Xochitl is a 27-year-old poet residing in Eagle Rock, California. She is currently working on an MFA in poetry from Antioch University Los Angeles.  When not writing she is a fulltime English and Drama teacher and Theatre Department director at Arroyo Pacific Academy in Arcadia, CA.  She has been published in the PCC Inscape Journal, and online as a featured poet in poetrysuperhighway.com and roguescholars.com. She can be reached here.



Dennis is an English teacher at John Marshall High School in Silver Lake, California, and he has worked there for ten years.  He has a B.A. in English Literature, is working on an MFA in fiction at Antioch University Los Angeles, and has taken many fiction workshops through UCLA extension. He has won an AWP Intro Journals award, a Kirkwood Award for Fiction through UCLA, and an Academy of American Poetry Prize Honorable Mention.  His work has been published in Quarterly West, Parting Gifts, the Colorado Review, New Stories from the Southwest, and he has received Special Mention for the Pushcart Prize.  He lives with his wife, Rikki, and his son, Lel, in Highland Park, CA. He can be reached here.



Melissa is a 28-year old high school English teacher from Sacramento, CA.  She holds a BA in English Literature from Saint Mary's College of California and will graduate with her MFA in creative nonfiction from Antioch University Los Angeles in 2008.  Recipient of the 2003 Bazzanella Award for nonfiction, Melissa is working on a collection of essays that recount the Maltese immigrant experience in America.  Her writing has appeared in Today, 10 Spot, and she is a regular contributor to SierraStyle and RosevilleGranite BayStyle magazines.  She lives in Sacramento with her husband. She can be reached here.



Seth is 28 years old and lives in San Francisco, California. He is working on an MFA in fiction and creative nonfiction at Antioch University Los Angeles, and he is also working on a novel about the Splinter Generation. Before he began writing fiction and nonfiction seriously, he worked on a voter registration drive in Santa Cruz County and served as a field representative for Congresswoman Anna Eshoo in Palo Alto. He also has a masters in political science from Syracuse University, where his research focused on the intersection between war and youth voting. When not writing, he now enjoys watching politics from the sidelines and working at crappy temp jobs that sometimes pay the bills. He can be reached here.



A.D. is a masters candidate in English at California State University, Los Angeles. His focuses of study are age theory, adolescent cultures, the horror film, Victorian children's literature and pornographic studies. He received his BA in Modern Literature and European History from UC-Santa Cruz. A.D. has worked as a casino banker, a sports journalist, an opera production assistant, a pizza deliveryman, a video game tester, a pumpkin salesman, a furniture salesman, a baker, an agent, a marketing executive, and a teacher. In the future, he hopes to sell one of his half-finished scripts, complete a doctorate in film theory and work as a cab driver, a location scout, a spice importer, and a professional cricket player.


Michael is a prospective candidate in an MFA creative writing program yet to be determined and currently makes a livelihood as a law clerk in a civil rights law firm in Oakland, California while living in San Francisco. A former student of cultural theory, he is now immersed in the first of a projected four part series of novels, which dwell upon distinctly American subjects like border towns, religious fanaticism, the absence of myth, the betrayal of childhood, doomed and complicated romance, and war war war. He hopes to merge the high with the low, the formal with the most wildly experimental while still retaining his integrity as a compelling storyteller. The recent past has seen him eke out a living while wearing a banana suit, sweetalking real estate agents and handing out checks to junkie stock brokers.