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A novelist, M.A. Internicola is the author of three previous novels, KISS ME BABY, SUNFLOWERS!, CHAZ, and ALL OUR SKIES ARE BLUE. His poems, prose and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Subterranean Quarterly, Tryst3, Half Drunk Muse, Slow Trains, Poetry Super Highway, Locust Magazine, 63 Channels, Confused In A Deeper Way, Open Wide Magazine, Edifice Wrecked, Snakeskin, The 2nd Hand, Caffeine Magazine, Zygote in my Coffee, Remark, Subtle Tea, Fragment Magazine, Thieves Jargon, and Smokebox. He lives in New York City.
(Fiction in Winter '05)

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The spoken word comes to life when imbued with the spirit & soul of Maria C. James. Maria is a dynamic spoken word artist who possesses a gift for touching hearts with the pen. Her first book, "Windows to the Soul", touched on issues of cultural pride, sisterhood, spirituality, & love. She wrote & designed that collection of poetry while a student at Shippensburg University, where she earned her BA in Communications/Journalism. While working on a Masters Degree in Communications Studies she completed her second book, "Rising Waters". Her poetic honors include winning two poetry slams in Harrisburg, PA in 2002 & a poetry contest at christian-poetry.com. In 2004 Maria co-starred in Court Street Poetry Jam at Open Stage of Harrisburg. The show featured the original poetry of 8 phenomenal spoken word artists. Maria wrote the theme poem for this production, "America: Seasoned and Raw", and it was published in the Harrisburg Review in 2004.
(Poetry in Spring '06)

Leland Jamieson, a performing arts center manager for most of his working life, is retired and lives in East Hampton, Connecticut. He has gathered a number of published formal poems under the title Needles in a Pinewood. He has recent or forthcoming work in Being Ark, Candelabrum, Contemporary Rhyme, Littoral, Neovictorian /Cochlea.
(Poetry in Winter '06)

Michael Jauchen hails from Dallas, Texas and is currently a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His work has appeared previously in The Kankakee Review, Snow Monkey, and The Southwestern Review.
(Fiction in Summer '06)

As for me— I’ve lived most of my life on the west coast and received my BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, then my MFA in Poetry from Saint Mary’s College of Moraga where I was awarded the Academy of American Poets Agnes Butler Award in 2001. For the past three years I’ve taught World Literature and Creative Writing at Salem State College in Massachusetts. I commute to work from the tiny town of Peabody where I live with my husband and two children.
(Poetry in Summer '06)

Travis Jeppesen is an American writer living in Prague. His work has appeared in 3am Magazine, Pavement Magazine, the Stranger, Low Blue Flame, and the Prague Pill. His first novel, Victims, will be published by Akashic Books in 2003.
(Fiction in Winter '03)

Roland John has published five verse collections, a new collection A Lament for England will be published in 2005. He has also written text books and a critical examination of Pound's Cantos. His A Beginner's Guide to The Cantos of Ezra Pound was published by the University of Salzburg Press. His poetry, translations, criticism, book reviews have appeared in most UK journals and several US and Australian.
(Poetry in Winter '05)

I am 28 and living in Tasmania after years of wandering here, there and everywhere. I have been published in Australian Poetic Society, Famous reporter, and The Write Stuff.
(Fiction in Winter '04)

Travis Jones works and plays in Mesa, Arizona. He enjoys reading, writing, hanging out with friends, skanking, and riding his scooter. He plans to be a career writer.
(Fiction in Summer '01)

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Abdillaiva Salapuddin Kadiri is a licensed physical therapist currently connected with the Armed Forces of the Philippines Camp Navarro General Hospital PT Department in Zamboanga City as a PT volunteer. He has been published in Steel Point Quarterly and Marvelous Musings.
(Poetry in Fall '01, Spring '04, Summer '05)

Michael Karpinski is a happily unemployed, underweight, and boozing recluse who lives with his father and his father's dog in his childhood home in a to-go-unnamed mitten-shaped American state. He has brown hair which used to be blond which breaks his heart. He often experiences performance anxiety while standing in front of urinals. His favorite activity is inertia. He does not speak Swedish. He welcomes and appreciates your pity.
(Fiction in Winter '00)

My fiction and essays have appeared in a number of places, including Numb Magazine, 63 Channels, Spillyway Review, Oklahoma Review, Fiction Warehouse, The Circle, Subtle Tea, Exquisite Corpse, Tattoo Highway, and many others. In the past I have worked as a boilermaker, bookie's apprentice, painter, landscaper, and a beauty pageant judge. I currently teach English at Baldwin-Wallace College in Cleveland, Ohio.
(Fiction in Fall '06)

Alice Kelley lives in Columbus, Ohio and has published art in Wired Hearts and OdditiesCompiled, as well as in two calendars.
(Art in Fall '99)

Formerly I managed distribution centers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Arizona and Illinois. My wife and I now live outside of Indianapolis and are currently toiling with much determination on our second crop of children, having adopted four wonderful girls and fostered several others. Ward Kelley has seen his poems appear in journals world wide. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee whose publication credits include such journals as: Plainsongs, Another Chicago Magazine, GSU Review, Rattle, The Chaffin Journal, Midstream, Zuzu's Petals, Literary Potpourri, Ginger Hill, Sunstone, Pif, Whetstone, Melic Review, Thunder Sandwich, Potpourri and Skylark. He was the recipient of the Nassau Review Poetry Award for 2001. Kelley is the author of two paperbacks: "histories of souls," a poetry collection, and "Divine Murder," a novel; he also has an epic poem, "comedy incarnate" on CD and CD ROM.
(Poetry in Fall '04)

Bess Kemp is a part-time poet and full time mom living in Napa Valley California. Her poetry has been published on-line and in print in Pink Cadillac, Neiderngasse, Cerberus, Perimeter, Gray Matter Tapestry, Lucid Moon, Medicinal Purposes, and San Francisco Salvo among others. She is the editor of Some Words: A Place for Poetry.
(Poetry in Fall '99)

(Poetry in Spring '02)

Muhammad Nasrullah Khan is a teacher of English literature in Pakistan. I try to write heartfelt stories based on bitter realities. I belong to a country where people are afraid of life. Their sleep has lost dreams. I want to reawaken their oppressed dreams; I want to share their woes; I want to share the suffering of their shrieking souls. Humanity is dying and I am trying to put a few drops of water on its dry tongue so that it should face death bravely. My writing is the echo of their flagging hopes and raging desires.
(Fiction in Fall '01, Winter '02, Fall '02, Fall '04)

I live and work as a consultant in the Mid-Atlantic. Works have appeared in journals including Slow Trains, Lily, Erosha, Thunder Sandwich, 3 AM MAGAZINE, Adagio, Triplopia, Laura Hird, Clean Sheets, Astropoetica, and Zygote in My Coffee. Have been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
(Poetry in Spring '06)

Rebecca Lu Kiernan is the editor of the print journal, Gecko. Her fiction has appeared in MS. Magazine, Southern Ocean Review, Naked Poetry, Exquisite Corpse, Gargoyle, Asimov's Science Fiction, and others. Her collection of poetry, "Sex With Trees And Other Things Equally Responsive" was released from 2River Press. She provides literary criticism and coaching.
(Poetry in Winter '02, Spring '02, Fall '05, Winter '06)

Recent works have appeared or will soon appear in journals on and offline including Subterranean Quarterly, Erosha, Divine Animal, The Blotter, Thunder Sandwich, 3 AM MAGAZINE, Poetry Sz, Dreamvirus, The Moonwort Review, Adagio, Reading Divas, Ink Magazine, Skyline, Haiku Hut, Poetry Repair Shop, Triplopia, Wicked Alice, The Potomac and Sidewalks End. I live and work as a consultant on the east coast but consider myself a hobo of the universe. Poetry in all forms is essential to me as the only inspiring literature I seem to have time to read. Every moment is a poem that only need be written down as a reminder. I write about what I know best and yet least - myself - in an effort to remove those labels.
(Poetry in Fall '04)

Kevyn Knox was raised amongst the roller coasters & haunted houses of Williams Grove Park, Pennsylvania. In 1997 he was ordained as a Minister in The Universal Life Church in Modesto California. In 1999 Knox, along with his wife Jeanette Trout, became poetry publishers as they premiered Experimental Forest. Kevyn Knox has had poetry published in verb-o-city, Blindman's Rainbow, ZYX, The Cohort Irregulars, The Brobdingnagian Times, Nuthouse, Mad Poets Review, Steelpoint Quarterly, Lost & Found Times, The Cumberland County 250th Anniversary Anthology, and others. Mr. Knox is also a film critic for The Circle, has been a feature writer for Mode Weekly and is the organizer of the Dozen Daze of Poetry Festival, held annually in Harrisburg Pa as well as poetry organizer for The Change Your Mind Day Buddhist Festival.
(Poetry in Summer '01, Fall '01 Winter '02, Spring '03)

Prakash Kona lives in Hyderabad, India. He is the author of Streets that Smell of Dying Roses, as well as the forthcoming Pearls from an Unstrung Necklace, both published by Fugue State Press. He completed his doctoral studies with a comparative study of Chomsky, Derrida and Wittgenstein at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS. He has recently returned to Hyderabad after a stint as assistant professor of English Literature and Humanities at Eastern Mediterranean University in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
(Fiction in Winter '05)

I teach literature and creative writing at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA where I am Director of the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing. I also serve as advisor to Maya, the student literary magazine. My poetry has been published in a number of print magazines, among them: The Iron Horse Literary Review, The Painted Bride Quarterly, and Boulevard (for which I am a contributing editor). Online my poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Small Spiral Notebook, Three Candles, the Poetry Super Highway, Word Riot, Open Wide Magazine, Segue, edificeWRECKED!, Shampoo, Eclectica, FRiGG, Flashquake, Circle Magazine, MAG: Muse Apprentice Guild, Poems Niederngasse, and Carnelian. I also write fiction collaboratively with Bill Turner. Our collaborative work has appeared or is forthcoming in Somewhat, Monkeybicycle and The Beat. My individually authored short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum (print) and online in Slow Trains, Smoke Long Quarterly, Pindeldyboz, The Rose & Thorn, Dead Mule, and Xaxx. Two of my poems were just nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
(Poetry in Winter '05)

Kuenstlerpech was born on the 5th of September 1975 in Kronberg, Germany. From 1992 onwards he spent two years in the United States including one year near North Platte, Nebraska. He's been writing poetry and short prose since age 17 and has been published both in print and on the WWW including appearances in remark. This winter 2003, a selection of 125 German poems will be out as 'Ich nehm's persönlich' in Germany, published by Bookspot Press, Munich. In 2001 the book 'Vier Periode' was released by 'Lynkeus Press', Munich. Currently he is working as a journalist for a regional TV Station in Frankfurt, Germany. Previous jobs included Chief Editor for a youth magazine called 'miXer'. Besides working and studying at the Frankfurt University he's writing mostly prose for an upcoming short-story collection. He has been published in print in the anthology In Our Own Words II - A Generation Defining Itself.
(Poetry in Winter '02, Spring '02)