Shabnam Arora Afsah needs to send in her bio.

Susham Bedi was born in Ferozepur, Punjab, she is an academic whose research work is in the area of Indian theater. As a teenager she became a leading actress in Hindi dramas on All India Radio and later on television. Her first novel, Havan (Fire Sacrifice -- translated into English by David Rubin) was serialised in the magazine Ganga and published as a novel in 1989.

Gregory Graalfs says: "I have been professionally involved in printing, design, and design management for many years. About seven years ago, I began writing historical articles on printing and typography. Presently, I am working on an article concerning photographically illustrated books and pamphlets promoting tourism and settlement of California. Border Crossings is my first fictional piece. I wish to thank Ellen Bass and those in her workshop, Writing About Our Lives, who helped so much by listening, encouraging, and offering vital comments and suggestions.

Andrea O'Reilly Herrera holds the Directorship of the Ethnic Studies Program at CU, Colorado Springs.  Her most recent publications include a collection of testimonials drawn from the Cuban exile community and their children residing in the United States, ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora (University of Texas Press, 2001), and a novel, The Pearl of the Antilles (Bilingual/Review Press, 2001). 

Karen Lewis writes, "This poem is based on an excellent article written by Norris Brock Johnson that appeared in the Garden issue of Parabola. Currently I work on contract with just buffalo literacy center. I teach creative writing and poetry through A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words at the Albright-Knox art gallery. I am a founding member of the DCWriters and have been featured locally at many different venues in the US and Canada.

Clark Lunberry is a writer and visual artist who lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is working toward a doctorate in the Modern Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His work has appeared in Kyoto Journal, Tricycle, and LVNG. A book of his poetry and photography, StonePoems, was published in 1999 by Kalligram Press, Bratislava, Slovakia. David Reisman is an artist and writer who lives in New York City. He is also an editor in the Educational Publishing Department of Thirteen/WNET New York. His artwork is represented by Pierogi 2000 and LFL Gallery in New York, and fa1 contemporary art in London. His writing on art has been published in Artscribe International, Tema Celeste, Millennium Film Journal, and Texte zur Kunst.

Geraldine McKenzie lives in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia. Her first collection - Duty -has just been published by Paper Bark Press/ Craftsman House and will be distributed in the US and UK as well as Australia.

Jonathan Minton says, " I'm currently a doctoral candidate in the poetics program at SUBY-Buffalo, where I'm studying translation theory and trans-Atlantic modernism. I've recently had poems and poetry reviews appear (or will so soon) in Seems, Moria, Free Verse, and Drunken Boat."

Sheila E. Murphy has made Phoenix, AZ her home since 1976. Her most recent book-length publication is from Potes & Poets Press: The Indelible Occasion.

Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, editor, and co-founder of Big Bridge Press www.bigbridge.org, and JACK Magazine www.jackmagazine.com His books of poetry include What The Fish Saw, Nightmare Of The Violins, Favorites Songs, and The Paris Journals (Fish Drum, Inc.) Most recently he is editor of Overtime: Selected Poems by Philip Whalen (Viking Penguin) and Selected Poems of Joanne Kyger (Viking Penguin in 2002).

Vanitha Sankaran is a fiction writer and an editor for the new literary e-zine flashquake. Her recent work can be found online at Prose Ax, OpiumMagazine, Orchard Press Mysteries, The Paumanok Review and others. She also has a recurring fiction column in the newspaper The San Francisco Call.

Sunny Singh was born in Varanasi, India. She received her education in various parts of the world. She was graduated with honours from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, in 1990 with a degree in English and American Literature. In Fall 2000, she returned to college to pursue a master's degree in Spanish Language, Literature and Culture at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has worked as a journalist, teacher, and as a management executive for multinationals in Mexico, Chile and South Africa. Her first novel, Nani's Book of Suicides, has been recently published by Harper Collins Publishers India. For more by Sunny Singh visit www.sunnysinghwrites.com and www.sawf.org/sunny.

M. L. Weber edits Sugar Mule. See his page for more information.

Karl Young began publishing mimeo and crude letterpress books in 1966. He has continued through other media since. He published books under the Membrane Press imprint from 1970 to 1990, at which time he changed the press name to Light and Dust. For the last seven years his main publication effort has been his on-line Light and Dust Anthology of Poetry. Collections of his poetry and his essays will be published during the next year.

Reuven BenYuhmin lives in Taiwan where he teaches contemporary American poetry at the National Central University. He says, "I teach Buddhism (Theravada school, vipassana) and Buddhism's effect on Beat poetry."