Suzanne Adler graduated from Sarah Lawrence in December, 2000. Her work has appeared or will appear in New York Quarterly, Poetry Motel, and Boston Review. "Wildwood" is from her book-in-progress, a dramapoem called, Life Was Perfect Or Nearly So.

Sally Bliumis is just completing her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence. She has poems forthcoming in The Paris Review and The Spoon River Poetry Review.

Lorna Blake is a second-year poetry student at Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Rattapallax, The Hudson Review, Tar River Poetry, The Formalist, Pivot, and Heliotrope, as well as in Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English, the anthology edited by the late Agha Shahid Ali. She is co-editor of Lumina, the College's new literary magazine.

Laura Caldwell is an Ohio native and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a degree in Economics. She worked for many years in equity capital markets before staying home to raise her two daughters and spend time writing. In recent years, she has worked as a producer on Bronxville cable television. Caldwell will graduate in Spring 2002, and is currently on staff at Lumina, the school's new literary journal.

Michael Carman was formerly a newspaper journalist in the Midwest, founding editor of Richmond Magazine in Richmond, Virginia, and, most recently, group publisher with Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in Manhattan. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Columbia University and is a first-year graduate student in poetry at Sarah Lawrence.

Tricia Chapman is a first-year MFA student at Sarah Lawrence College.

Miles Coon, born 1938, reborn 1999 with his acceptance into the Sarah Lawrence Graduate Writing Program in Poetry. Married to Mimi for 39 years, they have two adult children. After graduating from the University of Virginia and Harvard Law School, he worked for thirty years as an executive for a plastics manufacturer. Coon says poetry, like law, seeks resolution in words, and both wrestle with precedent.

Yasmin Dalisay is a native of Cebu City, Philippines. She has lived in Provo, Utah, Providence, Rhode Island, and Prague, Czech Republic. In 2000, her poem, "Prague," was chosen for publication on Seattle area buses. She currently lives in New York and teaches for the Bronx Writers' Center.

Karin de Weille (B.A. Princeton University, Ph.D. Toronto U.) has taught literature at Toronto U. and at Sarah Lawrence College. She has poems forthcoming in the anthology, In a Time of Crisis, and is currently writing a book about early modern artistic experimentation.

Lesleigh Forsyth (B.A. Stanford, M.A. Columbia) will receive her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in May of 2002. She has published poems in the Sarah Lawrence Review. She lives in Larchmont, New York with her husband and two sons.

Bruce Frankel, a first-year student in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence, was a writer of LIFE's current best-selling, World War 2: History's Greatest Conflict in Pictures. A prize-winning investigative reporter, he was formerly a senior writer at People magazine and a national reporter for USA Today. His freelance articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Natural History, Fortune, Reader's Digest and Audubon. His poem is from a series, titled "V & Variations."

Patty Gordon is a first-year MFA student at Sarah Lawrence. This is her first submission.

Lisa Horner grew up in Northern California and attended college in upstate New York. She is completing her MFA degree in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence, and resides in Manhattan.

Jenifer Wohl Jonson graduated from William Smith College. She lives in New York City.

Kasey Jueds received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence in 2000. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Poet Lore, Many Mountains Moving, and The Marlboro Review.

Judy Katz was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She moved to New York to attend Barnard College, where she graduated with honors. For a number of years, Judy worked as a producer for public televison and National Geographic television, and several years ago co-produced an independent documentary entitled, And Baby Makes Two. Currently finishing her MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence, she lives in New York City with her husband and two children.

Louisa Lam is a first-year MFA student in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She earned her BA with Honors at the University of Hawaii, Manoa (2000), and was awarded the Ernest Hemingway Award for her collection of poems and short stories, Stealth Chinese, by the UH English Department (2000).

Alice Loxley created the website, Michaelangelo's Ceiling, devoted to creative writing and experimental, online author payment. She has worked as an editorial assistant at Painted Leaf Press and taught expository writing at Mount Saint Mary's College and State University of New York. Her work has appeared in The Carroll Quarterly and in Lux. She lives in Garrison, New York.

Christina Manning was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a student in the MFA Program in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, and her collaborations with the designer Hillman Curtis have been shown on the web and at film festivals worldwide. She lives and writes in Manhattan.

Victoria Matalon is the founder of CritiqueMe.Com, an online writing center designed to give students easier access to help with their writing. Her poetry reflects tensions and experiences derived from living within the unique Sephardic Jewish community of Deal, New Jersey.

Jamie McNeely is a two-time winner of the Rowan University Literary Award in Poetry and received the school's Excellence in Creative Writing Medallion in 1999. With poems published or forthcoming in Comrades and The MacGuffin, McNeely hosts the monthly poetry night at Barnes & Noble, Rt. 17S, Paramus, New Jersey.

Seth Michelson will graduate in May of 2002 with an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. His poetry has appeared or will soon be published in Long Island Quarterly, Limestone Circle and RagMag. A native of San Diego, he now lives in Long Island.

Greg A. Nicholl is a first-year MFA student at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the former editor of two West Coast literary journals, Saxifrage and Slightly West.

Baruch November is a first-year MFA student at Sarah Lawrence College. His permanent home is Pittsburgh, and he went to Binghamton University for his BA. He has published on poetry.com.

Tara Pearson completed her undergraduate degree in theatre at Southwest Missouri State University. She graduates from Sarah Lawrence College in May 2002 with an M.F.A. in Poetry. Currently, she is the editorial assistant for The American Anthropologist and teaches writing workshops for grade-schoolers in conjunction with the SLC Community Writers Project.

Gretchen Primack is a freelance writer and poet's assistant based in Brooklyn who graduated from Sarah Lawrence's MFA program in Spring of 2001. Her previous and forthcoming publication credits include The Paris Review, Poet Lore, The Bark, The Brooklyn Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, Global City Review, and other journals, and Hungry As We Are: An Anthology of Washington Area Poets. She has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Laura Sherwood Rudish is a first-year MFA student at Sarah Lawrence. She lives in Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Denise Rue, a first-year student in the MFA poetry program, was a finalist in the 1999 and 2001 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contests and is the recipient of Sensations Magazine's 1999 Best Newcomer Award. Her poems have been published in Poet Lore, the Paterson Literary Review and Sensations Magazine.

Daniel Schneider is a first-year graduate student in poetry at Sarah Lawrence's MFA program. He received his B.A. in Creative Writing and Environmental Studies from Oberlin College in 1999. Credits include publications in the Ibbettston St. Press in Somerville, MA, and in the Dial at Oberlin College. He received an honorable mention for the Academy of American Poets student poetry award in 1999.

(MFA '00) Elaine Sexton's poems have appeared in various journals including American Poetry Review, New Letters, Prairie Schooner and Rattapallax. Her first collection of poems, "Sleuth," will be published by New Issues Press in Spring 2003.

Daniel V. Shea earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2000. Has a day job in publishing in New York, and is working on a novel.

Lisa Shirley is a third-year student in the Sarah Lawrence MFA program. Her most recent publication was in Sidewalks.

Louisa Storer is a first-year MFA student at Sarah Lawrence College. She received a BA (Engl Lit/Art Hist) from the University of California-Davis, and is pursuing her dual interests in poetry and art criticism and theory.

Mary Tautin's study of poetry began at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. She is currently in her final semester of graduate study at Sarah Lawrence College and maintains a freelance writing career in New York, most recently contributing to Global Finance magazine and the AIDS Institute.)

Lisa Titus is from Arcade, New York. She has a BA in English from the State University of New York at Fredonia, an MA from the State University of New York at Binghamton and presently attends Sarah Lawrence College.

Byron Weiss is in his second year with the Sarah Lawrence Writing Program. He has taken workshops with Stephen Dobyns, Joan Larkin, and Marie Howe, and is currently working on his thesis with Kate Johnson.

Hanne Winarsky is currently in Sarah Lawrence College's MFA Poetry program. She graduated from Vassar College in 1999, and has since worked in journalism, public relations, and marketing. She lives in Jersey City, NJ.

Melissa Woertendyke is a first-year student in Sarah Lawrence's MFA program. She lives in Nyack, New York with her husband and three children.