Toby Talbot, MA, Brooklyn College; teaches Spanish at NYU; author of A Book About My Mother and children's books; translated Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number and Ortega's On Love; directed a documentary film, Berimbau.

Richard Tayson, MA, NYU; author of The World Underneath, The Apprentice of Fever, and essays and reviews in Virginia Quarterly Review, Gay and Lesbian Review, and Pleiades; recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, Pushcart Prize, and Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner; Chancellor's Fellow in English at CUNY Graduate Center.

Catherine Texier, graduate, U. of Paris; NEA fellowship recipient; author of novels Chloë l'Atlantique, Love Me Tender, Panic Blood, and Camille; co-edited two anthologies of short fiction, Between C & D and Love Is Strange; contributor to New York Times Book Review; has taught at Bennington Summer Writing Workshops, the Writer's Voice, and Hofstra U.

Victor M. Tirado, MFA, The New School; Spanish translator for theater companies in NYC and of live transmissions for NBC; also has done translations and voice-overs for taped radio and TV commercials.

Douglas Tirola, MFA, Columbia U.; president and producer of 4th Row Films; formerly head of production and development for Emerging Pictures; has written screenplays for Fox, Paramount, Nickelodeon, and New Line; directed A Reason to Believe, released by Lions Gate.

Betty Tompkins, MA, Central Washington State College; artist; solo and group shows in NYC at White Columns, P.S. 1, The New Museum, Aldrich Museum, and Alternative Museum; represented in 2003 Biennale de Lyon and permanent collection of Centre Georges Pompidou; awards include Yaddo and MacDowell Colony and Visiting Artist at Rutgers and Fairleigh Dickinson; teaches at SVA.

Andrew Travers, MBA, U. of Missouri, Columbia; 15 years' professional experience as a manager and director of leading companies in several industries, including State Farm Insurance, Polo Ralph Lauren, Orvis, and U.S. Foodservice.

Justin Trificana, MA in Teaching French as a Foreign Language, BA in French, NYU; teaches French language and Francophone literature and culture to Francophone immigrant students in the French Heritage Language Program at the French American Cultural Exchange; has taught French at NYU; areas of interest include second-language pedagogy and French-African history and relations.

Yunus Tuncel, PhD, The New School for Social Research; research interests include philosophy, art, literature, and culture; teaches philosophy at various schools and moderates discussions in the tradition of Café Philosophique.

Gina Turner, PhD, The New School for Social Research; postdoctoral fellow, Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC; research interests include language, cognition, and social support and physical health.