Avik Chanda: Management Consultant, freelance writer, with several articles, art reviews, short stories published in Indian dailies. Solo exhibition of paintings at Kolkata, June 2001. Poetry publications include Poetry Today, Sulekha, King Log and Poetry Splash. Poems in the forthcoming issue of Black Bear Review.

Blake Hoena: I received my MFA degree from Minnesota State University, Mankato and currently work as an editor/author for a children's non-fiction book publisher. A selection of my writing won the 2000 Robert Wright Award and I have work published, or forthcoming, in North Coast Review, Beacon Street Review, and Potpourri.

Richard Jordan is a PhD Mathematician and a poet who lives and works in the Washington DC area. His poems have appeared in over 40 print and on-line magazines, including most recently, Stirring, The Pedestal, Poems Niederngasse, Net Author E2K, Adirondack Review, Prose Ax, Red River Review, Kimera, Dakota House Journal, Steel Point Quarterly, Virginia Adversaria, Maelstrom, Purr Magazine, Concrete Wolf, 3rd Muse Poetry Journal, and Facets. The editor of Branches has chosen lines from one of his poems to include as an example in the 2003 Poet's Market. He is also a judge/editor for the Beginnings Magazine quarterly poetry contest, and has been a guest editor for Facets Magazine and Stirring. He has published flash fiction in Insolent Rudder, Story Bytes, Fiction Warehouse and American Feed Magazine, as well.