MELINDA ADAMS by day is an unemployed San Francisco resident, struggling along as a freelance event planner/stage manager, and she also writes and makes films some. She mostly writes campy erotica and twisted tales of self discovery, that make even her go "huh."  At night though,
she is an indie superhero in training. You can find out more about her
at lilycat.com  
KRISTY ATHENS writes short-short fiction on a small farm near White Salmon, Washington. She works as a freelance writer and editor, and coordinates the Oregon Book Awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships programs of Literary Arts. She has been a visiting writer at Mt. Hood Community College, Write Around Portland and Writers in the Schools, and served on the board of Northwest Writers, Inc. Her work has been published in a number of magazines, newspapers and literary journals.
PHILLIP GOOD (aka #6) author of "Apartment in the Valley" was a regular contributor to the Berkeley Barb from 1968 to 1970.  The novel, In Seach of Aimai Cristen, from which his story is taken covers this period of turmoil in the Bay Area from Janice at the Filmore to the Stones at Altamont. His other publications include "Fritz the Cat owns an Apple III," Softtalk, 1985,  Permutation, Parametric and Bootstrap Tests of Hypotheses, 3rd ed., Springer, 2004 and Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them), Wiley, 2003.
ANNALISE HERNANDEZ lives in New York City. In the past she has worked as a carnie, a traveling bible saleswoman, and a missionary, but currently spends her time writing short fiction and cutting out pictures of kittens from magazines to hang on her wall. Her future plans include taking a pottery class and recording a new outgoing message for her answering machine, maybe with music.
KELLIE J. HOGUE , a recent graduate of California State University, Hayward with a BA in Ethnic Studies, is currently attending Indiana University, Bloomington and working toward a Master's Degree in African American and African Diaspora Studies. Her research focuses on transnational conceptualizations of race, racism, and anti-racism, with a special interest in the dynamic of racial transformation.
MIRIAM N. KOTZIN teaches literature and creative writing at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where she is advisor to Maya, the student literary magazine and is the Director of the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing.  Her fiction and poetry have been published or are forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Boulevard, Southern Humanities Review, Pulpsmith, Iron Horse and online in the Drexel Online Journal, Three Candles, Small Spiral Notebook, Word Riot, segue, Xaxx, Front Street Review and the Vocabula Review and Slow Trains.
RALPH MALACHOWSKI is a poet who lives and works in New Jersey. His poems have appeared in The Mississippi Review, The Peralta Press, RFD, and online at canwehaveourballback.com and burning leaf.
AVA MENDOZ is a musician and writer living in Oakland, California. Her work draws from an interest in a wide range of experimental media, especially from film and various genres of music including early country and blues music, musique concrete, and freely improvised music. Both her music and writing are ongoing efforts to alter form and placement in order to speak to emotional territories often left ignored by traditional modes of expression. She currently attends Mills College, where she is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Intermedia Arts. Her writing has appeared in LiP Magazine.
CHRISTOPHER NOVAK is a San Francisco filmmaker and photographer. His work covers a broad range of media; however, the underlying themes have centered on the relationship between "natural" and "synthesized" environments.
KURT STEINWAND grew up in Ohio and Florida, from where he finds inspiration for much of his writing. He earned a degree in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida, Tampa. He is currently a Graduate Student in English at California State University, Hayward, while enjoying a career in computer graphics and copywriting in Silicon Valley. His poetry has appeared in Yale Anglers' Journal (Yale University). He was also a finalist in Glimmer Train's Short-Story Award for New Writers, and a winner of the J. Dietz Memorial Fiction Award (University of South Florida). He lives in Pleasanton, CA with his wife, Yvie, and son, Dylan.
DOUG TANOURY is primarily a poet of the Internet with the majority of his work never leaving electronic form. His verse can be read at electronic magazines and journals across the world. Collections of poetry by Doug Tanoury can be found at Funky Dog Publishing and Athens Avenue. ebook collections of poetry by Doug Tanoury can be read and downloaded at his personal site. Doug grew up in Detroit, Michigan and still lives in the area.
Doug Tanoury credits his 7th grade poetry anthology from Sister Debra's English class, Reflections On A Gift Of Watermelon Pickle And Other Modern Verse, (Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith, (c) 1966 by Scott Foresman & Company) as exerting the greatest influence on his work. He still keeps a copy of it at his writing desk.

BILL TURNER is a former newspaper and online news columnist. He now writes fiction exclusively, which he considers to be essentially the same as writing opinion columns, except that he gets to make up the names and places. His current writing includes flash fiction, short stories, prose poetry and stage plays. His writing reflects a sensibility toward mainstream literary fiction.
His fiction works can be read at Storied World, Whim's Place and is forthcoming in Bewildering Stories. He lives in Puerto Rico and spends time in his second favorite city in the world, Miami. He hopes to eventually move to his favorite city, London.
SANDY VROOMAN is a woman with a deceptively normal appearance who has lived in the California for over 30 years. The years have accumulated on her body, but not on her mind or soul. She dabbles in many art forms but doesn't sit still long enough to master any of them.
Publications include National Anthology of High School Poetry, and #32 Doorknobs and BodyPaint, dorsal winner. She also won a hair drier in the late 70's from the Woman's Day Beautiful Idea Contest. She writes a monthly column as Kitsune Miko for an internationally syndicated
bonsai magazine.
D. HARLAN WRIGHT has published over 100 stories in magazines and anthologies throughout the world. He is the author of The Kafka Effekt, Irrealities, 4 Ellipses and Stranger on the Loose; his next book, Pseudo-City, will be out early in 2005.  Currently he lives in East Lansing, Michigan, where he teaches creative writing at Michigan State University. For more information on Wilson and his writing, visit his official website at www.dharlanwilson.com.

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