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Edward Byrne is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Tidal Air (Pecan Grove Press). His poems have also appeared in numerous literary journals, including American Literary Review, American Poetry Review, American Scholar, Carolina Quarterly, The Literary Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Poetry Daily, Quarterly West, and Southern Humanities Review. He is a professor of American literature and creative writing at Valparaiso University , where he also serves as editor of Valparaiso Poetry Review. Cynthia Cheyney lives in Southern New Jersey where she teaches writing, technology, and architectural drafting. She will complete the Master of Arts in Writing this year at Rowan University, where she received the 2003 Literary Award for Poetry. Peggy Duffy's short stories and essays have appeared and are forthcoming in The Washington Post, Main Street Rag, Brevity, Octavo, Drexel Online Journal, Whole Terrain, So To Speak, Pierian Spring, Flashquake and elsewhere. Her fiction was recognized by the Virginia Commission for the Arts as a finalist in the Individual Artist Fellowship program for literary artists. She has an MFA from George Mason University and maintains a website at http://www.authorsden.com/peggyduffy. Paul Eggers is an assistant professor of creative writing at California State University–Chico. He is the author of a novel, Saviors (Harcourt, 1999), which was a Barnes & Noble Discovery selection, and a short-fiction collection, How the Water Feels (Southern Methodist University Press, 2002), winner of the 2003 Paterson Fiction Award. His poems have appeared in Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, Poetry Seattle, and Tendril. Diana Lynn Fesko lives and writes in City Island, New York. Molly Finkelstein is a senior at Cherry Hill High School East in the lovely suburban town of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She enjoys plastic fruit, kitchen utensils, hiking equipment, and cubism. She also plays the glockenspiel and mimes. Molly really likes musicians. Other Madelbaum stories have appeared as follows: "Mandelbaum Reviewed" and "Deconstructing Mandelbaum" appeared in (Eclectica) "Mandelbaum Writes" (Bovine Free Wyoming), "Lo (Mandelbaum) ve" and "A Mandelbaum By Any Other Name," (Ken*again), "A Monologue for Mandelbaum" (Wild Violet), "A Vision of Mandelbaum" (In Posse Review), "Shakespeare According to Mandelbaum" (The Coffee Press Journal), "Mandelbaum and The Three Tall Women," (Lotus Blooms Journal), "Shrine Rifkin," (The Asylum), "Mandelbaum: The Musical," (Words Words Words). In print "Mandelbaum in the Movies," has appeared in Rites of Passage, I, and "Ehrlichman's Mandelbaum" is scheduled for publication in The Unknown Writer sometime this year. A reading of "A Mandelbaum by Any Other Name" was taped along with an interview for broadcast on KSJE radio's Write On 4 Corners at 10:30 (New Mexico time) on May 14, 2003 . Although now an attorney, prior to law school Gina Harrison worked as a reporter for the now-defunct Hartford Times, and as a news editor/director for Cablevision in the suburban, New York City area. She has also written commercial copy for a local Long Island, New York radio station. Carol Hegberg is a freelance editor and writer who was a journalist before writing her novel Pen Pals. She is published in several anthologies and magazines, and her children's plays and skits are published through Meriwether Publishing. She has also written a non-fiction book, Living with Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome with Dysautonomia. She writes a column for a website and a newspaper. David Hopkins currently teaches English at the University of Maryland in Bamberg, Germany. His poems have appeared in Pierian Springs, Blue Monk Press, Into the Teeth of the Wind, 3rd Muse, Impetus, and PoetrySuperHighway. He was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and was the winner of the spring 2001 American Counseling Association essay contest. Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place , won eight awards. Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, won three. Her first screenplay, The Killing Ground is still looking for a home. Her poetry and fiction is included in several anthologies and literary reviews and she writes a column for Home Decor Magazine, The Pasadena Star News and a "Back to Literature" column for MyShelf.com. She has studied writing at Cambridge University, UK; Charles University, Prague; Herzen University, St. Petersburg, RU; and UCLA's Writers' Program. After years of teaching business writing, Marcia Mascolini retired to write fiction in Portage, MI. Her stories have appeared in Smokelong Quarterly, Whistling Shade, Naked Humorists, Newtopia, and other journals. Michelle McGrane is a free-spirit currently living and writing in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Her debut poetry collection Fireflies & Blazing Stars was runner up for the South African Writers' Circle 2003 Quill Award for the best book published in any category. She is also the recipient of the South African Writers' Circle 2003 Hilde Slinger Poetry Trophy. Michelle's second poetry anthology "Hybrid" is currently at the printing press and is due for release in December 2003. She can be contacted at: michellem@stowell.co.za. Merrie Miller was born in Missoula Montana in 1955. She is a Mother and Grandmother and a special educator for Portland Public Schools. She has never been published before except for in the Parents of Murdered Children's newsletter. Jae Ming Jue has been writing since he was a small boy growing up in the Midwest. Now as an adult child, he writes in compulsive spurts to remember the things he wants to forget, to fill the emptiness with dissonant sounds, and to learn about himself. He has no deep understanding of things nor glib with words but he feels and he imagines and he writes. His poems have been accepted at Verse Libre and Pemmican. elena minor's work has been published in Segue, Facets, Chicanovista and frontera. Her play, The Dollhouse, was awarded first prize in the 2002 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize. Ann Neuser Lederer's work has been published in XConnect, Wind, 2 River View, Adirondack Review, Brevity, and others. A chapbook, Approaching Freeze, was released by Foothills in 2003. She lives in Kentucky where she is employed as a visiting nurse for a hospice. Trix Niernberger's stories and essays have appeared in F5, flashquake, Laughter Loaf, Papermite, Rock Springs Review, and Laughing and Learning: Adventures in Parenting. She can be reached at tniernberger@cox.net. Kenneth Pobo's new book of poems, Introductions, came out from Pearl 's Book'Em Press in September of 2003. His work appears online at ForPoetry.com, Three Candles, Drexel Online Journal, Southern Ocean Review, and elsewhere. He likes to garden and to collect obscure records from the late sixties and early seventies. Cati Porter is a poet and artist living in Riverside, California with her husband and two sons. More of her poetry can be read online at PoetryMidwest.org, Fall 2003 issue. Ryan G. Van Cleave's work has appeared in The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly. His most recent books include a poetry collection, Ha Ha Tonka (Higganum Hill, 2003), an anthology, Vespers: Contemporary American Poems of Religion and Spirituality ( University of Iowa Press , 2003), and a creative writing textbook, Contemporary American Poetry: Behind the Scenes (Allyn & Bacon/Longman, 2003). He teaches creative writing at Clemson University. 
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