mIEKAL aND is a longtime DIY cultural anarchist & the creator of an infoplex worth of visual-verbal lit, audio-art, performance ritual & hypermedia for the Macintosh, all distributed by Xexoxial Editions. His hypermedia works reside at JOGLARS Crossmedia Broadcast (http://www.joglars.org). Recent work has focused on activiating online collaborative workspaces where writers & media artists can create collective digital works in a real-time environment. Since 1991, he has made his home at Dreamtime Village (http://www.dreamtimevillage.org), a hypermedia/permaculture village project, located in the driftless bioregion of southwestern Wisconsin. And devotes much time to creating edible wilderness indoors & out, growing such things as figs, citrus, cherries, grapes & chestnuts. 1998 marked the creation of THE DRIFTLESS GROTTO OF WEST LIMA (http://www.dreamtimevillage.org/grotto), a permanent public grotto/park/installation which when finished will feature a bird-operated time machine in a 25-ft blue glass tower.

David Applegate is currently a library clerk living in Brooklyn, NY. A two-poet chapbook of his work "Headless, nameless / Death hippie dub EP," split with Christopher Eaton will be available from Bad Noises Productions (www.badnoiseproductions.com) in the very near future. A second work, "Grammar Crisis," is forthcoming from the same in late 2006.

Lizzie Brock has spent much of her working life in human rights, but is about to get her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. After 3.5 years in Colombia, South America, she is about to publish a chapter in a book put out by the United Nations University on Humanitarian Diplomacy entitled "Protection through Diplomacy in Colombia." Currently, however, she writes short stories about women who turn into seals and leprechauns who sell orgasms at exorbitant prices - and these poems.

Powell Burke is a full-time university student at New College of Florida in Sarasota, working toward a liberal arts concentration in sociology. In October, Burke's short short story "Blue Fairy" published in Eclectica Magazine (online).

San Franciscan Michael Chacko Daniels grew up in Bombay. Books: Split in Two (1971, 2004), Anything Out of Place Is Dirt (1971, 2004), and That Damn Romantic Fool (1972, 2005); Writers Workshop, Kolkata. A former community worker and clown, Daniels has a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University. In June 2005, his story, Sing an Indian Name was published by Syntax, and in Feb. 2006, Dragonfire published Three Dozen Mangoes for Mr. Diefenbaker. Read all about his Indian and American journey @ http://indiawritingstation.com/community-service-calls/

Jennifer Dearinger revels in red lipstick, tricycles, and her French press. She owns dozens of pairs of black socks of various patterns and, according to her landlord, has poor fire escape etiquette. She is currently an intern for Small Press Distribution and an MFA Candidate at Mills College.

Christopher Eaton is currently working on his graduate degree at the University of Buffalo's Poetics program. His work has been published in Moria, can we have our ball back?, Nitrogen Brat Rag and by Marymark Press.

Jacob Eichert had a nice day today. He lives in Oakland, California.

Jason Fraley works at an investment firm in West Virginia and is pursuing his M.B.A.  His wife and cat see him occasionally.  He has appeared or is forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio, Redactions, Confluence, Pebble Lake Review, Stirring, The Salt Review, and elsewhere.

Noah Eli Gordon is the author of two full-length collections: The Frequencies; The Area of Sound Called the Subtone; and three forthcoming collections: Novel Pictorial Noise (selected by John Ashbery for the 2006 National Poetry Series), Inbox, and A Fiddle Pulled From the Throat of a Sparrow. Find his page of links here: http://humanverb.blogspot.com/

Sandra Hunter's short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in New York Stories, New Delta Review, Zyzzyva, Talking River Review, Glimmer Train, and South Dakota Review, among others.

paul kavanagh was born in England 1971. he is happy. his wife is happy. together they are happy.

Friedrich Kerksieck and Aaron James McNally both hail from Iowa, where each of them grew up and attended the University of Northern Iowa. Each are now earning graduate degrees: FK an MFA in Poetry at the University of Alabama and AM an MA in English Literature at UNI.  Their postcard discourses have been recently featured in UDP’s 6x6 and Effing Magazine, and both have work forthcoming from Octopus Magazine and Pilot Books and Magazine.