Hilary Mosher Buri holds a BA in Geography from Dartmouth College and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson. Her e-poem, “Configuration,” was short-listed for the 2001 Electronic Literature Organization poetry award. Her chapbook, Frau Rontgen's Hand, received Canada's Nichol Award in 2000. Mosher Buri now lives in Iowa City with her husband and son.

Robert Hambling Davis is a yoga teacher who lives on his family's farm in Newark, Delaware. His short stories have appeared in The Sun, Stroker, Aura, American Writing, and the Antietam Review. Robert has received a Delaware Division of the Arts grant for his fiction, and he is currently finishing a novel.

Matt Friday's poetry has been published in the Santa Clara Review, Northwest Literary Forum, Maverick Press, Orphic Lute and Monterey Poets, among others. He has read for various AIDS and peace benefits in Monterey, Salinas, and Santa Cruz since 1988; and has participated as either a poet or organizer in general Monterey area readings for over 20 years.

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc won the Emily Chamberlain Cook Prize for Poetry at the University of California at Berkeley while doing graduate work there. His poems have appeared in Oakland Renaissance, Cold Mountain Review, The Climbing Art, and are forthcoming in The Cafe Review. He is an Associate Editor for The Cafe Review, a literary and arts journal published in Portland, ME.

Mauricio Garnica was born in Penjamillo, Michoacan, Mexico. He lives in the “segregated city of Salinas, California.” He dedicates his life to literature.

Dana Garrett's poetry has appeared in many publications and anthologies, recently ACM, American Writing, Northeast Corridor, The Comstock Review, Whole Terrain and Grrrrr: A Collection of Poems about Bears. In 1997 he won the Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Grant Fellowship in the Emerging Professional category. He also recently won the Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Grant Fellowship in the Established Professional category.

Jim Gavenus is a professional photographer who lives in Pennsylvania. His exhibition, Scenes from Haiti is currently traveling around the United States.

Ray Gonzalez's most recent awards are: 2001 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry Finalist (Turtle Pictures), the 2000 Best American Poetry 2000, the Summer Writing Residency at Yaddo Retreat for Writers, the 2000 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and the 1999 Best American Poetry, among many others. He is the editor of more than ten anthologies of poetry and fiction. His work has been published in over one hundred journals and anthologies including The Norton Anthology of Nature Writing—Second Editon, and The Best American Nature Writing—2001. His forthcoming books are The Underground Heart: Essays From Hidden Landscapes (University of Arizona Press, 2002), and The Ghost of John Wayne and Other Stories (University of Arizona Press, 2001).

Brenda Gunn is an artist and poet residing in west Marin County. She is on the Board of Directors of the Marin Poetry Center. She writes mostly for her own amusement though her poetry has been published in local environmental newsletters, poetry journals and anthologies. She posts her poems and short fiction on her personal website. Just to confuse herself and everyone else, she makes her living as a software engineer turned technical writer. Kiana, the dog, and Brenda frequent the hiking trails and beaches of Marin in their spare time.

Jessamay Howell published a collection of her poetry titled At the Mercy of Forever in Fall of 1998 and is currently working on a book manuscript titled Seeing Blind due out in June, 2001. She wrote for, edited and published Teen Voices in conjunction with the Monterey Public Library reading series, and has also been published in such journals as "Poetswest" and in the Monterey Country Herald and the Salinas Californian.

Shea McInerney, having graduated from Dartmouth, is now enrolled in Boston University's creative writing program, pursuing an MA in poetry. Her work has appeared in Boomerang! A Contributor's Journal.

Kathryn Kirkpatrick is Associate Professor of English at Appalachian State University. Her first book of poetry, The Body's Horizon (Signal Books) won the Brockman-Campbell Award for the best book of poetry published by a North Carolina writer in 1996. Her second collection, Beyond Reason, is due out from Pecan Grove Press in spring 2002.

Jennifer Lagier is a member of the National Writers Union, Local 7, and the Italian American Writers Association. She has published two books of poetry, Where We Grew Up and Second-Class Citizen. Her work has appeared in e'zines, journals and anthologies throughout the U.S. and Italy. Ms. Lagier earned her MLIS from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in English from California State University, Stanislaus. She is currently working on a PhD.

Tara Laskowski is a feature writer for a weekly newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Trees, elephants and the color orange inspire her life.

Kimberly Magill was born in Fountain Valley, California and is currently a student at Hartnell College. She is pursuing a career in teaching creative writing and literature.

Morton Marcus is the author of eight books. Next year he will publish two more: Moments Without Names: New & Selected Prose Poems and Shouting Down The Silence, where the poems in this issue will appear. His poems have appeared in over 200 journals and 75 anthologies.

Alejandro Murguia is the author of Southern Front, an American Book Award Winner in 1991. He is also the author of a recent chapbook of poetry, Spare Poems by Luna's Press. Next year, City Lights Books will release his collection of short stories This War Called Love which was a finalist for the prestigious Casa de las Americas Award in 1997. He teaches at San Francisco State University.

Carmen Pursifull serves as poetry editor for Dream International Quarterly and has published four books of poetry including The Many Faces of Passion.

Dian Reed lives in Soquel, CA, and works as an independent technical writer in Silicon Valley. Before that, she had a brief experience with ad copywriting and spent several years as a photojournalist, with work published in a number of national magazines. Recently, her interests have returned to poetry and fiction writing, some of which has appeared in Intercom.

Dave Seter was born in Chicago, Illinois. He studied both environmental engineering and poetry at Princeton University, and has continued to pursue dual careers. He lives and works in San Francisco, where he draws inspiration from nature, the ever-changing horizon, and his fellow patrons of Mr. Ralph's Café.

Virgil Suarez was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962. He is the author of four novels, The Cutter, Latin Jazz, Havana Thursdays, and Going Under, and of the collection of stories, Welcome to the Oasis. His memoirs, Spared Angola: Memories of a Cuban-American Childhood and Café Nostalgia: Writings from the Hyphen, chronicle his life of exile in both Cuba and the United States. He is also the author of four collections of poetry: Garabato Poems, You Come Singing, In the Republic of Longing, and Palm Crows, forthcoming this year from the University of Arizona Press in its prestigious “Camino del Sol” Series. He is a professor of creative writing at Florida State University.

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