Milt Caine  - For several years, I was in charge of press relations at Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark International Airports. These years were bracketed by my serving as the editor and associate publisher of two aviation trade journals with an occasional stint of writing for a third.  While doing these, I found time also to become an accredited second-night theater reviewer as well as a record reviewer for several local Long Island and New York City weeklies. Besides these, I also published a small bimonthly newspaper and later revived and published a most respected record review magazine for which I still provide short reviews. At present I devote myself mainly to writing fiction and to painting, mostly pastels. I won two scholarships from the Pastel Society of America. Several of my pastels are now in private collections, several of my stories have begun to appear in various publications. I will be having two exhibitions of my pastels later this year. I am currently working on a novel. My hobbies, listed in order of accomplishment, consist of photography, skiing and piano.
 Ian Catmur  lives and writes around the fringes of Providence. His story Kitimat was a 1996 Playboy College Fiction Award recipient, and appeared in issue 13 of Fuel. Scarified is his second story to appear in Fuel.
 Stephanie Dickinson  lives in Hell's Kitchen, NYC. She has published poetry in The New York Quarterly, The Ledge, The Borderlands, among others. Recently she finished a play Westwego.
 Hugh Fox  - "3 years ago I discovered that Mochica Indian pottery in Peru (a culture that begins around 150 B.C.) is filled with scenes from Hercules mythology and that the so-called "Fanged God" in Mochica myth is really Hercules - and there Phoenician words on Mochica pots in the Field Museum in Chicago. The book written for 2 years - and who cares about it...? No one. It is frustrating."
 Mark Hartenbach  is the grand poobah of Non Compos Mentis press.
 Coral Hull,  b. 1965, Paddington, New South Wales, Australia. I am a full time poet/ artist and have published extensively in literary magazines in the USA, Canada, Australia and Great Britain. In 1995 my first collection, In the Dog Days of Summer, was published in Hot Collation by Penguin Books, Australia. My next two collections, William's Mongrels and How Do Detectives Make Love? have also been accepted by Penguin. I am in the process of researching and editing The Book of Australian Animal Poems, a chronological and definitive anthology of Australian poets writing about animals. I am currently enrolled in a Doctor of Creative Arts Degree at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
 Lisa Manning  lives and works in San Francisco. She's never really gotten over a bad childhood or being of short stature. When she's not ranting about the most recent gang of thugs running things, she's usually plotting revenge against every giant that's crossed her. Her writing has appeared in various political and literary journals.
 John Parras  recntly received his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. His prose has appeared or is forthcoming in Hanging Loose, Gulf Stream, And Then, Yellow Silk, Equisite Corpse, and elsewhere. He teaches literatureand writing in the New York area.
 Walt Phillips  is a native New Englander and former newspaper reporter-editor. He has also worked on a railroad section gang and as an amusement park roust-about. He's been publishing poems and drawings throughout the small press world for four decades.
 John J. Shaw  has had short fiction published in Brown Review, Rockford Review, Libido, Passager, North Atlantic Review, Turnstile, and Gallery.
 Larry Tomoyasu  lives in Monterey Park, California where he engages in many different artistic endeavors, none of which he is any good at, but all of which give him much pleasure.
 Timothy Quinn  is an American citizen by birth, and has spent a great many of his formative years in upstate New York, where his mother's family still resides,  and southern California, where he has worked at various times as Collections Manager for a Beverly Hills luxury automobile rental agency and investigative clerk with the San Francisco office of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. He is the recipient of five Ontario Arts Council grants, with generous funding allocated by Dundurn Press, Books In Canada, Tsar Publications, Coach House Press and Cormorant Books. He has completed a first novel for which he is currently seeking publication, and begun work on a second. He currently resides in Toronto, Canada.