Selected Contributors:

Eugene Dubnov.Born 1949 in Tallinn; educated Moscow, Bar-Ilan, London Universities; taught Russian, English, American and Comparative Literature, as well as Jewish History; Writer in Residence, Carmel College, Oxfordshire; Wingate Scholar, London (1984-93). Three collections of verse in Russian; poems and short stories in English in periodicals and anthologies in USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. Work also broadcast by the BBC and published in French, Hebrew and German translation

William Males deserted the US Army during the Vietnam War and has been living in Sweden ever since. He is currently finishing a book about these experiences. 'The Last Time I Saw Theo van Biels' is an offshoot of that project. Males contributed three stories to Stand during the 1990s.

Fred Voss has been a machinist in steel mills and aerospace factories for 30 years. His latest book, Carnegie Hall with Tin Walls, is available from Bloodaxe Books.

Gréagóir Ó Dúill was born in Dublin, raised in County Antrim, educated in Belfast, Dublin and Maynooth where he took his PhD. He was recently Lecturer in Contemporary Writing in Irish at Queen's University, Belfast and currently lectures in Creative Writing in the Poets' House at Waterford Institute of Technology. Much published in Irish, he is more recently concentrating on work in English and has been widely published in the journals in Ireland, Britain and the United States. He lives in Dublin and in the Donegal Gaeltacht.

Anzhelina Polonskaya was born in Malakhovka, a small town near Moscow where she still lives. Her first book of verses Svetoch Moy Nebesny (My Heavenly Torch) appeared in 1993. Since then, she has published: Stikhotvoreniia (Verses), 1998; Nebo glazami riadovogo (The Sky in a Private's Eye), 1999; Golos (A Voice), 2002. A Voice was shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation. Her works have been published in Moskovsky Komsomolets (poets' competition), Arguments and Facts (in memory of Galina Starovoytova), as well as Moskovsky Vestnik, Gorodskoe Review, and Poetry magazine. Her work has been translated into Dutch and Spanish.

Anna Shivani's novel-in-progress, Intrusion, deals with an American anthropologist researching a squatter settlement in contemporary Pakistan. Just finished is a new collection, Anatolia and Other Stories, grappling with the historical paradoxes of multiculturalism.

Dana Littlepage Smith lives in Devon with her husband where she gardens, paints and teaches at Exeter Cathedral School where she is working on shrinking her carbon foot-print. Her second collection Black Elk Dances for Queen Victoria was published this summer by Cinammon. Her poetry has won various awards on both sides of the Atlantic.

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