Richard Denner

Richard Denner is a retired treeplanter/bookseller, living with his elderly mother near Sebastopol, California, where he published D Press chapbooks and teaches part time at a Waldorf School. Website: http://www.dpress.net.

Hugo DeSarro

Hugo DeSarro has a BA From UConn and an MA from Trinity College in Hartford. He is a former instructor in English at the University of Hartford. His poetry and prose have been published in a variety of publications, including Sparrow, Yearbook of the Sonnet, The Villager, Rural Heritage, Christian Science Monitor, Poet’s Page, and others. He also writes a Point Of View column for a local newspaper.

Rosanne Dingli

Rosanne Dingli has been writing professionally in Australia since 1986. Her numerous reviews, short stories, poems, articles and columns have appeared in university journals, newspapers, supplements, anthologies and magazines. She has also received the prestigious Patricia Hackett Award and the FAWWA Lyndal Hadow Award for short fiction. Her first novel Death in Malta will appear in mid-2000, and the collected short stories The Bookbinder’s Brother will follow. She lives in Perth with the Belgian writer Hugo Bouckaert, and their two children.

Norman Lock

Norman Lock has published fiction in leading literary magazines in the U.S. and Europe. He is a winner of the Aga Kahn Prize given by The Paris Review. He is a 1999 New Jersey Fellow of the Arts. His dramatic works have appeared on stages throughout the U.S., Germany, and at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival. His radio plays are broadcast over Germany’s WDR. His drama, The House of Correction, is published by Broadway Play Publishing. The story presented here is from a collection of linked texts, A History of the Imagination.

Joy Hewitt Mann

Joy Hewitt Mann has been publishing in print (The Malahat Review, Amelia) for ten years and has, since January, been submitting electronically with work in Poetry Now, Rose & Thorn, and The Paumonok Review. Awards for poetry include
the Leacock Award (1997) and most recently the Acorn-Rukeyser Award. The winning long poem “grass” was published in chapbook form in July by UnMon Northland, a subsidiary of Mekler & Deahl, Publishers. Her first short story collection Clinging to Water, was published by Boheme Press, Toronto in June and is now available at Amazon.com. She recently received word that she is one of this year’s three winners of the Sandburg-Livesay Award.

John Melvin

John Melvin watches videos, works in the field of graphics, and reads about history and mythology while living in his central Indiana hometown. Ten years ago, his poems appeared in CutBank and a few other print journals. More poems of his are due online at In Posse Review.

Jennifer Poteet

Jennifer Poteet, 36, lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. By day, she works in Manhattan in the Cable TV industry. When not writing, reading or listening to poetry you can usually find her scouring garage sales and flea markets for Mexican religious artifacts or Scandinavian furniture. Her work has appeared in Stirring, Poetry Super Highway, The 2River View, The Astrophysicist’s Tango Partner Speaks, PoetryMagazine.Com, and Thunder Sandwich.

Daniel Schenker

Daniel Schenker has taught English at colleges in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Alabama, and is the author of a book on the British writer and painter, Wyndham Lewis. He lives with his wife, Amanda, in Lacey’s Spring, Alabama.

Christopher Swan

Christopher Swan has written poetry most of his life. Why? The short answer is that it comes. The longer answer is that nothing quite so engages all of his senses, emotions, and psyche. Beyond that, he was a practicing journalist for almost fifteen years. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Chicago Tribune. He worked for two years as a drama and music critic and general arts columnist, as well as a national features correspondent for the Monitor. He has written independently for numerous magazines and is currently working on his first book of poetry, Leaves of Flesh, and a wide-ranging autobiography.

Gerard Varni

Gerard Varni’s work has appeared in print journals, including Pleiades and The Baltimore Review, as well as online at Blue Moon, Crossconnect, Web del Sol, etc.

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