About the Contributors

• Greg Biglieri is a photosensitive poet who hascompleted numerous as yet unpublished works, including the mammoth*PADS*, a 165 pg. long poem dedicated to the foreshortening of theimage in language. He sleeps otherwise in Philadelphia.
• Annalisa Castaldo is A.B.D. at Temple University,English. Perhaps by the time this issue is printed she will havefinished her fourth chapter, but don't count on it.
• Mary Angela Coleman, a Wilmington, DE native, is awriter, teacher, volunteer and nonprofit administrator, all ofwhich are equally intimate parts of her life. Focusing primarilyon poetry, her subject matter and poetic style vary from theliterary to the lyric.
• Andrew Hilger lives with his wife Jennifer inBaltimore. He holds a master's degree in Creative Writing fromTemple and a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Damewhere he was awarded the Richard Sullivan prize for excellence inthe field of fiction.
• Marjorie Jolles is a doctoral candidate inPhilosophy at Temple, as well as a candidate for a GraduateCertificate in Women's Studies. Her dissertation explorespolitical, ethical, and aesthetic questions of identity formationand transformation of contemporary American women.
• Eric Keenaghan studies international modernism(s)& queer representation in Temple's Ph.D. English program. He iscurrently working on his own poetry and translations, as well as astudy on Wallace Stevens's racial and gender representations ofCaribbean cultures.
• Martha Kessler graduated from the Creative WritingProgram at Temple University in 1998. Though it sometimes seems toher that she has lived in all fifty states of the Union, she iscurrently a resident of Cape May, New Jersey.
• Pattie McCarthy received her M.A. from Temple inMay 1998. Her chapbook, Octaves, appeared in July from ixnaypress. She is also an editor for the Philadelphia-based BeautifulSwimmer Press.
• Chris McCreary received his B.A. from Temple in'95, and then the Creative Writing M.A. in '97; his current yearlysalary is a considerably lower amount than the student loan debtthat he acquired while in Temple's creative writing program.
• Jennifer McCreary is a survivor of Temple'sundergraduate program in English '91-'96 (one year off for goodbehavior); has taught poetry workshop at the PennsylvaniaGovernor's School for the Arts; and is presently living and workingin Philadelphia (ho hum).
• Chris Nosal is a graduate of Temple University. Heis working on a novel, Omnibus, and teaching at PeirceCollege in Philadelphia.
• Shawn Loewen is in the TESOL (Teaching English toSpeakers of Other Languages) program in the college of Education,and is currently working on projects that investigate thecharacteristics of teacher/student interaction.
• Elizabeth Van Schaick recently completed her M.A.in English at Temple, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Women'sStudies. Her essay "Losing Me, Finding Me" appeared in the premiereissue of Schuylkill.
• Bill Van Wert is the author of The Invention ofIce Skating and Proper Myth, two recent books of poetry,and the forthcoming Vital Signs (poetry) and TheAdvancement of Ignorance (short stories). He teaches film andcreative writing at Temple.
• Kevin Varrone's poems have appeared in Mass Ave,the Baltimore Review, APR's Philly Edition, and Pavement Saw. Heis the curator of the 5 Corners poetry reading series in CenterCity and co-founder of Beautiful Swimmer Press.
• Kathryn Zervos is currently a Ph.D. candidate inthe department of English at Temple. Her research emphases arecomposition and rhetoric, and critical theory.

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