Brian Armbruster, Associate Editor, resides in the Atwater Village area of the city, just a stones throw from the mighty Los Angeles River.  He hopes to some day travel in outer space.

Ned Balbo has followed David Bowie's music since 1973; his first concert was the famous Station to Station performance at Long Island's Nassau Coliseum on March 23, 1976. Balbo's poetry collection, Galileo's Banquet, received the 1998 Towson University Prize for a book by a Maryland writer under 40; in 2002 he will be Walter E. Dakin fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and will also hold poetry fellowships at the West Chester University Poetry Conference and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. An adoption-centered long poem, "Vertigo" is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review.

Anji Bee is a multi-disciplined audio/visual artist working and living in Long Beach, CA.  Her most recent accomplishment is the June 2002 release of "Windblown Kiss," a full length album by her band, Lovespirals, with credits which include songwriting, lyrics, and performance, as well as art design and layout. 

In 1983, Chris Davidson was in the 7^th grade at Shorecliffs Jr. High in San Clemente, CA. He played half-back on his AYSO soccer team & his favorite class was Social Studies. Currently living in Orange, CA, Davidson plays music with the Santiago Steps & is about to be a father. This is the first poem he’s written to fit a theme. He is pictured with Nosie (1972-1985).

In 1983 Melissa Kirsch was living in rural Connecticut and busy breaking world records for number of Encyclopedia Brown and Ramona Quimby books devoured in one sitting. She currently resides in New York City and dreams frequently of the halcyon days of her unfettered, carefree, Lite-Brite-bedazzled 1980s youth.

Kelly Marie Martin, Associate Editor, spent the mid-80's in Anchorage, Alaska drinking .25cent coffee in the Nordstroms downtown.  She discovered Bauhaus, the Cure, and a love for dark-haired, dark-eyed men at 15.  Currently she's working through those issues in Los Angeles with her rocknroll band, Feather Early.

Born in 1967, Michele O’Marah has been making videos since her inadequate college education in the early nineties. An adolescence spent watching the birth of MTV and John Hughes movies had a lasting impact, which she seems unable to overcome. This is most evident in her current project, Valley Girl. A re-make of the 80’s teen movie, her version features the DIY aesthetic of punk rock and French new wave cinema. As always Michele draws on the multiple talents of her numerous friends (who deserve a lot more than Michele can give them) to act and create the music so vital to her projects. A lover of travel, Michele was raised in Pennsylvania and has lived in the cities of San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles.

Michael Row, Editor, was all D-E-V-O in 1983. He spent his days bored silly in 7th grade, his afternoons playing basketball in knee-high socks, and his evenings watching Elvira on Channel 9's Movie Macabre. He is currently basking "between jobs".

Allyson Shaw, Editor, spent much of the early eighties singing in school musicals and wishing she'd lived through the sixties. She is a writer and web designer. Her poetry and fiction have been published widely in paper and cyberspace. Her sestina project can be found here. She's an Associate Editor at the Del Sol Review and currently teaches writing at Long Beach City College.

Jonathan Ward is a writer based in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Previous works have appeared in Perfect Sound Forever, LuxuriaMusic.com, Exotica Etcetera, Classic TV and the 12 Gauge Review. Most of his time is devoted to the collection and preservation of thousands of scarce records.