Carmen Bugan, is at Balliol writing a D.Phil on the influence of Eastern European poetry on Seamus Heaney. Her work was published in 2001 Oxonian Poets: An Anthology and will appear in P.N. Review and The Tabla Book of New Verse.

Australian Phil Clark was born in Khartoum as the oldest of four brothers. At 6'5", he hates maths and loves seafood.

Leonard Epp is a Canadian graduate student at Balliol College and is currently conducting research on the rhetoric of obscurity and clarity in 1790's British political literature, with a view to writing a DPhil thesis on Coleridge and Romantic Obscurity.

Brad Henderson is a graduate student in Economic and Social History at Balliol. He did his undergraduate degree in Economics at the University of Chicago.

Jeff Kulkarni is a National Science Foundation graduate researcher at Balliol, where he reads for a D.Phil. in Politics.

Céline Vacher is a visiting student from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France. She studies English literature and is presently working on Jane Austen and the theory of interpretation.