Colin Peters was born in Canada in 1971 and spent most of his childhood reading books and moping about. He moved to Japan on a scholarship in 1996, and promptly got married. He never did get around to going back to Canada. He currently lives in California with his wife and two children, and zero cats.

He writes fiction to amuse himself, and sometimes his friends try to trick him into getting published. [cpeters.dc@gmail.com]

Sean Crawford was raised in the typical U.S. Army brat fashion: born overseas and shuffled from place to place like a potted plant, rooted in whatever soil was available at the time.

He is currently planted in the Seattle area, where he has lived with his lovely wife and sadistic cat since 1998.

He travels too much, sleeps too little, and treasures absurdity. [crawford.dc@gmail.com]

Tim grew up in deeply rural North Carolina, but has spent about half his life near Chicago. He is the last in a long line of gold prospectors, bank managers, tourist trap barons, newspaper editors and theologians. He is trying to do them all proud at once, with mixed results.

These days his household consists of one sparkling wife, one perfectly formed German Shepherd, and a handful of over-used fountain pens. He's trying to do them proud, too. [akers.dc@gmail.com]

Justin Roby started out in California, ended up in Washington, D.C. Along the way he's found several callings, a marvelous wife, and is trying to figure out how to get to Sesame St.-- or, rather, his Ph.D. in American Literature.

Justin currently works on web and graphic design for a university in the D.C. area, and tries to draw occasionally, when he isn't coding. [jroby.dc@gmail.com]

David Alliet was born and raised in a forgotten little corner of Belgium. Not knowing what else to do he got into studying graphics, from there picked up an interest in computers and finally ended up in webdesign and multimedia.

He spends a lot of time travelling around (or thinking about it anyway), taking pictures and helping out people with their websites - like this bunch here. And yes, he does own cats... [davida.dc@gmail.com]

Louis Lapprend never wrote an entire story, nor did he ever design a good looking website. That doesn't prevent him from believing he can code... From his Parisian lair, he created this site, and plans on maintaining it in a readable state. He intends to watch every good movie ever made, but has trouble with the definition of good. Maybe he'll even contribute. That is, if his fiendish cat lets him do it. [lapprend.dc@gmail.com]