Mary Beyene, Contributing Editor

Mary Beyene received a degree in literature from Truman University. She taught related subjects for several years within the Missouri school districts. She has a masters degree in counseling. She is currently focused on developing intergenerational programs benefiting elders and children within rural communities.

Naomi Lee Davis, Contributing Editor

Naomi Lee Davis is interested in facilitating creative expression through the arts and humanities; specifically through the medium of art and literature. Ms. Davis is committed to working with populations in need of social interaction and support. Unsurprised by Ms. DiTallo's web log discovery, which  revealed a strong interest for more information by and about artists and writers from residents in rural areas, she is delighted to help enrich the lives of people through her contribution. 

GN Duncan, Staff Photographer

GN Duncan is primarily interested in Street Photography, but her work includes formal functions, lifestyle portraits, and objects, as well.  She admires the work of Diane Arbus, Amy Arbus, James Carroll, Victor Palagano, Dan Westfall, and many others.  Ms. Duncan is a graduate of Depaul University of Chicago.

Eva Gallud, Spanish Translation Editor

Eva Gallud was born in Madrid in 1973. She studied at Alcala de Henares University (Madrid) and graduated in English Philology after a year grant at Sussex University, Brighton (England) in 1998. Ms. Gallud is currently working on an Investigation Project on Djuna Barnes for her PhD on Feminist Criticism applied to North American Literature.

Ms. Gallud collaborated for various university magazines in Spain, and took an active role in the Writers Group at Sussex University to rebuild the writer's workshop after the departure of a former director.

In 1996, Ms. Gallud was awarded for her work in the Alcala University hyper-short fiction tournament.

Ms. Gallud is an experienced free-lance translator of various disciplines (from technical to literary texts). She has also worked as an English teacher for executives and blind children.

Ms. Gallud currently lives in Madrid with her partner and her dog. Her main interests are, literature, feminist criticism, the arts, short story writing, cooking and traveling.

Ms. Gallud's immediate goals are to become a doctorate and to open a women writers bookshop.

L. Margaret Pomeroy, Managing Editor

L. Margaret Pomeroy is a graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio with a double major in English and Psychology. Her English focus was modern literature and drama. Ms. Pomeroy has written for several small newsletters, has several published poems, and wrote an original performance art script based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's novel, The Yellow Wall Paper, which was produced in the Drama Department at the University of Texas at Dallas. Some of her favorite authors include Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Sandra Cisneros, Teresa Martino, and a whole list of southern writers including, but not limited to, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Bailey White, and Bobbie Ann Mason. Ms. Pomeroy's other interests include saving wildlife/wild lands and Native American culture and history, current as well as past.