Ramon Fernandez-Bofill was born in Italy to Cuban parents who eventually moved to Miami. He received a BFA from the University of Miami and an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design. He was awarded the Summer Residency at West Dean College Scholarship in West Sussex, England and was in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center. He has shown in many group exhibitions in New York and Florida.

Geoffrey Chadsey, second-year Fellow (2003-04), recently moved to New York after living in San Francisco since 1993. He received a BA from Harvard University and an MFA in photography and drawing from the California College of the Arts. His drawings have been shown in galleries and museums throughout the US, most recently in an exhibition of new work at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York. A solo show at the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu is set for 2006. Geoff is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards and his work is in the collections of such institutions as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Microsoft and the Carnegie Institute.

Adam Frelin attended Indiana University of PA, Hunter College, and the Art Center of Lorenzo De' Medici in Florence, Italy. He received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego. His work has been shown in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. Most recently, Adam's work was featured in two solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and was awarded a US/Japan Creative Artists Award for independent research. Residencies include the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell Colony, and Vermont Studio Center.

Colette Fu, who has undergraduate degrees in French and photography, received an MFA in photography from Rochester Institute for Technology. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout the US and has received awards from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, En Foco, the Rochester Arts Council, Nikon, the Puffin Foundation, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Women in Photography International, and the Society for Photographic Education.

Timothy Horn, a sculptor from Australia, traveled to Boston for an MFA from Mass College of Art, having received an Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. He has a BFA from the Australian National University, where he received a University Medal. Tim has exhibited widely around Australia and most recently in the US with Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco. He is the recipient of a Rome Studio Residency (British Academy, 2002), and a Yaddo residency.

Justin Richel, from Portland, Maine, received a BFA from the Maine College of Art and studied the technique of icon painting at the Franciscan Monastery in Kennebunk. His work has been exhibited in various group shows throughout the state including the Portland Museum of Art. Justin's interests lie in combining human histories and exploring the excessive nature that pervades Western culture.

Carrie Scanga, a second-year Fellow (2004-05), grew up in rural, suburban and urban locations in Pennsylvania; her work has long been concerned with the spatial and architectural aspects of these environments. She attended Bryn Mawr College, received an MFA from the University of Washington, has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony and received a NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2004. Carrie's work has been exhibited at the International Print Center, NY, and the Islip Art Museum on Long Island.

Amanda Tetrault is a photographer based in Montreal, Canada and Bangalore, India. After graduating from Dawson College in Montreal, she joined the Maine Photographic Workshops and subsequently the Toscana Photographic Workshops in Tuscany, Italy. AmandaÕs work has appeared in numerous publications and exhibited in London, Canada and the US. Her 2004 monograph, Phil and Me, which documents the essential humanity of all victims of schizophrenia, is a daughter's use of photography to try to control her relationship with her father and the disease that has crippled him.

Phillip Whitman holds an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, where he was nominated for the Terra Foundation Summer Residency and the Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship. He received a BA in Visual Arts and History from Bowdoin College, where he received the Richard F. Martel Memorial Prize in Visual Arts. Phillip has exhibited his work in group shows in Maine, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Elizabeth Zans, originally from Virginia's Allegheny Mountains where she worked in the horse business, lives and works in New York as a visiting artist/teacher in the NYC public schools. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Tyler School of Art, where she received an MFA while living in Rome. Elizabeth has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and La Friche Belle du Mai in Marseille, France.

Nathan Bartel grew up at a Mennonite camp in the Colorado Rockies, received a BA in English from Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, and an MFA from the University of Montana, Missoula, where he was a Richard Hugo Scholar. A 2004 Ruth Lilly Fellow, he has published poems in The Common Review and the online version of Poetry Magazine. He now calls Kansas home.

Born in Portland, Oregon, Matthew Dickman was a Michener Fellow in Poetry at the University of Texas, Austin. He has received fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts and The Vermont Studio Center and has published his work in Tin House, Clackamas Literary Review, and Poet Lore, among others. Poems can be read and/or listened to at AGNI Online and www.fishousepoems.org.

Patrick Ryan Frank is a graduate of the poetry programs of Northwestern University and Boston University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Sycamore Review, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, and other journals. Originally from rural Michigan, he has been living and teaching on the East Coast for several years.

Charles McLeod was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. A Hoyns Fellow, he holds an MFA from the University of Virignia. His fiction is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, where it received a 2005 Award for Fiction.

Second-year fiction Fellow Anne Sanow has recently completed a collection of short stories and is working on a novel. She received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Jentel Artist Residency Program, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Her fiction and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Other Voices, Shenandoah, and Provincetown Arts.

Martin Seay is a native Texan, a recent graduate of Queens University of Charlotte's low-residency MFA program, and a longtime employee of a large national-chain book retailer. His short fiction has appeared in Gargoyle, where it received a Pushcart Prize nomination.

Peter Short received his BA from Denison University in 1994 and his MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, in 2005. While in Provincetown, he plans to finish a collection of stories based in Southwest Florida, and begin a novel.

Preston Mark Stone received his MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. He is a past Pushcart Prize nominee, and received the 2000 National League for Innovation Poetry Award. He is currently at work on his first collection of poems.

Second-year poetry Fellow Jillian Weise's first collection of poems, The Amputee's Guide to Sex, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in Fall 2006. A chapbook, Translating the Body, is available from All Nations Press (www.allnationspress.com). Her work appears in The Atlantic Monthly, Chelsea, Tin House and others.

Thomas Yagoda, of Brooklyn, received his BA from Oberlin College in 2001 and his MFA from Syracuse University in 2005. He spends his summers in a small town along the Rideau Canal in Southern Ontario. Currently, he is at work on a novel that takes place in New York City.