Josh Denslow graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a degree in film.  He wrote and directed five short films, a few of which played at festivals across the country.  Denslow currently lives in Los Angeles where he is at work on a collection of short stories, the first story of which, Sonny Boy, appeared in Upstreet Number Four.

Barbara Eknoian's poetry collection, Jerkumstances (Pearl Editions 2002), won the Jane Buel Bradley Chapbook Award.  Her poetry appeared in Pearl, Westview-A Journal of Southern Oklahoma, El Dorado Poetry Review, Chiron Review, The New Verse News and the nonfiction anthology, A Manual for Motherhood, Volume 1.  Eknoian was featured in Palisades Park Multimedia Center's Art & Poetry Exhibition catalogs in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and has poetry forthcoming in the Pig Iron Press Series.  Originally from New Jersey, Eknoian has lived in California since l978.

Jody A. Forrester is a Los Angeles native.  Following a successful chiropractic practice, she returned to school to pursue writing fiction and is in her second year of the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA program.  Forrester lives in Venice with her husband and two dogs and whatever friends happen to be passing through town.

Miri Hunter Haruach's poetry was featured in the 2004 International Who's Who in Poetry, Visions, Iliad Press, Awakened Woman, Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists and She Is Everywhere, an anthology of women's spirituality.  She received the National Authors Registry President's Award for Excellence and is a four time ASCAP Songwriters Music Grant recipient.  Hunter has released two original CDs, Harvest of the Heart (1999) and The Ways of Love (2005), and is producing her next release, The Temple of Love. 

Susan Lindheim won UCLA's 2007 Kirkwood Prize for her novel excerpt, Baby Driver.  She was published in South Dakota Review and was a 2006 Nicholl Fellowship Competition quarterfinalist.  Lindheim has traveled to 38 countries (some which no longer exist), and lives in Studio City with her husband, baby daughter and two dogs.

J. Ryan Stradal is from the second-oldest town in Minnesota, but has lived most of his adult life in Venice Beach.  He has been published in Hobart (for which he received a Pushcart Prize nomination), McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Student Traveler.  A 2008 UCLA Kirkwood Prize finalist, Stradal volunteers for the literary nonprofit 826LA.  A former ambient music DJ who will still gladly play sustained tones for you all day long, he takes writing jobs for TV and film in his spare time and plays sampler in a band called Super Duper.