Nicholi BlackShadow (also known as Paul Rice) is a student at the University of Chicago where he can often be found working at odd hours of the night. He is told by his friends that he writes elegant poetry but of course he doesn't believe them. Ominous music, stylish black clothes, and his black teddy always follow him. He can be reached at paulrice@midway.uchicago.edu

Tim Blackwell lives in Brighton, England. Against advice he stays indoors all day. His sunflower Durkheim shares his basement flat. He never learnt to play the tambourine. His e-mail address is mrtim@ipole.demon.co.uk

Geoffrey Brent lives in Canberra, Australia and has nearly finished a science degree. He enjoys listening to music, live role-playing, the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), and writing all sorts of things. He can be reached at gbrent@rsc.anu.edu.au

Caine (real name Chris Payne) lives in Nottingham, England and is 21. He wears black, likes all things dark and gothic, and drinks a lot of coffee. His World Wide Web page can be found at http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~csp

Peter Constantine is an indolent glam punk. Terminally single, this dilettante poet lives in The Potteries and shares his crumbling 1840s house with two cats and a growing pile of empty wine bottles.

Ren Cummins, ivory-wrestler and pen-strangler, mask-wearing fool he is, traveled the globe until the death throes of Utah caught him in its steely claws...but even prison walls afford some writing space: "all I'm searching for is a warm place to lay my head until the stars awaken me, and a hand to hold as we count them..." You can mail Ren at Stefan@camarilla.org

Marcel Feldmar is a gothic hipster bebop drummer coffee addict with delusions of adequacy. He lives in Seattle and likes to play in the rain. Someday he hopes to star in a movie about Tom Waits. His band is called Fear Of Dolls (http://www.halcyon.com/mocha/index.html), and he has a small press called mocha louder. The first book should be out before the end of spring '96. You can e-mail Marcel at mocha@halcyon.com

Cliff Goodman would like to thank a lot of people (who know who they are). He hasn't written much, merely dipping his toes now and again into the warm waters of creativity. Cliff lives with his cat, beside a cemetery in Canada's Capital City. He can be reached at elf@magmacom.com

jewel (also known as Julieann Marie Brown-Micko) thinks heaven is a sunny room filled with hothouse flowers and as many vanilla malts as she can drink. She has lived in Saint Paul/Minneapolis for most of her life and is still trying to "make friends" with the snow. She is married to David Micko and has a Masters degree in English Literature. E-mail is welcome at jewel@mm.com or at her web site ~flaming jewels~ http://www.prairienet.org/~jjewels/jewel.html

La Shawn Patrice King (otherwise known as Eponine), from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, is a music major at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has interests in computers and writing music and poetry. She hopes to be an elementary school teacher and a computer programmer after college. You can e-mail her at lp-king@students.uiuc.edu or lpking@prairienet.org and the url for her web site "Pangaea" is http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~lp-king/

DeAnna Knippling lives in South Dakota. One of her former roommates said of her, "You always know that when you say something to her, she'll shrug and say something stupid." She attends the University of South Dakota in Vermillion at the age of twenty-one and likes to use the words "dork," "bo," and "zrbbbt." Her e-mail address is dknippli@sunfish.usd.edu, where she is a.k.a. dust.

Krista Landry is "dark one." She is a visionary; she is a mystic. Above all, she is a writer. "I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also." --Walt Whitman, Song of Myself. Krista's e-mail address is landryk@woods.uml.edu

David Micko lairs in Minneapolis, maintains walls of fire against the creeping chaos, brews the occasional batch of beer, and cherishes and protects his one, precious jewel. You can e-mail him at micko@prairienet.org

Julianna Smit is a princess poet living in Maryland. She enjoys watching and singing songs in her head. One day she would like to learn the truth. E-mail messages for Julianna can be left at smitl@cougarnet.byu.edu

Laura Smit is 20 years old and is studying journalism in Utah. She enjoys reading, chocolate, and dark and stormy nights. When she grows up she hopes to be an editor. Her e-mail address is smitl@cougarnet.byu.edu and her web site "Loa's Lair" can be found at http://www.byu.edu/~smitl/lair1.html

Brad Waryan (cover artist) is an artist and bookbinder. He shares a toy house in Minneapolis with his dog, Blackie.

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