AUTHORS

Jason Deen lives and works in Washington DC, and dreams of living elsewhere.

Deborah Finch lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she makes her living as a research biologist and technical writer for the Rocky Mountain Research Station. She is the author of Heartbeats, and has published widely in places such as Arizona Writer and Photographer, Field and Forest, Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, and 3rd Muse.

Roger Jones teaches in the MFA creative writing program at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, and is the poetry editor of the online journal Ceteris Paribus. He has published one book, and his poems have appeared here and there for the past twenty-five years.

Rebecca Lu Kiernan is the editor of the print journal Gecko. Her poetry has been published in places such as MS., Long Shot, Idiom 23, Verandah, and a series of her poetry is upcoming in Asimov's Science Fiction.

Patti Marshock is an oncology nurse in Phoenix, Arizona. She has recently had work accepted for The Cancer Poetry Project: Poems by Cancer Patients and Those Who Love Them, due for release in April 2001 from Fairview Press.

Judith Pordon is constructing a poet's colony along Rio Cuale in Paso Ancho, Jalisco, Mexico. Her poems appear in such places as Recursive Angel, Many Mountains Moving, and Zerozine.

Harding Stedler retired from teaching in 1995 and is currently working as a writer and proofreader in Cabot, Arkansas, where he also edits a weekly poetry column in the Cabot Star-Herald and serves as secretary of the Poets' Roundtable of Arkansas.

T. L. Stokes is a writer, poet, and artist living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared online in journals such as Little Brown Poetry, Rogue Scholars, PoetrySuperHighway, and in print with the Ancient Wind Press.

Susan Vaughan has a master's degree in English and works as a court reporter in California.

Chocolate Waters has recently released a limited-edition CD or her work entitled "Chocolate Waters Uncensored," available from chocolatewaters.com. She has three collections in print and has toured throughout the United States, but makes her home in Manhattan.