Kim Addonizio has two poetry collections from BOA Editions: The Philosopher's Club and Jimmy & Rita. She is the author, with Dorianne Laux, of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W.Norton). A collection of stories, In The Box Called Pleasure, is forthcoming from FC2.

After studying physics at Radcliffe, Lucile Blanchard found her art in a roundabout way. Married to an artist, mother of four, her husband's career took precedence. She scribbled in the attic study, getting an occasional story or poem published, but mostly getting rejection slips. Sometimes the family budget allowed a class or workshop. That she is still writing she feels is due more to pure stubbornness than anything. And the fact that she can't imagine any other life.

Alison Croggon was born in 1962. Her first book of poems, This is the Stone, was published in 1991 by Penguin Books and won the Anne Elder and Dame Mary Gilmore Prizes for best first collection that year. Her first novel Navigatio was highly commended in the 1995 Australian/Vogel literary awards and was published by Black Pepper Press in 1996. Her second book of poems, The Blue Gate, was released in 1997. She has written two operas, The Burrow and Gauguin, with the highly regarded Sydney composer Michael Smetanin, and has received funding for their third, The White Army. She is a member of Zeugma On-Line Poetry Workshop.

Claudia Grinnell was born in Germany. She now lives in Monroe, Louisiana, where she teaches English at Northeast Louisiana University. In her spare time, she writes poetry, reads a lot, surfs the net, eats sushi, and stays out of trouble. Her poems have appeared in various journals and magazines, such as Hayden's Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, Bottomfish, and The Alembic.

Sharon Kourous lives in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio, and teaches high school English. As a single-parent, she did not get around to writing until the youngest went off to college: not enough time or emotional space. Since then, writing has been central to her life, and she has placed over 200 poems in journals such as American Poets and Poetry, The Formalist, The Lyric, Piedmont Literary Review, and others. She has won several awards and has a promise from Singular Speech Press for a book of her work to come out next year. She is a member of the on-line poetry workshop, Zeugma.

Dorianne Laux has been published in such journals as American Poetry Review, American Voice, Yellow Silk and ZYZZYVA. Her first book, Awake was nominated for the Bay Area Book Reviewer's Award, her second, What We Carry, for the National Book Award. She is currently a professor at the University of Oregon.

While working on a novel, RoseMarie London has begun accumulating her snap fictions for a collection called He Likes Pomegranates, Except When He Doesn't. Many of her stories have been published by literary journals, both in print and on-line. Early this year her story Fits Like A Glove was chosen for Sparks Best of 1997 issue.

R.J. McCaffery is a poet who lives in Providence, RI. A founder of Zahtak Studios, he edits a graphic novel, The Skin. When not restoring vintage bicycles, he is involved in a number of web-related poetry, printing and language projects; many based out of his homepage It Came from RJ's Brain.