Joe Ahearn is the founding editor of Rancho Loco Press and the editor of VEER magazine. Two books of poems are his poetry are forthcoming: Five Fictions (Sulphur River Review Press) and The Life of St. Guthlac, (Fireweheel Editions). His criticism, translations, and poetry have appeared in a large number of periodicals, including The Quarterly, 6ix, Haight-Ashbury Literary Review, Five AM, Black Dirt, Dallas Review, Mudlark, Recursive Angel, Sulphur River Literary Review, and many others. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize six times, most recently in 1998. Ahearn's work has been collected in the limited-edition chapbook, Kyoko At Play (Harvest Publications, 1994) and in two anthologies: CrossConnect: Writers of the Information Age (CrossConnect, Inc., 1997) and Other Testaments (Incarnate Muse Publications, 1997). Ahearn lives in Dallas, where he writes poetry, essays, and books about advanced software development.

Cathy Cullis is a quiet, brooding kind of poet living in Hampshire, England. She was awarded an Eric Gregory award by the Society of Authors (UK) 1996. Her pamphlet Orbital Angel won the New County competition 1998 and was published by Flarestack (UK). Cathy's poems have appeared in a variety of journals, most regularly in The Rialto (UK). She is currently working on a sequence of 'wolf' poems.

Mark Halliday directs the creative writing program at Ohio University. His third book of poems, SELFWOLF, was published by the University of Chicago in 1999.

Ronald Lawrence Jones is a writer and editor of the on-line journal, Avatar Reviewi. He currently has work in Rhino, Stand Alone, and on-line zine La Petite.

Forest Pyle, a native Texan, is currently head of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Oregon.

After receiving her MA in English, Joan Houlihan taught writing and literature at the University of Arizona and Pima College in Tucson, Arizona before becoming a technical writer for the software industry, Her current career. Online, she has published in Caffeine Destiny, and in print, she has work forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review and The Spoon River Poetry Review.

When he's not writing poems, Jose Chaves teaches Spanish to middle school kids somewhere on the west coast. He dreams of spending his weekends lounging on the lawn with Russell Edson and Fidel Castro. Asked to speculate on the outcome of a wrestling match between Garrett Hongo and T. R. Hummer, Jose scratched his nose, wrinkled his brow and excused himself from the room. This is his first online publication, and frankly, he's nervous.

Jay Nebel is very tall. Currently he slings coffee to depressed adolescents and stockbrokers in Portland. His work has appeared in Pittsburgh Quarterly Review, Tar River Poetry, and Fireweed.