James Henry Taylor

James Henry Taylor was born and grew up in Rhode Island. After completing his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Rhode Island, he held a couple of temporary teaching/research positions until joining the faculty at the University of Central Missouri (formerly Central Missouri State University). He joined Cave Hollow Press shortly after their publication of a collection of his short fiction: Honeysuckle and Other Stories (2002). He has also had stories appear in Dragonfly Extravaganza and the Internet journal Sweetgum Notes. His scientific papers have appeared in such journals as Physical Review, Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Physica, and Il Nuovo Cimento, and he has had popular articles on physics appear in Warrensburg Free Press. He is not married, and has no children or pets.

Jim Boan

Jim Boan, a Missouri native (Ozarks), is a writer and editor of long standing. While completing a B.S. degree at the University of Missouri in Columbia, he was editor of the University of Missouri Magazine. He worked in advertising for a time, served as Publicity Director for the Missouri State Fair, and was a feature writer for McKelvie Publications. For ten years, Boans was owner and editor of the Vindicator, a weekly newspaper in Southeast Missouri. He is the author of Rising Sun Sinking (Eakin Press 2000), a memoir of his service with the Sixth Marine Reconnaissance Company. The book was reprinted as Okinawa (2005 John Gresham Military Library series). Boans, now freelancing, has over two hundred byline credits. He is completing both fiction and non-fiction book length works. With his wife Clara, he lives in Bloomfield, Missouri.

Judith Bader Jones

UPDATE: Finishing Line Press of Georgetown, Kentucky will publish Judith Bader Jones' Moon Flowers on the Fence, a poetry chapbook. Prepublication sales will be offered from Finishing Line Press at www.finishinglinepress.com, February 29-April 2, 1020. The book will be relased on May 28th, 2010. According to the editors, "Jones' poems give voice to the land, to the force of the river and to the strength of relationships, all grounded by her southeast Missouri background." Jones spent the majority of her childhood in Caruthersville and Cape Girardeau. She currently lives in Fairway, Kansas. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Art Times, Buffalo Spree, Potpourri, Short Stuff, The River Road Journal, the Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star Magazine, Sacred Waters (anthology edited by Maril Crabtree)and other publications. Her poem, "Missouri," won third place in the Star Magazine competition for state-poem and will be sent with the other winners to each Missouri legislator. Jones is a poetry editor of Kansas City Voices.

Michael I. Hobbs
	Author of Through Eyes of Stone: A Memoir (Vietnam). Except for his years in the military and time traveling in work-related assignments, Michael I. Hobbs has lived in the Crowley's Ridge area of Southeast Missouri, specifically the towns of Bloomfield and Dexter. He is an avid woodsman, huntsman (bow and firearms), fisherman, and a collector of nature and military lore and artifacts.

Tony Shaffer

Author of The Spring Branch. Tony Shaffer is a poet, teacher, musician, fly fisher, &c. He has taught writing and literature and plays guitar, pedal steel, keyboard, and bass. Shaffer has traveled extensively, touring Europe, Australia, and most of the US with artists ranging from blues icon King Alex to country music legend Leroy Van Dyke. He fishes for trout...and others. [Quoted from the cover of The Spring Branch.]