Claudia Burbank (How Common Plantain Came to Be, Mandrake) is the winner of the 2007 Inkwell Poetry Competition judged by Alice Quinn.  She is also is also a Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of a Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her work is published or forthcoming in New Letters, Cream City, Prairie Schooner, and Southern Poetry Review.

Allie Caronna (Under the Bow)  is a twenty-six-year-old native of Knoxville, Tennessee.  She started writing poetry in elementary school as a way to make her assignments more interesting.  She found inspiration in high school when she was introduced to the poetry of William Carlos Williams and after her discovery of Joni Mitchell albums in her parents' record collection.  She currently lives with her boyfriend and their six-toed cat, Eggroll, in the house where she grew up.

Terry Collett (Mary Moran’s Reconciliation) is a 59 year old poet who has been writing since 1972. He has had two slim volumes of poems published in 1974 and 1978. Since that time has had poems and short stories printed in anthologies, magazines and newspapers. He is married with eight children and eight grandchildren.

Hannah Craig (Wind Generators in Western PA) lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Her work has recently appeared in 32poems, Smartish Pace, and Cranky.  

Laura Cushing  (Those Met Briefly) yet lives! Find her at lauracushing.com .

Patrick Dacey (Water Country) has published in The Smithsonian Magazine, Faultline, and has fiction forthcoming in Avery, Whistling Shade, and Bataeu. He is the winner of the Peter Neagoe award for fiction, and is also a scholarship recipient to the New York State Writer's Institute.  He is a Best New American Voices nominee.  He lives and works in Hermosillo, Mexico.

Edith Dinger-Wadkins (Appalachia, 2007) is a collage artist and scenic designer living in Grove City, Ohio.  She has a B.F.A. in theatre design and technology from Otterbein College Theatre. She often designs for CATCO, Columbus Children’s Theatre, and other Central Ohio theatre companies.  When she’s not living at a theatre, she enjoys collage.  She is currently thinking about children’s book illustration.  

Katrina K Guarascio (Clean) lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she teaches ninth-grade Humanities.  She is working on her Masters degree at the University of New Mexico. "Hazy Expressions," her first chapbook publication, is available through Maverick Duck Press . “More Fire than Sun,” her second chapbook, is available though Shadow Poetry .

Leigh Anne Hornfeldt (Her Diary, Lipstick and Gingerale)  lives in Kentucky with her husband and two young sons. Besides the obvious love of reading and writing, she enjoys gardening, attempting to dance, and happy hour at the local pub. She wrote her first poem at age eight while camping in the back of a pick-up truck and is currently honing her skills in the art of schadenfreude.  

Linda King (ultrasound, Day Fourteen) is a Vancouver, BC poet and workshop facilitator whose work has appeared in numerous Canadian and International Journals:  Event, Other Voices, Prairie Fire, Room of One’s Own, Quills, ENVOI, Monday Night, and Wicked Alice. A graduate of the Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University and the Booming Ground Writing Program at The University of British Columbia, Linda lives near the beach with her two cats and her one husband.

Michelle Morgan ( Heading West, The SHA-TAY Brotherhood at the Jaques Cartier) recently moved back home to Auburn, Maine from Columbus, Ohio and alternately spends her days writing and collaging.  She is currently pursuing a Master’s in American and New England Studies. Her poetry and artwork has most recently appeared in The Aurorean, Off the Coast, (forthcoming), The Banyan Review, Salt River Review, and JMWW: A Quarterly Journal of Writing.  Her poems have also been accepted for inclusion in the (forthcoming) anthologies "Through the Kitchen Window: A Sense of Home," edited by Cynthia Brackett-Vincent and Carol Smallwood, and Outside Voices' "2008 Anthology of Younger American Poets."

William Neumire (I Am Offered Redemption) is from Fayetteville, NY.  His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Los Angeles Review, Worcester Review, Main Street Rag, and Stone Canoe. He is the author of one chapbook:  "Resonance of Kin" (Pudding House, 2003).

Amy Nichols (Beneath the Crape Myrtle)  lives in Peoria, Arizona.  She has been writing for many of her thirty-five years.  Her children's story, "Harvey and the Horrible Sneeze" is forthcoming in the "Say Goodnight to Literacy Anthology."  In 2004, she won third place in the 27th annual 3 Day Novel Contest. Her stories have appeared in NANO Fiction and been read by The Liars' League.  She is currently working on another novel, but every now and then a short story comes along that must be put down on paper.  "Beneath the Crape Myrtle" is one of those stories.

Alison Shaffer (Prayer to Love Him Better) has recently had work published in  21 Stars Review, Stirring, Not Just Air, The God Particle, and Ink Pot Magazine. Her chapbook, "The Rosary Poems," is available through 2River Press . Updates about her work and thoughts can be found on her webpage.

Terry Sanville (Box Canyons) began pursuing his life-long love of storytelling in 2000. Terry’s short stories have been accepted for publication in GRIT Magazine, BEGINNINGS, R-kv-ry Journal, The Circle Magazine, Falling Star Magazine, Pipes & Timbrels Journal, Distant Echoes Literary Journal, Lunarosity, Wanderings, The War Journal, The Red Dirt Journal, Yale Anglers’ Journal, Foliate Oak, Clever Magazine, "Tales From the Corner Anthology," a Kearney Street Books Anthology, Storyteller, The Arabesques Review, The Catnip Chronicles, The Noo Journal, The Scruffy Dog Review, and About Alzheimer’s.
      As an emerging author, Terry writes full time and has a variety of novel projects that explore topics ranging from adolescence to war. Terry lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife, Marguerite Costigan (his in-house editor), and two cats (his in-house critics). He is also an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist.

Monica Rae Stover (A Gift for My Teacher) lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Lara Thesenvitz (Under the Train) is a seeker, speaker, fighter, peacemaker, poet, wanderer, and joyful girl.  She currently lives and writes in Calgary, Alberta.  She has recently been seen onstage ranting at South Country Fair, Calgary’s Deadman’s Wheelchair Variety Show, and the Calgary Multi Arts Festival.