Lubna Alyousfi is a college student who loves to write and is intrigued by the way words play a melody all on their own.  She first realized her gift and passion at age 14 and has since written countless poems and essays.

{with several small press publication credits to date/ he constructs some of the most/ wonderfully twisted writing without all the rules./ thought provoking & brutally honest./ sometimes erotic or even down right dirty. all of the time real./ -- this describes Sean C. Bowen's writes on the everyday thoughts/ that course through the human animal. urban writing of the highest/ calibre, full of nasty fibre and calories; skeletal and street level/ like the best velvet underground or lou reed./ www.myspace.com/yeskone} 

Ken Broadway tends more towards the horror side of things.  He is a 43 year old Master Sergeant in the Colorado Air Guard who has been in and around the military most of his life, spending fifteen of his sixteen total years of service in Germany.  He lives with his fiancée Jeanie, also a writer -- and he writes for MileHive.com, an experiment in citizen journalism, where according to the editor, he is the resident philosopher.    

Jean-marie DeLeon is a 43 year old single mother who lives in Denver, CO.  She has worked for various non-profits and teaches art for an afterschool program .  She is very passionate about social issues such as healthcare, homelessness and problems faced by bluecollar workers – the little man – which is what she writes about.

Misti Rainwater-Lites has two chapbooks available through Kendra Steiner Editions, 
'Lullabies For Jackson' and 'NEXT EXIT: THREE' with Doug Draime. She has four upcoming chapbooks slated for publication in 2008 and several collections of poetry available at lulu.com.

George Shrewsbury is the author of a novel, 'Three Days Old', a full-length monologue play/screenplay, 'The Lost Soldier', and is currently at work on a collection of stories called 'A Crooked Line'.

Felino Soriano, from California, is a Case Manager working with developmentally disabled adults. He is also a philosophy student.  His chapbook "Exhibits Require Understanding Open Eyes" was published by Trainwreck Press, 2008.  His poetry appears at BlazeVOX, Otoliths, Hecale, Ygdrasil, Clockwise Cat, and elsewhere.  Visit www.felinosoriano.com for a complete 
publication history and for more information.

Ray Succre currently lives on the southern Oregon coast with his wife and baby son.  He has been published in Aesthetica, BlazeVOX, and Pank, as well as in numerous others across as many countries.  His novel 'Tatterdemalion' (Cauliay Publishing) is forthcoming in early 2008.  He tries hard.

John Sweeney is from Denver, CO.  He currently lives in Arizona where he works and raises 2 kids.  He’s a 22 year old single dad who has been writing unprofessionally for 8 years.

Andrew Taylor is a Liverpool (UK) based poet and co-editor of erbacce poetry journal. He has been published in journals such as Zygote in my coffee, Silenced Press, Unquiet Desperation and The Binturong Review. He has had 4 collections published to-date and is completing a PhD in poetry and poetics. (www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com) (www.erbacce.com)