
Charles Blackstone is the author of "The Week You Weren't Here," a novel. He is the co-editor of an anthology, "The Art of Friction," which is due out in 2008. He lives in Chicago.
Jeet Thayil
Thayil was born in India and educated in Bombay, Hong Kong and New York. His poems have appeared in The Independent, London Magazine, Poetry Review, lyric and Verse. He lives and works in New York.

Jeet Thayil was born in India and educated in Bombay, Hong Kong and New York. His poems have appeared in The Independent, London Magazine, Poetry Review, lyric and Verse. He lives and works in New York.

Stéphanie
DeMontalk has appeared in journals including Sport, Landfall, Southerly, London Magazine, NZ Listener and Poetry NZ - where she was a featured poet in issue XX - and in anthologies including Mutes and Earthquakes: Bill Manhire's Creative Writing Course at Victoria (1997), under the name Miller, Big Weather (2000), and a number of New Zealand Poetry Society anthologies. A small collection, Five Poems (1999) was hand-printed by Wellington artist Brendan O'Brien.