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Sonia Gutiérrez
Sonia Gutiérrez is a humanitarian, translator, social critic, poet, teacher, feminist and pseudo-photographer, who lives in Fallbrook, California. She teaches English Composition at Palomar College and High School Equivalency to migrant farm workers. Sonia’s lifetime goals include the following: publish her bilingual poetry collection, Air of Complicity: a collection of black and white poems, Ph.D. at the University of Riverside, and continue writing to create a more conscientious América.

Jessica Huls
Jessica lives in Chicago with her prom date, Eric. She is from Nebraska and
owes a lot to the Missouri River Valley. She is currently hunting down an MA in
writing at DePaul University.

Matthew Kaberline
Born in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Matthew Kaberline moved to the suburbs of Washington D.C. when he was five years old. Matthew studied Political Science and English at Virginia Tech, graduating in 2003 with a BA. He is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at Emerson College, and has a poem forthcoming in Tar River Poetry. An enthusiast of the blues, soul, and Motown, Matthew is working on a sequence of elegies to soul singers including Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, and Otis Redding. He is excited to be published in Fringe and laughs every time he reads their catchphrase. Matthew would like to thank his parents for being so understanding when he turned down that scholarship to law school.

Reb Livingston
Reb Livingston is the co-editor of No Tell Motel and the anthology The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. Her online chapbook, Pterodactyls Soar Again, is forthcoming from the Whole Coconut Chapbook Series. Her poems have recently appeared or will soon in Best American Poetry 2006, Coconut and MiPOesias.

Nathan Long
Nathan Long has work in recent or upcoming issues of Tin House, Natural Bridge, The Sun, and The Tusculum Review, as well as the recent Glimmer Train anthology, Mother Knows. Currently, he is teaching at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey.

Jim Meirose
Jim Meirose’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in many leading literary magazines including Alaska Quarterly Review, South Carolina Review, New Orleans Review, and others. One of his stories which appeared in OASIS was short-listed for the 1997 O Henry Awards. His work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Hester Murman
This is Hester Murman's first submission of her visual artwork to a magazine. She has been drawing all her life, and as a child it was a favorite pastime. As an introvert, she can say without doubt that it kept her company. Hester is twenty-eight years old, writes as much as she can, and is studying one-on-one under the poet Cecilia Woloch.

Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar, founding editor of the international journal of the arts Drunken Boat and poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State, has published a book of poems, Instrumentality (Cherry Grove), named a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, written poems, reviews and essays for such publications as The Paris Review, Fulcrum and Poets & Writers, and read his work in many places, including the Asia Society and the National Arts Club. Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he is currently editing an anthology of contemporary Arab and Asian poetry. You can read an interview with him and listen to some of his poems.

Elizabeth Stark
Elizabeth Stark graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University with a BA in 2003, and spent time at Pembroke College, Oxford in 2001-2002. She is currently a second year MFA. candidate in fiction at Emerson College. Symbolic logic, philosophy of language, and feminism excite her on the theory circuit, and she enjoys reading and writing about modernist literature. She writes about trios, non-traditional relationships, and the bizarre occurrences of everyday life. In her spare time, Elizabeth enjoys samurai film, soapmaking, and fighting consumer culture.