Keith Atwater teaches English and history at Union Mine High School in El Dorado, CA, and develops multicultural curriculum and diversity training programs. He can be reached at katwater@umhs.eduhsd.k12.ca.us

Roselee Blooston is a writer, actress and former adjunct. Her solo plays have been widely produced. Her poetry appeared in the No Word for Inhumanity exhibit. Her fiction has been published online in Moxie and Pulse Magazines. She founded and directs Tunnel Vision Writers' Project, a non-profit tax-exempt organization.

Abby Lynn Bogomolny, the editor of this collection, has been teaching in the California Community College system for eleven years. Her three books of poetry are Nauseous in Paradise, Black of Moonlit Sea and People Who Do Not Exist.

Elayne Clift is an award-winning writer in Saxtons River, VT. Her latest book is Love Letters to Vermont: A New England Journal (OGN Publications, 2001). Next year Haworth Press will publish her second anthology, Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper: Women's Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment.

Trista Cornelius teaches Composition at private universities and community colleges in Oregon. Her most recent flash fiction piece about teaching appears in the anthology, In Praise of Pedagogy.

Rebecca Curtis teaches at Santa Monica College and Mt. St. Mary's College. Several of her essays have been anthologized in composition readers published by Harcourt Brace.

Kevin Griffith's writing has appeared in Chelsea, The Southern Review, Press, Poems and Plays. He has two books of poetry, Someone Had to Live (1994) and Paradise Refunded (1998). He is also the editor of The Common Courage Reader, a progressive, new composition reader and a Part-Time Professor at the Capital University School of Law.

Dr. Toke Hoppenbrouwers grew up in the Netherlands during and after WW II. She studied Psychology at The University of Utrecht. In 1965, she immigrated to the United States. At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) she studied both Physiological Psychology or Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. After earning her Doctorate, she began work on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) at the University of Southern California, where she is presently Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine. In 1980, she became part of the faculty of a major California State University, where she teaches part-time. In addition to numerous articles on SIDS and Developmental Physiology, Dr. Hoppenbrouwers' novel, Autumn Sea, was a Small Press Award winner in 1997. Her website address is <http://toke.didoc.nl>.

Jeffrey Kausman is Chair of the English Department at What com Community College in Bellingham, Washington and the President of the Faculty Union. As President, he has worked to improve Part-Time Faculty salaries and working conditions for the past two years. His poety and fiction has appeared in numberous journals.

Evelyn A. Uddin-Khan teaches in Queens and Brooklyn in New York City.

Joel Peckham has been published in Ascent, The Black Warrior Review, The Dalhousie Review, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Malahat Review, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, SunDog, The Sycamore Review, The Texas Review and Yankee. Nightwalking, his newest collection of poetry has just been published by Pecan Grove Press. He is an Adjunct Instructor of Composition in Western Michigan.

Helen Ruggieri has been an Adjunct Instructor since 1983.

Sol Saporta, now retired, was a Professor at the University of Washington from 1960-1990 and served as Chair of the Department of Linguistics from 1962-1977.

Rodger Scott has been a teacher for 36 years in five states of the U.S. and in Colombia, Japan and the People's Republic of China. The two highest union positions he has held are president of AFT Local 2121 and Northern California vice president of the Community College Council of the CFT. He is currently on the Executive Board of Local 2121, serving as a delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council. He believes the most enlightened and democratizing forces in this country are public education and progressive unionism, and that faculty unions should be closely allied with organized labor.  In his view, the best test of a union's integrity and effectiveness is how vigorously that union works to organize the unorganized and to protect the rights of the most vulnerable workers.

Robert Sward has taught at Cornell University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and now at UC Santa Cruz. A Guggenheim Fellow. He was also chosen by Lucille Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award. His 16 books include: Four Incarnations, New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press); Three Dogs & a Parrot; and Rosicrucian in the Basement (Black Moss Press). Sward serves as contributing editor to the Internet's "Web Del Sol" and "Blue Moon Review."

J. Weintraub has published fiction, essays, and poetry in, among other periodicals, The New Criterion, Chicago Reader, Karamu, The MacGuffin, Whetstone, Cream City Review and in the anthologies Movieworks, The Mudville Diaries and Contemporary American Satire. His one-act play, You, was produced by The Theatre-Studio, Inc. (NYC) in 2000.

Judy Wells has six books of poetry to her credit: I Have Berkeley, Albuquerque Winter, Jane, Jane; The Part-Time Teacher, The Calling: 20th Century Women Artists, and Everything Irish. Her essay, "The Sheela-na-Gigs," was recently published in Travelers' Tales Ireland. More information on Judy Wells can be accessed at <http://www.scarlettanager.com>www.scarlettanager.com>.

David Williams writes weekly for The Chronicle of Higher Education and has had a number of his books published by Alfed A. Knopf. His cartoons and writing have been published widely.

James Wilson is a full-time English as a Second Language instructor at Mt. San Jacinto College in Riverside County, California. Prior to his current position, he worked as a part-time lecturer at Pasadena City College, and a part-time non-credit instructor and part-time instructional specialist at Mt. San Antonio College.

Gordon Yaswen has taught at a a variety of California Community Colleges since 1977. He has published two non-fiction books and 22 chapbooks of poetry with drawings. His chapbooks are available him at yaswen@aol.com.