WT Abernathy joined the renewed ex-patriot artist movement of Americans in Europe from 1992-1997 (on the government’s dime), writing in Italy, Crete, Sicily and the Maldives with a focus on relationships in definitive settings. Todd studied literature and poetry at UNH, holds a Robert Frost Fellowship from Middlebury College, and has been published in Compass Rose and Thunderchild. He can be heard on the CD, “Esther Buffler and Friends, High on Poetry.” Todd is currently enrolled at Chester College in the Creative Writing program.

Carl Auerbach lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York.

Joshua Andrew Belanger graduated from Plymouth State College, being one of the first people to get their BFA in Drawing, in 2002. Since then he has been working and living in the Rochester, NH area. Obtaining a studio space at the Salmon Falls Mills in 2003 he has continued to try and further himself as an artist, contracted by bands and record labels for various projects including album covers and t-shirt designs.  He continues to explore thoughts and ideas that have been in his mind, regarding life and death, struggles through relationships, and the ever bearing question of religion and its role in this life. The ominous presence of failure and disappointment, all tied together with the figure, the universal object that we can all relate to.  Joshuaandrewbelanger.com

Eileen Berry is a geographer with a PhD from Clark University. She grew up in England and lived many years in Africa. She has twice been an Associate at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, with Amy Clampitt and David Lehman. Her poetry has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, most recently in 2005.

Dan Brady, of Randolph, New Jersey, graduated in 2005 from Chester College of New England with a bachelor's degree in Photography and Media Arts. His photography explores the relationship between the natural landscape and constructed spaces, both interior and exterior.

Jake Charette is a graduate of Chester College of New England with a BA in Photography.  This is his first publication.

Sauci Churchill taught high school and worked for more than three decades as a law librarian in the windowless inner core of a government building in Washington, D.C. She retired to work at Hillwood Museum and Garden where she asked only to be put into the light.  Some acknowledgements include Quartet, Bitterroot, Poet Lore, Slow Dancer, Washington Review, Stone, Little Patuxant Review, Metaphors, the Living Wilderness, Out of Line, Writings on Peach and Justice, Poetica, Clark Street Review, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual.  A chapbook, Running Down Division Street, was published in June of 2004.

Kristina Costa is an art history major at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Her work has previously appeared in the Harvard Summer Review. She is originally from Seabrook, New Hampshire.

Michael Deragon received an individualized Masters of Arts in Surrealism and Poetry from Goddard College.  His poems have been published or are forthcoming from Sulphur River Literary Review, Café Review, Poet Lore, Epicenter, and others. He teaches a poetry workshop and Surrealism at Chester College and teaches guitar at the Portsmouth Alternative Secondary School.

Nancy Diessner teaches fine art and interdisciplinary studies at Chester College of New England, and is chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Georgia Dorell received her degree in English, then succumbed to the lure of entrepreneurship and became a retail shop owner.  After years of working in retail sales, she returned to her first love–writing. She loves to travel and this is reflected in much of her writing.  She resides in Santa Monica, California.

Draco is an Illustration and Graphic Design major at Chester College, with a talent for drawing images straight from her head. She has taken to sometimes drawing tattoo designs in strict black silhouettes or shadows. Many of the designs are for her friends, including her boyfriend. She enjoys curling up with a sketch book, laptop, or catnip.

Daniel Drapiewski lives and works in San Francisco. In his stories, he revisits Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, the coal mining town of his childhood.

Elizabeth Bales Frank is a writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications.  She lives in New York City and has a day job to support her theater-going habit.

Jesse Jaremczak is a student at Chester College of New England.

Daniel John was raised in Saskatchewan, Canada. He is a garden and landscape designer by trade and teaches a class in Intuitive Gardening for Brookline Adult Education. He has ten children.  His poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Open City, Margie, Magpies, Amherst Review, The Comstock Review, Drumvoices Revue, Mindprints, Owen Wister Review, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Rio Grande Review, Soundings East, Thin Air, Oasis Literary Magazine, GW Review, North Atlantic Review, and The Louisville Review. His essay, “Dust to Dust, Ashes to Children” was one of the winners in the 2001 Campbell Corner Essay Competition sponsored by Sarah Lawrence College. He was a finalist in the Ruth Stone Hunger Mountain poetry contest.

Tim Kahl’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, American Letters & Commentary, Berkeley Poetry Review, Fourteen Hills, George Washington Review, Illuminations, Limestone, Nimrod, South Dakota Quarterly, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Texas Review, and dozens of other journals. He has translated Friederike Mayröcker, Lêdo Ivo and José Saramago.

Jane Knechtel lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two sons. She has masters degrees in Anglo-Irish Literature (University College, Dublin) and Counseling Psychology (Lewis & Clark College). She has worked as a psychotherapist for seven years, primarily in community mental health centers. Her poems have appeared in The Sunday Oregonian, The Tar Wolf Review, Reed: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Defect Cult, Fire (U.K.), and Tusculum Review.

Katherine Lomasney is a graduate of Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. She has worked as an editor and journalist for several business publications in the Northeast. Currently, she works for the International Labour Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Lorna Mpho Mabunda is a San Francisco writer whose work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Oasis, Xavier Review, Poetry Motel, Carquinez Poetry Review, Fox Cry Review, Zen Guitar, Phoebe: Journal of Gender & Cultural Critiques, River King Supplement, Mother Earth International Journal, and the anthology Lowdown Highway. She is currently at work on a memoir about her mother and can also be read at Sleepwalkers’ Glory (cowbells.blogspot.com).

Kathleen Zamboni McCormick is professor of Literature at SUNY Purchase.  The author of The Culture of Reading and the Teaching of English (Mina Shaughnessy Award, 1995), she is co-editing, with Edi Giunta, Approaches to Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, and writing a memoir on growing up half-Italian-half-Irish American. Recent work has appear or is forthcoming in The South Carolina Review, the Patterson Literary Review, Northwest Review, Italian Americana, and RE:AL.

Margaret Morrill lives in Concord, NH and is employed by the NH Department of Health and Human Services, where her duties include editing Aging Issues, a newsletter for New Hampshire’s older citizens.  Her poetry has been published in The Red Brick Review, Plainsongs, 5 Garden Lane, Victory Park, and Together, a newspaper for Holocaust survivors.

Alfred Nicol was recipient of the 2004 Richard Wilbur Award for his first book of poems, Winter Light, published by The University of Evansville Press. His poems have appeared in Commonweal, The New England Review, The Formalist, and other journals. Several of his poems have been anthologized in Contemporary Poetry of New England and in Kiss and Part. The fourth of nine installments of his long poem, “Persnickety Ichabod’s Rhyming Diary” appears in the most recent issue of Light.

Scott K. Odom is a Sergeant with a Sheriff’s Department on the central coast of California. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, The Yalobusha Review, and others. His artwork is featured in the winter 2006 issue of Mannequin Envy. He lives in Cambria with his wife and daughter. You can see more of his poetry and artwork at www.thedishwasherstears.blogspot.com.

Scott D. Pomfret is co-author of the Romentics-brand line of romance novels for gay men (www.romentics.com).  He also writes short stories that have been published in Post Road, New Delta Review, Genre Magazine, Freshmen: Best New Gay Voices, Best Gay Love Stories 2005, Best Gay Erotica 2005, and many other magazines and anthologies.  Pomfret is seeking a publisher for his collection of short fiction, Until the Sugar Is Caramel, and his newly completed novel, Only Say the Word.  Pomfret lives in Boston, Massachusetts.  His first novel, Hot Sauce, was published by Warner Books in June 2005.

Edward Stapel, professor of Photography and Media Arts at Chester College of New England, earned his B.A. in English from the University of South Carolina and his M.F.A. in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design.  His freelance work has appeared in many publications and his fine art work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions.  Edward lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts, with his wife, two cats, and many cameras.

Ron Thomas is a landscape contractor living in northern California. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Montserrat Review, Texas Review, Wisconsin Review, Sanskrit, First Leaves, Soundings East,  Mountain Harbinger Chronicles,  New York Quarterly, Edge, Eclipse, Drumvoices, and Porcupine. He used to run marathons until his left knee got older than the rest of him. Now he enjoys cycling and writing poetry.

Kat Thorpe is a student at Chester College of New England majoring in Fine Art. Her art practice consists of a concentration on drawing, painting, printmaking, assembling her own books and altering other written works. She has recently begun working in an encaustic medium, but still focuses on the use and quality of line. With a focus on process, her work seems to progress from one thing to the next.

Duane Vorhees has lived in Korea most of his adult life where, since 1987, he has been teaching American Literature and History to GI’s. He has a Ph.D. in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University. As an active founding member of the Seoul Artist Network, he has been performing and writing for many years as a scholar, journalist, hobbyist, and poet. In 2000, he participated in an Asian congress of poets in Manchuria; as a result, his work has appeared in periodicals on three continents and has been translated into Spanish, French, Romanian, Korean, and Hindi. His work is forthcoming in Epicenter, The Writers Post Journal, and Zillah: A Poetry Journal.

Stephen B. Wiley is an attorney in Morristown, New Jersey, where he has practiced for fifty years. His first book of poetry, Hero Island, was published in March ‘05. He has served in many public positions in New Jersey, including Counsel to the Governor, State Senator and University Board Chair.

Kyle Wilkins is host to 25,000 parasites.

W. J. Wilkinson is currently retired from thirty-two years of firefighting service in the city of Chicago. He has all but retired from the practice of law, but continues to teach as an adjunct professor for Southern Illinois University.  He uses fishing as an excuse to spend long hours with the closest of his friends and can yet manage a few black diamonds at Steamboat.  As ‘Papa’, he loyally follows his grandsons’ baseball and hockey seasons.  Through his writing, he seeks to leave the part of himself that is most human for those who have filled his life with love, and for any other fellow pilgrims also en route.

Jill Williams, originally from Hartford, Connecticut, divides her time between Vancouver, British Columbia and Sedona, Arizona.  Author of a Broadway musical (Rainbow Jones) and three nonfiction books, she has been published in numerous journals and mainstream magazines.  Her poetry books include “The Nature Sonnets” (Gival Press, 2001) and “A Weakness For Men” (Woodley & Watts, 2003).  Most recently, her work appears in “Poetic Voices Without Borders” (Gival Press, 2005).

Mika Yamamoto grew up in Skokie, Il. When she was fifteen she moved to Tokyo, Japan, and since then has also lived in Germany and Los Angeles. Four years ago, she moved back to Skokie with her son Kei and daughter Mia.

Fred Yannantuono was fired from Hallmark for writing meaningful greeting-card verse, he once ran twenty straight balls at pool. Finished 183rd (out of about 10,000) at the 1985 U.S. Open Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Won a yodeling contest in a German restaurant. Was bitten by a guard dog in a tattoo parlor. Paul Newman once claimed to have known him for a long time. Hasn’t been arrested in 17 months.

Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva lives in Madison, Wisconsin where she teaches creative writing to middle schoolers.  Her stories have appeared in Wisconsin Academy Review and River Oak Review.  She is at work on a novel.