Diane Payne teaches creative writing at University of Arkansas-Monticello, where she is also faculty advisor of Foliate Oak Literary Magazine,
www.foliateoak.uamont.edu. She is the author of two novels: Burning Tulips and A New Kind of Music. She has been published in hundreds of literary magazines, which most recently include: Fiction International, The Rambler, Tea Party, and Arkansas
Literary Forum.
More info about the author can be found at: http://home.earthlink.net/~dianepayne/
España Sheriff is a returning art contributor to Imitation Fruit. She is a writer and editor for Science Fiction/San Francisco, www.efanzines.com/SFSF/index.htm.