Katy Acheson Katy Acheson is currently earning her Masters in Professional Writing at the University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth where she reads for the undergraduate literary journal and wins poetry contests. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband and two orange kittens in a humble house overlooking a cranberry bog. Her work appears in A'pos'tro'phe, H_NGM_N, The Onion Union , Moria, MiPo Radio's Goodnight Show and is forthcoming in Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets and In Our Own Words Volume 7. For more of Katy's work, visit http://somethingkaty.blogspot.com/ . Kristin Bird Kristin Bird attended Northwestern University and majored in Sociology. She currently lives in Chicago, IL, working in public relations to promote authors and publishers. She can be reached at kristin.bird@gmail.com. Thomas Burke Thomas Burke grew up outside Chicago, received a BA from Union College and an MFA from UMASS Amherst. He has lived in Asia and Europe, and spent time in Africa, South America, and Central America. He currently lives in Brooklyn, teaches, and helps direct the Summer Literary Seminars programs in Russia and Kenya. Jeff Crouch Jeff Crouch is a writer in Grand Prairie, Texas. His writing has appeared in Above Ground Testing, Canopic Jar, The Cerebral Catalyst, Cordite, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Dream People, Laika Poetry Review, Literary Chaos, Lunatic Chameleon, Media Cake (formerly, Experimental Candy), MG Version 2, My Favorite Bullet, PFS Post, The Rose and Thorn, saucy vox, semantikon, SN Review, Spent Meat, Static Movement, Subterranean Quarterly, te_a_ tro, Underground Window, Venue--A Southern Forum, Unlikely Stories, and Wire Sandwich with more forthcoming in Chick Flicks, Concelebratory Shoehorn Review, Locust Magazine, The Persistent Mirage, and Vibrant Gray. Brett Finlayson Brett Finlayson was born in Bridgeport, CT. He received a B.A. in English from Siena College and is currently enrolled in Syracuse University's M.F.A. program in Creative Writing. When he is not writing he is an ironworker who regrets never having learned to play the piano. But there's still time. Vernon Frazer Vernon Frazer has published eight books of poetry and three books of fiction. His work has appeared in Aught, Big Bridge, Drunken Boat, First Intensity, Jack Magazine, Lost and Found Times, Moria, Miami SunPost, Otloiths, Prague Literary Review, Sidereality, Xstream and many other literary magazines. His web site is http://vernonfrazer.com. His most recent works are the longpoems Holiday Idylling, Avenue Noir and IMPROVISATIONS, the now-completed work which he introduced in his 2001 reading at the Poetry Project. Frazer is married and lives in South Florida. David LaBounty His poetry has appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, The Verse Marauder, Four Volts and in upcoming issues of Autumn Sky Poetry, Pemmican and Cerebral Catalyst. Warren Lloyd Warren Lloyd is in the midst of completing the written part of an MFA thesis in the field of New Forms from Rochester Institute of Technology. He earned his BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in painting. And he will be starting at the University of Buffalo this fall to study poetics in their MA/ PhD program.In the mean time he is working for his family's moving and storage company while working on a chap book exploring 'the language of moving' and its relationship to the body, homes, possessions, commodity and furniture. His work is either forthcoming or has appeared in Homonumos Magazine, Beijing, Signatures, and There Journal. His blog is at www.wlloyd3.blogspot.com and his e-mail is wlloyd818@yahoo.com. Bob Marcacci Native Californian presently living and writing in Putignano, Italy. Recent work has appeared in Mad Hatters' Review, Minimalist Concrete Poetry, Otoliths, Venereal Kittens and zafusy among others. PJ for The Countdown at http://www.miporadio.net/BOB_MARCACCI. Deborah Marie Poe Deborah Poe's writing is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Denver Quarterly, Caesura, Red Mountain Review, Copper Nickel, Drunken Boat, and the anthology Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora. Her poetry collection Our Parenthetical Ontology is forthcoming from CustomWords. She is now working on a second poetry collection, Elements, as well as a short story collection entitled Event Landmarks from which "Fragile Magnets" comes. Francis Raven A graduate student in philosophy at Temple University; first book of poems, Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox, 2005), and novel, Inverted Curvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005), were recently published. Poems of have been published in Mudlark, Conundrum, Chain, Big Bridge, Bird Dog, Caffeine Destiny, and Spindrift among others and critical work can be found in Jacket, Logos, Clamor, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Electronic Book Review, The Emergency Almanac, The Morning News, The Brooklyn Rail, Media and Culture, In These Times, The Fulcrum Annual, Rain Taxi, and Flak. Barton Smock Barton Smock is 31 years old, 3-kids, 2-jobs, 1-wife. He lives in Ohio.