Corey Campbell graduated from New York University's film program and received a National Television of Arts and Sciences scholarship.  Currently working at the UCLA Extension Writer's Program, she taught oral English and composition in Nanjing, China and Tachikawa, Japan.  Campbell's fiction has appeared in the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post.  She is currently writing a short story collection.

Ro Gunetilleke has presented his writing at Art Wallah 2004, 2005 and the Beyond Baroque spring 2005 poetry series.  His poems have appeared in Poetic Diversity and the Best of the Net 2006 anthology.  Gunetilleke attempts to reach out to his past through his writing, to document the recent dark history of Sri Lanka.

Sarah Kelly was born in a small village in West Ireland overlooking the Atlantic.  She received a national award at age 9 for a Christmas short story.  Kelly, after immigrating to the U.S., continued writing primarily non-fiction.  In the last few years, she has written stories based on her life growing up in this small town. Kelly lives in Santa Monica.

Vicky Mlyniec, a former Warren Wilson MFA resident, has been published in the Bellingham Review.  She received the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction and placed second in Baltimore Review's short fiction competition.  Mlyniec lives in Los Gatos.

Leila Nichols recently graduated from the CalArts MFA Writing Program.  She is presently working on a semi-autobiography, Architect-Apostrophe, and a short book of poetry, Morton Place, based on her life and home in Echo Park where she lives with the artist, Charlie Bengs, and their one-year old son.

Richard Tatro turned his hand to fiction after careers in journalism and advertising.  A graduate of UCLA where he majored in English, he is currently finishing a novel.