall Gallery of Art in Ontario, and at the Baltimore Book Festival as part of the First National Poetry Month celebration. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County--where he was awarded an academic fellowship from the Honors College, and a Fine Arts scholarship for Creative Writing.