Curtis Harnack is author of three novels, a collection of short fiction, and three memoirs. He lives in New York where he is president of the School of Amercian Ballet at Lincoln Center.

Karen Kevorkian has published stories or poems in such journals as Fiction International, Five Fingers Review, Furious Fictions, Antioch Review, The Massachusetts Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and Hambone. She lives in San Francisco.

Marie Manilla is a graduate of the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. She lives in West Virginai where she writes fiction and drama. She has twice won the West Virginia Playwrights' Competition and currently teaches at Marshall University.

Jill Marquis lives and works in Seattle. She recently earned an MFA in Writing from the University of Montana.

Lailee Mendelson is a Hoyns Fellow in the MFA program at the University of Virginia. This is her first published story.

Andy Mozina's stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Captain Kidd Monthly and West Branch.

Lynne Butler Oaks' fiction as been published in The Quarterly, The Missouri Review, Fiction International, StoryQuarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Blip Magazine Archive.

C. Rusch's stories have appeared in journals such as Abiko Quarterly, Buffalo Bones, Pacific Coast Journal and Southern Exposure. Her plays have been presented in New York, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor and printed in the anthologies One-Act Plays for Acting Students and The Actors' Scenebook.