Kerri Rochelle has passions for her children, reading, music, writing, traveling, water skiing, boating, digging in the soil with her fingers and making things grow. She's a bit crazy about a horn player who performs Jazz and Blues tunes for a living and hogs the sheet in bed at night. And so thankful for the support of many poet friends who help her stitch words together to make poems.

Wendy Howe is an English teacher and free lance writer who lives with her life partner and teenage stepdaughter in Southern California . Her Spanish style house overlooks a field of Joshua trees that embrace a spectacular skyline and lodge a host of crows, ravens and one owl that appears on cloudy nights when the moon is dissolved in mist. They enhance her Bohemian spirit and imagination as much as poetry. Writing is an integral part of her existence, as essential to her being as breathing air. She is inspired by life, its nature, people and history. She has been published in a variety of on-line and in-print literary journals including : Stirring, A Literary Collection, 3rd Muse, Eclectica, Panda Poetry, The-Muse-Apprentice-Guild, The Green Tricycle, Skyline Magazine, Southern Ocean Review, Saucy Vox, Mi-Poesias, Lotus Blooms Journal, Niederngasse, and recently served as co-editor of The Baroque Review.

Jill Chan was born in Manila, Philippines. She migrated to New Zealand when she was 21. Started writing poems in 1995. Her first book, The Smell of Oranges was published by Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop in 2003. Her poems have been published in New Zealand magazines Poetry New Zealand, JAAM, Brief, Bravado, Trout, Southern Ocean Review, Spin, Takahe, and some others.

Bill Trippe lives and even occasionally writes from Melrose, Massachusetts. He blogs at billtrippe.com and, at 47, only recently gave up on being centerfielder for the Boston Red Sox.

Some cheese poets have bios elsewhere in this zine. See Wendy Howe at the top and click on these names for more: Ray Sweatman, Neil C. Leach, Jr., Jennifer VanBuren, and PJ Nights. Tom Blessing blogs at knee deep in freezing water.