Alexandre Amprimoz is a poet, critic, translator, writer, and programmer. He teaches Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Canada. Books include A Season for Birds: Selected Poems by Pierre Morency, translation, Toronto, Exile Press, 1990; Venice at Her Mirror: Essay by Robert Marteau, translation, Toronto, Exile Press, 1990; Nostalgies de l'ange, Ottawa, Editions du Vermillon, 1993. Alexandre has recently published poems in Alsop Review, Antigonish Review, Poet's Canvas, Octavo, Dégaine ta rime, Resurrétion, Hélices and LittéRéalité, and Velvet Illussions, among others.

Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy. Her poetry has recently appeared in Melic Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Tryst, and Tattoo Highway. She has received a nomination from Verse Libre Quarterly for the 2003 Pushcart Prize. An e-chapbook of her poetry, "Dirt Therapy," is being hosted by Slow Trains.

Christopher Barnes resides in Newcastle, England.  Chanticleer Press, Edinburgh, recently published his collection of poems entitled Lovebites.

Paul D. McGlynn: "I'm a retired professor of literature and creative writing, but I'm not really an academic poet. The greatest influences on my work have been the poems of William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, and Wallace Stevens. Other influences have been art, travel, and love (not necessarily in that order), plus growing up in Detroit." Paul's poems have been accepted by over 200 journals in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia, including The Ledge, Bogg, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Chiron Review, Poetry Motel, Clark Street Review, Sepia, Freexpression, and The Brobdingnagian Times.  His chapbook, Magical Regression, was published by AlphaBeat Press. Three of his poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Jessy Randall is the Curator of Special Collections at Colorado College. She has been writing poems since she was nine years old. (Her first long poem, on the death of her hamster, remains unpublished—which is probably a good
thing.) Her online chapbook, Dorothy Surrenders, can be found in the 2River Chapbook Series; her paper chapbook, Slumber Party at the Aquarium, is available from Unicorn Press. 

L. B. Sedlacek has had poetry published in Circle Magazine, Grit, Iodine, Hadrosaur Tales, sidereality, Ygdrasil, Would That It Were, Between Kisses, Artemis Journal, and Paumonak Review, among others. Kitty Litter Press published LB's poetry chapbook Alexandra's Wreck in 2002.

Oren Shafir is an American-Israeli living near Copenhagen with his two beautiful wives, Scottish Terrier children, and lovely dog. (Oops, that is, his lovely wife, two beautiful children, and Scottish Terrier dog.) His stories and poems have appeared in the Absinthe Literary Review, The Akkadian, The Blue Moon Review, Udsyn (in Danish translation), Eitan (in Hebrew translation), Eclectica, NFG, Pindeldyboz, and the-phone-book.com. A collection of his short stories entitled Small Truths and Other Lies was recently published by Litera Press.

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino has a degree in philosophy from Fordham University. His poetry has appeared in print in Barrow Street, jubilat and Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, on CD-R in Papertiger Media: New World Poetry, and online at Samsara Quarterly, In Posse Review, hutt, Rattapallax--FuseBox, Lynx, BlazeVOX, GutCult, and can we have our ball back? Poems are forthcoming on CD-R from Generator Press, Xcp, Cross-Cultural Poetics, Typo, and xStream. Gregory lives in New York City where he works as a private docent.

Scott T. Summers is a teacher of literature at Wayne Hills High School in Wayne, New Jersey. His poems have appeared in The Mars Hill Review, The Pedestal Magazine, WORM, and other print and electronic outlets. "Dog" and "Intimations on Mortality by Linus VanPelt" are selections from Scott's MFA thesis, Methuselah Knew. He hopes to publish his thesis as a chapbook. Scott lives in Vernon, New Jersey with his wife Laura and their children Reanna and Garrett.

R L Swihart currently resides in Long Beach, California with his lopsidedly feminine family: his wife Ania, and his two girls Katia (8) and Nadja (4). He teaches high school math to pay the mortgage; writes poetry just because; travels whenever he can. A few of his recent poetry credits include Arbutus, Richmond Review, Snow Monkey, Three Candles, and Niederngasse.

William Trudo lives in Illinois. His work has appeared in print in Signal and in several online publications including Melic Review, The Adirondack Review, and Slow Trains.

Kermit L. Van Brocklin was born in northern New York, and after following a military career, now lives and works in Ames, Iowa. Although new to the world of serious poetry, he has been writing since high school yet still finds surprises in everything he writes. 

Robert Weir is a child and family counselor living on Vancouver Island, Canada. He writes poems and some songs as well.

Lori Williams is a born and bred New Yorker who works as a legal assistant in the publishing field. She is the single mother of a teenage boy and elderly cat. Her work has been published in numerous print and on-line publications, most recent and upcoming in Snow Monkey, New Zoo Poetry Review, Avatar Review, Red River Review, Branches Quarterly, Urban Spaghetti, Banyan Review, Wicked Alice Annual Print Journal Mind Mutations Anthology, and Miller's Pond. Please feel free to visit Lori's website.

Katharina Yakovina: "I believe artists are responsible for the emotions which they bring into the world. Movies, paintings, stories, poems, and photographs have influence on the minds of people, so art may act as a stimulus to an event. It is important for every artist to care about spiritual space because it is the invisible home of a person's thoughts, wishes, and hopes."