Roxanne Grandis (Guest Editor) lives in New York City in an overpriced shoebox with her fiancee and two beloved cats. She is currently working toward an MFA at New York University, where she also teaches writing workshop classes. Her work has appeared in Fantasia, The Collected Letters and The Minetta Review. She also persuades you to buy useless products you don't really need as a freelance copywriter. In a former life she was a high school English teacher, which she equates with performing stand up comedy to a hostile audience. Feel free to reach her at: openteach@yahoo.com

  Frank Galpin (Guest Editor) has had a wide variety of his work published. Recently, his first poem appeared in Starkravingsanity (Yippee!). His current project is trying to get his three children's books published, while holding down a full time job. Frank's hobbies include, writing short stories, writing short stories and writing short stories for a future chapbook. Connecticut is where his body resides but his mind lives somewhere in another universe. He loves contact from sane people at: rowell_g@hotmail.com

  Tara Cottrell was born to British parents but holds a U.S. passport, which means her bad English teeth were straightened by good American orthodontics. She works with home-bound seniors who tell her stories about picking blackberries in fields now known as Silicon Valley. In the fall, Tara will begin the MA program in creative writing at San Francisco State. She is currently trying to talk her mother into taking her "back to school" shopping. So far, no dice. Email her at: taratara@pacbell.net

  Beverly Carol Lucey is originally from New England writes now from the Land of Lard and Peaches. Fearing she will never master the regional subtleties in the varieties of ham (sacks? butts? fresh? cured?) at the local Georgia grocery chains, she contents herself with trying to master the short story. Two slices are in the 1999 edition of The Flint River Review; "Birthday Tape" is in the winter 2000 print edition of Moxie. Four stories are anthologized in We Teach Them All (Stenhouse Press, Maine) "Where will you Spend Eternity" can be found in TW3 ezine, December 1999. An Australian print mag called Wine Dark Sea has accepted "Worry Circuit" for a late fall, 2000 publish date. All were workshopped first in the Zoetrope writer's forum. She lives with her husband and black standard poodle, the elegant Miss Bessie Smith. Lucey loves the blues. Allegedly, "Wild Women Don't Get the Blues." When not writing, she is a visiting professor of education at Agnes Scott College. Reach her at: WordsNest@aol.com

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