Ann Cefola's poetry (anncefola.com) has been published in California Quarterly, Confrontation and The Louisville Review; her essays in Ape Culture, and translations in Circumference, Paintbrush and Rhino. Her work also appears in Hunger Enough: Living Spiritually in a Consumer Society (Pudding House Publications, 2004) and Off the Cuffs: Poetry About Police (Soft Skull Press, 2003). In 2001, she won the Robert Penn Warren Award judged by John Ashbery. Ann also holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Ann works as a creative strategist with her own company, Jumpstart (jumpstartnow.net). She and her husband, Michael, live in the New York suburbs.

Anne Agnes Colwell, a poet and fiction writer, is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Her work has appeared in several journals, including: California Quarterly, Mudlark, Evansville Review, Phoebe, Eclectic Literary Forum, Southern Poetry Review, Stickman Review, Poetry Bay, and Octavo. An online chapbook of her poems appears in The Alsop Review. Her first book of poems, Believing Their Shadows, has been a finalist for the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham Prize, the Anhinga Prize, New Issues Poetry Prize and the Quarterly Review of Literature. Her critical book, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1997. She lives in Milton, Delaware with her husband James Keegan and son, Thomas.

Julia Deakin is a freelance writer whose articles and reviews have appeared in Mslexia, The Observer, The Times Educational Supplement and more recently as a poet in numerous magazines including Stand, The Rialto and The North. To see the full range of her work please visit http://www.juliadeakin.co.uk.

Ian Emberson - artist and writer - eight books published including Pirouette of Earth - a novel in verse and a study of Charlotte Bronte. Semi autobigraphical book due out from Sutton later this year. Artwork best known through postcards and book illustrations.

Hélène Sanguinetti was born in Marseille in 1951. Author of De la main gauche, exploratrice (Flammarion, 1999), D'ici, de ce berceau (Flammarion, 2003) and Alparegho, Pareil-à-rien (Comp'Act, 2005), she also appears in 49 Poets : A Collective (Flammarion, 2004) and in the forthcoming 20 Contemporary French Women Poets by Canadian scholar John Stout.

Sanguinetti's work has received critical acclaim in Le Monde, Le Figaro Littéraire and Le Nouvel Observateur. Poetry critic Claude Adelen, in L'Émotion Concrète (Comp'Act, 2004) praises Sanguinetti's poetry for "its emotional quality, physicality of verse, mythic intelligence and profound depth of being." De la main gauche, exploratrice was also nominated for the prestigious Prix de Découverte.

Sanguinetti lives and works in Arles, where she takes much of her poetic imagery from the stark landscape, sky and nearby Mediterranean.

Todd Swift is the author of three collections of poems, all from DC Books, Montreal, most recently Rue Du Regard (2004). He is one of the leading poetry anthologists of his generation, having edited Short Fuse (Rattapallax Press, New York, 2002), 100 Poets Against The War (Salt, Cambridge, 2003) and the audio CD, Life Lines: Poets for Oxfam (Oxfam, Oxford, 2006), among others. He is poetry editor of Nthposition. Poems of his have recently appeared in New American Writing, Poetry Review, The Los Angeles Review and Vallum, and in the anthologies Open Field and The New Canon. He reviews regularly for Books in Canada. He lives in London, England, where he is a Core Tutor with The Poetry School.