Antler is the author of Factory (City Lights) and Last Words (Ballantine). He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Wynne Busby is a “sort of hermit” living in the mountains above the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts.

Colin Chisholm has traveled extensively in the former Yugoslavia. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

David Ehrenfeld is a biology professor at Rutgers University. He lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.

Derrick Jensen is an environmentalist, beekeeper, and journalist living in Spokane, Washington.

Len Messineo Jr.’s work has appeared in Rosebud, Shenandoah, and Midwest Quarterly. He lives in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Ralph Metzner is a family psychotherapist and professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He lives in Sonoma, California.

Randall Patnode is an itinerant journalist whose short stories have appeared in Innisfree and Descant. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.

Leslie Pietrzyk’s stories have appeared in the Iowa Review, the Gettysburg Review, and Epoch. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Josephine Redlin’s poems have appeared in the New England Review and the Antioch Review. She lives in Fresno, California.

Lawrence Rudner taught English and journalism at North Carolina State University and is the author of the novel The Magic We Do Here (Houghton Mifflin). He died in May 1995.

Sy Safransky is editor of The Sun.

Judy Nisenholt lives in Toronto with her husband (“the patron saint of promising photographers”) and two sons.