Magdalena Ball has been writing professionally for over 20 years. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from CCNY (New York) with a BA in English Literature. She also studied English literature and business at a postgraduate level at Oxford University in the UK and Charles Sturt University in Australia and has an MBA. A wordsmith of all-trades, her publication credits span short stories and flash fiction in magazines like Mocha Memoirs, For Me, fiction.4-writers, and Einkwell; poetry in literary journals like Harpweaver, Artemis, and many printed anthologies; reviews and interviews in journals like Imago, Coppertales, and Midwest Book Reviews; essays, writing, health and parenting articles in journals as diverse as Performance Poetry, Scriptorium, Inscriptions, Aribella, Parents, and Box Planet. She is the author of The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything, and The Literary Lunch: Recipes For a Hungry Mind. She is Editor-In-Chief of The Compulsive Reader and Preschool Entertainment web sites, is a manuscript assessor for Catchfire Press, a small publishing house, does technical writing and information management for Orica, a large multinational corporation, is mother to three young children, and is working on her first novel--not always in that order! Magdalena can be contacted at magdaball@yahoo.com.au.

Julia Brown left her job as assistant to the president of a finance company to pursue her writing full time in February 1996. "I was on a mission with a an idea for a nonfiction book. I joined various online and in-person writing groups. I fell into good hands of Net Author and an opportunity presented itself for me to write personal electronics reviews, then electronic book reviews and eventually doing what I love, writing book reviews."

Julia has been a member of Net Author since its inception. She is a freelance writer and photographer. She is currently a staff writer for Net Author's online literary journal E2K, and her publishing credits include several personal electronic reviews, poetry, and book reviews. Her photography credits include Net Author's E2K and a recent photograph published in the "Breathing Spaces" section of oprah.com.

Pam Casto created and runs the online Flash Fiction Writing Workshop (http://home.att.net/~p.casto). She also teaches online flash fiction courses several times a year and publishes a free online flash literature newsletter (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashFictionFlash). Many of Pam's feature-length articles on writing flash fiction have appeared in Writer's Digest publications, and she has had work published in several print and online publications, including The Toastmaster, Suddenly: Prose Poetry and Sudden Fiction (Vols. III and V), The Art of Haiku 2000 (a feature-length article on writing haibun), Fiction Fix, Amaze, Writing World, flashquake, E2K, Mindprints, Web Del Sol's Perihelion, Riding the Meridian, Modern Haiku (and others).

Robert Marcom has been writing for publication for about ten years. He writes popular science books, essays, articles, and speculative fiction stories and poems. His latest book is titled Digging Up Texas - A Guide to the Archaeology of the State, published by Roman & Littlefield. Robert is the Managing Director of Net Author, Inc. and lives in Houston, Texas with his wife and teenaged son. He can be contacted at the Net Author address (Post Office Box 79765, Houston, Texas 77279-9765) or via e-mail at robert@netauthor.org.

T. Ruth Marcom is President and CEO of Stargate Electronic Library, Inc. (http://www.stargatecdbooks.com), an electronic publisher located in Houston, Texas that produces children's books on CD ROM. Current itles include Astronomy, Geology and Geography, with more to come. NASA can help your child with reports on such topics as space flight, the Solar System and the Cosmos with the Cosmic Photo Book. Ruth holds a teaching certificate from the University of Texas and has teaching experience in the Texas Public School System. Ruth can be reached at ruth@stargatecdbooks.com.

Jason Nolan, PhD, is Scholar in Residence with the Knowledge Media Design Institute of the University of Toronto, and a lecturer in Early Childhood Education at Ryerson University. His research is centered around narrative and collaborative learning environments in the form of Blogs, Wikis and MOOs (http://projectachieve.net). He is co-editor of the forthcoming International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, and serves as editor-at-large with Netauthor.org's E2K (http://netauthor.org/e2k/)and The Harrow (http://www.theharrow.com). He is a contributing editor with Canadian Children's Literature (http://www.uoguelph.ca/ccl/), and executive peer-reviewer with the IEEE journal Educational Technology and Society (http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/). Aside from writing about education and technology, Nolan also publishes on Lucy Maud Montgomery (the author of Anne of Green Gables) and vampires. He is currently collaborating on an autobiographical novel with his niece (who is published often) with the hopes of generating a film script and a computer game. He blogs daily at http://jasonnolan.net.

Lida Quillen is an author, editor, and publisher. Her writing (and reading) interests are primarily in the field of speculative fiction--SF/F, mystery, futuristic, and supernatural romance--but she also writes the occasional literary story.

She has achieved publishing credits in over twenty small press publications with her short stories and poetry, and has also completed work on five different novels and two non-fiction books. The novels are best described as a dark fantasy set in another universe, a contemporary urban fantasy, a fantasy set in the Old West, an epic fantasy set in another universe and a supernatural murder mystery.

Lida is the founder and owner of the Twilight Times Books epublishing house as well as Twilight Times ezine, an award-winning digital magazine. She shares the knowledge and experience gleaned from her Internet endeavors in her non-fiction book, Practical Tips for Online Authors, available from Twilight Times Books.

Ms. Quillen is also the founder and owner of Lady of the Net Productions (virtual assistant service) and serves on the board of directors for NetAuthor.org. She is a member of such online organizations as Authors Den, EPIC, EPPRO, Digital Women, Phenomenal Women of the Web, SFF Net and the Virtual Business Group.

Jennifer Ratliff is currently pursuing studies in accounting, and comes to Net Author with a background in business and finance and more than a decade of experience in Web research. She serves as the key element in Net Author's marketing and publicity efforts and devotes her time away from Net Author to her studies, preschool lessons for her two-year old, writing, and spending quality time with her family.

Rhonna Robbins-Sponaas teaches writing and literature with The Florida State University, a university with an historically strong creative writing program. Her own Master's thesis consisted of a collection of creative nonfiction essays, and her doctoral dissertation is focused on the writings of two 19th-century American women writers. Her publication credits are focused in the creative nonfiction and academic genres. She currently serves as Net Author's Editor-in-Chief.

Rongrong Yu has been a Net Author member since 2002 when she grabbed an issue of Writer's Digest and found E2K to be one of the "25 Best Places to get Published Online." A recent Rice University graduate, Rongrong was employed less than six months as a Technologist at Enron Corp before moving on. She now works as a more humbly-titled Programmer Analyst in Houston. Her loves in life include cats, poetry, webpage design, and chocolate. An amateur poet, Rongrong has been published in various literary magazines, including Rice's University Blue as well as online journals such as E2K and Poet's Canvas. In print, she has appeared in InnerVision and In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself.

Keith Deshaies writes essays, short fiction and poetry out of his home in the Seattle area. He has been employed as a technical writer, has freelanced for business publications, and is currently a business analyst for a large telecommunications company and a member of the Society for Technical Communications. He most recently won awards for his poetry and essays at a writer's conference in Washington state. Keith is one of the founding members of E2K, Net Author's literary journal, and has contributed several editorials and the odd book review. He served in a number of capacities, including Editor during the journal's early days, and more recently, Editor-at-Large.

Tricia Gilbert was a part of Net Author's infancy in 1999. As with most writers, her writing career and publication credits have been been eclectic. She's been published as the assistant editor of a trade magazine, has published her own column with an online writer's site, and has seen her name in print with poetry, and short fiction. She was the desktop publishing brains and behind a Wall Street investment firm, served as literary manager at a nonprofit theatre, and pursued a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics. Her writing interests include poetry, short and long fiction, and nonfiction. Tricia served as an Associate Editor for the organization, and later as the journal's editor.

Julie Hartman has been a Net Author member since 2001, and has a strong interest in poetry and short story fiction. She supplements her art with technical writing, always stifling the desire to add dialogue and lush description to things such as computer hard drives. She met NA's founder, Robert Marcom, in a Creative Writing course offered at a local (Southern Texas) community college, and completed an editorial internship with Net Author. After her internship, she served as Editor-at-Large, fielding queries, responding to submissions, and working with writers.

Dan Knestaut has been a Net Author member since 2000. Dan has honed his editorial and publishing skills by serving as a contributing editor for a small poetry press and as Chief Editor and publisher of the Internet magazine Bovine Free Wyoming. Dan's experience as both editor and writer has allowed him to see the view from both sides of the fence, from querying to copyrighting, and has given him a unique outlook on the craft and practice of writing. His publishing credits include poetry and non-fiction, and he has won poetry awards from the National Writers Association, Denver Chapter, and the Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival. As of the time of this writing, Dan is working toward his Master's in English. Originally drawn to Net Author out of curiosity towards writing and Internet publishing, he has served as Associate Moderator for Net Author's discussion group, Moderator for the critique forum, and as a member of the Board of Advisors.