Neil Kennedy writes: I'm 28 years old, living in eastern Canada, working as technical co-ordinator for a post-secondary training facility. I've been writing poetry, off and on, for about 10 years. 'Pressurebuilder' is my first published poem.

Ray Heinrich "published" his first chapbook by secretly placing copies in local bookstores and libraries. (Of course he added cards to the card-index.) There is one copy that still exists in his home-town library (shh, don't tell anyone). His poems have appeared in Enterzone, RealPoetik, CrossConnect, 33 Review, Morpo Review, Agnieszka's Dowry, Electronic Soapbox, Katanaville, 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 (warning: not many of them are funny).

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.

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.

Murli Menon writes: I am the winner of the all-India poetry competition and run an environmental organisation in India.

David Donlon writes: I have been writing poetry more or less seriously for about seven years now, though I rarely submit poems for publication. I have found I prefer the immediacy and informal nature of the WWW and I particularly like the many fine poetry sites that are springing up. I have, however, been published sporadically in print magazines -- most recently my poem "Wildflowers Beguile Me" was printed in the February issue of *Moongate de Homo Sentiens* and long ago I was one of "Six Stand Alone Winners" in a poetry contest conducted by *The C'ville* (a regional magazine out of Charlottesville, Va).

Vanessa 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 Atlanta.

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.

Caron Andregg lives and writes in Southern California. She has authored two chapbooks, "Dangerous Curves" and "Pavlov's Mistress" and her poems appear in several literary magazines. She is also a regular featured poet at venues around Los Angeles, Orange County and the US, including the Austin International Poetry Festival. She has an upcoming chapbook of domestic poems titled "Of Chemistry and Voodoo".

C.F. Alexander, Jr. has lived in Athens, GA ("the town that eats its young") since 1984, barring a short sojourn at Clemson University where he acquired a B.A. in English and published short fiction in THE CHRONICLE. He currently edits text and manages a web site for a genealogical publishing house where he also does small chapbook runs (see http://www.iberian.com/gmatter/). He is co-founder of the Traveling Trees, a high-octane-poetry-and-music group, which may be found on rainy Sunday afternoons performing in the shadows of Athen's deepest rathskellers.

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.

Dancing Bear has recently been published in Slipsteam, Ehoes, Visions International, Black Dog Press Dog Anthology, Wolf Head Quarterly, Dream International Quarterly, Sunday Suitor, Dirigible, WEB, Mojo Risin', Eclectica, 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. Additionally, he is poetry reviewer for Thinker, an editor of Disquieting Muses and is the editor of Michael McNeilley's forthcoming book _Situational Reality_.

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.

Robert Lietz writes: I am currently working on a few different collections, including Character in the Works: Twentieth-Century Lives, is a large, 250-page manuscript in which I create lives for individuals whose names are inscribed on old fountain pens I’ve collected, taking clues from the chracteristics of the pens, from the history of the period, and from old pen advertising of the day, sometimes incorporating phrases from the ads in the poems themselves. The 24 poems in the collection run from 2 to 33 pages and are accompanied by prose introductions of a sentence or two or as elaborate as several hundred words, setting the stage to enable the poems to work as poems and to capture not so much the facts as the feelings of living during the past ten decades. Since the characters, each with his or her own story-line, could well have lived near and been familiar with one another, there are implicit crosscurrents in the text, implying larger contexts and venues for the materials other than a volume of poetry alone, including stage and possible film adaptations of the work. The second, West of Luna Pier, features poems in four sections, the first dealing with International or otherwise political issues, Rwanda, The Gulf War, child prostitution in Thailand, for example, the second with personal concerns, not always my own, the third consisiting of poems relating to Bosnia, and the fourth, again, personal poems, with cross-links running from section to section. The third, Spooking in the Ruins, imagines a mid-third-millennium “cyberhound,” a future anthropologist probing late-century hard-drives, searching stored materials to “resurrect” people like ourselves and ghosts of people like ourselves, particularly in materials deleted but not overwritten where perhaps our less polished but more real identities come forth. A further wrinkle here is that I currently have 140 pages of work in the collection and have imagined a central “text core” of about 50 to 60 pages, expanded to more than 100 and fur-ther through hypertext linkings, creating possibilities for almost infinite ramifyings, over- layings, etc. The collection is set as standard text as well as in a hyertext version, created with Storyspace, a software program from Eastgate Systems, a software manufacturer and publisher of hypertext literature and philosophy in Watertown, MA. I am also presently exploring the possibilities of visual collaborations with a Canadian artists for this project, which might result not only in a poetry book for page format but for CD-Rom as well. Eastgate will publish my first hypertext collection, Protection Avenue, this summer as part of a CD-Rom anthology. As for my personal background, I am fifty-one years old and a professor of English and Creative Writing (fiction and poetry) at Ohio Northern University. Two hundred and fifty of my poems have appeared in more than one hundred journals in the U.S. and Canada, including Agni Review, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch, The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, The Northern American Review, The Ontario Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, and others. Seven collections of poems have been published, including Running in Place (1979, L’Epervier Press,). At Park and East Division (1981, L’Epervier Press,) The Lindbergh Half-century (1987, L’Epervier Press,) The Inheritance (1988, Sandhills Press,) and Storm Service (1994, Basfal Books). Basfal also published After Business in the West: New and Selected Poems in August, 1996.