E. P. ALLAN has an MFA in Creative Miss-spelling from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. He won the American Poets' Prize and the Cole Younger Poets' Award. He has published over 100 poems in traditional and Web-based magazines. An EFL teacher for the past 12 years, he now teaches at Matsuyama University. epallan@mac.com   KITTY BEER is a writer and editor. She has two grown children and is reveling in recently rediscovering her fiction writing voice. Credits from the distant past include a translation from the French in Chelsea Review, fiction in The Montrealer, and winning a CBC short story contest. During her stint as an environmental journalist, she wrote for publications such as the Syracuse Herald American, the Amicus Journal, and Harvard Magazine. She is a member of Harvard Square Scriptwriters and has just finished a screenplay. This story is part of a series, which could be called a novella. The time period reaches as far back as the 1990s and forward into the 2060s, but most of the stories take place in the 2040s. beerk@earthlink.net EMILY BEVAN grew up in Dallas and earned a BA in English from Texas A&M University in 2000. Her fiction has appeared in online publications such as Word Riot and The Square Table. She lives in Houston with her husband, John. You may contact her at emily_bevan@hotmail.com. JANET I. BUCK is a six-time Pushcart Nominee and a frequent contributor to Facets. Her poetry has recently appeared in CrossConnect, Poetry Magazine.com, The Montserrat Review, Offcourse, The Pedestal Magazine, Southern Ocean Review, PoetryBay, Tryst, Kenwood Review, The Rose & Thorn, Red River Review, Coelacanth and and hundreds of other journals worldwide. Janet's second print collection, Tickets to a Closing Play, winner of the 2002 Gival Press Poetry Award, has recently been published, and her third book, Beckoned by the Reckoning, is forthcoming soon from PoetsWork Press (see "News About Facets Writers" for more information). jbuck22874@aol.com This past year, M. E. BUCHINGER BODWELL's poems have appeared in Penumbra, Ibbetson Street Press Journal, Dasoke, and Mobius. One of her poems received a 2004 Cambridge Poetry Award, and Richard Moore nominated her for the 2003 Emergent Writers issue of Ploughshares. She is an assistant professor of English at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and regularly reviews literary journals, poetry books, and literary criticism for Ibbetson Update. mary.bodwell@mcp.edu A four-time finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, CAROL FRITH is coeditor of the poetry journal, Ekphrasis. Her poem, "Two For a Journey," received a special menion listing in the 2003 Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her work has appeared in Midwest Quarterly, Cutbank, The Macguffin, Facets, Spillway, Asheville Poetry Review, The Literary Review, Kimera, iris, Charlton Review, Roanoke, Clackamas, Blue Unicorn, The Formalist, Poetry New York, River Oak Review, Interim, The Lyric, Phoebe (NY), and others. She has three chapbooks: Moving Like a Blue Flame (Medicinal Purposes), In and Out of Light (Bacchae Press), and Never Enough Zeroes (Palanquin Press). Carol4mail@aol.com MIRIAM KOTZIN teaches literature and creative writing at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where she is Director of the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing.  She also serves as advisor to Maya, the student literary magazine. Her poetry has been published in a number of print magazines, among them: The Iron Horse Literary Review, The Painted Bride Quarterly,  Boulevard, The Mid-American Review, The Southern Humanities Review, Pulpsmith, and Confrontation. Online her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Small Spiral Notebook,  Drexel Online Journal, the Vocabula Review, Three Candles,  the Poetry Super Highway, For Poetry.com., Word Riot, The Front Street Review, Open Wide, Segue, edificeWRECKED!, Shampoo, Eclectica, FRiGG, Flashquake, Circle Magazine, Branches, Plum Ruby Review, Gator Springs Gazette, Blaze, The Green Tricycle, Riverbabble,  MAG:  Muse Apprentice Guild, Mini Mag, Snow Monkey, Maverick Magazine, Poetry Niederngasse and Carnelian. mkotzin@att.net MARY HOLANOVIC just finished her MFA in poetry at the University of Maryland where she a teaching fellow. There she studied with poets Stanley Plumly, Michael Collier, and Josh Weiner, all of whom helped her develop her poetic voice. Currently she works in publishing in Boston. mholanovic@bedfordstmartins.com PAUL HOSTOVSKY's 's work has been featured on Poetry Daily and has appeared in various magazines, including Carolina Quarterly, Spoon River Poetry Review, and The Lyric. He lives outside Boston where he works as an interpreter for the deaf. paul.hostovsky@state.ma.us

LYN LIFSHIN's BEFORE IT'S LIGHT,awarded the Paterson poetry award, published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow Press, following their publication of COLD COMFORT IN 1997, was reprinted in 2001. Black Sparrow published a series of her books, including ANOTHER WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME, in 2002. She has published over 100 books of poetry 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 Web site at www.lynlifshin.com onyxvelvet@aol.com HELEN LOSSE is a poet and freelance writer with recent poetry publications in Black Bear Review, Rearview Quarterly, Tacenda, ShoeBox Diaries, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Blink, Domicile, and The Bohemian Rag. She has had poems published in three anthologies in England, a micro-chapbook, Absolution, in the POEMS-FOR-ALL Series from 24th Street Irregular Press. She won a Gold Circle in Open Poetry Award at Columbia University. Born in Joplin, Missouri, Helen was educated at Missouri Southern State University and Wake Forest University. She has taught middle and high school English, served as a Visiting Poet at a local elementary school, and has written an opinion column concerning racial issues for the Winston-Salem Chronicle. Currently, she writes book reviews for the Winston-Salem Journal. She lives in Winston-Salem, NC with her husband Bill and two sons. Her chapbook, Gathering the Broken Pieces (published in January 2004), is available through FootHills Publishing. hlosse@triad.rr.com After almost a decade of working as a freelance photographer in Europe, MAURICE OLIVER returned to America in 1990 to work for the Los Angeles Times. Then, in 1995, he made a lifelong dream reality by traveling around the world for eight months. But instead of taking pictures, he used the same acute creative energy to record the experience in a journal, which eventually became dozens of poems. And so began his ambition to be a poet. His poetry has appeared online in ink-mag.com, retortmag.com, eye-shot.com, onefortytwo.com, tryst3.com, deepcleveland.com, tmpoetry.com, readingdivas.com, webdelsol.com (The Potomac Journal), StrideMagazine (UK), and will appear in coming Spring/Summer 2004 issues of alba.com, poesiamag.com, SpitjawReview and TaintMagazine. He presently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he works as a tutor. mo97232@yahoo.com SUSAN RAWLINS' poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Grand Street, The Quarterly, Feminist Studies, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, Facets, and other publications. She is a frequent contributor to this magazine and lives in Berkeley, CA. rawlinss@rcn.com DANNY RENDLEMAN teaches writing at the University of Michigan-Flint.  His last, and sixth, book came out in 1995--The Middle West.  He has received three Michigan Council for the Arts grants and two P.E.N. awards. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Rolling Stone, Field, Carolina Quarterly, Facets. and some 400 other publications.  danny_rendleman@hotmail.com JUDE ROY's work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals including The Southern Review, American Short Fiction, Zuzu's Petal Quarterly, Prism International, and National Public Radio's "The Sound of Writing." He isa Louisiana native working and writing in Kentucky, and he has an MFA from George Mason University under Richard Bausch and Alan Cheuse. jude.roy@kctcs.edu JAY SANTINI is a full-time proofreader in Boston, and he has poems forthcoming in Acorn, Frogpond, and Front Street Review. In 1999, he won a PEN/New England Emerging Writers award for a young adult novel he wrote. jsantin430@earthlink.net CHRISTIAN STELLA is the nineteen-year-old son of a reasonably well-known television chef. As a result, he sometimes finds wireless microphone receivers stuffed down his pants by grown men. They then film him and put him on American television because he is some example for today's youth. He has lost 160 pounds, and this has made him famous. PATRICK WALSH, from County Cork, Ireland, has previously published poems in local Cork anthologies and UK theme collections. patrickwalsh100@yahoo.co.uk

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