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.

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

Rosemarie Crisafi lives in Fishkill, New York. She works in for a non-for-profit agency that serves individuals with disabilities. Her poetry has been published in elimae, Pemmican, Avatar Review, The SurfaceOnline, Poems Niederngasse, Red River Review, Triplopia, and elsewhere. Other poems have been accepted for future publication in BlazeVox, JMWW and Snow Monkey.

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."

Marta Ferguson writes: "My work has appeared recently in 5AM, Rattle, Pearl, Prairie Schooner, Puerto Del Sol, Vox, and other magazines. It has been reprinted at Poetry Daily and has twice been nominated for Pushcart prizes. Last fall, I was a finalist in the Pudding House Press chapbook competition. New work is available online at The Cortland Review (Issue #28) and the No Tell Motel (Dec. 20, 2004) and is forthcoming in print at Iodine, Main Street Rag, and Copper Nickel. A former poetry editor of The Missouri Review, I have been the sole proprietor of Wordhound Writing & Editing Services, LLC, since April 2002."

Jonathan Hayes is the author of Echoes from the Sarcophagus (3300 Press, 1997), St. Paul Hotel (Ex Nihilo Press, 2000), and self invented (split chapbook with Mark Sonnenfeld, Marymark Press, 2003).  Recently published by Big Bridge, Pemmican, and Zaum; he edits the literary/art magazine Over the Transom.

Victor Lana received his doctorate from St. John's University (New York) and has spent the last twenty-one years teaching or being an administrator in middle schools, high schools, and colleges. He has published numerous stories in literary magazines and online, including such places as Hawaii Review, New Works Review, In Posse Review, Fiction Warehouse, The Harrow, River Walk Journal, The Moonwort Review, and  Reader's Break. His novels, A Death in Prague (2002) and  Move (2003), are available at Barnes and Noble, Borders.com, Amazon.com, and other places. He just finished his book The Savage Quiet September Sun, a collection of 9/11 stories, and is sending out proposals for it at this time. He was a winner of the National Arts Club Award for Poetry (1982) but has mostly concentrated on writing fiction since that time; however, he is writing some poetry lately, but mostly for his four year old daughter.

Maurizio Malangone is 39 years old and 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.

James Owens lives in La Porte, Ind., with his wife and three children. Some of his recent poems have appeared in Tryst, Sulphur River, and The Homestead Review. His first full-length collection of poems, An Hour Is the Doorway, will be published this fall by Black Lawrence Press.

Elisha Porat, the 1996 winner of Israel's Prime Minister's Prize for Literature, a Hebrew poet and writer, has published 21 volumes of fiction and poetry, in Hebrew, since 1973. Elisha Porat was born in Kibbutz Ein Hahoresh in 1938. His works have appeared in translation in Israel, the United States, Canada and England. The English translation of his short stories collection The Messiah of LaGuardia, Mosaic Press, was released in 1997. The English translation of his second stories collection PAYBACK, was published 2002 at Wind River Press.  His works, poetry and fiction, were translated from Hebrew into English, and were published, in print and online, in selected literary stages. Elisha Porat's works were published at Midstream, Tikkun, Ariel, War Literature and Arts, Rattle, Porcupine, Oyster Boy Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Boston Review, Snake Nation Review, The Paumanok Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Jewish Quarterly  and others.

Marjorie Saiser's interests include interviewing writers, visual artists, and musicians about their creative process.  She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.  Her books, including Lost in Seward County, are published by Backwaters Press.  Her poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, and Crazyhorse.

Marianne LaValle-Vincent writes: "I am a published writer/poet/humorist living in the Syracuse, NY area.  My credits infiltrate the web as well as printed literary journals, and I also do some editing for The Rose and Thorn."