Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy where she edits the Italian edition of Niederngasse. Her poetry has been published in Envoi, Mississippi Review Online, The Pedestal, Rattle, Smiths Knoll and 2River View. Her first full collection of poetry, The Desecration of Doves is available through Amazon and Barnes&Noble. She blogs (http://arleneang.blogspot.com) shamelessly because, like sex, everyone else does it.

Frank Ray Ard is a writer, artist, and poet. He resides on the Alabama Coast, where he is pursuing a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. His first love is science fiction, but he enjoys writing in all literary genres.  His work has appeared in Deep Magic: The E-Zine of High Fantasy and Science Fiction, Flash Me Magazine, Dark Moon Rising webzine, and the Deep Magic Anthology, Deeper Magic: The Second Collection.

A pediatrician by profession and a mother of two daughters, Uma Asopa lives in India with her husband. She has been writing poetry from her college days. Her poems have appeared  in online publications like Poetic Voices, Slow trains, Spillway Review and WAH to name a few.

Jill Burhans writes: "I call myself a middle aged repressed artist who uses for my paintbrush, a Canon G-5. Currently live in Huntsville Alabama with three dogs, one daughter and a husband.  More images can be seen at www.pbase.com/jillburhans."

Jeff Crouch is an amateur artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. He plays at art as though it were a game of hide and go seek. His graphic work has appeared in The Blue Smoke Band, moria, Quill and Ink, Stirring: A Literary Collection, Spoiled Ink, Lunatic Chameleon, Triplopia, Events Quarterly, Skive Magazine, Subtle Tea, and zafusy with more forthcoming in ardent, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Dicey Brown, eratio postmodern poetry, Prose Toad, Ink Pot, edifice WRECKED, Literary Vision Magazine (Litvision), and Monkey Kettle.

Rob Davies writes: "I've been taking photographs since the early 70's but really started to take it seriously between '75 - '80.  Mid to late 80's, due to costs, I shelved photography as a serious interest, it was costing me too much and I turned my attentions for a while to video. However, since I purchased a computer around 5-6 years ago, I found a keen interest in manipulating images through programs like - firstly, Corel Photopaint and then Ulead Photoimpact. This led me to invest in a small digital camera. I replaced that very quickly with a Nikon Coolpix, and now own a Canon G5. I enjoy taking pictures. I enjoy more - taking pictures that I can see something 'more' in. I love to be in & photograph ruins, ancient places, spiritual places, forests and woods. I really enjoy creating 'mood' in my pictures so much of my work is in this area of manipulation.  I also like very much to get out in bad weather conditions with my camera.  On a personal level - I'm nearing my 50th birthday, married and have a son and daughter. I work looking after nightshifts at a hotel. This allows me time to get out and about with my camera with plenty of daylight."

Patricia Gomes is a poet and freelance writer eeking out a living in the damp, albeit historical, Whaling City. And yes - she's still working on that damn werewolf novel - really! www.patriciagomes.com

Maurizio Malangone lives in Salerno, southern Italy. He writes: "I love arts in each form. Poetry, Music, Movies, Photography and more. I'm also a musician, I play piano, keyboard and guitar. I have loved photography since I was 10 years old. Until 2 years ago, I had only taken photos on slide film. I now am using professional digital equipment. As you can see from my Webshots page, I love scenery, landscape and artistic photos.  My webshots link is : http://community.webshots.com/user/mauriziomalangone."

Mitchell Miller has been a photographer since 1989.  More of his work can be viewed at: http://www.pixiport.com/Gallery-E75.htm and http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/12439.html.

Tony Zurlo writes: "I am a writer/educator living in Arlington,  TX. My poetry and short fiction have been published in more than seventy magazines and journals, including Writers Against War, VerbSap, Snow Monkey, Poetic Voices, New Texas, and Red River Review. My Op-eds, essays, and reviews have appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Democrats.US, OpEdNews, Online Journal, Peace Corps Writers, Writers Against War, and other journals and newspapers. I have also published non fiction books on  Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Japanese Americans, West Africa,  Algeria, and soon  Syria."