Jason Erik Lundberg's story "Songstress" garnered an Honorable Mention in the Seventeenth Annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and his mosaic flash story "The Artists Pentaptych" was both a finalist in the 2004 NCSU Short-Short Story Contest and a nominee for the Speculative Literature Foundation's 2004 Fountain Award. His work has appeared (or will appear soon) in over a dozen nice places, including The 3rd Alternative, Strange Horizons, Infinity Plus, The Green Man Review, and Fantastic Metropolis. With his wife, artist-writer Janet Chui, he runs Two Cranes Press, a critically-acclaimed small press out of North Carolina. Lundberg is a graduate of the 2002 Clarion Writers' Workshop, and is currently at work on his first novel. He was born in Brooklyn, but currently lives in the Raleigh area with his wife and their dwarf hamsters. He maintains a website and online journal at jasonlundberg.net. [new windows, all]

Mild-mannered, bespectacled Jamie Bishop works as an "Academic Technology Liaison"* at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he provides technical support for faculty, staff and graduate students. After five, he battles the drudgery and ennui of the 40-hour work week, heroically pursuing creativity. (Victory or no, the glasses always stay on.) Often inspired by his artistic superheroes Dave Mckean, Frank Miller, Diane Fenster, and the ever-groovy René Magritte, Jamie enjoys creating digital art. Recent work includes book covers for Michael Bishop's Brighten to Incandescence and A Reverie for Mister Ray as well as Mike Jasper's short story collection Gunning for the Buddha. Despite a penchant for art, Jamie received both his B.A. and M.A. in German at the University of Georgia. Between 1993 and 2000 he lived for four years in Germany where he spent most of his time learning the language, teaching English, drinking large quantities of wheat beer, and wooing a certain /Fräulein/. Website. [new window]