David Berridge live in London. Poems and sequences have appeared or are forthcoming in Shearsman, Liminal Pleasures, Noon, Poetry Salzburg, and online in Fascicle, Great Works and Word/for Word. Career Choices, a chapbook, will be published by Furniture Press.

Anamaria Crowe Serrano’s  poetry has appeared in Shearsman (UK), Jacket (AUS), Masthead (AUS), Default (IRL), (Osiris) Red Pagoda Press pamphlet series (USA), Rattapallax (USA), Osiris (USA, June/July 06), World Haiku Review, Poeti e Poesia (IT), Triskell (IT), and Pagine (IT).  Other publications include Paso Doble, a collection of poems written with the Italian poet, Annamaria Ferramosca, published by Empiria, Rome, in March 2006; a collection of short stories, translated into Italian (Italian title, Dall’altra parte), Leconte, Rome, 2003; and The Interpreter, a one act play (Delta3 Edizioni), 2003. She has written two novels which are pending publication. The first of these, Behind the Tapestry, was co-written with Riccardo Duranti. It traces the life of Thomas Shelton, an Irishman who was the first ever translator of Cervantes’ Don Quijote.

Steven Waling’s  latest collection was Calling Myself On The Phone (Smith/Doorstop 2003) and since then, he's had poems on Shadowtrain, Stride, argotistonline, and in Poetry Nottingham, Staple, and the Moosehead anthology X: Future Welcome. His book Travelator will be published by Salt.

Poems and articles by KM Dersley have appeared in Poetry Review, London Magazine, The Rialto, and many other magazines. Online appearances include Shadowtrain, Zygote in My Coffee, Thunder Sandwich, Laura Hird's Website, Word Riot.  He has performed his work in London, Cambridge, Colchester, Chelmsford, at the Wessex Festival and at 2003’s Dulwich Festival. His books include Between the Alleyways at the World’s Fair. In June 2000 he launched his website The Ragged Edge (www.raggededge.btinternet.co.uk) for his own outpourings. Then he started including the work of other writers in it on ‘The Other Side of the Ragged Edge.’

Michael Curran’s poems have appeared in magazines such as Black Mountain Review, The Penniless Press and the reater. His book holding the quoins was recently published by Tangerine Press.  Michael is currently editing a book of Willliam Wantling’s poems, to be published in 2007. As soon as it’s out we’ll let you know!

Rupert M Loydell is Lecturer in Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, the Managing Editor of Stride Publications, Editor of Stride magazine, and a regular contributor of articles and reviews to Tangents magazine. Recent publications include A Fire in the House of Ice, A Conference of Voices, The Museum of Light, The Smallest Deaths and four collaborative works. Shadowtrain Books has just launched with a collection of Rupert’s prose poems, Ex Catalogue.

Anjali Yardi was born in India and has taught undergraduate English at the universities of Delhi, Calcutta and Bombay. She now lives in Melbourne (Australia). In 2004 she was equal runner-up for the Gwen Harwood Memorial Prize. Her work has also appeared in Shadowtrain 5.

Douglas Messerli is the publisher of Green Integer, a poet, fiction writer and dramatist. He is currently working on a multi-volume cultural memoir, recounting his cultural experiences of performance, events, and memories of each year.