Diane Glancy is a professor at Macalester College where she taught Native American Literature and Creative Writing. She is on a four-year sabbatical / early retirement program. Her latest collection of poems, Asylum in the Grasslands, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2007. She is working on a new collection, One Call Away, from which these poems are a part. She lives in Shawnee Mission, Kansas.

Writing poetry in NYC and Catskill Mountains. Books: Paper Airplane (Harper & Row) Like One of Us (forthcoming from Untitled). Appeared in many journals over the years, including Oyez, Apalachee Quarterly, Slant, Hubbub, Fine Madness, Wind, Gulf Stream, Widener Review.
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Sandra M. Castillo is an amateur genealogist and South Florida resident. Her poetry collection is entitled My Father Sings to My Embarrassment. It was published by White Pine Press. She has had poems published in various anthologies, including Cool Salsa, On Growing Up Latino in the U.S., (Henry Holt & Co., 1994), Paper Dance, Fifty-Five Latino Poets (Persea, 1995), Touching the Fire, Fifteen Poets of Today’s Latino Renaissance (Anchor Books, 1998), Like Thunder, Poets Respond to Violence in America (University of Iowa Press, 2001), American Diaspora, The Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa Press, 2001). She has poems forthcoming in Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, Roanoke Review and 13 Moons, The Comstock Review and The Belleview Literary Review.

Sheila McGuinness has won writing awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Vermont Studio Center. Her work appears in such journals as New Orleans Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, South Dakota Review, Natural Bridge and others. She currently teaches creative writing at Cape Cod Community College, and has been known to lure a northern cardinal by using its own 'cabulary.