About the Contributors

Michael Ansara, 58, has been a long time organizer and activist, consultant to non profit organizations, 
founder of two successful businesses and is now a beginning poet. He is blessed with a great wife and 
three delightful children ranging from 30 to 13. He lives in Carlisle, Mass.

Linda L. Bielowski, Ph.D., is a practicing psychotherapist and certified pastoral counselor. After a 
long hiatus, she returned to creative writing through her experiences facilitating a spirituality group and 
through the support she received during a poetry exhibition at the University of Chicago. "My work derives 
from a spiritual/psychological base; and, delves into our interior selves to unravel the deeper issues intrinsic 
to the human condition." Linda's work has appeared in numerous journals, including Poetic Hours, Muse 
Apprentice Guild, and, SubtleTea. Spirit Echoes, her first poetry collection, was recently published.

Sana Shariq Warsi, 19, is ethnically Indian, but born and raised in Medina. "I had published my first 
poetry book which was inaugrated by the ex-deputy PM, L.K. Advani in New Delhi. My second book 
too has just been published. I'll be moving to US in June to live there."

P.J. Capelotti, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and American Studies at Penn State University
Abington College. He is author or editor of more than a dozen non-fiction histories, including Sea Drift:
Rafting Adventures in the Wake of Kon-Tiki (2001) and By Airship to the North Pole: An 
Archaeology of Human Exploration (1999). Gods Meadow, a collection of poems and essays that 
examines the cultural landscape of Oslo, Norway, especially the ruins of a Cistercian monastery, will be 
published in February 2005.

Alan Thibeault lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts and earns his living as a librarian. "I write poetry 
for myself; it's a very personal way to record impression and experience. If these memoranda and notes 
to myself make sense to others, that's a wonderful thing."

Sean Richard Deardorff writes: "Aside from writing for love and sanity, I write in hopes that my 
message, if it is heard, is clearly conveyed. Though I hope the general idea gets across accurately while 
holding the listener's/reader's attention, I also hope it lends enough freedom for them to apply it to their 
own experiences."