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.

C.E. Chaffin's first book of poems, Elementary, was published in 1997 by the Mellen Press, available through Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0773428321.
A feature article with links to his work appeared at Suite 101: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/1994/24136.
He edits the online literary journal, The Melic Review, and has been widely published on the web and in print. He lives in Long Beach, CA, with his wife and three daughters in a high rise overlooking the Pacific.

Rachel Dacus is a poet residing in Northern California. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in print and online journals, including: The Alsop Review, The Bitter Oleander, Conspire, Portland Review, Poet Lore and Switched-On Gutenberg. Her poetry collection Earth Lessons is available from Bellowing Ark Press. Her work has been included in two anthologies The Poetry of Roses and Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English. More of her poetry can be seen on her website at http://home.earthlink.net/~dacusr/.

Taylor Graham is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Chattahoochee Review, Free Lunch, The Iowa Review, New York Quarterly, Poetry International, Yankee, and elsewhere. His latest collection is An Hour in the Cougar’s Grace (Pudding House, 2000).

Jeana Jorgensen currently attends UC Berkeley and plans to study folklore or some similarly eccentric field. She writes poetry, short fiction, and is working up to novels. Her work has appeared in a few small market presses. She also enjoys bellydancing, karate, yoga, and historical reenactments, and can be reached at Prosewitch@aol.com.

MJM: Because of her firm belief that the writing should take center stage, M releases no biographical information. More of her work can be found at http://amethystjourney.tripod.com/.

Richard Stevenson was born on this planet 48 years ago, though he's still waiting to be beamed aboard a saucer bound for zeti reticuli and the outer meninges. He is the author of twelve previous collections, including, most recently, A Murder of Crows: New & Selected Poems (Black Moss Press, 1998), Nothing Definite Yeti (YA verse, Ekstasis Editions, 1999), and Live Evil: A Homage to Miles Davis (Thistledown Press, 2000). He teaches, runs a reading series, and occasionally performs his work with the jazz-poetry troupe Naked Ear and YA verse/jazz-rock group Sasquatch in clubs and at various festivals and schools in Southern Alberta, and has called Lethbridge (wear the fox hat!) home for the past fifteen years. No one's punched his ticket yet, but he remains hopeful that there is intelligent life "out there."

Penelope Talbert is a poet from Pennsylvania whose work has appeared in 12th Planet, Poor Mojo's Almanac, Literary Lion, Poet's Cut, Poems Niederngasse, All About Art, Paper Bug Magazine, Waxing and Waning, EOTU Zine (Clam City News), Prose Ax, Bound (Grey Matter Press), Book Lover's Haven, Sunflower Dream, The Ultimate Hallucination, The Florida Villager, Cabbage Magazine, Sweaty Lip Fetish, ken*again and Stimulus. She will be the featured poet in the July 2001 issue of Newsletter Inago. She is also the founder of Circle Publications, editor of The Circle Magazine (www.circlemagazine.com), a quarterly print and electronic literary journal, a member of the Executive Board of BerksBards, a nonprofit poetry organization based in Berks County, PA and a member of the Lebanon Poetry Project, a not for profit poetry organization in Lebanon County, PA.

Regina Coeli (Silkie) deWinter is a writer, photographer, digital artist, singer/songwriter, storyteller, producer/host of an Internet radio talk show, tarot card reader, website designer and eclectic pagan. In her life as a working musician she performed in venues ranging from Woodstock, NY to the Florida Keys. These days she mostly stays put in her home state of Connecticut, but her dream is to travel the world singing, writing, and shooting photos. Her poetry, essays and artwork have been published in print and in a variety of arts & literature eZines on the Web, including Friction Magazine, Aileron, Wired Hearts, The Undertow, The Poet's Canvas, 2Ten, The Gall, 2River View, Niederngasse, The Bad Girls Review, Alchemy, and Disquieting Muses, among others.