Kyra Davies created the title Deviating from the Cultural Norm and is a founder of the book. She is Deviating's official webmistress and the author of such chapters as "A Stupid Man", "The Meaning of Life", and "How I Learned I Haven't Seen Everything". Without knowing exactly how, she was dubbed Goddess of Evil in the Deviating pantheon. Currently she attends high school in Amherst, NH and hopes to pursue a career in violin performance. She would also rather have twenty thousand (20,000) pounds of cheese than one (1) rare tulip bulb.
Email Kyra @ kyra@deviating.org
Visit her webpage @ http://www.deviating.org/kyra

Anisa Schardl was 13 years old when this book was begun. She was born in 1985 in a hospital. Her birthday usually happens somewhere close to her birthday party, which is September 31. She enjoys reading, drawing, hiking, sleeping, eating, and rain in which she can get soaking wet with utter indifference. She plays the greatest instrument ever created in the recorded history of the universe (more detail in chapter 1.) She graduated from PLDunbar High School, which is so like Paul Laurence Dunbar High School that many people think it's the same thing. She will attend MIT in the fall. She wrote most of the odd chapters in this book with a few exceptions. She lives and sings in Lexington, Kentucky.
Email Anisa @ anisa@deviating.org
Visit her webpage @ http://www.deviating.org/anisa

Anonymous a.k.a. the Obsessed Lover a.k.a. the Official Deviating from the Cultural Norm Peanut Gallery is very happy to be in this book, although she is anonymous. She might live in Minneapolis, be 23 years old, and have a four-door car in a three-car garage. Then again, she might not. She might be a famous bassoonist whose favorite food is cottage cheese. Then again, she might not. She might have a farm with many cows all eating up the front lawn and many chickens eating up the carpet. She might be Madison's parakeet. She might be dead! Then again, she might not. The point is, even if I know who she is, you don't and aren't about to. Ha!

Ting Ting "Fine Print" Fu likes fonts. Among her favorites are Annifont, Boulder, Perpetua, and Poor Richard, though she would never use any of these fonts for the text of her websites. If she could, she would give these fonts to everyone. She dislikes Times New Roman in general (it's too plain) but adores size 8pt and uses it for just about everything. In her spare time, she likes to write (HTML mostly, though stories occur sporadically) and read books, avoiding those to which she already knows the ending. She proudly boasts that she knows all the Nobel Prize Literature laureates by year, and hopes that this insignificant knowledge might help her at some point during the next four years at MIT.
Email Ting Ting @ ting@deviating.org
Visit her webpage @ http://www.deviating.org/~tingting

Madison "Bob" Davenport lives in Lexington, Kentucky. She is a senior at Henry Clay High School and likes it there. She plays or used to play a bassoon or very large oboe or something. She also sings with Anisa, who is one of the main authors of this book. She enjoys reading, writing, and being a psychiatrist when she doesn't need one herself. She is also a very random person and says "Gorditas" and kills her parakeet at random.

Penina Goldstein lives in Lexington, Kentucky. Penina wrote chapter 27 and contributed to some of the little extras scattered around this book. She played the violin for a while before she very wisely quit. She is very happy to be mentioned in this book.

Nat Guy is 24 years old, in octal. Florida-shuu ni umareta kedo sono ato de okaasan to Kentucky-shuu ni hikkoshita. He enjoys bluegrassing, eating his own Gödel numbers (metaphysically speaking) and trying to make his brain hallucinate fractals without having to resort to drugs. He's a sophomore at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and aspires to be a banjo-playing ninja with several robotic ninja drones that he programmed himself in Lisp.
Email Nat @ bumppo@deviating.org

Alex "Hurricane" Hornstein lives in Raleigh, NC. He likes They Might Be Giants (they sing songs) and Orson Scott Card (he writes books.) In his opinion, the best book Alex has ever read is Ender's Game. Alex is part of this book because Anisa met him last summer at a TIP camp where they were both in coastal ecology class. He got her hooked on They Might Be Giants and Orson Scott Card. He also likes to sing Kokomo randomly, dent the walls of trailers by doing flying kicks into them, and dig in the sand for mole crabs. In addition to all this, he likes to make sure the flowers he threw into the ocean will survive by giving them post-anal tails. He is also called the Deviating Deviator because his chapter is the only really serious chapter in the whole book. Oddly enough, he is, in real life, as random as the rest of us.

Conrad "Lord of Earth (excluding Russia) Moon, and Mars" Robinson is also a senior at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. He likes to read and write. His favorite TV show is Babylon 5. It is a very good show, but don't start watching it because it's very hard to pick up on in the middle of the series. Conrad's favorite book is the Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, who wrote The Eye of the World. Conrad's favorite author is Robert Jordan, whom you may know from his book, The Eye of the World. Conrad's birthday happens every year. He is a slight (ahem, ahem) egomaniac and has a slight (ahem, ahem) superiority complex.
Email Conrad @ alexander@deviating.org

Erik "Semicolon" Weber plays the cello. He likes Hall's Vitamin C drops. In fact, he is addicted to them. In his spare time, he--no, wait a second, he doesn't have any spare time. But if he did, he would play...uh...some sport or other in it. In his unspare time he likes to mess up when counting to twelve, forget that there are D sharps in pieces, and ponder "would you rather?" questions. He also, you will notice, spells his name like the Phantom of the Opera does, and so you may get confused when we use the name Erik in this book. There is no remedy for this. If this person is singing, it is usually the Phantom. If he is a god, it is usually this Erik. Often, it is both of these people at the same time. We recommend giving up on this point.
Visit his webpage @ http://www.deviating.org/~idiottour

Amanda Marquardt lives in a cardboard box on W. 2nd Street in Lexington, KY. She is a full time band slave who is obsessed with cheese and Milano cookies and politics and telling other people how stupid they are. She aspires to be a political science major at American University or an international politics major at Georgetown University, both in our nation's capital; after receiving her degree, she will take over the world, so you might as well just plan for it now.

Chris Rodgers, of Lexington, KY, is dead. However there is still a mummified work of fiction preserving his former existence posted on this web page. His present incarnation finds him busily reassimilating himself to the warm and inviting folds of the cultural norm in the midst of majoring in electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University in the soggy blandness of small-town West Lafayette, Indiana. He aspires to graduate in approximately 2005 so as to waste no time in assuming his bit part as purposeless cog in adult America.

Laura Ann Fenton spends most of her time having her soul sucked out through her ears by college professors. When she's not in class, however, she enjoys geeking out with the best of them. Her big Friday-night social event is D&D with her friends, and she looks forward to New Comics Wednesday every week. If her college ever got its act together, she'd have a film minor to accompany her psychology major, but instead Arizona State University is trying to figure out new and exciting ways to rob its students of their money.
Email Laura @ purplefish@deviating.org

Sunny Allen is very pretty and likes pizza. You can get a copy of her chapbook (a book of awesome stuff by her) by emailing her (see below).
Email Sunny @ sunnyallen@deviating.org

Emily "Sagory" Bayma has been described as "a teddy bear with fangs" by at least two members of the Deviating community. Despite her lack of polyfil, she has copious amounts of spare time and uses it to write at fanfiction.net, fictionpress.com, both under the pen name Stella McCoy and at thedarkarts.org under the pen name Lost Wind. She is the co-creator of "The Notebook", which could be available on deviating.org in the near future. In her spare time from spare time, she is in the unpay of Conrad to be his muse. A clarinet player, among other instruments, she begs neutrality in the ongoing struggle of the Violinists vs. the Cellists. Should anyone be interested in more personal information, such as her birthday and her stance of nonsensical, illogical, and otherwise random topics, she refers them to her email address. A more complete and long-winded bio will be available with "The Notebook", in the near future.
Email Sagory @ sagory@deviating.org

Kelly "Steel" George was born a true yank and is ashamed of her forced growing up in Kentucky. She excels in being weird and eccentric, and being your above average crazy loon. She enjoys taekwondo and lacrosse, along with writing and singing to herself and shaking her booty when no one is looking. This fall she will be escaping the dinky little town she has been stuck in for too long to go to Purdue University to study psychology and mess with other crazy people's minds.
Email Kelly @ kelly@deviating.org

William Babcock will begin UPenn in the fall and wrote Chapter 101.
Email William @ sobecloki@deviating.org