Before emerging as a dean of gringo border-rat literature, Lin Robinson was an award-winning poet and journalist. Born and schooled in Asia, resident of Latin America for 20 years, Lin has incurred an expatriate outlook that gives his work and outside angle on American culture and readers.

Lovely model from Stratford-on-Avon, plunged into poetry by medical and emotional malpractice, Stevie has created a following beyond the U.K. and "Suicide Girls" with her tough, tender verse.

Surveyor, archeology hound, smuggler, singer/songwriter: Tennessee wanderer Grayson Moran finally go around to writing a novel. And did a great job of it.

Legendary bartender, Senate page, Pushcart nominated haikuist, Andrew's lifelong dedication to writing wandered to the high desert of New Mexico, where his exposure to water rights issues sparked his most popular novel so far.

Peggy Johnson transcends the image of a cat-doting farmgirl whenever she writes. Her books, "Anasazi" and "Alien Memoirs" are definitely not down on the farm at all. When not writing and doing the chores, Peggy spends her times at trapper "rendevous", where she has a bit of a reputation. She's also gathering a name as a video maker.

Generally conceded to be an authority on Mexican lowlifes, linquistic borderjumper, and undesireable alien, Cabo Bob is easily the biggest name in Mexican Slang, and a Mexico authority on a par with Karl Franz and "Mexico Mike".