Meg Curtis leads a triple life as a creative writer, a college professor, and a medievalist. From Western New York, she gained insights into wildlife and spiritualism. In Appalachia, she learned to love America's oldest mountains. She has settled happily, with three southern cats and a pug named Limerick, in Freemansburg, PA.

Tatiana Dolgushina: I'm fifteen years old. I live in a basement. I think that's all. Oh, I write, in English. It's my third language. I've been published. And I'm little. http://www.philebox.com/users/tatiana/

Steven Hoadley is a twice-divorced, self-described malcontent living in San Ramon, Ca. A writer of short fiction and poetry, he is hard at work avoiding finishing his novel, The Life and Daily Death of Sam Mackie. He's been published in various literary magazines and can be found most recently in Left Curve Magazine. He can be reached at stevenjhoadley@yahoo.com

Dave Hopkins: I currently teach English for the University of Maryland in Bamberg, Germany. I have published poems in PoetrySuperHighway, Into the Teeth of the Wind (University of California, Santa Barbara), Blue Monk Press, a novella excerpt forthcoming in Kelvin Magazine, and an essay forthcoming in Counseling Today. I was the spring 2001 winner of the American Counseling Association essay contest.