Kelli Russell Agodon has published in Rattapallax, The Seattle Review, Parnassus and elsewhere. A Washington State Arts Commission/Artist Trust grant recipient, she is the poetry editor for Margin and a regional coordinator for the United Poetry Coalition. Read more of her work at www.geocities.com/agodon. She may be reached at modpoet@excite.com.

James Bertolino has had nine volumes of poetry published by Copper Canyon Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, the Quarterly Review of Literature Award Series and others. His latest is Pocket Animals: 60 Poems (Egress Studio Press). His chapbooks, Greatest Hits: 1965-2000 and 26 Poems from Snail River, both came out in 2000. Published in Ploughshares, Notre Dame Review, Crab Creek Review, Raven Chronicles and StringTown, he teaches creative writing at Western Washington University and lives east of Bellingham beside a mountain lake.

Neil Connelly is an associate professor at McNeese State University, where he runs the MFA fiction workshop. His first novel St. Michael's Scales was published last year by Arthur A. Levine, and his second book, tentatively titled The Unknown Kentucky Terror, was purchased by Simon and Schuster. He lives with Beth, his wife, in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

David Dalessandro attended the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture where he studied under many second generation Abstract Expressionists. He received an MFA from Queens College. His jazz work is inspired by visits to the Village Vanguard in New York and by musicians Miles Davis and Dexter Gordon among others.

Roberta Feins' poems have appeared in Switched-on Gutenberg. She has won honors in the King County Poetry on the Bus and Washington Poets Association competitions.

Judy Galbraith is a graduate of the MFA program at Arizona State University, where she studied under Norman Dubie. She has published in Phoebe, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ruah, and The Tamarack Writers journals. Currently, she is a member of the English faculty at Paradise Valley Community College in Phoenix. She may be reached at judy.galbraith@pvmail.maricopa.edu.

Carolyn Maddux has just retired as managing editor of the Shelton-Mason County Journal. She earned a master of arts through the McGregor School of Antioch University. She teaches creative writing at Olympic College Shelton and has one book of poetry in print. Her letterpress chapbook, Voluntary on a Flight of Angels, is forthcoming from Hypatia Press.

Linda Malnack has published a chapbook entitled Bone Beads (Paper Boat Press, 1997) and her poems have appeared in The Seattle Review, Southern Humanities Review and Willow Springs. She won the Willow Springs Poetry Award in 2000 and the William Stafford Award in 1998.

A.J. Rathbun has published in Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Monster, The Poetry Miscellany, Taint Magazine, The Southeast Review (formerly SunDog), ZYZZYVA and elsewhere. His book, Want, came out in 2001. His pie, Totally Tofu Coconut Kareem Pie, won "Most Creative" at Amazon.com's 2003 ETK-Editorial Pro-Am Pie Off (or, EEPAPO). He co-edits LitRag, which has an online component at http://www.litrag.com. He may be reached at detonator36@hotmail.com but please don't send submissions for LitRag to this address.

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of Bed of Lists and House Made of Silver (both from Kelsey St.), In the Sequence of Falling Things (paradigm press) and Harrow (Omnidawn). She won the National Poetry Series in 2001 for Pure Descent and has published in The Best American Poetry of 2002. Robinson is the winner of the 2002 Fence Modern Poets Series for Apprehend, which will be published collaboratively by Fence Books, Apogee Press, and Saturnalia Press. A resident of Berkeley, California, she may be reached at elzarob@attbi.com.

Jonathan Safir has a BFA from Parsons School of Design - Photography, 1989. He is represented commercially by Photonica in NY, Japan, and Europe. Safir's current projects include 2 films. Now You Are Meat is a narrative short about relationships, eating, and hypocrisy. Transformations is a full-length documentary filmed in Mexico during the Day of the Dead. It explores the influences of Halloween/tourism/commercialization and how this combination transforms tradition. His website is located at http://www.jonathansafir.com. He may be reached at js@jonathansafir.com.

Derek Sheffield has published a chapbook of poems entitled A Mouthpiece of Thumbs (Blue Begonia Press). His poems have appeared recently in Crab Creek Review, The Bellingham Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Salt River Review, Fireweed and Windfall. His interview of William Stafford's family appears in the Winter 2003 issue of The Seattle Review. Sheffield recently won the James Hearst Poetry Award from North American Review. He lives in Home, Washington and may be reached at dereksheffield@hotmail.com.