Kathup Tsering was born in Tsoe, a small town in Amdo, northeastern Tibet. He escaped to India in 1994 after taking part in a demonstration demanding promotion of Tibetan culture and religion. "Why do I write poetry? Because as poetry immortalizes the scenes of sadness, happiness, life, love and death, I have witness." He is a translator and works with PEN of Dharamsala, India. Tsering's poetry appears in the anthology entitled Muses in Exile (Paljor Publications, 2004). The Yak Blessing was released in late 2007.
		Peter Grieco's work has appeared in both print and on-line publications, among them: Harvard Review, House Organ, Poetalk, Arsenic Lobster, Court Green, Nexus, Red Hawk Review, Aquapolis, Folio, Fox Cry Review, Puerto del Sol, Folio, Heeltap, Poetry Revolt, Ship of Fools, and Situations. Currently teaching at Buffalo State College, he has also taught at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey and in Seoul, Korea. His vignettes in “Six Incidents" are based on reports from the Local section of the Buffalo News, while the subject of "Triptychs" is the well-known book of photos by Martin Rogovin (which documents lives in Buffalo's lower Westside, the area in which his own grandparents once made their homes).
		Subhashis Gangopadhyay is involved in the movement of postmodern poetry in India and is on the editorial board of Kabita Pakshik, a leading Bengali fortnightly poetry magazine. He has several books to his credit, including a book of selected poetry in Bengali. He has translated into Bengali works by John Ashbery and Peter Gizzi, as well as the works of leading Bengali poets into English. His own work can be found translated into English. He lives and works in Kolkata.
		Pradip Datta lives and works in Kolkata, India. His photographs have appeared in exhibitions at the National Centre for Performing Arts in Mumbai, Santiniketan's Prakriti Bhavan (where 38 of his photographs are on permanent display), Living India exhibition in Belgium, and a forthcoming one in Germany's Cologne. " Instead of defining the domain, Pradip liberates space and offers supplementarity to elements of seeing," says author and film scholar Sanjay Mukhopadhyay.
		Elena Ştefoi is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Starting Line (1996). Other titles include Daily Rehearsal (1986), Sketches and Stories (1989), and A Few Details (1990). Her work has been honored by the Romanian Writers' Union, and she was one of the four Romanian poets who appeared in Michael March's groundbreaking 1990 Penguin Anthology, Child of Europe. Ştefoi has been an editor of the important political-cultural journal Dilema and a correspondent for Radio France (with daily reports from Bucharest) and the French-language L'Invitation in Bucharest. Since the start of 2006 she has served as Romania's Ambassador to Canada.