John E. Halsey, EdD, Columbia U.; jazz pianist/arranger; has performed at Birdland, Michael's Pub, Red Blazer II, and Cajun; lectures on American popular song at Bergen, NJ YMHA.

Jacquie Hann, MFA, SVA; author and illustrator of internationally popular children's books, including That Man Is Talking to His Toes, Up Day, Down Day (a Junior Literary Guild Selection), and, most recently, Kick Block Punch; her illustrations have appeared in Good Housekeeping, Humpty Dumpty, Children's Digest, and Scholastic; has taught at Parsons The New School for Design and in private workshops.

Michaela Hertkorn, PhD, Free University of Berlin; adjunct professor, Center for Global Affairs, NYU; also teaches in the NYU General Studies program; associated researcher, Foundation for Post-Conflict Development; consultant, Inst. For Multi-Track Diplomacy.

Jeffrey Hogrefe, BA, UC-Berkeley; journalist and author; contributor to the New Yorker, Harper's Smithsonian, and the New York Observer; wrote a weekly arts column for the Washington Post; author of O'Keeffe: The Life of an American Legend; member of the Authors' Guild and PEN.

Walter R. Holland, PhD, CUNY Graduate Center; author of A Journal of the Plague Years: Poems 1979–1992 and a novel, The March; poems published in Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Poets for Life, and The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature; his dissertation won the 1998 Paul Monette Award; keynote speaker, 1999 Provincetown Poetry Festival.

Taeko Horiko, BA in Sociology, MA in Foreign Language Education, NYU; has taught Japanese at The New School in both undergraduate and continuing education since 1999; has also taught at NYU, Cooper Union, and FIT.

Samuel Howell, MA, U. of Florida; PhD candidate, Middlebury College; Chair, Dept. of Modern Languages, Nightingale-Bamford School, where he teaches French, Spanish, and Latin; has also taught at U. of Florida and U. of Miami; fields of interest include French-Canadian literature and Polynesian history and culture.

Richard M. Huff, writer and photographer for NYC-area newspapers and magazines; currently writes for the New York Daily News identifying trends in network TV and developing contacts with executives and actors; also writes a weekly motor sports column.