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.

Know primarily as a humor columnist--founder of "The Flying Trapezeine" humor magazine and longtime contributor to "The Skirt"--Karla Telega is growing out of the episodic career and trying her wings as a novelist--and doing a very good job of it.

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.

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.

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".