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Rose Bromberg has published fiction and poetry in journals including The Healing Muse (SUNY Upstate Medical Center) and Jewish Women’s Literary Annual. Her upcoming work will appear in Southern Indiana Review and Sarah Lawrence College’s Health Advocacy Bulletin. She is currently combining her interests in poetry and medical humanities by writing poetry about patients’ medical experiences, and contributing her time to the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University.

Susan Buttenwieser's fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared or is forthcoming in Literary Mama, Storyglossia, Lost, Failbetter and Nth Position. She has received several fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has taught writing workshops at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center and at a homeless shelter for LGBT youth in New York City.

Lesley Dormen was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Her novel in stories, The Best Place To Be, was published this month by Simon & Schuster. Lesley's work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and other literary magazines and anthologies. She teaches fiction writing at the Writers Studio in Greenwich Village, where she lives with her husband.

Leslie Findlen lives and works in Brooklyn; she has been a long-time member of the Writers Studio in New York City and has had the privilege of studying with poet Philip Schultz for many years. Her great-grandmother, a recitationist in rural Nova Scotia, could recite whole books from memory and gave her an early and lasting inspiration for the power of stories. Years later she realized that even more than stories she loved the power of language itself. These poems came about through paring down language again and again, through many drafts and versions, to see what remained and what was revealed. She is currently reading poems by Robin Robertson and William Matthews, and is trying to catch up on issues of The New Yorker, which seem to arrive in the mail in an endless stream.

Amy Ashton Handy enjoyed seven years of taking undergraduate classes and gaining “life experience” by traveling to, and occasionally settling in, places ranging from Austin, Texas to King Salmon, Alaska to New Orleans, Louisiana before finally finishing her B.A. at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. She recently completed her graduate work at Southern Connecticut State University, where her fiction and poetry won several awards. Her work has appeared in Connecticut English Journal, Oblique Angle, Folio, and Bellowing Ark. Currently, Ms. Handy lives the old cliché of teaching high school English, while dreaming of writing the great American novel. In the meantime, she is working on a collection of creative nonfiction essays about her summers spent commercial fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska

Anna Kushner was born in Philadelphia and first traveled to Cuba in 1999. Her current projects include a memoir about a family divided by divorce, exile, death, and politics and a translation of The Autobiography of Fidel Castro. Her work has appeared in Wild River Review and The Bucks County Writer, and her translations have appeared in Words Without Borders and are forthcoming in The Virginia Quarterly as well as the anthology Another Sky: Voices of Conscience from Around the World (Profile Books).

Louise graduated from Smith College in 1984 with a BA in art, attended the New York Studio School for one year, received a MacDowell Fellowship in 1994. She now raises two children and continues to paint.

Suchoon Mo is a former Korean Army Lieutenant and a Korean War veteran. Now he is a retired academic living in the semiarid part of Colorado. His poems have appeared, or will appear, in East and West (India), Snakeskin (UK), the Surface (UK), Dissident Editions (UK), America Sings, Riverside Poetry, Religious Humanism, Bitter Oleander, Poetic Voices, Above Ground Testing (Canada), Adagio Verse Quarterly, Spillway Review, Thunder Sandwich, Voices, Persistent Mirage, Full Moon, Poetry Stop (Canada), Stylus Poetry Journal (Australia), 3rd Cup Morning, Malleable Jangle (Australia) , Sage Of Consciousness, Farsight, Subtle Tea and others. He received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from University of Pennsylvania, and is the author of a number of research articles and theoretical monographs dealing with nature of time and time perspective as related to psychopathology.

Megan Pinch is an artist working in photography, bookmaking, and digital imaging. Her images have been shown internationally in over forty solo and group exhibitions and publications, and her work has received numerous awards. She attended graduate school at Rochester Institute of Technology and Visual Studies Workshop, where she received her Master of Fine Arts degree. For two years, Megan was a visiting professor at Holy Cross College, her undergraduate alma mater. In May 2005, she completed a fellowship in photography at Women's Studio Workshop. Megan is currently a visiting assistant professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Douglas Rogers is a Zimbabwe-born journalist and travel writer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and Travel & Leisure Magazine. He is currently working on a memoir about Zimbabwe.

Anna Steegmann, born in Germany in 1954, has lived in New York City since 1980. She worked as an actress and psychotherapist until making writing her priority. She has published academic texts in German and English. Her stories, essays and translations have appeared or will soon come out in The New York Times, The Absinthe Literary Review, Boomer Women Speak, Dimension² and [sic] as well as several German newspapers. She teaches writing at City College of New York, where she received an MA in Creative Writing. She has written a memoir, The Wrong Country, her first book in English.

Abby Wender's fascination with the body began early in life when she hoped to become a beautician. Her mother wanted her to become a nurse; her father thought she'd be a doctor. None of these early premonitions were fulfilled. Instead, she's completing a degree at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and teaches poetry workshops at the Writers Studio in New York City. Her poems have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Fine Madness, The Madison Review, and other small magazines.

Stephen P. Williams writes regularly for The New York Times, and his articles have appeared in Smithsonian, GQ, Newsweek and others. He’s the author of several nonfiction books, including his most recent, How to be a Hollywood Star. He is a professional ghostwriter, specializing in other people’s autobiographies. His fiction has appeared in Bomb and elsewhere. “Fishonade” is an excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, Out of a Cloud. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and four children.