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Elizabeth Accordino is a grant writer and community relations director for a rural health network. She has served as editor of Our Good Life, a monthly news magazine distributed to 50,000 households in western New York State; designed and written newsletters and brochures; written numerous articles on health and human service issues; and has had articles published in Moxie, an online women's magazine, and the Buffalo News.

Jeffrey Alfier lives in Tucson, Arizona, holds an MA in Humanities, and formerly served as an adjunct faculty member with City Colleges of Chicago's European Division. Publication credits include Uno - A Poetry Anthology (Xlibris, 2002), Because I Fly (McGraw-Hill, 2001), A Time of Trial (Hidden Brook Press, 2002), and the journals Columbia Review, CrossConnect, Euphony, Melic Review, Paumanok Review, Pif Magazine, Poetry Greece, Poetry Midwest, Stolen Island Review, Trinity College Journal, and Web Del Sol.

Jamie Elizabeth Ambrose is an American freelance writer and editor who lives and works in London. Besides articles and short stories, she has written a biography, Willa Cather: Writing at the Frontier (Berg), and is currently working on a novel. The older she gets, the greater her concern over man's uncontrolled growth and its impact on the other creatures with which we share this planet.

John Borneman is an engineer by day and writer by night — as long as the lawn is mowed, the horses are fed, the car is in good working order, and, and, and... He has previously published several non-fiction humor and informational articles in Arabian Horse Magazine and has recently had a short story accepted by Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.

Gary Cadwallader has lived in Kansas City, Missouri and has published in The Phone Book, Canter Magazine, Literary Potpourri and others.

Gail Louise Chagall directs a public interest group in Chicago, Illinois and is writing for an MFA at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work has appeared under various names in Zoetrope All-Story Extra, FictionFix, The Salt River Review ("Sparta to Elroy" and "The Telemarketer's Point of View"), Brevity, 3am Magazine, and is upcoming in Outsider Ink and Literary Potpourri. You can reach Gail at Minokemeg@aol.com.

Robert Lee Fritz has worked with glass for over 25 years. He specializes in creating hand-blown crystal paperweights, vases and sculptures on which he carves silhouettes of cranes (the symbol of long life and good fortune), herons and other Midwestern birds. His works have been well received in Japan, with exhibitions at Tokyo Crafts Expo and International Exhibition of Glass in Kanazawa. Fritz's glass has been presented as gifts to the Prime Minister of japan and the U.S. Ambassador to Japan. U.S. Senators Ted Kennedy, Tom Harkin and Ron Wyden and former Senator Paul Simon also own free-blown glasswork by the Illinois artist.

Judd Hampton lives in northern Alberta, Canada, with his wife and two children. His work appears or will appear in Night Train, Unknown Writer, Literary Potpourri, Vestal Review, Insolent Rudder, Whistling Shade, Bovine Free Wyoming, and Outsider Ink.

Laura Julier teaches writing at Michigan State University. A longer poem is forthcoming in Windhover, and an essay will appear next year in Gulf Stream Magazine.

Matthew Laurence, akamango, lives in Chicago, Illinois and holds Associate in Arts from Moraine Valley Community College and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a multimedia artist currently teaching Photography at Farragut Career Academy, in Chicago.

Charles Levenstein is author of LOST BAGGAGE, a collection of poems published by Loom Press in Lowell, Massachusetts. His poems have appeared in Poetry Bay, Red River Review, Atomic Petals, Rustlings of the Wind, Comrades, Artemis, and other e-zines. His latest non-fiction work is THE COTTON DUST PAPERS (with G. DeLaurier and M.L. Dunn), published by Baywood in 2001.

Cynthia Lewis has published short stories and poems in print journals and e-zines, including Little Brown Poetry, Writer's Choice, Empire Zine, Reflections, Pebbles, In the Spirit of the Buffalo, Penny-a-Liner, and Telicom. After previous stints as a musician and editor, she currently works as a web developer and lives with her Eclectus parrot, Sammie, in Maryland.

Beverly Carol Lucey has published short fiction in Portland Maine Magazine, Flint River Review 1999 (GA), Moxie Winter edition 2000 (CA) Four stories are anthologized in We Teach Them All (Stenhouse Press, Maine). "Worry Circuit" appeared in the Spring Edition (33) of Quality Women's Fiction, 2001 (UK). Four non-fiction pieces will appear in upcoming editions of the inspirational Chocolate for Women series. Lucey is also a freelance non-fiction writer. Her pieces of local interest appear in Henry Magazine (GA). Extensive presence online include e-zines: Zoetrope All Story Extra Gift Wrap (July '00), Scissors, Paper, Rock ( Jan '01), Vestal Review "Waiting For the Flight" (Summer '00), CollectedStories.com "The Big Cheese" (Jan '01), LiteraryPotPourri.com "Where Will YOU Spend Eternity?" (Dec '01) and "Vida" (April '02). The author lives in Georgia, is a life long educator, and a member of the Georgia Writers Association.

Michael Martin has been many things. He was an actor and editor of the school paper in High School and has been an accountant, entrepreneur, mechanic and convenience store clerk as an adult. The one constant has been writing. Michael has been writing since he was in the seventh grade, some 25 years ago and has recently left his job as a software analyst to concentrate full time on writing.

Originally from New York City, Allen J. McGill was an invited Writing Seminar student at NY's New School For Social Research. His works include short fiction, essays, non-fiction articles, commentaries, novels, plays and theatrical reviews. He presently lives and writes in Mexico where he is also an actor and director. His publishing credits include The New York Times (2), Newsday (4), The Writer, Our Town, M.D. (4), Unity (2), Sunday Newsday Magazine, New York Sunday News, Intro, Blueboy (3), Best Buys, New York Air, Mechanics, West Coast Review of Books, Mexico City News, San Miguel Writer, and numerous top U.S. newspapers reprinting travel articles.

Andy Oldfield is a full-time freelance writer based in Cornwall, England. He is a regular contributor to The Independent newspaper in the UK, writing about sport and the Internet. Online he has been responsible for reviewing literary web sites at the international online writing community, trAce. He was also the author of the science fiction channel offered by CompuServe Europe. The majority of his fiction has been published in SF outlets such as Interzone and Biomed.net's HMS Beagle. Since completing a masters degree in Writing at Nottingham Trent University he has been exploring other sorts of fiction writing.

Mitali Perkins was born in Calcutta, India, but grew up in Northern California. She has published short stories in India Currents, Khabar, With, Spirit, and BiffsBoards.com, and is the author of one young adult novel, The Sunita Experiment, published by Little Brown, Hyperion, and Scholastic. She currently lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Alvaro Rodriguez is a graduate student in literature at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. His recent work has appeared in MARROW, LEAN SEED, and THE MESQUITE REVIEW and his classic-movie column, "TALKING PICTURES," received a 2002 Lone Star Award from the Houston Press Club.

Paul Rogalus teaches literature and creative writing at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire. His flash fiction has appeared in Northern New England Review, Drexel Online Journal, Crystal Drum, and FLASH!POINT. A chapbook of his short-short stories, Meat Sculptures, was published by Green Bean Press in 2001. He has also written a number of plays which have been produced in New York City and Boston.

Helen Rykens lives in Toronto, Canada, travels whenever possible, and is active in the sci fi writers' workshop known as the Cecil Street Irregulars. Her stories have appeared in On Spec and Challenging Destiny.

Vanitha Sankaran is a fiction writer and an editor for the literary e-zine flashquake. Her recent award-winning stories can be found on-line at Fiction Inferno, Eleven Bulls, The Dead Mule and The Paumanok Review and in print in FUTURES, Mindprints, Midnight Mind and others. She also had a recurring fiction column in The San Francisco Call.

Laura Wiltse lives in New York City. She works in magazine marketing where she writes proposal upon proposal upon proposal. She writes fiction whenever she can fit it in -- and hopes to be doing alot more of it in the future. She has been published on 3AM.com and is soon to be published in both Tickled by Thunder and Peaks and Valleys magazines.

Linda C. Wisniewski is a retired librarian who lives with her family in southeastern Pennsylvania, where she teaches life writing workshops for women. Linda is an active member of the International Women's Writing Guild and the Story Circle Network. Her work has been published in the Christian Science Monitor, The Rose and Thorn, Massage Magazine, and The Cyberskeptic's Guide to Internet Research. When she is not writing, Linda can be found reading mystery novels and watching her retired husband cook excellent gourmet meals.

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Wendy Zarganis is a legal assistant living in Brooklyn. Zarganis has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She also has a Bachleor’s in Literature from the University of California at San Diego where she lived by the beach for five years. She does not, however, surf.

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