James R. Whitley’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared or is forthcoming in several literary publications, including Barrelhouse, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, elimae, FRiGG, Mississippi Review, Pebble Lake Review, Poetry Southeast, the strange fruit, and Texas Poetry Journal. Whitley’s first book Immersion (Lotus Press, 2002) was selected by Lucille Clifton as the winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.
Manuel Yang is an adjunct faculty at Lourdes College. His writings have appeared in Cultural Logic, Bad Subject, CounterPunch, Forum, Kyoto Journal, and Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion. He is currently working on his dissertation, which deals -- among other things -- with whales, monastic communism, joy of apathy, the New Left, Henry Miller, E.P. Thompson, and polymorphously perverse uses of historical materialism (Yoshimoto also makes a cameo apperance throughout, throwing into question the very conception of a "cameo").
Francesco Levato is an award winning poet, digital media artist, and the author of Marginal State (Fractal Edge Press 2006), a collection of poetry that tackles issues ranging from domestic violence and exploitation to war and political unrest.
Graham Burchell was born in 1950 in Canterbury, England. In 1976 he graduated from the University of Sussex and embarked on a teaching career that would take him to various places around the world including Zambia, Saudi Arabia, Tenerife, Mexico, France and Chile. His first children’s fantasy novels, Wumpleberries and Gronglenuts and The Ice Spells of Krollinad were published in 2003, and 2005 respectively.