Kika Bomer lives and teaches in Lyon, Colorado.  Her article "Barbara Neuwirth: The Labyrinth as Dark River of Life," which is excerpted here, was published in Zwischen Distanz und Nähe:  Eine Autorinnengeneration in den 80er Jahren (Between Distance and Proximity:  A Generation of Women Authors of the 1980's), edited by Helga Abret and Ilse Nagelschmidt , translated by Hildegard Stalzer (Peter Lang, 1998). Barbara Neuwirth is a contemporary Viennese writer, author of Der Dunkler Fluss Des Lebens(Insel Verlag, 1992), in which "Vertumnus" originally appeared.

Sean Brendan-Brown lives in Olympia, Washington.

Anselm Brocki taught high school for several years, was a senior editor for Houghton-Mifflin, was editorial coordinator for the Los Angeles City Schools, and is currently running his own editorial business.  He has published over 570 poems and written over 1800 in the past nine years.

Lind Call started out as a language poet, but now wants to write a poetry that is based on human emotions. She attends Duane Locke's salon in Tampa, Florida.

Dianne Cooke is a writer living in Wisconsin.

Karen Douglass lives in Maine, where she works as a healthcare consultant and psychiatric nurse.  She has published in many magazines and has two books, Red Goddess Poems and Bones in the Chimney.  Currently she is at work on a non-fiction book about horses.

Cindy Duhe is a 19 year old artist/writer who lives in Houston, Texas. 
Her interest in painting started when she was a very young child,
though, admittedly, she had never picked up a paint brush before the
beginning of 1999.  After this time, Cindy found herself painting on a
nearly daily basis, loving each and every minute of it.  Her main goal
in life is to die a fulfilled woman...and, only, through the course of
many years, will she find exactly what that will entail.

Anne M. Gogela was born in Germany also but has lived in the US for almost 25 years now. For the past ten years, she has taught English literature and composition at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado. In her spare time, she enjoys translating poetry and prose.  Friederike Roth is an award-winning German poet and playwright. She was born in Sindelfingen, Germany, in 1948.
 

Kim Jensen was born in Port Jefferson, NY and currently lives in Oakland.  Her work has recently appeared in Fish Stories, Quarter After Eight, Gathering of the Tribes, and Poetry Flash.

Jennifer Lagier

Decilio Lago says he lives in an abandoned church in Tampa that was struck by lightning.  He writes that since attending  Duane Locke's poetry salon,  he is happy for the first time in his time since leaving his home town of Montepulciano and Vino Nobile.  They meet every Sunday to discuss such topics as "the semiotically real and its accessibility or lack thereof it affords to the perpetually elusive 'actually real,' " and "the Mu group and metaphor."

RoseMarie London has been accumulating her snap fictions for a collection called On The Voice.  Three of them were recently nominated for inclusion in eScene, the yearly anthology of the world's best short fiction published on the Internet.  Her story "Fits Like A Glove" was chosen for Sparks Best of 1997 issue. RoseMarie works as an executive assistant at a publishing company in New York where no one is aware she writes.

   Duncan Long is a professional artist and writer who often illustrates his own technical books. In addition to creating artwork, he has seen nearly 60 books he has written go into print, including 13 novels published by
HarperCollins and Avon Books. Long's fanciful illustrations are springing up at a number of Web sites as well as on covers of novels, magazines, and e-zines. His online gallery, 1st Encounters, can be found at:
http://www.kansas.net/~duncan/Artpage/
 

Another member of Duane Locke's salon in Tampa, Damniso Lopez counts him as a great influence on his sonnets.  He has had 60 poems accepted by 36 magazines since September 1998, when he began submitting his work,  including the Hollins Critic, which to his delight is going to pay him. He says he lives under a bridge, and admits to not having much of a life outside art.

Ron Overton's latest book of poems is Hotel Me.  He teaches in the Writing Program at SUNY Stony Brook.

A frequent contributor to Rio,Dennis Saleh has a new collection of poems to be published by Quicksilver in 1999--RHYMSES' BOOK, a suite of poems set in ancient Egypt; a lengthy prose excerpt from his novel about ancient Egypt, BAST, forthcoming in Happy; and poems and artwork forthcoming in Art/Life, Black Dirt, Nedge, and Poetry International.

Gail Lukasik  has been published in over 50 literary journals including The 
Georgia Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Poetry Northeast.  Her chapbook,  Landscape 
Toward a Proper Silence,  was published by Eye of the Comet Press.  She 
has completed a novel, Destroying Angels.   For examples of Gail's poetry, click.

Orlando Richardo Menes  is a Cuban-American whose  poems and translations have
recently appeared in the Indiana Review, Chelsea, Antioch
Review, and the Seneca Review. His collection Borderlands
with Angels won the 1994 Bacchae Press Chapbook Contest.
For examples of Orlando's poetry, click.