Jonathan Baumbach has published more than ten books of fiction including Babble, Reruns, The Life and Times of Major Fiction, Separate Hours, and Flickers.

Michael Carlson has directed European programming for ABC sports. His recent collection is Homage to Gibbon, available from Northern Lights. (London).

Larry French's pieces have appeared in Ascent, the New Orleans Review, and elsewhere, and have been anthologized in the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction.

Lola Haskins has published five books of poems, most recently Hunger (1993), which won the University of Iowa Press Edwin Ford Piper Award. A sixth book, Extranjera, is forthcoming from Story Line Press. Her poetry has won awards from Poetry Society of America and the New York Quarterly, as well as narrative poetry prizes from the New England Review/Breadloaf Quarterly and Southern Poetry Review. Besides poetry, she has published prose, most recently an extensive essay introducing a photography book (Visions of Florida, University Press of Florida, 1994).

P.J. Jason's short stories have appeared in such publications as African Voices, Players (Black Men's Magazine), Salmagundi (eZine), Fiction International, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), River Styx, Wascana Review (Canada), Black River Review, Private Arts, Rave Review (eZine), Uno Mas Magazine, Struggle, Left Curve, and Tales From Cyberland (an anthology).

Alice Mattison's stories have been widely published, including the New Yorker and elsewhere. She has several books including a collection, Short Wits, from William Morrow.

Barry Spacks, a persistently visiting professor at UC Santa Barbara--after many years of teaching at M.I.T.--is the author of two novels and seven poetry collections. Since 1991 he's lived in the tiny mountain town of Junction City, CA, as a Vajrayana (Tibetan Buddhism) student of H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche.

Terese Svoboda's first novel, Cannibal , won the Bobst Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer's Award and was chosen as one of the top ten books of the year by SPIN magazine. Her story "Party Girl" was a finalist in the 1995 Mississippi Review Prize competition. Her recent fiction appears in Conjunctions, Georgetown Review and Columbia.