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In 1989, Bei Dao was accused of helping to incite the events in Tiananmen Square, and was forced into exile from China. Since then, he has lived in seven countries, including Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France and the U.S. He has published a number of volumes of poetry and short stories. Five of his works have been translated into English, including Notes from the City of the Sun (1983), The August Sleepwalker (1988), Waves: Stories (1990), Old Snow (1991), Forms of Distance (1994), and Landscape Over Zero (1996), all published by New Directions Press. His work has been translated into 25 languages. A new book of poems, Unlock, is forthcoming from New Directions in August, 2000.

Eliot Weinberger is the author, translator and editor of over fifteen books of poetry, essays and translations. In 2000, he received the Critics Circle Award for his translation of Jorge Luis Borges.

Frank X. Gaspar

Frank X. Gaspar is the author of three award winning books of poetry, The Holyoke (1989), Mass For The Grace Of A Happy Death (1995) and Field Guide To The Heavens (1999), which won the 1999 Brittingham Prize in Poetry from the

University of Wisconsin Press. His first novel, Leaving Pico, was published by Hardscrabble Books in 1999. He is currently at work on his fourth collection of poetry.

Carol Frith

Carol Frith is the co-editor of Frith Press and of the poetry journal Ekphrasis. Her award-winning poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including Blue Unicorn, Slant, The Formalist, Phoebe, Iris and The Comstock Review. She has work forthcoming in Negative Capability, Cumberland Poetry Review and the New Laurel Review.

Muriel Zeller

Muriel Zeller's poetry has appeared in magazines such as the Montserrat Review and Plainsongs. Her poetry has also been included in Over This Soil: An Anthology Of World Farm Poems (University of Iowa Press). She is currently working toward an MFA in Creative Writing.

Dee Cohen

Dee Cohen's work has appeared on and off line in Faultline, ZuZu's Petals, California Quarterly, New Works Review, Blue Satellite and others.

George Wallace

George Wallace's recent publication credits include Rattle, Pacific Coast Journal, Higginsville Reader, and Lucid Moon, among others. His fifth chapbook, Poems of Augie Prime, was published by Writer's Ink in 1999.

Tom Daley

Tom Daley won the Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Academy of American Poets Prize as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, Chapel Hill. He is currently a machinist in the Boston area.

James Lee Jobe

James Lee Jobe was for many years the editor of the legendary underground press magazine, One(Dog)Press. He is the author of several chapbooks of poetry, including Dark Like My Father and 7 Days In Yolo, as well as a cookbook, Sabine Cooking.

Mary Zeppa

Mary Zeppa's work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, including New York Quarterly, Tule Review and Gutenberg Live. Her work has also been anthologized in Mixed Voices (Milkweed Editions) and I've Always Meant to Tell You: Letters to our Mothers (Pocket Books). She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Council.

Daniel A. Olivas

Daniel A. Olivas' work appears or is forthcoming in Exquisite Corpse, THEMA, Red River Review, La Petite Zine, Foliage and many other print and online literary journals. His fiction has been included in Fantasmas: Supernatural Stories by Mexican-American Writers, forthcoming from Bilingual Review/Press. His poetry is featured in a children's collection of Latino writers honoring mothers and grandmothers, edited by Pat Mora, and scheduled for publication in spring 2001 by Lee & Low Books.

Hannah Stein

Hannah Stein's work has appeared in numerous journals. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the annual State Street Press Competition for her chapbook, Schools Of Flying Fish. Her first full length collection of poetry, Earthlight, was published by La Questa Press in 1999.

Lynne Knight

Lynne Knight's work has appeared in a number of journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest and Southern Review. Her first collection, Dissolving Borders, won a Quarterly Review of Literature prize in 1996. Her work is also forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2000.

Walter Pavlich

Walter Pavlich's books include Ongoing Portraits, a Pushcart Writer's Choice Selection, and Running Near the End of the World, which won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award of the San Francisco Foundation and the Edwin Ford Piper Award of the University of Iowa Press. Recently, he was Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawaii. He owns springtrees.com, a successful Internet antiques and art business. A long-awaited collection of his new poems. The Spirit of Blue Ink is forthcoming in December 2000.

Derick Burleson

Derick Burleson's first collection of poetry, Ejo, the Kinyarwandan word which means both yesterday and tomorrow, recently won the Felix Pollack Prize and will be published in October of 1999 by the University of Wisconsin Press. He is also the recipient of a 1999 NEA fellowship in poetry. He lived in Rwanda from 1991--1993.