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.

e-mail: barry@barrymatthews.com

e-mail: erickarl78@hotmail.com

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 anti-censorship benefit book WHAT'S WRONG? (Arsenal Pulp Press). He is collaborating with writer Dale Lazarov on a series of erotic graphic novels.

e-mail: flambe@chebucto.ns.ca

SHANNON CAIN spent ten years writing grant proposals before she turned to stories as a more appropriate outlet for her creative tendencies. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Zoetrope: All-Story Extra (September 2001), Other Voices (Fall 2002), and the anthology ALL IN THE SEASONING (Odd Girls Press, 2002). She was awarded Finalist for the Martindale Literary Award in 2000. She is executive director of the Amazon Foundation, a philanthropic organization that makes grants for feminist social change. Shannon lives in Tucson with her partner and seven-year old daughter. She is currently at work on a novel.

e-mail: shannon@amazonfound.org

CLINT CATALYST has a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in English from Hendrix College, a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco, and a Lifetime Achievement Award in Degeneracy from the U Ass of A. He is the author of COTTONMOUTH KISSES (Manic D Press) and has lots of freaky queer adventurous fluff awaiting at

e-mail: sobriquet@mindspring.com

ELIZABETH CROWELL is a writer of both fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Doubletake, Larcom Review, Christopher Street, Connecticut Poetry Review, and HERS 2 (Faber & Faber) among other publications. She is a graduate of Smith College and of the M.F.A. program at Columbia University. She teaches high school English.

SHELLEY ETTINGER's work has been published or is forthcoming in Tattoo Highway, Artemis, Snow Monkey, Mudlark, Samsara Quarterly and other journals. She is completing her first novel, VERA'S WILL, for which she received a research grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She was a Summer 2001 writer in residence at Norcroft Writing Retreat for Women. A secretary at New York University, she was a co-founder of the Lesbian and Gay Labor Network.

e-mail: se30@nyu.edu

JENNY HALL is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, where she teaches writing and cultural geography. Both her academic and creative writing have centered on suburban culture and landscape. "Billy" comes from a collection of stories she’s working on entitled THE GRID SYSTEM, which chronicles a hundred years in a postwar suburban subdivision —- and which she secretly thinks of as her real Ph.D. dissertation.

e-mail: jennifer.hall@utoronto.ca

A.C. KOCH says: I live in Zacactecas, Mexico, where I play guitar in a bebop combo, Clean & Sexy. For money, I teach English at a university and edit fiction for the online literary journal Zacatecas: A Review of Contemporary Word. My work has appeared in The Mississippi Review, Exquisite Corpse and River City, and is forthcoming in Oyster Boy Review and Carve.

e-mail: henry_iblis@hotmail.com

MANUEL MUÑOZ received his MFA from Cornell University and has had work published in several literary journals, including Boston Review, Fourteen Hills, Colorado Review, and Massachusetts Review. Forthcoming work will be featured this year in Glimmer Train and Puerto del Sol. He lives in New York City and is finishing a novel.

e-mail: munoz94@hotmail.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

REBECCA WALKER says: My name is Becky Walker. I'm a postgraduate student from Australia. I am a lesbian, mother, writer, occassional lover, with amazing friends.

e-mail: dolphin95@iprimus.com.au

DUANE WILLIAMS lives in Hamilton, Canada. His short fiction has appeared widely in literary anthologies, including QUEERIES, QUICKIES, QUEER VIEW MIRROR Volumes I and II, CONTRA/DICTION, Velvet Mafia, Buttmen, Suspect Thoughts, Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, and Full Body Contact. He is currently at work on his first collection of stories.

e-mail: duanewilliams@cogeco.ca