Gary Cadwallader lives on a postage-stamp farm with a couple horses, a Shetland pony, and an ever increasing number of barn cats.

Katherine Lien Chariott published work is in recent or forthcoming issues of Columbia, Sonora Review, Antietam Review, The MacGuffin, Bayou, Hunger Mountain and Concho River Review. She has an MFA from Cornell, and a PhD from UNLV, where she was a Schaeffer Fellow in fiction. She lives in Shanghai.

Lise Erdrich's "Vroom" is from a collection titled Night Train, to be published by Coffee House Press in February of 2008. She has won several flash fiction contests, including Many Mountains Moving and Newport Review in 2006. Currently she is working on a nonfiction manuscript that was awarded a 2007 Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship. For the last 25 years she has been occupied in the Indian health and education fields.

Myron Ernst has an M.A. from the University of Iowa, in French Language and Literature. His poems and prose have appeared in: Chicago Review, Greensboro Review, Hollins Critic, Mudfish, Midwest Quarterly, Poetry East, West Branch and elsewhere. Poems forthcoming in: Poetry East, South Carolina Review and Texas Review. He and his wife are now retired. They were owner-directors of a Montessori preschool.

Robert Fagan lives with Lenore Parker in Manhattan and in a farmhouse in the Catskills.  He has published many pieces in magazines including Chelsea, Witness, and Gettysburg Review.

James Gilmer is a graduate of the Clarion East 2000 Writer's Workshop and has sold stories to Ideomancer and the Mota 3 anthology as well as having non-fiction work appearing in the upcoming Smartpop book "HOUSE UNAUTHORIZED." He has worked in the past as a newspaper stringer and book reviewer. He is currently working as a Radiology Technologist while continuing his writing.

Horam Kim received his MFA from Michael Cunningham's fiction writing program at Brooklyn College. His writing has appeared in Small Spiral Notebook and The Barn Burner.

Melinda McCamant resides in the beautiful Pacific Northwest; she is no longer a virgin.

Mercedes Murdock Yardley remembers lying on top of her mother's car and writing her first story at the age of seven, and she hasn't stopped since.  She has written numerous poems and short stories, and recently completed her first novel.  She currently lives with her husband and two children in Las Vegas, where lying atop a vehicle is not advisable.

Anthony Varallo's first collection of short stories, This Day in History, won the 2005 John Simmons Short Fiction Award, published by the University of Iowa Press, and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Fiction Prize. His stories have appeared in Epoch, Story Quarterly, New England Review, Harvard Review, Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere, and have received an NEA Fellowship in Literature. He won the 2008 Drue Heinz Prize for his second short story collection, Out Loud. The University of Pittsburgh Press will publish the collection in the fall. The judge was Scott Turow. Currently Tony is an assistant professor of English at the College of Charleston, where he is the fiction editor for Crazyhorse.