James Bertolino won the international Quarterly Review of
Literature Book Award for his eighth full-length collection of
poems, Snail River. It was published in 1995 by the QLR
Contemporary Poetry Series at Princeton University, which also
published his book First Credo in 1986. His volume Making
Space for Our Living (1975, Copper Canyon Press), was
reprinted on the Internet in 1999 by the Connecticut College
Contemporary American Poetry Archive, and in April, 2000, a
collection titled 26 Poems From Snail River was published by
Egress Studio Press of Bellingham. Recently his essay on Maya
Angelou has been anthologized by Yale University's Harold Bloom,
and his poetry reprinted in Poetry Comes Up Where It
Can, with an introduction by Mary Oliver, published by the
University of Utah Press. For the 1998-99 school year, he was at
Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and has since returned to
the Creative Writing faculty at Western Washington University.

James Bertolino's Books featured on the web: First Credo, Snail River,
Greatest Hits, 1965-2000, 26 Poems From Snail River.

Nellie Bridge works as a writing tutor and letterpress printer in Olympia,
Washington.

Rachel Sloan is currently a senior at Washington University in St.
Louis, studying English and art history. She is at work on her first
book of poetry, Station to Station, from which Ecce Ancilla Domini,
Galatea, and Chinese Furniture are drawn.

Derek Smith believes in a transitional state. He enjoys the image
of children coming out of the fog and adolecents emerging
unscathed. He hopes one day to write his own cultural script in a
high school classroom and find an intellectual girl to share Oregan with.

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