Bio Notes
		Brent Appling is a student and a writer in Columbia, South Carolina. His poems and short stories have appeared in various litereary publications including The Blotter, the Lettered Olive, and the Subtle Tea. He is currently working on a chap book entitled Insincere Interests and a collection of short stories entitled Thieves, and other stories. John Bryan has been published in various journals such as Unlikely 2.0, Mipoesias, Stylus Poetry Journal, The Hiss Quarterly, Verse Libre Quarterly, Triplopia, Outsider Ink, Apt, Barfing Frog Press and The Indite Circle to name a few. Lindsay Faber Chiat is a former New York City crime reporter whose news writing has appeared in several newspapers and magazines throughout the country. A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, she lives with her husband in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her second-ever published poem will appear this winter in Barrow Street. Mike Conley and his wife, Susan, live on the water north of San Diego. Both retired a few years ago from long careers with McDonald's Corporation. Michael writes full time now, and in addition to the acceptance of "Welcome to the Global Community" by Salt River Review, has had five other stories published, as follows: "Best Intentions," 2004 new year edition of Skyline Magazine; "Small Town Heroes," spring 2005 issue of JMW; "Scared Womanless,"spring 2006 issue of Poormojo.com; "Wading in Brooklyn," in Victory News, June 15, 2006; and "Boy Interrupted," in Perigee: A Publication of the Arts, July 15, 2006 Hugh Fox has had eighty-five books published, among them The Gods of the Cataclysm (Harper's Magazine Press, 1976), First Fire: Central and South American Indian Poetry (Doubleday Anchor Books, 1978), The Mythological Foundations of the Epic Genre: The Solar Voyage as the Hero's Journey (Edwin Mellen Press, 1989), all concerning mythology/anthropology; novels such as Honeymoon/Mom (December Press, 1978), Leviathan (Carpenter Press, 1980),and The Last Summer (Xenos Books, 1995). His books of poetry include The Face of Guy Lombardo (The Fault, 1975), Almazora 42 (Laughing Bear Press, 1982), Jamais Vu (Dusty Dog, 1991), The Sacred Cave(Omega Cat Press, 1992), and Once Me (Lummox Press, 2000). Stories, parts of novels, poetry, articles and plays in Midwest Quarterly, Home Planet News, Michigan Quarterly Review, Triquarterly, The Kansas Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, Wisconsin Review, and others. P.L. George is a local writer from Oklahoma City. His work can be found both on the web and in print. He is looking for a publisher for three books, one a memoir, one a journal on the writing life, and the other a collection of short stories, One of his stories "Dinner" was made into an indie film by blackcarmediaworks.com last year. Any interested parties can email him at [email protected] Vanessa Hua is a reporter at the S