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Thomas
Piekarski
is
a
former
editor
of
the
California
State
Poetry
Quarterly.
His
poetry
and
interviews
have
appeared
in
Nimrod,
Portland
Review,
Kestrel,
Cream
City
Review,
Poetry
Salzburg,
Boston
Poetry
Magazine,
Gertrude,
The
Bacon
Review,
and
many
others.
He
has
published
a
travel
guide,
Best
Choices
In
Northern
California,
and
Time
Lines,
a
book
of
poems.
He
lives
in
Marina,
California.
Eve
Gaal
has
written
poetry
since
she
was
a
little
girl.
Her
dream
was
having
a
poem
published
in
her
mother's
favorite
magazine,
McCall's
Magazine
but
when
she
sent
in
a
poem
it
was
kindly
rejected
with
a
note
offering
encouragement.
Since
then,
she
has
written
and
published
many
stories,
poems
and
a
novel.
When
not
writing,
she's
either
chasing
two
chihuahuas
around
her
yard
or
trying
to
figure
out
complicated
ethnic
recipes,
in
an
effort
to
delight
her
husband
of
22
years.
Anna
Sykora
has
been
an
attorney
in
NYC
and
teacher
ofv
English
in
Germany,
where
she
resides
with
her
patient
husband
and
three
enormous
cats.
To
date
she
has
placed
249
poems,
mostly
genre,
in
the
small
press,
and
133
stories.
Writing
is
her
joy.
Michael
Verderber
is
a
Texas
playwright
who
specializes
in
writing
plays
and
disjointed
poetry.
He
has
two
books
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