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Robert Masterson is an award-winning writer, editor and teacher who divides his time between New York and New Mexico. Masterson's creative work has appeared in numerous publications including Blue Mesa Review, Tierra: Contemporary NM Fiction, Tyounyi, The Temple and Bombay Gin. He has been a regular contributor to the magazines BRAVO, local flavor, Ventana, and Albuquerque Monthly, his poetry and commentary has been broadcast on KUNM (public radio station, Albuquerque, New Mexico), WFUV (Fordham University) and WPKN (community radio station, Bridgeport, Connecticut). Masterson is an editor-for-life and publisher with Lords of Language, a literary/arts organization based in New Mexico that has most recently published Voices Behind Bars, an anthology of women prison inmates' writing, in conjunction with Sarah Lawrence College. His horror stories and poetry have appeared in Cthuhlu Sex, Surrussus Magazine, Blood, Guts & Psychopaths, and Black Petals with more forthcoming. And his collection of fiction and poetry, Artificial Rats & Electric Cats: Stories and Poems from Transitional China, is forthcoming in 2006 from Camber Press, New York. Currently, he is a professor of English at Concordia College in Bronxville, New York. Prior to taking that position, he worked for five years in various editorial and writing capacities for New Mass Media, Inc., a subsidiary of the Tribune Co., at both the Westchester County Weekly and the Fairfield County Weekly, alternative newsweeklies in New York and Connecticut. In addition to university and public school classrooms, Masterson's teaching has taken him to the People's Republic of China and inside New Mexico and Colorado state penal institutions. He received the 1987 Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of New Mexico and the first Ted Berrigan Scholarship from the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, in 1993 and has been a featured workshop leader during the Taos Poetry Festival / World Heavyweight Poetry Bout. 146 Mansion Avenue Yonkers, NY 10704 USA rm505@aol.com