ELIZABETH AOKI, Seattle, Washington, completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Washington in 1995. She is the recipient of grants from Seattle Arts Commission and Artist Trust.

JONAS BROWN, Berkeley, California, graduated from Williams College and is currently working for Americorps.

SHARON CHMIELARZ, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, is the author of two books of poetry published by New Rivers Press (Minneapolis) and a chapbook by Poetry Harbor (Duluth). Her work has appeared most recently in The Iowa Review and is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner.

LEE COOPER, West Seattle, Washington, grew up near Flint, Michigan where her family and neighbors worked in automobile factories. She lives and writes at Alki Beach and works with her husband in the industrial forge business they own on the Duwamish River.

KEVIN CRAFT, Seattle, Washington, teaches English at Everett Community College. He is an associate poetry editor at the Seattle Review and served as Book Editor for Wordscape in its debut year. His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Puerto Del Sol, Poet Lore, and Poetry Northwest among others. In 1996, he was a Bread Loaf Scholar in Poetry.

ORMAN DAY, Orange, California, works as a Public Relations Consultant in Orange County. He has backpacked through 90 countries and is now writing his travel memoirs. Orman's short stories and essays have appeared or will soon appear in ZYZZYVA, Creative Non-Fiction, Evergreen Chronicles and others.

JAMES DOYLE and his wife retired to Escondido, California, where they read and write. His book of poems, The Silk at Her Throat, is scheduled for publication by Cedar Hill in 1999.

ANNE FISKE, Morehead City, North Carolina, used to live in Seattle. She drove between Seattle and Moscow, Idaho a lot and often sketched and explored around Crab Creek in Eastern Washington.

CHRIS GAGE, recently of Darien, Connecticut, studied at the University of New Hampshire and has previously been published in Connecticut River Review and Poetry Motel.

JOSEPH GREEN, Longview, Washington, teaches at Lower Columbia College. His collection, Deluxe Motel, is available from The Signpost Press at Western Washington University.

MICHAEL P. GREGORY, Seattle, Washington, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and spent his high school years studying to become a Franciscan priest. He attended Temple University majoring in philosophy and earned a degree from Vermont College. His first book is titled The World Abandoned by Numbers. His second book, Clockwise, is not yet published.

ERNIE HILBERT, New York, New York, is currently performing publicity for Bantam Doubleday Dell and is in the final stages of a Ph.D. in English Literature at Oxford University. He has been published in The Midwest Poetry Review, The Connecticut River Review, The American Scholar, The Boston Review, and The South Carolina Review. He is preoccupied with the March and too frequent Stumbling of Science, particularly in the now neglected areas of holistic analysis, the inchoate investigation of morphic resonance, and the psychedelic experimentation on human consciousness.

ALLISON EIR JENKS, Coral Gables, Florida, is a recent James A. Michener fellow and MFA recipient from the University of Miami where she teaches Creative Writing and works as Editor-in-Chief of The Mangrove. Her poems have recently been published in New Orleans Review, American Literary Review, Poet Lore, Cafe Review, Natural Forum, G.W. Review, Calapooya College, and Art Times among others.

TIMOTHY KELLY, Olympia, Washington, is a physical therapist. His first collection, Articulation, won the 1993 King County Arts Commission Publications Support Award and was published by Lynx House Press. His poems are forthcoming in Double Take and The Iowa Review.

J. T. LEDBETTER, Thousand Oaks, California, teaches creative writing at California Lutheran University. Publications include Cimarron Review, Madison Review, and others. His most recent book is Mark Van Doren: A Critical Study.

JEANNE LOHMANN lives in Olympia, Washington. Her most recent of five poetry collections is Granite Under Water, a companion to her prose journal, Gathering A Life, both from John Daniel & Co., Santa Barbara. In progress are two poetry manuscripts and a group of narrative fragments. Her current anthology appearance is in Wild Song (University of Georgia Press).

NAOMI RUTH LOWINSKY, Orinda, California, is a Jungian analyst practicing in Berkeley. She is also the Poetry and Fiction Editor of Psychological Perspectives. Her poetry has been published recently in Forkroads, Sheela- nagig, and Psychological Perspectives. Her book, The Motherline, was published by Putnam in 1992.

KEVIN MILLER lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. Light That Whispers Morning was published by Blue Begonia Press in 1994. Everywhere Was Far is scheduled for publication in August, 1998.

MEG MOCERI, Roswell, Georgia, is a native of Michigan and teaches English at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Presently she is at work on her first collection of stories entitled You Are Here. Her work has appeared in Storyquarterly, The Dickenson Review, Rafters, and other journals. She lives with her husband and daughter.

B.Z. NIDITCH, Brookline, Massachusetts, is the artistic director of The Original Theatre. His work appears in Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Art, The Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, International Poetry Review, Hawaii Review, Le Guepard (France), Prism International, and Jejune (Czech Republic). Crucifixion Times, a new collection of poetry, will be published by Aegina Press this year.

MELANIE NOEL, Seattle, Washington, is working on Temenos, a chapbook, and on a longer collection of poems entitled Temple in the Ear.

SIMON PERCHIK, East Hampton, New York, is an attorney. His poetry has been published in Partisan Review, The Nation, and The New Yorker.

SUPRITHA RAJAN, Kirkland, Washington, graduated from Oberlin College in 1995 with a degree in philosophy and hopes to pursue graduate work in Comparative Literature. This is Supritha's first publication.

FERNAND ROQUEPLAN, Olympia, Washington, has recently been published in The Wisconsin Review, Green Mountains Review, Texas Review, Pivot, Nightsun, The Manhattan Review, and Crab Creek Review.

RALPH SNEEDEN lives in Exeter, New Hampshire with his wife and three children. Work from his manuscript, Off Little Misery Island, has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Review, Triquarterly, New England Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Gray's Sporting Journal, and other magazines.

KRISTINE ANN SOMERVILLE, Columbia, Missouri, serves as a senior advisor for The Missouri Review and works as the tutorial coordinator for the University of Missouri football program. Her short stories and prose poems have appeared in a variety of magazines including The North American Review, Kiosk, Mangrove, The American Poetry Review, The Portland Review, and Many Mountains Moving.

JOANNIE KERVRAN STANGELAND, Seattle, Washington, won the 1995 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award for her chapbook, A Steady Longing for Flight. Her work has also appeared in Rain City Review, Wings Magazine, Point No Point, and Pontoon.

ELIZABETH STOESSL lives in Springfield, Virginia. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Borderlands, The Comstock Review, Southern Indiana Review, and the anthology Unsilenced: The Spirit of Women.

VIRGIL SUAREZ, Tallahassee, Florida, is a poet, essayist, novelist, translator who teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

MARK TAKSA, Rodeo, California, teaches high school. His poems have appeared in Seattle Review, Nebo, Mississippi Review, and Pacific Review. Cradlesong won first prize in the National Looking Glass Poetry Chapbook competition and was published by Pudding House. The Berkeley Poets Workshop and Press published his first chapbook, Truant Bather.

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