Laird Barron was born in Palmer, Alaska. A professional Iditarod competitor turned writer, with poetry appearing in the Melic Review, Pith, Eclectica, and others. His prose fiction has been accepted by the online journal 3LBE, and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. His interests include research of ancient warfare, medieval diplomacy, and combat martial arts. Mr. Barron lives in Seattle, Washington.

Lynnette Hall is a staff member at the Writer's Block workshop at www.webdelsol.com. She's been published once or twice on the web,and hopes to get the impetus to submit more often. A resident of Florida, she is glad for the web and the poetry communities available here.

Nicole Jackson lives in Vancouver, Canada. She was a featured poet at Vancouver's 1999 "Word on the Street" literary festival and is currently a business writing student at Simon Fraser University. Nicole is at work on her first chapbook "Breakfast at the Blue Table: Sex Poems for Everyone." This is her first publication.

Joelle Renstrom graduated with a degree in English and creative writing from the University of Michigan in the spring of 2000. Since then, she has been travelling in Europe, trying to see the world and write about it.

Verian Thomas is a freelance writer with a day job, currently writing a regular column for UK publication 'Headpress - A journal of sex, religion and death' and contributing regular articles. He also edits Comrades, an on-line publication of poetry, fiction, non fiction, art, reviews and essays.

David Wright's poems and essays have appeared in print and online in places like The Midwest Quarterly, Karamu, 2River View, and re:generation quarterly, among others. Lines from the Provinces is his first collection and can be purchased online at http://www.greatunpublished.com. He teaches writing and literature in Decatur, Illinois.