Michael Bowden’s prose poems have appeared in a number of anthologies including The Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal. His work is forthcoming in the journals Luna and Verse. He lives in Sierra Vista, Arizona.

Christopher Buckley’s eleventh book of poetry is Star Apocrypha (TriQuarterly Books, 2001). Appreciations, his selected critical essays and reviews 1975-2000, will be published by Millie Grazie Press in 2001. He is the recipient of an NEA grant in poetry for 2001 and serves as Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of California-Riverside.

Stfn Comack’s poems have appeared in Explorations 1999, Grasslands Review, Divided Again, and Currents III and are forthcoming in Poetry Motel.

Arnie Cooper’s work has appeared in Earth Beneath, Sky Beyond, an anthology of nature writings. His story “El Camino” is forthcoming in Nightfire. A teacher of English as a second language based in Santa Barbara, he also writes about new technologies for various magazines.

Patricia Corbus received the MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, and The Antioch Review.

Rebecca Dunham is editor of Phoebe, and has work forthcoming in The Cream City Review, Cimarron Review, and Poet Lore. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Don Eron once ran a small deli in Ketchum, Idaho. This is his first published story.

Elaine Ford’s fifth novel, Life Designs, was published in 1997. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Seattle Review, Quarterly West, Boston Globe Magazine, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. She is Professor of English at the University of Maine.

Elizabeth Gauffreau has published fiction in The Long Story, Soundings East, Ad Hoc Monadnock, Rio Grande Review, and The Brownstone Review, and she has published poetry in The Writing on the Wall.

William Greenway’s sixth collection of poems, Simmer Dim, was published by the University of Akron Press Poetry Series. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, and Poetry Northwest. He is Professor of English at Youngstown State University, where he is the poetry editor of English Journal.

Carol Guess is the author of two novels, Seeing Dell and Switch. Her memoir, Gaslight: One Writer’s Ghosts, is forthcoming from Odd Girls Press.

Mark Halperin teaches at Central Washington University. His latest book, Time as Distance (University of Western Michigan), as well as a chapbook, Now and Then (March Street Press), appeared in 2001.

James Harms is the author of three books of poetry, Modern Ocean, The Joy Addict, and Quarters. He directs the Creative Writing Program at West Virginia University.

Roger Hart’s story collection, Erratics, recently won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and will be published by Texas Review Press. He is presently working on a novel.  His essay, "Runners," appeared in Natural Bridge, no. 6.

Alamgir Hashmi, an anglophone poet and scholar, currently lives and works in Islamabad, Pakistan. His published works include The Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World (Gulmohar, 1988), The Poems of Alamgir Hashmi: Collected Poems (NBF, 1992), and A Choice of Hashmi’s Verse (OUP, 1997).

Corie Herman received an MFA from New York University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Kalliope, So to Speak, 5 AM, and The Subway Anthology. Her first collection of poetry, Radishes Into Roses, was published by Linear Arts Press. Currently, she is a Poet-in-Residence in NYC public schools.

Rochelle Holt’s books have been published since 1970. Recent titles include: Anais Nin: An Understanding of Her Art, Scars, and Caution: Child at Play. Kaleidoscope, poems on dance, was released in 2001.

Deanna Jent is Associate Professor of Performing Arts at Fontbonne College in St. Louis, where she teaches and directs. She is the editor of Christianity and Theatre magazine. 

Elizabeth Kadetsky’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Santa Monica Review, Greensboro Review, and Cream City Review. An excerpt from a memoir in progress will appear in an anthology of writings about yoga from Beacon Press this fall. She received an MFA from the University of California-Irvine.

George Keithley’s epic poem, The Donner Party, has been adapted as a play and an opera. He has written a prize-winning drama about Aaron Burr, The Best Blood of the Country. Soon to be completed is his book-length sequence of poems about Galileo.

John Knoepfle's books include Poems from the Sangamon (1985), The One Instant and Forever, and Prayer Against Famine, forthcoming in 2002.

Kathy Korcheck is a Spanish instructor at Missouri Southern State College in Joplin, Missouri. Her poems have appeared in Whiskey Island Magazine and elsewhere.

Ann Lauinger’s poems have appeared in Confrontation, Evansville Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and Rattapallax. She teaches Medieval and Renaissance literature at Sarah Lawrence College.

J.T. Ledbetter’s work has appeared in Poetry, Sewanee Review, Nimrod, Cimarron Review, and Prairie Schooner. He teaches English at California Lutheran University.

Rika Lesser, the author of three books of poems, has translated five books of poetry from Swedish and German, among them A Child Is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of Göran Sonnevi (Princeton, 1993). A recipient of the Poetry Translation Prize of the Swedish Academy, she is currently working on Sonnevi's 190-page meditative poem, "Mozart's Third Brain."

M.L. Liebler is the author of Written in Rain: New & Selected, and the forthcoming Breaking the Voodoo (Adastra Press) and has released several CDs of music and poetry. He teaches at Wayne State University and directs the YMCA National Writer’s Voice Project in Detroit.

Jon Marshall’s work has appeared in Natural Bridge, The Nebraska Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Wisconsin Review, and other publications. He teaches creative writing at St. Louis Community College-Meramec and is faculty editor of Currents, the student literary magazine.

Rick Mulkey is currently Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Converse College. Recent poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Frank (Paris), Connecticut Review, and The Literary Review and in the anthology American Poetry: The Next Generation. He is the author of Before the Age of Reason.

Douglas Nordfors teaches at James Madison University in Virginia. He has published poems most recently in Evansville Review, Slant, The Lucid Stone, and Poetry Northwest.

Katherine Novak teaches English at Greenland High School in Arkansas. Her poetry chapbook was featured in a year’s-end review in Writer’s Digest.

Naomi Shihab Nye’s works include Fuel and Never in a Hurry. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Eric Pankey is the author of five collections of poetry, For the New Year, Heartwood, Apocrypha, The Late Romances, and Cenotaph. He teaches in the MFA program at George Mason University.

Allan Peterson’s recent publication venues include The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, Mid-American Review, and Salt Hill. He was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the State of Florida and was a co-winner of the 1999 Literal Latte national poetry competition. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Montserrat Review.

Natalie Safir has published in Slant, Pivot, West Hills Review, Small Pond, Rhino, and other journals. She is the author of three collections: Moving into Seasons, To Face the Inscription, and Made Visible.

Miriam Sagan’s most recent books of poetry include Inadvertent Altar (La Alameda) and The Widow’s Coat (AHshata Press). She is the editor of Santa Fe Poetry Broadside.

Suzanne Scarfone, a member of the Detroit Writers’ Guild, teaches poetry, drawing, and movement to children and adults. Her poems have recently appeared in Cider Press Review and Phoebe. She is currently working on a collection of poems about those who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.

Briggs Seekins has poems in numerous literary journals and has work forthcoming in The Marlboro Review. He is a regular contributor to the Genius2000 Network.

Stephen Snipes received an MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is currently working and living in St. Louis.

Göran Sonnevi (b.1939) is the author of fourteen books of poems and a volume of poetry in translation; poets he has translated into Swedish include Pound, Mandelstam, and Celan. In 1983, he became a recipient of a lifetime grant from the Swedish government, bestowed on 125 artists in honor of their contributions to the nation's culture. He resides outside Stockholm.

Peter Streckfus resides in San Francisco and received his MFA from George Mason University.

J. Tarwood spent most of his adult life in Africa, South America, and the Middle East. He has two collections, And For the Mouth a Flower and The Cats in Zanzibar, and one chapbook, Black Snow.

Debbie Urbanski’s poems have been published in The Minnesota Poetry Calendar 2001 and Great River Review and are forthcoming in The MacGuffin and The Lucid Stone. 

Frank Van Zant has two collections published in 2000, Climbing Daddy Mountain (Pudding House) and The Lives of the Two-Headed Baseball Siren (Kings Estate Press). His poems are forthcoming in RE:AL and Pearl.

Ken Waldman has published in Arts & Letters, Many Mountains Moving, and Puerto del Sol. A freelance writer and teacher, he also tours as Alaska’s Fiddling Poet. He has a full-length collection, Nome Poems, and a CD, A Week in Eek. He lives in Anchorage. 

BJ Ward is the author of Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands. He teaches creative writing at the New Jersey Governor’s School for the Arts and is a recipient of Distinguished Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Baron Wormser is the author of five books of poetry and the co-author of a text about teaching poetry. He is Poet Laureate of Maine.

James Yerian graduated from Ohio University in 1999 with a BA in English and attended graduate school at West Virginia University. He lives in Athens, Ohio.

Harriet Zinnes has published seven collections of poetry, including her latest, My Haven’t the Flowers Been?, and has published two volumes of short stories, including The Radiant Absurdity of Desire. She is Professor Emerita of Queens College of the CUNY.