Ayli Lapkoff writes: I am a high school student in Nepean, Ontario, Canada. My poetry has appeared in Atmospherics, Box77, Fiction Online, GraffitiFish and Pen & Sword.

Chuck deVarennes was born in 1954 (the year Elvis released HOUND DOG) in Needham Massachusettes. Grew up in Atlanta suburbs, intending to become the next William Kunstler. Attended University of Ga on a debating scholarship, which he quickly abandoned (along with the rest of his academic work) to study brain chemistry through personal experimentation. Surviving, he has worked in commercial construction for many years, and is the happy father of one daughter. He has published poems locally, has performed spoken word on local radio, and can be found at coffee houses and other venues spewing verse.

Perry Thompson was born in Georgia in 1950. He graduated from high school in 1966. Two years running he was awarded first place in Columbia University's Gold Circle Award For Poetry for which he received a nice letter. He holds no college degrees. Mr. Thompson has been previously published in Columbia Review, Dekalb Literary Arts Journal and Chattahoochee Review. A civil rights and anti-war activist during the '60s, Mr. Thompson has been handcuffed, spit on, hosed down, beaten up and generally abused by his fellow Americans. He currently resides in Atlanta with his wife, Marsha, and their cat, Bramble. Mr. Thompson is the proprietor of Rainy Day Records.

Philip Havey says of himself: I was born an only child to an Irish Catholic family on June 29, 1930. This is important to know because I have spent considerable time being both American Irish and rogue Catholic. Sometimes to the point of true danger, at others to the point of parody.

However, even this fact is wrong- because my birth proved incomplete or so I was informed when on the Freedom Ride, by a New York City morgue worker (who should know about such things) who told me I lacked a soul. After three days of traveling to Mississippi with my nervous and quirky energies, he'd found himself piqued beyond belief.

At this most recent stage in life, I can see his point should have been well taken. Like a figure eternally tap-dancing down the Yellow Brick Road Dorothy's shoulder, I have often come very close, not to perfection, but to being "truly human" without ever crossing over from excellent execution to art.

Since this bio relates to my poem, I will mention reading with the best from Dylan Thomas at the Lion's Head in the 50's to some very talented people in Berkeley today.

In the earlier times, I inevitably opened reading sets with the strong, simple honesty of convistion that brough the audience into line for the better poets to follow, a practice which did a lot to help the Les Deux Megots on New York's Seventh Street to present a series of exciting performances in the early 60's. Diane Wakoski, Howard Ant, John Harriman, Robert Nichols and Jack Mc Low were just getting under way when I left to become more active in the Peace Movement.

Without realizing it, installing and programming computers tightened up my concentration, so, when I found more time for writing, the new work came as a pleasant surprise.

With a prescience for the unusual, John Carle suggested mention my cats of which there are three. "Flan", "Lady Jane Grey" and the ghost of black cat with a white mask who came with our condominium. The ghost cat spends its nights walking a cross our blankets whenever we reach its posting point between wakefulness and sleep. During the day, it has already agitated the two, living felines out of five pounds a piece since last summer.



Holly Day lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her son Wolfegang Lauffer Day. Her poetry has appeared in over 600 print and electronic publications, including _Palace Corbie_, _Black Moon Literary Anthology_, and _The Squealer_.

Dancing Bear grew up and continues to live in the San Francisco Bay area. He enjoys stone carving, jewelry making and watercolor painting. Recent print publications include: Ebbing Tide, Laughing Boy Review and Neon Quarterly. For a complete list of Web publications, try the Dancing Bear's Lair, http://www.hooked.net/users/bear/index.html.

Vanessa Ashley Dwyer was born in 1970 in Bronx, NY. She is self-educated, holding no college degrees. She has lived in Greenwich Village, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta and Dallas. Ms Dwyer has been previously published in The Village Voice. She currently resides in Dallas with plans to move back to Atlanta soon.

Rob Diebold lives in Santa Rosa, California. He is a machinist by trade, moonlights as a printer/linotype operator at the Anchor & Acorn Press and is currently working toward a degree in graphic arts. His poetry has been published in Ebbing Tide Volume 13, Moongate, So It Goes, Ebb And Flow, THOTH, The Thinker and Green World magazines and in the forthcoming Sonoma Mandala Literary Review, Ebbing Tide Volume 14, The Smoking Tree Review and Neon Quarterly. A letterpress printed, limited edition of poetry is available from Anchor & Acorn Press. Contact the author for more information.

Born under a Gemini sky in a cowboy town, Renay doesn't fit or subscribe to stereotypes. Her poems catalog both the common and the mystic features of a life often lived daredevil-fast or slow-painful, but always unobstruted and alive. By trade she is a designer, by luck she is a poet, and by choice she lives on the road. Renay's work appears in print in the private-issue collection Fresh Oil, Loose Gravel and in the recently released x~/-connect: Writers of the Information Age. Online her work can be found on in Agnieszka's Dowry and The Hawk. Her first chapbook, They Drivem Pickup Trucks/They shootem Shotguns is available from A Small Garlic Press (Chicago/Kennewick) http://www.enteract.com/~marek/asgp/chapbook.html

Chris Gillen lives and writes in Annapolis, MD.

Fanny-Min Becker, British Chinese turned German. Living in Duesseldorf, Germany, with trade-developing husband and internet-developing son. Lover of what life has to offer, devoted wife, mother of three and more, friend, homemaker, teacher, writing/reading fan, student, roughly in that order.

Ray Heinrich published his first chapbook by secretly placing copies in local bookstores and libraries. His poems have appeared in RealPoetik, CrossConnect, 33 Review, Agnieszka's Dowry, Electronic Soapbox, Katanaville, Enterzone, Morpo Review, 256 Shades of Gray, TransMog, Sparks, So It Goes..., Sand River Journal, BiSexual Journal, Cherry Street, The Wicked, Surreal Voices, billetdoux, Droplet Journal, No Trace, Sub-UrbanTerrain, Biopsy, his own "Word Biscuit E-letter" and elsewhere. An electronic edition of his chapbook: "years of water" (Word Biscuit Press) is available free via email. Send requests to: ray@vais.net
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