Here are this issues writers' bios:

Susan Behrens is an associate professor of linguistics at Marymount Manhattan College and associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. Read her poetry here.

Steven Coughlin teaches composition at the University of Idaho. His work has recently appeared in Slate and California Quarterly. Read his poetry here.

Charlie Geoghegan-Clements is currently working on a novella about memory and wondering what to do in Georgia with a degree in 'culture and critical theory.' Other than drinking and smoking, writing is what he does most consistently. Read his poetry here.

David Joseph is a graduate of the University of Southern California's Graduate Writing Program and his poetry has been published in Doubletake Magazine, the Southern California Anthology , Pittsburgh Quarterly, and Rattle. He has taught at Pepperdine University and Harvard University, where he was a recipient of the Derek Bok Award for Distinction in Teaching. Read his poetry here.

Adrienne Lewis has authored two brief collections of poetry: Coming Clean was released in 2003 by Mayapple Press and her latest collection, Compared to This, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. She currently teaches English in Michigan at Kirtland Community College and Davenport University. She will be graduating Central Michigan University, where she edits the online journal Temenos, in December 2007 with a Master of Arts degree in the Creative Writing concentration. Read her poetry here.

Jerry Mathes is the recipient of a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarship to study creative writing, and received special mention in The Pushcart Prize XXXI. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Camas, The Dos Passos Review, and Tar River Poetry. Read his poetry here.

Eric Mohrman is a poet and freelance writer and editor living in Philadelphia. His poetry has recently appeared in Big Scream, Hidden, and the Portland Review. Read his poetry here.

Hal Niedzviecki is a writer, culture commentator and editor, and the author of six books including the novel The Program and the nonfiction book Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity. He is the founder and current fiction editor and publisher of Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts (www.brokenpencil.com). His writing has appeared in newspapers, periodicals and journals across North America including the Utne Reader, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, Geist, Saturday Night and This Magazine. He was the recipient of the Alexander Ross Award for Best New Magazine Writer at the 1999 National Magazine Awards and has presented his work at gatherings across North America including the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. Read his fiction here.

Shelly Reed is the founding editor of Spire Press, www.spirepress.org, and a native of Oklahoma. She currently lives by shuffling between the DC suburbs and New York City. Her poems have been published by many journals including Comstock Review, Parting Gifts, Red Wheelbarrow, Karamu, and 3ammagazine. She has published one chapbook, "Explain This Blessing." Read her poetry here.

Florencia Varela resides in upstate New York where she studies Creative Writing at Binghamton University. Her work has appeared in Paterson Literary Review and North Central Review. Read her poetry here.