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Angelo Giambra's poetry has been featured in Atlanta Review, Ballard Street Poetry Journal and Tipton Poetry Journal. His poem "Timothy, On Foot" won Honorable Mention in Freefall Magazine's annual poetry contest. He lives in Largo, Florida where he is a technical engineer for a large engineering firm.

Aaron Poochigian attended Moorhead State University from 1991 to 1996 where he studied under the poets Tim Murphy, Dave Mason and Alan Sullivan. He entered graduate school for Classics in 1997 at the University of Minnesota and, after traveling and doing research in Greece on fellowship from 2003—4, earned his Ph.D. in Classics in 2006. He has recently completed translations, with introduction and notes, of Sappho’s poems and fragments for Penguin Classics (due out August of 2009).

Timothy Murphy's books are The Deed of Gift, Story Line Press, 1998; Set The Ploughshare Deep, Ohio University Press, 2000; Very Far North, Waywiser Press (London), 2002, and Beowulf, A Longman Critical Edition (co-translator with Alan Sullivan), 2004.

Thaisa Frank's work is the author of three collections of fiction, including Sleeping in Velvet and A Brief History of Camouflage (both by Black Sparrow Press, 1998 and 1992) and Desire (Kelsey Street Press, 1984). She is the co-author of the non-fiction book, Finding Your Writer's Voice  (St.

Mick Ransford is an Irish short story writer living in Ireland. He worked at all sorts of things, traveled fairly extensively, returning to Ireland to concentrate on writing. He has just finished what he hopes will be his debut collection of short stories.

Delaney Lundberg writes short stories and is currently working on a novel.  A former teacher of English composition, she lives on the Connecticut shore with her husband.

Born and raised in Manila Philippines, Anna Romero grew up as an expat in her own country.  Her family is originally from the Philippines (the island of Cebu) and, naturalized Italian. She began an early career as a Classical Pianist which lasted between pre-school and high school, where she achieved First Place in a National Piano Teacher's Guild Competition as well as Semi-Finalist in a National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA), both held in the prestigious Folk Arts Theatre.

Gary Lehmann teaches writing and poetry at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and has been the Writer in Residence at Roberts Wesleyan College. His poetry and short stories are widely published -- about 60 pieces a year. He is the director of the Athenaeum Poetry group.    When not writing or teaching, he works on becoming an amateur shoemaker.

Sarah Skwire lives and works in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has published poems in The New Criterion, WOE, Coracle, The Oxford Magazine, The Vocabula Review, and elsewhere. She has also published a range of academic work, mostly on 17th century literature.

Ted McCarthy has been published in Ireland, Britain, Germany and the U.S. His first collection won a national award in Ireland, the Brendan Behan Award.