Josh Garden is a 22 year old living both in Canberra, Australia and a small city of alternate reality which resembles the first in architecture only. At age 16 he won 2nd prize for poetry in the "Canberra Times Young Writers Competition" and laughed. A year ago he stopped laughing and resumed writing, albeit with a smile.

Glenn Ingersoll's poems have appeared in print magazines like Carolina Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, and Fish Drum, as well as ezines Shampoo Poetry, Gumball Poetry, and Cortland Review. He lives in Berkeley with his sweetheart, their dog, blackberry vines and cherry trees. A chapbook, City Walks, is available from Broken Boulder Press. His website: http://lovesettlement.homestead.com

Walt McDonald was an Air Force pilot, taught at the Air Force Academy, is Texas Poet Laureate for 2001. Some of his recent books are All Occasions (Notre Dame Press, 2000) and others from Harper & Row, Massachusetts, Ohio State, and Pittsburgh. His poems have been in APR, The Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, and Poetry.

JB Mulligan: Married, three grown children, over 400 poems and stories in dozens of magazines over the past 25 years, including recently, Mandrake Poetry Review, Clay Palm Review, Troubadour, and Unlikely Stories (the latter presented other poems from this sequence).

Thomas Wooten has published fiction in The Alabama Literary Review, The Georgia Review and The Quarterly. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Birmingham Poetry Review, Poem, Poetry Motel and the Red River Review. He lives in the American South. (Email: limeworks50@hotmail.com)