Beverly Burch
Beverly Burch has poetry recently or forthcoming in Poetry International, Red Rock Review, Sojourner, Many Mountains Moving, Santa Clara Review, and Spillway. In addition, Beverly has also published two collections of non-fiction, On Intimate Terms (University of Illinois Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press).

Anita Byerly
Anita Gevaudan Byerly is a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  As a single parent, she raised a son and daughter while working as a secretary.  At age 50 she went back to school and after taking evening classes for years, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in English Writing.  Anita was Poet-in-Residence at St. Edmund’s Academy, an elementary school in Pittsburgh, for eight years.

Grace Cavalieri
Grace Cavalieri is the author of ten books of poetry. Forthcoming is Cuffed Frays (Argonne House Press.) Her plays include off-Broadway productions. She's also written texts and lyrics performed for opera, television and film. She has adapted her latest book Pinecrest Rest Haven (Word Works Press) for stage and it premiers March 15,2001 at the Common Basis Theatre in NYC.

Ruth Daigon
Ruth Daigon singer/editor/performance/poet's latest prize is the Greensboro National Poetry Prize 2000, Kimera's chapbook prize to be anthologized in hardcopy in February 2001. Her latest publications on the WEB is ForPoetry, Conspire, Poetry Repair Shop, Ste. 101, Kota Press, Writer's Quill....

Rina Ferrarelli
Rina Ferrarelli is a poet and translator of modern Italian poetry who came from Italy at the age of fifteen.   She has published a book and a chapbook of original poetry, HOME IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY, and DREAMSEARCH, and two books of translation, LIGHT WITHOUT MOTION and I SAW THE MUSES.

Mildred Taylor
Mildred Taylor is a retired teacher who is now a free lance writer and poet. She graduated from Seton Hill College with a B.A. in English and from the University of Pittsburgh with a master's degree in education. She has been focusing on writing poetry for four years. She has had poems in The Loyalhanna Review and The Potters Wheel. She writes for Westsylvania magazine. Mildred is a member of the Pittsburgh Poetry Society and the Pennsylvania Poetry Society.