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			Katherine Case Katherine Case grew up in Marinette, Wisconsin. She received a BA in Art and English in 1994 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After that, she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, lived in Chicago for some time, and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in 2000. Her poetry and artwork have appeared in Cicada, The Walrus, 580 Split, and The 1999 Oakland Renaissance. She lives in Richmond, California.
			Adam Clay Adam Clay is currently a second-year Masters candidate in creative writing at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has had work appear in Yemasse, The Amherst Review, and a poem forthcoming in Wisconsin Review.
			Claudette Cohen Claudette Cohen spent the winters of her early childhood in the Catskills and Hudson River Valley of New York. She spent almost every summer of her life in the Cape Fear region of North Carolina. She has earned degrees from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, the University of Wyoming, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The Seasoning of Rebecca, her first novel, won UNCW's Outstanding Thesis Award in Fiction. She is currently working on two other novels. Her poems have been published in The Southern Anthology, Fireweed, Earth's Daughters, Mainstreet Rag, Owen Wister Review, Aurora, and Bay Leaves. She is currently living and writing in Laramie, Wyoming.
			Doug Crandell Doug Crandell has had short stories appear in the Indiana Review, Nebraska Review, Evansville Literary Review, RHINO, and elsewhere. He has work forthcoming in the Sulphur River Literary Review and the Hawaii Review. He has been a finalist in both the Sam Adams Fiction contest as well as the 2000 Zoetrope Short Story Award. One of his stories has recently won first place in the River City Writing Awards sponsored by the Hohenberg Foundation at the University of Memphis.
			Pamela Johnston Pamela Johnston is a recent graduate of the Ph.D. program in English at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and she also holds an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Iowa. Other works have appeared in Midlands, Iowa Woman, and High Plains Literary Review.
			Kathy-Diane Leveille After a ten-year-career as a broadcast journalist with CBC Radio, Kathy Leveille discovered a love for writing fiction. She was awarded a Canada Council Grant in 1996 for the short story collection Roads Unravelling, a New Brunswick Arts Grant in 1998 for the novel The Women of Erin Forevermore, a Canada Council Grant in 2000 for the novel Standing in the Whale's Jaw, and a New Brunswick Arts Grant in 2001 for the novel Church Corners. She won first prize in Grain's short prose competition, dramatic monologue in 2000, and was one of 12 finalists in the Writers' Union of Canada short prose competition in 2000. Her work has been published in a variety of journals including Room of One's Own, The Cormorant, Reader's Digest, Grain, Pottersfield Portfolio, and The New Brunswick Reader. Her prose was also featured in Water Studies: New Voices in Maritime Fiction, an anthology published by Pottersfield Press in Halifax. The short story Learning to Spin was adapted to radio drama and aired on The Summer Drama Festival and OutFront on CBC Radio One.
			Joanne Lowery Joanne Lowery's poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Spoon River Poetry Review, Laurel Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and River Styx. Her most recent collection is Double Feature from Pygmy Forest Press.
			Vivien Minshull-Ford Vivien Minshull-Ford finished her MFA in Creative Writing in 1980 at Wichita State University. She has since then written dramas including an award-winning stage play entitled A Shaft of Sunlight, about British ex-patriots in Portugal; She reviewed films on television with a local film critic for two years from 1983 to 1985; She has also written on local history and journalism projects. She taught English and Creative Writing at local universities for eighteen years until 1999 when she "saw the light" and made a vow that she would never again enter a classroom. Currently she is working for Wichita Public Library, as the only library branch located inside a supermarket; she is also learning Japanese and piano. She lives with a philosopher and two dogs near Wichita State University.
			Allison Parker Allison Parker is a poet, playwright, and nonfiction writer living in Wilmington, NC. Her poetry has appeared in The Lyricist, Brain Candy, The Brandywine Journal, and the poetry anthologies Celebration and Through the Open Door. Big Dawg produced her comedy Heathens in the 2000 Festival of New Plays, and she writes and performs skits with the all female performance troupe Brawdeville. In addition, Ms. Parker's nonfiction has appeared in Encore, The Wilmington Morning Star, Menus, and The Pender Post, and the Internet magazines City Search.com and Island Oaks.com.
			Kenneth Pobo Higganum Hill Books will be bringing out a new collection of Mr. Pobo's poems called Ordering: A Season In My Garden in September of 2001. In 1998, Palnquin Press brought out his chapbook called Cicadas In The Apple Tree.
			Henry B. Stobbs Henry Stobbs is a history teacher and GED instructor at a local drug rehabilitation facility, and a student in the MFA in Writing program at Goddard College. He currently serves as president of the Ohio Poetry Association. His poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Byline, The Writer, a handful of smaller literary journals, and the e-zines Poems Niederngasse and Electric Acorns.