Here are this issue's writers' bios:

Kit Frick was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work has been previously published in or is forthcoming from 42opus, Boxcar Poetry Review, Sarah Lawrence Review, and The Looking Glass. Kit received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College where she was the 2004 recipient of the Lori Hertzberg Prize for Creativity and was one of four student organizers for the first annual Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival. She will be receiving her MA in Higher Education from New York University in September 2008. Read her poetry here.

Lisa Markowitz received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work has been published in such journals as Colorado Review, Interim, Stickman Review and is forthcoming in American Poetry Journal. Read her poetry here.

Francis Raven is a graduate student in philosophy at Temple University. Her first book of poems, Taste: Gastronomic Poems, and novel, Inverted Curvatures, were recently published. Read her poetry here.

Mary Stojak received her graduate degree in writing from Johns Hopkins last year and is currently working on a novel. Read her fiction here.