Here are this issues writer's bios:

Carol Berg is a writing tutor at Pine Manor College. Read her poetry here.

Haley Lasché is a graduate student at Hamline University and a founding member of West Egg Literati. She has been on the steering committees of two college based literary magazines and has worked on Water~Stone Review as a student editor. She writes primarily poetry and criticism. In addition to her literary career, she is a college instructor, a professional post-modern dancer, and a punk rock fashion model. Read her poetry here.

Andrew Tyler McCown has been published in the literary magazines of Triton College and the University of Northern Colorado, where he is a student who ditches chemistry lab to go snowboarding. His work has also been featured on KRFC's radio broadcast, "The Poetry Show." Read his poetry here.

Tim Poland lives and works in the New River Valley near the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwestern Virginia and teaches American literature and creative writing at Radford University. He is the author of Escapee (America House, 2001), a collection of short fiction. His work has also been published in The Beloit Fiction Journal, Timber Creek Review, Literal Latté, The Georgetown Review, Acorn Whistle, The Edge City Review, Main Street Rag, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Appalachian Journal, and Appalachian Heritage. In 2002, he received the Denny C. Plattner/Appalachian Heritage Award for creative non-fiction. Read his fiction here.

Brian Trimboli is an undergraduate at Binghamton University studying creative writing and philosophy. Read his poetry here.

Preston Williams, Jr. studies English and philosophy at Elon University. Read his poetry here.

Mark Wisniewski's chapbook One of Us One Night is recently published from Platonic 3Way Press. He has won a Pushcart Prize, and his work has appeared in magazines such as Nerve Cowboy, Staplegun , Poetry International, Skidrow Penthouse, The Missouri Review, Grasslimb, Xconnect, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poesy, Boulevard, Poetry, and Confrontation. Read his poetry here.