Amber Boardman was born in 1981 in Portland, Maine USA. She received a BFA in painting from Georgia State University. Her paintings and animation were featured in a solo show at Barbara Archer Gallery in Atlanta in 2004. In the fall of 2007, she will begin the MFA program at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Boardman's work explores sexual imagery and the play of public and private spaces while fusing both digital and the handmade. Boardman has worked as an animator for broadcast television series appearing on the Cartoon Network and Comedy Central. She is represented by Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, GA.

Joe Bonomo’s Installations, selected in the National Poetry Series, is forthcoming from Penguin, and Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band is available from Continuum. His personal essays and prose poems appear recently in Denver Quarterly, Under the Sun, and in the “Lyric Essay” issue of Seneca Review. He’s currently at work on a collection of autobiographical essays and a personal/interpretive book about Jerry Lee Lewis’ “wilderness” years. He teaches at Northern Illinois University.

Suzanne Cope has published essays in various print and online publications, most recently as a contributor to the anthology Single State of the Union (Seal Press). She earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Lesley University and is a writing professor in the Boston area. Suzanne is working on a memoir titled Wingwalking: Growing Up on the Other Side of the Runway.

Lauren Gonzalez is the editor and co-creator of Submerged: Tales From the Basin, an anthology to benefit organizations providing ongoing support for Hurricane Katrina victims (StepSister Press, September 2008 http://stepsisterspress.com). She received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College in 2006, and was a Hispanic Scholarship Foundation/McNamara Family Creative Arts Project fellow that year. Her narrative profile of workers on New York’s Old Fulton Fish Market was published in The Reading Room literary magazine in June 2006. She has completed a book of profiles called Animal People and finished her first novel, The Junkyard. She is currently working on her second, They Met During a War. She is a member of The Writer’s Room in New York City and has written for many print publications and a variety of media, including television and online magazines. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and dog.

Kimiko Hahn is the author of seven collections of poetry and in her most recent, THE NARROW ROAD TO THE INTERIOR (W.W. Norton), she subverts various classical Japanese forms, including the zuihitsu. She wrote the text for the film, EVERYWHERE AT ONCE, which was narrated by Jeanne Moreau and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, 2008. Last spring she also received the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry. She is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, The City University of New York.

Chris Hansen-Nelson received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College where he had the good fortune to study with Dennis Nurkse, Tom Lux, Stephen Dobyns and others. More recently, he has worked with Rachel Simon and Jean Valentine. He is currently working with Heather McHugh. His work has appeared in, among others: The Literary Gazette and The Gallatin Review.

Chris Haske is an artist and educator living in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and baby bump. His interest in dreams has lead to several collaborative projects, most recently The-Dream-Project.com. You can check out his artwork at http://chrishaske.com

Michael Hyde is the author of What Are You Afraid Of?, a collection of stories, which won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. He is currently completing a novel and a collection of new stories. Access his website at http://michaelhyde.org.   

James Iredell lives in Atlanta, and is a founding editor of New South. His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Descant, The Chattahoochee Review, ISLE, Zone, Weber, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Mud Luscious, SUB-LIT, elimae, NANOfiction, The Literary Review, and many others. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best New American Voices, and a Million Writers Award. His Chapbook, “When I Moved to Nevada,” was a finalist for The Diagram’s annual contest.

Shelley Jackson is the author of the novel Half Life, the short story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, the hypertext novel Patchwork Girl, several children's books, and "Skin," a story published in tattoos on the skin of more than two thousand volunteers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Michelle McEwen lives, dreams, and writes in central Connecticut. A very northern girl with very southern parents, she has plenty material for short stories and poetry. With a B.A. in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, her stories and poetry can be found in the Best New Poets 2007 anthology, Nidus's fall 2004 issue, and http://BigCityLit.Com.

Amy Newman is the author of four collections, most recently Fall (Wesleyan) and Birdgirl Handbook (The Laurel Review/GreenTower). New work appears in Seneca Review, The Hollins Critic, /nor, Born Magazine, and Image. She teaches at Northern Illinois University. Vist her at web.mac.com/amynew manbooks.

Steve Mayone is a singer/songwriter, producer and audio engineer in the Boston area. He has had his music included in a number of independent films and is currently at work on his fourth solo album - Long Play Record - due out on Hi-n-Dry Records in the fall.

Chloé Yelena Miller has poems published or forthcoming in Alimentum Journal, Lumina, Privatephotoreview.com, South Mountain Poets Chapbook, Spiralbridge.org, and Sink Review. Her manuscript, Permission to Stay, was a finalist for the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry. She lives in NJ and teaches writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA from Smith College. You are welcome to visit her website: http://chloeyelenamiller.com.

Ryan Scammell used to be a lighting designer for a jam band. He also used to pick fruit professionally on a farm, make coffee professionally in Australia, pop popcorn professionally in the New Jersey suburbs, and hustle stereo speakers out of the back of an unmarked chevy van in the midwest. Now he's stage electrician living in Brooklyn. He produces a podcast called Phonography: Writing In Sound (http://www.writinginsound.com). He has produced radio pieces for Weekend America on NPR and Storylife. He was a staff journalist for the online magazine NUComment and has written fiction for Flashquake.org. His fiction work will be also be included in an upcoming anthology entitled Visions published by the Writer's Institute.

Kevin C. Smith is a musician, artist, and writer. He holds a BS from the University of Pittsburgh and an MA from San Francisco State University. He has lived in London, San Francisco, and Brooklyn but currently resides in Pittsburgh.