Zoë Skoulding's most recent collection of poems is The Mirror Trade, and her next book, Remains of a Future City, will be published by Seren in 2008. She co-edits the literary magazine Skald with Ian Davidson, with whom she has written and made films collaboratively: their collection Dark Wires is published by West House Books in April 2007. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Wales, Bangor in the School of Lifelong Learning. Her psychogeographical music project with Dewi Evans and Alan Holmes is at http://www.parkingnonstop.com

Leonard Gontarek’s  Deja Vu Diner was published by Autumn House Press in 2006.

His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Pool, Blackbird, BlazeVox,

The Best American Poetry 2005, and Joyful Noise! An Anthology of American

Spiritual Poetry. He conducts poetry workshops at The University City Arts League

and in the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership.

www.leafscape.org/LeonardGontarek

 A Paris-based poet and writer, Nicholas Manning's poems, articles, translations and reviews have appeared in such places as The Argotist, Verse, Fascicle, Free Verse, CrossXConnect, BlazeVox, MiPoesias, Dusie, Eratio, Cipher Journal, Shampoo, among others. He teaches comparative literature at the University of Strasbourg while also writing his doctoral thesis on the subject of rhetoric and sincerity in post-war European and American poetry. He is also a regular poetry reviewer for Verse, Cordite, and Galatea, and last year was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Charles Freeland teaches at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. Recent work appears in Cream City Review, The Hollins Critic, Arabesques, 42opus, and The Pedestal Magazine. A chapbook, Where We Saw Them Last, is forthcoming from Lily Press. His website is charlesfreelandpoetry.net.

Alan Baker was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and now lives in Nottingham, UK. He is managing editor of Leafe Press, assistant editor of Poetry Nottingham and editor of the webzine Litter (www.leafepress.com/litter). His poetry has appeared in various magazines including Shearsman, Oasis, Great Works and Tears in the Fence. He has published two pamphlets with Leafe Press  (The Causeway ,1999), (Not Bondi Beach, 2002), one with Secretariat (The Strange City,2006) and has a fourth due out with Skysill Press.