Sarah M. Balcomb (Drink) lives in Brooklyn. Lately she has been trying to forget the quote "To a writer nothing is sacred."

Bob Beier (Drink) lives and writes in Brooklyn. He is currently trying to grow carrots in a large white pot. He became impatient with placing the itty seeds 1/2" below the soil and an inch apart and just threw the rest of the packet in and covered them with soil. Will this work? When he is not trying to coax life from the soil he is working on completing something long and involved. Perhaps this is why he lost patience with the seeds.

Kenneth Calhoun (Flying Monkey is Down) lives in Durham and San Diego. He's working on a novel about a boy raised by coyotes in the suburbs of L.A.

Jason DeBoer (Motley Crue and the Avant Garde) is an editor in Madison, Wisconsin. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Quarterly West, Stand, Other Voices, Clackamas Literary Review, The Wisconsin Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, The American Journal of Print, and The Barcelona Review. At the moment, he is working on Stupor, his debut novel.

Matthew Derby (Sky Harvest) grew up in western New York State. He is an associate fiction editor at 3rd bed, and his stories have appeared in Conjunctions, Fence, and Failbetter. His short story collection, Super Flat Times, will be published by Little, Brown in Spring 2003. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Ben Greenman (Introduction) is an editor at The New Yorker and the author of Superbad, a collection of short pieces, some humorous, some tragic. It is available at bookstores everywhere and though www.mcsweeneys.net. More information about Mr. Greenman is available at www.bengreenman.com.

Stories by John Leary (August) have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Sweet Fancy Moses, Pig Iron Malt, Zoetrope All-Story Extra, and McSweeneys (web), among others. He lives in San Francisco. He is always working on a novel.

Michael Ledbetter (the cover)
--27 years old, married
--born and raised in rural Alabama
--educated and still resides in Boston
--trying to get job with US State Dept.
--draws for the Boston Globe and various other publications
--work can be seen at the Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston and the LFL Gallery in NYC

Mike Magnuson (Horsepower) is the author of The Right Man for the Job, The Fire Gospels, and Lummox: The Evolution of a Man. He directs the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is a fanatical recreational bicyclist. More information on Mike and Mike's work is available online at www.lummox.org.

Juan Martinez (Errands) is pursuing a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Central Florida. Please visit his website at http://fulmerford.com.

Nathan Oates's (Bald Monkey) work has appeared in The Louisville Review, Eyeshot and Opium Magazine. He has studied at the Center for Writers in Hattiesburg, MS and will be attending the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University this Fall. He makes a great espresso.

Dave Reidy (Long Live the Superlative) is a Chicago writer.

Jeffrey Ross (Reincarnate) lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Recently he's been published in 3am Magazine, Opium Magazine, B&A New Fiction, The Globe and Mail, and Pindeldyboz #1. In his spare time he's a professor of English at Algonquin College. For those of you hungry for more information about Mr. Ross, please, feel free to visit A HREF="http://www.subterran.com">www.subterran.com.

Matt Summers-Sparks's (The Scalpel) writing appears in the Mississippi Review, More Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor, 101 Damnations: The Humorists' Tour of Personal Hells, and The American Journal of Print. He's a frequent contributor to the McSweeney's website.

Diane Vadino's bio was omitted from the second issue of Pindeldyboz. From her base camp in Brooklyn, she has mounted summit expeditions on the highest points of New Jersey, Massachusetts, Delaware and Pennsylvania, where she was nearly abducted by locals. She is also a writer for Spin Magazine.

Amanda Eyre Ward's (Should I Be Scared?) first novel, Sleep Toward Heaven, will be published by MacAdam Cage in Spring, 2003. She has just made a glamorous web page at www.amandaward.com.

Amy Day Wilkinson's (Hiding From the Puppet Woman) work is forthcoming in 3rd bed and Phantasmagoria. She lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where she studies at the Center for Writers. She loves a good espresso.

Jason Wilson (Sandur) is the series editor of The Best American Travel Writing (Houghton Mifflin), the first edition of which was named a New York Times Notable Travel Book. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, Salon, Philadelphia City Paper, and National Geographic Traveler. He is not ashamed to admit that he has written for airline in-flight magazines and trade titles such as Pool & Spa Living and Infectious Diseases in Children. Mr. Wilson was the founding editor of the quarterly journal Grand Tour, as well as the former editor of what may have been the most audacious lifestyle magazine of the 1990's, Coffee Journal. He has a dessert named after him in an Icelandic cookbook, the Peruterta Jasonar. He is currently at work on a novel set in Iceland and Portugal.

Tara Wray (Flatbed, Seabed) was born in Kansas. Her work has appeared in Fiction, the Sycamore Review and the Shattered Wig Review. She has self-published a chapbook of stories called Mini Tremble Fits. Currently she lives in New York where she is fiction editor for the Land-Grant College Review.

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