BARRY MATTHEWS was born and raised in Vermont. He recently completed his MFA in fiction at Cornell University and has stories that will appear in the upcoming anthologies, MICRO2: An Anthology of Really Short Fiction and BEST NEW AMERICAN VOICES 2003. He lives and works in New York City where he is finishing his first novel.

e-mail: barry@barrymatthews.com

TISA BRYANT spent 27 years in the Metro Boston area, and is now happily living in San Francisco. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in BEYOND THE FRONTIER (Black Classics Press, 2001), CHILDREN OF THE DREAM (Pocket Books, 1999), Chain, Clamour, How2, kenning, Mungo vs. Ranger and STEP INTO A WORLD (John Wiley & Sons, 2000). Her chapbook, TZIMMES, was published by A+Bend Press. She is currently working on two prose projects, Letters to Regret, and About Her, a work of creative non-fiction, very tentatively titled household acts, and a novel, ZOO KID.

ALDO ALVAREZ is the author of INTERESTING MONSTERS (Graywolf Press), a collection of short fiction. A nominee for the 2002 Violet Quill Award, City Pages called INTERESTING MONSTERS "experimental fiction meant for wide audiences -- very accessible and entertaining...It is also queer fiction that has grown up past adolescence; it's affectionate and funny, but reasonable."

Aldo received a Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University in the city of New York and a Ph.D. in English from Binghamton University (SUNY). He was a Fiction Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1998. Aldo Alvarez was recently honored by OUT Magazine's OUT 100 list of "gay success stories of 2001".

e-mail: adalvarez@aol.com

STEVE MACISAAC is a Canadian artist currently living in Tokyo. In addition to designing Blithe House, he is obsessed with making comics. Work to date includes a silk-screen mini called "You Can Tell Us Anything", a seven-page story in the non-fiction comics anthology RAGE TO EXPLAIN , and an piece in the upcoming anti-censorship benefit book WHAT NEXT? (Arsenal Pulp Press). He is collaborating with writer Dale Lazarov on a series of erotic graphic novels.

e-mail: flambe@chebucto.ns.ca

ERIC KARL ANDERSON's forthcoming novel, ENOUGH, won the 2001 Pearl Street First Book Award. He received a BA from Goddard College in Vermont and an MA in Studies in Fiction from The University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. He lives in London and works as an editor.

e-mail: erickarl78@hotmail.com

JASMINE BEACH-FERRARA grew up in North Carolina and, after stints in New England and San Francisco, currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Warren Wilson's Program for Writers and is the Joan Beebe Teaching Fellow at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Briar Cliff Review and The GSU Review; it is forthcoming in Puerto del Sol and The Harvard Review. She is working on a short story collection and a novel. She can be reached at jelibe@hotmail.com.

DIANA CAGE is managing editor of On Our Backs magazine and editor of the forthcoming ON OUR BACKS' GUIDE TO LESBIAN SEX to be published by Alyson. Her work has also appeared in Clean Sheets and the anthology ON OUR BACKS: The Best Erotic Fiction. She is currently working on a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction at San Francisco State University. She spends a great deal of time looking at porn.

e-mail: diana@onourbacksmag.com

EMMET CARAVELLO QUINN is the recipient of a Cambridge Poetry Award, a fellow to the Vermont Studio Center, a scholarship to the Wesleyan Writers Conference, and a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Emmet is working on a novel titled KEVIN'S HIPS TO THE WORLD, edits "Flood", a small literary magazine for trans and queer writers, and is a regular performer around the Boston poetry scene.

e-mail: emmet@butchdykeboy.com

ROBERT KLEIN ENGLER was born in Chicago. His poems and stories have appeared in Borderlands, Hyphen, Christopher Street, The James White Review, American Letters and Commentary, Kansas Quarterly, and many other magazines and journals. He was the recipient of Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards for his poem "Flower Festival at Genzano," which appeared in Whetstone and "Three Poems for Kabbalah," which appeared in Fish Stories, II. He now teaches at Roosevelt University.

e-mail: RKleinEngler@aol.com

RICHARD GRAYSON is the author of nine collections of short stories, including THE SILICON VALLEY DIET (Red Hen Press, 2000), WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK, LINCOLN'S DOCTOR'S DOG and I SURVIVED CARACAS TRAFFIC. He wrote "Life With Libby" during a residency at the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He currently lives in South Florida. His e-mail address is graysonric@yahoo.com.

CLARE JOHNSON is currently an undergraduate student in Visual Arts and Creative Writing at Brown University, and has recently been accepted to the Independent Studio Programme in painting at Slade School of Fine Art in London for a year abroad. When not writing or painting, she is generally occupied with activism work and a constant homesickness for her family in Seattle. "It might look like I'm asking" is her first published work.

e-mail: Clare_Johnson@Brown.edu

IAN MACNEILL's last book was SWEET HORIZONS: A History of the Solomon Islands (Mieli Press). He has contributed to gay writing in all genres except for Film, an oversight he is at present correcting in the hopes of being corrupted by Hollywood, or even Fox Studios in Sydney or even ... Anyone know how anything about D V?

e-mail: imacneill@yahoo.com

LANA GAIL TAYLOR is the pseudonym for a graduate student at the University of Oregon beginning September 2002. Her erotic fiction has appeared in RIPE FRUIT: Erotica for Well Seasoned Lovers; BEDROOM EYES: Lesbians in the Boudoir; BEST BISEXUAL WOMEN'S EROTICA; Clean Sheets; Mind Caviar; Brilliant Smut; Dare for Women; and Playgirl Magazine. She dedicates "Lemon-Lime Firefly Girl" to the real Sally. RIP.

e-mail: lanagailtaylor@hotmail.com

ROYSTON TESTER grew up in Birmingham, England. Before moving to Canada in 1979, he lived in Barcelona and Melbourne. His work has appeared in RIP-RAP and INTERSECTIONS (Banff Centre Press), QUICKIES 2 (Arsenal Pulp Press), The Church-Wellesley Review, Descant, The Antigonish Review, PRISM International, Malahat Review, New Quarterly, Quarry, B&A New Writing and Queen Street Quarterly. PhD in Modern British Literature. His first novel NANCY'S BOY and first short fiction collection HANDS OVER THE BODY are currently doing the publishers' rounds through trail-blazing literary agent Anne McDermid. He lives in Toronto.

e-mail: rtester9796@rogers.com