Here are this issue's writers' bios:

John Davis Jr. is an award-winning writer whose works include "Growing Moon, Growing Soil: Poems of my Native Land." He resides in central Florida with his wife and two sons. Read his poetry here.

Daniel Gallik's poetry and short stories have appeared in Hawaii Review, A.I.M., PARABOLA, NIMROD, LIMESTONE (U. of Kentucky), THE HIRAM POETRY REVIEW, AURA (University of Alabama) and WHISKEY ISLAND (Cleveland State University). His first novel, A Story Of Dumb Fate is available at publishamerica.com Read his poetry here.

Carolynn Kingyens is a corporatate account manager for an eLearning company in Metro DC area. Her work has appeared in Straitjackets Literary Magazine and The Muse and will appear in the upcoming Winter 2008 edition of The Blue Jew Yorker. Read her poetry here.

Sarah Norek recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Wyoming, and has been published in The Open Face Sandwich and Ache Magazine. Read her fiction here.

Shabnam Piryaei was born in Iran, raised in California, and now lives and writes in New York. Read her poetry here.

Jason Spear is a writer and teacher of Anglophone Literature at the Cité Scolaire Internationale in Lyon, France. Recent publications include poems in Agenda (London), Eight Octaves and The American Drivel Review. Read his poetry here.