 John Barth is the author of numerous works of fiction, including The Sot-Weed Factor, The Tidewater Tales, Lost in the Funhouse, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, the National Book Award winner Chimera, and most recently Where Three Roads Meet. He taught for many years in the writing program at Johns Hopkins University.
 Neil Burger is the writer and director of The Illusionist, starring Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti, which debuted at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and of Interview with the Assassin (2002), a nominee for three Independent Spirit Awards, including Best First Film and Best First Screenplay. After graduating from Yale University, he created and directed the award-winning “Books: Feed Your Head” literacy campaign
for MTV. He lives in New York City.
 David Byrne, known primarily as the musician who cofounded the group Talking Heads (1976—88), has been involved in an array of music, theater, film, photography, and design projects since his college days at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has published four books of his writing and art: Strange Ritual (Chronicle Books, 1995), Your Action World (Edimar, Italy, 1998, and Chronicle, 1999), The New Sins (McSweeney's Books and Faber & Faber, 2001), and E.E.E.I. (Steidl/Pace/MacGill, 2003). His most recent recording is Grown Backwards (Nonesuch, 2004).
He designed the Spring 2003 issue of All-Story.
 Daniel Handler is the author of the books The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, and Adverbs. �He is also, as Lemony Snicket, the author of a sequence of novels for children collectively entitled A Series of Unfortunate Events.� He lives in San Francisco with his wife and child.
 Aviya Kushner's work has appeared in the Jerusalem Post, Harvard Review, and Prairie Schooner. She was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry.
 Steven Millhauser is the author of ten works of fiction, including Edwin Mullhouse, Martin Dressler, and The Knife Thrower and Other Stories. His most recent book is The King in the Tree, a collection of three novellas.
 Susan Straight's new novel, A Million Nightingales, was just published by Pantheon. "El Ojo de Agua" is part of a collection of stories about Louisiana and California. Her first short story for All-Story, "Mines," was included in Best American Short Stories 2003.
 Gus Van Sant is a filmmaker, photographer, painter, writer, and musician. Among his films are icons of independent cinema: Mala Noche, My Own Private Idaho, and Drugstore Cowboy. He won an Oscar nomination for Good Will Hunting and the Palme d'Or and Best Director prizes at Cannes for Elephant. His most recent film, Last Days, was released in 2005.
He designed the Winter 2004 issue of All-Story.
Guest Designer:  Kiki Smith is an artist of international prominence whose sculptures, drawings, and photographs are included in the collections of more than thirty museums worldwide. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis recently organized her first major retrospective: the exhibition opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005 before traveling to the Walker Art Center; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. She lives and works in New York City.
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