Daniel Gustav Anderson is a native of Oregon, now living in the semi-urban American West. His poems feature fast footwork, pastiche, and unlikely metaphor.

Priscilla Atkin's poems have appeared in The North American Review, Poet Lore, Poetry, Blue Mesa Review and other magazines. Three poems are included in Northwest Florida Review's premiere issue, and five in the anthology New Poems from the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry.

Joe Benevento has had close to two hundred poems, thirty short stories and half a dozen articles published to date in over one hundred and twenty different places.

Alan Britt has been published in Bitter Oleander, Bloomsbury Review, Cold Mountain Review, Chariton Review, Epoch, and many others.

Salvador Bustamante is an anarchist poet and student at Hartnell College.

Xochiquetzal Candelaria received the National Hispanic for the Arts Award as well as a graduate fellowship to attend New York University where she subsequently received an MA in English and American Literature with a concentration in Poetry. Dedicated to promoting social change through the arts, she is a core member of El Teatro Campesino as well as WILL: Women In Literature and Letters. She is presently teaching at Gavilan Community College.

Robert Hambling Davis is a yoga teacher who lives on his family's farm in Delaware where he is sole proprietor. He recently finished his first novel. His short fiction has been widely published. He is the recipient of the Delaware Arts Council's Award.

Gerry DiGesu says that beauty and order in nature bring balance and perspective to her writing. She believes in the inherent goodness of people and that even on the darkest of days there is a ray of hope to be found.

Gene Fehler's poems have recently appeared in The Nebraska Review, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Bellowing Ark, Spitball, Rattle, Light, Whiskey Island and others.

Richard Fein has been published in many journals such as :Mississippi Review, Small Pond, Kansas Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, Willow Review. His web page is: www.expage.come/page/richardspoems_Poems.

George Fiske (1835-1918) Born in 1835 on his family's farm in New Hampshire, Fiske followed his brother west to San Francisco to work in the banking business. There, he apprenticed with Robert Vance and Charles Leander Weed, Yosemite's first photographer, and worked as an assistant to Carleton Watkins and Thomas Houseworth. Following a brief departure from photography, Fiske and his wife moved to Yosemite in 1879, where they lived year-round for most of the remainder of their lives. At the time of Ansel Adams' first visit to Yosemite in 1916, the aged Fiske was concluding a nearly 40-year career of living and working in the Yosemite Valley, making a steady living from his series of photographs.

Frank Giamprieto's poem "The Afterlife" is nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize. He is a contributing editor to Hunger Mountain: the Vermont College Journal of Arts and Letters. The Delaware Division of the Arts named him Runner-up for an Individual Artist Fellowship in the Emerging Professionals category for the year 2000. My work has been published or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Barrow Street, MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry, Tulane Review, Diner, Poetry Bone, WordWrights and Wesley College Review. I have a Master of Arts Degree in English from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in writing from Vermont College in Montpelier, Vermont.

Arthur Gottlieb is an Oregon poet whose work has appeared in most small literary magazines, including The Ledge, Chiron Review, The Alembic and others.

Sofia Jimenez won the Circo Prize in poetry sponsored by this magazine. She is a student at Hartnell College. She will transfer to Davis University in the fall of 2003.

Danielle Hansen received her MFA from Arizona State University and she now lives in Atlanta. She is the former poetry editor of Hayden's Ferry Review and her work has appeared in Poetry Miscellany, Hiram Poetry Review, The Marlboro Review, The Lucid Stone, Willow Springs, and many others.

Brett Hursey's work has appeared in over ninety journals across the United States and Canada such as Black Warrior Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Hawaii Pacidic Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Mississippi Valley Review, The red Cedar Review, and Southern Humanities Review.

Jeffry Jensen is a research Editor for the Salem Press in Pasadena, California. He's been published in Pearl, Yankee and the Poets West Anthology.

Jennifer Lagier - www.jlagier.net

Janet Landman is associate professor of psychology at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in an anthology and numerous literary journals, including The Dickinson Review, Icarus, The Larcom Review, Northeast Corridor, Rattle, and Washington Square. Her poem "Blue Fire" was awarded first prize in this year's National Writers Union poetry competition, judged by Adrienne Rich.

Natasha Marin was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. She recently finished a manuscript of poems entitled, Journeys in my Skin. She is currently working on her MA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas.

Barney McClelland has been published in the Oxford Magazine, Acorn 10 (Dublin Writer's Group), The New Formalist, and most recently by Snake Nation Review and Mobius.

Michael P. McManus has work forthcoming in Rattle, ONTHEBUS, The Cape Rock, SPSM&H, Cold Mountain Review, Blood and Fire Review, Spillway, and One Trick Pony. He was the recipient of the Louisiana Division of Arts Artist's Fellowship.

David Napolin has been published in the Hollins, Critic, The Amherst Review, Parnassus, Sonora Review, The Connecticut River Review and many other poetry Journals. One of his poems was nominated for the 1999 Pushcart Prize.

Richard Eoin Nash Check them out at www.softskull.com. They rock.

Daniel Nester can be found through his web page: www.godsavemyqueen.com, or at www.unpleasanteventschedule.com.

Kenneth O'Keefe is a retired teacher with a lifelong interest in literature. Most recently his work has appeared in Byline Magazine, St. Anthony Messenger, Movius, The Neovictorian Cochlea, Ancient Paths, Taproot Literary Review among others.

Simon Perchik has a new anthology of his poetry out entitled Hands Collected, The books of Simon Perchik 1949-1999. His poetry has been published in Partisan Review, The Nation, Poetry and The New Yorker.

Joseph Radke began the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the fall of 2003.

Maria Garcia Tabor- www.mariatabor.com

Lauren Van Herk is a twelve year old girl well on her way to conquering the world.

Nicola Waldron was born in England and now lives and writes in Northern California. The recipient of the Bridport International Prize, and published on both sides of the Atlantic, she was also 'bioregional writer in residence' for the University of California, Davis' Nature and Culture program in 2000. Nicola teaches literature and creative writing at a girls' high school in California, and has a special interest in writing for healing.