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Cheryl Burke is a Brooklyn-based writer and poet. Her work appears in several print and online publications, including; Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution (Seal Press), BLOOM and Reactions 5: New Poetry (Pen & Inc.).  As a performance poet, Cheryl has appeared at numerous venues in NYC and toured throughout the U.S and the U.K.  Her website is www.cherylb.com.

Meryl Cohn is the 2009 winner of the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, among other honors. Her upcoming musical, Insatiable Hunger, starring Lea DeLaria, will be produced by Counter Productions at The Provincetown Theatre in October. She is also the author of Do What I Say: MS. Behavior’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Etiquette (Houghton Mifflin, 1995). She can be reached at msbehavior@mac.com.

Rich Orloff is one of the most popular unknown playwrights in the country. His full-length plays include: FUNNY AS A CRUTCH (The New York Times Critic’s Pick, 2008); FOREIGN AFFAIRS - New York magazine Off-Off-Broadway pick, 2005; SKIN DEEP - winner, 2008 Larry Corse Playwriting Prize; VIETNAM 101: THE WAR ON CAMPUS (produced at colleges across the country); and the comic revues OY! and ROMANTIC FOOLS. Rich’s one-acts have had over 500 productions on six of the seven continents (and a staged reading in Antarctica). Rich is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild of America, the WorkShop Theater Company, and is the Relatively Artistic Director of the Foolish Theatre Company. www.richorloff.com

Thaddeus Rutkowski is the author of the novels Tetched (Behler Publications) and Roughhouse (Kaya Press). Both books were finalists for an Asian American Literary Award. His third novel, Haywire, is forthcoming from Starcherone Books. His stories and poems have been nominated five times for a Pushcart Prize. He has been the fiction and nonfiction editor of the literary journal Many Mountains Moving since 2007. His work is anthologized in Up Is Up, but So Is Down: The New York Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images and other collections. His stories have appeared in Asia Literary Review, American Letters and Commentary, Crowd, CutBank, Faultline, Fiction, Fiction International, Global City Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Laurel Review, Pleiades, Potomac Review and other magazines. He teaches fiction writing at the Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA. His book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Daily News and other papers. www.thaddeusrutkowski.com