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.

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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

Jochen Brennecke

Jochen Brennecke is a photographer and artist from New York City. His work is based on photographs taken by himself and later transposed into a new image by using digital technics. He calls his images HyperPhotography.

Website: http://www.hyperart.com

Robert Claus 

Robert Claus was born in Göttingen, Germany and grew up in Germany, France and England before settling in San Jose, Calif. He has worked as a freelance translator, voice-over artist, warehouse porter, filing clerk, actor, mechanic, bodyguard, teacher and composer. His poetry has appeared in the Santa Clara Review, Central California Poetry Journal, Convergence, the PW Review, Poet’s Cut, San Jose’s Downtown Magazine and Reed Magazine. Recently, he performed the seeker, a collage-sonata for voice. A new edition of his chapbook under sky will soon be available. The sonata and chapbook may be obtained by contacting Robert Claus at claustrans@earthlink.net.

Email: claustrans@earthlink.net

Molly Fisk

Molly Fisk lives in Nevada City, Calif., where she teaches poetry and writes essays for KVMR 89.5 FM. She’s the author of Listening to Winter and a winner of NEA and California Arts Council poetry fellowships. Her acclaimed Internet workshop Poetry Boot Camp is at www.poetrybootcamp.com

Website: http://www.mollyfisk.com

Aaron Hellem

Aaron Hellem is an M.F.A. candidate at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His works have previously appeared in the Berkeley Fiction Review, WoW and Arnazella; works of his are forthcoming in Ink Pot, Liquid Ohio, Willard and Maple, Timber Creek Review and Bitter Oleander.

Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones has three novels published and a collection of short stories due out this summer (Bleed Into Me). A former NEA fellow, he currently teaches fiction at Texas Tech University.

Bonnie Naradzay

Bonnie Naradzay earned an M.A. in English from Harvard University, where she studied with Robert Lowell. Last year she studied with Elizabeth Arnold at the University of Maryland and with Rick Barot, the Jenny McKean Moore poet-in-residence at The George Washington University. Also last year she read love poems at the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon Series. She lives in Silver Spring, Md.

Email: boggleplayer@comcast.net

Renato Rosaldo

Renato Rosaldo’s first book of poetry (a bilingual Spanish-English collection, Prayer to Spider Woman/Rezo a la mujer araña) received a 2004 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. A health crisis started him writing poetry in 1996. 

A cultural anthropologist, Rosaldo is the author of Culture and Truth. After 33 years of teaching at Stanford University, he moved to New York City in the fall of 2003.

Email: renato.rosaldo@nyu.edu

K. M. St. Claire

K.M. St. Claire lives and writes in Menlo Park, Calif. Her poetry has appeared in The Montserrat Review, Fresh Hot Bread, The Sand Hill Review, The Oregonian and in the book Phonics Through Poetry. Her fiction has been published in CICADA Magazine. St. Claire’s poetry won first place in the Gateways 2000 Writers Contest and an award from the Soul-Making Literary Awards. She won first place fiction awards from the Willamette Writers’ 1995 Kay Snow Awards and the Foster City International Writing Competition in 2000, and she received an honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest 2001 Writer’s Competition.

Email: kmstclaire@aol.com

Lenore Weiss

Lenore Weiss lives in Oakland, Calif., where she runs a website for a transportation company. She also serves as the Middle East peace coordinator for Kehilla Community Synagogue. In 2003, she was named as a finalist in the Poets & Writers “California Voices” contest. Her poetry has been published in Paterson Literary Review, Raven Chronicles, Canadian Women Studies Journal, FrogPond, Praxis, Room, Androgyne, Verbum, Mosaic, The Graybook, The Louisville Review, Contemporary Women Poets, Tunnel Road and Alpha Beat Soup.

Website: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~lpweiss/menu.html