William teaches English at Furman. He has two collections of poems—Learning to Dance (1991) and Predicaments (2001)—both published by Ninety-Six Press. Recent poems have appeared online at Sunset and Silencers, Umbrella, and nth position.

Jeffrey received an honorable mention for the Rachel Sherwood Poetry Prize. Recent credits include Blue Earth Review, Pearl Magazine, River Oak Review, and The Saint Ann's Review. He is the author of a chapbook, Strangers within the Gate (2005). He occasionally works as a drayman and a thresher.

Jacob has published short stories in more than one hundred literary journals including Conjunctions, Missouri Review and Virginia Quarterly Review. Jacob is a graduate of the MFA program in fiction at New York University, Harvard Law School and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He currently practices medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. More at: http://www.jacobmappel.com.

Nathalie is a middle-aged French woman living in Rome, Italy. She has more hobbies than spare time, alas—reading, cooking, writing, painting and photography—so hopes that her technical colleagues at the European Space Agency will soon come up with a solution to that problem by stretching the fabric of time. Either that or send her up to write about the travels and trials of the International Space Station, the way this was done for the exploratory missions of old. Clearly the woman is a dreamer. http://wordofthedayfreshfresh.blogspot.com/

Shane is a freelance writer in northern Nevada. His work has appeared in publications ranging from Brevity: A Concise Journal of Literary Nonfiction through Rhetoric Review to Renaissance magazine. Despite delays, 2010 should see the publication of his latest composition textbook, The Cost of Business and two edited collections: Rhetoric in the Rest of the West and On the Blunt Edge. His children are unimpressed.

Katarina is originally from south Louisiana. She graduated with honors from TCU with a BA in English, and a BA in music. A private vocal and piano teacher by day, poetess and musician by night and early morning light, Lines + Stars, Inscape, and the Northville Review will feature new work in 2010. She currently lives in Connecticut with two cats, two pianos, and a veritable city population of books. http://www.katarinaboudreaux.com

Kevin has had work published in over seventy journals and was nominated for a 2007 Journey Award and a Pushcart Prize. His first book Ink On Wood is scheduled to be published in the summer of 2010. His website is: http://www.InvisibleBodies.com

Scott Cadman is 15-years-old and lives in London. He specializes in UrbEx photography, Urban Exploration, which envolves documenting the arts of abandoned, decaying buildings. You can view his photos on http://www.flickr.com/photos/berngraffiti/
You can contact him: scott.cadman1@btinternet.com"

Lisa lives in Chapel Hill, NC, and teaches literature, writing, and journalism at North Carolina Central University in Durham. She previously taught at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She has published poetry and short fiction in small journals, including, most recently, a poem, “In the Driveway,” in Exquisite Corpse: Journal of Letters and Life. She exhibited her photographs in a solo show in Chapel Hill in 2005.

Kristina has been drawing pictures since she could hold a crayon. When she was old enough to have those funny little coloring books where you would dip a pen in water and then put it on the pictures to "magically" reveal the colors, she would rather create her own picture stories on the back, blank pages than color the pictures already there. Growing up, nearly every page of her notebooks in school had a doodle on them or even a little story spreading over multiple pages and art was always her favorite subject. After her high-school graduation in 2000, she fled Montana and came to New York City to study Theatre. Quickly after graduating from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, she realized she liked art more than theatre and is currently working on expanding on her first love. She studied with the legendary Irwin Greenberg at the Art Students League of New York for over a year and is now finishing up a BFA in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts in N YC. In addition to private commissions and freelancing, she apprentices with top illustrator and friend Donato Giancola in his studio. http://www.kristinacarrollart.com

Jill's memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002. Recent essays appearing in River Teeth and Harpur Palate have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has also been published in Brevity, Barrelhouse, Descant, Literary Mama, Mississippi Review, Wondertime, and other journals and magazines. She teaches creative nonfiction in Ashland University’s low-residency MFA program and at Ball State University in Indiana where she lives with her husband, Mark Neely, and their two children.

C.A. lives in Colorado. Once employed in the health field, she sometimes looks for work. Recent publications include stories and flash in Straylight, and The Broken Plate, as well as various journals online. She can be contacted at c2london@comcast.net

Sarah recently moved from Los Angeles to New London, CT to get in on the fantastic art scene there. She is also a director, actress, illustrator and singer/songwriter. She designed the elegant labels for the official Neil Gaiman Stardust perfume line by Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab and has exhibited her work in a number of galleries across the country. In April she will be directing the debut of Heartbreaker written by Michael R. McGuire at the Eugene O'Neill Theater. You can keep up with Sarah at: http://www.thesarahcoleman.com & http://www.twitter.com/thesarahcoleman

Molly is an artist, author, and the founder of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School. You can find out more about it at http://www.drsketchy.com and more about Molly at http://www.mollycrabapple.com

Bored and disillusioned by the corporate rat race, Stacey decided to turn her focus to her lifelong creative dream - photography - and she hasn’t looked back since. Now a freelance photographer with a passion for images that tell a story all on their own, especially black and white images, Stacey strives to push herself to learn new techniques, new perspectives, new ways of seeing things. She is often inspired by the tone of an image, the power of an expression, the glint of an eye - this is what draws a viewer in and creates a mood. Please feel free to contact her at stacey@staceyzgallery.com or visit her website at http://www.cafepress.com/urbangarden for prints, gifts, portraits and special orders.

Christophe is a French artist who lived in south of France, in a small town called Perpignan, near Spain on the Mediterranean coast. His creations are open doors on fantastic and dreamy horizons where digital photography serves the fanciful imagery of surrealist photomontages. His universes are desolate, vast, insubstantial. Gigantic scaled structures rule the landscapes, dwarfing human beings to the size of ants. His post-apcalyptic kingdoms, equally poetic and terrifying, are visions of the end of the world. His work has appeared in cover art book and CD covers in Europe, and has recently been featured in Advanced Creations and PSD Photoshop Magazine. His photographic visions are invitations to remote and chimeric territories. A travel into a mysterious journey. http://www.flickr.com/photos/midnight-digital/ and http://www.midnight-artwork.com

Rahul is just beginning his journey into professional photography at 21 years of age. Photography came as a natural extension of his lust for travel and exploration. Through the viewfinder of his camera, he looks into the different worlds of his subjects and forms deep connections with people, understanding their culture and way of life. To see more of his work, please visit http://www.rahuldhankaniphotography.50webs.com

Danny, a music school dropout, holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Roosevelt University where his collection of poetry Salju won the graduate college’s outstanding thesis award. He was the 2007-2008 editor-in-chief of Oyez Review and in 2006 he founded the Maryland State Poetry & Literary Society’s publication Attic. His poetry has appeared or will appear in journals such as Poems & Plays, Gargoyle, Rambler, After Hours, Manorborn, and Into the Teeth of the Wind. He will also appear in the forthcoming Pudding House anthology Reeds and Rushes. Danny currently teaches in Gwangmyeong, South Korea.

Denise's most recent books are Ka-Ching! (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); and Kinky (Orchises Press, 1997). A bilingual edition of her poems, Afortunada de mí (Lucky Me), translated into Spanish by Dagmar Buchholz and David Gonzalez, came out in 2008 with Bartleby Editores (Madrid.) A recipient of an NEA Fellowship, she is an associate professor at Florida International University in Miami.

Kathleen is a PhD candidate in English Studies at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. Her critical and creative work has appeared recently in Sub-Lit, The International Journal of Arts in Society, 2008 AWP Pedagogy Forum, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Critiphoria, Euphemism, and l’bourgeoizine, among others. Her research and dissertation focus is cognitive poetics and creative writing.

Ana is a multilingual poet and author educated in Europe and at Georgetown University. She holds a Magister Artium degree in Linguistics. Her poems are published in seven countries in the original text and in translation. She is a frequent featured speaker at libraries, seminars and literary venues. Ana Elsner promotes equal access to poetry for a broad and diverse audience worldwide. She makes it her mission to mentor and encourage the next generation of poets. Elsner conducts informal poetry workshops and supports creative writing in any literary genre. She is currently working on a new manuscript titled Resurrected Omissions - Poems by Ana Elsner. Website:
http://www.redroom.com/author/ana-elsner and
http://anaelsner.blogspot.com/

Michael was born and raised in New York, but his soul has always been timeless. He likes to think his images reveal as much of him, as his subjects. You can find out more about his work by visiting http://www.loophole7.net/. He can be contacted by email: michael@loophole7.net.

Donald is the author of the novel Good Money After Bad and editor of the anthology Cubbie Blues: 100 Year of Waiting Till Next Year. Other stories in his collection An Off-White Christmas have been published in Story Quarterly, The Journal, Pinyon, Narrative Magazine, Xavier Review, and The Write City Magazine. The title story received a citation in Best American Short Stories and two others Pushcart Prize nominations.

Douglas is a writer and photographer from the Midwest living in Oaxaca, Mexico. You may find contact information and links to more of his work at http://faveroso.wordpress.com

Jackie is a full-time public relations manager and occasional poet. She lives in Nebraska with her husband and their vintage cat. In addition to Conclave: A Journal of Character, her work has appeared most recently in Plainsongs and Nebraska Life. You can reach her at jhog@cox.net or visit http://secondbasedispatch.wordpress.com where she blogs about breast cancer and poetry.

Magnus has been working as a photographer, journalist and editor since 1994. At present he is editor-in-chief for a Swedish photo magazine. He also do some freelancing and works with his own projects. He likes to do reportage, portraits, and street photography. You may see more of his photography at http://www.froderberg.com

Vinayak, an engineer by qualification, found his love for traveling when he spent a year in France as an exchange student and got the opportunity to travel across Europe. He continued his quest to travel even after his return to India. Besides traveling, Vinayak is passionate about education sector reforms and has founded an NGO, V.I.S.V.A.S. and an IT company for improvement of educational standards in India. You can email him at: vinayakgarg@gmail.com; His personal blog is: www.vinayakgarg.com; some of his photos are available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinayakgarg/

Eliza travels constantly, sleeps uneasily, paints recklessly, speaks nasally, and frowns by default. She is a perseid mirror to the Gaze, bouncing it back on itself. http://toxoplasm.org

Daniel has worked for 27 years as a Boston-based freelance journalist, writing largely about the performing arts. From 1995 to 2005, he was the sole writer of the Boston Herald's weekly folk/blues music column. He's been teaching writing for 22 years at Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and recently, at Lesley University. As a journalist, he’s lunched with Glenn Close, been served tea by Jeremy Irons, drank soda with Liberace, rode to the airport with Judy Collins, been upbraided by Pearl Bailey, been called “a metaphysical conversationalist” by Rosanne Cash, been drunk under the table by Richard Yates, and been sung to by Ray Charles. In college, he was best known for his Elvis Presley imitation. As a 16 year-old, he was extended, but sadly turned down, an offer to join a small, one-ring traveling circus.

Mark is a professional photographer based in England who has recently been awarded one of Europe’s top landscape awards for his work. He has been in the business for over 30 years now and is well respected in his field as a professional. http://www.picturesandwords.org

Michael served as a professor and administrator at St. Mary's College of Maryland from 1970 until his retirement in June of 2008. A recipient of the Homer Dodge Endowed Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Columbia Merit Award for service to poetry, Glaser is widely sought as a speaker and workshop leader. His most recent collections of poetry are Being a Father and Fire before the Hands. Glaser has served as Poet Laureate of Maryland since August, 2004. His poem “Eve’s Reach” will be published in a forthcoming Chapbook, Remembering Eden, to be published by Finishing Line Press. His website is www.smcm.edu/poet/. He may be contacted at msglaser@smcm.edu.

Richard is the author of The Soul of Creative Writing and French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. He has written on a variety of subjects for many national publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Review, Vanity Fair, Saveur, Creative Nonfiction, Louisville Review, Ascent, French Review, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. He teaches creative nonfiction at Spalding University's MFA in Writing Program. His website is www.richardgoodman.org.

Jonathan’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, has appeared or is forthcoming in over a hundred literary reviews, most recently in Borderlands, The Chaffin Journal, Many Mountains Moving, and Roanoke Review, and his book review of Karen Solie’s Pigeon will be published in Interim’s 2010 issue. In his everyday life, he works as a Spanish interpreter and eats lots of dark chocolate. When he forgets to comb his hair, he sort of looks like Tintin the Belgian reporter.

Lisa has a B.A. in English from the University of Utah. She is currently a student in the Warren-Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She grew up in Florida and Utah and now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her husband and one-eyed cat. Her email address is lisavhadley@gmail.com.

Maura is an artist, writer, and part time Derby Girl living in Western Wisconsin. Her work can be found at www.maurahenn.com

Mark is 45-years-old and lives with his wife and son in the Seattle area. He is an IT professional by trade, and his main recreational interest is photography, specifically street portraiture.

Dustin has an MFA in fiction from Bowling Green State University. He is currently working on his PhD in creative writing at Western Michigan University. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Takahe, Sugar House Review, Black Warrior Review, and Gargoyle.

Beth is a photographer, art-maker, writer, fighter, lover, blogger, wanderer, and impulsive optimist. She took this photograph of a stranger; nine months later, her subject is now both her boss and her friend. She takes this as proof that the universe has more in store for us than we may realize at a given moment. Beth has the words "aut viam inveniam aut faciam" tattooed on her wrist, and she lives by them. Her photography and other art is live at http://www.bethhommel.com.

Randall is the author of The Definition of Place (Main Street Rag) and the coeditor for Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora (Third World Press). He was born in Birmingham, AL and now resides in Albany, NY.

Louisa writes poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. Her flash fiction has appeared in Night Train, Carousel (Canada), Bateau, and The Birmingham Arts Journal.

Leland was a recent winner of the Portland Pen Poetry Contest and the Writers' Forum Short Poem contest. He was runner up for the Fish International Poetry Prize and received the Franklin-Christoph Merit Award for poetry. His work has placed or received honorable mentions in several other contests, including the St. Louis Writers Guild, Tom Howard, New Millennium Writers, and By Line. His work has appeared in publications in the US, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, and Israel, including New Millennium Writers, Orbis, Magma, Reach Poetry, Barnwood International Poetry Mag, Voices of Israel, Osprey Journal, Cyclamens and Swords, Galaxy, The Umbrella, The Delinquent, Thirty First Bird Review, Carillon Magazine, joyful, Inspirit, Harûah, Shine, Ruminate, The Enigmatist, Conclave, Dawntreader and Tipton Poetry Journal.

Stephen was President of the Short Mystery Fiction Society from July 2006 to July 2008. He has published stories in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Mouth Full Of Bullets (The Best of Year One), Amsterdam Scriptum, and the short story anthology Doses of Death. His story Jimmy Crick won both First Place and the Reader's Choice Award in the Clarity of Night Midnight Road contest. Although originally Canadian, Stephen lives with his wife and two children near Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where he is currently writing a thriller. He can be contacted at stephen.johnston@casema.nl.

Lawrence has published poetry in cream city review, Energy Review and Chronogram and will soon be published in Ibbetson Street. His chapbook Strange News was published by Pudding House Publications in March 2008. He has also published essays on CommonTies.com and Arkansas Public Radio’s Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Mr. Kessenich was an editor at Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston for ten years, where he read for the publisher’s annual poetry series and worked on Selected Poems: Anne Sexton and Anne Sexton: A Biography. He also worked with two Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award-winning novelists and many other fiction and nonfiction writers. He lives in Boston and now makes his living as a part-time marketing writer.

Claire is Professor Emerita at Salem State College, where she taught English for 30 years. Her poems, essays and reviews have appeared in such journals as Valparaiso Review, Calyx, Blueline, and The Women’s Review of Books, as well as in several anthologies, including Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv. Winner of the Beullah Rose Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace, she is a recipient of a grant in poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a fellowship from the Wurlitzer Foundation. The Question of Rapture, a book of poems, was recently published by Mayapple Press.

Kathy is a playwright, essayist, and novelist. She holds a BFA in dramatic writing from NYU and an M.A. in English from the University of North Dakota. Kathy teaches writing and women studies at the U. of North Dakota. For more info on her plays, please visit at www.dakotalit.com. Her email is: katking@dakotalit.com.

Manda is a self-taught artist living and working out of Ohio. Her illustrations are a mixture of the whimsical and the macabre, using traditional mediums. She has mainly done with private commissions and recently did some label design for The Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. To see more of her work or to contact her, please visit http://lunchboxmonkey.deviantart.com/profile.

Gérard has been a photographer for 40 years. He participates in the publication of books on the history of Paris and Parisians. His web site specializes on the 11 ème district of Paris: www.parisfaubourg.com. Gérard may be contacted at glavalette@gmail.com.

Amanda grew up in Ontario, Canada, and now lives in Scotland, where she is completing a Masters degree in Creative Writing at the University of St. Andrews. She has had articles published in various periodicals in Canada, the United States, and England, and is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.

Giang was born in Vietnam during the aftermath of the war, and raised and educated in Germany, the US, and Canada. As a teenager, he became fascinated with the power and emotions images can evoke in people. He has since then tried to share this passion through his captures. You may view more of his work at: http://www.milleluce.com. He may be contacted: giang@milleluce.com

Justin is currently working on a narrative non-fiction book about the siege of Breslau in 1945.

Soo is a Korean American writer and modern dancer who splits her time between two cities, Brooklyn and Baltimore. In New York, she is studying to become a fashion designer and learning to put her art where her heart is. Bi-cultural, bisexual, and bilingual, she often flounces back and forth between her many worlds and finds beauty in the gray areas in between. Her favorite words are ineffable, evanescent, and wahlguhduk, which means wild, unruly girl in Korean. Her greatest inspiration is her 14-year-old son whose writing and art makes her cry. http://mountainmermaid.blogspot.com/

Albert is a 73-year-old man who used to be a biochemist and is now a psychotherapist in private practice. He takes pictures of things he likes and likes to see. Albert says, “Don't look for symbolic meaning in my images.”

Vikki is twenty-four and lives in Cheshire, England. She is studying English and Creative Writing at Chester University and writes articles for various newspapers and student publications. Her website is http://vikkilittlemore.wordpress.com or www.twitter.com/florentinemuray

In 1999, Sebastián began to study at the Professional Communications and Art Institute (ARCOS). Two years later he got the chance to start as an assistant photographer in "Paula", one of the top fashion magazines in Chile, recognized by its photographic work. Few months later he scaled to photographer, a position that he has held until today. In 2004, Sebastián took the seminar dictated by the Argentinean photographer Daniel Barraco. In 2005, he earned a scholarship, the New Journalism Iberoamerican Foundation grants, to take a seminar in photojournalism with Susan Meiselas, sponsored by the Photographic Reporters Association of Argentina (ARGRA). And in 2007, Sebastián took a postgraduate seminar about Digital Creation in ARCOS. His work may be viewed at http://www.sebastianutreras.com, and he may be contacted at info@sebastianutreras.com.

Christina is the author of What We Burned for Warmth and Little Fires. An award-winning poet and Pushcart nominee, her work is widely published and anthologized in such publications as Harvard Summer Review, Diner, Poet Lore, Susan B & Me, and others. Recently named Emerging Poet by the Southern Women Writers’ Conference, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New England College. She is the recipient of several artists’ grants from the Kentucky Arts Council (most notably a 2007 Al Smith Fellowship) and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Lovin teaches college writing courses and presents writing workshops around the country.

Sarah is a sophomore at the San Francisco School Of The Arts. She enjoys living in and making art around the bay area. She hopes, one day, to move to Kansas. She can be reached at Bluehornedmonkey@comcast.net.

Tom is the author of a half dozen novels, the latest of which, Metal Heads, is forthcoming from Künati Books in Spring of 2009. He lives in Mountain View, California, and works at Apple Inc in software engineering. He can be reached at tom.maremaa@gmail.com.

Jessica was born in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1982 and is a 2005 Kenyon College graduate with a BA in English. In addition to being a photographer, she is also a teacher of both Art and English as a foreign language. She has resided in Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico since August 2008 where she also works with the non profit group, "Friends of Oaxacan Folk Art" (FOFA). To view more of her work, visit: http://www.jessicahubbardmarr.com and contact her via: jhubbardmarr@gmail.com.

Tara has published fiction, poetry, and essays in numerous anthologies and literary magazines (such as Confrontation, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Natural Bridge, New Millennium Writings, Red River Review, and The Caribbean Writer), and her essays have been read on NPR. Two limited edition illustrated chapbooks featuring her flash fiction have been published by The Feral Press (Oyster Bay, NY: 2006). Awards for her work include first place in The Ledge Magazine’s fiction contest, second place in Jane’s Stories Flash Fiction contest, a finalist fiction grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web nomination. She judges the intercultural essay prize for the annual Soul-Making Literary Contest, and is editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, due out from Rose Metal Press in 2009. www.taramasih.com.

Michael is an international travel photographer and tour guide. He primarily focuses on documenting the human spirit in Asia and Latin America. You can find his images at www.michaelmatlach.com.

Salva was born in 1984 in Tehran, Iran. He moved to the Netherlands in 1991 where he met Xu-Ling Tu, who was born in 1985 in Venlo. Together they started making photographs in 2008 to show how they see the world. Their work may be viewed at http://www.miec.nl/pixel.

Michelle grew up in the northwoods of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan and now lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. She teaches at UNL where she is a PhD student in Creative Writing. Some of her recent work can be found in Diagram, Boxcar Poetry Review, Double Room, and other literary journals.

Jack hates writing bios, yet enjoys referring to himself in the third person, so it's sort of a wash. His poetry has appeared in several journals, most recently RHINO, Harpur Palate, and Packingtown Review. His next bio may employ the majestic plural, just to shake things up a bit.

Rafael is a Cultural Studies professor at St. Thomas University and a Cuban-American writer living and working in Miami. His literary work reflects his dual upbringing in the Cuban-American community of Hialeah, Florida, and the academic communities of a number of institutions of higher learning. His poetry has most recently appeared in Tattoo Highway, Conclave: A Journal of Character, The Honey Land Review, Paradigm, inscape (Kansas), Triggerfish Critical Review, Mastodon Dentist and DASH (Cal State-Fullerton). He is married to the far superior Cuban-American poet, Celia Lisset Alvarez.

Indigo’s Through the Stonecutter’s Window was selected for the 2009 Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize. His first book Tap-Root was published in 2007 as part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series. Other honors include: Cave Canem writing fellowship; former vice president of the Sacramento Poetry Center; 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Prize for Emerging Writers; 2008 Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. http://www.indigomoor.com

Mark's poems have appeared in Boulevard, Indiana Review, North American Review, Meridian and Salt Hill. He is the editor of a literary magazine, The Broken Plate, and teaches at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he lives with his wife, writer Jill Christman, and their two children. The poems appearing here are part of a sequence he is working on entitled Fishing With Lorenzo.

William writes in multiple genres. His first collection of stories, Zombi, You My Love, won the GLCA New Writers Award in 2000, previously given to Sherman Alexie, Alice Munro, Louise Erdrich, and Richard Ford. His second collection, Across the River, won the Texas Review Novella Prize for 2009. His first novel, Killer of Crying Deer, is appearing in September of 2010. Other stories and poems of his have appeared in over 100 publications, including The Princeton Arts Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Sou'Wester, and The New Formalist, and he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in both genres. His plays have been performed in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Louisville, Buffalo and Boston, with a recent staged reading in Manhattan; currently he is a Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College. His work can be seen at http://www.williamorem.com

Christina has been writing most of her life. Her most recent book of poetry is Greatest Hits, 1975-2001, Pudding House, 2002 (A “by invitation only” series). Her novel The Moon It Gives No Light was in the top one hundred Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards of 2008 and is still in search of a publisher. She can be reached at pacosz@earthlink.net.

Susan's fiction has been published by Glimmer Train, Featherproof Books, Muse, and Whiskey Island. Her first novel, A Body at Rest, was published in 2009 by Drinian Press. You can read more of her work at http://www.susanpetrone.com. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and daughter and far too many dogs.

A two-time Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, Anne Phelan is an award-winning and published playwright. She has been a Guest Artist at The Juilliard School, Playwright-in-Residence at the William Inge Theatre Festival, an Artistic Associate at the Milk Can Theatre Company; her plays have been produced in New York City, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Anne is a member of the Dramatists Guild. www.annephelan.com

Ron, a Canadian by birth, is an avid photographer who works as a teacher of English as a foreign language in his adopted home of Örebro, Sweden. You may view his work at his flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweron/ and his photo website: www.rapyke.com. He can be contacted at info@rapyke.com.

Christine's manuscript, Facade was named a top semifinalist in the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. A second novel is underway. Ms. Reish lives with her husband and two children in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her website is www.myspace.com/christinebethreish and she may be contacted at: christinereish@yahoo.com.

Ryan is a Knightstown, IN native who has made a career of straying. From one medium to another. From jobs as wide-ranging as grave marker salesman to room service. He went to Purdue for accounting and ended up with a degree in painting. He currently resides in Chicago with a MFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago pushing out writings, paintings and songs from his band Hannis Pannis. For more information visit his website at: http://www.ryanbrichey.com.

Lori's short screenplay, “Strange Saints,” won the Manhattan Short Film Festival’s Screenplay Competition. Her poetry chapbook, Wall to Wall, was published by Finishing Line Press. Lori’s poetry and short stories have been published in more than eighty journals and anthologies, and she was recently nominated for a second Pushcart Prize. Lori can be reached via email at lori@tarecords.com.

Monique is a writer, producer and sometime radio talk show co-host on Sirius Satellite Radio and WBAI 99.5 in New York City. She holds an MA in Creative Writing/Poetry from New York University. Her poetry and fiction are slated to appear in upcoming 2010 issues of the Wilderness House Literary Review, The Porchlight Literary Review, and The Paris Review.

Richard said, “Maureen Alsop hosted a series of poetry readings at the Palm Springs Desert Museum. One evening Maureen and I discussed the frustration we shared over compositions that compelled us yet remained unfinished, so we each traded a poem. Little of Maureen's language survived, but her mood remains intact, and in that way the poem still belongs to her.”

Richard Rutherford is working on a homeless living quarters project he began during the housing boom. He can be reached at rixyrufus@yahoo.com

Roger's passion for photography began at an early age amongst a sea of photography publications: Life, Look and National Geographic magazines. Having worked in the travel industry for many years, Roger has gone beyond the border, finding shots throughout the world. His work can be seen in small galleries in the Atlanta area. Aside from travel photography, his passion includes landscape, black and white, macro and street photography: http://www.flickr.com/photos/r-salz/

Viola was born in 1972 and lives between Modena and Florence, Italy. After a lifetime of loving photography from afar, she won her first digital Nikon in 2006 and began to “freeze moments.” Shot after shot, she discovered that her years devoted to observation of others’ art had taught her to capture what most people do not usually see, what does not seem worthy of attention, what our eyes are not used to focusing on. With her photography, she hopes to convey the same emotional involvement that she is overwhelmed with when shooting the photo. You may see more of her work at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/viola_lorenza/ and http://www.ifotografi.org/free/violalorenzasavarese/. She may also be contacted at: lorenza.savarese@cotamo.it.

Darci received her MFA degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2008. She teaches English and writing and orbits the city of Minneapolis on its Metro Transit buses. Her fiction has appeared in Volume One magazine, and two of her poems were winners in the 2009 - 2010 cycle of the What Light poetry competition through mnartists.org and Magers and Quinn Booksellers. Any correspondence can be electronically mailed to her at darci.schummer@gmail.com

Steven has published stories and plays in such journals as The Pushcart Prize, TriQuarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Night Train, Eclectica Magazine, Post Road, Third Coast and Painted Bride Quarterly and is a five-time recipient of Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant Awards. You can find out more about his work by visiting http://mysite.verizon.net/stevenschutzman/ or write to him at stevenschutzman@juno.com.

Steven is a Chicago writer whose theatrical productions include Heat Wave, Broken Fences, Words with C, Something Blue, and Discovery Channel. He is currently a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, and his fiction has appeared in The Chicago Reader, Conclave, New Millennium Writings, Spork Magazine and Drift. He has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and has written several short films. Steven holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, an MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College and an MLA from the University of Chicago. When he is not writing you can find him playing in his band, Supra Genius, or dancing in the kitchen with Johnny, Gracie, and Karen.

Danny teaches writing at Endicott College. His work has been published in New York Quarterly, English Journal, American Dissident, and Harvard Review. His play, "Teachers Who Smoke Cigarettes" was published in The Art of the One-Act in 2007. "Sleeping with the Cat 1963" was performed at the Firehouse Theater's New Works in January 2010, and his full-length play, Hack License was performed in March 2010 at the Actors Studio.

Jeremy is the senior editor of Greater Good magazine. His essays, poems, and short stories have appeared in The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Utne Reader, Watchword, Wired, and numerous other periodicals and books. He is the author of The Daddy Shift, forthcoming from Beacon Press in 2009, and co-editor of The Compassionate Instinct, forthcoming from W.W. Norton & Co. in 2009. He lives in San Francisco. You can learn more about him and his work at www.jeremyadamsmith.com.

KH is an agricultural engineer who for years has pitched water conservation in places common to strange. He began writing poetry to capture the sounds and smells of foreign markets, the colors and textures of new crops, and the remarkable characters that peopled his agricultural adventures. Now working on a second career, Ken dilatorily combs beaches in Morro Bay, CA.; he finds it pays about as well as poetry. His publication credits include ZYZZYVA, The English Journal, River Oak Review, The Healing Muse, Avocet, and others.

Kirsten is a photographer from Little Rock, Arkansas, and has been recently published in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Aisthesis Journal, and Anderbo. She holds a BFA in studio art/photography from the University of Central Arkansas and is making plans to pursue her MFA in the fall. You may reach her at kristenspickard@gmail.com

Sanna is a 23-year-old woman from Värnamo, Sweden. Since she finished high school, Sanna has been travelling and studying in Europe and the United States, where she has managed to capture some moments on the way. She loves taking photos but does it more as a hobby. One of her favorite themes is fathers and their children. She currently lives in Lund, in the south of Sweden, and studies psychology. http://www.videkisse.com/

yt was born in the UK, raised all over Australia, and settled happily in Melbourne. Her short stories have appeared in various literary journals, anthologies and magazines worldwide and she’s currently coaxing a motley group of them into a collection. She plans to spend the rest of 2010 expanding her vinyl collection, finishing her tattoos, and filling her bookshelves. Contact her here— ytsumner@gmail.com Read her here—http://lambeatswolf.wordpress.com

Alison is currently living in France, with her husband, two small children, and their big dog. She has arrived there via stints in five other countries. It's a great place to take photos, but hopefully it is not the final stop on the journey.

Gillian was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her work has appeared in various national and international journals. She is the author of three chapbooks published by Withwords Press; and her collection, Fish Bones (DC Books, 2009), was shortlisted for the QWF McAuslan First Book Prize. She has a Master's degree in Creative Writing from Concordia University. She presently resides in Montreal. http://www.gilliansze.com

Kendra has been writing stories since she was in Mrs. Jewel's first grade class for dyslexic learners. After overcoming her disability, she went on to become a Middle School Language Arts teacher. She is also the author of Absence with Pictures, an award winning play produced at Verser Theater in Arkansas, and a forthcoming young adult novel, Ravenheart. Kendra Thomas now lives in Raleigh with her husband, Chris, who is and will always be her knight in shining armor.

Savannah's poetry has appeared in over a dozen regional and international literary journals. A literary agent is currently marketing her first novel to publishers. She holds a magna cum laude M.A. from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois; a summa cum laude M.S. from Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont; and a B.A. from the University of Iowa where she studied in the Writers’ Workshop under notable poets.

John is the Director of the Oradell Public Library in New Jersey. His chapbook of poetry Seriously Serial is published by Poets Wear Prada, Hoboken, NJ. His translations, poetry, and visual work appear or are forthcoming in Sensations Magazine, Cover, Global City Review, Xavier Review, The Alternative News, Parse (Alchemy), Radix, Now Culture, The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, Off the Coast, TAU-USA, Maintenant, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, and many others. His chapbook Latter-Day Litany in its performance version has been staged Off-Off Broadway and elsewhere by Daniel P. Quinn. Trause was a participant in the City Lights Books 50th Anniversary East Coast celebration and reading at the Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church, NYC, at which he interpreted work from Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems (1964) and shared the stage with Steven Van Zandt, Anne Waldman, and Karen Finley. Trause was chosen along with Jerome Rothenberg to participate in the Visible Word exhibition and poetry reading (Stevens Institute, Hoboken, NJ), which paired poets and visual artists. In 2005 he co-founded the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, NJ, where he serves as programmer and host. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009.

Jeffrey is a recent graduate of Eastern Connecticut State University. He is the recipient of the Leslie Leeds poetry prize awarded by The Connecticut Review and has work in, among others, The Connecticut Review, The SNReview, Poetry Midwest, The Rio Grande Review, The Edison Literary Review, Thieves Jargon and the Oak Bend Review.

Co-editor of the poetry journal, HeartLodge: Honoring the House of the Poet, Andrea L. Watson’s poetry has appeared in Poet, Runes, Ekphrasis, The Dublin Quarterly, Sendero, Sin Fronteras: Writers Without Borders, and International Poetry Review. Her show, Braided Lives: A Collaboration Between Artists and Poets, has traveled from Taos, NM to San Francisco, Denver, and Berkeley.

Peter has published five books of fiction: Beachside Entries/Specific Ghosts(1989), Identity and Difference (1990), In a Time of Combat for the Angel (1991), The Risk of His Music (1997), and How the Body Prays (1999). His stories have appeared in several anthologies, among them O. Henry Prize Stories, 1993 and 1998. His books of poetry are Laguna Beach: After Shelter (Barnwood Poetry, 2009), From a Lost Faust Book (Finishing Line Press, 2009), From a Lost Gospel of Mark (2River View, 2010), and News from the World at My Birth: A History (Standing Stone Books, 2010).

Thomas was born 1965 in Bavaria, Germany. He began photographing in 1983 and painting in 1988. Learn more about his work by visiting: http://www.weschta.eu/.

Claire is a professional photographer located in Nashville, Tennessee, who specializes in children’s photography using natural light. Claire uses an impressionist style of photography and works hard to capture childhood as it happens. You can see more of her work at www.clairewisephotography.com.

Baron is the author/co-author of twelve books, most recently the paperback edition of The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid, Scattered Chapters: New and Selected Poems, and a work of fiction entitled The Poetry Life: Ten Stories. He is a former poet laureate of Maine who teaches in the Stonecoast MFA Program and the Fairfield University MFA Program and works widely in schools. Wormser has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.