Lissa Nilson was born in midwestern America, endures the humidity, searches out happy fortunes, photographs gardens and bathes in fiction.Her poetic works have been previously published in 2River Magazine.

Martin Rutley  has been writing both short fiction and poetry for several yeas, influenced largely by writers such as Geg Hollingshead and William Burroughs. His work has appeared in several publications, including The cafe Irreal, Novus Locus, The Pedestal Magazine and Literary Potpourri.

Scott Osborne is a 16-year old artist from Massachusetts.His personal site is at Osborne.

Trent Walters has had work in a variety of publications including  Electric Velocipede, Full Unit Hookup, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Star*Line and others.

Lorraine Schein is a New York poet and writer whose work has appeared in "Semiotexte SF," "StarLine," "Space and Time," and "Gargoyle." Her fiction has been anthologized in "Memories and Visions","Tales of Magic Realism by Women" (Crossing Press) and in "Wild Women," ed. Sue Thomas. The Raw Brunettes, her novelette, was published by Wordcraft of Oregon. For
more info about Lorraine and how to purchase her books, visit  the literary magazine website of Frigate. 

G.T. McCall, of St. Louis, Missouri, has been drawing and observing the world as long as he can remember. But, more recently he has studied the ancient process of printmaking, which was the earliest form of graphic design.  With his fascination of this process from antiquity, he loves the notion of struggling with a resistant material that gives an almost effort-less look. He studied and received his B.A. in art at William Jewell College and has received art instruction at other institutions. For more of his work visit G.T. McCall.

Bruce Boston  is the author of 30 books and chapbooks, including the novel "Stained Glass Rain" and "best of" fiction collection "Masque of Dreams " (Wildside, 2001). His stories and poems have appeared in hundreds of publications, including Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, The Twilight Zone, Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and five Nebula Awards anthologies. His fiction has received a Pushcart Prize and won the Best of Soft Sf Award. His poetry has received many awards, including the  Asimov  Readers Award, the Aboriginal SF Boomerang Award, and a record seven Rhysling Awards. In 1999 the Science Fiction Poetry Association honored him with the only Grand Master Award in its 22-year history. Some of his fiction is available at Fictionwise. His webpage is at Bruce Boston.

Keith Sikora is a writer & artist living in northern California with his wife, Beth, cats, Taz, Murphy & Korky and Risse, their Jack Russel terrier. Keith's first collection of poetry, "Voices of Light" was published by Tiger Moon Press in 2001.    His work in print has been in several anthologies & in Aoife's Kiss, Cotyldon, Futures, Scavenger's Newsletter & The Threshold. Online his work's appeared in Aoife's Kiss, Champagne Shivers, Expressions, Midnight Selections, The Fifth Di... & Tribal Soul Kitchen.

Kenny Klein is a poet, musician, and photographer/graphics artist. He can play at your renaissance festival, design your website, and write something catchy to say about your choice of fashion. Otherwise he is rather inconsequential. His site is: www.drak.net/kennyklein

By day H. Turnip Smith prowls lonely highways in search of road-kill for quick snacks. However, when nighttime comes he turns his attention to suspicious movements of worms in his role as special agent for Vegetariains Anonymous. 

Steven Lawler lives in Manchester, England. He has an MA in fine arts and has exhibited work as both a painter and a video/sound installation artist. Steven also works as an illustrator and has done a number of cd sleeves for electronic music bands and solo artists

"My name is Matt Stansberry, and I live in Kent, Ohio with my girlfriend and her cat.  I hike at Towner's Woods almost everyday, and enjoy staring out at Lake Pippen from the top of the Hopewell Indian burial mound.  I'm a substitute teacher, wrestling coach, bartender, former lead singer, and a bad painter.  My favorite writers are Jonathan Franzen, Billy Collins, and Stephen King."

Greg Beatty has a PhD in English from the University of Iowa, but doesn't really ever fit in traditional academia. The best example of this is probably his dissertation on serial killer novels. Greg has had dozens of short stories accepted for publication in venues ranging from the local arts magazine, which paid in copies, to SCI FICTION. 

Ronald James is "in the TV business" but has had his writing published in Strange Wonderland and  Terminal Fright.

 Marge Ballif Simon teaches art in Florida and free lances as a writer-poet-illustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as Nebula Awards 32, Strange Horizons,  Extremes, The Urbanite, Tomorrow Magazine of Speculative Fiction, Space & Time, Dreams & Nightmares,  Dark Regions, Fantasy Magazine, Speculon, EOTU, Tales of the Unanticipated, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, and the anthologies, High Fantastic and Nebula Anthology 32. She is former president of the SF Poetry Association, edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, "Blood & Spades: Poets of the Dark Side," is HWA Membership Chairman. 
     Marge will be listed in the Marquis Who's Who 2003. Her newest collection, "Artist of Antithesis" is to be published  2003. Her poetry collections include "Eonian Variations", Dark Regions Press, 1995  "Night Smoke", Miniature Sun Press, 2002 and "Artist of Antithesis", Miniature Sun Press, 2003. View more of her works or contact her for assignments at Margaret Ballif Simon.. She is the illustrator for the Bram Stoker winning EXTREMES 2 CD-ROM collection:  and illustrated this year's Best Poetry Collection,
"Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes" by Linda Addison. In addition to her solo work, Marge also collaborates with her husband, writer-poet Bruce Boston.  Their poems and stories have appeared or are
forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Dark Regions, Talebones, Dreams & Nightmares, Star*Line, and Fantasy Commentator. 

Paul Lomax is a poet from Lawrenceville, Georgia.

Charlie DeVico  is an artist from North Carolina. "My works are an ongoing process. Pulling in an incestuous amount of data, mix-matching and a spewing forth with either a precise architect or an automated response from my surroundings. I have no formal training but a passion for collecting and implementing data outside it's intended function." Charlie'w website is Felinia.

Terrie Leigh Relf  lives in San Diego, CA.  Sometimes, she wishes she lived elsewhere.  An island perhaps, with no distractions save the gentle swell of warm water...

Ms. Gomes can be found in print in the July 2003 issue of Literary Potpourri.  She is a semi-regular contributor to Dark Moon Rising and Shadow Keep Magazine.  In May of 2003, she was awarded first place in the iVillage Forth Annual Poetry Slam at iVillage. com.