Louise Marie Del Santo is living in Rhode Island, a Cardiac Medical Surgical Nurse, and freelance poet published on the internet in various publications and working on poetry to be published in the States. Writing is her passion.
Like the poet-detective featured in her first novel, Ask the Dead, published by Martin Brown, Joyce Yarrow has a hyphenated professional identity. Ms. Yarrow is a poet and fiction writer, multimedia performance artist, and singer/songwriter.
Diane Raptosh is the Eyck-Berringer Endowed Chair of English at Albertson College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho. She has published two books of poems, _Just West of Now_ (Guernica Editions, 1992) and ¬¬_Labor Songs_ (Guernica, 1999). Her new collection of prose poems, _Parents from a Different Alphabet_, is due to be published by Guernica Editions this fall.
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee’s book, On the Altar of Greece (Gival Press, 2006), winner of the Seventh Annual Gival Press Poetry Award, has been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and other awards.