Marc Awodey of Burlington, Vermont is a former instructor at Burlington College, who is now a full time poet. M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art. His poetry has been selected by many publications, including; Defined Providence, Illyaıs Honey, The Portland Review, Nomadıs Choir, Parnassus Literary Journal, Potpourri, Midwest Poetry Review, Beauty for Ashes, Voices International, The Poetıs Attic, Dry Creek Review, Tight, and others. It has also been selected by electronic journals; Anthem, Ygdrasil, Pen & Sword, Recursive Angel, Glossolalia, Equinox, Log Cabin Chronicles, Immortali Et More, A Room Without Walls, Thoth, The Solitary Harvest and others. A complete list of awards, and publications is available on request.

Jennifer Ley is an active member of the NYC poetry circuit. Her work has been published in Excursus, Salonika, Perceptions, Minotaur, etc. and is currently part of Grist on Line #8. She edits the hypertext site: The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks, which is at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/6115/. Hypertext poetry and graphics

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.

Dancing Bear has recently been published in Visions International, Black Dog Press Dog Anthology, Wolf Head Quarterly, Dream International Quarterly, Dirigible, MAKAR, Gravity, Word Salad, Katanaville, Short Story, Smoking Tree, Slumgullion, The River, Lost Library of Alexandria, Thought, Lifeboat, Central California Poetry Journal, Green World, Talus & Skree, 407, Ebbing Tide, Neon Quarterly, Thinker, ThinkB, Lilac Dawn and the Laughing Boy Review. "From A Reconstructed Dream" a his first chapbook produced by Toth Press. He writes: I am a Native American who has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 20 years. I practice Shotokan Karate and compete in local tournaments. I also am an active participant in local poetry groups and events.

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.

William Burns' poetry and artwork have been published in NOCTURNAL LYRIC, THE MORPO REVIEW, THE NEW PRESS, BEYOND THE MOON and SPARKS ON LINE, among many others.

Guy Bourrie writes: I am currently a long-haul truck driver, husband, father and grandfather. I have been, among other things, a welder, Pastor (ordained in the United Church of Christ) tech writer and manager of a finance co. Writing fiction is my first love, my avocation. Snow recently won an honorable mention in TRUCKERS NEWS' national Mark Twain Essay Contest. It will be published in TRUCKERS NEWS shortly.

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.

More than 300 poems and stories by Michael McNeilley have appeared in publications including Mississippi Review, New York Quarterly, Poet, New Delta Review, Red Dancefloor, Hyphen, Chicago Review, Minotaur, Slipstream, Poetry Motel, Stet, Lilliput Review, Bouillabaisse, Impetus, Plazm, Writers' Forum, Rockford Review, xib, Exquisite Corpse and elsewhere, including websites worldwide. McNeilley is editor of the Olympia Review and the Zero City Poetry Website (http://www.cruzio.com/~zerocity/).

Christopher Stolle writes: I'm a 20-year-old senior at Indiana University majoring in journalism and education. I've been writing poetry for about four years. I've had poems published in the following small press print magazines: Blank, Cafe Bellas Artes (now defunct), Country Confetti, Droplet Journal, The Ebbing Tide, Echoes Magazine, Etcetera, The Extreme, Freeverse, Icon, Illya's Honey, The Laughing Boy Review, Mind Purge, The MOOsletter, Naugahyde Literary Journal, The Oak, Obscure, Offerings, Original Creations, Parnassus Literary Journal, Pegasus, The Poet's Pen, Poetechniciens, Poetry Motel, Skipping Shiny Stones, Teacup, Talus and Scree, VEINS and WICKED. I have also had numerous poems published by over 75 on-line magazines. Mind Purge magazine, a print magazine in Texas, recently honored me by mentioning my name as one of their previously published poets in the 1997 edition of Poet's Market. In my free time, and besides writing, I enjoy listening to music from the 1940s to the 1990s, playing and watching sports, taking photographs and making use of my computer for educational and personal needs. Someday I would like to start journalism programs at the middle school level because I sincerely believe that written communication is very important in our society. Poetry is one such form. In the spring of 1998, I'm hoping to travel to England to do my student teaching, hopefully in journalism. I also hope to pursue the poetry opportunities there as well as gain valuable experience in teaching students at the high school level.