Silvia Antonia Brandon Pérez, born 1949, La Habana, Cuba, mother of 4 sons, 1 daughter, presently living in Pennsylvania, lawyer, published in various online and other journals, including Disquieting Muses, Conspire, Gravity, Poet's Canvas, Poetic Voices, Stagger, in an antología called Juntos published in Barcelona, editor of Spanish edition of Niederngasse, an online and print journal.

Jolie Braun grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and now lives in Amherst, MA, where she is finishing up her BA in Literature and Women's Studies. Currently she is at work on the fourth issue of her zine, which she writes and distributes. When not busy writing, she enjoys flaunting her extensive t-shirt collection, watching Cardinals' games on ESPN, and eating eskimo pies. Visit her website here.

Erin Elizabeth is a Southern girl who grew up in a rural community outside of Columbia, SC and now makes her home in the voluptuous hills of Binghamton, NY. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Stirring, a monthly literary collection, and a cofounder of Sundress Publications.

Ani Gjika is a 23 years old living in Massachusetts who will be graduating this May with a B.A. in English. She hopes to continue into a Master's program as early as this coming fall. She moved to the United States on July 4th 1996 (lucky day) from Tirane, Albania. Loves languages, reading and writing. Has been writing since she was six years old but nothing worth much till about autumn of 1999. Has not started to promote herself much just yet and this will be her first online published poem. She's been published in local newspapers and in her college's journal of poetry "Contours" from 1997 to present. Among her favorite poets are Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, e.e. cummings, Ai, Wislawa Szymborska, T. S. Eliot, Kenneth Rexroth, Joseph Carcel, James Lineberger and many others.

Christopher Major has had many poems placed in the UK poetry small presses, and hiswork has also appeared on line at amongst others: Limestone, Poetry Mag.com, Snakeskin, This Poetry Site, Mindfire, Bonfire, Stirring, Poem Box and Poetry Kit. He is 38 and has been writing mainly poetry for about 20 years. Married with two children he works with the elderly and people who have learning difficulties. His favourite writers are Philip Larkin and Robert Frost.

Chris O'Carroll is a writer, actor, comedian, and former journalist. He'll be appearing next month (June, 2001) in Educating Rita at the St. Croix Festival Theatre in Wisconsin. He does what he can to blur the distinction between light and serious verse, as is evident in his poems at The Melic Review, Clean Sheets, and his own website, http://www.anticdisposition.com.

Jennifer Poteet lives in suburban/urban Glen Ridge, New Jersey. By day, she works in Manhattan in the Cable TV industry. Besides poetry, her other passions include Scandanavian design and Mexican folk art. Jennifer's work has appeared in Stirring, Conspire, Samsara Quarterly, The Adirondack Review, Naked Poetry.com, The Eclipse, The Absinthe Literary Review, The Red River Review, The Melic Review, Poetry Super Highway, The 2River View, The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks, PoetryMagazine.Com, and Thunder Sandwich. She has work forthcoming in the print journal SkidRow Penthouse. She is currently compiling her first collection of poetry.

R.L. Swihart: Though I am many, I'll be contented to spotlight only my quadruplicate-self which, like a nested Matryoshka doll, consists of me and the-family-within: RLS (I'm shy, so until we're more intimate the initials will do), Ania (the devoted wife), Katia (started kindergarten in September), and Nadja (quite the fledgling at 2 yrs). I read heavily. Imbibe moderately. Work when I have to (math teacher). Am hounded by all nine muses at once.
One of many favorite quotes: "You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words. Long did I hate you, long did I fear you. I might--" (C. S. Lewis).
Poetry is just another word for creative writing. I have a long list of literary heroes, mostly dead guys: Samuel Beckett, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, T.S. Eliot, Zbigniew Herbert,…

Royce Sykes lives in the Central West End of St. Louis, Missouri (USA) where panhandlers know him affectionately as "Hey, you!". His poetry has appeared online at "Unlikely Stories", "Wired Hearts", "Countless Horizons", "Another Night And Day Alliance", "Ygdrasil", "2River View", "Poetry Magazine" (online), "Snakeskin", "Switched On Gutenberg", "Touch" and "Liberty Grove". Samples of his verse may also be viewed at his website: http://www.geocities.com/sojournerwolf/index.html