TONI AMATO has appeared as a guest speaker/performer at Brandeis, Temple, and Goddard Universities. She received a Vermont Studio Center residency to work on her novel in progress, Nobody Rides For Free. She is a member of the Writer's Room of Boston. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including Food and Other Enemies (dave tillman, publisher) and Our Voices (Joan Nestle, editor). BART BECKER is from Nebraska, way back in the hills where the nighthawks do it with the chickens. Home of Willa Cather, Marlon Brando, Zager & Evans. Now he lives in Seattle. He's written nonfiction and essays for magazines and newspapers, and played in the bands the Hallucinations and the Excessives. He's at Bartbartbecker@aol.com and 64dances.com. CHARLES FRANCO was born and is still living in El Paso, Texas. He received his BA from the University of Texas at El Paso and works as a high school special education teacher. He is currently working on a novel and a volume of poetry. SUSAN GEIB lives and writes in Boston with a resident four-footed muse. JOHN GILGUN is the author of five books: Everything That Has Been Shall Be Again: the Reincarnation Fables of John Gilgun (Bieler Press, 1981) ;The Dooley Poems (Robin Price, 1991); Music I Never Dreamed Of (Amethyst, 1989); From the Inside Out ); and Your Buddy Misses You (Three Phase, 1995). A. PERRY HANCOCK is associate dean of the Graduate Faculty at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and founder of For the Children (a nonprofit organization for children in poverty). His nonacademic writing includes poetry published in various books and magazines since 1974. His major writing foci are challenging social concerns and providing comfort and encouragement. He is 44 years old and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. DOUGLAS HOLDER is the editor of the IBBETSON STREET PRESS of Somerville, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in the Boston Globe, 96inc, Boston Poet, COMPOST, Stuff, the Cambridge Tab, South Boston Literary Gazette, Crooked River Press, and many more. For the past decade he has run poetry groups for psychiaric patients at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. He holds a MA in Lit. from Harvard. Individual entries on RICHARD KOSTELANETZ appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, the Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Webster's Dictionary of American Authors, and Britannica.com, among other selective directories. NATHAN LESLIE lives in Columbia, Maryland, and teaches writing at Towson University and UMBC. His work has been published in numerous literary magazines, including The Crab Creek Review, Wascana Review, and Fodderwing. Nathan finished his MFA at the University of Maryland, where he won the 2000 Katherine Anne Porter Prize. "Flyboys" comes from Drivers, a collection of stories about cars. DAVID MEUEL's poems have been published in Old Dominion University's Dominion Review, Lynx Eye, Caesura, and more than 50 other publications.  In 1998, his book-length collection, Islands in the Sky, won first prize for poetry in the National Self-Published Book Awards sponsored by Writer's Digest Magazine.  He lives with his wife and son in Palo Alto, California. ANNE ELEZABETH PLUTO was born in the Bronx and grew up Russian Orthodox in the Catholic parish of Holy Innocents in Brooklyn, New York. She is an associate professor of Theatre and Literature at Lesley University in Cambridge where she teaches creative writing and literature, and directs Shakespeare. Her greatest muse is her three-year-old daughter, Zofia. KENNETH POBO's online chapbook, OPEN TO ALL, appeared from 2River View in May 2000. His work appears online at FORPOETRY, THREE CANDLES, SOUTHERN OCEAN REVIEW, IXION, KING LOG, and elsewhere. In print his work appears in NIMROD, INDIANA REVIEW, SPOON RIVER QUARTERLY, MUDFISH, and elsewhere. His interests include collecting obscure records from the 1960s, reading, and gardening. JAMIE SIMPSON is the former editor of the arts quarterly, Gypsy Blood Review, as well as founder and president of APM Press and Publications. In 1998, she won the Houghland Award, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a Ruth Lily Fellowship, an AWP Intro Award, and has been a finalist for the Poetry Book Award at the University of Arkansas Press, among other honors. She's published in The New Orleans Review, The Birmingham Poetry Review, The Oxford American, California Quarterly, and others. Her new chapbook is called Catch and Release from GreenTower Press. She is currently looking for a publisher for two volumes of poetry and one book of short stories. She has an MFA and is looking for a teaching job. Born in 1976, DANIEL SUMRALL has a BA in Philosophy and English and is currently an MFA student at the University of Notre Dame. His work has appeared in the online journal, RedRiverReview, Wavelength, and will be appearing in Poetry Motel. ROB WEINSTEIN is a professional comedian.  He has performed across the United States, as well as on several national television shows.  Rob is an active member of the Soka Gakkai International, a Buddhist organization dedicated to world peace.  He is married, and has one child.  Bobby and His Cat is Rob's first book. The unabridged version of Bobby and His Cat (ISBN 0-9704340-0-6) is available at amazon.com and other major online bookstores.   MATTHEW WILSON lives in southcentral Pennsylvania. He recently published poems in SLANT and Beauty for Ashes Poetry Review, and an essay on travelling in Poland in The Evansville Review. HOME