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Mark Allinson

Mark Allinson was born in 1947 and raised in Melbourne, Australia. At first Mark believed that he wanted to be an airline pilot, and he completed a private flying licence at 17. Before long, however, he realized that flying was merely a metaphor of his desire to rise above the pettiness of daily life, in order to see the big picture. Eventually this desire for vertical transcendence led to a Ph.D in English literature, and he taught for a while at Monash university, in Melbourne. Mark is now living and writing on the NSW coast, south of Sydney.

Norman Ball

Norman Ball is a Virginia writer and musician whose work has appeared in Main Street Rag, Light, Epicenter, Berkeley Poetry Review, The New Renaissance, Triplopia, Liberty and Clamor, among others.

Michael Cantor

New York-born Michael Cantor resides on Plum Island, north of Boston on the Massachusetts coast, with his wife, his books, and an excessive number of woks and condiments. His work has appeared in The Formalist, The Atlanta Review, Candelabrum (UK), The Comstock Review (Pushcart nomination), The Cumberland Poetry Review (Robert Penn Warren Award finalist), Edge City Review, Iambs & Trochees, Light Quarterly, Orbis (UK) and many other journals. He won the 2004 NAA Poetry Award.

Edmund Conti

Edmund Conti comes from a long line of poets but finds the line is getting longer as more poets push in front of him. This is especially true here in New Jersey where every other poet has won a Pulitzer Prize.

Mary Cresswell

Mary Cresswell is from Los Angeles and has spent half her life in New Zealand, where she is a freelance science editor and proofreader. She has published in both online and print journals, in NZ, the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK. She is joint author of Millionaire's Shortbread (University of Otago Press, Dunedin, NZ, 2003).

Alba Cruz-Hacker

Originally from the Dominican Republic, Alba Cruz-Hacker has lived and traveled throughout Central and North America and the Caribbean. A Pushcart Prize Nominee, some of her recent poetry and critical works appear, or are upcoming, in The Caribbean Writer, Canadian Woman Studies, Spillway Review, Pacific Review, DMQ Review, Miller’s Pond, Swivel, Epicenter, American Encyclopedia of Ethnic Literature, and Soundings: A Journal of Exploratory Research and Analysis. She lives in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California.

M. A. Griffiths

M. A. Griffiths was born and grew up in London, but now lives in Dorset (Hardy's Wessex). She enjoys writing both free and formal verse, and edits a poetry e-zine called WORM. Her work has appeared in Snakeskin, Crescent Moon Journal, The Eleventh Muse, Mind Mutations, and Mindfire Renewed, amongst others.

Max Gutmann

Max Gutmann is a frequent contributor to Light Quarterly and his verse has appeared in more than three dozen other publications, including The Formalist, The Dark Horse, and a number of magazines with "Review" in their titles. He's the author of There Was a Young Girl from Verona: A Limerick Cycle Based on the Complete Dramatic Verse of Shakespeare (Doggerel Daze, 2003).

Jan Hodge

Jan D. Hodge escaped after 32 years of teaching with a vestige of sanity. Though he often double-dactyls Shakespeare and nursery rhymes and tales, his more serious poems have appeared in North American Review, New Orleans Review, South Coast Poetry Journal, Defined Providence, Iambs & Trochees, and lots of others, including the new (5th) edition of Western Wind.

Janet Kenny

Janet Kenny blundered from being a painter in New Zealand to being an opera and concert singer based in London, England and foreign parts, then an anti-nuclear agitator and publisher's researcher and writer in Sydney, Australia, and now has wandered northwards to watch whales and pelicans in Queensland, Australia where she is struggling to get a bit of a grip on herself. Her familiar has migrated from a New South Wales currawong into the body of a Queensland grey butcherbird.

Esther Greenleaf Mürer

At 71, Esther Greenleaf Mürer considers herself an emerging poet. Her poems have previously been published in Friends Journal and Guinea Pig Zero. She is also a composer and literary translator and lives in Philadelphia.

Glenn Nicholls

Glenn Nicholls has work published or forthcoming in The Cortland Review, The Raintown Review, Modern Haiku, and the poetry WORM.

Frank Osen

Frank Osen lives in Pasadena, California. His poems have appeared in Light Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, Pivot, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and The Susquehanna Quarterly. In 2004, he received the Lord Byron Award and had six poems accorded other honors in the seventeenth annual World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets competition.