About the Authors

Beth Baniszewski lives in Somerville, MA with an assortment of people and cats. After being convinced for most of her life that she could never stand to live in a city, she moved to the Boston area in 2001 and has called it home ever since. She is a mechanical engineer by day and a creator of stories, costumes, and madness by night. One day she may run off to live on a tropical fruit farm.

E. S. Blake may be Eva S. Blake, author of the collections of poetry Lines from the Garden (1930) and Rhymes from the Kitchen (1923). The state of New Hampshire lists a poet named Eva S. Blake from Meredith, NH, supposedly born in 1930, but that information seems unlikely to be correct if she published a book seven years earlier. She might be our E. S. Blake, or just a relative; another E. S. Blake served in the Civil War in the Maine Cavalry Regiment.

Michael T. Fournier is the author of Double Nickels On The Dime, a book published by Continuum Press about the Minutemen's 1984 album. His writing has appeared in the Boston Phoenix, Chunklet, and Boston Magazine, and his fiction has appeared in Rambunctious Review, Barrelhouse, and textitLove Is Currency. He attends grad school at the University of Maine in Orono and eats way too much pizza.

George Helene Lox is the pen name of a Bay Area academic. A writer of scripts, stories, and other such things, she leaks words constantly -- and still loves travel, adventure, staying out all night, and a good gin and tonic.

Cassandra Phillips-Sears lives in Somerville, MA. She has been published in Two Cranes Press's A Field Guide to Surreal Botany, Not One of Us, Prime Books's Jabberwocky, and Cabinet des Fees. She cooks with nasturtiums and writes in trees.

Postrodent is a retired agent for an extraterrestrial power. He was decanted in Canada, ``the most innocuous nationality.'' He successfully avoided education and moved to the United States to begin his subversive mission. He estimates that 0.17% of the subsequent decline of the American empire is attributable to him, a figure within mission parameters for success. He is now an amateur electronic artist and photographer.

Edwin Arlington Robinson was the author of more than thirty volumes of poetry between 1896 and 1935. He attended Harvard as an undergraduate and won three Pulitzer Prizes.