Alissa Appel runs marathons and Vestal hills. She likes to refinish furniture, visit dying cities, and plans to erradicate the dairy industry. Meagan Cass hails from the lush parks and soggy soccer fields of Westchester county. She is head fiction editor of Stirring, managing editor of Harpur Palate, and works as a freelance reporter for the North County News. This spring she will graduate from Binghamton University with a B.A. in English, a concentration in Creative Writing, and a minor in Philosophy. Her work has been published in Stirring and she is the 2003 recipient of the Portia Dunham Award in fiction. This fall she will enroll at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY to pursue an MFA in fiction writing. Claudia Grinnell was born and raised in Germany where she lived and raised hell until she was twenty-five. Then the German government had had enough of her antics and kicked her out of the country. She found a welcoming haven in Louisiana, where she now lives and teaches (at the University of Louisiana at Monroe). Claudia is incredibly smart and can leap tall buildings without even trying. She is wealthy beyond belief, having made a fortune off her teaching position. This bio is NOT embellished in any way and reflects the truth and nothing but. Yup. Really. I am not making this up. Aaron Jackson received his Bachelor's degree from Binghamton University with a concentration in English literature. His work has appeared in Stirring, Miller's Pond, and the now defunct Yukon Gold Quarterly. He currently serves as an Associate Editor at Stirring. kris t kahn is currently hearing the grating sound of cats in heat as he writes this bio, and is currently feeling the comforting chill of autumn coming in through the open window. His poetry can be seen in The Cortland Review, The 2River View, Naked Poetry, as well as a handful of perhaps less-frequented internet venues. kris' first chapbook, entitled the Gospel according to Thomas, is available from 2River. Current projects include: remembering to breathe, co-editing Sometimes City with the lovely marina buckler, and working on a proem-piece on mythology, voice and, of course, sexuality. Reviews    Reviewers    Sundress