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Tristan Abbott
Tristan Abbott is an MA candidate at the University of Northern Iowa, where he busies himself trying to trick people into thinking that nuclear scare films have something to do with Gravity's Rainbow. Tristan's fiction has previously appeared in Cesium and The Peacock's Feet. His novel, Suckworld, will soon be finished, and is looking for a publisher. He can be contacted at ta529640@uni.edu.

Leigh Anne Couch
Leigh Anne Couch lives in Sewanee, Tennessee with her husband and dogs. She is the managing editor of the Sewanee Review. Her poems have appeared in the Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, 32 Poems, Blackbird, and other journals.

Tm Gratkowski
After attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hoschule fur Agawandte Kunst in Vienna, Tm went onto receive a BS and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin and an MA from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. As a visual artist Tm has always sought out the unexplained, the curious, the strange, and the undefined within popular culture. He discovers relationships hidden and unrealized upon first glance and develops ideas to confront issues hidden within the material we are exposed to everyday. It is this small connection that Tm sees and seeks out, creating works of art which challenge the unchallenged perceptions of ideas and values all around us. Among other achievements, Tm's Art and interview will be featured in the Spring/Summer issue of Be Which Magazine. Recently, he has sold a collage entitled "Chiasma", through Christies, Los Angeles, and in April of 2005, he was named of one "L.A.'s top 25 Emerging Artists" with a show at Gallery Yormagil. Tm also created a series of collages for Moby's "Spiders" video. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Clarisse Hart
Clarisse Hart is an editorial intern at The Atlantic Monthly and teaches research writing at Emerson College, where she is finishing her MFA thesis, a series of profiles, this year. Originally from Tennessee, she got her BA from Mount Holyoke, where she was trained as a biologist. Since graduation she has intermittently done whale and spider research at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies and the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. In her free time, she sings with the New England Conservatory and races outrigger canoes. She lives in Jamaica Plain, MA, with her new wife. This is her first creative publication.

Rosalie Morales Kearns
Rosalie Morales Kearns has just finished her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has stories published or forthcoming in Painted Bride Quarterly, Grain, Kalliope, and other journals. "The Revolutionary's Wife" is part of a story cycle entitled "The Wives," which also includes "The Pirate's Wife," "The Priest's Wife," and "God's Wife."

Jasmin Saigal
Jasmin Saigal is a 33-year-old writer from India. She has an MA in English from Calcutta University and teaches English for a living. Jasmin Saigal is her pseudonym.

Jennifer Trudeau
Jennifer Trudeau holds a BA from U-Michigan (Ann Arbor) and a Master's from USC. The author of Left-handed Morpheus (true stories and essays) and Haunted Mad Girl (poetry) is currently finishing The Bible of Hell, her first novel. Her writing has won two Hopwood awards, and she has new short fiction forthcoming in Storyglossia this fall. Jennifer keeps a blog at lefthandedmorph.livejournal.com. The picture was taken by her husband, wildlife photographer Richard Kolakovich.