Matthew Ward lives & writes in Newcastle, Australia. He has had poetry published in Australia and USA. Books published: a novella (2004, Australia.); a short story collection (2006, USA); and a collection of his poetry (2008, USA). He is also the publisher of the short story quarterly, Skive Magazine.

Robert Earl Stewart’s first collection of poetry, Something Burned Along the Southern Border, will be published by Mansfield Press in the fall of 2009. His work has appeared in nthposition, Monday Night, Rampike and This Magazine. He lives in Windsor, Ontario with his wife and three young children.

Check out the Mansfield Press online, and the Mansfield Revue for more of Robert’s poetry, a list of what he’s been reading lately, and an outtake from his glasspoeme photoblog.

Wayne Mason is a writer and factory worker from central Florida, when he grows up he wants to be Kannon. His work has been published throughout the small press and he is author of several chapbooks, the most recent Poet Laureate Of A Dirty Garage is now available from Erbacce Press. You can check out more of his stuff here.

Desi Di Nardo is a poet and author in Toronto whose work has been published in numerous North American and international journals and anthologies including the Literary Review of Canada, Globe and Mail, National Post, and Descant. Her poetry has been performed at the National Arts Centre, featured in Poetry on the Way on the Toronto Transit Commission, and displayed in the Official Residences of Canada. Desi's poems have also been studied in schools across the country, translated into several languages, and printed on Starbucks cups. She has also worked as an English professor and writer-in-residence. Desi's newly released book of poetry is titled The Plural of Some Things. Visit her website here. You can also read an interview with Desi at this link.

Greg Santos is the poetry editor of pax americana. His work has appeared in print and online publications such as the Best American Poetry blog, McSweeney's, Nthposition, The Feathertale Review, Six Sentences, and the Dingers: Contemporary Baseball Writing anthology. He currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut and is completing an MFA in the Creative Writing Program at The New School in Manhattan. Read his blog here.

Richard Wink is a poet based in Norwich, England. Widely published Wink has previously released six collections of poetry from popular independent publishing houses including All along the Wensum  (Kendra Steiner Editions), The Magnificent Guffaw (Erbacce Press) and Apple Road (Trainwreck Press). His words have been featured in renowned periodicals such as Aesthetica Magazine, Decanto and 3:AM Magazine. He regularly contributes to Slurve Magazine and various music websites such as Audioscribbler and musosguide.com. He also edits the enigmatic litzine Gloom Cupboard. His latest chapbook Delirium is a Disease of the Night is out now from Shadow Archer Press.

Ginnetta Correli is the author of a novella called: The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli. Her writing can be found in print and online journals such as: Diet Soap, Sein Und Werden, Ink Sweat and Tears, and Insolent Rudder among others. A spoken word project to be released soon. You can visit her blog at this site.

Chris Pimental is currently alive and well in a tropical location, each day finding reasons not to walk into traffic.  Reluctantly, his swill has been seen in Out of the Gutter, Muzzle Flash, Orchard Press, Web Digest Weekly, Demolition Mag., etc. And in an homage to the first podcast, he adds,
Quack. Quack.

Steven Mayoff lives on Prince Edward Island, Canada.  His fiction and poetry have appeared in journals across Canada and the U.S.A. as well as in Ireland, Algeria and France.  His debut fiction collection, Fatted Calf Blues, was published this year by Turnstone Press. Join the Facebook group at this link and visit Steven's web site here.

Grace Andreacchi is an American-born novelist, poet and playwright. Works include the novels Scarabocchio and Poetry and Fear, Music for Glass Orchestra (Serpent’s Tail), Give My Heart Ease (New American Writing Award) and the chapbook Elysian Sonnets. Her work appears in Horizon Review, Eclectica, Carolina Quarterly and many other fine places. Grace is also managing editor at Andromache Books. She lives in London.

Andrea DeAngelis’ writing has recently appeared in Dogmatika, Terracotta Typewriter, Salome Magazine, Flutter Poetry Journal, Mad Swirl and Gloom Cupboard. Andrea also sings and plays guitar in an indie rock band called MAKAR. MAKAR is currently recording their second album, Funeral Genius.

Emilia A. Phillips is a soon-to-be graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. In August 2009, she'll be entering the MFA creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her poetry and prose has appeared in The Sequoya Review, Pedestal Magazine, Unsaid Magazine, Hit and Run Magazine, Poetry Miscellany, and elsewhere.

Gabriel Orgrease lives on Long Island near to the Atlantic and has credits including Magazine Minima, Opium, In Posse Review, Bonfire, Stoney Lonesome, Stile, Insolent Rudder, and Gator Springs Gazette.  See his blog here.