Bruno Anthony has work published or forthcoming in Washington Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, Burning Bush (Ireland), New Orleans Review, Brooklyn Review, and The Plaza (Japan).

Thomas Robert Barnes is a screenwriter and backcountry skier by trade. His work has appeared in many small magazines, mostly in New York.

George L. Chieffet has an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he studied with Fred Chappell, Allen Tate, and Robert Watson. His publications include The Red Clay Reader, Brown Bag, Fly By Night Magazine, Greensboro Review, Long Island Quarterly and Parting Gifts.

Ruth E. Foley is from the Boston/Providence area. She teaches adult literacy for a local non-profit organization. Her work appears in The Chariton Review, Potpourri, and The GSU Review, and is available online from A Small Garlic Press and Beauty for Ashes Poetry Review.

Carol Frith, with her husband, Laverne Frith, co-edits the poetry journal, Ekphrasis. Her work has appeared in or is scheduled to appear in Many Mountains Moving, Borderlands, Clackamas, The Chariton Review, The Macguffin, Blue Unicorn, The Formalist, Poetry New York, Karamu, Baltimore Review, Negative Capability, Cumberland Poetry Review, Faultline, Spillway, Slant, and Perihelion, among others. She is a three-time finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award. She studied languages at the University of California at Davis.

Brice Patrick Gorman is a marketing student from Florida. He has published over 200 poems and approximately 30 short stories in various journals including Gaslight, Thin Ice, Crossroads, Eureka Lit Review, Tight, Poetry Break Journal, and Thirteenth Moon.

Ran Huntsberry has published or has poems forthcoming in over 60 magazines including Ascent, Many Mountains Moving, New Letters, Midwest Poetry Review, Nimrod, and the Wisconsin Review, and is anthologized in Idaho's Poetry: A Centennial Anthology. He has worked as a college professor, a modern dance improvisationist, an Aikido instructor, and a rural family therapist, among other things.

Joanne McFarland has a collection, Stills, which was published by Acorn Whistle Press in September 2000. The poems which appear here are from her latest collection, entitled A Wing Without a Bird. She has work appearing in African American Review, Primavera, Callaloo, The Listening Eye, Acorn Whistle, Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review, and others.

Daniel Thomas Moran is the author of In Praise of August (Canio's Editions).

D. Offutt wrote articles for Coastline in the early '90's (not to be confused with the current Coastline Magazine). His first collection of poems, A Perishable Good, Selected Poems, 1989-1996 (Inflammable Press, 1997) is available on Amazon.com. He his significant selections forthcoming in Mother Earth International and Raintown Review.

E.M. Schorb was selected by Heather McHugh as the winner of the Verna Emery Poetry Prize for his latest collection, Murderer's Day, published by Purdue University Press. He has work slated to appear in Rattle, The Brooklyn Review, and the South Carolina Review, and has work in the Yale Review, the Southern Review, the Sewanee Review, Southwest Review, the Chicago Review and others.

Ken Smith earned a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Notre Dame and last worked as an Associate Dean of Medical Education at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC. He lives and writes on a small upstate NY farm. His poetry has appeared in journals here and abroad.

David J. Thompson teaches English at the University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Slant, Rockhurst Review, Raintown Review, Licking River Review, Missing Spoke Press, Malestrom, Iconoclast, Concho Review Review, and Birmingham Poetry Review.

George Wallace is editor and publisher of Poetry Bay (www.poetrybay.com) and Long Island Quarterly, and associate editor of Xanadu. His works have recently appeared in Illya's Honey, Abbey, Rocket, Poetry Motel, Mudfish, Heliotrope, Circle, Free Lunch, Black Bear Review, Jack, Cold Mountain Review, Rio Grande Review, Sierra Nevada College Review, GSU Review, Red Owl, Runes, and Big City Lit. His sixth chapbook of poems, Sesquicentennial Suite (Native Daughters), was chosen for publication for the 150th anniversary celebrations of the state of California. He is organizer of the Jul 01 Jack Kerouac Marathon reading in San Francisco, Lowell, Orlando and New York.