Here are this issues writers' bios:

Alison Eastley lives in Tasmania, Australia with her two teenage sons and on a good weekend, her lover, Larry. Her work has been published in both Mannequin Envy and Mannequin Envy's print anthology, Double Dare Press, Words On Walls, Mastodon Dentist, LilyLit with forthcoming work appearing soon in Tryst. Read her poetry here.

Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of three books about the island, most recently The Poet Slave of Cuba, a Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (Henry Holt & Co., 2006). Recent honors include an International Reading Assoc. Award, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and Special Recognition from the Paterson Poetry Prize. Short works appear in a wide variety of journals, such as Atlanta Review, Caribbean Writer, Hawai'i Pacific Review, and Poetry Salzburg. Read her poetry here.

Suzanne Gorey is an undergraduate student studying English at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Read her poetry here.

Brian Hurley is a graduate of the MA program in Writing & Publishing at Emerson College in Boston. His work has been published in Small Spiral Notebook and Wonka Vision, among others. Read his fiction here.

Robert S. King has poems published or forthcoming in hundreds of magazines, including The Kenyon Review, Southern Poetry Review, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum, Midwest Quarterly, California Quarterly, Chariton Review, Negative Capability, The Hollins Critic, Blue Unicorn, Poem, Louisville Review, En Passant, Xanadu, Chattahoochee Review, The Cape Rock, Amelia, Slant, Sow's Ear, Windless Orchard, Great River Review, Visions–Inter¬national, Writers' Forum, Lullwater Review, Permafrost, Habersham Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Bridge, Hellas, Hammers, Poetpourri, Grasslands Review, Lungfish Review, etc. He has published several chapbooks, including When Stars Fall Down as Snow, Garland Press, 1976; Dream of the Electric Eel, Wolfsong Publications, 1982; and Traveller's Tale, Whistle Press, Inc., 1996. He has a full-length manuscript, Karma of a Gravedigger, seeking a publisher. Read his poetry here.

Laura Navratil is from Naperville, Illinois. She is currently an M.F.A. candidate at the University of Alabama, where she is an assistant poetry editor of Black Warrior Review. Read her poetry here.

Jessica Sidler holds a degree in English from Penn State University. Currently, she is pursuing graduate studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She lives and works in Duncansville, PA. Read her poetry here.