Rebecca Balcarcel: My work has appeared in such journals as 5AM, Concho River Review, Amarillo Bay (online), and Clockwatch Review. I took an MFA from Bennington College last January, and received their Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize.

Jack Conway’s most recent poems include: Rattle, “My Picnic With Lolita”; The Antioch Review, “The Robert Lowell Memorial Bowling Trophy”; The Adirondack Review, “Making Crank Calls to the Gas Chamber”; The University of Iowa Press, “That’s What Happens When You Let Hamlet Play Quarterback”; The Peregrine Review, “The Military History of a Meal”; Light, “I Found American Literature’s Wallet”; Ralph, “When Billy Collins Met Anne Sexton.” His most recent book of poetry, “Life Sentences” was published in 2002.

Rustin Larson's poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, Poetry East, The Atlanta Review and other magazines. Loving the Good Driver, his first full-length book of poetry, was nominated for The America Awards in Literature and was a finalist for the New Issues Poetry Prize. Larson's other poetry collections include Tiresias Strung Out on a Half Can of Pepsi (Blue Light Press, 1993), Islands (Conestoga Zen, 2002), and Crazy Star (Loess Hills Books, [forthcoming]). Larson was a featured Iowa Poet at The Des Moines National Poetry Festival in 2002 and has been featured on the public radio programs Live from Prairie Lights and Voices from the Prairie. Currently, Larson teaches in the English department at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and lives in Fairfield, Iowa with his wife, Caroline, and their three daughters.

Dylan Trigg is a published philosopher, poet, and editor living in both Warsaw and London. Aesthetician of the ruinous, his Spectre of Exile has been hailed as the first work to expound a philosophy of urban dereliction. His current project concerns the ‘phenomenology of the departure lounge’. Email: dylantrigg@hotmail.com

Christopher Watkins is a professional songwriter and recording artist (Preacher Boy), as well as a published poet and short story author. He has released four albums, most recently The Devil's Buttermilk (manifesto records) and is featured in The Rolling Stone Guide to Jazz and Blues. His lyrics have been published in In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself.