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Alexandre L. Amprimoz is a poet, critic, translator and writer. He teaches Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Canada. He has written over 30 volumes in either French or English.

Bob Castle is a regular contributor to Bright Lights Film Journal and 24 Frames Per Second. He has a feature column appearing monthly called "A Sardine on Vacation," in Unlikely stories. His recent work can found in The Sidewalk's End, Double Dare Press, Archipelago, Fiction Funhouse, and Arbutus. He makes his living as a History and Film teacher at a small academy outside Trenton, NJ.

Margo L. Dill is an elementary writing teacher in St. Peters, MO. She has work published in God Allows U-Turns Vol. 4, Pockets, On the Line, The Storyteller, The Written Wisdom, The Write Words, and Calliope: A Writer's Workshop. She is currently working on a middle grade novel set in Vicksburg, MS during the Civil War.

Peggy Duffy's short stories and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, Drexel Online Journal, mélange, So To Speak, Able Muse, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere. Her fiction has received the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award and a Heritage Writer Award, and was recognized by the Virginia Commission for the Arts as a finalist in the 2001/2002 Individual Artist Fellowship program for literary artists. She lives in Centreville, VA.

Richard Freed is a professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication in the English Department at Iowa State University; an international consultant on proposal writing; the author of a scholarly book The Variables of Composition, which won the National Council of Teachers of English best book award for research in scientific and technical communication; the author of the trade book Writing Winning Business Proposals (McGraw-Hill), forthcoming in a second edition; and the creator of The Grants Workbench <http://www.winningproposal.com>, the first web-based application that structures a writer's thinking and produces the first draft of a grant proposal.

Christine Hamm is a poet and artist. She graduated from Reed College and got her MA in creative writing from SUNY-Binghamton. She teaches a poetry writing class in Queens, NYC and is the literary editor of Wide Angle Magazine. A poem and essay by her appears in the new book, The Murdering of Our Years: Artists and Their Day Jobs, published by Softskull Press. Her poetry has been published in Whalelane, Taint, Poetry Midwest and Burning Word. More of her work can be found at http://chamm.blogspot.com.

Christine Boyka Kluge's first book, Teaching Bones to Fly, will be published by Bitter Oleander Press in 2003. Additional work is forthcoming in No Boundaries, Prose Poems by 24 American Poets (Tupelo Press, 2003, edited by Ray Gonzalez) and Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Miniscule Fiction (Mammoth Books, 2003, edited by Dinty W. Moore.) Her writing has received seven Pushcart Prize nominations. She is also a visual artist.

Andrew Peek has written on African writers and taught their work for more than twenty years. In 1998, he backpacked through Tanzania, Malawi and Ghana and drew on this experience in writing The Calabar Transcript, a collection of poems forthcoming from Five Islands Press. He has published poems, short fiction and reviews in many Australian journals and freelanced for the national broadcaster, Radio National.