Patricia Adams is a writer for the journal Pax Vobiscum. She also writes poetry, drama and fiction.

Elissa Barmack, born in New York City, now lives in Brussels, Belgium. She has a Ph.D. in French and has taught French literature and language. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Etcetera, Sou'wester, Calapooya Collage, The Pleiades Magazine, The Wolf Head Quarterly, The Glass Cherry, Chalkdust, and The Parnassus Literary Journal.

Alice Brooks-Smith was born in Florida and currently lives in Massachusetts, where she is "revising and fine tuning" a collection of her poetry.

Asha Clinton is a transpersonal and energy psychotherapist who specializes in healing trauma and abuse and in expanding creativity and spirituality. Her poetry has appeared in The Brownstone Review, Nomad's Choir, US 1 Worksheets, No Exit, and elsewhere.

Clifford Paul Fetters started out as an actor, in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theater, including Princeton's McCarter Theater. Currently a Seattle resident, his poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Review of Books, Crosscurrents, and Interim Magazine.

Nancy Fox teaches and writes in Pennington, New Jersey. Her children's book Clarence When You Are Sleeping was brought out by Multicultural Publishing.

Lisa M. Friedlander works as a psychotherapist, interior fountain sculptor, and poet in Massachusetts. She has a poem appearing in the next issue of Journal of New Jersey Poets.

Joseph Gastiger's poetry has appeared in TriQuarterly, Poetry, and College English, among other publications.

Ann-Marie Giglio lives in Marco Island, Florida. She is the editor of Labor Day: an Anthology of Birth Stories, due out from Workman Press in spring 1999.

Claudia Grinnell is a native German, who now makes her home in Louisiana, where she teaches at Northeast Louisiana University. Her work has appeared in California Quarterly, New Orleans Review, and Jones Avenue.

Robin Gutkin teaches public school in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She has been published in Midstream and Ship of Fools, and recently participated in the Wildacres Writers' Workshop in North Carolina.

Cynthia Harper lives in San Antonio, Texas. Her work has appeared in a number of journals, including: Nexis, Negative Capability, Cincinnati Review, and The Louisville Review. She has published three books of poetry: Ruffled Socks; how many moons: a collection of five Texas women; and Snow in South Texas.

Lois Marie Harrod recently won a 1998 fellowship from the New Jersey Council of the Arts; the second time she has won this award. Her fourth book of poetry, Part of the Deeper Sea, was brought out by Palanquin Press, University of Carolina-Aiken, in 1997. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, among them: American Poetry Review, Carolina Quarterly, and The Southern Poetry Review.

Edward Jamieson, Jr. has had work published in graffito, Lies, and by Black Crow Press, among others. He currently lives in California.

Tim Kahl currently lives in Sacramento. He holds an MA in English/Creative Writing, from Eastern Michigan University, and, in addition to publishing his own poetry in a variety of places, does translation work in both German and Portugese.

Rich Kenney is a native New Englander from Cape Cod, currently an Arizona social worker. He collects everything from shaving mugs and mustache cups to century-old Levi's jeans. He favors Honus Wagner baseball cards on the back of which he writes haiku.

Robert Lietz has published more than 230 poems, in a variety of journals, as well as several chapbooks. He currently teaches at Ohio Northern University.

Mukul Pandya is the founding editor of Knowledge@Wharton, a business journal at the University of Pennsylvania, and the poetry editor of Princeton Arts Review.

Toni Press-Coffman has had produced ten full length and four one act plays, in venues throughout the country. Her play Stand was produced at the Eugene O'Neil National Playwrights' Conference in 1995 and went on to win the Brodkin Award. Her most recent play, Touch, won the South Carolina Playwrights' Festival/Trespass Theater Award in 1998. She is the literary manager of Dames Rocket Theater in Tucson, Arizona.

Charles Rammelkamp lives in Baltimore with his wife and two daughters. He's relatively content with things.

Mary Harwell Sayler has had dozens of books and hundreds of articles published. For fifteen years, she's instructed poets through her correspondence course, Poetry Writing Sessions, but has only recently devoted workdays to writing and revising poems. She and her family are long-time residents of Florida.

Maureen Sherbondy lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. She attended Rutgers University and is originally from Metuchen, New Jersey. Her work has appeared in 13^th Moon, Steam Ticket, Cold Mountain Review, and other journals.

Lucille Gang Shulklapper is a writer of both poetry and fiction, who lives in Florida. Recent work has appeared in Buffalo Bones, Parting Gifts, and Nebo: A Literary Journal.

David Y. Todd practiced trial law in Boston before earning an MFA in creative writing and heading south, where he now teaches at the College of Charleston. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Paris Review, and New Woman Magazine.

Frank Van Zant is a teacher, a coach, and a father of three, who has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. His most recent work has appeared in English Journal, Context South, Poet Lore, and The Maverick Press. His first book, The Lives of the Two-Headed Baseball Siren, is forthcoming in 1998, from Kings Estate Press.

Lori Von Colln is a poet and writer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is a student of tai chi and yoga. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Potato Eyes, Writers' Journal, Primavera, Lynx, Cicada, Verve, and Voices in Italian Americana.

Laura Lee Washburn has an MFA from Arizona State University and is currently an Assistant Professor at Pittsburg State University in Kansas where, in the summer of 1998, she was Guest Poetry Editor of Midwest Quarterly. Her chapbook Watching the Contortionists won the University of South Carolina-Aiken's Palanquin Press Prize in 1996. Another chapbook, This Good Warm Place, is forthcoming from March Street Press. Her work has also appeared in The Sun, The Journal, and Quarterly West, among other journals.

Suki Wessling is a writer and graphic designer in Santa Cruz County, California. Her small press, Chatoyant, can be found on the web at http://www.chatoyant.com.

Ellen June Wright lives in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey. She has taught creative writing at Teaneck High School and currently sponsors a poetry workshop for students with a serious interest in poetry.