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2HEL (aka Marissa Allen) is an surrealist poet who occassionally dabbles in mainstream expressions.
(Poetry in Summer '05)

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Vasilis Afxentiou teaches English in Athens, Greece. He has worked as a Technical Specifications Writer, an Engineer, and majored in classical guitar at the Hellenic Conservatory of Music. Born in 1944 in Thessaloniki, Greece, he went to college in the United States. He has published fiction and non-fiction in Greece, Europe, Australia, Canada and the US. He has written for Writer's Choice, Greek Accent, Salon D'arte, Akkadian, National Herald (Proini), and Crosscurrents. His writing includes short stories, articles and essays (mostly travelogues and health diets), a theatrical play, five novels, two novellas, and a book of short stories; in English and/or in Greek. His anthology Porpourria is available online.
(Fiction in Summer '00, Fall '00, Winter '01, Fall '01)

Zinta Aistars is the published author of three books. She is an editor for LuxEsto, the Kalamazoo College alumni magazine, and has published poetry, travel essays, stories, and articles in the United States, Latvia, England, Sweden, Germany, and Australia. Her work also appears on many e-zines, including Fiction Attic, Ghoti Fish, Saucy Vox, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Menda City Review, Ash Canyon Review, Flashquake, The Redbridge Review, River Walk Journal, Poems Neiderngasse, and many others. She publishes a monthly newsletter of marketing tips and inspiration for writers called Zeenythe Communications and is an editor for the literary e-zine, insolent rudder.
(Fiction in Summer '06)

David Alexander's work has appeared in print and on the Web, including Mississippi Review, Morpo Review, Chelsea, Barcelona Review and Switched On Gutenberg (the latter for poetry). He's guest-edited the print anthology Death and Venice, which has appeared as an installment of The Literary Review. His novel My Real Name is Lisa was published by Carroll & Graf.
(Fiction in Summer '00)

i am 22 years old and live in albany, NY. i am currently attending a local college and going for my bachelor degree in creative studies. having graduated from a disciplinary school for boys, i find myself "depressurized", so to speak, with more time to write and more freedom. i have lived here my entire life apart from some travelling, mostly to the city. i love living in an urban area and see my work as a blend of where i've grown up and my literary inspirations, the figures who have sparked my imagination--guys like nabokov, charles simic, franz wright and andre breton. i have been writing poetry since the age of 14 and see it as a vehicle for a different, more heightened form of consciousness. i have worked with the disabled, volunteered in homeless shelters, and spent a great deal of time working with the mentally ill. while i can't lay claim to a huge and prestigious publishing history, these are my credits to date: falling star mag, forever underground mag, poetically speaking mag, ygdrasil:a journal of the poetic arts, sein un werden, three o cup morning, thunder sandwich, and nupenz online literary art sampler.
(Poetry in Summer '05)

Bradford Alison’s poetry has appeared in the literary journals TEMPER, CHILDREN CHURCHES & DADDIES, CHANTARELLE'S NOTEBOOK, THE SHANTYTOWN ANOMOLY and SAUCYVOX.
(Poetry in Summer '06)

I have published over fifty mystery, mainstream and literary short stories in print magazines, including Eureka Literary Magazine, Futures, The Writers' Journal, The Writing Class, and electronic magazines such as Twilight Times, Nefarious, Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, Writers Hood, Electronic Writers' Journal, and poems in poetry anthologies. I have published articles in ByLine, Bridges, Simple Joy, The Writer's Life, The National Association of Women Writers' Guide Weekly, St. Louis Writers' Guide Weekly, The Indian Express, and book reviews in the Ann Arbor News. A reprint of my article, "The Writer As A Philosopher," that appeared in the NAWW Weekly in November 02, has appeared in their Anthology.
(Fiction in Spring '04)

Brian Ames writes from the Puget Sound area of Washington state. His work appears in numerous magazines, including Glimmer Train Stories, The Massachusetts Review, Sweet Fancy Moses, Weber Studies, Eyeshot, South Dakota Review and Wisconsin Review. Pocol Press of Virginia published his story collection, Smoke Follows Beauty. He is a former editor of Wind Row, Washington State University’s literary journal.
(Fiction in Fall '02)

I was born in Montreal and presently teach in Sydney, Australia. I started writing poetry about three years ago and have published dozens of poems in a variety of publications worldwide; including- New England Review, LINQ, Divan, Five Bells, Muse Apprentice Guild, Unlikely Stories, Australian Reader, Social Alternatives, Zygote in My Coffee, The School Magazine and Another Toronto Quarterly and many others. I edit the student literary magazine Ephemeral.
(Poetry in Spring '05)

I live. I breathe. I write. My work has appeared in Shirazad and Lingerings
(Poetry in Spring '03, Fall '03)

Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy where she edits the Italian Niederngasse. Her poetry has recently been published in Persephone's Moon, Stride, Dublin Quarterly, BiMagazine.org, Tattoo Highway and Ghoti Magazine. Three of her poems have been nominated for the 2006 Pushcart Prize anthology.
(Poetry in Winter '03, Spring '03, Summer '03, Winter '04, Summer '05)

Aurora Antonovic is a Canadian writer, editor, and visual artist whose work has appeared over two thousand times in publications spanning twelve countries and five continents. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, haiga editor of Simply Haiku, and editor of A Little Archive of Poetry, a publication that seeks to promote appreciation of verse in every form.
(Poetry in Summer '03, Winter '04, Winter '05, Spring '05, Summer '05, Fall '05, Summer '06, Fall '06)

Louis Armand teaches art history and cultural theory at Charles University, Prague. His books include Seances (Twisted Spoon, 1998), Anatomy Lessons (x-poezie, 1999), Land Partition (Antigen, 2000), and The Garden (Salt Publications, 2001). He is poetry editor of The Prague Revue and editor of Semtext (Plastic).
(Poetry in Winter '01)

I am a burgeoning poet and sculptor. My work has appeared in Concrete Wolf, Locust Magazine, A Little Poetry, Bewildering Stories, POETHIA, Morpo Review, and others. My forthcoming book of poetry, "Bazaar", will soon be unleashed unto the world with the small press Publish America. I am typically an experimental writer with an unquenchable subjectivity. I'll write about footballs and furlongs, steeds and staples, etc.
(Poetry in Winter '04)

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Everything happens in Cincinnati. This is where the clouds throw rain across my eyes, and the stars at night hold up my head. I am one in a million other girls, struggling to breathe air, to sleep with voices that chatter about inside my head... I believe that I have become a monster. And nothing anyone can say can prove otherwise.
(Poetry in Summer '03)

In 1998 I won a Northern Arts writers award. I read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology 'Titles Are Bitches'. Christmas 2001 I debuted at Newcastle's famous Morden Tower doing a reading of my poems. Each year I read for Proudwords lesbain and gay writing festival and I partake in workshops. 2005 saw the publication of my collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh.
(Poetry in Winter '04, Spring '04, Fall '05, Spring '06)

Kenneth Barnes is a freelance writer from North Carolina. His poetry has appeared in online publications such as poetshaven.com and poetrysuperhighway.com. He also writes a weekly humor column for thecheers.org.
(Poetry in Fall '06)

Justin Barrett lives in Salt Lake City, the well-known hotbed of culture and creativity (by Utah standards). He is not native to any particular state or region as he was raised as an army brat. He is devoid of any characteristic accent and speaks with little or no idiosyncratic colloquialisms. His favorite squash is the butternut and his favorite Fat Albert character was Mushmouth. Justin writes fables under the penname Aesop. Maybe you've heard of him. He is editor of remark.
(Poetry in Winter '01)

Geoffrey Baumgartner lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has been a contributor and reviewer for such alternative music magazines as Outburn, Sideline, and Ink19. He is a freelance production coordinator and has worked on such films as Larry Clark’s Bully and Hometown Legend. He is also a student of English Literature and Social Psychology at Florida Atlantic University.
(Fiction in Spring '04)

Bart Becker is from Nebraska, way back in the country where the nighthawks screw the chickens. Home of Willa Cather, Marlon Brando, Zager & Evans. Now he lives in Seattle. He has written for newspapers, magazines, authored and contributed to books. The excerpts here are from a loose, atmospheric, allusive piece called Last Set at the Pressure Drop and, christ, you can't tell if it's a true story or a goddam lie.
(Fiction in Summer '01)

Eric Beeny, twenty-three, is an English tutor/direct care worker in Buffalo, NY. He has published twelve chapbooks, among them "Minimal Animals" and "Dead End on Progressive Ave." He's been privileged to collaborate with his friend and favorite poet, Thomas Luckie III, in two of these chaps entitled "God Finally Threw Up" and "Blowing Glass Slippers." Eric's poems have appeared on PoetrySuperHighway.com, CircleMagazine.com, the most recent issue of TinLustreMobile, the upcoming September edition of My Favorite Bullet as well as local Buffalo mags like Artvoice and Images.
(Poetry in Fall '04)

Shannon Bell has lived in Florida, Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Washington, California, Maine, Vermont, Arizona and is currently residing on a farm in Pennsylvania with her daughter, two friends, four horses, innumerable cats, seventy something bird dogs and several thousand daylilies. She has written poetry for many years and her most recent publication was in Stirring.
(Poetry in Fall '02)

Moshe Benarroch was born in 1959 in Tetuan, Morocco. He grew up in a mixture of cultures and languages, Spanish being his mother tongue, attending a French school, hearing the Arabic of the streets and praying in Hebrew. In 1972, he emigrated to Israel and has lived since then in Jerusalem. He has published two collections of poetry in English Horses and other Doubts and You walk on the land until one day the land walks on you. He has published seven books in Hebrew and one book in Spanish. Mr. Benarroch is a contributing editor in Ygdrasil and has been published in many journals.
(Poetry in Summer '01)

Brian Bennett lives in the Chicago suburbs.
(Fiction in Winter '00)

Tantra Bensko is a well published and displayed artist. A graduate of the Iowa writer's program, she has also published poetry in various journals over the years, mostly under the name Rosemary Bensko. She glows and glistens.
(Poetry in Spring '03)

Greg Bernard lives in Bemidji, Minnesota where he teaches English at the local high school. His work has already or will soon appear in Red Weather, Fire Ring Voices, Whitetail Fanatic, Minnesota Monthly, Miller’s Pond, Poetry Motel, Wisconsin Review, Defenestration, Lake Country Journal, Prism Quarterly and Flashquake, as well as in the anthologies Poetry for Students and the New York Times best-selling Chicken Soup for the Golfer's Soul. In addition, he won Minnesota Monthly’s 17th annual Tamarack Award for short fiction in 2002, and was adjudicated the 1997 Award of Excellence by the Central Illinois Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters. Finally, Greg is under contract with Loonfeather Press to publish his first novel, Alpha Summer.
(Fiction in Fall '04)

I work in the mental health field, live in Los Angeles County, CA, and was born in Mexico. My first book of poetry, Raw Materials, was published this year by Pygmy Forest Press.
(Poetry in Spring '05)

I live with my wife and son in upstate New York. My work has appeared in a variety of online and print publications, including Byline, Writers of the Future, Chiaroscuro, Electric Wine, and Strange Horizons.
(Fiction in Fall '03, Spring '04)

John Blackwood, 59, British, ex-Civil Servant, ex-Architectural Draughtsman, Interior Designer, Graphic Designer and Furniture Maker, currently resides in South East Italy, as far down on the right hand side as you can go. Look for Lecce on the map. He moved back here in '98 after spells in the UK, Czech Republic and Turkey. Prior to that there had been 6 years in Franco's Spain back in the 70's. How come? English Language teaching is the day job. Other interests include Football, Rugby, Cricket, Architecture and Heraldry. Eating out and travel are not interests; they are the sine qua non of life.
(Fiction in Winter '01)

I have work in Margie, Nimrod, Story South, and Natural Bridge, among other places. I am an editor for the Hollins Critic, as well as a founding editor of Ghoti Magazine, an online literary journal. I currently attend the MFA program at Hollins University, in Roanoke, VA.
(Poetry in Fall '04, Spring '05)

Ace Boggess (Huntington, WV), senior associate editor for The Adirondack Review, is author of one book of poems, The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled, published in 2003 by Highwire Press and Displaced Hours, a novel. He earned degrees from Marshall (B.A.) and West Virginia (J.D.) Universities. A fellowship recipient in fiction from the West Virginia Commission On the Arts, his writing appears in Harvard Review, Poetry East, Notre Dame Review, Atlanta Review, The Southeast Review, The Florida Review and similar journals. Currently he seeks a publisher for his literary novel, States of Mercy, and poetry collections, Old News and Saying "I Love You" to No One. His new audio CD, Two Weeks Notice was released in May. Many of his songs can be downloaded as free mp3 on various web sites (Amazon, besonic or download.com).
(Fiction in Fall '04, Winter '05)

Kristy Bowen's poetry has appeared in Stirring, Eclectica, Ascent, Moon Journal, Starry Night Review, Cafe Society, and Prairie Poetry. After studying English and Theatre at Rockford College, she received an M.A. in English Literature from DePaul University. She has written book reviews for Midwest Book Review and Curled Up With A Good Book, and serves as Contributing Editor for the "20th Century Women Writers" topic at Suite101.com. She lives and writes in Chicago and also edits Wicked Alice.
(Poetry in Winter '02)

My poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Rock Salt Plum Poetry Review, Tryst, Eclectica, Poet's Canvas, Stirring, flashquake, and the DMQ Review, among other journals. I live in Helena, Montana, with my husband and two sons.
(Poetry in Summer '04)

Susan Bradley studied writing, literature, and philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College. Currently working as a technical writer and living near Harrisburg, PA, she has previously taught English in Paris, Brussels, and Tel Aviv.
(Poetry in Summer '02, Fall '02)

(Fiction in Fall '06)

Daniel Brenner grew up near Harrisburg, PA, went to Bard College in Annandale NY, lived for a year each in Kingston, NY and Hoboken, NJ, and now resides in Jersey City, NJ.
(Poetry in Fall '01, Winter '04, Fall '06)

I am a twenty-six year old poet and short-story writer who loves nature, reading and writing. I have a B.A in modern literature from U.C Santa Cruz. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. My favorite quote is "That which does not kill me makes me stronger" from Nietzsche.
(Poetry in Summer '05)

Bitter Oleander, Bloomsbury Review, Codíce (Mexico), Christian Science Monitor, Confrontation, Epoch, Magyar Naplo (Hungary), Midwest Quarterly, Pedrada Zurda (Ecuador), Potomac Review, Puerto del Sol, Southwest American Literature, Sou’wester, Sunstone, Steaua (Romania), Yomimono (Japan), La Adelfa Amarga: Seis Poetas Norteamericanos de Hoy (Ediciones El Santo Oficio, Peru, 2003), Fathers: Poems About Fathers (St. Martin’s Press, 1998). Books: Infinite Days (2003), Amnesia Tango (1998), Bodies of Lightning (1995). English Instructor at Towson University. Poet-in-Residence for Maryland State Arts Council.
(Poetry in Spring '05)

Jason Lee Brown is a weekly columnist/Sports Editor for News Progress in Sullivan, IL. He's published in Taint Magazine, Stirring, The Foliate Oak, The Vehicle and Poetry Super Highway and has work forthcoming with Snow Monkey, Conspire and Kitty Litter Press.
(Poetry in Summer '02)

(Poetry in Summer '06)

Georgia Browne is the psuedonym of a Massachusetts based writer.
(Fiction in Fall '00, Summer '01)

John Bryan, from Canberra, Australia, has been published in various journals such as fourW, Experimental Forest, Pulsar Poetry Magazine, Atomic Petals, Unlikely Stories, Gnome and Antipodean SF to name a few.
(Poetry in Spring '02)

Larry Bucaria runs Newwriters.com with partner Tom Sheehan
(Fiction in Spring '03, Summer '03, Fall '03)

Janet I. Buck has a Ph.D. in English and teaches writing and literature at the college level. Her work has appeared in many magazines including, Kimera, Disquieting Muses, San Francisco Salvo, Ceteris Paribus, Thunder Sandwich, Recursive Angel, Eclectica, and hundreds of journals world-wide. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry six times and is a recipient of The H.G. Wells Award for Literary Excellence. She was one of ten U.S. poets to be featured at the One Heart, One World Exhibit at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City in April, 2000. Janet has published a print collection of poetry, Calamity's Quilt, and two e-books, Reefs We Live and Desideratum's Doggie Dish. Her first audio CD of poetry and music entitled Before the Rose is now available from Art Villa Records. Janet's second print collection, Tickets to a Closing Play, was the winner of the 2002 Gival Press Poetry Award; the book is scheduled for release in October of 2003.
(Poetry in Winter '01, Summer '01, Fall '01, Spring '02, Fall '02, Spring '03, Summer '03, Fall '03)