Buck Buchanan (formerly published as Buck McCrary) received his Master'sin English Literature from the University of South Florida. He's writtenhundreds of poems, three novels and is currently compiling a collection ofshort stories.

Toni de Bonneval works as an institutionalhistorian, recent publications include stories in Carolina Quarterly,Other Voices and Ascent. Her stories are forthcoming in WestBranch, Crone's Nest, and Nebraska Review.

Nate Chinen currently works as Assistant Coordinator at the KellyWriters House and writes jazz reviews for the Philadelpia City Paper. Herecently completed his undergraduate work in poetry at the University ofPennsylvania.

Jessica Chiu is a Biological Basis of Behavior major at theUniversity of Pennsylvania.

Richard Cumyn is a contributing editor at The Blue MoonReview. His two books of short-stories are The Limit of Delta YOver Delta X (GooseLane Editions) and I Am Not Most Places (Beach Holme Publishing).Recent stories have appeared on-line in Eclectica and TheMississippi Review.

Linh Dinh is the editor andco-translator of Night Again: Contemporary Fiction From Vietnam(Seven Stories Press 1996). He has published poems, short stories andtranslations in Sulfur, American Poetry Review, Threepenny Review,Denver Quarterly, Manoa and New Observations, among otherjournals. New work is forthcoming in New American Writing.

Annette Earling is managing editor of CrossConnect andpublishes an occasional column in the Philadelphia City Paper.

Christopher Fielder lives and writes in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Robert Klein Engler lives in Chicago. His books of poetry,Shoreline and Medicine Signs, are published by Alphabeta Press. Hewas the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards for his poem"Three Poems for Kabbalah," which appeared in Fish Stories Collective2.

David Graham teaches English at Ripon College in Wisconsin, wherehe alsocoordinates the Writing Program. His poems have been collected in 4 printeditions, most recently *Second Wind* (Texas Tech UniversityPress).

Kimiko Hahn won the American Book Award in 1996 for her last bookof poems entitled The Unbearable Heart. She also received theTheodore Roethke Poetry award for her previous book, Earshot, aswell as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the NewYork Foundation for the Arts. Her other books include Air Pocketand We Stand Our Ground. She is currently a professor of poetrywriting and literature at Queens College/CUNY.

Jeannette Harris is the Publisher and Editor of O Shenandoah!Country Rag.

Ray Heinrich lives and writes in Washington D.C., his work appearedin the first print volume of CrossConnect.

Stanley Jenkins' stories have appeared in Amelia, 32 Pages,Eclectica and in the upcoming Blue Moon Review.

Joel B. Kaylor is an independent interior renovations contractorbased in Philadelphia. He has an MFA in Ceramic Arts from the Universityof Puget Sound and has taught and exhibited extensively on both coasts.His current project is helping to organize the annual Show for Lesbian andGay Artists opening June 5 at the Highwire Gallery in downtownPhiladelphia.

Scott Kramer is a poet, performer and producer who recentlyreceived his M.A. in English from Northern Arizona University. Kramer'spoems have appeared in the first web issue and the first print issue ofXConnect Kramer is a freelance writer who resides in Philadelphia.

Robert Lehmann has had fiction published in Gypsy, VietnamBig Book, Barking Spider, JCAMI, Anathema. and Pif.

Teresa Leo is a staff writer at the University of Pennsylvania.Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, PhiladelphiaInquirer and elsewhere.

Jennifer Linden is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer wholives and works in Philadelphia.

James Brian Livingstone is a 44 year old medical doctor, who practicesemergency and family medicine with a smidgeon of allergy consultationwork added in for good measure. He has been published in a number ofliterary magazines including the Poetry Cafe, the Astrophysic'sPartner Tango Speaks, and Eclectica Magazine.

John McCalla is a freelance writer who lives and works inPhiladelphia. His work has been published in many sources, including theNew York Times and the Philadelphia City Paper. He authors aweekly columnin the Philadelphia Daily News.

John Murphy is currently exhibiting in the Group Identity Show atthePhiladelphia Art Alliance through March 22nd and at theMain Line Art Center in Ardmore, PA, where he was awarded the Bogash andHeicklin Award for his works in paper.

John Norton has recently completed a novella "Re: marriage" andis working on a hypertext narrative "Nondisclosure Statements." Hisbook of prose poems and sketches The Light at the End of the Bog (SanFrancisco: Black Star Series, 1989, 1992) won an American Book Award.

Charles O'Hay is the recipient of a 1994-95 fellowship in poetryfrom the Pennslyvania Council on the Arts. His work has appeared inAmerican Poetry Review, West Branch, Brooklyn Review, New YorkQuarterly among others. His most recent chapbook, Curio waspublished by Kali Momma Press.

Aaren Yeatts Perry is the recipient of a 1990 Writing Fellowshipfrom the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has worked for ten years asa Philadelphia-based poet, writer, and cultural activist. He teachespoetry in elementary and middle schools in the region. He is TechnicalDirector of mainstage productions at the Painted Bride Art Center. He haspublished recently in The Blue Guitar, The Painted Word, Painted BrideQuarterly, Long Shot Review, and other magazines. His book, PoetryAcross the Curriculum, will be published by Allyn and Bacon in 1997.

Sue Scalf's latest collection is South by Candlelight,just published by ElkRiver Review Press and nominated for a Pulitizer. She has three otheruniversity and small-press collections. Recent work appears in TheChattahooche Review.

Ruth Knafo Setton has received a number awards, including NEAUS/Mexico Creative Artist Fellowship, PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Awardand two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships among others. Herwork has been widely published in journals and anthologies, includingMediterraneans, International Quarterly, Tikkun, New Directions forWomen, Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction,Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Years of Literary Legacy. Sheteaches World Women's Literature, Creative Writing and Jewish Literatureat Lafayette College. She has just completed her first novel,Suleika.

Barbara Tran's poems have been published in Antioch Review,Columbia Review, Pequod, Seneca Review, Southern Poetry Review, amongother journals, and the anthologies Premonitions: A Collection ofContemporary Asian American Poetry and On A Bed Of Rice: AsianAmerican Erotica.