Ange Tysdal lives in the Rocky Mountains and spends all of her time mountain biking, kayaking, snowboarding, hiking, backpacking, and writing about the outdoors. She has recently been published in divide and Prick of the Spindle. She is the managing editor of Marginalia. Her book of poetry, Limning the Life of Spice, is forthcoming. Her agent is currently shopping her novels, a young adult fantasy series, Amy Vanderbrinks, a women's fiction, White Water, and an eco-thriller, Lords of Nature. Ange founded In the Mist to give a voice to all the other female adventurers who need a home for their work.

MARK TODD, POETRY EDITOR

Mark Todd teaches creative writing at Western State College in Gunnison, CO. His first poetry collection, Wire Song, appeared in 2001, with Conundrum Press. His second collection of poetry, Tamped, But Loose Enough to Breathe, appears in fall, 2008, with Ghost Road Press. His poems have appeared in the anthologies The Geography of Hope (1998), Open Windows (2005), and Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West (2007). He stages and emcees several poetry readings each year, and he has performed his work at poetry festivals and events throughout the Mountain States, on the East Coast, and in Berlin, Germany. He is the co-author, with his wife, Kym, of the award-winning comedy-noir novel, The Silverville Swindle, 2006, and the sequel, The Silverville Pantiwyckes, due out in 2010, both also with Ghost Road Press.

HEATHER CARNAHAN, MANAGING EDITOR

Heather Carnahan graduated from UCCS with a Bachelor of Arts in English with an emphasis in Professional Writing. She is currently working for Anita Kushen, literary agent and has been for about a year. Her career goals are to become an aquisitions editor for a publishing house on the east coast. She's excited for the experience working on In The Mist will provide for her.