Karen Newman lives in Ashland, Kentucky, and has been writing poetry since high school.  Karen has won honorable mention for her poetry at the Jesse Stuart Invitational Literary Festival and has had her poetry published on several websites. Karen was winner of the "What Does EOTU Stand For?" contest and her winning entry, Each Obituary Taunts Us, was selected as the title of this issue.

Bruce Boston is the author of forty books and chapbooks. His fiction and poetry have appeared most visibly in Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and the Nebula Awards Showcase. His collection Pitchblende won the 2004 Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association. Other awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Asimov's Readers' Choice Award, and the Rhysling Award. He lives in Ocala, Florida, City of Trees, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon. For more information, please visit: http://hometown.aol.com/bruboston

Marge Ballif Simon  freelances as a writer-poet-illustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as Nebula Awards 32, Strange Horizons, Flashquake, The Pedestal Magazine, The Urbanite, Space & Time, Dreams & Nightmares,  Dark Regions, Fantasy Magazine, EOTU, Tales of the Unanticipated, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, and the anthologies, High Fantastic and Nebula Anthology 32. She edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, "Blood & Spades: Poets of the Dark Side. She is the editor of Star*Line, Digest of the SF Poetry Association. 
     Marge is listed in the Marquis Who's Who 2004.
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
www.blindside.net/smallpress/read/Visions/Simon_Margaret/.
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. 

Jessica McMichael  "I am a freelance writer and editor.  My writing credits include poetry and short stories in Pebble Lake Review and The Bayou Review. I am currently working on my first novel and have been an editorial columnist for The Facts newspaper for seven years. I am also a member of Sigma Tau Delta, an English Honor Fraternity."

Louis E. Bourgeois  "I was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 19, 1970, to a working class family and raised primarily in New Orleans East along the Bayou Sauvage.  At the age of 18, I was involved in a serious car accident that resulted in the loss of my left arm.  This led me to the gifts that reading poetry and writing poetry have to offer.  In a certain sense, poetry has given me a new life. I am fairly certain that the enclosed poems do not deal with disability in a direct sense.  More likely, they represent a mind that is trying to come to terms with a world that is indifferent to all things, including a person with a disability.
     I left New Orleans when I was 19 to attend college at Louisiana State University.  In 1996, I earned a BA in English and was the first graduate of the University of Mississippi’s new MFA program in creative writing in 2002.  Currently, I am an instructor of English at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.  I am also poetry editor of the university’s literary journal, Yalobusha Review.  I have published over 80 poems in America and in Europe in such journals as Poetic Hours, Parnassus, The Oxford American, Poem, and Tundra and have published a chapbook entitled Through the Cemetery Gates published by Q.Q. Press of Scotland.

Prashant Rana is a poet living in India.

Cathy Buburuz  Canadian writer and editor Cathy Buburuz, invites you to submit your work for two print magazines:  Champagne Shivers and the new Potter's Field anthology.  Check out the guidelines page at Sam's Dot Publishing. 

Pat Tompkins is an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her essays and stories have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Writer, Threads, the Paumanok Review, E2K, flashquake, and other publications.

Rhonda C. Poynter is a freelance stringer for The Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other local newspapers. "I am also editing an anthology of poetry by blind/visually impaired writers. I am losing my vision to macular degeneration."
     Rhonda has been published in The Wascan Review, Fontiers, The Monoccacy Review, Arsenic Lobster, Freeall, Blue Motel, The Santa Barbara Review, Lynx Eye, Fox Cry, The Comstock Review and other magazines and anthologies. Her book of poetry, Start the Car, was released by Warthog Press in 1998 and an essay of her's was featured in the 1999 Beacon Press anthology, The Leap Years.

Charles Saplak has published stories and poems in a variety of venues.  His collaborative poem with Mike Allen, "Epochs in Exile:A Fantasy Trilogy" appeared in EOTU and won the 2002 SFPA Rhysling Award.  He has a fiction collection Forgotten Gods and Slighted Soldiers due out from DNA Press in late 2004. To correspond with Charles, his email is: saplak@bellatlantic.net.

Noel Bebee is an artist from Winnipeg, Canada. To view more of his work visit his website, Art Out of Line.

Arndt Britschgi  Born and grown up in Finland, I did a Bachelor's degree in Medical Sciences at the University of Helsinki, then spent several years traveling up and down Europe, taking any kind of jobs available. I settled in Madrid, Spain, as a squash instructor, and eventually moved to Zurich, Switzerland, and married. I also completed a Master's in Philosophy and Mathematics, and am presently expanding my MA thesis into a doctoral dissertation.
     My stories have appeared in various issues of "Kulttuurivihkot,"
Helsinki, in "Literary Fragments," Beaverton, OR, online in "Lexicon
Magazine" and, since February 2001, on three occasions in "Southern
Cross Review." The latter has published an E-Book edition of my novel 'Third World War Lost.' 

Jacques Debrot  "I have recently received a Ph.D from Harvard University; my poems and critical essays have appeared in more than fifty magazines including The American Poetry Review, Exquisite Corpse, and The World."

Sean Kilpatrick  "I have been previously published online at The Dream People, The Exquisite Corpse,  The House of Pain, The 2nd Hand,  Mused Magazine."

Farida Mihoub   "Born in Paris, France where I still live, 47 years
old and mother of three. Presently, I work as editorial assistant for a
medical journal. While French is my mother tongue, the English language is my passion. I also write children stories.  Published in various e-zines and print. magazines (The Pedestal Magaine, The Melic Review, Pierian Springs, Niederngass, Muse 2, Cold Glass, Scrivener's Pen, Write On!, ESC Mag, About the Arts, Reflections, Carillon, The Red Lamp, Poetry Sharings Journal, Gloria Mundi Press, Aritzlan, ......).

Ray Succre lives along the beautiful Oregon Coast in the city of North Bend. "Town and Subs" is his first published work.
 

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