SEAN DONAHUE is a poet and activist living in Lawrence, MA

He can be contacted at: wrldhealer@yahoo.com


FRED & LARA ELLIS are photographers living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Their photography is available for sale from galleries throughout Virginia. They also do portraits on request.

They can be contacted at: mindseye@shentel.net


CHRIS KORNACKI is 22 and lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada where he is currently working towards his  B.A. in philosophy.

 He has been sending out submissions to magazines for the first time ever over the past two months, and thus far have haiku forthcoming in "bottle rockets" magazine.

hobbitlover@angelfire.com


SIRRUS POE lives in the midst of the tall, evergreen pines of Northeast Texas where he spends much of his time considering life in all its strange, and sometimes, horrific realms. He has traveled and lived in numerous places across the country, but settled down in Jefferson, Tx. after a southern belle showed him how to love. They have two kiddos, Peage and Tyler. Their mother insists they behave better than their father. The father is trying to improve, but it seems to him that growing up and acting like an adult all the time is a waste of laughs and smiles.

His poems, essays, photography and short stories have appeared in numerous print and online journals. Some of these include THE WRITERS PUBLISHING, SNOW MONKEY, CARILLON, CAN WE HAVE OUR BALL BACK?, ANCIENT PATHS and SIDE_REALITY. Current books include, “Releasing the Demons”, a collection of horror short stories/novellas and poems and, “A Mother’s Supposed Love”, a poetry collection that will be released in the spring of 2004 by Sun Rising Poetry Press. He is also the poetry editor for a print anthology, “Mind Mutations”, that will also be published later this year, that includes such contributors as Lyn Lifshin, Clayton A. Couch, Richard Jordan and Rae Pater.


 CHRIS TOLIAN is one of those people constantly searching for things that he doesn't yet understand. Finding muses makes him blissfully happy. He is intrigued by people and forever trying to connect. He can be found mostly around Chicago looking for that quiet place between the city and serendipity where the wild things dance and the sidewalk ends.

He has been published with Clean Sheets and Slow Trains Literary Journal.  He has most recently found a home here, among the contributors and editors of The Divine Animal (featured March 2004).  He is currently spewing various short stories and attempting a novel or two.  Mostly he works and raises beautiful little gypsy girls.  Ah, it should be mentioned that he is a militant member of the Bastinadoes. 

 The meaning of the previous statement, and any other bleatings uttered by him for that matter, should be taken with a large dose of skepticism… maybe.

His email is: christopher_2031@hotmail.com


RAE WEAVER lives and writes in Virginia where she's tolerated by two cats, a fesnying of ferrets, and her family. She is a 2003 Pushcart Prize Nominee and Poetry Editor for ERWA. Select recent and forthcoming publications include: Gin Bender, Lotus Blooms Journal, Erosha, Slow Trains and The Powhatan Review. Website: www.thewinterbourne.com. E-mail: rae@thewinterbourne.com