Gabriel Welsch is a former professional nurseryman whose poems appear in Many Mountains Moving, Carolina Quarterly, 5AM, Fourteen Hills, Mid-American Review, Antietam Review, and several other journals. His full-length collection was a finalist for the Katherine Mason Bakeless Prize, among others. He also writes fiction, and current work appears or will appear in Cream City Review, Mid-American Review, The MacGuffin, Ascent, and other places.

Francis Raven is editorial assistant at the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Broken Boulder press just recently published two of his chapbooks called Notestalk and Notationing. Mudlark recently published his Mall Poems, which can be viewed at: http://www.etext.org/Poetry/Mudlark/flashes/raven.html. He has been published in Beehive, Gestalten, Untitled, The In Posse Review, Fulrum, Rain Taxi, The East Village, Taint, and The New Colonist, among others.

Elizabeth Stamford has recently given up teaching high school to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing at New York University. She has lived and worked in Ecuador, Namibia and Sri Lanka.

Gwen Harlow lives in downtown Oakland, Calif., hiding within a massive pile of undeveloped rolls of film, shiny new X-acto blades, and freshly-sharpened blue pencils. She enjoys writing, photography, graphic design, admiring her slightly-yellowed diploma from Mills College, and updating her shrine to herself at dougspants.org.

Krista Clement is a 29 year old wife, mother of two, and writer. Currently she makes her home amidst the ruins of the 2002 Olympiad in Salt Lake City, Utah. Krista has also lived in Germany, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Washington State. Her short stories and articles have appeared in The-Phone-Book and several alternative and college newspapers.

Rob Maitra is co-director of Buzzer Thirty (www.buzzerthirty.com), a writing and arts center in Astoria. His writing has appeared in Pindeldyboz, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Popmatters, and MultiCultural Review. This spring he will also have a story published in Harrington's Gay Male Fiction Quarterly. This spring he will complete a two-year stint as a lecturer at Bryn Mawr College. He lives in Astoria. Baseball is his life.

David Barringer's latest fiction collection, We Were Ugly So We Made Beautiful Things, will soon be published by Word Riot Press. It includes an introduction by Steve Almond. David has written stories for Epoch, Nerve, Wisconsin Review, Quick Fiction, Failbetter, and many others. He maintains a website at www.davidbarringer.com.

Erika Dreifus's work has appeared in Facets, Lilith, Midstream (forthcoming), Teachers & Writers (forthcoming), and other publications. A 2002 Fiction Resident at the Vermont Studio Center, she will receive the M.F.A. degree from Queens University of Charlotte in May 2003. She teaches in the Harvard Extension School Writing Program.

Allan Peterson was recently awarded the 2002 Arts & Letters Poetry Prize. Last year his book "Anonymous Or" won the Defined Providence Press book competition. His work has appeared in recent print issues of: Water-Stone; Marlboro Review; Notre Dame Review; Shenandoah; Green Mountains Review Anthology, and online in Agni; Adirondack Review; Pierian Springs; Poetry Bay; and Full Circle. He has recieved poetry fellowships from both the NEA and the State of Florida.

Jeffrey N. Johnson is an appraiser, architect and writer who lives in Alexandria, Virginia. His stories have appeared or will soon appear in Potomac Review , Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Deal Mule, Story Bytes, L'Intrigue, The Story Garden, Words Literary Journal "Flash Forward" and others. He is currently working on a collection of short stories and his first novel.

David Cazden is editor of Miller's Pond (print edition, http://millerspondpoetry.com/davidpage.html). His poetry has been published in various places online and in print, including Rattle, Potpourri, and Poem's Niederngasse. He's had both poetry and a photograph appear in Stirring: A Literary Collection. He lives, writes, and takes pictures in Lexington, Kentucky.

Elizabeth P. Glixman's poetry and fiction has appeared in The Painted Moon Review, In Posse, The American Journal of Print , 3 A.M. Magazine, Snow Monkey, and the Muse Apprentice Guild. Her nonfiction work has been published in several anthologies, including Chocolate For A Woman's Soul II to be released by Simon and Shuster this spring. Elizabeth has a Masters Degree in Education and a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts. She used to work with children in arts and educational programs.

Jennifer Prado has a degree in Fiction Writing from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and studied Screen Writing at Film and Video Arts in New York City. Her short fiction and essays have appeared (or are forthcoming) in EWG Presents, Fiction Funhouse, Nuvein Magazine, Pindeldyboz, Thought Café, and Tower of Babel. She has recently completed her first novel, Love and Sex, and is maneuvering the perplexing world of New York agents, editors, and publishers.

Robert Lunday is the author of Mad Flights, a collection of poems published by Ashland Poetry Press. View his web site at www.robertlunday.com

Kate Cohen has been a working artist and creative director since 1982, with projects including book illustration, animated short film, web site and computer game design, digital fine art and painting. In 2000 — after 10 years of managing large-scale projects for large-scale clients — she opened Kate Cohen Fine and Applied Arts, a boutique design firm specializing in the complete production of beautifully crafted smaller-scale web sites — as well as the sale of her oil paintings and sculpture. Working primarily in oils, her painting encompasses both figurative and abstract works and includes commissioned portraits. She is creative director at http://www.californiaauthors.com and her work can be seen at http://www.katecohen.com.

Karen Mandell lives in Needham MA where she and her husband Fred watch their three mostly grown children marching to very different drummers. She's been published in various literary magazines, and this summer her chapbook, probably titled The Story You Think You're Telling, will be published by White Heron Press.

Summer Lopez is a Southern California native who currently lives in Ghana, West Africa, where she writes, teaches and does development work in the areas of girls' education and HIV/AIDS. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in California Quarterly, Red Booth Review, Gin Bender Poetry Review and Tryst.

Paul A. Toth lives in Michigan. His short fiction has been nominated for this year's Pushcart prize, Best American Mystery Stories and the Mild Horse Press e2ink Anthology. His novel Fizz will be published by Bleak House Books in late 2003. He recently completed his second novel. For more information, please see www.netpt.tv.

Vijaya Ravindran is a 22 year old, who lived in Dubai, loved India, (and still does), raved about comics (and still does), made it through college with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, found friends who made her think and write, and is now on the laps of a software firm in Pune. She’s passionate about music, India and everything Indian. She believes that this is the first step towards her dream of becoming an accomplished writer someday.

Jason Rizos currently resides in Saint Louis, Missouri, where he is pursuing a master's degree in the craft of fiction at a University of the same name. His work as appeared in a variety of newspapers and journals, including the Sacramento News and Review, Stir and Ardentia Literary Magazine.