Julian Grater was raised and educated in the southern counties of the UK and studied fine art at Falmouth College of Arts before attending Chelsea School of Art in London to complete an MFA. He has received many awards and fellowships and has exhibited widely. Julian is currently working on 'Psychography', a broad trilogy of works on the North, which currently includes work linked to the Burgess Shale and the Aurora Borealis, and will be taking up a residency at the Leighton Studios at the Banff Centre for the Arts early 2004. His website can be viewed at www.juliangrater.com and he can be contacted at: juliangrater@ohos.org.uk

Nat Hardy is visiting assistant professor in the Department of English at Oklahoma State University where he teaches literature and creative writing. A former editor of the New Delta Review and staff member of the Exquisite Corpse, he is a member of the editorial staff at the Cimarron Review. Nat's creative and scholarly work has appeared in journals in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and the Czech Republic. He has received numerous scholarships and academic awards including the Robert Penn Warren Memorial Award for Poetry and the Louise Glück Academy of American Poets Award for Poetry and most recently, an Arch Humanitarian Award from McMaster University. Other current projects include a poetry book, In the Temple of Off-Ramps, and a short fiction collection, Small Betrayals. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Click here for more.