Lara Gularte is a student in the M.F.A. creative writing program at San Jose State University, where she has served as poetry and art editor for Reed Magazine. She received the 2005 Anne Lillis Award for Creative Writing and Phelan Awards for several of her poems. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including 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's poetry and fiction have appeared in The Antietam Review, The Comstock Review, Calyx, Fourteen Hills, Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley and San Jose’s Downtown Magazine, among others. She was awarded the 2003 Yemassee prize in fiction and has received a Hoyns Fellowship from the University of Virginia.

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

Rosanna Armendariz

Rosanna Armendariz grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. She now lives in El Paso, Texas, where she recently earned an M.F.A. from the Bilingual Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora, Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press 2005), Barbaric Yawp, Zygote In My Coffee, Pindeldyboz, Illya’s Honey and BorderSenses. Her chapbook, Brooklyn Smoker, will be available in July 2005 through BoneWorld Publishing.

Email: rosanna_armendariz@sbcglobal.net

Alan Stewart Carl 

Alan Stewart Carl is a freelance writer currently living in Washington, D.C. In addition to fiction, Carl writes marketing copy for local ad agencies and provides political commentary at the site YellowLineBlog.com. His fiction has also appeared in Flashquake.

Email: alan_s_c@yahoo.com

Eugenia Chao

Eugenia Chao was born and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. She lives in State College, Penn., where as an M.F.A. student she has completed two manuscripts and is working on a new martial arts novel. Her writing has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, The Cream City Review, The New Review of Literature, Potomac Review and Word Riot. She also writes for the Middle Eastern dance journal The Gilded Serpent.

Website: http://www.geocities.com/ejcejcejc5396

Grace Cavalieri

Grace Cavalieri is the author of 14 books and chapbooks of poetry; her latest children’s book is Little Line. What I Would Do For Love, her book of poems in the voice of Mary Wollstonecraft, was published by Jacaranda Press in 2004. Her play Quilting the Sun was recently presented at the Smithsonian Institution by its New York cast. Her 20th play, Jennie & the JuJu Man, premiered in New York City in 2004. She has produced and hosted “The Poet and the Poem” program on public radio for 27 years. The series is now recorded at the Library of Congress for distribution via NPR.

She is active in small press publishing, writes reviews of books and theater, and teaches creative writing workshops throughout the country. Cavalieri has won the Allen Ginsberg Award for poetry, the Pen Fiction Award for short story, and the Silver Medal from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

She is married to the sculptor Kennth Flynn. They have four daughters and four grandchildren.

Nitsa

Nitsa’s photography has been published via the Internet and in printed books and has appeared periodically in framed print exhibits. She is from Los Angeles.

Robert Pesich

Robert Pesich lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and works at Stanford University as a staff scientist. Recent work has appeared in Albatross, 2River View and The Bitter Oleander. In 2004, he was awarded a poetry fellowship from Arts Council Silicon Valley. His chapbook, Burned Kilim, was published by Dragonfly Press in 2001. He is vice president of Poetry Center San Jose.

Email: srchek1@yahoo.com
Website: www.geocities.com/robertpesich

Ernie Wormwood

Ernie Wormwood is a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and lives in Leonardtown, Md. She teaches English and political science at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Her work has appeared in Connections, YAWP, The Squaw Valley Review, The Antietam Review, Underwire and Beltway Quarterly and is forthcoming in Poetic Voices Without Borders from Gival Press and Only the Sea Keeps, an anthology of tsunami poems.

Email: erniewormwood@gmpexpress.net