Janeé Baugher holds a B.S. from Boston University and an MFA from Eastern Washington University. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Ekphrasis, The Green Tricycle, and elsewhere and are forthcoming in Switched-on Gutenberg, Sunspinner, and LitRag. During the academic year she teaches Poetry Writing and is a freelance writer and editor in Seattle. Her summers are spent at Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen, Michigan) where she teaches Fiction and Poetry.

Nicholas Benson's poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Downtown Brooklyn, New England Review, Pequod, Mudfish, and other journals. His translation of Bertolucci's Viaggio d'inverno (Winter Journey, 1971) will be published this year in the Free Verse Editions Series of Parlor Press.

Attilio Bertolucci (Parma 1911 - Rome 2000) is regarded as one of Italy's greatest twentieth-century poets. The author of several volumes of poetry, he was also a prolific translator, essayist, and editor. The poems in this issue are from Viaggio d'inverno (Winter Journey, 1971), often cited as Bertolucci's most challenging and affecting work. Among his many honors was the 1991 Librex-Guggenheim Eugenio Montale prize, considered the highest award in Italian poetry.

Barbara Bowen is a 2003 graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC. She was a finalist for the 2004 Ann Stanford Poetry Prize. Her poems have won awards from Tidepools and the Washington Poets Association, and have appeared in Mute Note Earthward: the 2004 WPA anthology, The Drunken Boat, Tidepools, Minotaur, and www.poetsagainstthewar.org. Barbara serves on the Board of Directors of Poets Against War.

Theresa Boyar's writing has appeared in print and online journals including The Florida Review, Rattle, Slow Trains, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Tryst. She lives in Helena, Montana, with her husband and two sons. www.theresaboyar.com.

Ronda Broatch lives near Puget Sound with her family, resident bears, and other wildlife. She teaches BodyPump and Pilates, writes while running on the elliptical, and has been known to dance in church. Her poems have recently appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Atlanta Review, Calyx, Literary Salt, Tiferet, Crab Creek Review, Windfall, and Poetry Midwest, among others. Ronda was a 2003 Pushcart nominee, and was awarded a residence to Soapstone-A Writer's Retreat For Women, in 2004. Her chapbook, Some Other Eden, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press, later this year.

Martha Clarkson hails from Portland originally and studied at University of Oregon. She writes poetry and fiction and manages workplace design for Microsoft. Her work can be found in monkeybicycle.net, Seattle Review, pindeldyboz, and Clackamas Literary Review.

Rebecca Clark has work in various journals, including StringTown, Snow Monkey, Ilya's Honey, Pebble Lake Review, Avocet, Watershed, and Sqajet. She works as an attorney coordinating a volunteer lawyer program and lives in Bow, WA with her husband and daughter.

Kevin Patrick Curran is a working geneticist and a burgeoning writer. There have been times when he wished it were the other way around but time's the revelator and, anyway, science provides a nice backdrop for fiction. His short story, Shank, can still be read on-line at (http://webdelsol.com/InPosse/) in the 16th Issue of In Posse Review. His one act play, Neil, you should kiss the girl,' was produced last November at the Marsh theatre in San Francisco.

Malcolm Dixon is originally from Liverpool. His fiction has appeared recently in Wind Magazine, the Briar Cliff Review and Cranky. In 2003 he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He now lives north of Canterbury, on the Kent coast.

Maciej Gador attended Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland, graduating in 1996 with a Master of Fine Arts degree. Since then Gador has worked as an art teacher at a primary school and is presently employed by a stained-glass company in Krakow, working as a designer of traditional glass forms. In addition, Maciej Gador produces illustrations for Polish magazines, such as: Charaktery (nr 7/90, July 2004).

Peter Geerlofs was a small town family physician, a medical software entrepreneur and currently Chief Medical Officer of a public medical software company based in Chicago. Since the age of 12, and throughout these various careers, photography has been a passion and focus for creative expression. He is currently working exclusively in digital and enjoys subtle and sometimes not so subtle manipulation in the digital darkroom to achieve a particular vision.

Paula Grenside lives in Italy, near Venice, where she teaches British and American Literature to high school students. She has published poetry and fiction both in English and Italian.

Annalynn Hammond's first book, Dirty Birth, was the winner of Sundress Publications' Book Contest. A group of her poems also won the 2004 Marc Penka Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in: Gargoyle, Canwehaveourballback?, Melic Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Snow Monkey, Diagram, Failbetter, Spork, Shampoo, Aught, The Glut, Dicey Brown, Word For/Word and elsewhere. She lives in Wisconsin.

Sandra Hosking's work has appeared in Midwest Book Review, InSight for Playwrights, and anthologies by Smith & Kraus and Meriwether publishing. Her plays have been performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Canada, and elsewhere. She recently received an MFA in creative writing from Eastern Washington University, in Spokane, WA.

Christiana Langenberg was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to the U.S with her Dutch father and Italian mother and was raised trilingually in rural Nebraska. She won the 2003 Chelsea Award for Short Fiction, and her stories have appeared in Chelsea, Green Mountains Review, American Literary Review, Lullwater Review, The Blue Moon Review, and other journals. She teaches in the English/Women's Studies departments at Iowa State University.

Amanda Laughtland lives with her partner in the suburbs of Seattle and works behind the circulation desk in a public library. Her poems have appeared in Crab Creek Review and Nerve Cowboy and her own mini-zine, Teeny Tiny. She holds an MFA in English from the University of Washington.

Marin has been referred to as an "alchemist of color." Her exploration of the relationship between pigments, rather than the elements of composition, initiates the creation of new work. Marin fills the canvas with multihued layers rendering deep textures and lush backgrounds. As relationships emerge from the intertwining colors, Marin distills them into forms that whisper in and out of the background.

Muriel Nelson has a full-length collection of poems, Part Song (Bear Star Press, 1999), and a chapbook, Most Wanted (ByLine Press, 2003). Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Marlboro Review, Northwest Review, Snake Nation Review, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, and others.

Peter Pereira is a family physician in Seattle, and a founding editor of Floating Bridge Press. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and JAMA. He was a winner of the 1997 "Discovery"/The Nation Award, and his first chapbook, The Lost Twin, was published by Grey Spider in 2000. His book, Saying the World (Copper Canyon2003) won the Hayden Carruth Award, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the Triangle Publishing Award, and the PEN USA Award in Poetry.

Kathryn Rantala's credits include The Iowa Review Web, New Orleans Review, Field, Archipelago, Notre Dame Review, 3^rd Bed, Oregon Review, elimae, failbetter, Crowd, Raven Chronicles, Connecticut River Review and others. Her book, Missing Pieces, is available from the publisher, Ocean View Press, Denver.

Susan Rich, winner of the PEN West Poetry Award and the Peace Corps Writers Award for The Cartographer's Tongue / Poems of the World, White Pine Press, has worked as a staff person for Amnesty International, an electoral supervisor in Bosnia, and a human rights trainer in Gaza. Her second collection of poems Cures Include Travel will be published by White Pine Press. She lives in Seattle and is the recent recipient of an Artist's Trust grant. She can be contacted through her website at www.SusanRich.org.

David Wright's poems, essays and reviews have appeared on-line and in print in such places as Artful Dodge, The Nimble Spirit Review (http://www.nimblespirit.com), Mid-America Poetry Review, and The Mars Hill Review, among others. His latest collection of poems is A Liturgy for Stones (Cascadia, 2003). In addition, he is a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for poetry. Recently, he has published several musical compositions written in collaboration with composer James E. Clemens. Wright lives and teaches in Illinois.

Sarah Zale teaches writing online from her website (www.sarahwrite.com) and in the university setting. She lives near Port Townsend, Washington. Her poetry has been published in The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Wind Publications, Half Tones to Jubilee, CPU Review, WomanMade Gallery Datebook, and others, as well as on websites such as PoetsAgainsttheWar.org.