Laura Casal teaches English at the Manassas Campus.

Adam Chiles currently teaches English and creative writing at the Annandale Campus. His poetry has previously appeared in the Indiana Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Best New Poets 2006.

Anthony Copeland is a first time contributor to TNVR. He began working with glass ten years ago in his garage, and has since expanded to his basement utility room. His "Elementals" series of kiln-fired bowls and dishes is inspired by the elements of nature he finds at his "tree house" retreat in Lost River, WV.

Sheri David teaches history at the Manassas Campus. She recently traveled to Vietnam and Cambodia on an NVCC globalization grant. There she snapped photos of everything she saw, hoping to bring some current sights to her class on America in Vietnam.

Michelina DelGizzi, a graduate of NVCC and the University of Virginia, is a Transfer College Specialist at the Alexandria campus and a first-time contributor to TNVR. She enjoys baffling her loved ones with her obscure art, obscure stories, and obscure habits.

Solveig Eggerz is a writer, editor, and instructor of writing who lives in Alexandria, VA. She has taught several writing courses at NVCC. Her first novel, Seal Woman, will be published in spring 2008 by Ghost Road Press.

Robert Epstein has been making peculiar photographs for fun and profit since 1976. He has never met a camera he hasn't liked. His middle name is Panorama and his life credo is "Blame Somebody Else." He is currently being willingly exploited as a Liberal Arts adjunct at the Annandale Campus.

Rachel Friend works at the Manassas Campus Learning Lab. She would like to thank her grandfather for passing down his photographer genes, and her parents for taking her to Greece, where she took the photo that appears here.

Rosemary Gallick has been a Professor of Art and Art History at the Woodbridge Campus since 1996. She has an MFA from Pratt Institute. An avid devotee of pop culture, she presented a solo show, Rock On, at the Manassas Campus in Fall 2007.

Katherine Gotthardt develops courses andteaches online for National American University. Her poetry has appeared in Yankee magazine and The Ledge. When she is not writing, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two young daughters.

Mary Ria Hanna was born in Hudson, New York. In her hands, collage has become an assemblage of materials, artifacts, images, and original drawings, which deliver an emotion or state of mind. Her compositions are unconfined by traditional interpretations.

Philip Harvey is president of DKT International, and a first-time contributor to TNVR.

Kyi May Kaung has won awards fromFulbright, The Academy of American Poets, and The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has published two poetry chapbooks, received praise from Edward Albee, had two one woman art shows, and has contributed to the upcoming Norton Anthology of S.E. Asian Poetry.

Linda King is both an alumna (Travel & Tourism) and a current student (Communication Design) at NVCC. She is a retired military officer, ten of whose poems have been published in NVCC student journals. Among her awards is First prize for Poetry in the Alexandria Campus Literary Writing Contest.

Jill Kronstadt is an Assistant Professor of English at Montgomery College who recently relocated to Washington, DC from Seattle. Her poetry and fiction have been published in Ergo!, Crosscurrents, Wetlands Review and Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1999.

Nathan Leslie's five collections of short fiction include Believers, Reverse Negative, and Drivers. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in over 100 literary magazines. He is fiction editor for The Pedestal Magazine and editor-in-chief of The Potomac. His website is www.nathanleslie.com.

Ann Lesman is Chair of the Foreign Language Department and a Professor of Spanish at Shenandoah University. She lives with her husband, Robert Lesman, and a beaglish dog near the Shenandoah River in Clarke County. She has had a life-long love affair with words.

Mary Ann Lizondo, NVCC Professor Emeritus, taught history at the Annandale Campus for thirty years. She is currently working on a book, which includes Alexandra Romanov. She visits her ten grandchildren, travels extensively, and lives part-time in southern Spain.

Michelle Mandolia works for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She has an undergraduate degree in Economics and Archaeology from the University of Virginia.

Frederick Markham is a new fine arts faculty member at the Woodbridge Campus. Former abstractionist, he now paints landscapes. "When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, I played in creeks a lot." he says, "I guess now that I'm painting them, it keeps me from feeling like a grown-up."

Todd Messegee teaches drawing, film, and photography classes at the Manassas Campus. His passion for visual art stretches back over twenty years to his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. His oil paintings and fine art photography appear in private and public collections.

George McLoone is a former English professor at NVCC who resides in Great Falls. He has contributed a number of poems to previous issues, but this is his first story to appear in TNVR.

Randy Michener has contributed many images and several writings to TNVR in his 32 years as head of the Studio Art program on the Manassas Campus. On three occasions, his art work was chosen as the cover image for TNVR.

Margot Miller lives and writes on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay (MD). Her work has appeared in The Angler, Binnacle, Broadkill Review, ChickFlicks Ezine, Fringe, Long Story Short, Moondance, Salomé, Steel City Review, Subtle Tea, Toasted Cheese, and others.

Linda Morefield escaped from the earthquakes and wild fires of southern California ten years ago. She shares a house in Alexandria with her husband of 32 years and their "bad" dog Monty, aka Monster Man. "Year Zero" is her first published essay.

Ruth Stewart teaches American Literature, Composition, and Film at the Manassas Campus. A frequent contributor to TNVR, she is presently working on a narrative history about Benjamin Franklin's pursuit of power and riches on America's colonial frontier.

Susan Cary Strickland is an educator who views the world as her teacher. An adjunct at the Manassas Campus, she teaches history in the Prince George's County public schools. Her first ocean sailing trip has provided a new and playful window into the soul.

Janet Taliaferro lives in Leesburg. She holds an MA in Creative Studies from the University from Central Oklahoma. Her novel, A Sky for Arcadia, was one of eight finalists in the Oklahoma Center for the Books Award for 2001.

Katherine J. Williams, Ph.D., ATR-BC, has published clinical articles in The American Journal of Art Therapy, poems in TNVR and Entelechy International, and an essay, poems, and artwork in A Portrait of the Artist as Poet. Associate Professor Emerita at George Washington University, she is now in private practice as an art therapist and clinical psychologist in Washington, DC and Virginia.

Diane Zinna is currently teaching creative writing at the Alexandria Campus. A previous story of hers, "The Expatriate," appeared in TNVR's spring 2004 edition.