Lo Galluccio is a poet and vocal artist whose first poetry chapbook, Hot Rain, came out in 2003 on Singing Bone Press. Her work has been published in The Wilderness House Literary Review, Heat City Literary Review, Lungfull!, Audience Reivew, Ibbetson St., I am from Lower East Side, Eden Waters Press, Litkicks.com, Night magazine and others. Her two solo CDs, Being Visited -- a pop/spoken word record, and Spell on You, an avant jazz/blues record, are available on www.amazon.com, and www.cdbaby.com. In the fall of 2008, a 70 page prose-poem Sarasota VII, will be released on Cervena Barva press.

Coleen T. Houlihan is a novelist and poet who studied writing at Wellesley College. She has released two chapbooks, the most recent titled, This Human Heart, a collection of eight poems spanning several years. She has featured at Stone Soup, Best Sellers, Borders, The Sherman Cafe and Walden Poetry Series and published poetry in The Alewife, The Wilderness House Literary Review, Ibbetson Street Press, Spare Change and abroad. She lives in Boston, MA.

Danielle L. Georges lives in Boston MA. She is a writer and educator, with research and teaching interests in contemporary American poetry, Caribbean literature, post-colonial literature, translation, and historiography. She is the author of a book of poems, Maroon (Curbstone Press, 2001); has poems forthcoming in Tuesday: an Art Project, and in the anthology A Cadence of Hooves; and her work has appeared recently in the journals Callaloo and Poeisis. She is an Associate Professor in the Creative Arts and Learning Division, Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, of Lesley University.

Isabella Ruggerio Du Mond writes fiction and poetry. She writes at home and enjoys reading. She lives in Cambridge MA, and attends the Cambridge Port School.

Sole Nazaire is a young creative writer. She enjoys dancing, writing, reading, painting, modeling and her new favorite discovery is acting. She attends the Peabody School in Cambridge, MA.