Stephen Ausherman
describes travelers as a restless tribe and himself as one of their most active members. Nomadic, often solitary, he exists in a state of perpetual dislocation, an ideal vantage point for observing people and places on the edge of chaos. He also is the author of the award-winning novel Typical Pigs. He currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Catherine Dix
was born and raised in Deming, New Mexico and received her Bachelor of Science degree from New Mexico State University in 1996. She has been a natural resources conservationist by vocation for the last eleven years, and she's been a poet and novelist by inclination most of her life. A mother of four small children who works full time, Catherine does all her writing in her spare time between 9:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m. She lives and works in the San Luis Valley in Colorado, just next to that portion of the Rio Grande that actually has water flowing along its upper banks. Rosetta Stones is Catherine's first novel and she is presently finishing her second.

Martha Engber
is a journalist by training and freelance writer by profession. She has written hundreds of articles for the Chicago Tribune, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inside Karate Magazine and other publications. She had a play produced in Hollywood and a short story nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She's had numerous short stories published in the Berkeley Fiction Review, Bookpress, Anthology and other literary journals. Martha's contribution to the Central Ave Press Thorough Primer Series, Growing Great Characters from the Ground Up is forthcoming. Check out Martha's website at marthaengber.com or at growinggreatcharacters.com.

T. S. Kerrigan
The grandson of Irish immigrants from County Sligo, T.S. Kerrigan is a dual citizen of Ireland and the United States. He was born in Los Angeles, where he attended the public schools, and spent his college years at the University of California and Loyola University School of Law. He was admitted to the California Bar in 1965, was president of the Irish American Bar Association, has argued in the United States Supreme Court, and was listed in Marquis Who's Who in the Law and Who's Who in the West.
          Kerrigan has also been a theater critic and a member of the Los Angeles Drama Critic's Circle. He has written two plays produced in that city: Branches Among the Stars (at the Ensemble Studio Theatre) and A Thorn in the Heart (Globe Playhouse).
          Kerrigan writes regularly as a correspondent for The American Reporter (the oldest daily newspaper on the Internet, and co-wrote a Bloomsday show with Irish actor Redmond Gleeson that has been presented every June 26 (Bloomsday) in Los Angeles for the past twenty years. His principle interest has, however, always been poetry. His verse has been published on both sides of the Atlantic, in the Garrison Keillor anthology Good Poems (Viking Penguin) and Literature and Its Writers (Bedford-St. Martin's (2006), and in the small collections Another Bloomsday at Molly Malone's Pub (The Inevitable Press) and The Shadow Sonnets (Scienter Press). Central Avenue Press will publish his first full-length collection in 2008.

Rick Reichman
received an MFA in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and is a former winner of America's Best Screenwriting Competition. He worked as a coverage editor for Chuck Fries Productions in Los Angeles and as Head Writer for Willoughby Productions of Virginia, where he wrote several documentaries and industrial films. In addition to being a veteran workshop instructor, Reichman has taught screenwriting classes to students at Georgetown University, American University, Tennessee State University, and the University of Virginia. His students have sold scripts to Fox, Warner Brothers, HBO, and Showtime, as well as to the television series Roseanne, Home Improvement, The Nanny, Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Family Law. In 1988, Reichman founded the Tennessee Screenwriting Association. Speakers for their seminars have included Academy Award winners Tom Schulman, Callie Khouri, and Tom Rickman.
           Reichman's first book, Formatting Your Screenplay, has sold over 13,000 copies and was a Writer's Digest Book Club alternate selection. His articles have appeared in several magazines, including Creative Screenwriting and The Writer. Recently, Reichman optioned a screenplay and sold a co-written adaptation of The Chain Gang, written by Santa Fe Reporter writer Richard McCord. Reichman currently critiques scripts and teaches screenwriting at Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico.

Paul G. Schreiber
is a graduate of Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, Texas, and holds a self-earned B.S. degree from Cornell University. He and his Danish-born wife and life-long partner are retired from joint business ownership. They live in Arizona. She paints; he writes and enjoys an active outdoor life.

Harvey Stanbrough
is a poet, essayist, and fictionist. Collections of his poetry have been nominated for a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, a Frankfurt Award and, along with Maya Angelou, the Inscriptions Magazine Engraver's Award. Harvey works as a full-time freelance editor and speaks at writers' conferences around the nation. His previous poetry collections include On Love & War & Other Fallacies, Residua, Lessons for a Barren Population, and Intimations of the Shapes of Things. His comprehensive collection, Beyond the Masks, is available from Central Ave Press. Harvey's nonfiction titles include Punctuation for Writers and Writing Realistic Dialogue & Flash Fiction.

Robert Swearingen
was born on April 30, 1946, in Hammond, Indiana, about a half-hour drive from Comisky Park. He attended Purdue University and received a BA in English from Western New Mexico University in 1973. After jobs as a steel worker, bartender, taxicab driver, teacher, and social worker, he took to the road at age thirty-nine and has been traveling on it ever since. A wanderer by nature, Bob has lived on and off the streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico and other locales for the past seventeen years. Street Milk is his first book of poetry.