Some 1998 Contributors include:

Special Note: Current Contributor Notes appear with pieces

Aaron Anstett's first book, Sustenance, in which "Open Beer Stores" and "Heaven" appear, has just appeared from New Rivers Press. Anstett is a winner of their annual Minnesota Voices Project competition. A Chicago native, Anstett has received fellowships from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop as well as the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife Janet, and their daughter, Molly.

Most of the time, Anjana Basu works in advertising, in the Calcutta branch of Ammirati Puris Lintas. She was once a Special Student at Brown University. She was also once an academic. She says, "I write stories, features in the newspapers and poetry. Occasionally I attempt to write novels, but I don't think I've got that right yet. "The Court Dress" was written while I was running a 10 day fever. I'd get up and write it everytime the fever broke."

The Rocket Project was created by Lisa Bentley and Paul Zuerner, in Newport, Rhode Island. Lisa really had the dream, and did the talking. Paul created the music around the words. This is their first project together. What you are hearing is a short sampling of a nonstop 20 minute piece. Eventually The Rocket Project will be released on vinyl accompanied by a groovy visual book which will include some text. They'd be interested in knowing what people think of this little piece. Let them know if you'd like a copy of the record, and they'll keep you posted. They can be reached at Hammock84@aol.com.

Beth Blaney is a candidate for an MFA degree in Nonfiction writing from Columbia University. She currently lives in New York City.

A native of Belgium, Laure-Anne Bosselaar has lived throughout Europe and the United States. Fluent in four languages, she has worked in Belgian and Luxembourg radio and television stations, published a collection of French poems, Artemis, and is currently translating contemporary American poetry into French, and Flemish poetry into English. In addition she is an editor of poetry anthologies, including Night Out from Milkweed Editions. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and now resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These three poems appear in her most recent book, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, just out from BOA Editions, and they are reprinted here by permission. "The Hour Between Dog and Wolf" first appeared in International Quarterly. "Loving You in Flemish" first appeared in Massachusetts Review. "English Flavors" first appeared in i.e. magazine and won First prize at the 1996 National Poetry Contest.

Heather Burns has a BA in Humanities from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. Her poems have appeared in Nimrod, Southern Poetry Review, Antietam, and New Virginia Review.

Vincent Corvino was born and raised in the Bronx, NY, the setting for most of the fiction he began writing five years ago, at the age of twenty. His stories have appeared in several literary journals, including New Letters and The Quarterly. His novella Brand Name received the Barbara Schoen Memorial Prize in Fiction from the State University of New York at Purchase. He is currently working on a novel and seeking a home for his completed story collection, Jaguar and Other Stories. He teaches English at Plainedge High School in Massapequa, NY.

Vanessa Dodge is a freelance writer living in Atlanta. She has had work published in Glamour, The Atlanta Journal, Z Magazine, and Nuthouse Magazine, and several one-act plays produced in Boulder, Colorado, and Atlanta.

Susan Firer was born and has lived most of her life in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently The Lives of the Saints and Everything, which was winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize for 1992. Her other books are The Underground Communion Rail and My Life With the Tsar. Her work has appeared as well in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 1992. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

Elizabeth Glass lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with her husband, five dogs, and cat. She has completed her first novel, called Painted Visions, of which "Flying" is a part. She is a freelance writer and has published an interview with Tobias Wolff in Writer's Digest, fiction in The West Wind Review, and poetry in many journals. She has a MA in fiction from Miami of Ohio, an MEd in Counseling Psychology and a BA in English from the University of Louisville, where she now teaches Creative Writing. She is working on her second novel.

D.G. Grace writes: "Bio? I write. I write poetry, novels, plays, essays, shopping lists, notes. I'm also a graduate student in English at the University of Texas at Austin, slowly plodding my way toward a PhD. Born the same year as Sputnik and The Crying of Lot 49, I was too young to be a yuppie in the 80s and too old to be Generation X in the nineties." Aboriginal Science Fiction, Libido, eNteLechY ,Analecta, Borderlands, and Timberline have all published his work.

Thomas J. Hubschman has published three novels and numerous short stories, book reviews and articles on the BBC and in New York Press, Blue Moon Review, New York Computerist, Blue Penny Quarterly, Morpo Review, Kudzu, Brooklyn Free Press, and Gruene Street. From 1988-1993 he served as book review and literary editor of Brooklyn Free Press. He makes his living as a freelance writer and editor and publishes an international journal called GOWANUS.

Stanley Jenkins lives and works in Queens, New York City. His writing has appeared in Amelia, 32 Pages and Eclectica.

Welsh/Irish Alex Keegan got serious about writing after surviving a train wreck in 1988. He is the author of Headline (1993), and five mystery novels: Cuckoo (1994), Vulture (1995), Kingfisher (1995), Razorbill (1996), and A Wild Justice(1997). Cuckoo was nominated for an Anthony Award as best first novel. His true love, literary short fiction, has so far resulted in more than thirty short stories in print and on the net. He lives in Southampton, England.

Norma Kitson, a South African by birth, lived for 22 years in London after her detention under the 90-Day Law. She came to live in Zimbabwe in 1989 with her husband David, on his release from 20 years in jail in Pretoria as a political prisoner (1964-1984). She is the author of the acclaimed Where Sixpence Lives (1986), an autobiography, and has published reviews, short-stories and articles in magazines, newspapers and journals around the world. Her updated autobiography, Exiled, is now available online at www.exiled.co.za.

Jenniffer Lesh is a California native, growing up in Saroyan/Steinbeck/Levine country, raised in the hometown of Luis Valdez. She currently resides in Bakersfield, CA, where she owns a business selling vintage Americana; she can often be found haunting auctions, estate sales, and flea markets locally, in Texas, and everywhere in between. Her work has recently appeared in such online venues as The Alsop Review, Eclectica, Zero City, and CrossConnect, among others.

Thomas David Lisk's fiction, poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in many little magazines and newspapers, including Boston Review, Louisiana Literature, Quarter After Eight, and Yemassee. His stories have been chosen five times for cash prizes and publication in the State newspaper through the Fiction Project sponsored by the State and the South Carolina Arts Commission. The editors of Apalachee Quarterly have twice nominated his poems for Pushcart Prizes. The editors of American Letters and Commentary also nominated his essay, "I Loafe and Invite My Soul," for a Pushcart Prize. A collection of his poems, A Short History of Pens Since the French Revolution, was published by Apalachee Press in 1991. He serves as Head of the Department of English at North Carolina State University. He writes, "A couple of years ago I read somewhere -- it may have been on the web -- that someone had authoritatively determined the IQs of several figures from history. Balzac was on the list, with an IQ of 130, if I remember correctly. I thought that was pretty silly, but it worked in my imagination for a long time. I have a good friend who's a clinical psychologist who does a lot of psychological testing, and I talked with him about IQ tests and got some information from him, then did a little reading, and out of all that came the story."

June Owens, a poet and long-time reviewer for BMR, has recently won the Vickers, the Green River and the Sparrowgrass Awards.

Hannah McCouch is in the process of completing her M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction Writing at Columbia University. After ten long years of trying to find herself, she is, for the time being, at home as a writer working on her first novel, Greener Grass. One day soon, she hopes that this first person account of the journey of an American Girl (much like herself), will be reviewed by an enthusiastic writer for The Blue Moon Review.

Dinty W. Moore has published fiction and poetry in The Iowa Review, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Mississippi Review Web, Cybersangha, and numerous other publications. He is the author of The Emperor's Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth About Internet Culture (Algonquin Books, 1995) and is currently completing a second book looking at American Buddhism.

Peter Munro is a fisheries scientist who works in Seattle as well as in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. He has had poems published here and there.

Jessy Randall is rare book librarian in Philadelphia. Her poetry has appeared in The Unforgettable Fire (in New York) and Fresh Ink (on the internet), and is forthcoming in Melting Trees Review and Dream International Quarterly. She is looking for a publisher for her next novel, The Galaxy Room.

Fiona Drayton Russell, a poet in denial, works as an editor and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her dashing fiance and a small cat who suffers from delusions of grandeur. Her web page can be found at http://www.itheeweb.com/charlesandfiona/.

Kate Sontag won the 1995 Ronald H. Bayes Poetry Prize for "American Honeymoon Lyric, Circa 1987." Her poems have appeared widely in journals, including Sandhills Review, Southern Poetry Review, Nimrod, and Kalliope. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and currently teaches English at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh.

Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Sward is the author of 14 books including A Much-Married Man, A Novel and Four Incarnations, New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press). Sward has contributed to over 200 literary journals and e-Zines. He currently teaches for the University of California Extension in Santa Cruz. His home page is at http://www.cruzio.com/~scva/rsward.html.

After stints in Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Denver, Paul A. Toth now resides in his home state of Michigan. He has been published by Inklings, Pulp Fiction, Artisan and others.

William Trowbridge is Distinguished University Professor at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri, where he lives with his wife, Sue. His collections of poetry include The Book of Kong, Enter Dark Stranger, and, most recently, O Paradise. He is a co-editor of Laurel Review.

Ronald Wallace directs the writing program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and edits the poetry series at the University of Wisconsin Press. His many books include criticism and literary anthologies as well as nine volumes of his own poetry. His most recent collections are Time's Fancy and The Makings of Happiness, both from University of Pittsburgh Press. Forthcoming from the same press is The Uses of Adversity, which will include the two sonnets in this issue.

David Weinstock lives in Middlebury, Vermont, near the Green Mountains. For three years, he was a staff copywriter for the L.L. Bean catalog. His work has appeared in Modern Haiku and Phone-A-Poem.