Avital Gad-Cykman lives and writes on an island in Brazil. Her work has been published in Glimmer Train, McSweeney, Prism International, Other Voices, Stand Magazine, Stumbling and Raging Anthology (McAdam/Cage) and other magazines and anthologies.

Claire Eamer lives in the Yukon, in northwestern Canada, where she makes
her living writing non-fiction. She is now shifting her attention to fiction and has a story coming out in the 2007 anthology, Polaris: a Celebration of Polar Science.

Saundra Mitchell has been writing for more than fifteen years, both for film and in print. Currently, she’s the head writer for the Fresh Films short film series, which has produced Academy Award-eligible shorts for the last three years by placing well in competitive, juried festivals. In print, she recently published her short story, “An Accounting of Sins,” with Edgar Literary Magazine, and flash fiction, “Revival Season,” with SmokeLong Quarterly.

Caleb Ross holds a degree in English with a minor in creative writing from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas.  He has been most recently published in Flint Hills Review and online at Dogmatika and The Green Muse.  See more of his work at www.calebjross.com.

Curtis Smith’s stories and essays have appeared in over forty literary reviews. He is the author of a novel and two collections of short-short stories. His next novel, Between Sound and Noise, from Denver-Austin Publishing, and his story collection, The Species Crown, from Press 53, are due out in 2007.