Here are this issues writers' bios:

Mary Block is originally from Miami, Florida. She is a recent graduate of Boston College, where her poetry appeared in Stylus, Naked Singularity and The Laughing Medusa. Read her poetry here.

Dirk Fearing lives in Boston, where he is enrolled in the MFA program at Emerson College. His work is forthcoming in The Wallace Stevens Journal's Spring 2008 issue. Read his poetry here.

John Grey's latest book is What Else Is There from Main Street Rag. He has been published in Agni, Worcester Review, South Carolina Review and The Journal Of The American Medical Association. Read his poetry here.

Hardy Jones teaches English at Auburn University and is currently working on a novel To Assume the World. Read his fiction here.

Stanley Rothkowitz moved to the United Stated five years ago from Germany, though he was born in the Czech Republic, where he lived until I was two. English is his second language but his first love. He currently lives on Long Island, with his girlfriend Hannah and her disgustingly obese cat Jetson, and gives guitar lessons at a local music shop. Read his poetry here.

J Michael Wahlgren is the author of one chapbook Chariots of Flame (Maverick Duck Press, 2007) & a forthcoming full-length from BeWrite Books. He has been published/will be published in Snow Monkey, Beauty/Truth, Perspectives Magazine, iddie, admit2, press 1, Dark Sky Magazine & elimae. He resides in Boston, Ma where he edits & web designs Octaves Magazine. Read his poetry here.