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Contributors to the Spring 2003 Banyan Review Holly Farris is an Appalachian who has worked as an autopsy assistant, restaurant baker, and beekeeper. To date, she has published more than three dozen articles, poems, and stories in journals as diverse as Phoebe, Appalachian Heritage, Thema and Lodestar Quarterly. Her first book, To Have and To Hold, has been accepted for publication. Dewi Faulkner resides in Woodland Hills, California. Laura Puryear Finnell lives in Olympia, WA with her husband. She is an MFA student in Antioch University Los Angeles' Creative Writing program and currently the editor of that program's literary journal, the Crimson Crane. She is a member of Seattle's Mercer Street Poets workshop and has participated in readings with them around the Puget Sound area. Her work has appeared in Arnazella, 4th Street, Slightly West, Gumball Poetry, SLAM, Crosscurrents and Poets Against the War, an on-line anthology. She is the recipient of the 2001 Susan Wallace Award for Poetry from Pierce College in Lakewood, WA. She works for South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, in International Education. Kate Greenstreet has poems in recent and/or forthcoming issues of the Massachusetts Review and the Edison Literary Review, as well as in the anthology 25. This year she received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Karen Harryman lives in Burbank, California with her husband Kirker Butler. Her poems have been published in Poetry New Zealand, Writing Who We Are: An Anthology of Kentucky Feminists and 52%, a literary magazine published by The Women's Center of Ottawa, Canada. More of her work can be read on The Poetry Super Highway at www.poetrysuperhighway.com. Jim Heston's poetry has been published by Sidereality and Coffee Press Journal in 2003. Snow Monkey, Star*Line and Alba will be printing more of his poetry later this year. Currently, he edits a literary magazine called The Growl at Carver Academy where he has been teaching writing since 1996. He was also the editor-in-chief of The Phoenix literary magazine of Baylor University from 1992-94. Beatrice M. Hogg is a coal miner's daughter from western Pennsylvania. She is working on an MFA in creative writing at Antioch University. She is also working on a memoir about her hometown and two novels. Beatrice lives in Sacramento, CA. She can be reached at HoggPen57@aol.com. Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, won eight awards. Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, won three. Her first screenplay, The Killing Ground is still looking for a home. Her poetry and fiction is included in several anthologies and literary reviews and she writes column for Home Decor Magazine, The Pasadena Star News and a "Back to Literature" column for MyShelf.com. She has studied writing at Cambridge University, UK; Charles University, Prague; Herzen University, St. Petersburg, RU; and UCLA's Writers' Program. Mark benefits from being the technical director of the Banyan Review site, thus securing him a spot in the content of each issue. After graduating from the Iowa Workshop with an M.F.A. in fiction, T.K. Kenyon completed a Ph.D. in microbiology. Thesis research culminated in a model that explains why chickenpox is worse if you get it as an adult than if you get it as a child and caused a near-riot in the herpes virus world, sad to say. Prior publications include four scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals, three short stories in editor-reviewed literary journals, and a newspaper column called "Science for Non-Majors." Leo V. Love was born and raised in New York City and has lived in Phoenix, Arizona for nearly 22 years. Leo received a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry for fiscal year 2001 from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His poems have appeared in several magazines and literary journals. Margo McCall is a graduate of the M.A. creative writing program at California State University Northridge. Her short stories have been featured in Pacific Review, Heliotope, In*tense, Mind in Motion, Sidewalks, Rockhurst Review, Northridge Review and other journals. Her nonfiction has appeared in a variety of newspapers and other publications. Mary Oak O'Kane lives in Washington State. Radames Ortiz is the author of a chapbook of poems, Between Angels & Monsters. His work has appeared in numerous publications including, Exquisite Corpse, Pacific Review, Gulf Coast, The Amherst Review and Borderlands. He has received fellowships from the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets at Bucknell University and Voices Writing Workshop at the University of San Francisco. He is also a recipient of a 2002 Individual Artist Grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County. He has recently been awarded a 2003 Archie D. and Bertha Walker fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He currently resides in Houston, TX where he is Marketing Associate for Arte Publico Press. Miguel San Miguel grew up in Texas and spent much of his adult life moving around the country. He has held a large number of jobs: cook, bartender, dishwasher, warehouseman, general labor and recently a short term in semiconductors. He is currently 40 and has decided that he needs to write. Lydia J. Sauers lives, works, and writes south of Seattle. She is recently married and is going to school to be a registered nurse. Lydia has had two other poems published, but this is her first time to be published on the internet. Other creative outlets include reading, watercolor painting, and scrapbooking. Birute Serota was born of Lithuanian parents in a refugee camp in Germany after the war. She grew up in Chicago and now lives in Santa Monica, California with her two children. She teaches disabled high school students and has published in: Spectrum, West/Word, New Hampshire College Journal, New Digressions, Southern New Hampshire University Journal, Lituanus, Segue, Story One, Storyglossia and in an anthology. She is currently finishing a novel on 19th Century Lithuania Debra A. Varnado, AICP, is self-employed in her own planning and policy consulting firm in Los Angeles, CA. She began writing stories and poems as a child and is currently an MFA student at Antioch University, Los Angeles. She completed her Master of Community and Regional Planning at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Colleen Webster lives at the juncture of the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay where she runs, bikes, kayaks, and walks with her dog. When she comes inside she writes and teaches at Harford Community College, waiting for her next outdoor foray. In addition to her academic background in literature, she has been pursuing a Master Naturalist Certificate from Harford County Parks and a certificate in Environmental Studies from Johns Hopkins University. Her poetry and essays have been or will be published by the Maryland Poetry Review, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Tacenda, Milkweed Editions, Poetry Midwest, Moondance, Penumbra and the Disquieting Muses Quarterly Review. 
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