Christine Allen-Yazzie likes to fly-fish, develop pictures, read Helene Cixous, braid her daughter's hair, eat ice cream every night, and sit very very still. Her work has appeared in Flyway Literary Magazine, Black River Review, Whiskey Island Review, EVO, Writer Online, Pif, Eclectica, rough draft, New Voices in Poetry and Prose, and What There Is: The Crossroads Anthology.

Jill Chan was born in Manila, Philippines, and migrated to New Zealand in 1994, starting to write poems a year later. Previous publications include NZ literary magazines Poetry NZ, Takahe, Spin and online zines Apples and Oranges, Mentress Moon, Niederngasse, Southern Ocean Review, Trout and Deep South.

William Doreski's recent books are Robert Lowell's Shifting Colors (Criticism, Ohio University Press, 1999), and Suburban Light (Poetry, Cedar Hill, 1999). He is currently teaching creative writing and literature at Keene State College (NH).

Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy in English Renaissance literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, was Poet in Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years. 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 print books of poems, the latest is Watching Wisteria (to order write Vida Publishing, P.O. Box 12665, Lake, Park, FL. 33405-0665, or Amazon or Barnes and Noble). Since September 1999, he became a cyber poet and started submitting on-line, and since then has added to his over 2,000 print acceptances with 1,195 acceptances by e zines. Also a painter and photographer, he currently has exhibitions at Thomas Center Galleries (Gainesville, FL) and Tyson Trading Company (Micanopy, FL). Recently a one-man show at Pyramid Galleries (Tampa, FL). As a photographer, he has had 116 of his photos selected for appearance in e zines. He photographs trash in alleys, moving in close to find beauty in what people have thrown away. He now lives alone in a two-story decaying house in the sunny Tampa slums. He lives isolated and estranged as an alien, not understanding the customs, the costumes, the language (some form of postmodern English) of his neighbors. The egregious ugliness Of his neighborhood has recently been mitigated by the esthetic efforts of the police force who put bright orange and yellow posters on the posts to advertise the location is a shopping mall for drugs. His alley is the dumping ground for stolen cars. One advantage Of living in this neighborhood, if your car is stolen, you can step out in the back and pick it up. Also, the burglars are afraid to come in on account of the muggers. His recreational activities are drinking wine, listening to old operas, and reading postmodern philsophy.

Stephanie Scarborough lives in Weatherford, Texas, She's a vegetarian, a pisces, and desperately seeking accordion lessons. She is working on a sequence of doughnut sonnets, aiming for 127. Her poetry has appeared in The Nuthouse, Splizz, Advocate, Evening Gossip, and a few other zines. She is also brushing up on drawing cartoons again, something she did and got paid for when she was in junior high.

Mary Jane Tenerelli is a freelance writer, poet, and mother of two small children living on the North Shore of Long Island. Her work has recently appeared on ThePoetrySuperhighway and Some Words poetry sites.

Teresa White has been widely published on the Net with over 150 poems accepted in the past two years. She has one book published of 300 of her early poems (In What Furance? -available at Amazon.com) and will have a second collection out later this year.

Lisa M. Zaran is a poet and essayist currently residing in Mesa, AZ. Some recent credits include: The Horsethief's Journal, Moongate International, 2 River 'View, King Log, and Artvilla. When not writing, she works for the Phoenix division of a national brokerage house.