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Tracy DeBrincat is a freelance creative advertising consultant in the entertainment industry. Her first novel manuscript, Every Porpoise Under Heaven, received the 1996 Washington Award for Fiction. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in Eureka Literary Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Laurel Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The Southern Anthology, and Wisconsin Review, among others. To the great surprise of most everyone she knows, she loves living in Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Bales Frank has an old B.F.A. degree from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, which she keeps in its original mailing tube on a high closet shelf next to a box of remainder copies of her first novel. She is currently working on a collection of essays about growing up in a family of hard-drinking, baseball-crazy packrats.

I am Charles, I am a poet. I was born in Raleigh, NC. I missed being a Libra by a few minutes.

I don't believe an artist should care what someone says about their work.

I think poets might be better off burning their best work, instead of publishing it. Nonetheless, here's something I wrote. It's not as honest as many things I've written since. But it has some of my philosophy of life; if you are able to relate, you may absorb something. Should art be explained in this way? Perhaps, as long as there are no excuses.

The most inspiring writer I have read is Thomas Wolfe. He embodies a true poetic soul, "grappling squarely" with himself, dying to have truth, obsessed with actual logical perceptions of the human spirit; a man who recreates his experiences for a purpose, who demonstrates the inherent beauty-and-necessity of expressing sadness, who takes on the crushing vice of Time and Guilt, and who defined wisdom and honesty for a generation (at least!). Wolfe's novel (aka. epic prose poem) Look Homeward, Angel is undeniably brilliant. His mastery of language has rarely been even approached in the last 75 years. His final tour de force, You Can't Go Home Again, is an absolute must for any person who thinks they make art.

I was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut and New Bedford, Massachusetts, and educated at Vassar College, Columbia University, and, eventually, Rutgers University in New Jersey where I have lived for almost fifty years. I am married to a retired CEO of a family company, and we have five children, twelve grandchildren, and two dogs.

After two years of school-teaching at the high school level, I was married and subsequently gave up work to raise our five children. When they were out of the nest, I returned to graduate school at Columbia and received an M.A. I then taught at various levels from pre-school to high school, and eventually returned to graduate school at Rutgers receiving my doctorate in English Literature in 1992. Until my retirement in May 2004, I was an adjunct professor of English at Monmouth University in Long Branch, New Jersey.

Like most of my short fiction, "The Artists" was inspired by an actual episode, this one occurring when I was desperately trying to meet a deadline.

Margaret B. Ingraham is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award and three poetry Fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and recent work appears or is forthcoming in Nimrod International Journal, Flyway, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Louisiana Literature, Limestone, Poet Lore, Poem, Buckle &, Confluence, Phoebe, Carquinez Poetry Review, Westview, and California Quarterly.

John Mulderig was born to American parents living on the island of Bermuda on October 1, 1962. After attending schools in both Bermuda and the United States, he graduated from Hamilton College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature in 1985. This degree was awarded cum laude and he was also accorded Departmental Honors.

From early 1986 until early in the following year, he was a seminarian for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, Bermuda in the seminary system of the Archdiocese of New York, attending first the St. John Neumann Preparatory Seminary in Riverdale and then St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie. Following his decision to leave the seminary, he pursued graduate studies in English Literature at New York University.

In 1990, he joined the Radio and Television Department of The Christophers, a nonprofit Catholic media organization based in New York. Here he served, successively, as Assistant Producer, Associate Producer and finally Producer of The Christophers’ nationally syndicated public affairs television program, Christopher Closeup. One of the longest running programs of its kind on television, Christopher Closeup premiered in 1952. He remained with The Christophers until 1995.

Moving back to Bermuda, Mr. Mulderig joined the faculty of Mount Saint Agnes Academy there in 1997. During his career as a teacher in the Academy’s high school, he taught, at various times, English Literature, History and Religion. At the end of the academic year in 2000, he decided to leave Mount Saint Agnes and Bermuda in order to pursue a career as a writer in New York.

Mr. Mulderig is the author of several poems and articles that have appeared in The Bermudian Magazine. His present interest, as a writer, is primarily in short fiction. Among the outstanding practitioners of this art, he especially admires Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, William Trevor and Alice Adams.

Together with his late father, Mr. Mulderig collected Eighteenth century Irish and Anglo-Irish books. Their wide-ranging collection, which includes works of literature, histories of Ireland and English-Gaelic dictionaries, as well as treatises on law, politics and religion, is among the best on this subject in private hands.

Mr. Mulderig is a member of the University Club of New York City and of the Grolier Club. His hobbies include Bridge and travel. He speaks French passably and reads it semi-fluently. He has been privileged to visit every inhabited continent except Australia.

Lewis Schrager is a writer and physician from North Bethesda, MD. He received a BA from Johns Hopkins University, an MD from the Vanderbilt School of Medicine, and an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins. His work has appeared in South Dakota Review and Southwestern American Literature. His first full-length play, Levy’s Ghost, premiered in Baltimore in June 2005, and his second play, Shadow of the Valley, had its world premiere production at the Minnesota Theatre Company, St. Paul, MN in October 2005.

I teach world literature and creative writing at Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, and am the author of five collections of poems and prose parables, including The Artist and the Crow (Purdue University Press), and a new collection, Solace of the Aging Mare, is forthcoming from The Mid-America Press in 2007. My most recent poems and prose pieces are appearing in such publications as Atlanta Review, Boulevard, North American Review, Shenandoah, Ontario Review, Harvard Review, Mississippi Review, New York Quarterly, and my work is represented in the anthology Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia (UVA Press, 2003). I’m also the recipient of an NEA Poetry Fellowship.