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.

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

Mike Silverman works in computers and is the webmaster of Turn Left: The Home of Liberalism on the Web. He lives in Kansas.

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.

Starlight is the nom de web of Chris Gillen, webmaster at The Starlight Dream and The Political Lighthouse. He lives and works in Annapolis, Maryland.

After spending much of her life moving up and down the Pacific seaboard, Samantha LeeAnn Carter now writes and attends school in Ferndale, Washington.

John Carle's poetry has appeared in Nimrod and The Rain Dog Review, among others. A writer living in Atlanta, he edits and publishes Gravity.

Perry Thompson was born in Columbus, Georgia in 1950. He graduated from high school in 1966. He holds no college degrees. Perry is currently the proprietor of Rainy Day Records in Atlanta. (The whole story is a lot more intersting, but I don't want to embarrass him...)