RJ Clarken - RJ Clarken lives in Central NJ with her wonderfully supportive husband, her 4 1/2 year old boy/girl twins and her 7 year old crazed Cairn terrier. She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and MomWriters, and is currently at work on her first young adult/fantasy novel.
Brett Alan Sanders - Brett Alan Sanders is a writer, translator, and teacher living in Tell City, Indiana. His own short prose has appeared previously in print and online in such places as New Works Review, The King's English, Spectacle, The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. His novella, A Bride Called Freedom, was published in November of 2003 in a bilingual edition (English text with Spanish translation by Sebastián R. Bekes) from Ediciones Nuevo Espacio, a New Jersey-based publisher of print-on-demand literature and academic studies in Spanish, English, and bilingual editions. His translations of the work of Argentine writer María Rosa Lojo have appeared in Chelsea, The Saint Ann's Review, Stand, The Antigonish Review, Perihelion, and the Artful Dodge; more are forthcoming in Event and the premier issue of Place Quarterly.
Melanie Mock - Melanie Mock is an Assistant Professor in the Writing and Literature Department of George Fox University in Oregon. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, from The Oregonian to The Mennonite Weekly Review. Her book, Writing Peace: The Untold Stories of Great War Conscientious Objectors, was published by Cascadia in 2003.
Terry Hernon MacDonald - Terry Hernon MacDonald writes from her home in Shelton, Connecticut. Her essays have appeared in Newsday. Lately, she has been procrastinating about revising a novel. She also hosts “Romance Talk,” an Internet radio show devoted to helping people attract the loves of their lives on http://www.healthylife.net.
Barbara Wade - Barbara Wade has been focusing on writing poetry during her current sabbatical from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, where she teaches literature, writing, and women’s studies courses. Her poems have been published in Appalachian Heritage Magazine and in the forthcoming book Poetry as Prayer: Appalachian Women Speak, edited by Denise McKinney.
Alicia Tolbert - Alicia Tolbert is the original Black valley girl. In the 1980s, she blithely rode the crest of that slang-talking, mall shopping movement before spring boarding into the French Department at UCLA. She now works in studio entertainment at Paramount Pictures and edits Gabriel’s Blast, a cultural newsletter.
Zinta Aistars - Zinta Aistars is the published author of three books and the cover artist for one. She is an editor for LuxEsto, the Kalamazoo College alumni magazine and contributing writer to Encore magazine. Her work has also appeared in Welcome Home and Parade of Homes magazines. She has published poetry, travel essays, stories, and articles in the United States, Latvia, England, Sweden, Germany, and Australia. In September 1999, a literary program featuring her work took place in Jelgava and Ventspils, Latvia. Her work also appears on several web sites - webzines and ezines - including Burning Word, Insolent Rudder, coilMagazine, Poems Neiderngasse, The Paper, Poetry Life & Times, QuietPoly Writer's Magazine, WritersKeep, WriteSight. Zinta is the recipient of the J. Jaunsudrabins Latvian Literary Award, the Erik Raisters Young Latvian Writer's Award, the Goppers Fund Latvian Literary Award, and won two prizes in both the short story and poetry categories in the Kalamazoo Community Literary Awards 2000.
Laurie Carson - Laurie Carson lives in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania, where she works for a daily newspaper, the Observer-Reporter. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Literature and Writing, from Waynesburg College, which is a small liberal arts school not so from home.
Victor Lana - Victor Lana is an English professor at Berkeley College in New York City. He has published numerous short stories in literary magazines and online, and two novels, A Death in Prague(2002) and Move(2003).
Mary Webber - Mary Ann Webber's stories have appeared in Seven Hills Fiction Review, Writer Works and Voyages. They received prizes from ByLine Magazine, Arkansas Writers Conference, Grand Prairie Arts Festival and White County Creative Writers. An early chapter of her novel-in-progress won first place in the San Gabriel Writers League novel contest and was a quarter-finalist in the New Century Writer LLC Novel Novella competition. Mary Ann continues to revise her first novel and also researches post Ice Age Europe for a future work. Her undergraduate degree was in art and art history, with a drama minor. She taught for more than twenty years in Arkansas and Virginia after receiving a graduate degree in education. She is a dedicated member of two branches of the National Huguenot Association and wrote press releases for the Arkansas chapter to raise awareness of historical Huguenot suffering. Born in a place called Hope, Mary Ann grew up in Little Rock and now lives in Dallas, near her two grown children and her grandson.
Conrad E. Davidson - The author of five published plays, Conrad E. Davidson is Professor of Communication Arts and chair of the Division of Humanities at Minot State University, Minot, ND. "Listening for the Father's Voice," an autobiographical essay published in North Dakota Quarterly (Spring 1990), was cited in Best American Essays 1991 as a notable essay published in 1990. His one-act play Baby has enjoyed over 825 performances, and recently was produced in Senegal and Wales. Davidson's writing interests range from playwriting to short form humor to experimental, Oulipian-influenced fiction.
Saelon Renkes - Saelon Renkes, a naturalist turned artist, is a photographer in California. She has studied photography, painting and printmaking with David Bayles, Ruth Bernhard, Lucien Clergue, Steve Kiser, Alan May, Ted Orland, Holly Roberts and Brian Taylor, in private workshops, at UC Santa Cruz Extension, the Pacific Art League, and at Foothill College. Visit her website at http://www.saelon.com/.