Steven W. Jarvis publisher & editor-in-chief <kudzu@etext.org> Steven Jarvis founded Kudzu in the fall of 1994 while living in Oxford, Mississippi, where he was a graduate student at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. He now lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas where he is in his last year of law school at the University of Arkansas School of Law. He also has a B.A. in English and Creative Writing and an M.A. in English and American Literature from the University of Arkansas. (That's eleven straight years of higher edification for those who are keeping tally). When he's not working on Kudzu or buried in the law library, he writes (fiction and non-fiction), plays guitar (a shiny red Fender Telecaster), and flyfishes. He's currently torn between the fruitless search for an associate position in a law firm in Northwest Arkansas and setting up his own practice and ditching it all to go live in the mountains in Montana where he can fish all summer and write all winter.
	Thomas Rice managing editor <kudzu@etext.org> Thomas Rice has spent most of the last seven years in Fayetteville, Arkansas. In addition to having been an independent business owner, he has held a wide range of jobs, including bookseller and Congressional campaign manager. He has a B.A. in Political Science from Hendrix College and an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Arkansas.
	John L. Moore assistant editor <keats1826@aol.com> Johnny Lee Moore grew up all over eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas, finally settling in Fayetteville, Arkansas after finishing his B.A. in English at the University of Arkansas, where he also did graduate work in English. An accomplished poet, John appeared in the very first issue of Kudzu. Currently, he tends bar at a local Italian restaurant and club and is working on a team that is developing a new role-playing game.