Debra Woolard Bender is a poet and artist residing in Orlando, Florida. She has been concentrating on writing in Asian genre poetry for the past year. Poetic forms include: Korean sijo, Japanese forms: haiku, haibun, contemporary haiga, tanka, imayo, renku, rengay, contemporary hyperlinked arts-rens. She is an active participant on haikuforum, an eGroups discussion list. Debi's website journal of personal and collaborative poetry is called Paper Lanterns: http://www.crosswinds.net/~paperlanterns

Janet Buck's poetry and fiction have appeared in The Melic Review, The Pittsburg Quarterly, Born Magazine, The Rose & Thorn, and hundreds of journals world-wide. A two-time Pushcart Nominee, Buck has three poetry collections on the market: Calamity's Quilt, Reefs We Live, and Bookmarks in a Hurricane. To read more of her work or order a book, go to: http://www.janetbuck.com

Renee Carter Hall writes poetry and fiction and is the editor of Limestone Circle, a poetry quarterly. Her poetry has appeared in many small press magazines including Ship Of Fools, Medicinal Purposes, Odin's Eye, and Bellowing Ark, as well as online at such sites as The Paumanok Review, Mocha Memoirs, The Adirondack Review, and Poems Niederngasse. Her latest chapbook, The Way To Love, contains forty of her recent poems. She may be contacted at renjef@earthlink.net.

Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance Literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Poet in Residence at University of Tampa for over twenty years, he has had over 2,000 of his own poems published in over 500 print magazines such as American Poetry Review, Nation, Literary Quarterly, Black Moon, and Bitter Oleander, is author of 14 books of poems, his latest being Watching Wisteria (to order write Vida Publishing, P. O. Box 12665, Lake Park, FL 33405-0665, or see www.vidapublishing.com, Amazon or Barns and Noble on-line, or call Small Press Distribution-1-800-869-7553), as a cyber-poet, since Sept 1, 1999 has had 1119 acceptances of his poems by online e zines, photographer, listed in PSA's Who's Who as one of the top twenty nature photographers, currently has 116 of his Alley photos accepted on line (These are pictures made of discards and trash in alleys. He moves in close to find a design that speaks beauty from what people have thrown away), painter, currently having a one-man show of over 30 painting at the Pyramid gallery in Tampa, winner for poetry of the Edna St. Vincent Millay, Charles Agnoff, and Walt Whitman awards, now lives alone and isolated in the sunny Tampa slums. He lives estranged and as an alien, not understanding the customs, the costumes, the language, some form of postmodern English, of his surroundings. The egregious ugliness of his neighborhood has been mitigated by the esthetic efforts of the police who put up bright orange and yellow posters on each post to advertise the location is a shopping mall for drugs. His recreational activities are drinking wine, listening to old operas, and reading postmodern philosophy. He may be reached at duanelocke@netzero.net.

Daniel A. Olivas' fiction and poetry are appearing or forthcoming in THEMA, Exquisite Corpse, The Pacific Review, Foliage, The Morpo Review, Red River Review, Perihelion, linnaean street, RiverSedge, among others. His poetry will be featured in Love to Mamá: A Tribute to Mothers, a children's collection edited by Pat Mora, scheduled for publication in spring 2001 by Lee & Low Books.

Deborah J. Shore is a recent Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University of Ohio who currently lives in New Jersey. Other work appears on-line at www.conspire.org. Adinkra information and symbols can be found by following the links at http://www.ghana.com/republic/adinkra/index.html.

Other works by Angela Davis Tartaglia can be seen at Poems Niederngasse, Plain Brown Wrapper, and on her web site: http://home1.gte.net/danielt3/angie_main.html. She is currently working on her first novel. Angela can be reached at danielt3@gte.net.