Brian Burch is a Toronto-based writer and activist, currently focusing on new non-profit affordable housing development and peace education. He edits the annual annotated bibliography Resources for Radicals.

Rachel Claff has lived in Chicago and performed with the Neo-Futurists for so long, it's getting kind of scary. She's known Jenna for much, much longer, but that's not as scary.

D. Francesco D'Agostino is a freelance cinematographer who lives outside of Pittsburgh. He is an affiliate with the Postcard Playwriting Network in Oberlin, Ohio (where he also vacations in the summer). He recently returned to the States after working on a film in Austria.

RM DiDonato is now 22, married to David and mom to Eva, living in the impossibly large state of Texas. She is the editor of Placenta, a punk rock parenting zine.

Rebecca Maxwell is a musician, writer, wife to a cute molecular biologist, and young mom of two great kids. She recently moved to the Albany area of New York, buying a house with her mother where she probably is right now checking her email.

Olivia Pepper is a gypsy/Irish/American Indian mixed-breed who spends too much time thinking about true love and not enough time practicing the cello. She doesn't remember her first day of school because she has schooled herself for her entire life, and it seems like every day is in itself the very first.

Joey Rizzolo is living the dream.

Stephanie Scarborough is a Pisces, a vegan, and wishes she could play the accordion. Her poetry has appeared in Whistling Shade, Bovine Free Wyoming!, Joey and the Black Boots, and others. She also writes a monthly newsletter, The Cheap Vegan, has published her own poetry collection, Your Kisses Are Like Metallic Squirrel Droppings!, and recently opened Pleasant Unicorn (now Whammy Industries), a zine distro specializing in food zines.

James Seip lives in northern-central New Jersey and wrote this monologue for a theater class.

Elena Stöhr does the zine Not Just Boys' Fun.

Jenna Weiss [TENDERFOOT editor/instigator] was born in San Francisco, raised in Massachusetts, grew up in Ohio, and now keeps her nose above the waves (just barely) in New Jersey. She thanks you for your interest in this independent publication and encourages you to seek out others. email: tenderfootzine (at) gmail dot com