Nik Nazmi Nik AHMAD reads law full-time at King's College London but otherwise occupies himself with writing.
		Over the past twenty years, Richard AMNON has visited many lands as a social observer, psychological analyst, curious sensualist and pensive writer. He has sought out willing native gay and lesbian individuals to share their experiences and feelings about living gay in their countries. Click here to read more about Richard Amnon.
		Arlene ANG lives in Venice, Italy where she edits the Italian pages of Niederngasse. Her poetry has recently been published in Mississippi Review Online, The Pedestal Magazine, Cordite, Poetry Midwest and Offcourse Literary Journal. Three of her poems have been nominated for the 2006 Pushcart Prize anthology.
		Sara ANG is a twenty-year-old photographer living in Sweden. Since the fall of 2003, she has been attending a folk high school where she studies photography as one of many aesthetic subjects. She mostly shoots nature shots in color but prefers black & white for portraits.
		Aamir AZIZ has a Masters in English Language & Literature from International Islamic University Islamabad. Teaching Experience. He has been a lecturer in English at Bahria College (Pakistan) since November 1, 2004. He has done research work on ‘Arthur Miller’s Play The Crucible as a critique of human rights violation in Post September Eleven Scenario’, as well as on ‘Bertrand Russell’s political thoughts in the context of his age’. He has been published in numerous journals, including eratiopostmodernpoetry.com, aestheticamagazine.com, voicesnet.com, and styluspoetryjournal.com, among others.
		Damien CHAZELLE writes about the movies at odeon.typepad.com.
		Hannah DUNCAN spends most of her time reading, taking photos or wasting time online. She is the leader of a bike gang, although is terrible at making decisions, and could be a prolific writer if she wasn't so lazy and apathetic. After graduating last summer she still has no idea what it is she wants out of life.
		Jesse FERGUSON isa fourth year English Literature major at the University of Ottawa. He was raised in Cornwall, Ontario, and has been writing poetry and songs for roughly five years. He is currently studying creative writing under the poet Seymour Mayne, and his work has appeared in the University of Ottawa’s magazines Nexus, Innuendo and Yawp (he is now on the editorial board of the latter). Some of his poems has also appeared in Canadian, American and UK publications: Yalla, Redfez.com, Ygdrasil, Stridemagazine, High Altitude Poetry, The Big Tex[t], Magazineshiver, Word Riot and are slated to appear in Carillon Magazine and the January edition of Saucyvox. He also reviews for the Ottawa literary journal Bywords.
		Sixteen-year-old Anna FILIPPOVA is planning to major in Journalism. Fresh out of high-school, she is currently studying at Monash University, Malaysia. Besides endless dreams of becoming a writer (especially being published in somewhere other than a school publication), she has also a six-foot-long list of things to accomplish by the end of the year, such as learning how to play the guitar and finding the nerve to sing in public.
		Dr. Charles FREDERICKSON is a pragmatic idealist, chronic optimist and heretical believer who has wandered intrepidly through 206 countries, spreading rejuvenated roots and wings in Thailand. 60+ publications on 5 continents.
		Rasee GOVINDANI is a 23-year-old Indian originally from Bangkok, Thailand, but currently adventuring through the United States. An English teacher six days a week, she spends her one day off watching professional wrestling and spending her hard-earned money on books. She is shy and quirky and passionate and always trying to do the right thing. When she grows up she hopes to be a Jedi, light saber and all.
		Richard GRAYSON lives in Davie, Florida, where he works as an administrator at a law school. Recent work has appeared online at Rouse Magazine, McSweeney's, 3711 Atlantic, The Journal of Modern Post, Small Spiral Notebook and Monkeybicycle.
		A novelist, M.A. INTERNICOLA is the author of three previous novels, KISS ME BABY, SUNFLOWERS!, CHAZ, and ALL OUR SKIES ARE BLUE. The poems included here are from two separate poetry books, MALISM and THE DARKEST PLACE IS UNDER A STREETLIGHT, both completed early 2004. His poems, prose and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Subterranean Quarterly, Tryst3, Half Drunk Muse, Slow Trains, Words Dance, Poetry Super Highway, Mouseion, Locust Magazine, 63 Channels, Spoken War, Confused In A Deeper Way, Willow Lake Press, Open Wide Magazine, Edifice Wrecked, Snakeskin, The 2nd Hand, Caffeine Magazine, Zygote In My Coffee, Remark, Ragged Edge,The Quadrangle, Mule, Spent Meat, The-Hold, Antipatico, Lunatic Chameleon, Kant Magazine, Subtle Tea, Fragment Magazine, The Surface, The God Particle, Thieves Jargon, Smokebox, James River Poetry Review and The Mosquito Lounge Review. He lives in New York City.
		Angie JANSEN lives in Edmonton with her man and two children, living a double life working as a Lab Technician by day and writer by night. She has been published in two magazines: Birth Issues (Edmonton, AB), and Poetry Canada. She also contributed to a poetry anthology for children (Subway Books, Vancouver, BC).
		Lynn LAU is a writer and an artist originating from the tropics, and who is now residing in a place quite infamous for its winters. She travels when she can and plots when she shouldn't - an October child who creates with her head, eyes, and hands, until all three get tired just keeping up. The only thing she doesn't like creating are bios, because its inherent goal is to stick you in some sort of category, and if you knew anything about her, you'd know she absolutely rebels at being labeled. See more of her work at www.tentative.net.
		LEE Lyn-ni is the keen bushwalker who never follows the familiar well-worn route and always finds herself teetering on the edge of a cliff. So what to do? Follow the inclination of her body mass down the cliff where she begins life afresh in a foreign place? Or fight against the wind, gravity, and disobey her own will by pulling back so she can linger at the place she knows as "home"? While she contemplates the better path of the two (is one ever spared a moment to think in such a precarious position?), she pursues her love for photography, procrastination, historical fictions and the Bible at Melbourne University, Australia.
		Charles E. LIDGARD has self-published two novellas ­ ‘A Forming Destruction’ (1999 ­ Interim Books) and ‘The Subversion of Richard’ (2002 - Trouser Books). His work has also appeared in Babel Magazine, American Feed Magazine, and Double Dare Press. He is currently at work on a full-length novel and lives in Melbourne, Australia.
		Nicolas LLOYD is a freelance webdesigner from Elsewhere, and is in a perpetual state of being between things. He enjoys tea, long walks on the beach, puppies, and being with his new fiancée. See more of his work at tallboy.net.
		Behind the misleadingly childish face and mannerisms lie the mind of a dreamer, a doer, a fighter, and a young woman who is riding life's most exhilirating roller coasters. LOK Ee-Von is simply growing up, and finding herself in the process. She is very opinionated, and at the slightest prompt will yak away to anyone who will pretend to listen. At this point, life is good, and getting better all the time.
		M. Marcus A. LOPES resides in Ottawa, Ontario. In October 2004, he left his soporific civil service post to dedicate more time to his literary and visual arts endeavours. He is currently attempting to find a publisher for his first novel, and is at work on another manuscript. He is also working towards an exhibit of his artwork, hopefully towards the end of 2005. His essays have appeared in Other Voices Magazine and Melange Magazine.
		Lorette C. LUZAJIC is the girl behind The Girl Can Write writing and editing services. She was born with a pen in one hand and a QWERTY in the other. She graduated in 2000 from Ryerson University’s School of Journalism. After, she spearheaded a creative community called The Idea Museum, editing the IM’s online arts journal for 2 years. She has worked for a decade in the book industry – after spending most of her childhood in the library. Lorette is also a visual artist currently preparing mixed-media collages for her fourth annual solo exhibit, Orange. Contact Lorette at thegirlcanwrite@hotmail.com
		Darrin MCCLOSKEY has an interest in salvaging small gems from the obscure. He has lived and worked in the UK, Asia and Mexico. He now lives in Vancouver, Canada where he is attempting to create some sort of pastiche out of hundreds of broken poems, shattered stories, and fermenting diaries.
		Corey MESLER is the owner of Burke’s Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Rattle, Pindeldyboz, Quick Fiction, Cranky, Thema, Mars Hill Review, Poet Lore and others. He has also been a book reviewer for The Memphis Commercial Appeal. A short story of his was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, published by Algonquin Books. Talk, his first novel, appeared in 2002. Nice blurbs from Lee Smith, John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, Frederick Barthelme, and others. He has a new novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, due out in 2005 from Livingston. His latest three poetry chapbooks are Chin-Chin in Eden (2003) and Dark on Purpose (2004) and The Heart is Open (2005). He also claims to have written “It’s my Party.” Most importantly, he is Toby and Chloe’s dad and Cheryl’s husband. He can be found at www.burkesbooks.com
		Nathaniel G. MOORE was born in Toronto in 1974 and grew up in East York. His fiction has appeared in Front and Centre, B+A New Fiction, Kiss Machine, and Forget Magazine, and in the contemporary Canadian Humour Anthology "Career Suicide" (DC Books).
		Will O'NEILL is a writer and student in Toronto, whose works have also been published in Surface and Symbol, The Independent Weekly, and the Globe and Mail.  You can reach him at will.oneill@sympatico.ca, and he also has a website at http://all-against-all.com.
		Amanda PAPENFUS attends Bowling Green State University and majors in Creative Writing. She refuses to grow up, and this is her chance to play pretend forever, except when the work is true. She’s pursuing a double major in Art. Translation: an excuse to play with broken glass and mirror without looking crazy, unless you consider the hours spent. She exercises her opinions and a minute amount of authority as the Fiction Editor of the national undergraduate literary magazine, Prairie Margins, and her anal-retentive, obsessive nature as the Chief Copy Editor of the multicultural ‘zine, Tint.
		A Los Angeles native and incorrigable Anglophile living in San Francisco, Amber PARRY still isn't sick of higher education. She is currently studying Geography and Psychology at UC Berkeley, writing long-winded journal entries and taking photos in her spare time. Future dreams include obtaining several degrees, living in London, traveling the world, and writing for The Economist.
		Kenneth POBO's work appears in magazines such as THE FIDDLEHEAD, GRAIN, UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR REVIEW, and WASCANA REVIEW. His most recent book, INTRODUCTIONS, came out from Pearl's Book'Em Press in 2003. He listens incessantly to Marianne Faithfull, Tommy James, The 4 Seasons, and Misters Virtue. He likes to garden and keeps on the look-out for interesting new plants.
		Based in Rochester NY, Susan PRICE produces short films and radio essays, as a co-owner of Cosmopolitan Productions. Since 1999, the website madinpursuit.com has been her creative workshop.
		Brian REYNOLDS grew up in the United States but escaped to Canada as a draft dodger in 1968. He has worked as a library clerk, teacher, landscape painter and many other things. After spending the last twenty-five years in the north, he retired last year and now lives with his teenage daughter in southern Ontario. His writing has appeared recently in SmokeLong Quarterly, edifice WRECKED, insolent rudder, Gator Springs Gazette and The First Line.
		Don SCHAEFFER: Born in the Bronx, N.Y. in 1940. Holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology fromCity University of New York (1975). Established Enthalpy Press and published 5 chap books including "Time Meat" and "The Word Cow and the Pig O' Love." ISBN series: 0-9687017 (members.shaw.ca/enthalpypress). Recent poetry published in The Writers Publishing, Burning Effigy Press, "Understanding Magazine" and "Quills."
		Adam Jeffries SCHWARTZ is a writer and a traveler. He has stories in: Descant and Grimm Magazines (both in Canada), Petit Journal (Mexico) and in the anthology, Walking Higher (USA). Online, he has stories in: Ghoti Magazine, Magazine Shiver, LitBits, Mosaic Minds, Kaleidowhirl, & in The Big Ugly Review.
		Tom SHEEHAN's last three books are "A Collection of Friends," memoirs from Pocol Press, receiving excellent reviews; "The Westering," poetry chapbook from Windriver Press; and "This Rare Earth & Other Flights," poetry, from Lit Pot Press. His mystery novels are "Vigilantes East" and Death for the Phantom Receiver," an NFL mystery. A third mystery, "An Accountable Death," is serialized on 3amMagazine.com. He seeks publication of his NHL mystery, "Murder from the Forum." He has hundreds of pieces on Internet sites, has five Pushcart nominations and a Silver Rose from ART for short story excellence.
		Kelsey SHELTON is a young budding artist (to use the term loosely) from Southern California. Some of her quirky obsessions include good indie rock, hardcore bible studies, photography, writing, and languages of all cultures. She likes making people laugh, though she’d be counted lucky to crack a smile or two. See more of her work at http://martedi.net.
		Richard STEVENSON is the author of seventeen full-length collections of poetry, plus a CD of original jazz and poetry with jazz/poetry troupe Naked Ear. Recent titles include Live Evil: A Homage To Miles Davis (Thistledown Press, 2000), Hot Flashes: Maiduguri Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka (Ekstasis > Editions, 2001), Take Me To Your Leader! (YA Verse, Bayeux Arts, 2003), A Charm of Finches ( haiku, senryu, and tanka, Ekstasis Editions, 2004), and Parrot With Tourette's (Black Moss Press, Palm Poets series, 2004). Richard teaches at Lethbridge Community College in southern Alberta and lives in Lethbridge.
		Sutton R. STOKES is a Washington, D.C. native whose Coast Guard service took him from Samoa to Adak to Miami to St. Bart's, and once involved deporting El Duque. He is currently a freelance writer based in Baltimore, where he also maintains the website Margin Release, sails his secondhand Oday, and tends bar.
		Michael TALBOT enjoys the manly sports of hockey and boxing and has spent much of his young life juggling his sensitive, artistic tendencies, with his more barbaric, physical urges and interests.  He currently resides in Toronto where he writes, paints, and wields his intrusive camera.  He works in a local newsroom writing online stories.  He is also engaged in an all-encompassing inner struggle between his bohemian longings, and his old-fashioned urges to settle down, marry, and have children.  He is perpetually tortured by his dual nature, but enjoys life nonetheless.  He has an equally neurotic cat named Cassady.
		Benjamin TEPOLT has been writing essays and poetry on social issues which have caught his attention for several years. His website punkerslut.com provides a complete list of all of these writings. He is a high school dropout and was homeless and living on the streets of New Orleans for three months, where he served a week in Orleans Parish Prison for the charge of Criminal Trespassing, though it was dismissed, the time spent there was waiting to see a judge. While on the streets, he was given the name Robin Hood, for following the idea of "steal from the rich and give to the poor." Punkerslut's greatest aspiration is to influence as many people as possible.
		Three years ago, Martin WIERZBICKI left behind his job in New York to travel around the world. His travels led him from the beaches of Zanzibar to the glaciers of Patagonia, through thirty countries and across five continents. Whether scuba diving in the Gulf of Thailand, sailing in the Greek Islands, or high altitude trekking in Nepal, Martin always has his camera close at hand. "Travel and photography have always been important creative interests for me," says the 29-year-old amateur photographer who recently returned from his world trip and now resides in San Francisco, California. Martin's travel stories and photos can be seen online at photosbymartin.com.
		Funny, witty, quirky - in a nutshell, everything that Melissa YOW claims she is not. But hey, where's the harm in pretending? A closet optimist with lots of room for imagination and a perpetual craving for sugar, Melissa's first year in Melbourne seems devoid of the many possibilities and opportunities everyone had told her she would find at university. Still, she knows that somewhere out there something is waiting. But in the mean time, she will occupy herself with unclogging hair from the bathroom drain and traipsing around Melbourne with her invisible pet, Yappy.
		Firstborn to a family of six children, Idlan Rabihah ZAKARIA - or Idlan, as she is known to friends and enemies alike - deludes herself to believe that her true calling is writing. She is currently moonlighting as an academic "to help pay the bills until I write my Academy Award winning screenplay" and is currently studying for a PhD at the Department of Accounting and Finance, Lancaster University Management School, England.