Aldo Alvarez currently pursues a Doctorate in English with a creative dissertation at Binghamton University with the help of a Clifford D. Clark Graduate Fellowship. Columbia University of the City of New York awarded him a Masters in Fine Arts in Creative Writing. His short stories have appeared in ARK/Angel, Psychotrain/Brownbag Press, Pen & Sword, and Christopher Street; more work is forthcoming in future issues of Amelia and Merica Magazine. His short fiction was selected for inclusion in Best Gay Men's Fiction, 1996 and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Born and raised in Mayag¸ez, Puerto Rico, he currently resides in Binghamton, New York. Jennifer Buxton lives, works, and writes in Charlottesville, Virginia. Jordan Elgrably is a journalist and essayist whose literary non-fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Salmagundi, and The Best of Writers at Work 1994. He has recently completed a novel, Island of Strangers, from which "Kite Hill" is excerpted. Pat Guiney plays guitar and sings in a rock-jazz-funk-reggae-pop-improvisational band named Bud Collins. He currently lives with his girlfriend in Mansfield Center, Connecticut. "I work tedious temporary office jobs in the downtown Hartford towers of insurance, real estate, and consulting, but I don't recognize myself in a suit and a tie." "Australia" and "Rafters" are excerpted from "Autobiography of Somebody Else," a work in progress. Philip Hughes teaches English in Brookline, Massachusetts. David Kitchel is a freelance Internet consultant who's learning Irish. Ronald Edward Kittell is a sign technician in Auburn, Washington. Peter Rondinone is Director of Journalism at LaGuardia College, the City University of New York. His stories have appeared in Fiction International, ACM(Another Chicago Magazine),Wascana Review, and Venue. Mark Trainer graduated from the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia and has just completed a novel. Chris Waters has two poems in Summer Fires: New Poetry of Africa (Heinemann) and started Rhode Island's Live Poets Society. Katherine Williams writes "I'm a native Californian, transplanted to Texas four years ago. I try to squeak in a daily dose of writing when I'm not mothering my two small children (which is my full time job). I've had over a dozen stories published in the small presses in the past three years, and a chapbook of four of my stories entitled Of Angels, Crows and Three Tall Whores should be coming out sometime this spring, as part of Pyx Press's series on North American Magic Realism. "