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Daphne Beal lives in New York City. She was recently a writer-in-residence with the Lannan Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and is currently finishing a novel set in South Asia.

Jill Bialosky is the author of The End of Desire (Alfred A. Knopf) and a forthcoming book of poems, Subterranean, to be published in spring 2002. She lives in New York City.

Paula Bomer grew up in South Bend, Indiana, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her fiction has appeared in Nerve and Global City Review. "The Mother of His Children" is from a collection in progress very tentatively entitled Marriage and Babies.

Sam Brumbaugh was born in Washington, D.C. He was a founding partner and creative director of SonicNet. He has been the talent executive and producer for a number of music-related shows for PBS and Canal Plus, and is currently producing a documentary on the life and times of Townes Van Zandt. He lives in New York City.

Lewis Cole teaches screenwriting at Columbia University's film department. His last published book was This Side of Glory (Little, Brown and Company, 1995). "Push It Out" is an excerpt from his novel Winner's Out.

Meghan Daum's essay collection, My Misspent Youth, will be published by Open City Books in March 2001. She lives in Raymond, Nebraska.

Mary Donnelly was born and raised in San Pedro, California—L.A.'s answer to Bayonne, New Jersey. She has co-written two feature-length screenplays and works as a writer/producer in the precarious world of Internet television. She lives in Brooklyn.

Ben Doyle's first book of poems, Radio, Radio, won the 2000 Walt Whitman Award and will be published this April by Louisiana State University Press. He lives in Iowa but longs so for travel.

Ann Faison is a musician, singer-songwriter, video artist, and photographer who lately has been drawn to trees.

Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Herman Hueffer in London in 1873. He founded and edited both the English Review and the Transatlantic Review, and was the author of over eighty books, including The Good Soldier and Parade's End. He was an officer in World War I and was badly gassed and shell-shocked. He died in 1939. "FunÑIt's Heaven" was first published by the British magazine The Bystander in 1915 and is reprinted here from War Prose (Carcanet Press Ltd., Manchester, 1999).

Henrik Håkansson was born in Sweden and currently resides in Berlin. He investigates the social constructs of nature by focusing scientific-observation strategies on biological matters. His latest exhibitions are "Whiteblue Light" at Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, and "Sweet Leaf" at Galerie Fur Zeitgenšssische Kunst, Leipzig.

Toru Hayashi is an artist and CEO of TravelAgency Garden, a fictitious company. He lives in New York City.

Thomas Hauser is an artist living in Berlin.

Hunter Kennedy is from Columbia, South Carolina, and is the founder and editor of The Minus Times. He has just completed his first novel, Miss State Line, and currently lives above a funeral parlor in Brooklyn.

Heather Larimer's "Casseroles" is part of an unpublished collection of short fiction called Someone's Wife. She is a graduate of the University of Washington's M.F.A. program in creative writing. She recently relocated to Portland, Oregon.

Creston Lea's stories have appeared in DoubleTake and in the W.W. Norton anthology 25 & Under: Fiction. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Miranda Lichtenstein is an artist living in New York City. She is represented by the Goldman Tevis Gallery in Los Angeles. She will have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris in July 2001.

Giuseppe O. Longo was born in Forl“, Italy in 1941. He holds degrees in electronic engineering and mathematics and a Ph.D. in cybernetics and information theory. He is a professor of information theory at the University of Trieste. Longo has translated fifteen books from English and German and in 1991 was awarded the Monselice Prize for scientific translation. He has published four collections of short stories and three novels, and several of his plays have been produced. While his novel L'acrobata received the Laure Bataillon award for best novel translated into French, "In Zenoburg" is his first publication in English.

David Mendel retired as a cardiologist in 1986 after publishing the cult classic, Proper Doctoring. He then took a degree course in Italian and now writes, lectures, and broadcasts on the BBC about Italian matters. He is especially interested in Primo Levi, whom he knew and writes and lectures about.

Evie McKenna is a photographer who has spent the last several years documenting buildings that exhibit vernacular architecture. Many of her subjects have been found in the Catskill region of New York State, with sporadic rangings into the South and Southwest. Her mother considered moving a sport and those frequent real-estate visits may have been the inspiration for this work. She has been on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is represented by the Ricco Maresca Gallery.

Matthew Miller lives in a farmhouse near Iowa City, where he recently received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His poems can be found in recent or forthcoming issues of Colorado Review, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. His collection of poems, First Engine, is currently making the rounds at the contests. He can be reached at godotnut@hotmail.com.

Sara Ogger is an assistant professor of German at Montclair State University.

Sam Samore lives and works in New York, Paris, and Tokyo. He exhibits internationally. His most recent solo exhibition, "Sam Samore: Pathological Tales/Schizophrenic Stories," was at the Casino Luxembourg, July-September 2000. His next book, The Adventure, a picture/storybook, will be published in spring 2001 by powerHouse Books. In New York, he is represented by Gorney Bravin + Lee.

Matthew Samton was born in New York City and lives in New York City, but, if he has any power over it, will die elsewhere.

Pieter Schoolwerth is an artist living and working in New York. He has had recent exhibitions in Milan and New York, where he is represented by American Fine Arts, Co.

Elke Siegel and Paul Fleming live in Charm City.

Tim Staffel was born in 1965 in Kassel, Germany. He studied theater arts and now lives as a freelance writer in Berlin. His first novel, Terrordrom, from which this piece is an excerpt, was published in German by Ammann Verlag in 1998. This excerpt is reprinted with their permission.

David Starkey lives in Santa Barbara, California. His chapbook, Fear of Everything, was winner of Palanquin Press's spring 2000 contest.

Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre was born in 1975 in Bremen. He lives in Berlin and is an editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "Show #7" is a chapter from his novel Livealbum, which was published in German by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1999. This chapter is reprinted with the permission of Joan Daves/Writer's House, Inc. on behalf of the publishers.

Mungo Thomson also makes his own graph paper. He lives and works in Los Angeles and is represented by the Margo Leavin Gallery.

William Wenthe's book of poems is Birds of Hoboken (Orchis, 1995). He has published poems recently in Orion, Southern Review, The Literary Review, Chelsea, and other journals, and has won fellowships from the NEA and the Texas Commission on the Arts. He lives in Lubbock, Texas, and is the poetry editor of Iron Horse Literary Review.

Rachel Wetzsteon lives in New York City and is the author of two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away.