Caroline Berger Caroline Berger is the co-curator of the Sunday Salon, a monthly reading series in Brooklyn, Chicago and Nairobi (www.sundaysalon.com). She has read at various venues around New York and Chicago. Her work has appeared most recently in La Petite Zine, Pindeldyboz, Barrow Street, and the anthology Hiram, U.S.A.: Essays from the Hill. She has been an Artist in Residence at The Artists' Enclave at I-Park and is currently a juror for the Scholastic Writing Awards as well as a mentor and advisory board member for Girls Write Now, a nonprofit volunteer organization that matches bright, creative teenage girls from New York City's public high schools with professional women writers (www.girlswritenow.org). Brent Fisk Brent Fisk has received honorable mention in Boulevard's Emerging Poets contest this year along with the Willow Award from Willow Review, and the Sam Ragan Prize from Crucible. His poetry has been accepted in over 100 publications the past three years including Prairie Schooner, Rattle and Fugue. He loves the work of Charles Simic and Alan Shapiro. Maggie Gerrity Maggie Gerrity is revising a novel entitled The Song For Leaving, which centers around the crew for a fictional rock band. She teaches writing at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. Alexander Jorgensen Alexander Jorgensen was born and raised of the most mixed and common stock. An incessant traveler, he has lived in the United States, the Czech Republic, the Galapagos Archipelago, India's Himachal Pradesh (in the lap of Himalaya), and the People's Republic of China (where he has divided his time since 2002). His work has most recently appeared in Big Bridge, Otoliths, Shampoo, and Kabita Pakshik (translations into Bengali by poet and translator, Subhashis Gangopadhyay). "Letters to a Younger Poet," correspondences with the late Robert Creeley, appears in Jacket Magazine #31. Aaron Koppel Aaron Koppel recently completed an undergraduate degree in anthropology at Washington University.  While building and refining his portfolio in St. Louis, he writes for a children's science and history magazine based in Chicago.  He is also a composer and performer of electronic music.  Contact him at ackoppel@gmail.com. Richard Larson Richard Larson is a recent graduate of Hunter College, where he studied film and literature.  He currently lives in Brooklyn.  His writing has appeared in Electric Velocipede, Pindeldyboz, Strange Horizons , The Olivetree Review, and other places.  He works at NYU, writes in Greenwich Village coffeeshops, and travels as often as possible.  For more information, visit http://rlarson.typepad.com . Geraldine McGowan Geraldine McGowan is a freelance writer and editor living in Boston, MA.  Nita Noveno Nita Noveno is a graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at The New School and is the founder and co-host of Sunday Salon (sundaysalon.com), a monthly prose reading series in Brooklyn. She lives in Astoria, New York. J.D. Smith J.D. Smith was awarded a 2007 Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently circulating two collections, and his children's book The Best Mariachi in the World will be published in September of 2008. Occasional updates appear on his web site, www.jdsmithwriter.com.