Deborah Batterman is a writer, editor, and specialist in arts education. As a member of the Westchester Arts Councils Artist Roster and the Silvermine Guild Arts Center, she conducts elementary, middle, and high school writing workshops, often in collaboration with visual artists. In addition, she has been writer-in-residence at the Hudson River Museum. Journals featuring her work include Many Mountains Moving, Sistersong, Palo Alto Review, REACT Magazine, Stray Dog, and The MacGuffin. A selection of her stories appears online, in The Alsop Review. She has completed a novel, Just Like February, and a short story collection. An essay of hers is in Surviving Ophelia (Perseus Publishing). This is her second appearance in Standards: The International Journal of Multicultural Studies.

Stacy Bierlein is a Los Angeles-based writer. Her current works appear in Clackamas Literary Review, Emergence, Pearl, and the Seal Press anthology Young Wives Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership. She is a contributing editor to the all-fiction literary magazine Other Voices, and one of the founding editors of Fish Stories: A Literary Annual of Fiction and Poetry.

Kim Jensen lives in Baltimore, and works at the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Binoy Kampmark is of Indo-Malaysian and Danish background, and lives in Brisbane, Australia where he remains a Danish citizen. He migrated to Australia with his parents and sister in 1990, aged 12. At present, he has graduated with first class honours in both a Bachelor of Arts majoring in modern history and a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Queensland. He is currently undertaking a postdoctoral study into American reactions to atrocity from World War I to the present and research into the immigration policies of the Howard Government.

Claine Helen Keily was born in England 1963. She has lived in Australia for over thirty years. Claine has several degrees from The University of Sydney, one of them being a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Women's Studies. The subject of her thesis was "Style as Sign in the Writings of Luce Irigaray and Helene Cixous." She has worked as a visual artist in the mediums of printmaking, sculpture and film, and more recently, is putting together a collection of collages. She was co-editor of a small independent press for a number of years named "Viola Tusk." This publication, along with artist books which contains her images and writings, have been collected by libraries within Australia. After living in Sydney, Claine has recently moved to the alpine region of rural Australia.

EA Lynch is a __________ with two brilliant __________ to her credit. In her free time, she enjoys __________ , and is the recipient of the prestigious __________ award for her work with __________ , and is an honors graduate of the __________ program for __________ . She publishes widely in __________ and __________ . She currently lives and works in __________ with her longtime __________ , where they sip the heady nectars of __________ as often as possible.

Jim Davis Rosenthal tries to find time to be an artist and poet, along with a healthy dose of Kaballah and Tarotism. He sings with a queer chorus called Harmony, and a Jewish Chorus, as yet unnamed.

John Young is an artist, a writer, and an international raconteur.

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