Allyson Shaw and Michael Row, Editors. Allyson is still working through childhood trauma incurred while using the Ouija Board. Let it be noted that when queried about future husbands, the board did spell out Michael's name-- almost. 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
Michael was born on All Souls' Day, 1970, and is a social worker by trade. He has yet to really "get serious" about devoting his life to The Great Work.

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, so far unable to contact John or George by Ouija Board, received the 1998 Towson University Prize for Literature for his poetry collection Galileo's Banquet. In 2002 he held fellowships from the West Chester University Poetry Conference and Sewanee Writers' Conference. His essay "Walt Whitman's Finches: on autobiography and adoption" is the most recent winner of Crab Orchard Review's John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize.

Joey Grana is a multimedia artist and ragpicker known to haunt squalorous tenements in Long Beach, California. His spectre has been sighted at local absinthe bars and at Geez Louise Vintage...

Joan Houlihan is editor-in-chief of Perihelion magazine and senior poetry editor of Del Sol Review, both published at webdelsol.com. Her column on contemporary poetry,The Boston Comment, also appears on this site as well as on Arts and Letters Daily. Her poetry publications include: The Gettysburg Review, Fine Madness, Boston Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Poetry International, Marlboro Review, Black Warrior Review (which includes her chapbook, Our New and Smaller Lives) and Cross Connect, among others.

Jane Satterfield has never been to Ireland but her double has been spotted in Dublin. Poems from a new manuscript, Mortal Benediction, are forthcoming in The Journal, Blackbird, Del Sol Review, and Elixir. "Double Exposure," an essay on photography, gender, and identity appeared recently in Pennsylvania English.

Nancy Spencer lives in the Mimbres Valley of New Mexico (over the hill from the Mimbres Hot Springs Ranch), where she is co-director with her husband, Eric Renner, of the Pinhole Resource, a non-profit public organization dedicated to sharing information about pinhole photography, collecting pinhole photographs, selling pinhole cameras, pinhole books, and other related products, and publishing Pinhole Journal. She is also co-editor of Pinhole Journal. Spencer teaches pinhole photography workshops internationally, exhibits internationally and her work is included in many major photography collections.

Laura Splan is a San Francisco based sculpture and installation artist. Originally from Tennessee, she relocated to the West Coast in 1991 to complete her Bachelor of Art at the University of California, Irvine. She recently received her MFA from Mills College in Oakland. Her work has been exhibited in the Bay Area at Southern Exposure, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, and The Lab. Her upcoming exhibits include Mystery Ball at Headlands Center for the Arts and Ladyfest Los Angeles. In her spare time, she likes to knit and perform paraphysical experiments on her two cats. You can find more of her work at laurasplan.com

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.