Hanna Andrews is a New York native currently living in Chicago. She is an MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago, and is co-editor of Columbia Poetry Review. Hanna is also a founding editor of Switchback Books, a new women-centered independent press out of Chicago. More of her recent work is published in MiPOesias.

Julie Choffel daydreams about climbing rocks and funny-looking trees.  Or carving rocks into trees, or petrifying trees into funny-looking rocks. Her poems can be found residing in The Tiny, Glitter Pony, and Mrs. Maybe.

Patricia Jones is a mother of three. She is entering her Senior year as a student of creative writing at Stephens College, an all women's private college in Columbia, MO. She intends to persue graduate studies in order to become a professor of Literature and Writing. Memoir and Poetry are her genres of choice.

Becca Klaver is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She's an MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago, where she'll be a 2006-2007 editor for the Columbia Poetry Review.  Becca is a Hands on Stanzas poet-in-residence, and an editor for Switchback Books , a new women's poetry press.

Maggie Lopez lives in Chicago and has just received her M.F.A. from Columbia College Chicago. Her work has also appeared in Columbia Poetry Review and Wicked Alice.

Teresa K. Miller is from Seattle and teaches college-level English.  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Shampoo, ZYZZYVA, and CRUX. She would like to thank and remember her father, Marvin Gene Miller, who, while riding his bike on March 17, 2006, was killed by a speeding teenage driver.