Jami Macarty

lives on the coast of British Columbia and in the desert of Arizona. When a desert dweller, she teaches therapeutic movement and skeletal alignment; when in the rain forest, she teaches poetry at Simon Fraser University. Poems from her first manuscript, which is under construction, can be read in current issues or are forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Drunken Boat, Interim, Mudfish, Skidrow Penthouse, and Volt. Ms. Macarty expresses her gratitude to the editors of these magazines, as well as to the editors of The Café Review for their confidence in her work.
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

his poems, interviews, and reviews have appeared in magazines including Boston Review, The New Republic, and Tin House and in anthologies including From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. He is the Executive Director of The Telling Room, a non–profit community writing center in Portland, Maine.
Mark Hedden

lives with his wife Carol at the end of a dirt road in Vienna, Maine. She weaves and he writes; writes mostly about prehistoric petroglyphs in Maine and elsewhere in the world. See film “Song of the Drum” (2004).
John Harris

is very active in the literary community of Los Angeles, California. He was owner of the legendary bookstore, Papa Bach’s, and in 1972 founded the Beyond Baroque Poetry Workshop, which continues to this day.