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.

Suzanne Frischkorn's poetry appears in numerous journals. Most recently in Samsara Quarterly, The Eclipse, and The Isle Review. She has work forthcoming in several journals, including 2 River View, Salt River Review, and The Melic Review. She is the author of "The Tactile Sense", (Alpha Beat Press 1996) and "Exhale", scheduled for a December 2000 release by Scandinavian Obliterati Press. She recently joined the staff at Samsara Quarterly as poetry editor.

Lola Haskins has published five full-length collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Extranjera (Story Line, 1998). Story Line also reissued Hunger, which won the Iowa Poetry Prize in 1992, and will publish Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems in May, 2001. A further volume, The Rim-Benders, is forthcoming in October, 2001 from Anhinga Press. Ms. Haskins has taught Computer Science at the University of Florida since the late 1970s, and lives on a farm outside Gainesville with her husband, two dogs, two cats, and a large number of fish.

Kristen Havens is a writer currently living in Los Angeles. She has contributed to Renaissance Online Magazine and Iguanaland Poetry Journal. She is the author of over sixty poems, a full-length dramatic screenplay, and numerous short stories. By the age of thirty she hopes to complete a decent novel and experience several definitive creative epiphanies. (She is currently, hopefully, inching toward the first of many.)

Charlotte Honigman-Smith is a writer and activist living in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Jewish Currents, Alice Magazine and SocialAction.com in the past year.

Danny C. Knestaut makes a happy life in the hills of Pennsylvania where he edits for "bovine free wyoming" (http://www.bovinefree.webprovider.com) and watches a lot of trees.