E.G. BURROWS, lives and writes poetry in Edmonds, Washington. He has published several books, the latest of which is titled The Birds Under the Earth (Owl Creek Press).

LINDA CASEBEER, Birmingham, Alabama, recently published poems in Slant, Earth's Daughters, Pikestaff Forum, and Spelunker Flophouse.

JOANNE CLARK spent 16 years in Melbourne, Australia and currently lives with her husband and 5 daughters in upstate New York. She has been active since 1979 in alternatives in education and presently teaches one child at home. Her experiences in Australia continue to inspire her writing.

BARBARA DECESARE, Westminster, Maryland, is a single mother of three young children. Most recently, her work has appeared in River Styx and on Word Up Baltimore, a CD collection of Maryland writers. Her first book will be published by Tropos Press in early 1998.

LORENE DELANY-ULLMAN, Irvine, California, is a recent graduate of the University of California, Irvine. She has been published in The Ear and has work forthcoming in Poetry Motel. She currently works for a major aircraft manufacturer.

MARGOT FARRINGTON, Brooklyn, New York, has worked as a poet-in-residence through a number of literature programs in New York State. Recent poems were published in the anthology Out of the Catskills and Just Beyond (Bright Hill Press, 1997). Her first collection of poems is Rising and Falling (Warthog Press).

SANDY FEINSTEIN, Winfield, Kansas, has published poetry most recently in the Columbia Poetry Review and Borderlands. Her overseas teaching experiences in Denmark and Bulgaria have influenced both her creative and scholarly writing.

CLIFFORD PAUL FETTERS, Seattle, Washington, was an actor in NYC for 12 years appearing on Broadway, off-Broadway and many regional theatres. For 7 years, he has lived in the Northwest where he continues to act and to write. His poems have been published in Press, Interim, Jeopardy, Mars Hill Review and numerous others.

ALICE FOGEL, Acworth, New Hampshire, is a 1997 recipient of an NEA fellowship. Her poems have appeared in Chelsea, Third Coast, Many Mountains Moving, and Best American Poetry. Her most recent poetry collection is I Love this Dark World (Zoland Books, 1996).

JOSEPH GREEN, Longview, Washington, teaches at Lower Columbia College. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in 5 AM, Hubbub, Pontoon, Slipstream, and ZYZZYVA; and his collection, Deluxe Motel, is available from the Signpost Press at Western Washington University.

DAINIS HAZNERS lives south of Story, Wyoming.

SONYA HESS moved from Maine to Taos, New Mexico in 1986. Her works include Stretching Fence (Ohio University Press), Kingdom of Lost Waters (Ahsahta Press/Boise State), Carrying What You Love (Avisson Press), A Paper Raincoat, Palace of Earth, Constellations of the Inner Eye (all Puckerbrush Press).

MARY CROCKETT HILL, Shawsville, Virginia, is the director of a small history museum. In her spare time, she organizes community workshops and readings for Artemis/Artists and writers of the Blue Ridge. Mary has taught writing at Roanoke College and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow.

JAMES HOGGARD, Wichita Falls, Texas, is a former NEA Fellow. He is the author of ten books and seven plays. His stories, poems, essays, and translations have been published throughout the U.S. and abroad. His most recent book is Riding the Wind & Other Tales (Texas A&M). He teaches at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.

SUSAN HOLAHAN, Rochester, New York, has been a teacher, a lawyer, and a journalist. Her book of poems, Sister Betty Reads the Whole You, will be published by Gibbs-Smith this spring.

MARCIA HURLOW, Lexington, Kentucky, has forthcoming poems in Nimrod, Sycamore Review, Ascent, Another Chicago Magazine, and Nebraska Review. Chapbooks include Aliens are Intercepting my Brainwaves (State Street Press, 1991) and Dangers of Travel (Riverstone Press, 1994).

MICHAEL JOHNSON, Baldwin City, Kansas, is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. His most recent book of poetry is Violence and Grace: Poems about the American West (Cottonwood Press, 1993).

ROBERT JOHNSON lives and writes in Wichita Falls, Texas. His primary interests are short stories and popular criticism.

JAN KOUTSKY, a Seattle artist, is on the faculty at South Seattle Community College. She resides with her husband and two young children in West Seattle where she raises pink flamingos and fends off annoying neighbors.

PAULA LAMBERT-NEIDIGH, Bentonia, Mississippi, received her MFA from Bowling Green State University in 1996. Her work has been published in Wisconsin Review, Phoebe, Zone 3, Parting Gifts, Aura, and others. She has worked as editorial assistant for both Mid-American Review and Birmingham Poetry Review.

DAVID LUNDE, Forestville, New York, had been publishing poems, stories, and translations for 36 years. He is a professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia.

ERROL MILLER, Monroe, Louisiana, published recently in Seattle Review, American Poetry Review, Rain City Review, Olympia Review, and Blue Satellite among many others. Recent books include Forever Beyond Us, Blue Atlantis, and The Downtown Diner. Forthcoming books are Downward Glide, Sonavax, and This Side of Chicago.

LYNN MILLER, Seattle, Washington, works as a librarian in the public library. Her poems have appeared in Seattle Review and North Atlantic Review.

ANNA MOCKLER, Seattle, Washington, has written fiction for Exquisite Corpse, Oxygen, Farm Pulp, Synapse, and Anarchy Press.

CAROL ORLOCK's novels, The Goddess Letters and The Hedge, The Ribbon, have won numerous awards including the Western States Book Award. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Fine Madness, Ms. Magazine, and Women of Darkness. She was formerly fiction editor of Crab Creek Review, and she teaches writing at Shoreline Community College.

JEAN-PAUL PECQUEUR, Seattle, Washington has poems published or forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, New Delta Review, and Potpourri. He currently is a student in the University of Washington's Creative Writing program.

KENNETH POBO writes from Folsom, Pennsylvania. His most recent collections are A Barbaric Yawp on the Rocks (Alpha Beat Press) and Ravens & Bad Bananas (Osric Press). Musically, he likes Andy Kim and the Partridge Family.

MIRIAM SAGAN, Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the author of The Art of Love: New & Selected Poems, Aegean Doorway, and True Body. With Sharon Neiderman, she co-edited an anthology, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance. Her most recent book is 100 days in Zen Monastery with Robert Winson (La Alameda, 1997)

MARY LOU SANELLI lives, writes, and teaches poetry workshops in Port Townsend, Washington, where she coordinates the Sunday at Seven Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared in Calyx, Crab Creek Review, Spindrift, and The Raven Chronicles among others. Books include Long Streaks of Flashing Daylight (Blue Begonia Press), Lineage (Empty Bowl Press) and her newest collection from High Plains Press, Close At Hand.

JAN SEALE lives and writes in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Her books include Airlift, a collection of short stories, and Homeland, a book of essays.

DEREK SHEFFIELD, Gig Harbor, Washington, is pursuing his MFA at the University of Washington. His work has appeared in Poets On, Slant, and Rain City Review. He a co-author of Teaching With the Internet, Putting Teachers Before Technology.

MARTHA SILANO, Seattle, Washington, teaches English at Bellevue and Edmonds Community Colleges. Her work is forthcoming in The Paris Review, Poetry Northwest, and Verse. Her poetry manuscript, All Things Want to Float, is in search of a publisher.

ANN SPIERS' cycle of poems detailing life down Bunker Trail appear in Tide Turn, a letterpress volume made by May Day Press, Vashon Island, Washington. She also printed letterpress editions of her poems with Laughing Dog and Brooding Heron.

MOLLY TENENBAUM, Seattle, Washington, teaches English at North Seattle Community College. Her prose and poetry have appeared in many journals including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Best American Poetry 1991, Fine Madness, Iowa Woman, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner and The Southern Poetry Review. As a musician, she plays on several recordings of traditional music.

DIANE WESTERGAARD, Seattle, Washington, co-wrote and produced with guitarist Garylee Johnson Ghost in the Garden, a chapbook and audio tape of poetry, music and song. Her work has appeared in the Kansas Quarterly/Arkansas Review, The Cape Rock, Fine Madness, Prairie Schooner, Talus & Scree, and Point No Point.

JOHN WILLSON was a finalist in the 1995 National Poetry Series, and the recipient of the Pushcart Prize and awards from the Academy of American Poets and the King County Arts Commission. His publications include Northwest Review, Sycamore Review, and Seattle Review. John lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, where he works as a poetry instructor and bookseller.

KEVIN ZEPPER is a native of Moorhead, Minnesota, where he received his degrees and has read from his work. His poems and stories have seen print in a number of journals, most recently, Black Bear Review, Fuel, Sidewalks and Dream International Quarterly.

LARRY ZIMAN, Los Angeles, California, says, "To catch the public eye, you got to wear short hearts and low-cut minds and show the world your parts."