C. J. Allen's A Strange Arrangement, New & Selected Poems, is now available from Leafe Press.

Scott Thurston’s book of poems Hold was published by Shearsman in 2006.

Joshua Cristiano has been published or has works forthcoming in various journals including Spectrum, If Poetry Journal, Ceremony Collected, Remark, and 55 words.  He currently resides in New York City where he is a painter and illustrator as well as a poet. You can explore more of his art at JoshuaCristiano.com.

Corey Mesler has published prose and poetry in Turnrow, Adirondack Review, American Poetry Journal,  Paumanok Review, Yankee Pot Roast, Monday Night, Elimae, H_NGM_N, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, Poet Lore, Forklift OH, Euphony, Rattle, Jabberwock Review, Dicey Brown, Cordite, Cellar Door, others. He has two novels from Livingston Press: Talk: a Novel in Dialogue (2002) and We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2007). His first full-length collection of poems, Some Identity Problems, is due out from Foothills Publishing, in 2007. With his wife, he owns Burke’s Book Store, one of the oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores in the US. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.

Simon Turner has had work published with Intercapillary Space, has work forthcoming with Liminal Pleasures, and has his first collection with Heaventree Press due out in the summer.

Shearsman published Janet Sutherland’s first collection in April 2006, Burning the Heartwood – http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/newpubl/2006c.html   

She has had work in a number of magazines over the years, print and web based: KUDOS, ninth decade, Strange Mathematics, Poesie Europe, Sows Ear, Poetica, The News, Reality Studios, Angels of Fire, The Rialto, Lettera, Shearsman, Stride, Damn the Caesars, Litter. Work will be in Great Works sometime this summer and in Shearsman in October.

David Gaffney’s latest collection Sawn Off tales was published in September 2006 by

 Salt. His next collection, provisionally titled Aromabingo is due out on Salt in September 2007 and his novel Skip Trace, a tale of debt counselling and trepanning, is due to be published in 2008 on Tindall Street  Press. He has also been published in several magazines including Ambit, Stand, Opium, Transmission, Illustrated Ape and many others.

Jeffery Side is editor of The Argotist Online and a regular contributor to magazines such as Great Works and Shadowtrain.