JACK MCGUANE is Poet Laureate of Lakewood through 2007 and poetry editor for Whiskey Island Magazine. He has published work in Whiskey Island, in Family Matters, in ArtCrimes, in the Hessler Street Poetry and Prose Annual, 2006 (third prize), in the Nov Third Club, in First Person Plural from Twin Cranes Press (with Eric Anderson), in the Underground Literary Alliance e-zine and in the upcoming Favorite Lakewood Poetry. His poems have received Honorable Mention in the last three Best of Ohio Writers Competitions. A chapbook, working title Sleeping With My Socks, will be published early next year from Deep Cleveland Press.

GARY DUMM and his wife/collaborator Laura live on the west side of Cleveland with their family of 11 somewhat goofy cats in a house overfilled with books and art.

Dumm has worked with Harvey Pekar on “American Splendor” since its author’s self-published beginning 30 years ago through its current incarnation under the D.C. Comics imprint. Currently he writes and draws pieces for biographies of blues musicians, "Music Makers." He's also working on a graphic novel/history--The Students For A Democratic Society--which will be published next year. Dumm continues to vent regularly via political cartoons.

Dumm shows nationally in exhibitions from Cleveland to San Francisco and internationally from Canada to Germany. His cartoons are published in Cleveland’s Scene, Free Times and Plain Dealer, with appearances in Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times and France’s Le Monde. A retrospective of his work was recently shown at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve in Cleveland.

In November 2006 Dumm, wife Laura and others will be part of the group show “Grovewood Days” at Arts Collinwood in Cleveland.