A poet and novelist, Michelle Cameron works primarily in webspace. Her most recent poetry publications can be found in Riding the Meridian and Hipnosis, and she has work forthcoming in Comrades, Mentress Moon, and the Patterson Literary Review. Michelle recently completed a novel on Elizabethan England and is currently at work on a novella on the vagaries of the dot.com world. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two sons. You can email Michelle at mcameron@imediainc.com.

Cate Compton, 36, is a native Texan who spent several years in Hollywood before finally having the good sense to return home. She spends her days working as a felony prosecutor, and spends her nights working on the next great American short story. A chronic dabbler, she happily divides what little spare time she has between her art and her writing. Cate is the editor of the online literary arts journal Atomicpetals.

Deborah Finch lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband and daughter and makes her living as a research biologist and technical writer for the U.S. Forest Service. Her poetry has been published in a variety of online and hard print journals including Arizona Writer and Photographer, Field and Forest, Moongate Internationale, Owen Wister Review, The Rag, Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Tapestry, Mentress Moon (in press) and 2River View (in press).

Jennifer Esther Glickstein has been writing poetry for 23 years (and she is only 30!). She's been published in and/or helped edit several literary journals including "Towers," "The Body Inside," and "The Chicago Quarterly Review." To keep herself afloat she is currently the administrative assistant for a small, hip software company. On her own time she does what she can to keep her fingers in as many artistic pies as possible. You can find out more about her and read more of her poetry (and the poems of others!) on her website, www.twindogs.net

Frances Smathers Sisson is an ordained United Methodist Minister from the United States. She has been writing since she was seven. Frances has published only in school publications (throughout her education) and won awards throughout grade school and college for her writing. Frances is 30 years old and living in Great Britain for the year with plans to return to the States with her husband and two-year-old son in July.

R.L. Swihart: Though I am many, I'll be contented to spotlight only my quadruplicate-self which, like a nested Matryoshka doll, consists of me and the-family-within: RLS (I'm shy, so until we're more intimate the initials will do), Ania (the devoted wife), Katia (started kindergarten in September), and Nadja (quite the fledgling at 2 yrs). I read heavily. Imbibe moderately. Work when I have to (math teacher). Am hounded by all nine muses at once.
One of many favorite quotes: "You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words. Long did I hate you, long did I fear you. I might--" (C. S. Lewis).
Poetry is just another word for creative writing. I have a long list of literary heroes, mostly dead guys: Samuel Beckett, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, T.S. Eliot, Zbigniew Herbert,…