Carole MacRury is a Canadian poet and photographer who resides in Point Roberts, Washington. She is a featured reader for Vancouver Co-op Radio and has poetry published in both North American and International journals and anthologies. Her photographs have been published on chapbook and anthology covers and was featured at a local gallery in October, 2006.

Michael McClintock resides in South Pasadena and Fresno, California. His short poems have been widely anthologized, including in The Haiku Anthology, ed. by Cor van den Heuval (W. W. Norton, 1999). Letters in Time: Sixty Short Poems (Hermitage West, 2005) is his most recent collection. A seminal study of his early work in "new Imagism" may be found in Barbara Ungar’s Haiku in English (Stanford Honors Essay in Humanities, No. XXI, copyright 1978, Stanford University).

Margarita Engle is a botanist and the Cuban-American author of three books about the island, most recently The Poet-Slave: A Biography in Poems of Juan Francisco Manzano (Henry Holt & Co.), which has received starred reviews from Booklist and three other major library journals. Short works appear in a wide variety of journals, anthologies, and chapbooks. Recent awards include semi-finalist selection for the 2006 Nimrod Hardman/Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize.

Artist Dane Kai Kondo is of Japanese descent, and was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. As an avid diver and fisherman, gyotaku allows him to share his love for the ocean and a glimpse of the life within it. He uses specimens caught by himself in the crystal clean waters of Hawaii.

Linda Papanicolaou is an art historian and art teacher living in the Bay Area of Northern California. She is the editor of Haigaonline and assistant directior of WHChaikumultimedia. Her haiga and poetry have appeared in Amaze, Autumn Leaves, Haigaonline, May Dazed, Ribbons, Simply Haiku, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, World Haiku Review, WHC World Kigo Database and World Tempos Journal.

CarrieAnn (CAT) Thunell has been published in over 70 print magazines (in 7 countries) and in over 8 magazines online. She is editor of the print magazine, Nisqually Delta Review, at http://NisquallyDeltaReview.bravehost.com . CAT is a peace and ecology activist, backpacker, nature photographer, artist, and poet.