Camincha is from Miraflores, Peru and has an M.A. in Spanish Literature from San Francisco State University. She was selected by KDTV for their "One of Ours" segment to honor her contributions to the Latin American community in the Bay Area. She has published three collections, Where I Come From, Where I am Going/De Donde Vengo, A Donde Voy (poems), Indecent Exposure/Exhibición Impúdica (short stories), and Why Do I Think of Dead People at Poetry Readings?

Robert H. Dematree Jr. is a teacher and administrator with 42 years' experience in independent schools. The author of Lo, Hearts Behold: An Informal History of Greensboro Daly School and several articles on school-related subjects, he has had approximately 50 poems published or accepted for publication by 23 periodicals including Cold Mountain Review, Lonzie's Fried Chicken and Mobius. He lives in Greensboro, N.C.

Tom Feeny's work has appeared in Cape Rock, The Smith, Poets on and Event. He has taught Spanish and Italian at North Carolina State University for over thirty years. His poetry collection Night Into Day was published by Mellen Press in 1994.

J.N. Foster is a digital artist/photographer and a contributing writer to Hold Magazine. He has poetry forthcoming in Wordswrights' Magazine. His website is http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/jeffoster/index.html.

Laverne Frith's chapbook, In a Fast Food Place, was released from Talent House Press in December 1999. She has published poems in Poetry New York, The Dahousie Review, The Christian Science Monitor and elsewhere. She is recipient of several awards, including the Nostalgia Poetry Award for 2000 and Grand Prize in the 1997 Artists' Embassy International Poetic Dance Competition.

Mary Crockett Hill's first book of poems, If You Return Home with Food, won the 1998 Bluestem Award and is available from Bluestem Press. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, River Styx, Poetry Daily, and American Poetry: The Next Generation. She is the director of a small local history museum in her hometown.

Joanne Lowery's poems have appeared in Columbia, Florida Review, Northwest Review, Seneca Review, River Styx and others. Her most recent collection is Double Feature from Pygmy Forest Press. She lives in northern Indiana.

Adam Penna's work has appeared in or is forthcoming in Poetry in Motion, The East Hampton Star, Proteus, and The Long Island Quarterly. He is the former editor of Southampton College's literary magazine.

Simon Perchik's poetry has been published in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry and The New Yorker.

Sam Silva has published a total of ten chapbooks and has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Award. He is a regularly featured guest on the WFSS literary program "A Time to Listen." He is a regular contributor and political essayist of the alternative central Florida publication IMPACT.

Marvin Solomon has poems in Response, the new renaissance, Midstream, Potpourri, Pudding, has been in Poetry, and has had poems reprinted in A Random House Treasury of Humorous Verse and A Closer Shave: Man's Daily Search For Perfection.

Marc Widershien has published translations, articles, book reviews, and visual art for over 25 years. He has appeared in a New Directions anthology (Sel Poetry & Prose of Stephane Mallarme), Exile, The Wormwood Review, Nimrod, Pax, West Hills Review, Library Journal, Small Press Magazine, and others.