Mairéad Byrne's poetry publications this year include Talk Poetry (Miami University Press 2007) and SOS Poetry (/ubu Editions 2007) http://www.ubu.com/ubu/byrne_sos.html.  She is writing a collection of talks on poetics, for example ‘Some Differences Between Poetry & Standup’ http://www.ubu.com/papers/.   Mairéad emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1994 and now teaches (mainly poetry) at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, where she lives with her two daughters.  With Ian Davidson, she is the co-manager of the listserv British & Irish Poets http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/british-irish-poets.html

Robert Sheppard's next book will be Complete Twentieth Century Blues (Salt), which he is currently (July 2007) proofreading, now he has finished proofreading the Salt Companion to Lee Harwood, which is due soon. It will be neck-and-neck with his Iain Sinclair (Writers and their Work). His most recent poetry book is Hymns to the God in which my Typewriter Believes (Stride, 2006), reviewed by Scott Thurston at: http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/2006/July%202006/Tin%20Pan%20Arcadia%20rev.htm

His fiction may be found in the anthology The Flash (2007). Other parts of Thelma may be found in Tears in the Fence 43, and on Intercapillary Space at www.intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com 

 Sheppard is the editor of PAGES blogzine online at www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com.

 His profile may be read at www.soton.ac.uk/~bepc/poets/Sheppard.htm.

Charles Freeland teaches at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. Recent work appears in Jubilat, Cream City Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Hollins Critic, 42opus, and The Pedestal Magazine. He is the author of a chapbook, Where We Saw Them Last (Lily Press, 2007). His website is charlesfreelandpoetry.net.

Aleah Sato is a marketing manager and co-owner of Ricksticks Inc, a visual communications firm in Toronto. She is the author of the recently released book Badlands and the forthcoming Stillborn Wilderness (Pooka Press 2007). Her work has appeared in Nthposition, Latchkey, The Argotist, juked, Just West of Athens, Blue Fifth Review and Eclectica. She can be reached through her site: www.aleahsato.com.

Michaela Kahn (along with her husband, writer Christien Gholson) is currently on an organic farm in the state of Wisconsin (US) living in a barn, spending mornings weeding and harvesting lettuce and afternoons writing. After this there’s an artist residency at an old church in the woods of Pennsylvania. And then? Who knows, the plan is to avoid the authorities, ditch the permanent war economy for as long as possible. There’s an MFA in the background somewhere, but it really wasn’t very helpful. Work has appeared in/will appear in: 2River, Big Bridge, Sentence, Puerto del Sol, Red Rock Review, Lilliput Review, Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, LCRW, and otherwheres.

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.