Author and performer Jillian Lauren grew up in suburban New Jersey and fled across the water to New York City. She attended New York University for three minutes but promptly dropped out to work with Richard Foreman's Ontological Hysteric Theater and with The Wooster Group, among others. Her memoir, SOME GIRLS, will be published by Plume/Penguin on April 27, 2010.Jillian has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Flaunt Magazine, Pindeldyboz Magazine, Opium Magazine, The Chiron Review, Society, Pale House: A Collective and in the anthology My First Time: A Collection of First Punk Show Stories.
She has read at spoken word events in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, including Tongue and Groove, Talk, Talk, Talk and Words like Sugar. She has recently worked with directors as diverse as Steve Balderson, Lynne Breedlove and Margaret Cho.
She is married to musician Scott Shriner. They live in Los Angeles with their son.
Carol Potter's third book of poems, A Short History of Pets, won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Award (1999), and the Balcones Award. Her other awards include a Pushcart Prize, The New Letters Award for Poetry, and the Tom McAfee Discovery Award from the Missouri Review. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Field, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry Miscellany, The Journal, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Pushcart Prize xxvi, Best of the Small Presses, and many others. Her most recent book, Otherwise Obedient was published by Red Hen Press and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in GLBT poetry.
Her sunrises are full of golden retrievers and writing. Kate Gray's poems and stories chronicle her path on many rivers, some through Portland, Oregon where she's lived for 20 years. Cedar House Books released Kate's first full-length book, Another Sunset We Survive, in September 2007. Her poems and stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Seattle Review, Mid American Review, Calyx, and more. She teaches at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City and is an editor of Clackamas Literary Review. 
Ellen Orleans is the author of five books of queer humor and social satire, including The Butches of Madison County (1996 Lambda Literary Award Winner). Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Girl Jock Magazine, Wilma Loves Betty, and other publications. Her play, "God, Guilt, and Gefilte Fish," was produced by Goddess Theatre in 1997. Last year, Ellen was awarded a grant for her performance piece "O-8: My Visit with a Nuclear Missile". She runs the Yellow Pine Writing Series in Boulder, Colorado. Ellen recently completed a young adult novel, vThe Replacement Daughter, and is working on a series of essays and poems entitled Golden: My Pocket-Sized Obsession with the Great Outdoors.
Michael Montlack's work has appeared in Cimarron Review, New York Quarterly, Poet Lore, Mipoesias, Bloom, Cream City Review, Court Green, and other journals. In 2006, he was a Pushcart Prize Nominee, a Frank O'Hara Award Finalist, and the recipient of two residencies: Soul Mountain Retreat (Connecticut) and Ucross (Wyoming). Currently he is editing an anthology: Diva Complex (Gay Men on Their Divas). He lives in New York City, where he teaches at Berkeley College and acts as Associate Editor for Mudfish.
Henry Alley is a Professor Emeritus of Literature in the Honors College at the University of Oregon. He has three published novels: Through Glass, The Lattice and Umbrella of Glass. A three-time Pushcart nominee, Henry is also author of the scholarly study, The Quest for Anonymity: The Novels of George Eliot (University of Delaware Press). Recent work has appeared in Harrington Gay Men's Quarterly Fiction, Herstory, HIMS and in Reading Brokeback Mountain. Over the past thirty years, Henry's stories have appeared in such journals as Seattle Review, Cimarron Review, Clackamas Literary Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He has finished a novel on the Measure Nine crisis in Oregon, Precincts of Light, a collection of short fiction, The Sojourners, and an extensive novel, At Large, set in 1968 and 2001, on both the East and West coasts. 
