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Bryan Costales

Bryan Costales lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has written many software books, articles and stories over the past twenty-five years, and may be reached at bcx+2006@bcx.com.

Chris Crittenden

Chris Crittenden has a Ph.D. in philosophy and lives in the easternmost town in the U.S., a small fishing village about 1000 feet from Canada. He is devoted to writing and editing poetry and has had some gratifying results in 2006, including acceptances from The Iconoclast, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, Main Street Rag and California Quarterly.

Richard Dinges, Jr.

Richard Dinges, Jr. manages business systems at an insurance company. Nebo, Karamu, Phantasmagoria, Poetalk and Miller's Pond have most recently accepted his poems for their publications.

Steffen Horstmann

Steffen Horstmann writes essays and book reviews for the Canadian journal Contemporary Ghazals. His poems have recently appeared in The Baltimore Review, Oyez Review, Pebble Lake Review, Raintown Review, and Texas Poetry Journal. He lives in Holyoke, MA.

Michelle Morgan

Michelle Morgan grew up in Sabattus, Maine and moved to Columbus, Ohio three years ago. She received her BA in Arts and Humanities from the University of Southern Maine in 2003, and currently works for the Upward Bound program at Ohio Wesleyan University. When she finds herself with a spare moment, she exhausts it by either writing or collaging. She likes to think of her collages and her poetry/prose as pushing the border of form while maintaining a deep relationship to the immense both within and without.

Nirlipto

Nirlipto was born near Darjeeling, India on 10th Sept., 1976 and earned a doctorate in theoretical physics. Nirlipto currently is a scientific researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara whose passions include physics, figure-drawing, poetry and eastern philosophy.

Rumit Pancholi

Rumit Pancholi is a first-year MFA student at the University of Notre Dame. He is currently reading volumes of poetry by Thom Gunn, Gregory Orr, and Li-Young. He enjoys travel-writing, community service, and will soon be putting together a journal for LGBT writers under 30.

Mark Thalman

Mark Thalman’s work has appeared recently in Many Mountains Moving, Poetry Midwest, and Xanadu. His poetry will be appearing in Poetryfish, Reed, and the Marylhurst Review. He received his MFA from the University of Oregon and teaches English in the public schools.

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