Nin Andrews and Mary Beth Shaffer received their MFAs from Vermont College several years ago. There they began collaborating on stories and poems and now a chapbook called The Sickness Artist. Their collaborations have been published in Quarter After Eight and The Indiana Review. Mary Beth Shaffer is a practicing therapist in Milwaukee, and Nin Andrews is the author of several books including The Book of Orgasms (newly out from Bloodaxe Books), Any Kind of Excuse, and Why They Grow Wings.

Christopher Arigo's first collection of poetry, Lit interim, won the Transcontinental Poetry Prize (selected by David Bromige) and was published by Pavement Saw Press (2003). His poems and poetry reviews have appeared in numerous journals.

Christopher Chambers lives in New Orleans. His work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Washington Square, Hayden's Ferry Review, Pindeldyboz, Quarter After Eight, Epoch, Quarterly West, and Exquisite Corpse, and in the anthologies French Quarter Fiction and Best American Mystery Stories of 2002. He is currently working on an old shotgun house.

Poems by Barbara DeCesare can be found in current editions of Alaska Quarterly Review, Evansville Review, Rattapallax's Short Fuse Anthology and Gargoyle Magazine's CD edition. She is the only person in the nation presently serving as a poet laureate for a rock radio station.

NYC artist Jordan Eagles explores the extremes of the body-spirit, constructing his canvases with stained glass paints, metallic powders, resin, and organic materials such as mammalian blood and eggshells. Currently showing at Eickholt Gallery in Soho. For more of Eagles' work and his current show schedule, please visit his website.

Jamey Gallagher has had writing published in Quick Fiction and other journals. He is the father of two precocious daughters, Evangeline and Corrina, and is currently a graduate student at St. Joseph's University.

Matthew Guenette is from New Hampshire, but now lives in Bloomington, IL, where one can see the lightning coming from two states away. He's given up on running a sub 6-minute mile, and lately he's had this recurring dream where he skates across a stadium-sized linoleum floor in a pair of socks. Recently, his work has been published at Poems & Plays, and online at WordsOnWalls. He also has poetry forthcoming in The Southern Indiana Review.

Jesse Lee Kercheval was born in France and raised in Florida. This at least partially explains her having writing a novel set in Paris, The Museum of Happiness, and a memoir, Space, about growing up near Cape Kennedy during the moon race. Her second poetry collection, Dog Angel, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin where she directs the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

L. S. Klatt teaches and writes in Athens, Georgia. Recent poems have appeared in New Orleans Review, Verse, and Fourteen Hills. He also has published a variety of book reviews in The Georgia Review, Jacket, and Verse. Klatt is currently completing his PhD in English at the University of Georgia.

Barbara Maloutas' chapbook, Practices, won the 2003 NMP/DIAGRAM chapbook contest, and will be published by NMP in late summer 2003.

Rita Maria Martinez was born and raised in Miami. Her poems have appeared in Vox and Gulf Stream magazine. Rita was the first place poetry recipient of the 12th annual FIU Literary Awards Competition and received an honorable mention last year for her poem, "Reading Jane Eyre," from AWP's Intro Journals Competition. She just graduated from the MFA Creative Writing Program at Florida International University.

Emily Rosko was awarded a 2002 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. Her work has found a home in Beloit Poetry Journal, Hubbub, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She received a MFA at Cornell, where she was a recipient of the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. In the fall, she will begin a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford.

Penelope Scambly Schott is the author of The Perfect Mother and Penelope: The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman, a narrative poem about an early New Jersey settler. Winner of four fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, she now lives in Oregon.

Nin Andrews and Mary Beth Shaffer received their MFAs from Vermont College several years ago. There they began collaborating on stories and poems and now a chapbook called The Sickness Artist. Their collaborations have been published in Quarter After Eight and The Indiana Review. Mary Beth Shaffer is a practicing therapist in Milwaukee, and Nin Andrews is the author of several books including The Book of Orgasms (newly out from Bloodaxe Books), Any Kind of Excuse, and Why They Grow Wings.

Bruce Smith was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the author of four books of poems, The Common Wages, Silver and Information (National Poetry Series Selection), Mercy Seat, and most recently, The Other Lover (University of Chicago) which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Syracuse University.

Benjamin Vogt has a freshly minted MFA from The Ohio State University, and has been admitted to the Ph.D. in English at the University of Nebraska. He's lived in Minnesota, Indiana, Oklahoma, and England. Poems have recently or will soon appear in The Evansville Review, Harpur Palate, Portland Review, Segue, and Valparaiso Poetry Review.

Steven Wingate teaches at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where he edits the new literary journal divide. His work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Exquisite Corpse, and the Fiction Collective 2 anthology Degenerative Prose: Writing Beyond Category.

Jake Adam York is a contributing editor for Shenandoah and the poetry editor of storySouth. He is from Gadsden, Alabama, and is now rewriting the 1901 Alabama Constitution. Recent work appears (or will appear) in Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review, and The Southern Review.