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Denise Duhamel's most recent poetry collection is Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001) An assistant professor of Creative Writing at Florida International University, she is the recipient of a 2001 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.

Robert Klein Engler was born in Chicago. He now teaches at Roosevelt University.

Ann Hoffman is an artist who lives in upstate New York with her dog, Daisy.

Jane McCafferty is the author of Director of The World and other stories, which won the Drue Heinz prize in 1992 and the Great Lakes New Writers award in 1993. Two of her stories have won Pushcart prizes and six have been listed in Best American Short Stories. A section of her first novel, One Heart, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is at work on her second novel and another collection of stories.

Chizoma Sherman is pursuing a degree in English and Women's Studies at Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis. She plans to enter a graduate program next fall to continue writing creative nonfiction.

Michael Steffen is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Vermont College. His work has most recently appeared in Touchstone, Ellipsis, Two Rivers Review, The Ledge, Poetry, Poet Lore and Iron Horse. New work will appear soon in The Chaffen Journal. His first full-length collection, No Good at Sea, is forthcoming from Legible Press.

Ryan G. Van Cleave is Assistant Professor of Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. His is the author of a poetry collection, Say Hello, and five anthologies, including American Diaspora: Poetry Of Displacement and Like Thunder: Poets Respond To Violence In America.

Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur was born in Kentucky in 1961. He left his native state at twenty-one and spent extended periods in the western USA,South America, and France. His first book, Discovering the World: Thirteen Stories appeared in Summer 2000. His work has appeared in Florida Review, Other Voices, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Utah Fiction Award, a Northpoint Press Fellowship, and an NEH Seminar grant to UC Berkeley. He currently teaches at Valdosta State University.

John Edgar Wideman is the first writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Award twice, in 1984 for Sent For You Yesterday and in 1990 for Philadelphia Fires. His nonfiction book Brothers and Keepers received a National Book Critics Circle nomination, and his memoir Fatherlong was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 1998 he won the prestigious Rea Award for the Short Story. His most recent book is Hoop Roots. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Ian Randall Wilson is a contributing editor to the poetry journal 88. Recent work has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review and Poetry East. His first fiction collection, Hunger and Other Stories, was published by Hollyridge Press.

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