Lara Gularte is a graduate student in the M.F.A. creative writing program at San Jose State University, where she was poetry and art editor for Reed Magazine. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as the Santa Clara Review, The Montserrat Review, and the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. Her chapbook Days Between Dancing was published by Poet's Corner Press in 2002. Gularte's poems have been translated into Portuguese by the University of the Acores and featured in the literary supplement, SAAL-Suplemento Acoriano de Artes e Letras, da revista Saber/Acores. 

Elaine Bartlett was the recent recipient of the Yemassee prize in fiction. Her poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as The Antietam Review, The Comstock Review, Calyx, Fourteen Hills, Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley and San Jose’s Downtown Magazine. She lives in San Jose with her husband and daughter.

Designer

Luis Ledezma is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he earned a B.S. in electrical engineering. He is currently the webmaster of Convergence, and the town of Tuxca (www.tuxca.com). Ledezma resides in San Jose.

Email: lledezma@alumni.calpoly.edu

Contributors

Karren Alenier

Karren Alenier is author of five collections of poetry, including Looking for Divine Transportation (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press), winner of the 2002 Towson University Prize for Literature. Her poetry and fiction have been published in such magazines as the Mississippi Review, Jewish Currents and Poet Lore. Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, her opera with composer William Banfield and Encompass New Opera Theatre artistic director Nancy Rhodes, will premier in New York City in the spring of 2005.

Email: karren@alenier.com

Grace Cavalieri 

Grace Cavalieri is the author of thirteen books of poetry and numerous produced plays. Her latest book of poetry is What I Would Do For Love: Poems in the Voice of Mary Wollstonecraft (Jacaranda Press, 2004).

Her full-length play Quilting the Sun enjoyed a reading by its New York City cast at the Smithsonian Institution in 2003. A one-act, Jennie and the JuJuMan, premiered at the Art/NY Festival in 2004 at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Cavalieri has produced and hosted "The Poet and the Poem" program on public radio for 27 years, presenting 2,000 poets to the nation. She now broadcasts the series annually from the Library of Congress via NPR satellite (www.loc.gov/poetry). Cavalieri is the founder of two poetry presses in Washington, D.C., that have operated since the 1970s. She is a consultant to the Library of Congress for the library's poetry archives and lives in Annapolis, Md.

Email: gracecav@comcast.net
Website: http://www.gracecavalieri.com

Catherine Daly

Catherine Daly is the author of two books of poetry: DaDaDa (Salt Publishing, 2003) and Locket (Tupelo Press, 2004). She lives in Los Angeles.

Email: cadaly@pacbell.net
Website: http://www.catherinedaly.info

Diane Frank

Diane Frank is author of four books of poems, including The Winter Life of Shooting Stars and The All Night Yemenite Café. Two of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and her novel Blackberries in the Dream House was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in San Francisco, where she dances, plays cello and teaches writing workshops.

Website: http://www.dianefrank.net

Do Gentry

Do Gentry lives in Sacramento, Calif., where she recently won third prize and two honorable mentions in the Sacramento Poetry Center's annual competition. She has had poems published in Sulphur River Literary Review, Ekphrasis, Fourteen Hills, Rhino, The Ledge and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, The Nightmare Parable, was published in connection with the 2004 Permafrost chapbook competition. "Element Poem" is part of a sequence of poems inspired by the study of alchemical texts.

Email: Bichette3@aol.com

Steve Mereu

Steve Mereu is a nationally exhibited photographer and teacher of photography, English and journalism. He was born in Bologna, Italy and graduated from Brown University. His photographs are inspired by the music he listens to, and by the Surreralists, especially André Breton, who remarked that "the eye exists in its savage state." Mereu lives with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles.

Email: steve@mereu.com
Website: http://www.mereu.com

Consuelo Marshall

Consuelo Marshall lives in Ventura, Calif. She is development consultant for the California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies, a statewide service organization. Marshall in 1997 attended the Fresno State Creative Writing M.F.A. Program. She writes articles for Lifescapes Magazine and other publications and is working on a nonfiction manuscript. Her poetry has appeared in Pacific Grove Poetry Anthology (1987), Zambomba (1998), Fresh Bread (2000), Convergence (2004) and Ventura County Star (2004). Her awards include Who to Watch in 2002; Ventura County Reporter (January 2002); Wages of Love; honorable mention, poem (October 2003), Southern California Writer's Conference; and first prize, published category, Ventura County Writer's Club Poetry Contest (2004). She has read at the San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival; for Out of our Minds, KKUP Radio, Cupertino, Calif.; and for Rhyme and Reason, Berkeley Art Museum, with Adam David Miller.

Email: ciunder@yahoo.com

John Nimmo

John Nimmo has published poems in Rattle, Stirring, Snakeskin, Half Drunk Muse, Poetalk, Electric Acorn and Sidereality. In 2002 he won first prize for rhymed verse in the Foster City International Writers Contest. Over the last few years, he has studied with accomplished poets, including Sharon Olds, Kim Addonizio and Dick Maxwell. He lives in Mountain View, Calif., and works as an environmental physicist specializing in groundwater issues.

Website: http://www.rubydoor.org/jnpoet.htm

Randall Weingarten

Randall Weingarten's poetry has appeared in San Jose's Downtown Magazine and Fresh Hot Bread, a publication of the Waverly Writers Group. Weingarten, a psychiatrist, resides in Palo Alto, Calif.

Email: rwgarden@comcast.net

J. Zimmerman

J. Zimmerman has worked as a surveyor at archeological digs in Britain and Greece, and as a solid-state physicist, a limnologist, a teacher, a software quality assessor, a radio host and engineer, a falconry apprentice, a web designer, a software designer, and a university advisor to ESL students. She is co-editor and contributor for "Poetry at Ariadne's Web."

Website: http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne