Robert Cook is an intensely private man, refusing to read newspapers or even eat oysters on Sundays. He considers photography more an obsession than an art. You can study his condition at http://briefasphotos.com

Betsyann Duval, a Boston-based artist, has received numerous awards for her work in National exhibitions, including a First Prize in Painting awarded by Lisa Dennison, Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC. Using a variety of media from painting to performance, she engages her audience by posing questions that challenge social, cultural, and biological stereotypes. Her Bodyscape Series explores the beauty of the human form and what it means to be human in the face of blatant, commercial sexual stereotyping. http://www.duvalart.com

Valori Herzlich was born on the Baltic Sea in Jurmala, Latvia, and educated in New York City. She has worked as an art director, designer and illustrator; and now spends her time quilting, drawing, practicing Yoga, walking the Plum Island beaches, and railing at pigeons.

Hanka Jaskowska is a 21 year old living in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. She is currently studying Art and Design, taking the first steps in fulfilling an ambition of a career in prop-making and sculptural costume for theatre/screen. One of her primary hobbies is photography, within which she can often be found being looked at strangely for finding interest in the less interesting things.

Patricia Wallace Jones is a retired disability advocate with an art degree who knows what it's like to be up Shit Creek. She loves having the time now (not to mention a paddle) to be what she wanted to be when she grew up. More of her work can be seen at http://imagineii.typepad.com/imagineii/

C. D. Russell has an itchy shutter finger and is patiently persuading her camera to lie. She prefers to photograph cows.

Peter Schwartz is the associate art editor of Mad Hatters' Review. His work has been featured on 13 online galleries and he has had almost 100 paintings published on various literary websites. His work is being exhibited in York, UK right now and he is currently working on an exhibit for the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery.

Paul Stevens spends a lot of time staring into space and occasionally takes photographs of it.

Donald Zirilli, Donald Zirilli lets see be finale of seem, or to put it more succinctly, "let's see."

P.S. The Shit Creek Review would like to thank Mark Allinson, Kate Bernadette Benedict, Nigel Holt, Dave McClure and Tim Murphy for the images used along with their poems.