Mike Munsil - JM Munsil was born in Chile, raised in Panama and now lives in Shenandoah, Texas. He is a geologist and environmental scientist, and has lived and worked in 15 countries in Latin America, and about 22 of these United States. His native-Texan wife and adopted sons try to keep him honest, but he writes anyway. Some of what he writes is true.
Michael Harvey - Michael is a semi-retired computer programmer from North Dakota.
Harvey was raised in an extended family of parents, grandparents and
cousins. He has had humorous essays published in the Midnight Zoo
magazine and articles published in the local newspaper. For over
twenty years Michael has enjoyed collecting, telling and writing
family stories.
J. Conrad Guest - Joe's first novel, January’s Paradigm, was published in 1998 by Minerva Press, London, England. As a contributing writer to Encore magazine in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he writes about the people and businesses in the Kalamazoo area. He has written theatrical reviews for a Detroit area newspaper, two murder mysteries that have been successfully produced, and several short stories and essays that have appeared on a variety of Internet e-zines. Joe's workshops for writers have been popular events in Michigan, and he has taught creative writing as a guest instructor in the Detroit area public school system. He is currently at work on January’s Thaw, the third and final novel in the January series.
Geralynn Maisano - Geralynn is 50 years old, and although she has known she was autistic since she was in college, she was only recently diagnosed with hyperlexia (which is a precocious ability to read words, far above what would be expected at their chronological age or an intense fascination with letters or numbers, significant difficulty in understanding verbal language, abnormal social skills, difficulty in socializing and interacting appropriately with people.) Geralynn is recently divorced after a 20 year marriage and lives with her son. She moderates a Yahoo discussion group for adult hyperlexics, works as a medical transcriptionist, and raises Robovorski hamsters. Geralynn is also working on a fantasy novel.
Mike Huston - Michael Huston is a graduate student at American
University in Washington, DC. He also teaches English
at a local high school.
Jan Gero - Janice Gero's writing focuses on nature. Her main interests center on volunteering at public gardens such as Descanso Gardens in her neighborhood and helping at women's shelters. Many of her poems refer to food and wine, which she and her husband make in her garage.
Daniel Barbare - Danny P. Barbare has been published internationally. He has been writing for 23 years. He lives in Greenville, SC with his wife and three small pets.
David B. McCoy
Gary C. Wilkens - Gary Charles Wilkens studies in the MA in English program at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He works as a teaching assistant while actively pursuing a career as a poet and creative writing teacher. Past poems have appeared in The Texas Review and The Adirondack Review.
Lynn Strongin - Lynn Strongin lives in Canada, her home for the past twenty-five years. Born in New York City, her earliest studies were in musical composition. She began writing poetry when a student at Hunter College, worked for Denise Levertov in the Sixties in Berkeley, has had seven books of poetry published, her work appears in numerous anthologies and journals, most recently in the on-line and print editions of:Confrontation, Shenandoah, (forthcoming) Prairie Schooner, New Works Review C / Oasis, The Drunken Boat, Avatar Review, Blue Mesa Review. Two chapbooks are forthcoming in the next year: The Bids of the Past Are Singing from Cross-Cultural Communications, and Dovey & Me from Solo Press. Strongin's first anthology will be published by the University of Iowa press, April, 2006, The Sorrow Psalms: A Book of Twentieth Century Elegy. She is the recipient of two P.E.N. grants and one National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Grant.
Jacob Uitti - Jacob Uitti is a recent Graduate from Rutgers University with a degree in philosophy. Plans are still undecided, though leaning towards graduate school.
Linda Potts - Linda Gallant Potts is a Canadian writer and former teacher from Caledon, Ontario. Her non-fiction writing has been featured in newspapers such as the Toronto Star, and Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail. In addition, her poetry, short stories, personal essays, children’s stories and flash fiction have been published at kotapress.com, The Sidewalk’s End, Animal Antics, 40+ Transitions, and Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women.
Sandra McDow
Linda Boroff
Oleg Filin - "My subject is the space between the real and imaginative, between the concrete and abstract-that metaphysic world where the mind in fact resides. I don’t depict the material site of subject nor exaggerate, I just fix the sense of it, my reflection over, and expect it to work over the receptiveness in a more effective way. The world seems imperfect, its beauty comes out of ourselves. There is no true but belief, no perfection but longing for. I’m not in business of treating the world aspects or adding beauty to: I build structures founded on its own principles, I like to disorder system and regularize the chaos. Weaving a sophisticated thread compensates for an immobile image and help to overcome plainness of canvas...."