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Deborah Batterman’s work has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, Sistersong, Palo Alto Review, The MacGuffin, Stray Dog, and Dunes Review. An essay of hers is in Surviving Ophelia (Perseus Publishing). Online, her fiction is in three candles and Standards: The International Journal of Multicultural Studies. Over the years she has worked as a writer and editor for a wide range of publications and organizations, and now serves as writer-in-residence to a variety of schools in New York and Connecticut.

Anne Colwell has received the Delaware State Arts Council's Experienced Artist Fellowship. Her work has appeared in many journals including, most recently Kalliope, Connecticutt Review, Branches Quarterly, Central California Quarterly, Eclectic Literary Forum, California Quarterly, The Evansville Review, Phoebe, Midwest Quarterly, Dominion Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Her book, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1997. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware.

Mustansir Dalvi is an architect and a teacher. he heads a college of architecture in New Bombay, India. He is currently Poetry Monitor at the Desert Moon Review. His poem"Peabody" was awarded 1st Place in the December 2002 InterBoard Poetry Competition (IBPC). "Choosing Trains" won First Prize in the Asian Age Poetry Contest 2001. Mustansir Dalvi's poems are published in the e-zines MiPo Digital magazine, the Writer's Hood, can we have our ball back, Pierian Springs, The Crescent Moon Journal and Bakery of the Poets and in print in The Brown Critique, Poetry India: voices of silence, Poiesis: A Journal of the Poetry Circle Bombay and Poetry India: emerging voices.

Jeffrey Dieter is twenty-four years old and a creative writing student at Goucher College. He says: "I have been writing poetry since I was a child--maybe eleven or twelve. My father died when I was five which gave me a lot of material to work with. Mostly, poetry has been a catharsis--a way to find myself through what was being written."

Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of six books, including Space, a memoir about growing up in Florida during the moon race. Her second poetry collection, Dog Angel, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she directs both the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and their new MFA program.

Peter Krok is the Humanities/Poetry director of the Manayunk Art Center and he has been coordinating a poetry series at the center since 1990. Poems of his have appeared in the Yearbook of American Poetry, Midwest Quarterly, Poet Lore, Negative Capability, Mid-America Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, New Zoo Review, Poem, River Sedge, and numerous other publications.

John West is employed full time as a nurse and has had two chapbooks and two full length collections of poetry published, his latest, ALL I EVER WANTED WAS A WINDOW, was launched in October 2002.

Richard Zola has left footprints...fingerprints across the world...lives now in the uk ...where he works with those whove been damaged by drugs and other people...he's always been surprised to be alive...one day he believes everything...the next day nothing...his work has appeared in numerous places on the web.. search engine request will reveal...his own site: http://www.richardzola.co.uk