CONTRIBUTORS Erica Anzalone is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently teaches at Drake University. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Sentence, and elsewhere. Claudia Baskind earned her MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop and her MA in Creative Writing from Portland State University. Her work has appeared in 2GQ, Nervy Girl, and Raising Our Voices: An Anthology of Oregon Poets Against the War. She has taught creative writing with several nonprofits in Portland, Oregon, including Write Around Portland, Literary Arts, and Saturday Academy. Maxine Beuret graduated from Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London, England, with a post-graduate certificate in Photography. One of her most recent projects, Departure of the Slam-door Trains, is due to open as a solo show at the Nation Rail Museum in York, England, in late 2007. Alicia J. Bleuer received her BA in English at the University of Iowa in 2004 and began her MFA at St. Mary's College of California in nonfiction writing in 2005. While at St. Mary's, Alicia has held a composition teaching fellowship and received the James Townsend Scholarship for Literary Excellence. Chuck Bolsinger, as a forest researcher in Portland, Oregon, published several scientific papers, then in 1998 turned to freelancing and writing for local newspapers. He's published several essays, short stories, and poems, and won first prize at Pacific Northwest Writers Conferences for fiction and nonfiction (different years). He was finalist in two Oregon Quarterly essay contests. He plans to publish a collection of his nature essays. Lily Brown received her MFA from Saint Mary's College. She has work appearing or forthcoming in Typo, Octopus, Fence, and Tarpaulin Sky. Her chapbook, The Renaissance Sheet, was recently published by Octopus Books. Zachary Demby was born in Camden, New Jersey, and raised in Maryland. He graduated from Syracuse University and is now currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at St. Mary's College of California. He is the recipient of the Patricia Mueller Scholarship for Excellence in Poetry.
	John Domini was the 2006 winner of the Meridian Editors' Prize in Poetry and is working on a collection titled The Grand McLuckless Road Atlas. He has two books of stories and two novels, the latest Earthquake I.D., published in spring 2007. Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland—"the best spiritual magazine in America," according to the obviously discerning Annie Dillard. Doyle is the author of eight books of essays and "proems," most recently Epiphanies & Elegies (Sheed and Ward). He was a visiting writer at Saint Mary's College this year. Graham Foust is the author of three books of poems, the most recent being Necessary Stranger (Flood Editions, 2007). He lives in Oakland and teaches in the graduate and undergraduate programs at St. Mary's College of California. Wesley Gibson is the author of Shelter, a novel, and You Are Here, a memoir. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in the Village Voice Literary Supplement, Men On Men 2, and the New Virginia Review, among others. He has been a recipient of a New York Foundation on the Arts Grant in Nonfiction, the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize 2000 and a Virginia State Council on the Arts Grant in Fiction. He currently teaches in the MFA Program at St. Mary's College. Anne Heide edits CAB/NET out of Denver. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Coconut, Octopus, Ur Vox, and the tiny, among others. She is currently working towards a doctorate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver. Juliet Kincade received a BA in Communication from the University of New Mexico and is currently working towards an MFA in Creative Writing at St. Mary's College of California. She is hard at work on a novel. Jean-Pierre Lacrampe is currently attending St. Mary's MFA fiction program. His work can be seen at McSweeney's Internet Tendency and the upcoming Howl, a collection of humorous writings on dogs. Cielo Lutino lives in San Francisco. She was the managing editor for Issue #6 of MARY Magazine. Her writing has appeared in various publications. Zak Margolis is an independent animator living in Portland, Oregon. He's produced several animated music videos over the last few years for bands such as Unwound, Old Time Relijun, and Goldcard. More recently he produced a segment for Andy Blubaugh's film Scaredycat, which was screened at the 2007 Sundance film festival, among others. He's also toured with art group Red76 in Eastern Europe with his movie Horse Mustache, performing live musical accompaniment with his sound collaborator Matthew Yake. Moonbabies is a work in progress. Some of his drawings can be found in disappearing zine and eye~rhyme #7. Erich Miller is a second-year creative nonfiction student in the MFA program at St. Mary's College of California. Peter Orner is the author of the collection, Esther Stories, and the novel, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo. Melody Owen comes from Oregon. She has just completed her MFA in the electronic integrated arts program at the New York State College of Ceramics. She will spend June 2007 at the Gil Society Residency in Akureyri, Iceland, and July to August 2007 at Est-Nord-Est Residency in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Canada. She will be focusing her studies on glaciers and whales. For more information regarding upcoming shows and to view work online, go to www.thistlepress.net. Click on disappearing link there to view webzine on endangered animals. Sharon Lynn Osmond lives inside a sentient Oakland garden with her husband, Dennis, and her calico cat, Bone-Crusher. Before entering St. Mary's MFA program in poetry, she was a professional garden designer and landscape contractor, obsessed with plants and their lovely Latin names. During the last two years, her poems have appeared or will appear in Eleven-Eleven, Five Fingers Review, Xantippe, and Bird Dog. Her review of cloudlife, a collection of poems by Stefanie Marlis appears in Poetry Southeast, and her interview with Forrest Gander is featured in this issue of MARY Magazine. She was the lucky recipient last year of the Agnes Butler Scholarship for Excellence in Poetry. Nora Pierce is the author of the novel The Insufficiency of Maps. She teaches creative writing at Stanford University where she was also a Wallace Stegner fellow. Ailene Sankur came to the Bay Area to receive a BA in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and hasn't wanted to leave ever since. She is currently working towards an MFA degree in creative nonfiction at St. Mary's College where she is the recipient of the Chester Aaron scholarship. Jason Sattler was born at the Kaiser Hospital in Panorama City, California in April of 1975, two days before the United States surrendered its embassy in Saigon. He has freckles and is working on a novel and other juvenilia in St. Mary's of California MFA fiction program. Evan Sicuranza is currently working on a collection of short fiction. He lives in Oakland. Bruce Smith was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the author of five books of poems, The Common Wages, Silver and Information (National Poetry Series Selection), Mercy Seat, and The Other Lover (University of Chicago), which was a finalist both for the National Book Award and for the Pulitzer Prize. His fifth book, Songs for Two Voices, was published in 2005. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Syracuse University. Shannon Tharp grew up in Wyoming and spent a handful of years in Iowa. She currently lives in Seattle. After she receives her MFA from the University of Washington in May, Shannon plans to crank up The Stooges and dance. Her work has recently appeared in Asterisk, Cranky Literary Journal, The Cultural Society, Effing Magazine, and /nor. A chapbook, Determined by Aperture, is forthcoming from Fewer & Further Press in late 2007. Rob Tyler is a graphic designer and filmmaker living in Portland, Oregon. His documentary and experimental films and videos have been described as both visually stunning and atmospherically beautiful. Please visit www.vcr100.com to find out more.