Gabriel Welsch - A former garden designer, landscaper, and nurseryman, Gabriel Welsch is the author of Dirt and All Its Dense Labor, a collection of poetry published by WordTech Editions in 2006. His poetry, short fiction, essays, and reviews appear widely, in national publications and venues including Georgia Review, New Letters, Harvard Review, Isotope, Other Voices, Mid-American Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Rapportage, From the Fishouse (www.fishousepoems.org), Missouri Review, Slope, and many others. His honors include a Pennsylvania Arts Council grant for fiction, appointments as the inaugural Thoreau Poet-in-Residence at the Toledo Botanical Garden and as a poet-in-residence at the Chautauqua Institution's Writer's Center, and two nominations for the Pushcart Prize. For eight years, he taught creative and professional writing in the Department of English at Penn State University. Currently, he is assistant vice president for marketing at Juniata College, and lives in central Pennsylvania, with his wife, Jill, and daughter, Isabella. See Gabriel's work at www.fishousepoems.org/archives/gabriel_welsch/, www.wordtechweb.com/welsch.html or www.smallspiralnotebook.com/Spring2003/gabrielwelsch.shtml

Robert Milby - Hailing from Florida, New York, Robert Milby has been reading his poetry throughout the New York Hudson Valley and beyond since early 1995. He is the author of 4 poetry chapbooks and has been published in Home Planet News, Hunger Magazine, Will Work for Peace, Hart, Fertile Ground, Chronogram, and The Hudson Valley Literary Magazine. Currently, he hosts poetry series at: Joey's Café in Washingtonville, NY; Mudd Puddle Café in New Paltz, NY; and, Noble Coffee Roasters in Campbell Hall, NY. He was the invited poet at SUNY Oneonta in March 2003, and is a listed poet with Poets and Writers, Inc. His spoken word cd is entitled "Revenant Echo" (Sonotrope Recordings, 2004). His first book of poetry, Ophelia's Offspring, was published in June 2007 by Foothills Publishing, Kanona, NY. He writes for The Delaware and Hudson Canvas and is a freelance thinker. www.robertmilby.com

Kate Greenstreet - Ahsahta Press published Kate Greenstreet's first book, case sensitive, in 2006. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Learning the Language (Etherdome Press, 2005) and Rushes (above/ground press, 2007). Her second book, The Last 4 Things, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in 2009. Kate received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 2003 and her poems have appeared in Conduit, Barrow Street, Pool, 26, Xantippe, and other journals. She lives in Belford, NJ, about 15 miles south of Manhattan if you travel by boat under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, across Raritan Bay. The bay is named after the Raritans, a tribe of the Lenape, who lived in the immediate area around the bay during the 17th century at the time of the arrival of the Dutch colonists. Visit Kate online at www.kickingwind.com or www.kategreenstreet.com

Walking English is the touring name of the group of writers who produce The Idiom Magazine (www.theidiommag.com) - an independent literary magazine based out of Central New Jersey. With an overall motto of "the written word is for entertainment", entertain is what this dynamic ensemble does. Part of the literary blog phenomenon (www.walkingenglish.com), and gathering a following at reading venues throughout New Jersey, they create an unstoppable spoken word presentation that begins with rocket fuel and ends with broken glass. Free copies of The Idiom magazine will be handed out at the reading. www.theidiommag.com www.walkingenglish.com

S. Thomas Summers chapbook Death settled well, released in September 2006, won Shadows Ink Publications's 7th Bi-annual Chapbook Competition. His second chapbook, Rather, It Should Shine, was released in June 2007 by Pudding House Press. Summers's poetry has also appeared in several print and electronic journals: Loch Raven Review, Pedestal Magazine, 3rd Muse, Stirring, The English Journal, Umbrella, etc. Currently, Summers is working on a full length collection of Civil War poems titled Private Hercules McGee: Poems of the Civil War. An English teacher at Wayne Hills High School in Wayne, NJ, Summers also travels to various school districts in NJ sharing his strategies for teaching poetry with other teachers. He believes that contemporary poetry is an invaluable tool that can assist students explore all literary genres. In May of 2007, he presented his approach to the New Jersey Language Arts and Literacy Association. Summers lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife and two children. Visit S. Thomas Summers at www.freewebs.com/sthomassummers

Catherine KHN Magia is a daughter, friend, poet, market researcher, and former TV show host on public access television. Her poetry journey began one fateful day when poet Laura Boss gave a one-day workshop for third graders. Since then, she has been avidly writing. Her work has appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review and Lips, and she has read at various community events. A newcomer to Princeton, she has recently joined the US 1 Poets Cooperative in Central Jersey. Catherine can be seen sporadically on local television as the interviewer on What's the Good Word? Outside of the arts, Catherine works as a market research manager in the pharmaceutical industry, where she has impacted the development of new medicines for pediatrics and cardiovascular medications.

David Tucker A career journalist, South Orange native David Tucker has worked for the Toronto Star, United Press International, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is currently deputy managing editor for investigations and enterprise at the Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey, and was part of the team that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news, covering Governor James E. McGreevey's resignation and the scandal surrounding it. Tucker's first full-length collection, "Late For Work," was chosen by Philip Levine as the winner of the 2005 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. A review in the Philadelphia Inquirer stated "Veteran newsman David Tucker mixes the plainspoken"language of journalism with surprisingly lyric intensity..." Reviewers have also noted that Tucker's poems "like a whispered confidence, draw the reader near, and tenderly reward close attention" (Booklist) and that his works "celebrate... deliciously creative anarchy" (Terri Gross). An earlier chapbook, "Days When Nothing Happens" was published by Slapering Hol Press.

Timothy Liu (Liu Ti Mo) was born California to parents from the Chinese mainland. He studied at Brigham Young University, the University of Houston, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His books include For Dust Thou Art (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005); Of Thee I Sing (2004), and Vox Angelica (1992), which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. He edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry, (Talisman House, 2000). Liu's poems have appeared in Grand Street, Kenyon Review, Poetry and Virginia Quarterly Review. Liu is currently an Associate Professor at William Paterson University and on the Core Faculty at Bennington College's Writing Seminars; he lives in Manhattan.

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