Angela Baccari is a writer from the Western PA area. Her short fiction has appeared in New Beginnings e-zine and SLUG Fest and Liquid Ohio magazines, as well as other publications. "Sunflowers," originally a flash fiction story that had been workshopped at an earlier incarnation of Scrawl, was optioned as a screenplay for a short silent film for Hi-Def Motion Pictures in 2001.

Greg Blanchette has written on spec and on assignment for almost 20 years. His travel features have appeared in several magazines; essays and articles under his byline have graced newspapers from the local to the national, and a short story is soon to appear in the anthology Traffic Life. He lives in the quaint village of Ucluelet, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia, where he works two days a week at the local newspaper and volunteers for the arts society.

Kenneth L. Clark resides in Athens, Georgia. He writes fiction, poetry, and the occasional Web article. His work has appeared online and in limited print. He's still working up the courage to submit more often, and write less. A Texan by birth and a lifelong traveler, he finds solace in movement and writes with a style that is intentionally rift with contradictions, subtle disagreements, and elements in opposition. He has lost more fights than he's won and prefers backroads to highways when on his motorcycle.

GiGi Dane is a happy mother and grandmother who lives in Phoenix with her extended family, which includes a comic-book writing honey. She shamelessly promotes his website, Toonopedia, because she is proud of him and his work.

Antony Davies is a student in England doing a Creative Writing degree. He has had around a dozen publications both on-line and in print, some of them even paying! He writes mostly contemporary fiction, aiming toward literary but usually ending up with quality genre stuff. That said, he is not opposed to experimental work (such as "TXT M8" ). He'd like to start work on a novel in the next couple of years, once he feels he has the necessary experience and skill.

Emily Deans is almost 30 years old. She enjoys writing but does not like frufru liquors. Her mother used to be a model, and her parents met in physics class. You can find her work with the usual web searches, however, she is in the process of trying to get a nonfiction book published and has good prospects. She is always writing one novel or another and works insane hours every week at a real job.

Lisa Dyer lives and writes in Colorado with a husband, five children, four cats, two fish, a turtle and a lizard. One day, hopefully in the not too distant future, she plans on reclaiming what remains of her sanity. While she's waiting, she writes. And dreams. Then writes some more. Her work can be found at Espresso Fiction, Insolent Rudder and The Writing Parent.

Errid Farland is a wife, mother (of the grand variety, as well,) and retired accountant, living in Southern California. She writes novels and most recently has tried her hand at writing short stories. She loves people, ponders truth, and showers every day.

Veronica Khokhlova is a native of Kyiv, Ukraine, but spends much of her time in St. Petersburg, Russia, now. She'd rather live someplace warm, though, at least in winter. Links to her other work can be found at
www.euro-correspondent.com/veronica.htm.

Cheryl Diane Kidder completed her B.A. in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University and is close to completing her M.A. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Reed, Amelia, Dog River Review, Alchemy, Sandscript, Insolent Rudder, August Cutter, Three Candles, Outsider Ink and the Clackamas Literary Review. Her work was also included in Meg Files' book Write From Life.

Benjamin King is an Australian born writer with an M.A. in English from Wayne State University in Detroit. He spends his days writing super important marketing type stuff for a Connecticut-based employee benefits company. At night he likes to sleep.

Zoe King is a freelance writer, editor, publisher, and lately, web site designer. She lives in rural Norfolk in the UK, which is where this story was born. Her work has been published in Glimmer Train (US), Words (Canada), Southern Ocean Review (NZ), Cadenza, The New Writer, Story Cellar, and lots more in the UK. She’s one of those people who swears she’s writing a novel but don’t hold your breath.

Tammy R. Kitchen lives in Michigan where she spends a lot of time entertaining her pre-teen daughter. When she’s not doing that, you can find her in a cold and quiet basement reading books, drinking coffee, and writing stories.

Mark Kneeland lives in New Hampshire. His email is markasher@comcast.net.

Mollie Luna shares the brain of Lynn Oatman. Mollie and Lynn live in central New York State for the time being. They are both pleased to be represented in this worthy literary potpourri.

Nicholas Lyytinen is a college drop out. An English major at one time. A bad English Major who’s seen the bottom drop out of romanticism and can’t ignore or dismiss it. That’s what his pomes are about and why the writing of them helped. That’s it. No. This is what a bio is for. Nicholas Lyytinen published a short story in a community college rag of which he can’t remember the name of, but the story was called “American Demons”. The End.

John Myers is a Capricorn who enjoys long walks on the beach and is currently taking a semester off. Attending Oberlin College in the spring, John enjoys singing, writing, and masturbating. A senior biology major, he is currently working as an intern and working towards figuring out what to do with his degree.

Nobby loves strange and unusual things. He started writing because it was ridiculously good fun surprising and revolting everyone, and the farting was wearing a bit thin. He's currently doing a degree in English & Creative Writing at Warwick University, England, because otherwise he'd be buggered. The End.

A. Ray Norsworthy lives on the dusty plains of Oklahoma close to Geronimo's grave and Rainy Mountain. His stories have appeared in a variety of publications, both print and interent. His story collection, Indiahoma (Stories Of Blues And Blessings) is available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com. The book's website is www.araynorsworthy.com. He can be reached at araynorsworthy@cox.net

Margaret O'Neal hails from Athens, Georgia, USA. She has been published in several magazines including Polyphony, The Dakota House Journal, The Dead Mule, and Moondance. Also she recently had her first (one minute) play performed in Buffalo, NY and Rome, Italy.

David Parker is 45 and married to the lovely Anita - they both live with Archie the West Highland White Terrier in Norfolk in the UK in a nice old house with a view of the river Yare. David doesn't have to worry about global warming because the local council have measured the road and it is above the flood level. David has one fridge and a small fridge freezer (which is kept in the garage). David is Sales Manager for an engineering company and likes custard and watching DVD's on his wide screen television. David has had one book of non-fiction published (called Random Precision: Recording the Music of Syd Barrett). He would like to be a writer.

J. Post lives in New York. The state not the city. He can be reached at jpost10@yahoo.com but he probably won't respond. He's not very good about that.

Mary Corinne Powers shares her home in Utah with three brilliant sons, two breathtakingly moronic Labradors, three pathetically affectionate cats, an assortment of mostly dead houseplants and, improbably enough, a turtle. They are all right in the middle of living happily ever after.

Robert Raven lives in Anchorage, Alaska, and pays his bills, and sometimes his taxes, by means of industrial paleontology. After a post-Army stint at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the 1970s, he put away fiction writing for a long time, to return to it only in recent years. He is trying, so far without success, to fence his first novel, and has one other published short story in Zoetrope ASE. Two other novels are in progress. He can be reached at rraven@acsalaska.net.

John Ravenscroft lives in Lincolnshire, England and spends much of his time struggling to write fiction and co-editing Cadenza Magazine. His short stories have won prizes in various literary competitions and been published in magazines such as BuzzWords, Lexikon, Night & Day, Peninsular - and yes, he admits it, Woman's Weekly. His work has also been broadcast on the BBC.

Elizabeth Rawlins lives somewhere near Charlotte, NC, is twenty-five years old, and never graduated college. She has a four-year-old son and a six-month-old cat. She is in the process of selling two old houses to buy an even older house, and is losing what is left of her mind. She is currently working with her son to write a book explaining suicide to children, and hoping no child will ever have to read it.

F. John Sharp's work has also appeared in Paumanok Review, Pindelyboz, Pulse, Prose Ax, In Posse Review, and Peninsular, among others, and he has two poems in the book, An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind, published by Regent Press. He is looking forward to branching out to journals that don't start with a 'P.' He lives and works in Northern Ohio, and can be reached at fjsharpjr@aol.com.

Elspeth Weaver lives in Western Massachusetts, works for a non-profit, blah blah! She is not a published writer. She's a little shy about these things.

Jim Whalen is a theology student and writer living in Virginia. In 2001 he began to write poetry, essays and fiction after a long hiatus.