Michael J. Vaughn (Tacoma, WA): He is the author of Gabriella's Voice (Dead End Street Publications, 2001). His poetry has been published in more than forty journals, and has garnered awards from Plainsongs, the 2000 Austin International Poetry Festival, and the Emily Dickinson Poetry Competition. For day jobs, he is a literary columnist for the Tacoma News-Tribune and fiction editor for The Montserrat Review .
Brandon Williams (Placerville, CA): He is a recent graduate of the University of California, Riverside. He writes a lot. Sometimes, he reads. When he does, it's usually the greats, which is probably why he often looks to be chewing on something not quite agreeable. He is a firm believer in down-home country music and is probably a strict constitutionalist. None of this matters if he can't take a good picture.
Brandon Williams (Placerville, CA): He is a recent graduate of the University of California, Riverside. He writes a lot. Sometimes, he reads. When he does, it's usually the greats, which is probably why he often looks to be chewing on something not quite agreeable. He is a firm believer in down-home country music and is probably a strict constitutionalist. None of this matters if he can't take a good picture.
Pearl Mary Wilshaw (Center Moriches, NY): Her background includes teaching and librarianship. The Center Moriches Library, where she is reference librarian, subscribes to many literary journals. A member of the Academy of American Poets, Southern Poetry Association, SCBWI, and NYSUT, she has had hundreds of poems published by literary journals in the United States and abroad.
Sheryl Ann Winters (Crookston, MN): A member of SCBWI, she has been a legal assistant for her husband for twenty years. She has run a Bed & Breakfast for eight years, and has designed promotional brochures for her business. Her poem Courage was published in a greeting card by The Courage Center in Golden Valley, MN. She attends writers' conferences and takes piano lessons.
Gerald Zipper (New York, NY): Author of the play A Little Madness, produced at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York, he produced two seasons of Shakespeare at New York's Cherry Lane Theatre and Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms at the Barbizon Theatre. Rivercross Publishing published a collection of his poetry, Wounded Hopes. He served as Admin. Sgt. Major in an infantry division during the Korean War, later becoming active in social and political issues. He was appointed by New York's governor as Deputy Commissioner of a New York State Agency and then as "Consultant on the Arts" to the New York State Senate. His poetry appears in over 200 poetry, literary, and university publications throughout the U.S. and Canada. He has managed a successful career in business, is married and lives in Manhattan. Several of the publications that have published his poetry over the 1997-01 period include: The Pegasus Review, VA; The Pointed Circle, Portland Community College, WA; The Poet's Pen, GA; Skylark, Purdue Univ.; AURA, Univ. of Alabama; ICON, Kent State Univ., OH; The Amherst Review, Amherst College, MA; Piedmont Literary Review, VA; OYEZ Review, Roosevelt Univ., IL; NEBO Literary Journal, Arkansas Tech Univ.; Maryland Review, Univ. of Maryland E.S.; Bay Area Poet's Coalition, CA; Ellipsis, Westminster College; Sounds of Poetry, MI; Parnassus Literary Journal, GA; Apropos, PA.
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