Contributor's Notes: Joe Ahearn is the author of Five Fictions (forthcoming from Sulpher River Press) and synthetic (Firewheel Editions, 2002). He edits VEER magazine (www.rancho-loco-press.com/veer), an online literary journal dedicated to innovative writing. Ahearn's poetry, essays, and translations have been widely published in this country and abroad. His work has been anthologized in Another Testament (Incarnate Muse Press, 1997), CrossConnect: Writers of the Information Age (Cross-Connect Press, 1997), and Best Texas Writing II (Firewheel Editions, 1999). Ahearn has won the Web Del Sol Editor's Award, the HITBOX Review Award, and the Poets-In-Need Benefit Award from Illya's Honey. Ahearn was named a Distinguished Poet by the City of Dallas in 2001. Glenn Armstrong has a B.A. in English from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine where he was also a boxing reporter. About his influences he says, "Life is finite. Every action should resonate with a strong, vibrant effort. Each motion (large or small) should have the intensity of hammering out iron bars on a blacksmith's iron, knocking the block off of a helmet-headed brigand, changing the channel with finality and conviction!" David Aronson says, "I am a visual artist and poet active in the underground zine and mail-art world. My work has appeared in Spunk, Gristle, Driver’s Side Airbag , Siren’s Silence, The Cherotic Revolutionary and The Brobdingnagian Times, as well as in collaboration with experimental poet Mark Sonnenfeld for Marymark Press and my own zine of underground art and poetry, The Alchemical Wedding (www.alchemicalwedding.com)." Soniah Naheed Kamal says, "I write a social satire column, My Foot, for a weekly magazine supplement, Sunday, to a cable guide in Pakistan with the highest circulation nationwide from April 2002 to present." Herbert Foster Kaufman has published short fiction and poetry in Wasted Space, Errata, The Underwood Review, Sugar Mule and Caveat Lector. His play Montgomery Clift Can't Save You was performed at the Sushi Gallery in San Diego. He has written restaurant reviews for local papers, and porn ad copy for international magazines. His first novel A Testament to Grace was published in 2000. His second book, a collection of short stories called "Trouble and Poison" will be published by Hanover Press in 2003. Amy King Amy King's poems can be found online and elsewhere. Her chapbook, The People Instruments, is available from Pavement Saw Press. Nathan Leslie writes that "Aside from being nominated for the 2002 Pushcart Prize, my fiction and poetry has appeared in over fifty publications including Amherst Review, Wascana Review, Poetry Motel, X-Connect, Fiction International, Adirondack Review, The Crab Creek Review, Fodderwing, The Sulphur River Literary Review, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Daybreak, and many others. I completed my MFA at the University of Maryland this past spring, where I won the 2000 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize. I currently teach writing at Northern Virginia Community College." Duane Locke was Poet in Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years. Has had over 2,000 of his own poems published in over 500 print magazines such as American Poetry Review, Nation, Literary Quarterly, Black Moon, and Bitter Oleander. Is author of 14 print books of poems, the latest print book is WATCHING WISTERIA ( to order write Vida Publishing, P.O. Box 12665, Lake, Park, FL. 33405-0665, or Amazon or Barnes and Noble). He writes of himself as follows: "He now lives alone in a two-story decaying house in the sunny Tampa slums. He lives isolated and estranged as an alien, not understanding the customs, the costumes, the language (some form of postmodern English) of his neighbors. The egregious ugliness of his neighborhood has recently been mitigated by the esthetic efforts of the police force who put bright orange and yellow posters on the posts to advertise the location is a shopping mall for drugs. His alley is the dumping ground for stolen cars. One advantage of living in this neighborhood, if your car is stolen, you can step out in the back and pick it up. Also, the burglars are afraid to come in on account of the muggers. His recreational activities are drinking wine, listening to old operas, and reading postmodern philosophy." Paul Murphy was born in Belfast, 1965. He studied at the University of Warwick, gaining a BA in Film and Literature. From there he went to Queen's University Belfast to study for an MA on T.S.Eliot and the French philosopher Jacques Lacan. He has just finished a stint as writer-in-residence at the Albert-Ludwig Universitat, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Wurtemburg, Germany. His poetry, literary criticism, book reviews and travel writings have been published in English, Irish and American journals. He has published a pamphlet and one previous book of poetry, and has read from his work in Paris, Cambridge, Galway and Belfast. He is at the moment writing an oral history of the Black Forest, and working on many reviews of contemporary authors. He also writes philosophy and enjoys working on the interface between poetry and philosophy. Sheila Murphy has made Phoenix, AZ her home since 1976. Her most recent book-length publication is "The Indelible Occasion" (from Potes & Poets Press). Ken Rumble Lately, Ken Rumble has been listening to old Sebadoh, Nick Cave, and Stevie Wonder albums. One of his recent projects has been directing the Desert City Poetry Series in Winston-Salem, NC. His poems and reviews have appeared in 5AM, Rain Taxi, Small Press Review, Word For Word, Gumball Poetry, and Pennsylvania English. Hazel Smith works in the areas of poetry, experimental writing, performance, multi-media work and hypertext, and her web page is at www.australysis.com. Her latest print volume is Keys Round Her Tongue: short prose, poems and performance texts, Soma Publications, 2000. She has made two CDs and CR Roms of her performance work, is a member of the multi-media group austraLYSIS, and co-author of a number of multi-media and hypermedia works. From 1991-2001 Hazel was a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, University of New South Wales. She is now Senior Research Fellow in the School of Creative Communication, University of Canberra, and Deputy Director of the Canberra Centre for Writing. She is co-author with Roger Dean of Improvisation, Hypermedia And The Arts Since 1945, Harwood Academic, 1997, and author of Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: difference, homosexuality, topography, Liverpool University Press, 2000. Tad Wojnicki, a Shoah survivor, worked as a painter, crab-meat-picker and journalist who had arrived in the U.S. in 1977, speaking in English only two words, "I" and "you." His work has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Porter Gulch Review, Leviathan, Poets' Paper, Coffeehouse, Clarks Street Review, Wild Embrace, The Jewish Spectator, Harrisburg Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of a factual novel, *Lie Under the Fig Trees* and a poetry chapbook *Angels by the Sea,* and he lives in the Steinbeck Country where he leads *poetry powwows* on the beach and teaches a course titled *Write Like A Lover!* at Hartnell College.