Dave Johnson, poet and playwright; author of a book of poems, Marble Shoot, and the plays Sister, Cousin, Aunt and Baptized to the Bone; editor of Movin': Teen Poets Take Voice; teaches at Yale U. and Cooper Union School of Art; visiting lecturer with The New School's MFA in Creative Writing program.

Maya Joseph, Maya Joseph, MS, PhD candidate in political science, The New School for Social Research; specializes in U.S. politics, political theory, and food politics and policy; her dissertation deals with new challenges facing food regulatory agencies, specifically the FDA and cloned animals.

Elise Juska, MA, U. of New Hampshire; author of the novels One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, The Hazards of Sleeping Alone, and Getting over Jack Wagner; short stories in the Hudson Review, Harvard Review, Black Warrior Review, Calyx, Seattle Review, Salmagundi, and other publications; Pushcart Prize nominee; also teaches writing at U. of the Arts.