Joseph Featherstone is professor of Education at MSU. His volume of poems is titled Braces's Cove. Dennis Hinrichsen teaches at Lansing Community College. His most recent poetry collection is The Garden of Earthly Delights, and is the winner of the 1999 Akron Poetry Prize.

Having sold her first short story at the age of 20 in 1986, Ms. Zettel has gone on to sell over a dozen more, primarily in the science fiction genre. Her first novel, Reclamation, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1997. Her second book, Fool's War, was a New York Times notable book of the year (1998). Her Third novel, Playing God, made the New York Public Libraries list of Best Books for theTeen Age in 1999. Her most recent novel is titled The Quiet Invasion.

A professor at Oberlin College, Sylvia Watanabe is the author of Writing to the Dead, a finalist for the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award.

Original works read by student authors of Michigan colleges and universities.

Thomas Lynch is the author of three collections of poems Skating with Heather Grace, Grimalkin & Other Poems, and Still Life in Milford, and two books of essays: The Undertaking, which won an American Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His most recent work, Bodies At Motion and At Rest, is a further exploration of what Lynch describes as the "literary and mortuary arts." Thomas Lynch has been named Michigan Author of the Year by the Michigan Library Association. Lynch lives and works in Milford, Michigan, and in West Clare, Ireland, where he keeps an ancestral cottage.