Djelloul Marbrook was born in Algiers, grew up on Long Island and Manhattan. He was a reporter for The Providence Journal and an editor for The Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette, The Baltimore Sun, The Winston-Salem Journal & Sentinel, The Washington Star and Media News newspapers in Ohio and New Jersey.
John Parras received a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction Writing, and my book Fire on Mt. Maggiore (Univ. of Tenn. Press, 2005) won the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel. His poetry and prose has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, XConnect, Oasis, The Dominion Review, Gulf Stream Magazine and other literary journals. He currently teach writing and literature at the William Paterson University of New Jersey.
Craig Donovan lives with his wife in a vicarage in Birmingham, England. Their love of travel has coloured much of his writing. He has published a number of short stories and more recently has completed his first novel The Wrong Girlfriend; a lad's lit story about love, lager and the eternal hope that one thing really does lead to another.
Jeffrey Beam is the author of seventeen works of poetry including Midwinter Fires (French Broad) and Visions Of Dame Kind (The Jargon Society), and a spoken word audio collection, What We Have Lost: New & Selected Poems 1977 - 2001. His The Beautiful Tendons: Uncollected Queer Poems, 1977 - 2001 is forthcoming (Off the Cuff Books).