David Appelbaum is a hiker and biker, former editor of Parabola Magazine, whose poetry has appeared in such places as American Poetry Review, Commonweal, and Verse Daily.

Christina Cook holds an MFA from Vermont College and an MA from the University of Cincinnati. Her poems and translations of contemporary French poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Sojourn: A Journal of the Arts, and Poemeleon, among other journals. Christina lives and writes in New Hampshire.

Alex Cigale’s poems appeared recently in Café, Chiron, Colorado, Green Mountains Reviews, English Journal, Hanging Loose, and Mcsweeney’s. Stranger at Home: Anthology of American Poetry with an Accent (Numina Press) containing four of his poems, and a chapbook, Chronicle of Calamities (Pudding House) are just out.

Jeannine Dobbs' poems have appeared in numerous journals, and a collection of her poems was published by Alice James Books (Three Some Poems). Her work has also won, placed or showed in several recent contests; and she was a nominee for a 2008 Pushcart Prize.

Mark Jackley is the author of two chapbooks. A third, "Cracks and Slats," is forthcoming from Amsterdam Press, while a full-length collection, "There Will Be Silence While You Wait," will be published by Plain View Press. Jackley lives in the Washington, DC, area.

Kevin P. Keating's stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Story South’s Million Writers Award, and the Ben Hoffer/Best New Writing Award. His essays and fiction have appeared in a number of literary journals, including Brink, The Externalist, Identity Theory, The Stickman Review, Mad Hatter’s Review, Juked, The Oklahoma Review, Slow Trains, Numb Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Thunder Sandwich, and many others. You can view much of his work by going to kevinpkeating.blogspot.com. He currently teaches English at Baldwin-Wallace College in Cleveland, Ohio.

J.T. Ledbetter's fiction credits include: Rosebud, Lake Effect, Crosscurrents, Knock, Carriage House Review, Steam Ticket and Satire. His poetry credits include: Poetry, The Sewanee Review, New York Quarterly, Nimrod, The Atlanta Review, Puerto del Sol, The Cimarron Review, The Laurel Review and Praire Schooner.

Tim Mayo is the author of The Loneliness of Dogs (Pudding House Publications 2008). His poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Babel Fruit, Poet Lore, The Rose & Thorn and many other journals. In 2000 he was a semi-finalist for the prestigious “Discovery”/The Nation Poetry Contest. He holds an MFA from Bennington College.

Kevin McCarthy holds and MFA in poetry from Bennington College and teaches at Dartmouth College.

Sally Molini is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in or is forthcoming in LIT, Beloit Poetry Journal, Stirring, Hanging Loose, Siren, The MacGuffin, 32 Poems, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers and is currently working on a first book. She lives in Nebraska.

Other pieces of Evelyn Posamentier's brainiography have appeared in numerous online journals including The Argotist Online, Born Magazine, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, DIAGRAM, Free Verse, The Notell Motel and RealPoetik.

Barton Smock lives in Columbus, OH, with his wife and three children. He has been published sporadically online…most recently at juked.com...and, print wise, in caesura.

Aline Soules' work has appeared in The MacGuffin, 100 Words, Literature of the Expanding Frontier, and Variations on the Ordinary. The Size of the World is a "flip" book of poetry and short fiction, co-published with Nancy Ryan's The Shape of the Heart.  Prose poems from her manuscript Meditation on Woman have appeared in Kaleidowhirl, Tattoo Highway, Edifice Wrecked, Poetry Midwest, Binnacle, Long Story Short, The Newport Review, and The Kenyon Review.

Matina L. Stamatakis resides in Schuylerville New York, and is the author of Metempsychose (Ypolita Press, 2008). Some of her works have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Free Verse, Big Bridge, Segue, and Coconut.

Mark Thalman's book Catching the Limit will be published in 2008 by Bedbug Press as part of their Northwest Poetry Series. His work has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, CutBank, Natural Bridge, Pedestal Magazine and The Pennsylvania Review.