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Contributors to this Issue Nancy Bodily has worked as a journalist and has recently set her sights on poetry and becoming a registered nurse. She lives in Davis with her husband and daughter, Cassidy. Lately, she has been writing poems about family, ghosts, and war. Amanda Auchter currently works as the editor of Pebble Lake Review. Her writing has appeared in Antietam Review, Blue Unicorn, Mad Poets Review, Poetry Midwest, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Writers' Journal, and others. She is the recipient of the 2004 Howard Moss Poetry Prize and won third prize in the 2004 Writer's Digest Writing Competition for creative nonfiction. 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 Steve Klepetar teaches writing and literature at Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota. Recent poems appear in The Aurora Review, Red River Review, Niederngasse and Facets. Cati Porter is a poet, artist and freelance writer. Her poems have been published in Poetry Midwest, The Pomona Valley Review, The Vermillion Literary Project, and SN Review, and is forthcoming in the spring 2005 edition of Sunspinner. She lives in Riverside, California, with her husband and two sons. Kelley White has been a pediatrician in inner-city Philadelphia for more than 20 years. Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy where she edits the Italian Jerry O’Bannion is a 52 year old high hchool English teacher who has no illusions about being a poet. He has been happily married for thirty-one years to a wonderful woman who forgives him for writing verse as well as for all of his other vices. Carol Carpenter’s stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Yankee, The Pedestal Magazine, Insolent Rudder, Barnwood, Fiction Quarterly (Tampa Tribune), Indiana Review, Quarterly West, Carolina Quarterly, Byline, Confrontation and Papier-Mache Press's anthology, Generation to Generation. She received the Richard Eberhart Prize for Poetry and was a finalist in the Nelson Algren Awards. Formerly a college writing instructor and journalist, she now works for a communications and training firm. Lily Dulan recently received an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. She has performed her work in progress at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, The Electric Lodge in Venice, and The Empty Stage Theater in West Los Angeles. Her non-fiction piece My Messy Places will appear in the Winter issue of Ducts.org. She lives in Venice, California. Tolu Ogunlesi was born in 1982 in Edinburgh to Nigerian parents, and has lived most of his life in Nigeria. He has just graduated in pharmacology from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the author of a collection of poetry, Listen to the Geckos Singing from a Balcony (Jacobyte Books, Australia, October 2003). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in A Melody Of Stones (PEN Anthology of New Nigerian Writing 2003), Olongo, Zacatecas, Mississippi Review, Inkpot, Orbis, Times Arts Review, The Guardian and Hackwriters. He is presently working on a collection of short stories while at the same time gathering the courage to start a novel. He can be reached at to4ogunlesi@yahoo.com Gabriel Ricard writes short fiction, plays, poetry and non-fiction pieces. He has also had the opportunity to interview such names as Henry Rollins and Harvey Pekar. Born in Canmore, Alberta, Canada, he lives with his family in Waverly, Virginia. 
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