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.

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, Lonesome Virgin 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.

Zita Maria Evensen: physicist, psychologist, and poet. Life has taken me to Africa, the Mediterranean, Europe, Asia and the United States. My favourite places on this big blue marble are the countries on the ring of fire. I travel when I can afford it, paint water colours, weave rya tapestries, am an amateur horticulturist, and teach the Internet to newusers. My poetry often faces the sunshine.

Chelsea Corazon lives in the Oakland, CA, hills, in a rustic old cottage overlooking San Francisco Bay, with her son Daniel and four eccentric cats. A garden out back with fruit trees provides occasional inspiration. Chelsea has been writing poems for the past year and a half. This is her first opportunity to be published on a Webpage, though you can often find her posting and discussing the art and science of poetry in her favorite internet newsgroup, rec.arts.poems.

Mikaline Huygen: information hunter and twofold manque' - I continue to grow up everywhere, seeking another garden and orchard of my own, possessed of a Honda old enough to vote in '89 and a diminishing number of books. My muse visits seldom but my friends are kind enough to share.

Rebecca Skversky is an administrative assistant living in San Diego

John Carle is a writer and educator living in Atlanta. He edits and publishes Gravity.

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.

Allison Eir Jenks writes: I am now 24 and in the M.F.A. program at the University Of Miami on a James A. Michener Fellowship and I teach creative writing. I am also managing editor of the Mangrove Literary Magazine. I’m from Chicago. I went to UIUC and Columbia College and have a B.A. in English. I have published one book of poetry called “The Liquid In Love” by Aegina Press in Huntington, West Virginia. I have been published in nearly 100 anthologies, journals and Internet publications. Some of them are: frisson, Collages and Bricolages, The Explorer, Dream International Quarterly, InterBang, Paramour, The Fauquier Poetry Journal, The Laureate Letter, Blue Sugar, L’Overture, Sivullinen (Finland), Lexicon (Australia), Paperplates (Canada), Silent Treatment, also The Internet Herald and The Trincoll Journal. Currently I am studying with John Balaban and Fred D’Aguair. My past teachers have been Paul Hoover and Bridget Kelley.

Richard Fein has not yet sent a bio.

Caron Andregg has not yet sent a bio.

Spark (Mark M. Sparkman) is a Utah-based writer whose work has seenoodles of publication and for which he has been paid very nearly nothing. He is large, bearded, myopic, lecherous and has your name tatooed on his butt.

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.

Chuck deVarenneswas 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.