ACE BOGGESS of Huntington, West Virginia, earned degrees from Marshall (B.A.) and West Virginia (J.D.) Universities. His work has appeared in Harvard Review, Nortre Dame Review, California Quarterly, The Oregon Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Wisconsin Review, Portland Review, and many other literary journals including this one (January 2002). A 2001 fellowship recipient from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, currently he is seeking a publisher for his first full-length poetry collection, The Essence of Silence, and for several literary novels. The two poems published in this issue are part of his collection, The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled, forthcoming from Highwire Press in 2003. http://hometown.aol.com/aceboggess http://adirondackreview.homestead.com/reviews.html AceBoggess@aol.com

ELENA BORTA is a literary researcher and freelance translator between Romanian and English and the Scandinavian languages. A recipient of Soros and USIA grants, she has taught at the University of Bucharest and worked as a researcher at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Bucharest. Her translations of Ioan Flora with Adam J. Sorkin have appeared in Chase Park, Visions International, and Natural Bridge, and are forthcoming in Compost.

JANET I. BUCK is a three-time Pushcart Nominee. the author of four collections of poetry, and a frequent contributor to Facets. Her work has recently appeared in Three Candles, PoetryBay, Red River Review, Runes, Stirring, The Concrete Wolf, Branches, The Carriage House Review, The Circle, Sand to Glass, The American Muse, and hundreds of other journals worldwide. In 2002, Buck's poetry is scheduled to appear in Artemis, The Montserrat Review, Recursive Angel, Apples & Oranges, Pig Iron Malt, Gertrude, The Pedestal Magazine, Southern Ocean Review, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly.  Recent awards include Sol Magazine's 2001 Poem of the Year, The 2001 Kota Press Anthology Prize, and The Thunder Rain Award. Janet's newest e-book Ash Tattoos, a collection of poetry on the terrorist attacks and the aftermath of war, is now available from The ZeBook Company: http://www.blquanbeck.com/zebookcompany/zebookAsh.html You may visit her Website at: http://members.aol.com/jbuck22874/whatsnew.html Janet Buck is a frequent contributor to Facets. jbuck22874@aol.com

 DAN CAMPBELL is a poet in the Washington, D.C. area. He enjoys the challenge and creativity that poetry requires to see familiar things in new ways CampbellDB@EHProject.org

MARION COHEN's two latest math/poetry readings will be at the Bridges Conference in Maryland, and at the SIAM Math conference in Philadelphia. Her next book is Cruel and Unusual, another well-spouse book about all the things that she learned promoting her previous well-spouse book, Dirty Details. Her poetry has appeared in numerous print and online journals, including several appearances in Facets. Recently, math limericks have been added to her Website: www.mathwoman.com. Mathwoman199436@aol.com

Born 20 December 1950 in Yugoslavia in the Romanian-speaking region of the Serbian Banat, IOAN FLORA is the author of fourteen books of poetry, among them Lecture on the Ostrich-Camel (1995), The Swedish Rabbit (1998), and Medea and Her War Machines (2000), which Adam Sorkin is engaged in translating in full. A dual-language volume, Fifty Novels and Other Utopias / Cincizeci de romane si alte utopii, with English translations by Andrei Bantas and Richard Collins, was published in Romania in 1996. Flora has won prizes at the Struga Poetry Festival, from the Writers' Union of the Republic of Moldova , and, for The Swedish Rabbit, from both the Romanian Writers' Union and the Association of Professional Writers in Romania (ASPRO), among other awards. Currently he is Secretary of the Romanian Writers' Union in Bucharest, where he has lived since 1993. Ioan Flora's poems have so far appeared in Sorkin's collaborative translations in my 2001 anthology of Romanian prose poetry, as well as in Natural Bridge, Visions International, and Chase Park, and are forthcoming in Compost.

MICHAEL FOSTER grew up and was educated in North Carolina. He later served with the Peace Corps in West Africa. Since returning, he has lived in Atlanta where he works and writes. His poems have appeared in a number of journals, including International Poetry Review, Oasis, and The Higginsville Reader, as well as several anthologies. mrfoster@bellsouth.net

DANIEL GALLIK has had poetry and short stories published by A.I.M.(Americals Intercultural Magazine), PARABOLA, NIMROD, LIMESTONE (University of Kentucky), THE HIRAM POETRY REVIEW, AURA (University of Alabama), and WHISKEY ISLAND (Cleveland State University). Currently, he is working on three novels, and is hoping an off-Broadway producer gets interested in one of his plays. ngallik@aol.com

KEVIN W. GROSSMAN's work has most recently appeared in Facets, L'Intrigue, Bluff Magazine, Sparrowgrass, Visalia Times-Delta, Rustlings of the Wind, October Moon, Think for Yourself, The Poet's Cut, and Poetically Speaking. kwg_gdp@pacbell.net

ZYSKANDAR JAIMOT has been published in the Americas and Europe in various journals and anthologies. About his work, he writes: poetry is the night when after bouts of momentary consummation i peel the residue of sticky sonnets from off my sweaty skin. And so he finds himself in Orlando, using the humid nights and the sun to write what he hopes is meaningful poetry. He has been awarded the 2002 Indiana Poetry Prize for his poem "The Wrestler's Shower," judged by Mark Doty.jaimot@hotmail.com

LYN LIFSHIN's most recent prize-winning book, awarded the Paterson poetry award, BEFORE IT'S LIGHT, published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow Press, following their publication of COLD COMFORT in 1997, was reprinted in 2001. Black Sparrow is currently publishing a series of her books, including ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME. She has published more than 100 books of poetry, including MARILYN MONROE , BLUE TATTOO, won awards for her nonfiction, and edited four anthologies of women's writing including TANGLED VINES, ARIADNE'S THREAD, and LIPS UNSEALED. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines, and she is the subject of an award-winning documentary film, LYN LIFSHIN: NOT MADE OF GLASS, available from Women Make Movies. Her poem, "No More Apologizing," has been called "among the most impressive documents of the women's poetry movement." For interviews, photographs, more biographical material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, visit her Website at www.lynlifshin.com onyxvelvet@aol.com

SUSAN RAWLINS' poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Grand Street, The Quarterly, Feminist Studies, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, Facets, and other publications. She lives in Berkeley, CA. rawlinss@rcn.com

DANIEL ROSENBLUM, Director of Corporate & Policy Programs at the Japan Society in New York City, has spent nearly half his life overseas, including 13 years in Japan. A former television producer and foreign correspondent, Daniel is also is an award-winning fiction writer. His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Printed Matter and Wingspan in Japan, and The Kit-Cat Review, Doorknobs & Bodypaint, Quick Fiction, Japanophile Magazine, and Spinnings in the U.S.  He has read widely in the New York area and was interviewed on WNYC about his short story "The Podiatrist", which was featured in The Broken Bridge (Stone Bridge Press), an anthology of expatriates in literary Japan.  His short story, "A Full Donkey," will appear in The Wag, A Magazine for Decadent Readers, next month. Daniel is active in the Tunnel Vision Writers' Project, a non-profit organization that specializes in providing support and creative forums for multi-genre writers and writing students. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife, Tamima, daughters Beryl and Hannah, and Winston, a dachshund. lienadr@aol.com

MIRIAM SAGAN is the author of twenty books, including recent poetry volumes THE WIDOW'S COAT (Ahsahta Press) and ARCHEOLOGY OF DESIRE (winner of the Red Hen chapbook contest.) She teaches online for UCLA-Extension, Santa Fe Community College, and at writers.com. She can be reached through her poetry site, the e-zine SANTA FE POETRY BROADSIDE (sfpoetry.org).

TAMARA KAYE SELLMAN is editor and publisher of MARGIN: Exploring Modern Magical Realism (http://www.magical-realism.com). The full-time mother of two daughters, ages 4 and 7, she writes prose and poetry inBainbridge Island, Washington. She's an active member of PEN USA West (Washington Chapter) and Jane's Stories Foundation, a women's writing collective. Her work has appeared nationally; in 2002, she published work in Edge City Review, Peralta Press, The Griffin, ByLine, Alligator Juniper, and Tower Poetry. One poem was also featured by the prestigious King County Arts Commission Bus poetry project. Sellman's work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.smike10@qwest.net

ADAM J. SORKIN has published fifteen books of translation, most recently Speaking the Silence: Prose Poets of Contemporary Romania (2001). Other recent books include Sea-Level Zero, poems by Daniela Crasnaru (BOA Editions, 1999) and The Triumph of the Water Witch, prose poems by Ioana Ieronim (Bloodaxe, 2000, short-listed for the Weidenfeld Prize, St. Anne's College, Oxford). My translation of Liliana Ursu's The Sky Behind the Forest (Bloodaxe, 1997, rendered with Ursu and Tess Gallagher) was also short-listed for the Weidenfeld Prize. Three of his translations have been nominated for Pushcart Prize volumes. His collaborative translations have appeared in more than 225 literary magazines including The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, Partisan Review, Rattle, Fence, Salt Hill, and The Prose Poem. He is currently at work on a translation of Ioan Flora's Medea and Her War Machines. ajs@psu.edu

DONNA SPECTOR is a playwright as well as a poet. Her plays have appeared Off Broadway, regionally and in Canada, Ireland and Greece. A member of Dramatists Guild and Poets & Writers, she received two N.E.H. grants to study in Greece. Her poems, stories and monologues have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies, including The Greensboro Review, Black River Review, Blue Unicorn, Poet & Critic, Sycamore Review, The Paterson Literary Review, Poet Lore, Gaia, Monologues by Women, for Women, At Our Core: Women Writing about Power, XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience. She and her cats Smoke and Fog live in an old farmhouse across from a wildlife sanctuary. dspector@warwick.net

JANE VINCENT TAYLOR has publications in or forthcoming from Calyx, Hubbub, Whetstone, Clackamas, Red Cedar Review, Diagram, Poetry Bay, and many others. jtaylor@ucok.edu

TIM WENZELL has published a novel, Absent Children, through Writer's Digest Books, and also published short fiction in Potomac Review, Timber Creek Review, Short Stories, Kansas Quarterly, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Synapse, Aethlon, Images Inscript, Eclectica Magazine , Spitball, The Literary Lion, The Paumanok Review, Slow Trains, and Read Me. He was published essays in Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Philadelphia People, and Full-Time Dads; poetry in Myriad, The Comstock Review, Poetry St. Corner, Curbside Review, Fresh Ground, and The New Press Literary Quarterly.  He has a master's degree in English-Creative Writing from Rutgers University, and teaches writing at Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ. Writerinnj@cs.com

TOM WILLIAMS teaches at Arkansas State University, where he also is the creative materials editor of Arkansas Review.  His fiction has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Nightsun, Indiana Review, and Evansville Review.  This is his first online publication. tswillia@astate.edu.

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