Jai Clare lives in the UK. Her fiction has appeared in, amongst others, The London Magazine, The Barcelona Review, Zoetrope All-Story EXTRA, Redsine, Roadworks, Buzzwords, forthcoming Cadenza, and Agni. This is her second story in 3LBE. She’s still trying to get novels right enough to be published, she says.

Sam Minier has over thirty stories and poems published in markets such as Flesh and Blood, Space & Time, Chi-Zine, Gothic.Net, and the due-soon anthologies Fear of the Dark, Dead Winter, and Deathgrip 3: It Came From the Cinema. He has also received two Honorable Mentions in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and was nominated for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s 2001 Rhysling Award. He hopes to have a web site of his work ready to go by Spring 2004.

Luke Metzler finds time to write fiction between work and school. This is his second piece of published fiction, also marking his return to 3LBE. He is an avid reader of science fiction and horror, especially the works of Pohl, Niven, Lovecraft, Simmons, and McCammon.

Simon Owens is an English major who has sold to several magazines and anthologies. To learn more about him, visit his web site

DamnEngine/Dennis Sibeijn was born and raised in Amstelveen, The Netherlands. It’s hard to pinpoint when he started with gfx, he just knows the first computer came into their house when he was 6 years old. Back then, he made sprite animations in 8 colors with a stunning resolution of 320x240. Where is the border between childish scribbling and artwork, he really doesn’t know and actually doubts whether there’s a real difference between the two. Dennis went to a graphic school when he 19, where the first year was rather interesting, the rest of the time there he spent discovering things himself, practicing with Photoshop 2.0 and 3D Studio 4 for DOS back then. He never finished the school because he often stayed away, learning himself at home. Dennis started VJ-ing (projecting animations on big screens during parties and such) and did that a while for a living, alongside freelance work. At the moment he works for the NOB, there he makes graphics and animations for the Dutch News, with more freelance work alongside. Visit him at www.damnengine.com

Rew X has been telling people for months now (mostly in pubs) that he’s very close to writing his memoirs, chronicling his secret second and third lives as, respectively, an international tire gauge inspector and agent of espionage. Then he gets home and realizes he was thinking of someone else. Whom, however, he is sworn to secrecy never to tell. Visit him at www.owlsoup.com/rewx