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 entirely grounded, and living and writing on the NSW coast, south of Sydney.

Norman Ball received a BA degree from Washington and Lee University and an MBA degree from The George Washington University. His plans for post-graduate study were thwarted when an academic watchdog group falsely accused him of stalking the Father of Our Country (America). He currently lives in a tin shack adjacent to Mount Vernon with his English sheep dog, Martha.

Kate Bernadette Benedict is the author of Here from Away, a collection of poetry available from CustomWords, and the editor of a new online literary journal, Umbrella. She lives in New York City.

Bob J. Clawson is a writer, fisherman, teacher, and cook. His formal education includes stints at a rural two-room schoolhouse, Kenyon College, Harvard, and Yale. He has visited 32 of the United States, and has been abroad to France, Italy, Greece, Canada, Mexico, and to several island nations such as Great Britain, Ireland, Jamaica, Cuba, and Nantucket. His writing covers a wide range: he has published work in journals as diverse as the Southern Review and Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Lancet. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal and Poet Lore. In the first quarter of 2001, you may have seen Clawson frequently on several commercial cable TV channels reading from his Whiskey Truth on a commercial for Alcarrest. For the past seven years Robert has managed the annual Robert Creeley Award in Acton, Massachusetts, where Creeley grew up.

Brent Fisk is a poet from Bowling Green KY and his work has appeared in Rattle, Thema, Rhino and Southern Poetry Review. His work has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. He also guest edited the 2006 selection process for Steel Toe Books.

Angela France lives in Gloucestershire and is enjoying middle age. She runs a local live poetry event - 'Buzzwords' and writes for self-indulgence; as an antidote to demanding work with challenging young people. She has had poems published in, or forthcoming in: Acumen, Iota, The Frogmore Papers, Rain Dog, The Panhandler, The Shit Creek Review, Voice and Verse, and in anthologies 'The White Car' and 'Mind Mutations'.

Dennis Greene lives in Perth, Western Australia. His work has appeared in Unfamiliar Tides, Empowa issue one, Empowa issue two (in which he was the featured poet), Westerly, Inside Out , and Blast Magazine. His online credits include Pogonup, Numbat, Comrades, MiPo, Ironbark, and Oracular Tree, among others. In 2000 he was invited to the US to edit Voices from the Parking Lot on behalf of the Parkinson Alliance.

Nigel Holt: Teacher and poet who barely ekes enough from his labours to want to have to spend it on pointless international postage charges to conventional magazines which have smaller viewing figures than the snail racing on Sunday evening at the Marmoset and Tabernacle tavern in Much Wedlock. Credits include Snakeskin, Worm, Melic Review, Envoi, Orbis and Artemis Magazine.

Jan Iwaszkiewicz was born in England to a Polish father and an English mother coming to Australia at the age of eleven. Jan began writing poetry in his late teens and despite having some work published, stopped writing and did not take it up again until 2000. He has worked as a hydrographer, a diver, a technical editor, writer and illustrator, a public relations consultant and has even managed a reptile park. Jan lives in the Hunter Valley and currently works in financial services as well as operating a performance horse stud together with his wife Christine.

Rose Kelleher lives in Maryland. Her poems have appeared in a handful of little magazines.

Janet Kenny has metamorphosed from painter to classical singer to anti-nuclear activist, researcher, writer, illustrator and poet. Started in New Zealand and zigzagged across the globe to finally settle in Australia. She has published fairly widely as a poet.

Born in Singapore, Jee Leong Koh read English at Oxford and completed his Creative Writing MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. His poems have appeared in Singaporean anthologies and American journals such as The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide and Crab Orchard Review. He lives in Queens, New York, and blogs at jeeleong.blogspot.com

David Landrum teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids , Michigan . He has published poetry in numerous journals and magazines, including The Barefoot Muse, Umbrella, Christianity & Literature, and Measure.

Dave McClure had written sporadically all his life, but became hooked about ten years ago when he started contributing to a number of on-line forums and workshops. He writes in English and modern Scots, mostly in form, and with no particular life theme, preferring to ring the changes in subject matter and style. If he ever 'finds his voice' it'll be time to stop. He has heard it said that in order to publish, one must submit for publication. This sounds too much like hard work.

Kei Miller is Jamaican. He is the author of two books: The Fear of Stones and Other Stories (Macmillan 2006) and Kingdom of Empty Bellies (Heaventree 2005). His new collection of poetry There Is An Anger That Moves, will be published by Carcanet in 2007 alongside an anthology New Caribbean Poetry which he edited. Kei was born in 1978.

Tim Murphy's latest books are Beowulf, A Longman Cultural Edition, co-translated with Alan Sullivan, 2004, and Very Far North, Waywiser Press (London), 2002.

Tom Rodes is an unpublished American poet who spends his winters in the crowded suburbs of Washington, D.C. and his summers and falls at his farm in northern New England. He is drawn to poetry by the sounds of the English language and continues to forego rhyme only with great reluctance. A frequent contributor to several online poetry boards, this is Tom’s first submission for publication.

C. D. Russell holds a doctorate in nutritional biochemistry and lives in rural New Jersey with a cat, a dog and a spouse — all of whom are poets. She has had poetry published in The Panhandler. Other interests include photography, blue cheese and bad puns.

Patricia Sims is a teacher who has worked in Greece, the UK, Sweden and the Middle East. She is dawdling towards a professional doctorate in Educational Psychology from her base near London, which she shares with a Norse and the memory of cats.

Paul Stevens was born in Sheffield, England, but has lived most of his life in Australia. In previous incarnations he has been a brickies' labourer, fettler and sandal-maker. He studied Archaeology and Early English Language and Literature at the University of Sydney. Now he teaches Literature, Ancient History and Historiography, and has published on the Julio-Claudians, as well as poetry and literary criticism.

Wendy Videlock sometimes writes poems.

Tony Williams lives in Sheffield, UK. His work has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, Anon, Matter, Avocado, Andwerve and The Printer’s Devil, is forthcoming in The Rialto and The Interpreter’s House, and is represented in the anthology Ten Hallam Poets (Mews Press, 2005).

Donald Zirilli, lately of northwestern NJ, dreams of tidal waves and the crashing of giant planes. He is not adept at home ownership.