Apart from running the UK's only moose sanctuary, Dean Baker has been published in Wild Child, New Camp Horror, Thievesjargon, Skive, Zygote in My Coffee, Gonzobeats, and Blue Almonds magazines. He writes feverishly, travels extensively and currently maintains a healthy sense of humour and a sunny disposition in his native Middlesex. Boz Bowles lives, teaches, and writes in Greenville, SC. He holds an M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University where he was on the editorial staff of Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in several literary journals and magazines, including Red Rock Review, River Oak Review, Dream Network Journal, Art Times Journal, and Rainbow Curve. In the past, he has been a blues drummer, a dump truck driver, a shovel kicker, and a burger flipper. For Mike Boyle, there's been street life, bar life and factory life in several cities. There have been songs with several bands, poems, stories, home recordings and several novel messes. Currently a factory slug that runs printing presses in Harrisburg, PA. Daniel Allen Cox is the author of the story collection Episodes of Deflated Magic (Fever Press, 2004), and the novella Tattoo This Madness In (Dusty Owl Press, 2006) He is the Artist Spotlight Editor of Outsider Ink magazine and has written interviews for the seminal punk newspaper New York Waste. Marvin Dorsey lives and works in Georgetown, Texas. He and his wife have a pile of kids and pets. He wants to invent a new language and build human replicants. Quickly, quickly! Malon Edwards is a fiction writer currently living on the North Side of Chicago. P. S. Ehrlich is the author-in-progress of 13 BLACK CATS UNDER A LADDER, of which Never Tell Your Birthday Wish is an excerpt. Others can be found at his website, www.skeeterkitefly.com. Steve Finbow is a Londoner. He has worked for the artist Richard Long, the biographer Victor Bockris, and was researcher/editor for the poet Allen Ginsberg. He is Associate Fiction Editor of The Absinthe Literary Review and Contributing Editor for Me Three. He is also a writer with Quarantine Theatre Company. His book Pond Scum and Other Effluvia is available here: http://www.pulpbits.com. James Greco does not exist. James Grinwis lives in MA. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, and many others. An E-chapbook of his flash fiction can be found at Pulpbits Press. Bradley Mason Hamlin lives in Sacramento, California. His poetry, short stories, and articles have appeared in several small press books, magazines, and literary journals in print and on line. Brad & his wife Nicky own Mystery Island Publications and publish an ongoing in-print literary pop culture magazine called: Mystery Island Magazine. Recent work includes the publication of Tough Company by singer/songwriter Tom Russell, featuring: Charles Bukowski. Brad is also the creator of the metaphysical crime series: The Secret Society, featuring the Intoxicated Detective. For more information about Hamlin and other wild things-visit: www.mysteryisland.net. Andy Henion writes because his professional football career fizzled early, in eighth grade. He likes his beer loud, his music dark and his costars droll. His fiction has appeared in a few dozen print and online journals, not including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's and Playboy. He was born the day before Armstrong planted his flag on the moon. He's of average length. Eric Jones is a charlatan. His codswallop has appeared in such odious hardscrabble publications as Or-else, LOAF, La Pensee Savage, and The Damned Human Race. The now appropriately defunct band Small Girl Boils Water adapted his wretched America into the 21st Century for a rotten song on their lousy self-titled album. He is also a passable visual artist with such dubious credits as the road sign for Little Laurel Preschool and the awful cover illustration for the deplorable Kittens in the Boiler. He lives in barren New Hampshire where he glares at children from his window . Aryan Kaganof drives a 1966 Valiant 200 automatic. He wears Converse All Star sneakers, a Puma jacket and shoots Glock. More information can be found at www.kaganof.com. Jeff T. Kane is known as the Eric Roberts of the BMX circuit and rides for team Mongoose on a 2004 Mongoose Villain. He occasionally tries his hand at fiction writing. You can buy his book, The Five People You Meet When You Shit Your Pants through www.downsupremacy.blogspot.com Paul Kavanagh was born in England 1971. He is happy. His wife is happy. Together they are happy. A graduate of the MFA program at Naropa University, Vishal Khanna writes grants for dermatologists in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His fiction and nonfiction have been published or is forthcoming in Sun Magazine, Mississippi Review Online, Pindeldyboz and Punk Planet, among other places. Delphine Lecompte lives in a drab inhospitable coastal town in northwest Europe. She can shoot an apple off your head with a crossbow. She can hold her breath for two minutes and thirteen seconds. On Sundays she sits on a rooftop and reads James Hadley Chase novels. Her first novel, Kittens in the Boiler, is available through Thieves Jargon Press Matt Maxwell grew up and proudly lives in the Midwest. He works full-time for the railroad- all the live long day- and does freelance when time permits, which is usually while recovering from injuries caused by rock climbing or mountain biking. Tom Meek is a contributing film critic for the Boston Phoenix and a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics. He can be heard as a regular on WRKO's Taste of Boston Tonight Radio show. His ramblings have appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Web del Sol, Film Threat and E! Online. His fiction can be found at The Sink, Thieves Jargon and Word Riot. He lives in Cambridge, practices yoga and rides his bike everywhere. Tom is currently working on a collection of short stories that take place in Boston. Corey Mesler has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. His first novel, Talk: a Novel in Dialogue, appeared in 2002 and received kind blurbs from Robert Olen Butler, Frederick Barthelme and John Grisham. His second, We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, is just out. He has 5 chapbooks due out in 2006. He also claims to have written, "Mmmm-Bop." With his wife he owns Burke's Book Store in Memphis, Tennessee. Suzanne Nielsen has never had an address outside of Minnesota a day in her life. It wasn't until recently, when phone numbers advanced to 10 digits, that she thought of herself as an important contributor to a system held accountable. This is when she became a notary public. She carries her stamp with her at all times just in case of emergencies. Nielsen teaches creative writing at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and Metropolitan State University. Her dissertation explores the question: what makes a good writer a good teacher? It's yet to be officially notarized. Grant Perry's publication credits in print and online include Pindeldyboz, FRiGG, Snow Monkey, Duck & Herring, Eyeshot, Megaera and NO… Journal. Excerpts of his never-to-be-completed novel have appeared in The Orphan Leaf Review. Born in Glasgow and raised in Leeds, he now lives in South London. Over three hundred of Stephen Rogers' stories and poems have been selected to appear in more than a hundred publications. His website, www.stephendrogers.com, includes a list of new and upcoming titles as well as other timely information. A native of Boston, Kenneth Ryan has been published widely, electronically and in print. His first novel, Hiders, was completed in January of 2006. He is currently hard at work on his second novel, a paranormal love story, as well as compiling a collection of short stories. Kenneth currently lives and writes in Winthrop, Massachusetts, snugly nestled on a brief strip of beach between Logan International Airport and the Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant. Joe Shooman lives in the UK and one of these days is going to be found out. Paul Silverman has worked as a newspaper reporter, sandwich man, olive packer and advertising creative director. One of his commercials won a Silver Lion at Cannes. His stories have appeared in The South Dakota Review, The North Atlantic Review, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot, In Posse Review, The Pedestal Magazine, The Timber Creek Review, The Front Range Review, The Jabberwock Review, Amarillo Bay, The Adirondack Review, The Paumanok Review, The Summerset Review, and others. Byline Magazine and The Worcester Review have nominated his stories to the Pushcart Committee. VerbSap nominated a story for the Million Writers Award. New work was recently accepted by Oyster Boy Review, Tampa Review, Smokelong Quarterly and Jewish Currents. Willie Smith is deeply ashamed of being human. His work celebrates this horror. His novella SUBMACHINEGUN CONSCIOUSNESS can be read at http://semantikon.com. Novel OEDIPUS CADET available from Black Heron Press. Chapbook GO AHEAD SPIT ON ME too hard to find anyway. He recommends Spider Fuck archived at http://corpse.org. Also salivates a regular online column at 99 BURNING. He intends to stop writing shortly after he is dead, which should be quite soon, as he is fifty-six years of age, unemployed and afflicted with the usual nasty habits.