Annie Christain (b. 1981) is an English teaching assistant and 2nd year PhD student at the University of South Dakota. She received BA degrees in English and Philosophy & Religion from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri in 2003, and in May 2005, she received her MA in English from the University of South Dakota.
Solrun Hoaas is a Norwegian-born and Melbourne-based artist and writer. She studied Arts and Social Anthropology at Oslo University and theatre in Kyoto.
In Australia from 1972, she taught French, completed a Masters Degree on the Noh mask and worked in the Japanese Dept. at Australian National University, while also directing theatre and writing.
Tolu Ogunlesi was born in 1982.He graduated in pharmacy from the University of Ibadan in 2004. He is the author of a collection of poetry Listen to the Geckos singing froma Balcony, (Bewrite Books, UK, 2004). His fiction and poetry have appeared in Wasafiri, Sable, Orbis, Eclectica, Stickman Review, VLQ, Inkpot, Mississippi Review, Times Arts Review, Smoke: A London Peculiar,Sentinel Poetry Quarterly.
Wally Swist was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1953. His poems have appeared in such publications as Alaska Quarterly Review, The Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, Appalachia, Connecticut Review, New England Watershed Magazine, Osiris, Puckerbrush Review, Rosebud, Sanctuary: The Massachusetts Audubon Magazine, Stories from Where We Live: The North Atlantic Coast (Milkweed Editions), Stories from Where We Live: The Eastern Woodlands (Milkweed Editions), and Yankee.