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Contributors to this Issue Competition Winners Laura Puryear Finnell—First Place Laura Puryear Finnell lives on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State and teaches writing and literature at her local community college, as well as poetry topics through Inkberry.org. She received her MFA in 2004 from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Constance Hanstedt—Finalist Constance Hanstedt, a business owner and writer, lives in northern California. Her poetry has appeared in Rattle, Porter Gulch Review, Fox Cry Review and Beginnings. She received an honorable mention in Writer's Digest 73rd Annual Writing Comeptition. Shrode Hargis—Finalist Shrode Hargis is currently a student in the MFA department at the University of Alabama. His poetry reviews have appeared in Harvard Review. Contributors Gail Rudd Entrekin teaches English and Creative Writing at Sierra College in Grass Valley, California. Her most recent poetry collection is Change (Will Do You Good) (Poetic Matrix Press, 2005). She is poetry editor of Hip Pocket Press. Tolu Oloruntoba is a Medical Student in The University of Ibadan. He has been writing poetry since he left high school. He also writes short stories. He is currently working on his first compilation of poetry "hearsay in my backyard" and his first novel. Kathryn Hawkins lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has been or will be published in Stirring, Half Drunk Muse, Tryst, Niederngasse, and the New Yinzer print anthology, "Dirt". Lyn Lifshin's most recent prizewinning book (Paterson poetry award), Before It's Light, was published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997. Another Woman Who Looks Like Me will be co-published by Black Sparrow and David Press. Just published is A New Film by a Women In Love with the Dead, March Street Press. She has published more than 100 books of poetry, including Marilyn Monroe and Blue Tattoo, won awards for her non fiction and edited 4 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." An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical series, "On The Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Sheets" was published Spring 2003. She is working on a collection of poems about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse Ruffian, new chapbooks including Girls and Woman, Mad Girls, Barbie Poems, When A Cat Dies and a new collection called Persephone to be published by Red Hen Press. For more information her web site is www.lynlifshin.com Suzanne Roberts is an English instructor at Lake Tahoe Community College and is pursuing her PhD in Literature and the Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry Motel, The Adirondack Review, Branches Quarterly, and Spillway. Natasha M. Marin’s work has appeared in publications such as Borderlands, New Delta Review, Connecticut River Review and Southern Indiana Review. She currently resides in Austin, Texas. Jessie Lerm is a full-time student at the University of Cape Town, majoring in Philosophy and Social Anthropology. Suzanne Nielsen, a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, waits for the change of seasons from winter to above freezing with suspicion. She teaches writing at Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and The Loft Literary Center. She has been published in various literary journals nationally and internationally; most recently her work has appeared in The Comstock Review, Brick and Mortar Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, Flash Fantastic, Asphodel and 580 Split. Upcoming work will appear in Gin Bender Poetry Review and Thunder Sandwich. 
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