Edward Ashton currently lives and works in Rochester, NY. His fiction has appeared previously in a number of literary magazines, including Louisiana Literature, Parting Gifts, and The Lowell Review. Night Swimmer appeared previously in the Painted Hills Review.
Richard Cumyn'swork has recently appeared in The Morpo Review, Kudzu, InterText and other places, including BPQ#3.
Sharon Yamanaka lives in the Seattle area. Her book of nature illustrations, Natives of the West Coast is forthcoming from Tabula Rasa Press. This is her first fiction publication.
Leigh Palmer lives between Wytheville and Charlottesville, Virginia although she is considering moving almost anywhere else that isn't flat and has an Amtrak station. Her work has appeared recently in the New England Review, Appalachian Heritage, Greensboro Review, and radio station WTJU's Free Verse series.
Melanie Zyck lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Mina Kennedy, originally from the Republic of Ireland, is a bookseller and writer living in Richmond, Virginia. She is currently working on a novel, in which a Tennessean meets a Glaswegian, to be called Cry Mew.
Davis McCombs' poetry also appeared in BPQ#3. He received his MFA this year from the University of Virginia, where he has been a Henry Hoyns Fellow.
Ioana Ieronim is a poet, editor, translator, and the author of seven volumes of poetry. Currently she is the Cultural Counselor in the Romanian Embassy in Washington. The Triumph of the Water Witch was published in Romania in 1992.
Adam J. Sorkin is a Professor of English at Penn State. His collaborative translations of various Romanian poets have appeared in over 50 literary magazines, including Poetry, American Poetry Review, and the New England Review. He is also a co-editor and a major translator of An Anthology of Romanian Women Poets, just out from East European Monographs/Columbia University Press.
Eva Shaderowfsky is a frequent contributor to BPQ. Her poems, stories, and reviews have appeared widely.
Paul Glennon is nothing like the narrator of A History of My Mistakes (which previously appeared in the Canadian journal Broke), and his wife is prepared to sign a statement to that effect. He currently writes software manuals, and is editing his novel length work The Fullness of Time.