Zeina Hashem Beck is Lebanese. She have a BA and an MA in English literature from the American University of Beirut and taught English courses at the Lebanese American University of Beirut for a year and is now residing in Saudi Arabia with her husband. She will also teach English courses at Prince Sultan University in the fall.
CL Bledsoe's first collection _Anthem_ is forthcoming in 2007. A 2006 Pushcart nominee, he has work in over 150 journals, including Margie, Nimrof, Big Muddy, The Cimarron Review, Clackamas and The Arkansas Review. He is an editor for Ghoti Magazine.
Penny Feeny is an award-winning short fiction writer who has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies. Her stories have also been broadcast on Radio 4 and the BBC World Service and can be found online in Atlantic Unbound, Carve, Collected Stories, Eastoftheweb, Small Spiral Notebook and the Summerset Review, among others. She has studied and worked in Cambridge, London and Rome, but has been settled for many years now in Liverpool with her family.
Les Merton is the editor of Poetry Cornwall/Bardhonyeth Kernow, his poetry has been published in over 100 UK poetry magazines and in 12 different countries. He has written nine books including three poetry collections and has been recently interviewed by Jim Bennett on the
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