Ascent Aspirations
Magazine
Contributors
Malaika King Albrecht
Malaika King Albrecht has been published in a few literary magazines,
including Quarterly West, Exquisite Corpse, and New Orleans Review. Most
recently two poems were accepted in the soon to be published book titled Fire
in the Womb: Mothers and Creativity. She graduated with an MA from Old Dominion
University. She has two daughters and is currently a stay at home mom. Email: Malaika
King Albrecht
Mumia Abu-Jamal
http://www.MumiaBook.com/mumia/column.asp
Noel Ace
Noel Ace is currently a high school English
teacher in Southern California. His publishing credits include "artisan,
inc" and "Eyes," both print magazines. His fiction can also be
found on the internet on sites including "The Fiction Network,"
GeekGirl," "Planet Magazine," "Vanguard," "Ibn
Quirtaba," and "Dream Forge."
Jane Adam
Jane Adam started writing poetry a few years ago in a moment of
desperation. She got surprisingly decent results, so she kept at it. Her poems
now appear online in Antipatico, Remark, and Spent Meat, and have been accepted
for Nerve Cowboy and Chiron Review. One poem was in Slipstream #23 and the
editors nominated her for a Pushcart Prize in 2003. She has lived in Buffalo,
NY since 1981, and has taught freshman English at nearly every college in the
area since then. It has become so important to her to put her poems out into
the world. Email: Jane Adam
Zinta Aistars
Zinta
Aistars is the published author of three books. She is an editor and writer for
LuxEsto, the Kalamazoo College alumni magazine and contributing writer to
Encore magazine. Her work has also appeared in the Kalamazoo Guide, Kalamazoo
Gazette, Welcome Home and Parade of Homes magazines. She has published poetry,
travel essays, stories, and articles in the United States, Latvia, England,
Sweden, Germany, and Australia. Her work also appears on many e-zines -
including Ash Canyon Review, Spoiled Ink, 63Channels.com (featured writer in
upcoming Aug/Sept 2005 issue), HerCircleEzine (upcoming September 2005 issue),
The Redbridge Review, River Walk Journal, Flashquake, milk magazine, The
Surface, Serene Light, Word Riot, Burning Word, The Moon, insolent rudder,
Bobbing Around, coilMagazine, Poems Neiderngasse, The Paper, Poetry Life &
Times, QuietPoly Writer's Magazine, Midwest Book Review, WriteSight and others.
Her poetry appears in the literary anthology, Persistence of Dreams, compiled
by Redbridge Review. Zinta has recently completed her second collection of
poetry, Tumbleweed Waltz.
Viestarts
Aistars has had his artwork (oils, watercolors, etchings, pencil drawings)
exhibited at the Detroit Art Museum, Indiana Art Center in Indianapolis and
South Bend, Indiana, the Kalamazoo Art Institute, Grand Rapids Art Museum, as
well as Latvian art exhibits in Seattle, Washington, New York City, Reading,
Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio, to name only a few. He has had over 50
one-man art exhibits in the Midwest and Eastern United States, including
Boston, New York City, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Indianapolis,
Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Saginaw,
Grand Rapids, and many other cities nationwide. He has won numerous prizes and
his work has been purchased by countless private collectors, also by the State
Museum in Riga, Latvia, the Art Museum in Jelgava, Latvia. A painting of a
Latvian woman in folk costume hangs today in the Riga Pils (Riga Castle), the
president's residence in Riga, Latvia. More of his work and information about
the artist can be found at:
or Email at Zeena Communications
Email: Zinta
Aistars
Sidney Alexander
Sidney Alexander is a metaphysical freethinker who
not only thinks highly in the spiritual but curses loudly when his
oh-so-physical beloved cars decide to give him a hard time by dying and costing
him money. Hence that's why he works for an automotive parts company. He is
currently a regular columnist for Shadow Feast
http://www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/~kirkwood/feast.htm) and has a dedicated
Writer's Page on his Home Page "The Dragon's Claw"
(http://www.hwcn.org/~ad096/Claw.html). He has been writing short stories and
poetry from the age of 12.
Tim Alexander
Timothy Alexander's fiction has appeared in many small press and literary
publications including: Armchair Aesthete, Barbaric Yawp, Futures Mysterious
Anthology Magazine, and Pindeldyboz. Timothy resides in the US Penitentiary at
Marion, IL.
alexa@us.ibm.com
Jeffrey C. Alfier
Jeffrey Alfier currently lives in Tucson, Arizona,
hold an MA in Humanities, and has served as an adjunct faculty member of City
Colleges of Chicago - European Division. In addition, He is a member of the Canadian
Poetry Association, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations,
and Phi Kappa Phi. His poetry publishing credits - outside of professional
journals - include The Animist, Asili, Coffy Time Blues, Evolution's Voyage,
Gravity, Maelstrom, Niederngasse (forthcoming), Nieve Roja Review, Parchment
Symbols, Pif Magazine (reviews), Poetry Magazine, Poets4Peace, Pyrowords,
Recursive Angel, Riding the Meridian, Poetfest, Poetic Express II,
PoetryRepairShop, Savoy Magazine, Thermopylae, Twilight Journal, and Sauce*Box.
Shane Alison
Email:
Shane
Alison
John P. Allen
John P. Allen is an unpublished writer working as
a teacher's assistant for a school district north of Houston, Texas. More information
about him can be obtained at a web site constructed by himself and his wife at http://www.angelfire.com/tx/Allenx5
Alexandre Amprimoz
Alexandre Amprimoz
is a poet, critic, translator, writer and programmer. He teaches Modern
Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Brock University, St. Catharines,
Ontario Canada. Books include: A Season For Birds: Selected poems by Pierre
Morency. Translation.Toronto: Exile Press, 1990; Venice At Her
Mirror: Essay by Robert Marteau. Translation. Toronto: Exile Press, 1990
; Nostalgies de l'ange. Ottawa: Editions du Vermillon, 1993. He has
recently published poems in: Alsop Review, Antigonish Review, Octavo, Dégaine
ta rime, Résurrétion, Hélices and LittéRéalité. Email mailto:amprimozconsulting@cogeco.ca
Tim Amsden
Tim Amsden: Among other places, Tim Amsden's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pudding Magazine, Potpourri, Out of Line, Driftwood, Permafrost, Illia's Honey, Slant, Heartlodge, New Mexico Magazine, Facets, a Pima Press poetry anthology on aging, and a Pudding House Anthology on consumption. He has won a variety of awards, including second place in both the 2002 and 2005 Southwest Writers Conference poetry contests. He worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, and now lives in Ramah, New Mexico. Email: Tim Amsden
George Anderson
George Anderson grew up in
Montreal and presently lives and teaches in Sydney, Australia. He has published
poetry in dozens of magazines worldwide. He edits the student literary magazine
Ephemeral.
Email: George
Anderson
Julie Donner Andersen
Julie
Donner Andersen is the author of “PAST: Perfect! PRESENT: Tense! Insights
From One Woman’s Journey As The Wife Of a Widower” (iUniverse, Inc.), and can
be contacted via her website at http://www.authorsden.com/juliedonnerandersen.
Derly Andre
Email:
Derly
Andre
Arlene Ang
Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy as a freelance
translator and web designer. She also edits the Italian Niederngasse (www.niederngasse.com). Her poetry has recently
appeared in Poet's Canvas, Scrivener's Pen, Sometimes City, Tryst, three
candles and sidereality. Recent awards include: Absinthe Literary Review 2002
Eros & Thanatos Prize Winner and Clean Sheets 2003 Poetry Contest 2nd Place
Winner.
Rosemary C. Anderson
Rosemary C. Anderson's publications include about 44 articles and
biographies and one story (mostly in a small art magazine), and over 20 poems
in publications such as Main Street Rag, Frogpond, RE:AL, Sinister Wisdom,
Jewish Currents, Luna Negra, The Plaza (Japan), The Distillery, etc.
She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and is
originally from a small town in Illinois. She works as editor of Redgreene
Press (fine poetry) and also as Anderson Publishing. Formerly, she owned a
small art magazine, IWAA NEWS. She is also an artist - painting, drawing,
mostly (portraits, still-life, abstracts), and has some photographs published.
She is a disabled veteran , renovating an old house.Email: Rosemary C. Anderson
Daniel Michel Antil
Daniel Michel Antil was born on December 18, 1962,
in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spent much
of his youth reading and writing. His greatest literary interest has always
been in the genre of horror and fantasy. His writing influences include Poe,
Kafka, and Lovecraft, to name a few.
Daniel currently resides in Oregon, where he lives
with his beautiful wife, Cookie Holley. Together, they run an independent
record label and several radio shows, for which Daniel -- under the guise of
"Midnight Rider" -- serves as a DJ.
Poetry Publications: (title; publication;
publisher; date)
"High Flier"; Liberation; Sorrows Press;
1969.
"My God, The Dinosaur",
"Cremation", & "Changes"; The Highlander; SLCC
Journals; 1983.
"Enigma Echo"; TINAE; http://www.littlebehemoth.com/
; 2001.
E-Mail:
Web
Site:
http://www.geocities.com/dancquielle/daniel.html
Aurora Antonovic
Aurora Antonovic is a Canadian freelance writer, visual artist, and the
former co-editor and columnist for the GT Times. Her poetry has appeared in recent
months over 200 times in publications such as Adagio Verse Quarterly, Promise,
Blind Man's Rainbow, The Bohemian Rag, Regal Quill Quarterly, Black Mail Press,
Makata, The Entouist, and Poetic Voices. She currently resides in Ontario. Email: Aurora Antonovic
Johann Christoph Arnold
Johann Christoph Arnold is the author of ten books and a pastor in the
Bruderhof Communities. E-mail , Johann Christoph Arnold, Johann
Christoph Arnold's Web Site, Bruderhof Communities
Richard Arnold lives on a modest acreage near Errington, BC. He teaches English at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo. Besides writing and reading poetry, he likes spending time with his family, hiking, canoeing, and camping. His work has been published in many print and electronic places across North America. He has two collections of poetry to his credit: a chapbook from Leaf Press (2002) and a haiku pamphlet from Island Scholastic (2003). Email: Richard Arnold
David Aronson
David Aronson is a visual artist and poet active
in the underground zine and mail-art world. His work has appeared in Spunk,
Gristle, Driver’s Side Airbag, Siren’s Silence and The Brobdingnagian Times, as
well as in collaboration with experimental poet Mark Sonnenfeld for Marymark
Press and his own zine of underground art and poetry, The Alchemical Wedding.
3330 Dogwood Dr.Willow Grove, PA 19090,
JAron98449@aol.com, www.alchemicalwedding.com
Jessica Austin
Jessica Austin has a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia. She
has work scheduled for publication in the online magazine 491 Neo-Naïve
Imagination. She lives in Poquoson, Virginia (a modern-day fishing town
sandwiched between water and marsh), with her husband, two young daughters, and
one mischievous dachsund. She teaches English to secondary school students and
hopes to obtain a master's degree in literature or writing. Email: Jessica Austin
Peter Austin
Peter Austin has been writing poetry for a couple of years now, and so far he has been published in 'Iambs & Trochees' (New York), and in several British magazines ('Candelabrum, 'Quantum Leap', 'Peace & Freedom' and 'Poetic Hours'). In a previous life, he was a playwright, achieving 4 productions and 1 published play (a musical adaptation of THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS). He started writing poetry a few years ago in a moment of desperation. Email: Peter Austin
Chanda Avik
<mailto:avik_chanda@hotmail.com>
Jason Baker
Jason Baker graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in English. He lives in Toronto Ontario, where he has worked as a business writer for a variety of industries over the past six years. Jason enjoys writing short stories in the area of dark fiction and is currently at work on a novel. Email Jason Baker
Richard Ballon
Richard Ballon lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. He
has had poetry appear in The Haight Ashbury Review, Social Anarchism, Lilliput
Review, the Saint Anthony Messenger, Oinionhead, Changing Men and Anything that
Moves. e-mail at richardb@admin.umass.edu
Donna Bamford
Donna Bamford is a part time free lance journalist,
EFL teacher, struggling creative writer, world traveler, and would be actress. She
resides currently in London, Ontario though she has also lived in London,
England, Paris, Athens and India and has travelled in Turkey, Iran,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nepal as well as most of the countries in Europe.
Despite the travel she still calls Toronto home. She has written three
children’s books which she is trying to get published as well as a novella
called My Villa in Tuscany and lots of poetry. Her interests include
anything to do with the arts and travel. She has an Honours BA in English from
the University of Toronto and speaks French fluently as well as passable
Italian and German. Her poetry and essays have been published in a number of
online magazines and a few print magazines such as Qwerty, Bywords, Ascent,
Ygdrasil, Great Works, Scriberazone, 7:24, The Mag, Another Toronto Quarterly,
Scrivener’s Pen, Tryst, and The Globe and Mail. Donna Bamford
Annie Banks
Annie Banks is currently a freshman at Mount St.
Mary's College. She plans to pursue a degree in English and
become a professor. In addition to her studies, reading the classics
and writing for the college newspaper occupies most of her
time. On campus, she is in the process of organizing a poetry
society for aficionados of verse. Several of her other interests include
painting and theatrical arts. This is her first experience
submitting literature for publication. Email: mailto:ACGiampietro@email.msmary.edu
Suzanna Banwell
Suzanna Banwell has been a Human Rights Lawyer for
the better part of the last 20 years. She is now home full time with her two
sons and loving every minute of it. Or almost every minute.
Jennifer Christina Barnes
Jennifer Christina Barnes graduated from the
University of Maryland with an English degree and a concentration in
Poetry/Creative Writing. She has had numerous poems and articles published both
in print and online, most recently
appearing in A Little Poetry. Jennifer is
co-author of the e-book Skin for the Bloodless as well as Assistant Editor of
the online literary magazine The Dream People, (www.dreampeople.org). She is also editor
of the chapbook anthology The Best of The Dream People Poets.
Thomas Robert Barnes
Thomas Robert Barnes has been published widely in the small press. He is currently doing readings and a seminar "Ritual of Success" in California and abroad. He is an avid telemark skier, rower and a flyfisher.
Calvin Becker
Calvin Becker lives in Calgary, Alberta. He is interested in exploring the ideals and themes in a highly metaphorical and minimalistic style. Email: Calvin Becker
Everette Bell
Everette Bell is a fiction writer who enjoys all
genres. His stories have been published in various magazines and webzines
throughout the small press. Look for his forthcoming chapbook from Yard Dog
Press. E-mail: Ceb515@aol.com
Steve Bell
Steve has been writing for several years in India.
He has spent several years living there. He has written in the UK as a
journalist and spent much time researching on the dark side of life in London's
King Cross.
mailto:steve@mobell.fsnet.co.uk
Tim Bellows
Tim Bellows is a poet, writer, and teacher – devoted to wildland, the
simplicity of inward travel, and Mozart’s notion about “Love, love, love” as
“the soul of genius." Living in Northern California, Tim has taught
college writing for over eighteen years. He graduated from the Iowa Writers’
Workshop and has seen publication of poems in many journals – and in A Racing
Up the Sky (Eclectic Press), Wild Stars (Starry Puddle Press), and Desert Wood
(University of Nevada Press).
If you’d like Tim’s free Lightship E-Newsletter of tips for creative writers on the journey of “divine things more beautiful than words can tell” (Walt Whitman), contact him at star999@sbcglobal.net and put "Yes!" in the subject line. (Put "Unsubscribe” to be taken off the list.) *** Visit timbellows.com where his books and selected poems are available, toll free.
Web Site
Email: Tim
Bellows
Rachel Bennett
Rachel Bennett was born between Illinois and Iowa, she traveled
frequently with her grandparents as a child and, later, by herself, to places
like Ireland, Ecuador, and Spain. She currently works as a grant-writer, poet,
and aspiring baker in New York City, where she also runs a lot, catalogues
trees, and studies martial arts. She has been published in Freehand Press, The
Grinnell Review, and Buffalo Carp. Email: Rachel
Bennett
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal has poems published in Prose Toad, Cerebral Catalyst, Wilmington Blues, Zimmerzine, and Open Wide Magazine, Thunder Sandwich, Nth Position, and Spitfire Poetics. He works in the mental health field and was born in Mexico. Email: Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Robert James Berry
mailto:rob_james_berry@yahoo.co.nz
Simon Bestwick
Simon Bestwick, born 1974. lives and works in the
Manchester area in the UK. About thirty or forty short stories have been
punished in various small press magazines including NASTY PIECE OF WORK, SACKCLOTH
AND ASHES and ENIGMATIC TALES. He has had one story nominated for the British
Fantasy Award, another is being adapted into a comic strip, and he has had two
honourable mentions in the 1998 YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR and four in the
1999 edition. More fiction is forthcoming in the anthologies BENEATH THE GROUND
(edited by Joel Lane), DARKNESS RISING (edited by Len Maynard and Mick Sims)
and in John Pelan's William Hope Hodgson tribute anthology, and in the magazine
ALL HALLOWS. Various novels are making the rounds with agents/publishers.
Karen M. Black
Karen
grew up in Collingwood, Ontario, fascinated by tales of the supernatural. She
has a degree in Biology and English from the University of Toronto and an MBA
from the Rotman School of Management. In the corporate world, she has been
ghost writing benefits and pension communications since 1991. Personally, she
enjoys writing sensuous tales with emotional impact and vicious little twists.
When she’s not writing, you’ll find Karen having dim sum in Toronto’s
Chinatown, cooking for friends, watching eclectic live music, or spending time
at the cottage. She’s also completing a karmic astrology internship program
with Creative Choices in Baltimore.
Karen
currently lives a walk away from corporate life, in downtown Toronto.
John
Blackwood
John Blackwood, is a, British, ex-Civil Servant, ex-Architectural
Draughtsman, Interior Designer, Graphic Designer and Furniture Maker, currently
resident in South East Italy, as far down on the right hand side as you can go.
Look for Lecce on the map. He moved back here in '98 after spells back in the UK,
Czech Republic and Turkey. Prior to that there had been 11 years here in the
80s and early 90s and, back in the 70s, 6 years in Franco's Spain. How come?
English Language teaching is the day job. Now. So from writing role plays,
simulations, comprehensions texts and stories for classroom use, a bit of
creative writing isn't a huge leap. Other short fiction is in the pipeline. The
big one - a 500 page noir set in Southern Italy - is two chapters short of
completion. Other interests include the obvious British ballsports - Football,
Rugby and Cricket - Architecture and Heraldry. Eating out and travel are not
interests; they are the sine qua non of life.
Via San
Francesco d'Assisi, 40 I-73047
Monteroni
di Lecce, Italy
C. L. Bledsoe
C. L. Bledsoe was born and raised on a catfish farm in
eastern Arkansas, in the Mississippi River delta near the middle of the USA. He
has poems, essays, articles and short stories published or forthcoming in over
forty literary journals both online and in print, including Nimrod, Story
South, DMQ Review, The Dead Mule, Hobart Pulp, Eyeshot, Euphony, Eratio, Cedar
Hill Review, and My Favorite Bullet. He is entering the MFA creative writing
program at Hollins University in Virginia this fall. Email: C.L. Bledsoe
Jon Boilard
Jon Boilard's fiction has appeared
in literary journals in the United States, Canada and Europe, and his story
entitled "Before Dying" was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize
as one of the best of 2002. Several of the others have won individual small
press awards. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in The Baltimore
Review, Barbaric Yawp, Beloit Fiction Journal, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Black
Mountain Review, CrossConnect, The Dalhousie Review, Dirty Dishes, Event, First
Class, Front & Centre, Hindsight, Ink, The Laurel Review, The MacGuffin,
Parting Gifts, Puerto del Sol, Rattapallax, RE:AL, The San Francisco Bay
Guardian, The San Francisco State University Review, The Sulphur River Literary
Review, Thought Magazine, Transfer, Whiskey Island Magazine and The Xavier
Review.
jaboilard@earthlink.net
Averil Bones
Christian R. Bonawandt
Christian R. Bonawandt has had more than two
dozen of his short stories published on a number of web zines since 2001,
including Demensions Zine, Planet Magazine, Aphelion Webzine, Twlight
Times.com, Dark Moon Rising.com and Sword's Edge.net. His first novel, Dreamers, is
available through Stone Garden Publishing, E-mail Christian R. Bonawandt, Web Site Christian R. Bonawandt
Dean Borok
John Bernard Bourne
Email:
John
Bernard Bourne
Atomic Boy
http://www.thevalkyrie.com/stories/atomicboy/index.htm
Kristy Bowen
Klristy Bowen's work has appeared most recently in
Moon Journal, Poetry Midwest, and Prairie Poetry. Her work is forthcoming in
Mentress Moon, Half Drunk Muse, and Eclectica. After studying English and
Theatre Arts at Rockford College, where she won the College Poetry Prize of the
Academy of American Poets, she received an M.A. in English Literature from
DePaul University in 1999. Her latest project is launching the on-line literary
zine Wicked Alice. She also serves as contributing editor for "20th
Century Women Authors" at Suite101.com. She currently lives in Chicago.
Personal
Website: http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/bookchic
Wicked Alice: http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/wickedalicemag kmb020@mail.lib.colum.edu
J. Boyer
Creative Writing Program,Department of English,Arizona
State University,Tempe, Arizona
85287-0302,USA
Tel:
480-965-3168 (TO LEAVE MESSAGES)
FAX: 480- 965-3451
WEBSITE: http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/who/boyer
SELECTED BOOKS
AND SCRIPTS
(all available
from Amazon.com)
SIDNEY LUMET, 1993.
ISBN 0-8057-9329
BOB RAFELSON: HOLLYWOOD MAVERICK,
1996.
ISBN 0-8057-4612-9
TIME WENT BY,
BUT SLOWLY, 2002.
ISBN 1-894910-08-9
FIVE JEWISH BIKER CHICS, OUT OF CONTROL,
2004.
SHORT WORK:
NEWSWEEK, THE NATION, THE PARIS
REVIEW, etc.
RECENT SHORT FICTION:
“Singles,” The Redbridge Review: Online Journal of Art [UK],
July, 2004, http://www.redbridgereview.co.uk/html/j_boyer.html
“Allegiances,” Carve Magazine, July, 2004, ISSN# 1529-272X
(Shortlisted, 2004 Raymond Carver Award For Short Fiction)
“The Night Mechanic,” The Anthology of 2004 Biscuit Prize Poetry and
Fiction Winners [UK], October, 2004, ISBN 1-903914-10-8 (Finalist/With High
Commendation, 2004 Biscuit Prize For Fiction)
“The Harmless Thoughts Of A London Gynecologist,” The Persistence Of
Dreams,”[UK], January, 2005, ISSN 1744-1102
RECENT PLAY
PRODUCTIONS:
THREE PLAYS AND A BED. Off-Off-Broadway, Equity Showcase: American
Theatre of Actors, January, 2001; Creative Place Theatre, February, 2001; Riant
Theatre, Greenwich Village, March, 2001; Equity Waiver, Close-up Theatre/Studio
City, Los Angeles, November, 2001. Excerpted in Best Stage Monologues For Women, 2000.
HEARTBEATS. Off-Off-Broadway, Equity Showcase, Creative
Place Theatre, April, 2001; Pinnacle Playhouse, Belleville, Canada, August,
2001; Off-Off Broadway/Greenwich Village, Belly, June, 2004.
MAKING OUT. Off-Off-Broadway,
Equity Showcase, Studio Too/John Houseman Theatre, July, 2001; Bar Noir,
Philadelphia, August, 2001; Reading, Central Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne,
England, November, 2004.
TAKE IT AND LEAVE. Equity
Waiver, Hudson Backstage Theatre, Los Angeles, September, 2001; Equity Waiver,
Theatre of Hope, Los Angeles, August, 2002.
THE THIRD PLANET FROM THE SUN. Off-Off-Broadway, Equity Showcase, Creative Place Theatre, December,
2001; Reading (as SUBTEXTS), FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Los
Angeles, May, 2004.
FIVE JEWISH BIKER CHICS, OUT OF
CONTROL. Off-Off-Broadway, Equity Showcase, Creative Place Theatre,
December, 2001.
AWKWARD PAUSES. Reading, Edward Albee Theatre Festival,
Valdez, Alaska, June, 2000;
Reading, Player-Playwrights, London, England, January, 2002;
Developmental Performances, Tempe Performing Arts Center, Phoenix ,
April, 2002; Kerr Cultural Center,
Phoenix, April, 2003; Reading, Off-Broadway, The Neighborhood Playhouse, July,
2004.
THREE NEW PLAYS (Camping In The Badlands Of Human Desire, Life Goes
On, In The Garden Of Earthly Pleasures). Reading, FirstStage/Playwright’s
Express, Los Angeles, April, 2002.
URBAN/RURAL. Equity Waiver, Jewel Box Theatre, Los Angeles,
April, 2002.
TIME WENT BY, BUT SLOWLY. Off-Off-Broadway, Equity Showcase,
Studio Too/John Houseman Theatre, May, 2002;
London Fringe,
Stark Theatre, London, England, May, 2002; Equity Waiver, Hand To Mouth Theatre
Company, Croton-On-Hudson, New York, August, 2002; Off-Off-Broadway, Theatre
Studio, September, 2003.
DANCING MY MOTHER TO SLEEP. Reading, Off-Off-Broadway, Upper West Side Theatre Company, May, 2002.
SIX TONY WOMEN, SHOPPING FOR SHOES. Off-Off-Broadway, Equity Showcase, The Beckman Theatre, June,
2002.
THE EURIPIDEADS.
Reading, Off-Off-Broadway, The Genesius Guild/Studio B Theatre, September,
2002.
POACHING DEER
IN NORTHERN ARIZONA. Theatre West
At The Alma, Bristol, England, November, 2002.
A HISTORY OF THE LAST MILLENNIUM. Robert Gill Theatre, Toronto, Canada, March, 2003.
SAD LITTLE
STORIES TO TELL. Reading, FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Los Angeles,
April, 2003.
THE FIRST NEGOTIATION. Reading,
FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Los Angeles, April, 2003; Equity Showcase,
Off-Off-Broadway, Studio Too/John Houseman Theatre, July, 2003; Source Theatre,
Washington, D.C., August, 2003; Paw Paw Playhouse, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
February, 2004; Jump-Start Theatre, San
Antonio, Texas, May, 2004;
Off-Off-Broadway, Equity Showcase, The Little Theatre, June, 2004;
Changing Scene Theatre Northwest,
Bremerton, Washington, July, 2004; Reading, Eureka Theatre, San
Francisco, August, 2004; FusionWorks, Billerica, Massachusetts, August, 2004;
Reading, Yerba Buena Theatre, San Jose, California.
SUKKOT. Reading, FirstStage/Playwright’s Express,
Los Angeles, April, 2003;
Off-Off-Broadway, Equity Showcase, Studio Too/John Houseman Theatre,
July, 2003.
THE WYRD SISTERS. Dangerous Theatre
Company/Buntport Theater, Denver, Colorado, August, 2003.
FOR SOME REASON COMMA SHE LAUGHED. Reading,
Tri-State Actors Theater/Crescent Theatre, Sussex, New Jersey, August,
2003; Reading, Spotlight Theatre Company/Memorial
Theatre, Wayne, New Jersey, October,
2004; Reading, Off-Off-Broadway, 13th Street Repertory Company,
Greenwich Village, TBA.
FREE TICKETS.
Off-Off-Broadway, Equity Showcase, Creative Place Theatre, October,
2003; Reading, FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Los Angeles, May, 2004.
STANDARDIZED
TESTS. Colloquial Theater,
Buffalo, February, 2004; Geery Theater, Sacramento, July-August, 2004.
Published by SwankWriting, July, 2003.
THREE PLAYS AND A DESK (ROOM FOR ADVANCEMENT, HEARTBEATS,
MAKING OUT).Reading, Script–To-Stage At The Arts Centre, London, February,
2004.
VOX POPULI. Reading, Off-Off-Broadway, Studio
710, March, 2004.
‘TUDOR ROSE’
ATTENTION: JAI SEPPLE
TEL: (+44) 1708 458262
MOBILE: 0789 9964333
EMAIL: JackFlash200000@aol.com
33 HACTON LANE
HORNCHURCH
ESSEX
RM12 6PH
UNITED KINGDOM
WEBSITE: www.stageoneonline.com
Karen Bramblett
Karen Bramblett has written poetry for over 30 years and is eager to
share it. She lives in California with her husband and three cats. Email: Karen Bramblett
Erin K. Brandel
Erin K. Brandel has published in The Freehand Press, The Grinnell Review, and in Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine. In the summer of 2004, she received a fellowship to Norcroft, A Writing Retreat for Women. Email: Erin K. Brandel
David Bright
David Bright has published short stories in The
Iconoclast, Artisan, Synapse, The Pegasus Review, The Rose & Thorn Literary
E-Zine and others. He has worked in journalism contributing to a variety of
publications ranging from Computerworld to Woman's World. He lives in Onset, an
old fashioned village near Cape Cod.
P.O. Box 1485, Onset, MA 02448 , geminidavid@aol.com
Lisa Marie Brodsky
Lisa Marie Brodsky is an MFA Poetry student at University of
Wisconsin-Madison and an intern at The University of Wisocnsin Press. She
teaches undergraduate creative writing as well as children's creative writing.
She has been published in "The North American Review," "Poetry
Motel," "Atlanta Review," "Cadence," "Premiere
Generation Ink," among others. Email: Lisa
Marie Brodsky
Randy Brown
Randy Brown: Twenty or so of his works have appeared or
are forthcoming in several print and online journals, including Timber Creek
Review, The Iconoclast, Word Riot, FRiGG, Hobart, and Ink Pot. Also, his
writing has recently gained him admittance into Vermont College's Masters of
Fine Arts in Fiction Writing program. Also he continues to work with seven-time
Pushcart-nominated Terri Brown-Davidson. Email: Randy
Brown
Michael H. Brownstein
Michael H. Brownstein has been widely published throughout the small and literary presses. His work has appeared in The Cafe Review, Kings River Press, Skidrow Penthouse, Ariel, Oyez Review, River King Poetry, and others. He has been featured in a number of on-line journals including chicagepoetry.com, Milk, poetrysuperhighway.com, and Muse Apprentice Guild. In addition he has won a number of awards including the Ommation Press Best Chapbook Award and Triton College's International Poetry Prize. He published The Paper Bag and WYMBS Broadside, wrote for the Chicago Reader and other Chicago area newspapers, and has an educational column in the South Street Journal. In addition, he has a number of chapbooks published from 1988 through to 2004.
Murray Brozinsky
Murray Brozinsky's fiction and essays have appeared
in numerous literary journals. Most recently he has published pieces in 3711
Atlantic, Aesthetica (forthcoming), Brink, Laughter Loaf,
Opium Magazine, and Prose Toad. He has also written non-fiction
for Wired Magazine and Business 2.0. E-mail Murray Brozinsky
Shelton Bryant
Shelton Bryant is an editorial illustrator. He has
done work for a number of publications and advertising firms. http://www.studiosneed.com/.
http://www.studiosneed.com/
Scott Bryson
Scott Bryson is currently living and writing in Toronto, Canada Email: Scott Bryson
Deborah Brown-Volkman
Deborah Brown is a noted personal coach and
motivational speaker that supports people in removing obstacles so they can
reach their goals and surpass their dreams. In 90 days, Deborah has helped
clients locate careers they love, find intimate relationships, and have their
needs met by family, friends, and co?workers just by asking. Having a life you
love starts when you believe you can. Deborah helps you believe that you can.
To Learn
More Visit: http://www.surpassyourdreams.com, send an e-mail
to info@surpassyourdreams.com
or call (212) 586-0787 Today!
Rebecca Buchanan
Email: Rebecca
Buchanan
Janet Buck
Janet Buck, Ph.D. is the author of four
collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in CrossConnect, Zang Spur
Review, Pif Magazine, The Dakota House Journal, The Melic Review, Stirring,
Countless Horizons, Ascent, Tapestry, The Rose & Thorn, Avatar Review,
pith, Perihelion, In Motion, OffCourse, and hundreds of journals
world-wide. In the year 2000, Janet was of ten U.S. poets to be featured at the
"One Heart, One World" Exhibit at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in
New York City. Her poem "Acrylic Thighs" was translated into five
languages and paired with original artwork. The tour traveled to France, Australia,
Vietnam, Brazil, and Japan. In 2001-2002, Buck's poetry is scheduled to appear
in PoetryBay, The Montserrat Review, Runes, The Pedestal Magazine,
Concrete Wolf, The Carriage House Review, Swagazine, PoetryRepairShop, Slow
Trains, Verse Libre Quarterly, Wicked Alice, Facets, Southern Ocean Review,
Artemis, The American Muse, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly. Recent
awards include The H.G. Wells Award for Literary Excellence, First
Place in Kimera's Poetry Contest 2001, Editor's Choice Award
for Sol Magazine, and the 2001 Kota Press Anthology Prize.
In 2001, Janet's poem "The Teapoy" was nominated for a Pushcart
Prize by The Pedestal Magazine.
Janet Buck is a three-time Pushcart Nominee
and the author of four collections of poetry. Her work has recently appeared in
Three Candles, Red River, Pierian Springs, Stirring, PoetryBay,
Offcourse, Ascent, The American Muse, and hundreds of journals world-wide.
In 2002-2003 Buck's poetry is scheduled to appear in Zuzu's Petals
Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Gin Bender, Artemis, The Montserrat Review,
Recursive Angel, The Foliate Oak, Southern Ocean Review, The Pedestal Magazine,
Coelacanth, Cordite, CrossConnect, and The Oklahoma
Review.
For links to more of her work, see:
http://members.aol.com/jbuck22874/whatsnew.html
http://www.janetbuck.com
http://www.artvilla.com/shopping/poetry/rose.htm
To hear a sample from the CD, go to: http://www.artvilla.com/mp3/umbrellas.mp3
Web site: http://www.janetbuck.com
April Bulmer
April Bulmer has four books and a chapbook. She holds graduate
degrees in creative writing, religious studies and theology. She is interested
in women's spirituality. She recently won first prize in the TOPS, "Second
Time Around Contest." April lives in Cambridge, Ontario with her puppy,
Lichee. Email: April Bulmer
J. Alan Burdick
J. Alan Burdick was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on Oct
24, 1934. He received his BA from James Millikin University(chemistry and
math), MA from Brooklyn College (psychology), and his Ph.D. from the University
of Manitoba (psychology). He is married to Elaine Louise, and has two sons:
Dakin, and Mathew. He has published over 50 articles in refereed journals,
mostly in the field of psychophysiology. Burdick was drafted and served as a
PFC (Cryptology). He has received grants from the U. S. Public Health Service,
and the Medical Research Council of Canada. Jim has lived in the US, Turkey,
Canada, England, and Saudi Arabia, and traveled extensively. Presently he is
retired and lives with his wife in a log cabin on a lake in rural Kentucky. Dr.
Burdick is listed in: Who's Who in the Midwest (1981), Who's Who in the East
(1982) , Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology (1983), Who's Who Among
Human Services Professionals (1985), Who's Who in the Behavioral
Sciences(1985), and has been and still is a reviewer for Psychiatric Services
(Hospital and Community Psychiatry ,(American Psychiatric Assoc.). He has been
licensed as a psychologist, social worker, and NCADC, and is a Fellow and
Diplomat of the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists. J. Alan Burdick
Ginger Bush
Email: Ginger Bush
Kirsten Campbell
Kirsten Campbell is a non-fiction writer and poet
who lives in the New York area with her two daughters. Her poetry has been
published in P.A. &M., and Beauty Talk Magazine of Atlanta, Ga., and
several magazines in New York such as The Interracial Voice. Her mother is
German, her father, Jamaican and Scottish. Her parents abandoned her when she
was very young, left her with her Jamaican grandmother without any paperwork
proving where she was born. Due to immigration problems that stemmed from her
birth abroad, she's lived a very unusual life, so much so that her life's story
is now sought by several agents in tri-state area..
Alex Maeve Campbell
Alex Maeve Campbell lives in
Stephen J. Canham
Stephen Canham has studied writing at Conestoga
College in Kitchener / Waterloo and is currently midway through a two-year
correspondence course on Freelance Writing with ICS. E-mail: digitalquill@sympatico.ca
Heather Cardin
Heather Cardin holds a Master's degree in English literature from Carleton University. She taught for twenty years in several Canadian provinces and in Papua New Guinea. She has published poems with World Order and bywords.ca, was shortlisted for the Great Canadian Literary Hunt in 2004, produced the chapbook Wild Blueberries, and has been the featured reader for Sasquatch in Ottawa. She has a book on successful marriages at press in the U.S., due for release in 2006. Married and the mother of three teenagers, she currently lives in Gatineau, QC and is working on poetry and a second non-fiction manuscript. Email: Heather Cardin
Mike Carlson
Mike Carlson's four years as a Marine Corps officer
left him with a need to explore the complex issues that soldiers, Marines,
airmen and sailors wrestle with every single day, especially in the aftermath
of combat. Carlson was honorably discharged from the Corps in October 2004. He
plans to pursue an MFA in creative writing. This is his first attempt at
writing fiction. Email Mike Carlson
Patrick Carrington was born and raised in the boroughs of New York City. He teaches language arts and creative writing in southern New Jersey and lives on a secluded beach with his wife and the ocean they love. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in various print journals, including Epicenter, Willard & Maple, Bardsong, Poetry Motel, and Clark Street Review, and on-line at Carnelian, Thieves Jargon, Clean Sheets and mannequin envy. Email: Patrick Carrington
Patricia Carroll
Patricia
Carroll is a west coast artist who works in water colour, acrylic and fibre.
She weaves tapestries and paints from within an inspirational world of fantastic
realism. Email:ascent@bcsupernet.com
Steve Cartwright
http://www.angelfire.com/
Carol Casa
A short
story" SUBURBS"
http://www.angelfire.com/me2/EvidenceRemains/faith.html
Travis Cashey
Email: Travis
Cashey
John J. Cashon
John Cashon resides in Paducah, Kentucky. He has a
degree in Environmental Sciences from Murray State University. You can reach
him by E-mail at jerome@apex.net
R. T. Castleberry
R. T. Castleberry is the co-editor and co-publisher of the monthly poetry
magazine Curbside Review. His poetry has been published in various magazines,
including Zuzu's Petals, Snake Nation Press, Poet Lore, Another Chicago
Magazine, Borderlands, Illya's Honey and Main Street Rag. span style='color:black'>R.T. Castleberry
J.W.Caughlan
J.W.Caughlan reads and writes poems almost everyday.
He has recently retired from teaching after thrity-three years. He draws and
paints and has had three shows of his art work locally in Quesnel, B.C. He has
had poems published in Shawnee Silhouette and Green's Magazine. In the past he
drew and wrote a monthly column for Wells News.
Uzeyir Lokman Cayci
mailto:uzeyir.cayci@wanadoo.fr
He is a poet, a writer, a versatile artist... He
was born in 1949 in Bor that is one of the beautiful cities of Turkey. He
attended primary and high school there. And then he graduated as an Architect -
Designer of Industry from The Fine Arts Academy of State in Istanbul. His
important
works are, Aksamlarin Duragi , Karar, he has
many poetries, stories and articles as well. It was
called every body attention to his fine arts drawing
/ painting pictures since 14 years old. His poetries were
translated into French by Yakup YURT who loves art. The Reward of
Eagerness was given by The Radio NPS of Holland in 1999 and The Reward of
Palmares was given by The
Organization of Les Amis de Thalie in France to
him. He placed in a poem competition from the same Organization at
the same year too. He works in The Center of Adult Education ( AFPA) at
present.
Kent Clair Chamberlain
Kent Clair Chamberlain writes out of Ashland Oregon
Mohandas Charles
Mohandas Charles lives and works in Montreal as a high school Mathematics
teacher. He writes mostly short fiction, but occasionally dabbles in poetry. He
is a fabulous cook, He can name at least 10 or 12 constellations and knows the
first 300 digits of pi by heart.
mohandas@canada.com
Claire Ryan Chilton
Lawrence H. Climo
Lawrence H. Climo is a Vietnam Vet, a practicing psychiatrist and father of three adult daughters with three grandchildren. When his wife, Diane, isn't in her garden and he is not engrossed in reading or writing, they enjoy riding their motorcycles along New England country roads. Email Lawrence H. Climo
J. Chollick
Email:
J. Chollick
David Chorlton
David Chorlton lived in England and Austria before moving to Phoenix in 1978.
His paintings, mostly watercolour, have been exhibited in Austria and the
United States. Collections of his poetry include FORGET THE COUNTRY YOU CAME
FROM from Singular Speech Press, and OUTPOSTS from Taxus Press in Exeter,
England. Essays and reviews have appeared in The Arizona Republic, National
Catholic Reporter, Poet Lore, and in several online publications. His chapbook,
COMMON SIGHTINGS, was a recent winner in the Palanquin Press Competition.
Recently David has had poems in 3rd Muse and Thunder Sandwich and Adirondack
Review, all online publications. He continues to appreciate most the Arizona
landscape and its birds. Slowly, he is beginning a new series of paintings in
his visual arts life. He continues to paint in
Phoenix, trying to discover something lyrical between the high-rise buildings
and the houses beneath them. This is his twenty-fourth year in Phoenix, and he
still struggles to adjust!
David Chorlton grew up in industrial Manchester, England, before
moving to Vienna in 1971 and staying there for seven years. His travel around
Europe during that time left him with a full bank of impressions that continue
to surface in his work. The Southwest provided the eye-opening experience of
stunning scenery and an awareness of nature that he was not prepared for. His
short collection of poems, Common Sightings, with a desert theme, won a
Palanquin Press award in 2001, and a new book, A Normal Day Amazes Us
appeared in 2003 from Kings Estate Press.
Email: David
Chorlton
Anastasia Clark
Anastasia Clark has been writing poetry for over
30 years. She is a native of Massachusetts, currently residing in South
Florida. She has two children and one grandchild. She is a Contracts Manager for
an aircraft parts dealer. She has been published in VOiCE Magazine, Epiphany
Magazine, EOTU Magazine, Poetic License Poetry Magazine, Black Creek
Review, Speaking Leaves, Poet’s Portico, Windward Oahu News,
ONYX, and Town of Framingham - Anniversary Celebration Writing Contest She is
currently serving as the POETRY EDITOR for Epiphany Magazine where she chooses
submissions for publication and also writes a monthly POETRY COLUMN:
"PASSPORT TO POETRY." She is currently marketing 5 poetry manuscripts
and 6 children's book manuscripts.
WEBSITE: www.geocities.com/goldenrush59/ann.html
Will Clark
http://www.netcom.com/~whcii/novella.htm
Jane Tyson Clement
When Jane Tyson Clement died last March, hundreds
of her poems were uncovered in private notebooks. The few poems that traveled
beyond her hands during her lifetime were widely admired and drew critical
acclaim. In December 2000 we will publish the first comprehensive anthology of
Clement's poetry: 'No One Can Stem the Tide'. Now you can help us give the
works of this self-effacing but gifted poet the audience they deserve. Link to:http://
www.plough.com/JTC when you publish or review these poems. There are
more poems on the website.
Michael Coblenz
Michael Coblenz is an intellectual property attorney
in Lexington, Kentucky. Before attending law school he served in the United
States Air Force as a B-52 Navigator. He has published legal articles in the
Minnesota Intellectual Property Review and the Albany Law Journal of Science
& Technology, book reviews in The Federal Lawyer, and Op/Ed pieces in a
number of newspapers including The Lexington Herald-Leader. Email Michael Coblenz
John Colagrande Jr.
John Colagrande Jr. has recently had his
fiction appear in Carve, Big Bridge, The Miami Herald, The Miami Sun Post, and
Mary. "Mack and Needs" is from his collection Miami, a work in
progress. E-mail John Colagrande Jr.
Travis Ray Cole
Travis Ray
Cole is from Chicago IL. He writes poetry and songs and plays the guitar.
Travis Ray Cole can be Emailed at oeoeoe@usa.net
Home Page http://homepages.go.com/homepages/g/u/i/guiltpain/index1.html
Linda Collins
Linda Collins is
a former book editor, magazine writer and newspaper reporter whose fiction has
recently appeared in Wilmington Blues and whose nonfiction has appeared in
various Canadian publications including The Toronto Star, Homes, A la Carte,
and Toronto Parent. She has two grown children and lives in Toronto. E-mail Linda Collins
Paul Conover
Paul Conover is a writer, philosopher, gourmet
cook, consultant, engineer and CSIA ski instructor. E-mail: betypaul@arvotek.net
Angela Conrad
Email: jangerrie@mo-net.com
Angela Conrad lives in SW Missouri with her
husband Jerry. She has written two novels, worked as a procedure editor,
and is thankful to have
thirty-seven published works in the following
magazines in 2002/2003: Ascent, Orchard Press Mysteries, The Copperfield
Review, The Murder Hole, The Oracular
Tree, EWG Presents, The Circle, American Feed, The
Pink Chameleon, The Green Tricycle, Pindeldyboz, The Enigma, The Storyteller,
Cenotaph, and Earthbase 3000.
Angela
Conrad lives in SW Missouri with her husband, Jerry. Her mission in
writing is to sing the song of unknown heroes, to entertain, to provoke
thought, and to tell a good story. She has written two novels and worked
as a procedure editor, but now dedicates herself to writing fiction full time.
The Circle Magazine-Online-www.circlemagazine.com
“One Day,” Spring issue, March 2002. A historical, first person account
of a common soldier at the battle of Fredericksburg/Civil War, fiction.
Ascent-Online–www.bcsupernet.com/users/ascent
“Whoever You Are,” May
2002. A mystery, suspense tale; can you release the devil on the world?
Enigma-Print Quarterly-PA
“Saved, but Lost,” -Summer, 2002. Fiction: a concise drama about a train
crash and the emotional damage it leaves behind.
The Pink Chameleon-Online-www.geocities.com/thepinkchameleon/index.html
“The Caretaker,” Issue No. 3-June 2002. Fictional view of a slow illness,
and the stamina it requires.
“The Journey Home,” Issue No. 3-June 2002. An overachieving woman
receives a message through tragedy.
Pindeldyboz-Online-www.pindeldyboz.com
“Stan’s Last Gamble,” June Issue 2002. A humorous satire of a minor
gambler, who wins big only to lose everything.
Earthbase 3000-Print Quarterly-OR
“John Casey Gets a Visitor,” Issue 2002. A storm as a character, takes
revenge on a murderer.
The Storyteller-Print Quarterly-AR
“Past Dramas,” -July/Aug./Sept. Fall Issue, 2002. A fictional,
crime/suspense piece told by a sociopath.
“Desperation,”-Oct./Nov./Dec. Winter Issue, 2002. A woman locked in her
room, with the police on the way, hides a secret crime.
Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper
Living in Portland, Oregon, Sharon is an active
member of the Friends of The Oregon Symphony, Words Of a Woman Net Society
and very much a today's woman. An astrological Leo, this lady thrives on
poetry and music.
She has been published in 'lingerings', The
Words of a Woman Net Society, Horsethief Journal, Wired Arts from Wired Hearts,
Painted Poet Literary and Art Journal, Fluid Ink Press, Ophelia's Muse, Stride
Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Vinland Journal, Poetry Niederngasse, Arcanum Cafe,
Some Words, Poetic Reflections, Wilmington Blues, In The Eyes Of The Wild,
Rustlings Of The Wind, Westlovian Gazette, Erosha Literary Journal, Tamafyhr
Mountain Poetry, Creations Journal, Emerging from Twilight - Vol. 2. and Before
the Last Shadow Fades, Vol. 3, both A Shadow Poetry Collection, Panda Poetry
Magazine, Mi Poesias E-Zine, Battle Stars', Providers in Partnership for Kids,
Swan Dive, Wicked Alice, Verse Libre, La Rosa Blanca, Scope Journal, Haiku Hut,
WRITE ON!!, Book of Remembrance Poetry Anthology, Vol. 2, Muse Whispers,
The Green Fuse, Peshekee River Poetry, The Circle of Addiction, Sound and
Silence Magazine, Sol Magazine, Australian Poetic Society, Poetic Voices and
many others. mailto:coopersd@worldnet.att.net
D.B. Cox
D.B. Cox is a blues musician/poet, originally from South Carolina, but now
resides in Watertown Massachusetts. He is a virtual newcomer. Some of his
poetry has recently been published in a 2004 edition of Ken*Again and has also
appeared in the Spring Edition of Adagio Verse Quarterly. Email: D.B.
Cox
Anthony Cristofani
Anthony Cristofani was two months from completing his BA in
philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, when he and his wife
were arrested. In prison he finally began to submit his work, and has recently
been published in the Chiron Review, the Minnesota Review, POETALK, Black
Widow’s Web of Poetry, and Free Lunch. He paroled and recently completed his
degree at the University of California, Riverside. Email:
Anthony
Cristofani
Sarah-Jane Critchley
Sarah-Jane Critchley was one of ten runners up in the
Mslexia Poetry competition 2004, (Issue 22,July, August, Sept 2004) judged by
Selima Hill and has other poems published in anthologies. She has also written
children's stories, but has retained a fascination for the weird, way out and
twisted. She grew up on Sci-fi and loves the freedom that the medium gives. She
is older than she wishes she was, but not as wise as she'd like. She lives in
Tunbridge Wells with one husband, two children, two guinea pigs and two fish. Email Sarah-Jane Critchley
Yorgos Dalman
Yorgos Dalman
has published in America in Samsara Quarterly, Flesh & blood, The New
Absurdists and The Cafe Irreal. Currently he is also translating the works of D.
Harlan Wilson (The Kafka Effekt & Stranger on the Loose) for the Dutch
magazine market.
yorgos.dalman@wanadoo.nl
Meghashri Dalvi
Meghashri Dalvi is a well-established science
fiction writer in India. Her stories are published in Marathi, a regional
language of India, and translated in English / other regional languages. Her
short stories have won numerous prizes. She is engineer by profession and
enjoys popular science writing, too. Her first book about machines and their
history has won her accolades. "The Shopping Trip" and "The
Space Child" show her in the light science fiction mood where she very
often excels.
Address:
A-202 Madhu Milan, Eksar Road, Borivli (W), Mumbai 400 103, INDIA
Tel
no: +91-22-891 5070 meghashri_dalvi@hotmail.com
Alison Daniel
Alison
Daniel lives and works in Australia. Her work has been widely published in many
ezines (Atomic Petals, Stirring, The Absinthe Literary Review, Poor Mojo's
Almanac(k), Mentress Moon, Conspire, Eleven Bulls. Forthcoming poems will be
published in Jack, Junket and Taint. lucrezia11@hotmail.com
Joshua Danka-Dake
Joshua Danke-Dake’s "Me, the Devil and the English Language" won
third place in the 2002 CCL Writing Contest and was published with more of his
work, including its sequel, in Oral Roberts University's literary magazine,
Promethia.
Pamela Z. Daum
Pamela Z. Daum's work has been published in Satire Magazine and BMW Roundel, Taj Mahal Review and Gray's Sporting Journal. She has been writing short stories since her childhood. You could say she has lived a rich fantasy life. Essentially, she looks at everyday events taking place between characters and note the subtle, yet complex details. She writes each story from this point of view.
Terri Brown-Davidson is on the poetry and fiction faculty at Gotham Writers'
Workshop. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in more than 750 journals,
including TRIQUARTERLY, HAYDEN'S FERRY REVIEW, DENVER QUARTERLY, THE VIRGINIA
QUARTERLY REVIEW, and NEW YORK STORIES. Email:
Terri
Brown Davidson
Holly Day
Holly Day's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have most recently appeared in Canadian Woman Studies, Skyway News, and Ruah. She currently works as a reporter and a writing instructor in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and lives with her two children and husband. Her hobbies include skateboarding, crocheting, and trying to peaceably communicate with uncooperative vending machines. Email: Holly Day
Lori Ann Day
Lori Ann Day has been writing poetry for years,
and she enjoys sharing her work with others. She has been published several
times by minor publications, and the local newspaper in Watsonville. She also writes
song lyrics for the songs that she sings in clubs. Some of her work has been
featured in Femmesoul.com EMail osania@mailcity.com
Anthony De Sa
Email:
Anthony
De Sa
Hugo De Sarro
Hugo De Sarro is a former college English instructor. He has
published poetry, essays and short stories in a variety of journals, including
Snowy Egret, Colorado Review' Sparrow: Yearbook of the Sonnet, Christian
Science Monitor, FreExpression, PDQ, Pulsar, Black Bear Review, Eureka Lit.Mag.
Hugo De Sarro
Carol Ramsden Deckert is a former winner of Canadian Author &
Bookman's poetry contest. A collection of her poetry was read on radio by
Sheila Martindale on the program "Cabbages and Kings" in London,
Ontario. She has published poems in Canadian Author & Bookman, and is
included in a poetry collection entitled "Voices From the Niagara"
(Moonstone Press). Her poems have also appeared in Tower Poetry Journal and in
the professional teaching journal, "Indirections." Her short stories
and articles on the craft of writing have been published in
"Indirections" on many occasions. One of her short stories,
"Canaries Have Wings" was circulated to forty countries in a journal
for educators of gifted children: "Gifted International." Carol
formerly graduated with a Masters Degree in English from McMaster University
where her poetry won a "Special Achievement Award." Presently she is
Head of English at Orchard Park Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario. Email: Carol Ramsden Deckert
Robert Demaree
Robert Demaree
retired recently after 42 years as a teacher and administrator in schools in the
U.S., in Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia and North Carolina. He was born in
Pennsylvania and has family ties to New England, so he has always been
interested in what Donald Hall calls “a pleasure of place.”
He has written A History of Greensboro Day School, a chapbook of poems
called New Hampshire Pond, and has had over 125 poems published or
accepted by approximately 45 periodicals.
mailto:rdemareejr@triad.rr.com
Amanda Dexter
Amanda Dexter like many other Canadians, is an aspiring author. She
writes poetry, short stories, essays, and is working on a novel. She currently
resides in the far North of Alberta, where she works as a grade six teacher.
The community in which she lives is a Mennonite Community, which is very
different from her upbringing. She is originally from Liverpool, Nova Scotia
where she spent the first 24 years of her life. Upon graduation she moved to
Halifax, Nova Scotia and completed a B.Sc. with an Advanced Major in Psychology
at Dalhousie University. She then completed a B.Ed. at Acadia University, in
Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The poem presented here is part of a series in progress
based on personal experience. Email: Amanda Dexter
Christopher Discenza
Christopher Discenza was born in Santiago, Chile, and raised in Long Island, New York. He received a BFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2001. He has recently decided to pursue a career in creative writing at the subtle behest of others, including artists and art dealers. He currently lives in New York City. Email Christopher Discenza
Malcolm Dixon
Malcolm Dixon is originally from Liverpool. His
fiction has appeared in the Newport Review, Wind Magazine, the Briar Cliff
Review, Literary New York and Cranky. In 2003 he was nominated for the Pushcart
Prize. He now lives north of Canterbury, on the Kent coast. Email Malcolm Dixon
Mike Domonchuk is a freelance writer residing in Kitchener, Ontario. Up until now he has not yet been published although his submission count, at last tally, was past 50. He has completed several short works and he has nearly completed his second full length novel and has begun ideas for a screenplay. He feels his first publication will start the ball rolling. He is chief writer of a 5 issue (and counting) comic book, that has been published on the independent market. Email Mike Domonchuk
Steven
Dorrell
Steven Dorrell is a MA student in Critical and Cultural Studies. He
has written several stories and a play performed at the Oxford Playhouse. He is
presently working on his first novel. Email: Steven Dorrell
Jack Downs
Jack Downs is a technical writer and project manager by day, and lives with my wife and our four- and two-year old boys in Maryland. Weekends, whether foul or fair, the family is out with their pop-up trailer, enjoying each other, and scrounging up new story ideas. Email Jack Downs
Kevin Doyle
Kevin Doyle is an English teacher and part-time writer from the American Midwest. Most of Kevin's short fiction falls in the horror or dark fantasy genres. However, this piece, while it does have some dark aspects, is a bit more realistic than the majority of his work. His material has appeared in a number of journals including "The Edge, Tales of Suspense;" "The Nocturnal Lyric" and peridotbooks.com. He also has new stories pending publication in "Outer Darkness" and "The Edge." A native of Kansas, he's spent several years teaching English and communications at a couple of community colleges in Kansas, and this year has taken on a new position teaching high school English in central Missouri. The idea for this particular story came to me a few years ago when I lived close to a railroad track. I enjoyed listening to the trains going up and down the tracks all night. For me, it was a nice, soothing sound. But I got to thinking once about how other people might react to the sounds of trains constantly moving outside their house. Out of this line of thought came "Deliberates." mailto:wsouth82@hotmail.com
Derbhile Dromey is a freelance writer and journalist
based in Ireland. She has been published in a number of magazines and Web
sites, and her work has also appeared in a number of local creative writing
anthologies. Email: Derbhile Dromey
Jim Dunlap is a 7 year past Newsletter Editor for the Des Moines Area
Writers' Network, Senior Contributing Editor to the POETS' PORCH and Book
Editor for The New Pleiades Poetry Anthology (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada/ Las
Vegas, NV, USA). Jim is co-author (with 5 others) of Five Gates of Poetry,
author of "Entwined In Wonder" (by himself), and co-author (with 3
others), of The MysticEast Poetry Anthology (India). He has been in the
Writers' Digest top 100 in three categories, and in Who's Who In America, and
in Who's Who In The World; and in the the Directory of American Poets and
Fiction Writers. He has appeared in numerous small press magazines to date,
including PLAINSONGS, POTPOURRI, CANDELABRUM (Wisbech, England), the
PARIS/ATLANTIC (Paris, France), and online in UNLIKELY STORIES, POETRY
REPAIRSHOP, INDIE JOURNAL and POEMS NIEDERNGASSE (Switzerland). Jim is also
webmaster for the anti-genocide website, Voices For Africa.
Email: Jim
Dunlap
Amy Durant
Email: Amy
Durant
Natasha Durich is a
self-proclaimed poet-dreamer. She holds a degree in psychology and is working
toward a degree in law. She lives and writes in Victoria, BC. ndurich@uvic.ca
Amanda Earl has had poetry published most recently in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Fall 2004, and her first chapbook, Blood Orange, was published by the University of Ottawa English Department's Friday Circle in 2003. She is the managing editor of Bywords.ca and the Bywords Quarterly Journal. Email: Amanda Earl
Margarita Engle is a botanist and the Cuban-American
author of two "magic realistic" novels, Singing to Cuba (Arte Publico
Press) and Skywriting (Bantam). Her shorter works appear in journals such as
Atlanta Review, Bilingual Review, California Quarterly, LUNA, Poetry Midwest,
and Poetry Greece. Her experimental work appears in Blackbird, Indefinite
Space, Prakalpana Literature (India), and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St.
Martin's Press,1996). Engle's literary awards include a San Diego Book Award
and a Cintas Fellowship. Extensive travel in Cuba and other parts of Latin
America has influenced her writing. englefam@earthlink.net
Mike Estabrook seems to have been writing poetry for so long that Methuselah should be taking notice, but in reality, time is simply doing its thing streaking ahead blithely pulling all of us along for the wild ride whether we like it or not; this reminds him, that he has published 15 chapbooks over the years, the last one being “when Patti would fall asleep” by Liquid Paper Press in 2003, and makes him realize it’s time to work on another one. Email: Mike Estabrook
Sonya Easterday received her B.A. in English from the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville. She has been previously published in "Children,
Churches and Daddies", and local zines. She has participated in spoken
word performances in Knoxville and Nashville TN. She also plays bass and sings
in her band, Kamuy.
Email: Sonya
Easterday
Dustin Engstrom
Dustin Engstrom was raised in the small town of Crosslake, MN. He holds
a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota, Morris where also
studied writing. He lives in Seattle with his partner Robert and works in
administration at a mainstage theatre. Email Dustin Engstrom
Margaret L. Evans
Margaret L. Evans is a native of the Washington, DC, area, and a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Business Administration. Her short stories and humorous philosophical essays have been published in such literary magazines as Fullosia Press, Prose Toad, Palabras Press, The Literary Brothel, ken*again, and A Darker Vision. She is also the author of a full-length novel, The Sixth World.] Email Margaret L. Evans
Zdravka Evtimova
Zdravka Evtimova's short stories have been published in the USA Antioch Review, Mississippi Review online, Night Train, In Posse Review, the anthology “The Best Fiction of Eclectica”, UK Quality Women’s Fiction, The Dreamcatcher, Canada Filling Station Magazine , Lichen, Australia Going Down Swinging Literary Magazine, Antipodean, Germany, France, Russia, India, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Argentina, Turkey and Serbia. Two of her short stories have been broadcast on Radio BBC, UK. Her short story collection, Bitter Sk,y was published by Skrev Press, UK, in 2003. Her novel, God of Traitors, was published as a e-book by booksforabuck.com Dallas, Texas in June 2004. Her short story collection, Somebody Else, won the ‘best short story collection by an established author’ award of MAG Press, San Diego, California in 2004. Email Zdravka Evtimova
R. Edward Farber
Edward Farber has returned to his first love,
fiction, after a lifetime of writing non-fiction--newspaper, advertising,public
relations. Now that he is "retired", he is at the computer more than
ever and loving every minute.Two of his stories appeared in Artisan,one a prize
winner in their short story contest. Another appeared online in EWG Presents,and
Cricket Magazine just accepted his first stab at a children's story. Email R. Edward Farber
Joseph A. Farina practices law in his hometown of Sarnia, Ontario. His
poetry has appeared in the Alberta Poetry Yearbook, and in the newsletter of
the Association Italian Canadian Writers. He won second prize in the Sarnia
Observer "My Hometown" contest for his essay "My New Home
Town." Several of his poems have been published in Green's Magazine and in
Quills. Email: Joseph A. Farina
Devlin Farmer
Devlin Farmer is originally from British Columbia but has found himself recently living in Boston, Massachusetts. His stories have previously appeared in B&A (Blood and Aphorism) and Scrivener.
Eileen Fay
Eileen Fay is a freelance writer and former
elementary teacher who is working only part time at home now as she looks after
her 91-year old Mother full time. She has lived abroad (British Isles) for five
years, and in Las Vegas and Southern Calif., as well, although she is a native
New Yorker with an intermittent hankering for life in B. C. and/or the
Maritimes. Eileen Fay
Richard Fein
Deborah Finch
Deborah Finch lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico
with her husband and daughter and makes her living as a research biologist and technical
writer. Nature has been a primary influence. Her poetry appears in online and
print journals including Avocet, Owen Wister Review (OWR), Santa Fe Poetry
Broadside, Mentress Moon, Moongate Internationale, The Dragonfly Review, 3rd
Muse, 2River View, Salt River Review, FZQ, Melic Review, Poems Niedergnasse,
and others. She won first place in the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press
Association Journal Competition for poems published in OWR.
Misha Firer
Misha Firer was born in 1979 in Ulyanovsk, Russia. He
lived in Israel, New York and currently resides in Oakland, California. This
year, 32 of his short stories appeared in BIG News, In Posse Review, Nuvein,
Paumanok Review, Scarlet Letters, Slow Trains, Spoiled Ink, Vestal Review, Word
Riot and elsewhere. His short story “Prayer Notes” (Rose & Thorn, Fall
2004) was nominated for Pushcart Awards. "Modern Day Invisible Man"
appeared in Ascent Aspirations Magazine this year. "The Hunchback"
can be considered as its sequel of sorts. Email Misha Firer
Cindy Forsburg's poems have appeared in various publications including South Dakota Magazine, South Dakota Review, SubtleTea (forthcoming), Twilight Times, and the Vermillion Literary Project. She is a college instructor and small business owner in Sioux Falls, South Dakota Email: Cindy Forsburg
Christopher Fournier is a Canadian writer living
in Germany. His work has most recently appeared in Another Toronto Quarterly. mailto:christopher@haligonian.de
Wilder Fox
Richard W. Fox teaches astronomy, physical science,
and physics at various Chicago-area colleges and universities. His work has
appeared in the Dana Literary Society Online Journal, The Taj Mahal
Review, Ascent Aspirations and in other places. E-mail Richard W. Fox
David P. Fraser
David likes to balance his life among a variety of activities in the areas of writing, education and sports. When he is not formally working as an educator, he is either writing and researching or involved in one of the following sports: alpine skiing, ski teaching as a full time professional ski instructor at Mt. Washington, BC http://www.mtwashington.bc.ca/winter/default.cfm , windsurfing, tennis, golf, cycling, hiking. In addition he likes to garden, listen to the blues, and search for his way through Taoism. He has built his second water garden which has become his new daily sanctuary. His is learning and refining his Spanish fluency and will travel back to Central and South America in the near future. He lives among the flora and fauna of the British Columbia West Coast.
David is the editor of Ascent Magazine - Aspirations for Artists (established 1997) http://www.bcsupernet.com/users/ascent.
David Fraser has had work published in Mimesis, In Complete, Windings, In Writing Group,
The Starlight Cafe http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/,
Kookamonga Square http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Tower/9556/David.html
Above Ground Testing http://www.angelfire.com/on/abovegroundtesting/agt28cover.htm,
Poetry Exchange http://www.w3px.com/,
Wilmington Blues http://www.wilmingtonblumes.co/,
Steel Point Quarterly http://members.tripod.com/steelpoint/,
Expressions 30 ( Jan. 2003) http://samsdotpublishing.com/expressions.htm,
Outer Rim http://www.geocities.com/~outer-rim/frameindex.html,
Dream Forge http://www.pcisys.net/~drmforge/,
Circle Magazine http://www.circlemagazine.com/
Ascent Magazine http://www.bcsupernet.com/users/ascent.
Lunatic Chameleon (
April/May 2004) (Nov. 2003) http://www.geocities.com/nancatbird/index.html
The Muse Apprentice
Guild (Spring 2003) http://www.muse-apprentice-guild.com/spring_2003/davidfraser-fiction/home.html
The Writer’s Hood (
Fall 2003) http://www.writershood.com/htms/thr3.htm
Turbula (Fall 2003) http://www.turbula.net/
Locust Magazine
(Sept. 2003) http://www.locustmagazine.com/locust/18.php
- Cafe_Trieste
Fiction on the Web http://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/apologize.html
Canadian Poets on the
Web http://www.geocities.com/poetrywings/Canadian.html
Ydgrasil http://www.synapse.net/~kgerken
Oasis (January 2004) http://www.driftersoasis.com
Poetry Super Highway (April 2004) http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ppa350a.html - fp3
Perigee (May 2004) <http://www.perigee-art.com>http://www.perigee-art.com
Poetry Inhalations (August 2004) http://www.poeticinhalation.com/tlm_v4i4.html -
david%20fraser
Ardent (August 2004) http://ardent.poetryinarts.org/
Regina Weese (Oct. Nov. 2004) www.reginaweese.com
Three
Candles (Oct.2004) Three
Candles
Bewildering
Stories (Fall 2004) http://www.bewilderingstories.com/
Lyrics from one poem have been published and performed through Ex Tenebris In the past David has written a weekly newspaper column in the Beeton Record. He resides now on the left coast of Canada and is currently a full time writer.
mailto: ascentaspirations@shaw.ca Ascent - Aspirations for Artists/ revised August 2001
http://www.bcsupernet.com/users/ascent
Paul M. Frasier
Paul M. Frazier, Ph.D. received his B.A. in
Theatre with an emphasis in Performance from the University of Michigan -
Flint, his M.A. in Theatre with an emphasis in Directing from Michigan State
University, and his Ph.D. in Theatre specializing in Directing and Staging from
Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His dissertation was titled Patterns
in Recent Science Fiction Drama, which was the first scholarly work on the
subject of science fiction dramatic literature.
His performance credits include roles in Our
Town, The Threepenny Opera, Marat/Sade, The Respectful
Prostitute, and Guys and Dolls. His directing credits include Macbeth,
A Midsummer's Night Dream, and two productions of 'night, Mother.
His publishing credits include a series of
newspaper theatre reviews of summer stock productions in the summer of 1985.
Additionally, he has presented several scholarly theatre papers at regional and
international theatre conferences.
He is currently working as a freelance web
developer, using Microsoft technologies. Also, he is pursuing a lifelong dream
of writing science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He has no publications yet,
but he has great hopes.
Dalmazio Frau
hieronymus@quipo.it
Jesse Ferguson
Jesse Ferguson is a fourth year English Literature major at the
University of Ottawa. He was raised in Cornwall, Ontario, and he has been writing
poetry and songs for roughly five years. He is currently studying creative
writing under the poet Seymour Mayne, and his work has appeared in the
University of Ottawa’s magazines Nexus, Innuendo and Yawp (He is now on the
editorial board of the latter). Some of his poems also appear in Yalla,
Redfez.com, Ygdrasil, Stridemagazine, High Altitude Poetry, The Big Tex[t], The
Magazine Shiver and Saucyvox.com. Email: Jesse
Ferguson
Dr. Charles Frederickson
Charles Frederickson is a Swedish-American Pragmatic Idealist,
Chronic Optimist and Heretical Believer who has wandered intrepidly through 206
countries, an original sketch and poem for each presented on the web site
below. Spreading revitalized roots and wings in Thailand, he has devoted the
past eight months to volunteer tsunami relief and support within the
educational sector. 80+ publications on 5 continents. Email: Charles Frederickson
Rebecca Frye
Email: Rebecca Frye
Rich Furman
Rich Furman is a professor in the Department of
Social Work at Colorado State University, and has had numerous poems published
in literary journals throughout the years. As far as other relevant
biographical information, in case you are curious, he enjoys contemplating the
meaning of his navel, lives with two terrifying looking yet sweet American
Bulldogs, a sweet looking and sometimes terrifying fiancé, and two kids who are
as terrifying as banana slugs to a rhinoceros. He has traveled and lived in
Central America, and tries to get back as often as he can. He loves to read
poetry from the small press, poetry that is real, alive, hits you in the gums
and gets out. He loves to receive feedback on his work, if you are so inclined.
Rich Furman, Assistant Professor, Department of
Social Work, Colorado State University furman@cahs.colostate.edu
David Gaffney
David Gaffney has been published in Ambit, Modart, The Illustrated Ape, Bored Mag, Ephemera, Rant, thephonebook.com, The Stand (2006) Index, Skive Mag, Somewhat, Blowback Mag, Transmission, Cautionary Tale, FACT Mag, Papercut, Word Riot, Stand Off, The Quiet Feather, Mooch Mag, Revolve, Defenestration, The Ugly Tree, Cent, and in the states Modernfix and Juked.
Heidi Garnett
Email: Heidi Garnett
Nicole Gervace
Nicole Gervace lives in Nederland, CO. Her work has appeared in
XCP:Streetnotes, Can we have our ball back?, SHAMPOO, and the Fifth Street
Review. Her essay, "The Safehouse Teaching Journal" will be featured
in the November Issue of Quiet Mountain Essays. And, her chapbook titled
"Bite Marks Visible" is forthcoming from Binge Press. Email: Nicole Gervace
Aaron Gilbreath
Aaron Gilbreath lives with his ferret and cat amid
stacks of Jimmy Smith CDs in Portland, Oregon, though his heart is in the
Sunbelt. He has been published in AntiMuse, personally insulted by an
editor of Spork Magazine, and is now overjoyed to have his fiction
published in Ascent Aspirations Magazine. He can be found cleaning up
books and old coffee cups at Powell's Books. E-mail Aaron Gilbreath
Cynthia Glass
"Mystyglass"
<Mystyglass@worldnet.att.net>
Karen Godson
Karen Godson. is a 38 year old Lesbian mother of two, living in
Toronto. Having survived breast cancer and a radical mastectomy in
1997, she is now living life to its fullest. Her dream now is to have her
poetry published, and to make a difference in the lives of other womyn.
She has
been writing poetry since she was twelve years old. In her later teens,
she started using the freedom of the pen to really express her love for
womyn. As she became more accepting and embracing of her sexuality, her
poetry became more free-flowing, and more alive with emotions, smells, colors,
even sounds. Recently, she put together a collection of her best
work, entitled "Inspired Woman". It is approximately 5000
words, and contains over 50 poems about love, loss, and life as a
lesbian. She would be very excited to see “Inspired Woman” on the shelves
where it can help to uplift and inspire womyn everywhere.
Karen lives
blissfully with her beautiful life-partner, and their big, goofy rottweiler,
Bravo. She is a vegetarian chef but writing consuming her time
outside the kitchen. Through poetry, she embraces all the womyn who
have ever dreamed, hoped, loved and achieved.
mailto:sapphos_poet@hotmail.com
http://www.inspiredwoman.iwarp.com
Bruce Goodman
is a New Zealander freezing to death in rural Quebec.E-mail Bruce Goodman
Taylor Graham
Coal
City Review editor Brian Daldorph calls
this poet " a meticulous wordsmith, writing often of her experiences as a
rescue dog handler. Every word of each poem is carefully considered, and yet
there is fluency and grace to her poems that sometimes seem like the mysterious
language of bird tracks in the snow. Taylor helps us to remember our links with
the natural world." Graham has published four collections, including Casualties
( Coal City Review) and Looking for Lost ( Hot Pepper Press), as well as
poems in myriad publications. She is also on the editorial board of The
Acorn, a regional literary journal focusing on the western Sierra.
("Ten
Poets to Watch", Writer's Digest
April 2000)
Email:
Taylor
Graham
Vanessa Gebbie
Vanessa Gebbie is a journalist living and working in the
UK. She teaches Creative Writing at a rehabilitation centre, and her own short
fiction has been widely published in print and on the web. Email Vanessa Gebbie
Harvey Goldner lives in Seattle. His poems have appeared in
Adirondack Review, Bellowing Ark, Chelsea, Curious Rooms, Exhibition, Exquisite
Corpse, 4th Street ,Poetry Midwest, Puerto del Sol, Rattle, The Sun, and
elsewhere. A chapbook, Memphis Jack, was recently published by Spankstra Press
(Seattle). Email: Harvey
Goldner
Sara Greenwald
Sara Greenwald's stories have been published in Pindeldyboz,
Comet, Moondance, Thirteenth Moon, , Stories, Bread
and Roses, and Janus Magazines.
One of her stories was nominated for publication in the HBJ Best New American Voices anthology and another received an honorable mention in the 2000 New Millennium Writing Awards. A novel was nominated for the Bellwether Prize 2004. Sara holds an MA in English Lit. from Columbia and an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco who kindly awarded me a merit scholarship.
John Grey's latest book is What Else Is There from Main Street
Rag and his work has appeared recently in The Xavier Review, The Malahat
Review, Bellevue Literary Review and Birmingham Poetry Review. Email: John Grey
David Groulx
David Groulx lives in Moose Creek, Ontario. Email: David Groulx
Jason Gurley
Jason Gurley's work has appeared in such
publications as The Adirondack Review, Palimpest Magazine, Morella, The
White Shoe Irregular, The Paumanok Review, Littoral West, Legions of Light,
Progress, The Woolly Mammoth, Electric Acorn, Inkspot, 8 Magazine, and Turtleneck,
among others. He edits and publishes the literary quarterly Deeply Shallow
(www.deeplyshallow.cjb.net). Jason lives and writes in Nevada, with his wife
and cat. Email: jagurley@nvbell.net
Web: www.jasongurley.cjb.net
Angela Hadley
Angela Hadley works in Hampshire, England. Her
most recent credits are her short stories "My Alien" and "Jungle
Queen," published by DeathGrip - Speculative Fiction E-Zine, and three poems
published by Dream Forge.
Mike Hagemann
Mike
Hagemann is a 42 year old English teacher who lives in Cape Town,
South Africa. He has been writing, on and off, for a number of
years. He has published a work of non-fiction called The Shepherds Who Throw Stones and he
dabbles in short stories and poetry.
The poem printed above arises from his period of military
service in 1979 and 1980. He was originally a citizen of Rhodesia, (now
called Zimbabwe) and he fought in the last 2 years of the civil war that raged
there from 1972 to 1980. mailto:mike.hagemann@worldonline.co.za
Jan
O. Hansen
Email: Jan O. Hansen
Nels Hanson earned a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz and an MFA from the University of Montana, and his fiction received the San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Award and a citation in its Joseph Henry Jackson competition. His stories have appeared in a number of magazines, including Antioch Review, Texas Review, Short Story, Southeast Review, Black Warrior Review, South Dakota Review, and Long Story. Email Nels Hanson
Carla Hartsfield has had three poetry collections published
previously, two from Vehicule Press, and the most current titled Your Last
Day on Earth appeared from Brick Books in 2003. She is currently working on
a fourth manuscript with the working title of Blackout Journal. During
the writing of this book she has received mid-career writing grants from the
Canada Council as well as Toronto Arts Council. Email:
Carla
Hartsfield
Suzanne R. Harvey
Suzanne R. Harvey is retired. She lectured for 19 years in the English Department of Stanford University in California in the USA. In addition, during that time for almost a decade, she served as a resident fellow in an all-freshmen dormitory. Before that, she was an instructor at Tufts University in New England, where she received her doctorate in Elizabethan poetry, specifically that of Edmund Spenser. Recently, in her retirement she has been active in teaching at Emeritus College in the San Francisco Bay Area for about six years. She is the author of over 30 published poems and some 30 awards from contests and competitions. Email: Suzanne R. Harvey
Maryann Hazen
Maryann Hazen is a 38 yr. old mom/wife/full-time
student/medical transcriptionist/poet/painter who has recently had the good
fortune to be published in the following magazines:
The Blind Flier, Issue #14 ,Creative Ooze , Poetry
Issue #4,SNAKESKIN poetry webzine-Issue #27,Womenfolk-A
Gathering Place for Women ,Poetic Voices Jan
1998,Temporary Exhibition Eight - Maryann Hazen,Sin título ,TUA Online and
[Poetry Magazine
Kevin Angelo Hehir
Kevin Hehir has a CD, Canadadaians Art Sound
Poetry by Kevin Hehir and has produced two books. NINE, is an
anthology of work by the St. John's Limited Ink Writers Collective and Time
Folds Like Maps is a chapbook of his poetry. Kevin has also read his poetry
for broadcast on CBC Radio and CBC Television. He has just recently been
published in The Backyards of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry from Ireland and
Newfoundland & Labrador. He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland
where he hosts and organizes a monthly readings series at The Ship Inn.
You can
find his work on-line at: http://www.ubu.com/sound/hehir.html
http://www.latchkey.net/poetry/
Aaron Hellem
"The
Communicable Differences Between Light and Gray," is part of a collection
entitled, The Things a Body Does When It Thinks It's Going to Die,
which, as of yet, is unpublished. This story is a sexy exploration of the
Wallace Stevens theory that "the greatest of poverty must be to not live
in a physical world."
Aaron Hellem is attending the MFA
Program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His short stories have
been published in the Berkeley Fiction Review, WoW, and Arnazella, and are
forthcoming in Ink Pot, Willard and Maple, and Liquid Ohio. Email Aaron Hellem
David Hemmings
David Hemmings is 24 years old and lives in Brighton, England. He has always loved writing but has only started taking it more seriously recently. Email David Hemmings
Andy Henion
Andy Henion's fiction has been published in a couple
dozen online and print magazines, including Pindeldlyboz
and The Circle. Email Andy Henion
Robert M. Hensel
Robert M. Hensel was born in Rota, Spain in 1969.
Currently a resident of Oswego, NY, he is an international poet-writer. On
October 1st of 2000, Robert was honored when the mayor of his home town
declared a week for the disabled, "Beyond Limitations Week", in his
name. http://community.webtv.net/rebamusicfan/BOBBYSWORLD
http://community.webtv.net/beyond_limitations_week/BeyondLimitations
Gregory Hill
Gregory Hill is a graduate of Oswego State
University and holds a Bachelors of Art in both English and Secondary Education
and will be attending Western New England College School of Law in the fall of
2002. He has written a novel and other short stories. greggy@twcny.rr.com
Richard Hillman
Richard Hillman has just completed a PhD at Flinders University
(South Australia), and has had another book published last year (Jabiluka
Honey: New & Selected Poems Bookends Books, 2003). He is now a contributing
editor for papertiger (cd rom poetry journal) - links available on web- since
he had to let SideWaLK: an antipodean poetry & poetics journal slide late
last year. Email: Richard
Hillman
Jnana Hodson
Jnana Hodson was born in Dayton, Ohio, and is a graduate
of Indiana University, he continues in the tradition of spiritual renaming,
which may be seen in both Biblical and Native-American examples. In his case,
the name Jnana (commonly pronounced Ja-NAN-a, Sanskrit for the
path of intellect or discernment) was bestowed when he dwelled in a Yoga ashram
in eastern Pennsylvania.
As a professional journalist, he has also
resided in Upstate New York, in two additional quarters of Ohio, in
desert-expanse orchards of Washington State, in the Mississippi River ribbon of
eastern Iowa, in the harbor city of Baltimore, and finally in former
textile-mill towns of New Hampshire.
All along, his writing has grown out of
spiritual exploration, often, seeking the unique cadence of each place that he
has dwelled, and at other times, delving headlong into confrontations and
paradoxes that entangle present-day romance, sexual attraction, and intimacy,
not infrequently, as mythology has long demonstrated, landscapes and loving
overlap.
Experimentation - a desire to discover, by
trial and error, structures and language to synthesize the details he employs -
is a central concern in much of his poetry.
J.B. Hogan
J.B. Hogan is a free-lance writer currently
living in Ft. Collins, Colorado. His latest publications include: “Your Poem
(As If) and “You’re Always Back There” (poems), Poesia, Summer 2004
(forthcoming); “Papi” (short story), The Square Table, Volume II, Issue I,
Winter 2004; “Out at Sea” (short story), Mobius, Winter 2003, pp. 11-12;
“Angels in the Ozarks” (minor league baseball history article), Mid-America
Folklore Journal, July 2002, pp. 25-43; and “Napalm Night” (short story), Viet
Nam Generation, Fall 1994, pp. 146-148. E-mail J.B.Hogan
R.Thomas Hogg is currently a graduate student in New York City who
prefers not to consider the masochistic implications of this status. A chapter
from his novel, "The Sinner's Saint," was selected for reading at the
2000 Art & Soul Literary Conference at Baylor University. Email: R. Thomas Hogg
Charlie Holland
Charlie Holland's work has appeared in The 2River
View, 42opus, Skein, and in a chapbook put out by BREEDS LIKE A RUMRUNNER.
I’ve been a featured reader at the Roundhouse, Bolts of Fiction, and the
Vancouver Culture Crawl (2004). Email Charlie Holland
B.J. Hollars
Email: B.J. Hollars
Richard Charles Holloway
Born 1950 in Spokane, Washington. Lived throughout
western U.S. (Montana, California, Nevada, Colorado, Washington). Professional
soldier for 20+ years, living in Germany for 12 years, in addition to Illinois,
South Carolina, and Colorado. Book collector--primarily James Wright, Charles
Wright and Tess Gallegher. Favorite poets include Whitman, Neruda, Ritsos,
Lorca. Favorite quote: "I am myself and my circumstances." (Ortega y
Gasset). Currently live in Olympia, WA where I work with the Crisis Clinic and
Community Mental Health Center, and attend graduate school in my spare time.
Don Hornbostel
John Horvath
An Hungarian-American born in Chicago, John
Horvath Jr was educated (PhD) in the American South; He has been a steel mill
mechanic, a soldier, a street poet in Munich, a cab driver, professor of
literature and criticism. Disabled in a parachute accident, he now lives in
Mississippi with his wife, four children, two dogs, and a cat. Horvath edits PoetryRepairShop
- Contemporary International Poetry (since 1997) and writes poetry, much of
which appears online.
Interview [ http://www. motherbird.
com/wardjohn. html ] and in Porcupine, July, 2002; Editor, PoetryRepairShop [ http://www.
poetryrepairs. com/ ]; Bibliography [ http://www. horvath. ws ];
Contact: NOTE john@horvath.zzn.com is the public hotlink address for John
Horváth Jr.
Recent Poetry individually in “Glory Train,” “Been
to Crete,” and “Shapeless Water.” Seeker Magazine. 9.4 (April 2003): http://www.seekermagazine.com/v0403/hovarth.html]
Europe's Long War: 'Old Soldier Retires," "Dnieper," 'Andau
Border Crossing," "Waking in the Bombed City," Kapuvar
Corvina," and "Walkers." Snakeskin. April 2003. number89: [http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/second.htm].
Three Poems: "Winter Mornings," "In the Carpenter's Hands,"
and "Sunday Snow." Offcourse March 2003 [http://www.albany.edu/offcourse/march03/j_horvath.html].
"History is an Afterword" and "Ravens in the Field." Autumn
Leaves 7.2 (March 2003). [http://www.sondra.net/al/vol7/72Afterword.htm
and http://www.sondra.net/al/vol7/72Ravens.htm] Indifference
to names and other poems: "Bekah Cathedral," "Foreman Ferenchaza
," "Short Steelmill Life of Steven Seraphim Novanglus,"
"There Must be Dreams from which One Cannot Walk Away," "Blue
lioness," and "Indifference to names." Badosa EP (Spain).
2003.02:113 [ http://www.badosa.com/bin/obra.pl?id=p113
] "American Onanist" and "Jew Who Fought for the Reich at the
Battle of Stalingrad." PoetrySuperHighway Featured Poet, August 5-11, 2002
[ http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ ] Great Lent in
Mississippi. New Orleans: Exquisite Corpse, 2003. [http://www.corpse.org/mississippi_corpse/John_Horvath.html].
Greatest Hits 1970-2000 (Series #86) Pudding House [http://www.puddinghouse.com/]: Columbus
OH, 2002. Reverend Terrebonne Walker: a Dozen Southern Fried Poems Artvilla
Records [http://www.artvilla.com/horvath ],
Illiana Region Poems: Harboring the Enemy Zebooks CONUS: the First
Tour Chapbook, new and collected poetry of war Ebookstand [ http://www.ebookstand.com/m/johnhorvathjr/
] and Seeker Magazine Richmond Review, Rogue Scholars, San Francisco
Salvo, Audax, EWG Presents, Ygdrasil, among others.
On writing:
Poetry is about characteristic change that allows reader and writer a so
satisfying and harmless voyeurism. Poems at least mine are not populated by
actual people, so we watch a development of degeneration of a ‘person’ and must
guess at the author’s and reader’s distance and attitude. Is there a sign of
disapproval, definite approval, secret judgments by poet and reader showing
through. A good reading of a poem reduces distance between poet and reader; bad
reading tasks the reader to judge by norms we haven’t accepted before. A poem
is then, the skin stretched over a body of communication; it is a living thing.
On writing: I
focus on the biographical, not autobiographical, to make social
narratives. I write from _inside the sinner_ to exercise empathy and sympathy,
render the observed more open to discussion, more human, and perhaps more
dignified - and, I write to create purpose and drama in mundane and meaningless
acts. My technique is akin to sprung rhythm: I pen my ideas; revise them into
traditional metric/rhyme schemes (not necessarily English); then, I revise a
poem into a narrative, free verse/lyrical form. I do this to explore my subject
and to distance myself from the poem because, as Plato noted, "Poetry
endangers the established order of the soul"; it is what poetry must do,
so poets must use care.
Sean Howard
Sean Howard moved to Nova Scotia from the United
Kingdom in late 1999, and is now a permanent Canadian resident. He works as a
writer on arms control and disarmament issues, editing the journal Disarmament
Diplomacy for a British Institute. http://www.acronym.org.uk.
He also researches and teaches as an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at
the University College of Cape Breton.
Since 1987-2000 he has had short stories and
poetry published in a number of British magazines, including Acclaim, The New
Writer, Writers' Monthly, Envoi, Haiku Poetry Quarterly and Poetry Nottingham
International. In Canada, he has had poetry published in Another Toronto
Quarterly Spring 2002 and in the October issue of The Breath E-zine, at: http://www.thebreath.com/ezine/2002/October/sean.html
as well as some experimental prosepoetry accepted for the forthcoming issue of
<stonestone> (http://stonestone.unbc.ca). http://www.anothertorontoquarterly.com/spring2002/sean.html
Bill Hughes
Bill Hughes is an incorrigible reader and a former
English teacher whose list of favorite writers includes such diverse names Mark
Twain and Samuel Beckett. He is a big fan of many of the pulp-era crime
writers, especially James M. Cain and Jim Thompson; for horror, his tastes
generally run to contemporaries like Edward Lee, David Schow, and Greg Gifune.
For three years in the late 90s he edited and published Dread, a
small-press digest of horror and weird tales. He has also had over 20 stories
appear in a variety of print and electronic magazines including Deadbolt,
Flesh and Blood, The Edge, The Thread, Rage Machine, and Something Wicked
Online. When he isn't writing he watches too many movies and likes to work
in the garden. dreditor@flex.com
Rhys Hughes
Rhys Hughes
has published four books so far (collections of stories) and his first novel is
due out next year (featuring an introduction by Michael Moorcock!) rhysaurus@hotmail.com
Coral Hull
Coral Hull
is an Australian writer. The work represented most recently in Ascent is from
her current work in the outback. For more of her work and her mission take a
look at her magazine, Thylazine. http://www.thylazine.org coralhull@thylazine.org
Melissa Hull
Melissa Hull lives in British Columbia, Canada. She is an English
student at the University College of the Fraser Valley and plans to pursue a
degree in English to become a high school English teacher. She is currently
working on her second collection of poetry entitled Ophelian Pandemonium and
spends the better part of her time reading and riffling through the wares of
second hand book stores. Email: Melissa
Hull
Michael Internicola
Michael Internicola is the author of three previous novels, KISS ME
BABY, SUNFLOWERS!, CHAZ, and ALL OUR SKIES ARE BLUE. The poems included here are
from two separate poetry books, MALISM and THE DARKEST PLACE IS UNDER A
STREETLIGHT, both completed in early 2004. His poems, prose and fiction have
appeared or are forthcoming in Subterranean Quarterly, Tryst3, Half Drunk Muse,
Slow Trains, Words Dance, Poetry Super Highway, Mouseion, Locust Magazine, 63
Channels, Spoken War, Confused In A Deeper Way, Willow Lake Press, Open Wide
Magazine, Edifice Wrecked, Snakeskin, The 2nd Hand, Caffeine Magazine, Zygote
In My Coffee, Remark, Ragged Edge,The Quadrangle, Mule, Spent Meat, The-Hold,
Antipatico, Lunatic Chameleon, Kant Magazine, Subtle Tea, Fragment Magazine,
The Surface, The God Particle, Thieves Jargon, Smokebox, James River Poetry
Review and The Mosquito Lounge Review. He lives in New York City. Email: Michael Internicola
Marika Ismail
Marika Ismail graduated from the University of Michgan's MFA program in 2003
and currently teaches English there. She is originally from Florida.
Email: Marika
Ismail
Darren J
Email: Darren J
J. Richard Jacobs
J. Richard Jacobs writes easily and fluidly across
the boundaries of all genre, but he readily admits to a preference for science
fiction. When pressed for his reasoning he points out that human emotional
behavior is the slowest of the evolutionary processes, that we are probably the
same today as we were 25,000 years ago. "Technologically, we progress at
an astounding rate and we even make some strides (small ones)
sociologically," he says, "but behaviorally we remain in stasis as
primitive, frightened little animals. What that means is that human characters
can be put into situations, alien or familiar, future or historic and we will
still have humans doing what humans do." He says he likes to speculate and
science fiction gives abundant territory for getting filthy in speculative
dirt, whether it be Earth dirt or alien dirt. He maintains that stories, to be
stories, must be populated. The inhabitants of stories are where the meat is.
He finds it irritating that in much science fiction the aliens act like humans,
even though they come from alien worlds that differ dramatically from Earth,
physically and certainly historically. "Alien is not just
appearance," he says. "It is fundamental across the board." Two
novels are now contracted for. One, XENOGENESIS, is to be released by
Double-Dragon Publishing in early 2005, and another, SEEDS OF MEMORY, will be
released this year by Ebooksonthe.net. A flash fiction piece titled IN HIS
BONES is appearing in July in Monthly Short Stories. Mr. Jacobs just won first
place in the Pioneer Division of an essay competition sponsored by the Mars
Society. He has written many solid science articles and essays and has lectured
at universities, high schools, and various community functions on Astronomy,
Potentially Hazardous Asteroids, Mars, and the possibilities of life in the
universe. He now lives in a small town in New Mexico with his wife, Julieta,
daughter, Alexandra, and a small noisemaker of a dog (so much noise, so little
dog) named Mickey. J. Richard Jacobs
Jean Paul Jenack
Jean Paul Jenack has held a variety of jobs,
including school teacher, college professor, TV writer/director, choreographer,
street juggler, circus performer and freelance writer. For the past 15 years he
has worked as Executive Director of the National Circus Project, a non-profit
arts organization based in New York. His poetry and other writings have
appeared in over 100 books, magazines and journals, and he has received
numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State
Council on the Arts for his work as an artist-in-schools. In 1990, he received
a congressional commendation for "helping to further the cause of
international understanding" through his work (U.S. Congressional Record,
5/23/90). He has poetry currently appearing or forthcoming in print in Alpha
Beat Soup, The Best Poems of 1998, blood & feathers, Cicada, Common
Threads, Frogpond, Haiku Headlines, Malevolence, Modern Haiku, Piedmont
Literary Review, Point Judith Light, Portraits of Life, Reflections and The
Wicked, and online in Anthology, Brew-Net, The Bridge, Calliope, Haiku Light,
Pogonip, and Word Salad.
Meghan
Johnston
Meghan Johnston is a writing and social work student at the
University of Victoria. When she is not at school, she is probably traveling
around BC looking for inspiration. She has been previously published as a 2000
winner of the BCTELA poetry competition and she has three poems currently
featured on the league of Canadian poets RE:verse site. Meghan Johnston
Francis R. Jones (Translator)
Vyacheslav
Kupriyanov,(Poet) studio26@hoefgen.de
After 15.06.01 you can connect me via"Eugene Vardanyan"<negativsystem@mail.ru>
in Moscow Vyacheslav Kupriyanov, (1939) ; 121552 Moscow, Akad. Pavlova 40 -
111, Tel 007095 - 141 83 61; 0160-6559363 (in Germany). mail -
studio26hoefgen.de - till 14.06.01; Author of: "In Anyone's Tongue",
1992, Forest Books, London & Boston, dual text.
W.C.Jones
W.C.Jones has been writing for over three years now, and he can't help but plant his seeds in the horror genre. You see, as a kid he always cracked his door open just enough to see the Friday night "Monster Vision" movies without his parents catching on. It was from doing this that he was introduced to such classics as "Night of the Living Dead," "Friday the 13th," "A Nightmare on Elm Street," and many others. However, the actual writing part of himself didn't begin until he was introduced to horror in books. He read everything he could get his hands on, and one day out of the blue he decided to write a horror story himself. Since then he has kept at it, and he doesn't see his interest leaving any time soon. Email W.C.Jones
Karen Kalis
As a freelance writer, Karen has had over a dozen
credits published and holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from
Margaret Karmazin
Margaret's credits
include short stories in North Atlantic Review, Potato Eyes, Mobius, Reader¹s
Break, Aim Magazine, Papyrus, Chiron Review, West Wind Review, Algonquin
Roundtable Review, Weber Studies, Futures, Virginia Adversaria, Timber Creek
Review, Desperate Act, Short Row to Hoe Division, Eureka Literary Magazine,
Mountain Luminary, thINK, S.L.U.G.FEST, The Oracular Tree, Ceterus Paribus,
Cenotaph, Matriarch's Way and Short Stories Bimonthly; stories accepted for
upcoming publication in A Room of One¹s Own, Carve Magazine, Emry¹s Journal,
Bellowing Ark and Psychic Radio; and comment pieces in SageWoman and Penn
Lines. mak@nep.net
Marcelle Kasprowicz
Marcelle Kasprowicz was born in Niort, France in l942. She received
an M.A. in Foreign Language Education from UT at Austin in l983. She is an
Austin resident, retired after teaching twenty-five years in the public
schools. he has been writing poetry for ten years. She writes in English and
French, both. Her poems have been published in the Austin International Poetry
Festival Anthology Di-verse-city 1997, l998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004. She
was awarded the first prize in 2001 for House of Bones in the AIPF Anthology. Email: Marcelle Kasprowicz
Susan L. Kates
Susan L. Kates'essay is about plains country in Oklahoma. Her work
has appeared in The Laurel Review, The Journal, and Borderlands:Texas Poetry
Review.
Eliza Kelley
Ward Kelley
Ward Kelley has seen more than 1000 of his poems
appear in journals world wide since he began publishing in 1996. A Pushcart
Prize nominee, Kelley's publication credits include such journals as: ACM
Another Chicago Magazine, Rattle, Zuzu's Petals, Ginger Hill, Sunstone,
Spillway, Pif, 2River View, Melic Review, Thunder Sandwich, The Animist,
Offcourse, Potpourri and Skylark. He has been honored as featured poet for
Seeker Magazine, Physik Garden, Poetry Life & Times, and Pyrowords.
Recently he was the recipient of the Nassau Review Poetry Award for 2001.
Credit list:
POETRY COLLECTIONS & NOVEL "comedy incarnate" on CD ROM by Kedco Studios
(Las Vegas, NV) , "histories of souls" an ebook & POD by Word
Wrangler Publishing, Inc. (Montana) ,"comedy incarnate" on AUDIO CD
by Artvilla (Tennessee) ,"the naming of parts" an ebbok by Shyflower
Press (Minnesota) ,"Divine Comedy" a novel, ebook & POD by Word
Wrangler Publishing, Inc. (Montana)
Of the 1051 published pieces, some have found
their way into:
PRINT MAGAZINES ACM, Another Chicago Magazine Ginger Hill The GSU Review
Limestone The Listening Eye The Lucid Stone Mad Poets Review Nassau Review The
Old Red Kimono Porcupine Literary Magazine Potpourri Rattle River King Skylark
Spillway Sulphur River Review Sunstone
INTERNET
Adirondack Review The Animist Ariga Big Bridge Lynx: poetry from Bath Melic
Review Oblique Offcourse The Paumanok Review Pif Poetry Magazine.Com Pulse
Pyrowords Renaissance The Rose & Thorn San Francisco Salvo Sonata Thunder
Sandwich 2River View Unlikely Stories Zuzu's Petals
Ward Kelley
1767 E. US
40
Greencastle,
IN 46135
Roger Kemble
Roger Kemble is a poet, artist, and a architect/Planner. He resides in Nanaimo, BC. Email: Roger Kemble
Penn Kemp
Since 1966, Penn Kemp has taught creative writing and
sounding in Canadian schools, from Kindergarten to University. As performer and
playwright, sound poet Penn performs in arts festivals and conferences around
the world, giving readings and workshops, recently in Glastonbury. A prolific
artist, she has to date had six plays produced and eight CDs. Penn has Canada's
first poetry CD-ROM, On Our Own Spoke to her credit: "a delight for the
ear and to the eye". Penn's videopoem, "Re:Solution", won for
best performance (The Voice Award), Vancouver Videopoem Festival, 2001. Among
her publications are twenty books of poetry and drama as well as fiction:
pennkemp.ca. The Association of Canadian Studies has sponsored Penn's tours
throughout India and Brazil, with the Canada Council's aid. Poem for Peace in many voices
Christopher Kesner
Christopher has started his masters in English at
the University of Ottawa this September. Publications have appeared in the
magazines Nepenthe and Blurred Realities. He has written for the local papers The
Chronicle and The Norse Star, and was a finalist in the Kitchener-Waterloo
English Awards. christopherkesner@hotmail.com
Khaibit
Khaibit is a Sign Language Interpreter, movie prop
collector, evil goth chick, digital artist, and professional neurotic. She is a
cult film fanatic and aspires to direct her own evil subversive cult film. Her
fiction, art, and poetry have been featured in a number of publications,
including The Aether Sanctum, The Dream People, The Random Stain, The Whetstone,
and The Isis Papers. carmilla8@darksites.com
Shervin Kiani
Shervin Kiani is a writer currently living in
Toronto. His publishing credits include Black Petals Magazine and Dream
Fantasy International. Email Shervin Kiani
Mark Joseph Kiewlak has been an author for about
fifteen years now, mainly short stories and poetry. Recently his work has
appeared in Wild Violet, The Bitter Oleander, Black Petals,
and Once Upon a Time. He has also written for DC Comics (FLASH
80-PAGE GIANT #2). E-mail Mark Joseph Kiewlak
Willie James King
Willie James King has published Wooden Windows with a foreward
by Yusef Komunyakaa. He has studied with Robert Polito, who directs the writing
courses at the New School, New York.
Email: Willie
James King
Tammy R. Kitchen
Tammy R. Kitchen
has previously been published in The Story Garden. She
hopes to become well-published so she'll never have to do physical labor again.
Email Tammy R. Kitchen
Kevin P. Keating teaches English at Baldwin Wallace
College in Cleveland, Ohio. His fiction has been published in the prestigious
literary journal Exquisite Corpse (Summer/Fall 2004). In April 2004, he
was awarded 2nd Place in the Lorain County/Ohio Arts Council Contest for
Fiction, which was judged by Nancy Zafris, editor of the Kenyon Review.
The story was subsequently published in Subtle Tea (May 2004).
His work has appeared (or will soon
appear) in a number of literary journals, including Inertia (December 2004), Pierian
Springs (Fall 2004), Slow Trains (September 2004), Tryst (September 2004),
Cherry Bleeds (September 2004), Numb Magazine (September 2004), Skyline
Magazine (September/October 2004), Tattoo Highway (August 2004), Raging Face
(August 2004), Exquisite Corpse (Summer/Fall 2004), Kant Magazine (July 2004),
Wild Child (July 2004), Cerebration (June 2004), Thunder Sandwich (June 2004),
Subtle Tea (May 2004), The Circle (Summer 2003), Eyes (Summer & Fall 2001),
Eschaton’s Terminal Journal (Spring 1999), The Inflated Graveworm (Winter
1997), Whiskey Island (Spring 1997), and Bohemian Pupil (Fall 1996). E-mail Kevin P. Keating
Toshiaki Komura
Toshiaki Komura completed an MFA program at Cornell University in
2002; after teaching introductory creative writing courses for two years at
Cornell as a lecturer. He is presently working toward a Ph.D. in English
Literature at University of Michigan, focusing on modern poetry and poetics.
His work has appeared in several publications, (Contemporary Rhyme, Offerings,
Three Cup Morning, The Same, The Storyteller, Poetic Hours, among others), and
his awards include Corson-Bishop Prize (2002) and Alexander Laing Memorial
Prize (1998). Email: Toshiaki Komura
Barbara Kowal
Barbara Kowal
is a journalist living in Colorado. E-mail Barbara Kowal
Adam Kuzma
Adam has been published in Harpweaver, published
by Brock Univ., the poem, "Like Wine Poured Out" won the Can. Auth.
Assoc. Prize for Poetry. He has also appeared in several Hamilton literary
mag's including Kairos. mailto:adam_kuzma@yahoo.ca
Sherie Labedis
Sherie Labedis "Is the right to vote worth dying
for?" This question filled the minds of the black folks and white
volunteers encouraging them to register in the summer of 1965.The essay, "A
Line in the Sand," describes the dangers for black people voting at this
time, the manner in which people were recruited to vote, and the courageous
personal stories of two women.
In 1965 Sherie Labedis was a white
volunteer enlisted by Martin Luther King Jr. to get black voters to register
and vote. She was 18 and a middle class college student from California. Mrs.
Rebecca Crawford was sixty, an illiterate black woman burdened with the racist
legacy of the South. Her response to being treated with genuine respect led to
a friendship that lasted through twenty-eight years and two generations. E-mail Sherie Labedis
Michael Ladanyi
Michael Paul Ladanyi resides with his wife and two
daughters in the foothills of the North Georgia Mountains. His poetry has
appeared widely in print and online journals in the US and other countries. His
most recent print publications include: Snow Monkey, Spring 2003, Maxis Review,
(Marygrove College, MI) Spring 2003, Joey and the Black Boots, Spring 2003
farewell issue #41, and The Circle, #24 Winter 2003. His most recent online
publications include: ken*again, Volume 4 #2 Summer 2003, Write-away-poetry,
Summer 2003, The Muse Apprentice Guild, Spring 2003, Poems Niederngasse, #57
May 2003, Voices, Spring 2003 and The Pedestal Magazine, Summer 2003 issue #16.
His work is upcoming in several magazines and collections of poetry, including:
In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Volume 5, James River Poetry
Review, Epiphany Magazine, Retort Magazine and others. Michael's chapbook, Palm
Shadows, was released in June 2002 by Purple Rose Publications, the printers of
Promise Magazine.
He is currently searching for a publisher for his full length poetry
book, Humming Riddles In Naked Seasons. Michael served as a poetry editor with
Rustlings of the Wind: http://wind.xephyrus.com/for over a year, until
the publisher decided to close the magazine after a five year run. e is a
poetry reviewer with the magazine Write-away-poetry:
http://www.write-away-poetry.org/ and the founder and co-editor of Adagio Verse
Quarterly: http://www.geocities.com/adagioversequarterly/Adagio_Verse_Quarterly.html
mailto:ladm664@bellsouth.net
Sharon Esther Lampert
Sharon Esther Lampert "My Life is an OPENBook, to KNOWMe is to
READMe" POETRY WORLD RECORD: Through the Eyes of Eve 120 rhymes from one
family of rhyme in a single poem:
Web Site Email: Sharon Esther Lampert http://www.stressstar.com http://www.poetryjewels.com http://www.poetryjewels.bigstep.com/generic.html?pid=4
http://judaism.about.com/library/holocaust/stories/uc_sharon.htm
Trevor Landers
Trevor Landers is a Lecturer in Communication at
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, having previously held teaching positions
in English and History at the Universitatei de Vest in Timisoara, Romania and
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He was a foundation
member of the World Postgraduate Association and a prominent postgraduate
activist in his native New Zealand. Trevor has been widely published,
most recently this month in Never Bury Poetry, Poetic Hours,
Pierian Springs and The Voice of the Turtle. He is also the Managing
Editor of the The Zealot Press. mailto:landers@paradise.net.nz
Gordon Ross Lanser
Ross Lanser has had six stories published in the
previous three years, most recently in Oasis and AlienSkin Magazine. He lives
in Seattle and works as a software specialist and technical writer. Email Ross Lanser
Ted Lardner
Wolf Larsen is the author of Eulogy for the Human Race,a
poetry collection, God and the Devil Dancing Through World War III Together,
a screenplay, YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEE! a poetry collection, Thrust! Lash!
Clamor!, a play, The Exclamation Point!,a run-on sentence, Slam!
Boom! Crash!,a novel, and Unalaska, Alaska,a novel. Eulogy for
the Human Race is now available at bookstores, at Amazon.com, or via his
web site (WolfLarsen.org). Other titles – including Slam! Boom! Crash!
are also available.
His work has been published in half-a-dozen literary magazines. He has been the featured poet at literary readings in New York City, Chicago, Lima, Peru, and Salvador, (Bahia) Brazil.
He is the editor of TheVolcano.org – the Internet's newest avant-garde arts
magazine. The Volcano combines wild painting and explosive poetry side-by-side
because the arts should be an exciting experience! Visit the most exciting
author's site on the World Wide Web:Wolf Larsen's Home Site Email: Wolf Larsen
Sean Lause
Sean Lause has published fiction in The Mid-American Review and
Liquid Ohio and poetry in Poetry International, Poetry Motel, Zillah, European
Judaism, Poetica, Ruah, Curbside Review, Rio, Mother Earth International,
Bathtub Gin, The Blue Collar Review, Struggle, Angel Face, ICON, Epicenter,
Paper Wasp and Frog Pond. He teaches Writing, Speech and a course in the
Holocaust at Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio. Email:
Sean
Lause
Marianne LaValle-Vincent
Marianne LaValle-Vincent, a first generation Italian-American, is a
native of Syracuse, New York. She is a published poet, writer and humorist. She
has won numerous literary contests and has achieved publication in such
magazines as Italiana Americana, The Birmingham Review, Poetry
Motel, Falling Star, 3 Cup Morning, and other special
publications through SUNY. Her credits and awards infiltrate the internet on
such web sites as Real Eight View, Ascent, Underground Window,
Dance with Words, , Word Riot, Zygote in My Coffee, Poetic
Diversity, and Writers on Line. Her first full length poetry
collection entitled American Lie is available in bookstores throughout
the country. Coverings (a chapbook) is now available through Foothills
Publishing. Marianne's second full length poetry collection 313's Child
made its debut in July, 2005.
Besides poetry, many of her short stories have been published, including
"Understanding Dad" in Chicken Soup for the Soul-Fathers and
Daughters. You can sample her humorous essays and articles on line at Long
Story Short, Boomer Women Speak and Cynic Online Magazine.
She was recently awarded a literary grant through Hill House Writers in
Nashville, TN., and is invited frequently to lecture at local universities and
libraries as well as making guest appearances on local radio and television
shows.
Marianne is the Poetry Editor for Szirine Magazine. She is also a
Copy Editor and feature writer for Moondance, a literary magazine
supporting creative women.
In another dimension, Marianne works as an administrative marketer and RN.
She still lives in Syracuse with her husband, Tim and 14 year old daughter,
Jess. Her greatest pleasure, after writing, is cooking and entertaining family
and friends.Email: Marianne
LaValle-Vincent
Linda A. Lavid
Linda A. Lavid hails from Buffalo, New York, where
she wrangles a writing life amid the detritus of making a living and keeping a
home that is, on rare occasions, totally clean. Besides being consumed,
beguiled and utterly frustrated with the craft of writing, she also marvels how
a family can survive on frozen dinners and the occasional stalk of broccoli. To
read more of her work, search 'linda a lavid' at www.google.com. There her ersatz, free, and, as
she puts it, shamelessly self-promoting webpages with links to The Southern
Cross Review, Plots With Guns, Wilmington Blues, and Over Coffee can
be found.
Albert Lawrence
Albert Lawrence was born and raised in Singapore. He has been a professional
musician for about ten years or more,but has quit the music industry to pursue
his writing interestsmore fully. Some of his works have appeared as Daily Poems
with the “AUSTRALIAN POETIC SOCIETY” on-line, as well as with “THE
CURIOUSRECORD-DARE TO SHARE! JOURNAL. (Print journal) June 2003 and Feb 2004.
(http://www.curiousrecord.com02.com) His hobbies are reading, teaching music,
collecting antique books, and sleeping with the muse. Email: Albert Lawrence
Sally K Lehman
Home Web Site
Email: Sally
K Lehman
Wesley L. Leigh
Wesley L. Leigh holds both a Baccalaureate in psychology as well as an M.D. degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. He currently serves as chief of ER at an Atlanta hospital and has worked as a stadium physician for the Atlanta Braves. During his undergraduate years, he self-published a Minority Premedical Guide (MPG) distributed to multiple California State and Community college campuses. In the past year, his work has been published in Things That Go Bump, an anthology, Wild Violet, an online literary magazine, and is forthcoming in BIGnews, a publication with a circulation of 30, 000. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America. Email Wesley L. Leigh
Scott Leslie
Scott Leslie has been lucky enough to lie his way
into several publications including Opium Magazine, McSweeney's, Forget
Magazine, Planet Magazine, Twilight Times , Grimm Magazine,
The Crime Scene, and The New Quarterly. Scott has worn several
hats in the publishing, theatre and advertising fields. He's hoping the
storyteller hat will fit just right. E-mail
Scott Leslie
Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
April Cottage, 9 The Green, Clophill, Beds MK45
4AD, UK
NIGEL LESMOIR-GORDON was born in Cambridge in 1943.
He was educated at St. Faith's, Cambridge and Oundle School.
Nigel began writing while still a student and
subsequently published poems and short stories in the UK, the USA and in
France. He toured the UK performing at poetry and poetry & jazz readings
with the New Departures Group. Nigel's interest in film took him to the London
School of Film Technique in 1969.
From film school he joined the industry as a
trainee editor working on TV commercials, then moved to the BBC as an editor,
cutting dramas and documentaries.
Nigel formed his first production company, Green
Back Films in 1976 with the partners of the record sleeve design company,
Hipgnosis. They worked on music promotions for Donovan, Pink Floyd, 10cc,
Squeeze, Rainbow, Joe Cocker, Big Country, Wings and Paul
Young, producing ground-breaking and award-winning commercials and videos
He later joined the creative team at the Central
Office of Information, writing and directing for the international TV
documentary series This Week in Britain and Living Tomorrow. Nigel is
recognised for his ability to make difficult and technical subjects accessible
through his exciting and thought-provoking films. His most outstanding work
includes an acclaimed series of films for the UK's Royal Air Force and Royal Navy,
SAVING THE CHILDREN, a television documentary on women who work for children's'
charities. He also directed The Bobby Charlton Story, Reflections, Satguru,
Rainbow - Live Between The Eyes and the series Whatever You Want for the UK's
Channel Four.
GORDON FILMS UK was formed in 1995 to produce the
award-winning television documentary THE COLOURS OF INFINITY, presented by Sir
Arthur C. Clarke with music by David Gilmour on the discovery of the Mandelbrot
Set and the development of Fractal Geometry. COLOURS has thus far been
broadcast in over twenty territories world-wide, including in the UK - on
Channel Four.
Following from THE COLOURS OF INFINITY Nigel has
produced and directed IS GOD A NUMBER? This television documentary looks at the
mystery of consciousness and some remarkable discoveries that have recently
been made in mathematics. He has also produced and directed a biographical
broadcast documentary on the life of the mathematician, Benoît Mandelbrot.
Nigel has just completed directing a feature film,
REMEMBER A DAY, for Madcap Productions.
Nigel's
first book, INTRODUCING FRACTAL GEOMETRY was published by ICON BOOKS in
November 2000. E-mail: gordonfilms@compuserve.com
Lance Levens
Robert Edward Levin
Robert Edward Levin is the author of the 1998
thriller, The Lizard and the Fly, and co-author of About Face, a novel
scheduled for publication in 2003. His most recent work, The Glass Heart,
a collection of stories and such, was released in September 2002. In addition
his stories, essays and
poetry have appeared in several print and online
magazines. mailto:robert@robertedwardlevin.com
D.F. Lewis
Visit the DF Lewis websites on:
http://www.redsine.com/archives/two/featured.html
http://www.dowse.com/classical-music.html
http://www.egroups.com/group/veils_and_piques
Anthony Liccione
Anthony Liccione is from Upstate New York and has been writing poetry for over ten years. He has recently won the 2006 LizaBeth Poetry Award and Unscrambled Eggs Poetry Contest, and was nominated "Best Tragic Poem" and "Best Poem of the Year 2005" (Muses Review). He released a chapbook Parched and Colorless with The Moon Publishing, and a full-volume book of poems Back Words and Forward. The American Author’s Association has given, Back Words and Forward, its highest rating--5 stars and Silver Medal Award for Poetry for 2005. Email: Anthony Liccione
Paul Liddy
Email: Paul Liddy
Joseph Lisowski
From 1986 to 1996, Joseph Lisowski was Professor
of English at the University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas. He is now
teaching at Mercyhurst College North East along the often frigid shores of Lake
Erie. His chapbook of poems, Letters to Wang Wei, along with two essays has
recently been published in Words on a Wire. His chapbook of poems, After
Death's Silence is now available from 2River View. Other work may be seen on
line in Niederngasse, Kota Press Journal, Thunder Sandwich, the Hold, The
Eclipse, Poet's Canvas, New World Poetry, 2River View, Wired Art for Wired
Hearts, The Cortland Review, Serpentine, and other fine mags. He is currently
poetry editor of New Works Review.
Sue Littleton
Sue Littleton has been writing for 50 years. Her experiences come from a sheep ranch in West Texas to the sophisticated capital of Argentina, and from 18 years in Buenos Aires to Austin,Texas.
A college education is a wonderful thing. She graduated at age 57. Her
poetry returned to her with intense joy and a range unknown before the
mind-dazzling experiences of undergraduate studies. Email: Sue Littleton
Rebecca Lloyd
Rebecca Lloyd began writing short stories for publication in
1999. Her work has appeared in Mslexia and Quality Women’s Fiction in the UK,
Danforth Review in Canada and in Carriage House Review in Atlanta, USA.
Most of her stories are about misfits bewildered by life’s expectations and trapped in their own limitations. Some of the stories could be described as psychological horror and others as magic realism, but together they do not fall clearly into any established genre.
She works full-time running a project for a charity in London and taught a
six-week short story writing course in the evenings for her local library in
2003. At present she is working on an anthology of short stories involving
curious relationships, and contributes as a short story expert for Writewords
Writers’ Community. Rebecca Lloyd
Alex Lobera
Alex Lobera was born in Canada, and works as a physician in El Paso, Texas. He takes post-graduate bilingual Creative Writing courses at the University of Texas at El Paso and has been published in BorderSenses, a local literary magazine. He is 36 years old, married, and has three children. Email Alex Lobera
Duane Locke
E
mail: duanelocke@netzero.net
Duane
Locke, Doctor of Philosophy in English Renaissance literature, Professor Emeritus
of the Humanities, was Poet in Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20
years. Has had over 2,000 of his own poems published in over 500 print
magazines such as American Poetry Review, Nation, Literary Quarterly, Black
Moon, and Bitter Oleander. Is author of 14 print books of poems, the latest is
WATCHING WISTERIA ( to order write Vida Publishing, P.O. Box 12665, Lake, Park,
FL. 33405-0665, or Amazon or Barnes and Noble). Since September 1999, he became
a cyber poet and started submitting on-line, and since September 1999 he has
added to his over 2,000 print acceptances with 1,394 acceptances by e zines.
He is also a painter. Now has exhibitions at
Thomas Center Galleries (Gainesville, FL) and Tyson Trading Company (Micanopy,
FL) Recently a one-man show at Pyramid Galleries (Tampa, FL)
Also, a photographer, has had 116 of his photos
selected for appearance on e zines. He photographs trash in alleys. Moves in
close to find beauty in what people have thrown away.
He now lives alone in a two-story decaying house
in the sunny Tampa slums. He lives isolated and estranged as an alien, not
understanding the customs, the costumes, the language (some form of postmodern
English) of his neighbors. The egregious ugliness
Of his neighborhood has recently been mitigated by
the esthetic efforts of the police force who put bright orange and yellow
posters on the posts to advertise the location is a shopping mall for drugs.
His alley is the dumping ground for stolen cars. One advantage
Of living in this neighborhood, if your car is
stolen, you can step out in the back and pick it up. Also, the burglars are
afraid to come in on account of the muggers.
His recreational activities are drinking wine,
listening to old operas, and reading postmodern philosophy.]
Craig M. Logan
Craig M. Logan attends Central Michigan University, and is currently studying creative writing. He has been writing for a few years now, and is eager to be published. Email: Craig M. Logan
Bret Lynn
Bret Lynn has published a couple poems in college in Middle Tennessee University's creative magazine. He has been writing on and off for years,as a hobby. He pays the bills through his employment in the health-care field as a Respiratory Therapist. He hails from way down south in Texas. Email: Bret Lynn
Eric Maisel
Eric Maisel is the author of Fearless Creating,
The Creativity Book, Deep Writing, A Life in the Arts, and
many other books for creators. His latest book is Sleep Thinking: The
Revolutionary Program That Helps You Solve Problems, Reduce Stress, and
Increase Creativity While You Sleep. It is available at Maisel's two web
sites, http://www.sleepthinking.com and http://ericmaisel.com
or wherever books are sold.
Prasenjit Maiti
Dr Prasenjit Maiti (1971-) pmaiti@vsnl.com is a political scientist by
occupation and a writer by compulsion! His print (and forthcoming) credits
include 2River View, Blue Collar Review, Brittle Star, Carillon, Circle,
Concrete Wolf, DINER, Dwan, Famous Reporter, Green Queen, GW Review, Harlequin,
Hermes, Homestead Review, Janus Head, Konfluence, Lummox, Micropress Oz, Monkey
Kettle, Nightingale, nomad, Paper Wasp, PEEKS & Valleys, Phoenix, Poetic
Licence, Poetry Church, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Poetry Greece, Poetry Scotland,
Porcupine, Promise, Pulsar, Quercus Review, RATTLE, Red Lamp, Reflections,
Skald, Skyline, SOUTH, SpinningS, The Journal, Writer_s Muse and Xtan.
Dr Prasenjit Maiti (1971-) pmaiti@vsnl.com
Ex-Research Associate, Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
(1999) and former Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Burdwan,
India. Dr Maiti_s publication based on his doctoral research into contemporary
West Bengal politics _Problems of Governance in India since Independence: The
Bengal Success Story_ http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no24225.htm (New Delhi:
Vedams, 2002) developed from a project sponsored by the South Asia Institute of
the University of Heidelberg, Germany and examines, among related concerns,
problems of neo-institutionalism, civic engagement, good governance and social
capital in postcolonial federal democratic polities. He was invited to the
_International Conference on Federalism 2002_ organized by the Swiss Government
at the University of St. Gallen. Dr Maiti has contributed to academic journals
in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia. He regularly contributes to the Forum of
Federations bulletin published from Canada.
Scott Malby
Scott Malby has been featured on numerous sites, in anthologies and
collections both in the U.S. and abroad. He has a poor memory and quirky sense
of humor. Honesty, compassion and caring represent examples of his foibles. If
something isn't fun, he won't do it. He lives in Coos Bay, Oregon, a fishing
community on the Central Oregon Coast. He is an essayist, columnist and
reviewer as well as a poet. Currently, he is in the final planning stages
regarding a new small press imprint. New work will be out soon in Wounded
Pulse, The Other Side of the Ragged Edge, Muse Apprentice Guild, Dream People,
Blaze Vox and other places.
Email: Scott
Malby
Barbara Malley
Barbara Malley "Sarah's Game" was inspired by Barbara's disabled daughter's description of a game her step-daughter had invented. A book, Take My Ex-Husband, Please--But Not Too Far, was published by Little Brown in 1991. A number of tongue-in-cheek articles appeared in boating and flying magazines in the 50s and 60s. She has also published two activity books for children, based on the whimsical verses of her mother, Ernestine Cobern Beyer. A third, Read Me a Rhyme, Please, was accepted by Humanics and is in the works. Email: Barbara Malley
Kelly Ann Malone
Kelly Ann Malone has been writing since she was around twelve years
old. Some of her poetic influences are Ogden Nash, Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Teasdale, Dickinson, Billy Collins and Dorothy Parker to name a few. Some of
her published credits include North Carolina University's Presses Free-Verse
Magazine, Poems Niederngasse, Albany University's Offcourse Literary
Journal, Temple University's Schuylkill Creative and Critical Review,
Duke University's Voices Journal, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Muse
Apprentice Guild Literary Magazine, York University's School of Women's Studies
Journal, The Permanente Journal of the Arts and Medicine", Ars Medica, A
Journal of Medicine, The Arts, and Humanities-Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Canada and The Pittsburgh Quarterly.
Email: Kelly
Ann Malone
Berardo Manari
Berardo Manari holds an MFA from NYU and has been published in Harrington’s Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly and Quills. He lives in Toronto and is at work on a novel. Email: Berardo Manari
Joy H. Mann
Joy Mann has been publishing for several years in
the print media, in such magazines as Amelia, Cosmic Unicorn, Bardic Runes and
On Spec. She published a story in Jackhammer in March and in 13thStory in
April, and had a fantasy posted at Storyteller UK. This is all such a kick for
her. She loves the speed, even of rejection. When not writing she runs a junk
store. Box 168, Spencerville, Ont., K0E-1X0 Canada
Dan Manning
Dan Manning lives in Grand Rapids, MI with his wife and kids. He
writes fantasy and science fiction and sends them out to magazines all the
time. His last book, "The Adventures on The Sheherazad" had a chrome
robot in it. Email: Dan
Manning
Aoife Mannix
Aoife Mannix is an Irish poet based in London. Her first full
collection of poetry 'The Elephant In The Corner' was published in July 2005 by Tall Lighthouse. Her work has been published in the
anthologies Velocity (the best of Apples and Snakes), Short Fuse: The Global
Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, Kin, The Message Within, Inclement Anthology,
Twilight Road, The Book of Hope, In Our Own Words, 100 Poets Against The War
and Gargoyle as well as numerous magazines. Her poetry has also been broadcast
on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, London Live, Resonance FM, and the BBC World
Service. She was the 2001 Farrago London Slam! champion. She won first prize in
the Arts Angels Poetry Competition 2002 and the 1998 Dr Marten's New Writers
Competition.
Her first poetry collection 'The Elephant in the Corner' is now available
from www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk. You can also check out some of my writing on Spoiled Ink.
Email: Aoife
Mannix
Melody Mansfield
Melody Mansfield"s first novel, The Life Stone
of Singing Bird, was published in 1996 by Faber and Faber to favorable reviews
by the New York Times, Booklist, and others. She has also been lucky with short
fiction, essays, and poems, and most recently, with her bug stories. This story
is her fifth published bug story. She is working toward a Bug Collection. Melody Mansfield
Jim Manton
James Manton has traveled extensively throughout
the United States, in the early years throughout the western US, to several
winters working with a seismic crew in Alaska, and most recently to England and
New Zealand. His early enthusiasm as a writer was interrupted in the mid 1980s
with Lotus 123 and his first PC. DOS was soon conquered, then C. He became a
consultant, moving around quickly, gaining skills. Windows was the next hurdle followed
by object oriented C++ and Delphi, XML and Oracle. He lives in Dallas and is a
software developer for an Internet company in Hawaii and New York. The first
two chapter of his novel in progress, MicroMan, was a finalist in the Santa Fe
Writers Project.
Cynthia Marie
Cynthia Marie: Is an NYC poet and artist, a 30+
student of English Literature and the editor of a tiny poetry journal Femme. CY2000607747059@aol.com
Simon Maslin
Simon Maslin is a writer and cynical journalist of
the human condition who has published short fiction and poetry in several
international electronic publications. He has also released a novel and several
other books through his own imprint Lulu's. He plays a mean
blues guitar, lives in Southern England and interfaces with the universe
largely through Maslin
Books. Email Simon Maslin
Susan Maurer's literary past includes By the Blue Light of the
Morning Glory Linear Arts. Clamshell Press did a letterpress broadside Three
Poems by Susan Maurer) as has The Centre for Book Arts (Longing) She
has been in over 0ne hundred journals and anthologies in 10 countries. Some
journals are Literary Imagination, Cross Connect, Virginia Quarterly Review,
Orbis,The Unbearables' Help Yourself, Autonomedia, and Soft Skull's Off the
Cuffs.
She has been nominated fro a Pushcart by three editors and has read at various venues such as Barnes and Noble, New York Public Library and Harvard Coop. Email: Susan Maurer
Edward T. May
Edward T. May graduated from the University of
Colorado in 1981 with a B. S. degree in Aerospace Engineering. After twelve
years in the engineering profession he felt a change was in order and has since
become a substitute teacher and writer. His stories broach a variety of genres
including science fiction, horror, mystery and fantasy. He is the author of Bridge
of Sighs and Other Stories and Come October… Both books are
available from iuniverse.com. The author’s e-mail address is: may0089@attglobal.net
D.L. Mayhew
D.L. Mayhew is a professional musician who writes
music, and writes about music whenever possible. Her poetry, essays, and
fiction have been published in "Short Stories Bimonthly", "The
Paterson Literary Review", "Exponent II", "Orphic
Lute", "Sensations", and "Without Halos". She is
currently writing her second novel. dlm909@yahoo.com
Brent McCafferty
Brent McCafferty has had poems published in The Teacher's Selection Anthology of Poetry, The Quarry, and The Indented Pillow. He is a 21-year-old BA English graduate of St. Olaf College, and is currently applying to graduate programs in Creative Writing. For the next year, he will be working at Montana State University in his hometown, Great Falls, Montana. Email: Brent McCafferty
William Matthew McCarter
William Matthew McCarter holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies and a Master's in Liberal Arts. He is currently enrolled in a PhD program at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has published his work in both tradition print magazines and online publications. His most recent publications have been in Wilmington Blues and The Indite Circle. mailto:william_matthew_mccarter@hotmail.com
Fred Meissner
Fred Meissner has a few publishing credits to his name; they include:
Pierian Spring, 1984; the Alberta Poetry Yearbook, 1983, 1985, 1986, and 1988
(in which he was awarded the “Jessie Drummond Boyd Prize” and an award for
“Haiku—Adult Winner”); Online, 1987/88, 1989, 1990; Daybreak, 1985; Egorag 15,
1991; Voices from the Yellow House, 1992; and, most recently, he read a number
of his poems at the Eden Mills Fringe Festival, 2003.
Hmmm,” you might be mulling, “he’s published a few poems ages ago in periodicals no longer printed and then pirouetted (for the sake of alliteration) out of the proverbial picture.” True, but a brief biographical sketch might help fill in the gaps:
1980 – 1990: Graduated high school; worked as a labourer in a rubber factory; married, started a family; read Nowlan, Purdy, Webb, Eliot’s Four Quartets, and decided he needed to go to school; earned his B.A. (Honours English) from UofW; went to teachers college.
1991 – 2005: Taught English (and now teach Special Ed.) at EDSS; raised his family; read Kroetsch, Borges, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and decided he needed to keep writing and to try (as cummings suggested) “to be nobody but [him]self”; wrote a lot.
2006: Thought that he'd like to put some new stuff out there.
Email: Fred
Meissner
Karyna McGlynn is a writer and photographer living in
Seattle. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Wisconsin Review,
Poetry Salzburg Review, Plainsongs, No Exit, The Paumanok Review & Lummox
Journal. Ms. McGlynn is a four-time member of the National Poetry Slam Team and
the editor of Screaming Emerson Press. She attends the creative writing program
at Seattle University and teaches performance poetry at the University of
Washington Experimental College. Her newest chapbook is entitled The July
Poems. Karyna McGlynn
Melita McHarlin
IMelitaam lives in Las Vegas, enjoying the 24 hour
atmosphere. It's a Disneyland for adults, who could ask for more. Writing,
reading, movies and select video games are her time wasters.
Education? Yeah, She’s got enough for now. That's not to say that
she’s done learning. Life is good, and will no doubt get better.
Michael Meagher
Michael
Meagher is 21 years old and attends Carleton University in Ottawa, taking
English and Philosophy. He has been writing for at least 2 or 3 years,
and is presently working on a novel: He finds that his strength is in his
prose. Finally, he has published 2 poems in the magazine, "In
Words", a publication of Carleton University.
mailto:mikemeagherpi2@yahoo.ca
Corey Mesler
Corey Mesler has published prose and/or poetry in Rattle, Canopic Jar, Contrary, Pindeldyboz, Mars Hill Review, Pikeville Review, Arkansas Review, Center, Small Press Review, Jabberwock Review, Orchid, uick Fiction, Timber Creek Review, Green Egg, Poetry Motel, Raintown Review, Potomac Review, Poetry Super Highway, Big Muddy, Slant, Wilmington Blues, Drought, Rockhurst Review, Wavelength, Lilliput Review, Pearl, Aurorean, Lucid Moon, Heeltap, Sunny Outside, Fish Drum, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Mid-American Poetry Review, Independence Boulevard, Midday Moon, Turnrow, Now Here Nowhere, Dust, Cherotic Revolutionary, Cotyledon, Buckle &, Iodine, Snakeskin (England), Flashpoint, Freewheelin’ (England), Pitchfork, Anthology, Poet Lore, Spillway, The Pegasus Review, Reverb, Kimera, Thema, Kumquat Meringue, Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, Both Sides Now, Electric Acorn.
He recently won the Moonfire Poetry Chapbook Competition and his chapbook,
Chin-Chin in Eden, has just been published by Still Waters Press. One of his
short stories was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South:
The Year’s Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel. His novel-in-dialogue, Talk, was
published by Livingston Press in 2002. Raves from Lee Smith, Robert Olen
Butler, Steve Stern, Debra Spark, Suzanne Kingsbury, Frederick Barthelme and
John Grisham. He has been a book reviewer (for The Commercial Appeal, BookPage,
The Memphis Flyer), fiction editor (for Ion Books/raccoon), university press
sales rep, grant committee judge (for The Oregon Arts Council), father and son.
With my wife I own Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and
best independent bookstores.Email:
Corey
Mesler
Richard E. Messer
Richard E. Messer grew up in Glenwood Springs, a
small town in the Colorado Rockies and earned his Ph. D. at the University of
Denver. He has pursued post-graduate work in Analytical Psychology at the C. G.
Jung Institute in Zurich. A poet, fiction writer, and literary critic, he has
made his living by teaching at various colleges. His poetry and fiction have
appeared in The Nation, Psychlogical Perspectives, The Sun, The Black Warrior
Review and many other magazines. In 1995 his book of prose and poetry, Murder
in the Family, was published by Bottom Dog Press.
Hollie Messinger
Hollie Messinger currently resides in Lincoln, Nebraska. Recently she has moved home from Oregon. She is a retail advertising consultant for the Lincoln Journal Star. In her past, she dabbled with poetry and art journals and has decided it is time to get out there again into the literary world. A recent visit to a local reading by Ted Kooser inspired her. Ascent Aspirations Magazine also inspires her. Email: Hollie Messinger
Richard Meyers
Richard Meyers was active in the Berkeley, California,
Civil Rights and the free speech movement of the early sixties. He went to
India to serve in the Peace Corps for two years after which he continued in
India, Central and South East Asia for another four years working as a teacher
of English. Later in Europe and the United States he helped develop Alternative
and Co-Operative communities. Participating in many aspects of spiritual
community organizing, he contributed to a number of works in Journalism, Film
and Fiction Publications. His short stories have been published in Moondance:
Song and Story, Kenagain, Web del Sol, InPosse Review, Spinnings and SFSalvo.
He has published two volumes of his collected poetry, The Journey's Loom and
Striptease of the Soul through Gondarva Press. His poetry has appeared in
numerous journals and anthologies. His other works include the novels The
Journey That Never Was Made, Alms For Oblivion, Under Indian Skies and A Maze
for Infidels. Prolific in all genres, his short stories, essays and plays
include Rivers of Babylon, Dark Rituals and Last Train to Simla. Currently he
teaches English at City College of San Francisco. E-mail Richard Meyers
Grant Miller
Igrant Miller is a former U. S. Army Infantryman
turned corporate drone, so he has a lot of time to dream. Since becoming
serious about his craft, he has had two stories published in e-zines:
"Locus of Control" (Science Fiction) in Eclipse Magazine (http://eclipsemagazine.tripod.com/),September
2001 and "Master Bedroom" (Horror) in Dark Moon Rising (http://www.darkmoonrising.com/),
November 2001.
Hillary Miller
Hillary Miller is currently an undergraduate Political Science
student at Simon Fraser University. She has written as long as she can
remember, and hopes one day to be a professional writer. Email: Hillary Miller
Shaela Montague-Phillips
Shaela Montague-Phillips, author of Chanting The
Flowers Off The Wall, is currently majoring in English. She is also a regular
submitter to Da' Ghetto Tymz [a Pan-Africanism Magazine] since 1994, published
in Shirazad Magazine. Shaela attended at The Pennsylvania Governor's School For
The Arts, Carlow College Summer Arts Program, and Slippery Rock University. She
has also won numerous awards in poetry including Honorable Mention twice in The
Black History Essay Contest sponsored by The Chamber of Commerce. Poeticshae@aol.com
Guido Monte
Guido Monte was born in 1962. His books and translations have been published by the Italian houses Nuova Ipsa, Rubbettino and Ed. Della Battaglia. He teaches Italian and Latin literatures at the Liceo "A. Einstein" of Palermo. In his most recent works (for example: Words Without Borders ), he employs linguistic blending in the search for new and deeper relations between different cultures. Liliana Lo Giudice, High School language teacher, occasionally helps Monte to translate his multilingual experiments. Email: Guido Monte
Sara Moore
Sara Moore is a recent graduate of Bowling Green State University. She has a bachelor's in creative writing with a minor in philosophy. She reads in excess. She likes dogs, but not particularly cats (unless they are male). She has five younger siblings and deeply believes that she suffers from the disastrous disease known as the "oldest child syndrome". Email: Sara Moore
Gordon Moyer
Gordon Moyer is a painter, poet, essayist, and historian of science
living in Tucson, Arizona. He has published poetry in Blue Unicorn,
The Baltimore Review, Potomac Review, Babel, Xanadu,
and many other literary journals. Some of Moyer's scientific and mathematical
articles have appeared in Sky and Telescope, Scientific American,
and Quantum. Currently, Moyer is teaching himself tensor analysis and
composing a book of aphorisms.
e-mail:
didusineptus@aol.com
Christopher Mulrooney
Julie Ngo
Julie Ngo is a high school student in her third
year, doesn't consider herself an accomplished writer by any means, and only
submitted her work because a certain English teacher asked her to. Julie was
born in and currently lives in Toronto, with her over-protective, but indulgent
family. She enjoys reading, playing all sports (except ones she hasn't tried
yet, such as wrestling, boxing and cricket), playing (but not performing or
practicing) the piano, and sleeping in boring classes at school. She recently
wrote a novella for a class in school, which she enjoyed, but doesn't think
she'd like to try it again, since staying up until four in the morning yelling
at her computer monitor sort of scared her. Julie appreciates anything written
by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and other classical writers,
the Harry Potter series, and romance novels. She is a part-time lifeguard,
swimming instructor, camp counsellor, and piano teacher, and is trying very hard
to persuade her parents to buy her a car for her birthday. Julie is obsessed
with the greatest show on Earth, The X-Files, and challenges anybody to
disagree with her opinions of the show. Favourite quote? Duh.
"The
Truth Is Out There..." Julie can be reached by E-mail at:
Melinda Neeley
Melinda Neeley is a
freelance writer from Morrilton, Arkansas, with a degree in journalism. Her published writings include feature articles
in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
(a state newspaper), straight news and feature articles in the Log Cabin Democrat (a local Conway,
AR, newspaper), and poetry in a regional publication titled, Reflections, a
Poetry Quarterly. She has also served as editor of several local
newsletter publications and has been a publications assistant for an
accredited university. Currently, she
and her husband run their own construction firm and she writes for pleasure.
yellowhammer@tcworks.net
Martina Reisz Newberry is the author of LIMA BEANS AND CITY
CHICKEN: MEMORIES OF THE OPEN HEARTH—a memoir of my father—published by
E.P. Dutton and Co. in 1989. (A chapter from the above-mentioned book was
published in Cosmopolitan Magazine in January 1988.) She is also the author of THE
STAR JASMINE CLUB—AN ADULT FABLE, a novel purchased by E.P. Dutton &
Co. in 1991.
She was the winner of i.e. magazine’s Editor’s Choice Poetry Chapbook Prize for 1998: AN APPARENT, APPROACHABLE LIGHT. She has written four novels and several books of poetry and has been widely published in literary magazines such as: 5 AM, Amelia, Bellingham Review, Black Buzzard Review, Cape Rock, Connecticut Poetry Review, Context South, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Hob Nob, i.e.,Innisfree, Iowa Woman, New Laurel Review, Passages North, Piedmont Literary Review, Snake Nation Review, Sonora Review, Southern Review of Poetry, Touchstone, Willow Review ,Women's Work, and many others.
She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry by poet Andrew Hudgins
Scheduled for publication in 2005: Running Like a Woman With Her Hair on Fire/Poetry by Martina Reisz Newberry; Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, CA
She has had residencies at Yaddo, Djerassi, and Anderson Center colonies for the arts. She lives in Hollywood with her husband, Brian and her cat, Gato. She is happier than any one has any right to be.
Email: Martina Reisz Newberry
Stanley M Noah
Stanley M Noah has a degree from the Univ. of Texas at Dallas and is a member of The Academy of American Poets. He has published poems in the following: "Poesy," "Poetry Depth Quarterly," "Old Red Kimono" and other small presses. Been writing for four years. Email: Stanley M Noah
Sandra Novack is an award-winning short story writer whose work has appeared in Descant, Mississippi Review, Paterson Literary Review, Northwest Review, North Dakota Quarterly, South Carolina Review, and Gulf Coast, among many others. Her collection, Love and Other Disasters, was a finalist in both the Spokane Prize and the Tartt Contest. She holds an MA in Literature and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College. She has taught at Duke University, NC State, the University of Cincinnati and on-line at writers.com. Email Sandra Novack
Teresa Nyenhuis is 26 years old, lives in Ontario and writes poetry
mainly as diary entries. Sometimes she believes that she has something to say,
and perhaps she says in eloqently, and at other times she says she might as
well be mute. Comments from people who will not see her chin quiver are
welcome.
Email: Teresa Nyenhuis
Trisha Ofstedal
Trisha Ofstedal
has been creating fiction since even before she learned the alphabet.
After a reckless and painful adolescence, she began a wandering migration
toward happiness that included fulfilling her ever-persistent dream of becoming
a writer. While she has found happiness, she still wanders and enjoys the
plethora of inspiration it provides for her writing. She currently lives/writes
in Ohio surrounded by her rowdy family and variety of even rowdier house pets. Email Trisha Ofstedal
Erin Ondersma
Email:
Erin
Ondersma
Ryan O’Rourke
Email:
Ryan
O'Rourke
Louise Ostling
Louise Osting was born and raised in Sweden. She
lived there until she was nineteen when she moved to the United States to
pursue her education. She is currently a freelancing journalist and a tennis
coach in El Paso. She has just finished her MFA degree in creative writing at
the University of Texas at El Paso. She has previously published short stories
in CrossConnect and BorderSenses. She is a regular contributor to The El Paso
Times, What"s Up, and Sun Tennis. louiseostling@hotmail.com
Laurence Overmire
Laurence Overmire is an American
actor/director/writer who has worked on stage, film and television. His poetry
has been or will be published in "Kimera," "The Penwood
Review," "Nuthouse," "Lynx Eye," "Emotions,"
"Angelflesh," "Maelstrom," "The Laire,"
"Uprising," "Office Number One," "Superior Poetry
News," "Main Street Rag Poetry Journal," "Children,
Churches and Daddies," "The Gentle Survivalist," "Short
North Gazette," "Nomad's Choir," "Improvijazzation
Nation," "The Writer's Exchange," "Over the Back Fence
Magazine," "Niederngasse," "Apples and Oranges,"
"Pegasus," "Blind Man's Rainbow," Wings,"
"L'Intrigue," "Mobius," "Footprints," "Vol.
No. Magazine," "Some Words," "Shadyvale Magazine,"
"Transcendant Visions," "Art Villa," "Bonfire,"
"Ygdrasil," "Aileron," "Barbaric Yawp,"
"Webstatic," "Seeker Magazine," "Ixion,"
"Unlikely Stories," "Poetry in the Light,"
"Horsethief's Journal," "Avalon," "Mind Fire Poetry
Journal," "Burn," "ArtsFusion," "Manx
Fiction," "Eclectica," "ShallowEND," "Carved in
Sand," "The Courtship of Winds," "Psychopetica" and
others.
Steve D. Owen
Steve D. Owen's writing is based upon the seedy underbelly of the American dream/reality -- especially that of the dysfunctional family. Having grown up in and barely escaped his own abusive family environment, and having worked as a counselor with emotionally disturbed (abused) children for (going) on four years now -- he has a lot to share with our society in regards to what really goes on...and shouldn't.
However, he also looks into the polluted pot of politics and religion -
national, international, historical -- and enjoys tearing apart the paradigms
of any scared cow. His goal is to be truly non-biased and intellectually
honest. Email:
Steve D.
Owen
Carl Palmer
Carl Palmer author of "Telling Stories", is well known at
open mikes in the Puget Sound region of the Pacific Northwest for his flash
fiction and poetry. He lives the good life in University Place, Washington.
Carl's works have appeared in Ascent Aspirations, Möbius, The
Poetry Magazine, Lucidity, , Pennine Ink and Tales of the
Talisman Magazine. Email: Carl Palmer
Terese Pampellonne
Terese Pampellonne's work has been published in The Colorado Review, Caprice, New Works Review, Flying Horse and Wired Art. Her first novel, The Unwelcome Child, will be published this December by Kensington. "Driving Miss Diane", is one of the stories from her collection Ten Ways to Kill Your Mother. Email Terese Pampellonne
Ben Passikoff
Ben Passikoff is a retired engineer. His poems have appeared in The
Quarterly Review of Literature, the Atlanta, Harvard, Kennesaw, Sarah Lawrence
and Texas Reviews, Literal Latte, Orbis, Pedestal Magazine and a truckload of
other journals. His pursuits are poetry and survival. Email: Ben
Passikoff
Ele Pawelski
Ele Pawelski is presently on a human rights posting in
Uzbekistan. She diligently continues to avoid mentioning her twinness to acquaintances
and colleagues. In her free time, Ele writes and edits articles on human rights
themes, and on pursuing a non-traditional legal career. She misses Canada
greatly and travels home twice a year to visit her sister, family and friends. E-mail Ele Pawelski
Bryn Pearson (Colvin)
Bryn
Pearson operates Hollow Hills, a small online publisher selling unconventional
fiction. bryn@hollowhills.fsnet.co.uk
Stephen Perry
Steven F.
Perry
Institut
fuer Zoologie
Universitaet
Bonn
Poppelsdorfer
Schloss
53115 Bonn,
Germany
http://www.zoologie.uni-bonn.de/Morphologie&Systematik/index.htm
Mark Phillips
Joe, C. Picciuolo
Joe
Picciuolo's work has been published in Aboriginal Science Fiction, Argonaut,
Eclipse, Lite, Lost Worlds, Midnight Zoo, Paper Radio, Rosebud, The Silver Web,
Skylark, Space and Time, and Vision. redbank@lycos.com
Shamek Pietucha
Shamek Pietucha made up his name in grade 2 because no one could say the original polish(przemyslaw)correctly. He moved to Canada in 1982 and tried to make life as interesting as possible. He has been to the olympics and has been to medical school. Currently he is traveling to Bali for the last tranquil moment that he needs before starting on the next sojourn of this life in the big city of Toronto.
He loves to swim, dance, paint light bulbs and imagine. He has been
practicing the written word for nearly 15 years now and it makes him rich. One
night he had a dream that he was a samurai warrior. For him that is what it is
all about – making living simple again – "Let me kick ass, jump,kick and
glide on trees – peacefully"
Email: Shamek Pietucha
Michael Pilola
Michael Pilola earned his degree in Creative Writing
last year from Virginia Tech, where he received the Fiction Award for his body of
writing as a student. Over the past three years, he has published several poems
and one piece of short fiction, "Driving Self Destruction," in the
Brush Mountain Review, a small circuit magazine run by the English Students'
Society of Virginia Tech. He currently resides in Hampton Roads, Virginia,
drinking ridiculous amounts of coffee, writing stories about people he observes
at Denny's, and working towards admission into an MFA program in the near
future. Email Michael Pilola
Paul Pinn
Michael Powers
Michael Powers lives in Boynton Beach, Florida, and has been published in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Poems Niederngasse, and Entropy Magazine. Email: Michael Powers
Alan David Pritchard
Email: Alan
David Pritchard
Richard L. Provencher
Richard L. Provencher was born Sept. 10, 1942 in Rouyn-Noranda,
Quebec. He developed a love of the outdoors through hiking and camping trips
with the Boy Scouts at Swinging Hills. "You spend so much time in the
outdoors, you're going to turn into a tree," his father said.
Richard whetted his appetite for adventure by hitchhiking across most of Canada in 1962. Then worked for the Ontario government in James & Hudson Bays, later earning the title of chess champ in 1967. And wrote his first story about Al Comfort, a friend who drowned in the Moose River.
He developed a background for story material with positions as a Miner, News Reporter, Court Worker, Welfare Case Worker, Social Assistance Administrator and Home for Aged Administrator. In between busy career moves, he began to write poetry and his favourite poets became Raymond Souster, a friend and Archibald Lampman, who wrote wonderful imagery.
Richard is very proud to be associated with WFNS, and to have been a Writer in the Schools for eight years, before his stroke in 1999. He also cherishes being part of a poetry reading at Dalhousie University, and a public reading of his stories at the Truro, Colchester Regional Museum.
His first Poetry Chapbook, In the Light of Day is now available at Mercutio Press in Montreal. He has many stories and poems in print and online with various journals, such as Cold Glass, PusanWeb, Danforth Review, Jones Av, Windsor Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, VLQ, Poems Neiderngasse, Expressions of Soul, Utmost Christian Writers and Friends, a short story collection for schools, published by Rubicon Publishing Inc.
He continues to write in all venues, and seeks publication for his poetry, juvenile and one adult novel-books. Richard and his wife, Esther, live in Truro, Nova Scotia. They have four children and five grandchildren. Federation of Nova Scotia Writers Email: Richard L. Provencher
Jayne Pupek
Jayne Pupek holds an MA in Psychology and lives near Richmond, VA. Her
fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous online and print publications,
including 2River, Wicked Alice, 3am, Ghoti, Dead Mule, and others.
"Primitive," her chapbook of poetry, is available from Pudding House
Press. Jayne's first novel is scheduled for release Spring, 2006 by Algonquin
at Chapel Hill.
Email: Jayne
Pupek
Ian Pyper
Ian was born in Liverpool, north-west England in
1955. His intuitive art is a form of pure meditation and spiritual
contemplation; it is also often described as 'poetic'. Writer Joe Ryckzo coined
the term 'paleolithique moderne' and more recently, the term 'future primitive'
has been used to describe this work. His drawings have appeared in
international art magazines 'Raw Vision' and 'Resurgence'; also in a numerous
outsider exhibitions in the USA, Europe and Japan.
mailto:pypersmail@tiscali.co.uk
Jessica Quilty
Jessica Quilty earned her B.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of
Maine at Farmington, studying with Wesley McNair, Don Synder, and John D'Agata,
and has recently graduated from Simmons College with a Master's in Literature.
She has published several poems, essays and stories in campus publications such
as Sandy River Review, Ripple, 51% and Apropos, as well as in a national
mass-market anthology. Email: Jessica
Quilty
Octavio Quintanilla
Octavio Quintanilla is from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. His poetry has recently appeared in "Cranky," "BorderSenses," "Main Channel Voices," and other print journals. It is forthcoming in "Freshwater," "HeartLodge," and will be anthologized in "Heal" (Clique Calm Books). His work can also be found online at "Lily," "Banyan Review,” Writers Against War,” and "Dicey Brown." It is forthcoming in "The Rose & Thorn." He has finished a novel tentatively titled "This Is The Life" and will soon begin looking for a publisher. Email: Octavio Quintanilla
James Quinton
James Quinton James Quinton has been writing from an early age and he vividly remembers winning a writing competition at primary school. In more recent years he has had poetry and fiction published in over 80 ezines, magazines and presses. His first paperback poetry collection, ‘Ambulance’ is due for release late 2005. He is 26 and also is founder and editor of Open Wide Magazine, a bi monthly hard copy arts magazine, Open Wide Magazine Email: James Quinton
Carl Rafala
Carl Rafala was born in New England and has
traveled and lived in various parts of the earth for periods of time that ranged
from 3 weeks to 5 years. He holds a Masters Degree in English and a Masters
Degree in Higher Education. His fiction has appeared in various zines, and he
has a collection called, "Wildflower" available at Amazon and local
bookstores. You can reach the author at carlrafala@hotmail.com
Bernadette Raffoul-Serravalle
Bernadette Raffoul-Serravalle is currently working on a poetry
manuscript. Email: Bernadette
Raffoul-Serravalle
Chamel Raghu
Chamel
Raghu is a student in Austin TX.
Dorine Ratulangie
Dorine Ratulangie is a literature and SF/fantasy enthousiast and
writes in Dutch, Spanish and English. She has won the María Dolores Candela
provincial award of Alicante in Spain for students in 1992 and has published
poems in Dutch cultural magazines and on websites: CJP Magazine, Writers Block
(www.writersblock.net). Currently she lives in the Netherlands and works in IT.
Email: Dorine
Ratulangie
Jack Rauhala
Jack Rauhala was born and raised on a farm on the outskirts of Sudbury, Ontario. After graduating from high school, Jack began his thirty-five years of employment with the International Nickel Company [INCO] of Sudbury. At age fifty-five he retired on the earliest possible eligible date. He is the author of Find Your God - A Pilgrim's Guide to the Cosmos.
Web Site
Email: Jack
Rauhala
Greg Rayborn
Greg Rayborn is a 46 year old father and grandfather from Kentucky.
After an 18 year hiatus, he is writing again. He reckons it is about time. He
offers this recent comment on his work, "a baring of the soul in the most
uncomplicated and unguarded moment." Greg blushes then laughs, he
considers his writing simple, a mere bleeding onto a page. His recent poem
"Nearer" appears in Scorched Earth Publishing. Email: Greg Rayborn
David Reames
David Reames was a research biologist at a large Cancer research center in Detroit, MI. He recently moved from Detroit to New York City for a slower-paced life style in which to finish his first novel. Email David Reames
Benjamin Reed
mailto:suddenstreet@hotmail.com
Ken Rehill
Ken Rehill After more than twenty years in the counseling field in
Kingman Arizona, he jumped at an opportunity to come to Fort Yukon a year and a
half ago. He is employed by the Council of the Athabascan Tribal Governments as
program administrator for the Yukon Flats Care Center and is responsible for
providing behavioral health services to residents of ten remote villages in
Alaska's northern interior, reachable only by airplane. He hadn't previously
written for publication but he can't NOT write about what he is experiencing
there! He began submitting in April, 2004 and, so far, 30 poems have been
accepted for publication by Mobius, Poetic Voices, Poetry Motel, Soul Fountain
and other presses. Email: Ken Rehill
Amanda Reynolds
Email: Amanda Reynolds
Nicholas Ridino
Nicholas is 22 years old, the oldest of five
children, four boys and one unfortunately overprotected girl. He lives in the
small town of Ione, CA, which is approximately one hour away from Sacramento.
He in his second semester at Delta College in Stockton, CA. He is in the
process of earning his English Degree. He would like to teach someday. He has
written over twenty-five short stories since he began writing two years ago.
The genre of his work he can only categorize as “psychological horror/romance.”
He also has one screenplay to his credit, “Consenting Adults,” about a homicide
investigation, and at present he is working on his second screenplay, titled
“Coming Off.” And he his twenty-four pages into a harrowing story of domestic
abuse, which he has been working on since November of last year, the title of
which is “Searching For Ariel.” Previous education included earning a Computer
Science Degree at Heald College in Sacramento, CA, which he received in January
of 2001. When he is not writing he is most likely on the couch in the living
room with his reading glasses on and his nose buried deep in a book. Thanks to
the prodigious talent of my brother Joseph and my sharp-as-a-whip
twelve-year-old sister Jenny, you can find excerpts from all of my stories
online at my website, the address of which is: http://nicks-stories.cjb.net/
. Once there you can find a link to my e-mail address; you can write me if you
have any questions or would like to know further information about me.
Dee Rimbaud
Dee Rimbaud is an artist, novelist and poet. He is author of two
full-length poetry collections and one novel. His third poetry collection, Red
Dreams And Razorblades, which contains over 100 of his illustrations will
be published in 2006, as will The Book Of Hopes And Dreams which he
edited. Dee’s website, which includes the authoritative AA Independent Press
Guide is at Thunderburst
Email: Dee Rimbaud
Suzanne Roberts
Suzanne Roberts is an English instructor at Lake Tahoe Community College and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Nevada Reno in Literature and the Environment. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, The Hurricane Review, The California Quarterly, TETYC, Poetry Motel, Spillway, Branches Quarterly, The Banyan Review, The Adirondack Review, and Thorny Locust. A poem has also been selected for the anthology The Best of Branches 2004. She also recently won the MacMillan award for "The best piece of creative writing on Nevada" from the University of Nevada, Reno. Email: Suzanne Roberts
Michelle Rose
Michelle Rose studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio. She currently lives in Cincinnati, where she is
working on her first fiction novel. She is also an artist and photographer and
occasionally works as a figure model for local art schools. Other poems of hers
are scheduled to appear in The Incliner.
Email: Michelle
Rose
James Ross
James Ross is an active Vancouver Islander who
hikes and observes the flora and fauna of his island paradise. His photography
in this exhibit ranges from his immediate backyard, Vancouver Island and the
Rockies of the Canadian Great Divide . wjross2001@shaw.ca
Jeffrey Ross
Jeffrey Ross is finishing a
four year degree in English Literature and Native Studies at Laurentian
University. He has lived in Phoenix most of his life but moved to Sudbury for
the wamer weather. Last year he made a brief departure from school to work as a
journalist. His appreciation of writing has lead him to keep practicing using
poetry as a medium. His focus is on Romantic period literature.
Email: Jeffrey
Ross
Kelly Rothenberg
E–mail: mailto:kr@undeadremains.com
http://www.undeadremains.com
“Mother’s Love” appeared in Redsine
in 2000. Recently he has had two book reviews/criticisms accepted on Stephen
King’s Everything’s Eventual and Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend
for Salem Press’ Magill’s Literary Annual, 2003. A complete list of
his published fiction and nonfiction work (over forty to date) is
available at his web site.
Deborah Rothschild
Deborah Rothschild is a freelance writer, grandmother, feminist, and
supporter of liberal causes. Email: Deborah
Rothschild
Rebecca Rowe
Rebecca Rowe is a writer from Colorado most
recently published in the May issue of Ascent and the March issue of Sol
Magazine. When she is not writing, she hikes the Sangre de Christo
mountains and sand dunes for inspiration.
Andrea Rudy
Andrea Rudy has an MA in creative writing, and her short stories have appeared in various journals including The Berkeley Fiction Review, A Room of One's Own, and FRONT. She was also in the 2003 edition of the anthology, Coming Attractions. Email Andrea Rudy
.Jenni Russell
Jenni Russell is a retired exotic dancer, currently working on a
prose/poetry memoir describing my ten-year career in the American sex industry.
Her poetry has been published in Mipo Print and The Writer's Hood e-zine and
The Melic Review. She is an active member in online poetry workshops and has
won the PBL and IBPC Internet poetry competitions. This year, she was nominated
for the Ruth Halls Younger Poets Award at Indiana University. Her interests
include human sexuality and gender, literary theory, and popular culture. She
is the interviewer for Mipoesias Magazine and currently resides in a small town
in North Carolina with her fiance, Jack, and her pet bird, Percy Budgie
Shelley. Email: Jenni Russell
Jagjit Sandhu
mailto:sandhujagjit@hotmail.com
David Schwartz
G. David Schwartz is the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue, and coauthor, with Jacqueline Winston, of Parables In Black and White. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz continues to write essays, and fiction. DavidSchwartzG@AOL.com
Don Schaeffer was born in the Bronx, N.Y. in 1940. He holds a Ph.D.
in Social Psychology from City University of New York (1975). He established
Enthalpy Press and has published 5 chap books including "Time Meat"
and "The Word Cow and the Pig O' Love." ISBN series: 0-9687017 Recent
poetry has been published in The Writers Publishing, Burning Effigy Press,
"Understanding Magazine" and "Quills." Enthalpy Press Web Site
Email: Don
Schaeffer
L.B. Sedlacek
LB Sedlacekis an award winning poet who has had
poetry appear in "Grit," "Would That It Were," "The
Horsethief's Journal," "The Artemis Journal," "Facets
Literary Magazine," "Lutheran Digest," "Between
Kisses," "muse apprentice guild," "sidereality," and
"Iodine" with work upcoming in "Coppertales," "Poetry
Motel," "Harford Poetry and Literary Society Journal,"
"Hadrosaur Tales," "HazMat Review," "Snake Nation
Review," and "The Foliate Oak." LB's poetry chapbook Alexandra's
Wreck" was published by Kitty Litter Press (www.kittylitterpress.com) in
2002 and LB was also nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry. LB's short
fiction has appeared in "Duct Tape Press," "The Outer Rim,"
"Ascent Magazine," "Bovine Free Wyoming," "Nuvein
Magazine," and "The Unlikely Unknown." mailto:LBSedlacek@aol.com
L.B. Sedlacek has had poetry and short stories
published in "The Outer Rim," "Penny-A-Liner,"
"Storyfoam," "Starry Night Review," "Black Creek
Review," "Footprints," "Blue Collar Review",
"Muse's Kiss," "Paumanok Review," and "Sidewalk's
End." He is also the Editor of "Pop Poets" and its e-zine "Pop Gun." PopPoets@aol.com
David Sermersheim
David Sermersheim writes poetry for the pleasure it affords him and
he is grateful for what imagination gives him from what is left of the
experience of life. Email: David
Sermersheim
José Manuel Sevilla
José Manuel Sevilla has been a spanish resident in Hong Kong since 2003. His third book of poetry was published in Spain some months ago and several of his theatre plays have been staged in commercial thatres in Spain too. He also carries on a photograph collection called "Street Language" that was first exhibited in HKG last year. Email: José Manuel Sevilla
Harry Shannon
Harry Shannon has been an actor in commercials, a singer/songwriter and a
recording artist in Europe. He received two ASCAP "Country Music"
Awards and an Emmy nomination as a lyricist. Harry also toiled as a music
publisher, a film studio executive and a music supervisor on films such as
"Basic Instinct" and "Universal Soldier." He has an MA in
Psychology and is working as a counselor in private practice. His short fiction
has appeared in "Twilight Showcase," "Crimestalker
Casebook," and "Terror Tales" as well as Blue Murder. He can be
contacted via his website, www.harryshannon.com.
Tomi Shaw
Tomi Shaw lives in Kentucky, late of the woods but
now in the big city lights. She loves the sound of rain tat-tattering on a tin roof.
Summer weekends find her at the drag strip in a bittersweet-colored Mustang,
cutting killer reaction times and putting guys on the trailer home. Her work
has appeared in Absinthe Literary Review, Outsider Ink, Pindeldyboz,
Smokelong Quarterly, Snow Monkey, Penthouse, Literary Mama and elsewhere.
Coming soon to The Barcelona Review, The Rose and Thorn, Gator Springs Gazette
and The Dead Mule. She has guest edited for Francis Ford Coppola's All
Story Extra and is currently co-editor of Prairie Dog 13 Magazine. Email Tomi Shaw
Tom Sheehan has five Pushcart nominations, and a
Silver Rose Award from American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART)
for short story excellence. Books include A Collection of Friends, memoirs,
September, 2004, Pocol Press; poetry chapbook, The Westering, 2004 by Wind
River Press; and a fourth poetry book, This Rare Earth & Other Flights,
2003, by Lit Pot Press. He has two mysteries from Publish America, Vigilantes East,
2002 and Death for the Phantom Receiver, an NFL mystery, in 2003. Another
mystery, An Accountable Death, is serialized on 3amMagazine.com. His work can
be/will be seen in Projected Letters, Elimae, StorySouth, 3711 Atlantic,
Triplopia, Melange, Prose Toad, Moonwort Review, Black Medina, Starry Night
Review, Deaddrunkdublin, Megaera, The Square Table, Slow Trains, The Paumanok
Review, 42 Opus, Snow Monkey, Ken *Again, Taj Mahal, Literati Magazine,
Coppefield Review, and many others. He has been a feature writer in Nuvein, New
Works Review, Tryst and Eclectica
Tom
Sheehan's, A Collection of Friends,
memoirs, was issued in September, 2004 by Pocol Press. A poetry chapbook, The Westering, was issued summer 2004
by Wind River Press. His fourth poetry book, This Rare Earth and Other Flights, was issued in 2003, by Lit
Pot Press. He has two mysteries from Publish America , (Vigilantes East, 2002 and Death
for the Phantom Receiver, an NFL mystery, in 2003). Another mystery, An Accountable Death, is serialized
on 3amMagazine.com. He has five
Pushcart nominations, and a Silver Rose Award from ART for short story
excellence. His work has been on or coming on SN Review, Tryst,
42 Opus, Dead Mule, Elimae, Snow Monkey,
Eclectica, Retort Magazine, Rose & Thorn, Sidewalk's End, Subtle Tea, Aught, Tin Lustre
Mobile, Three Candles, Eleven Bulls, A Man Overboard, Cold
Glass, The God Particle,
Life Sherpa, The Square Table, Just Good Company, North Dakota Quarterly, Small Spiral Notebook, Fiction Warehouse, The Paumanok Review, etc. He will be
a feature writer in the next issues of Nuvein
and New Works Review.
Email Tom Sheehan
Sarah Sheikh studied English Literature at UC Berkeley before attending Film School at UCLA. Most recently, she was a finalist in the Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition for her Arrested Development spec, "Emus & Taxes." Email Sarah Sheikh
Andrea Shumovsky
. Andrea Shumovsky's work can be read in Clevermag.com
: September, November 2001, and January and May 2002.
She writes poetry for adults and children. She has a diverse education
beginning in Early Childhood Education, Pharmacy Technician and Specialized
Publishing from Canada and the United States. Although she misses the beautiful
beaches of the Jersey shore, her true home is Canada where the vast landscape
continually inspires her. You can contact her at andreashumovsky@rogers.com
L.S. Skyhawk
Leslie Stobie Skyhawk is an amalgam of Leslie
Spooner, his favorite grandfather who lived a healthy active life until age 97,
and Sarah Stobie, his favorite grandmother who brought him cuddles and fresh baked
pies. This story was written for his daughter and is generally a departure from
his other works. You can reach L.S. Skyhawk via ascent@bcsupernet.com
Phillip Slattery
Phillip Slattery has been published in Futures
Magazine in October, 2001. He has also had several poems published in small
magazines such as Green's Magazine, Canada and the Hollins Critic. He is a
native of Kentucky and graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a B.A.
in a double major of German and Russian in 1980. Most of his professional life
has been spent as an officer in US Naval Intelligence, where he started writing
as a hobby. He is currently a ranger with the National Park Service in Corpus
Christi, Texas.
Phil has been published three times to date: once
by Futures Magazine, twice by Ascent, and his fourth story has recently been
accepted by Medicinal Purposes. His poetry has been published in several
small magazines and he has had a few nonfiction works appear in MAX magazine and
in Aviation Safety.
Makini Raziya Slaughter
Makini Raziya Slaughter is currently a junior working on her B.M. in
Flute Performance at Converse College (S.C.) She first started writing and
critiquing in her high school's nationally recognized literary magazine when
she was 16. She didn't take her writing seriously until last year when she
received two honors and the publication of several of her poems. Besides
writing, she enjoys all aspects of the performing arts and languages. Email: Makini Raziya Slaughter
Zae Smekens
Zae Smekens points out that this story isn't
autobiographical. The excessive use of commas are a trademark, as are the oasis
and morrissey references. She uses neither capitals nor paragraphs. She is
23,and has published a few stories so far. Most people seemed to be disgusted
by them. E-mail Zae Smekens
Kate Smith Kate lives by the beach in Melbourne Australia and her quirky crime series will be serialised in January 2006 on australianreader.com. This does not mean she will become serious!
Meg Smith
Meg Smith lives in Lowell, Mass. Her poetry has
appeared in Pudding,The Café Review, The Catbird Seat,Vyü, Pulse, poetry
bay.com, Gothic.net, Dreams of Decadence, The Bridge Review, Pegasus, Blue
Violin, and others. Her poem, ³Huracan,² has received an honorable mention from
St. Martin¹s Press Year¹s Best Fantasy And Horror. She has published one book
of poetry, The First Fire and is working on a second, The Perfect Cat. She is
editor and publisher of Red Eft, an occasional journal of fantasy, horror and
speculative literature. She works as a journalist and won a 2000 first-place
award of the New England Press Association for coverage of racial and ethnic
issues and for lifestyle writing. She is a board member and events producer for
the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! festival devoted to Lowell native Jack Kerouac
and to Beat literature. As an Oriental dancer with the stage name, Morgana, she
has performed in shows throughout New England, and is a staff writer for Jareeda,
a trade magazine of Middle Eastern dance, and associate editor of Middle
Eastern Dance in New England. Web site
info@poet-in-motion.com
Robin A. Smith
Robin A. Smith is a self proclaimed
beer-philosophizing, bohemian, aspiring writer living in Chapel Hill, NC. Due
to a short attention span that she blames on too much MTV as a child of the
80's, she normally specializes in writing short stories and poetry but is currently
working on completing her first novel just to contradict herself. Email Robin A. Smith
Susan Snowden
has published numerous stories, poems, articles, and interviews, and won prizes
for my work. E-mail Susan Snowden
George Sparling
George Sparling has been published in many
literary magazines including Tears in the Fence, Lynx Eye, Hunger, Rattle, Red
Rock Review, Rattle, Paumanok Review, Lost and Found Times, and Potomac Review.
He has had many jobs, such as a welfare caseworker in East Harlem, a
counselor/reading instructor
in
the Baltimore City Jail, and a scuba diver for placer gold in the Trinity Alps
of Northern California for two years. He tries through fiction and poetry to
give all dark things the light they require to exist unconditionally. The
tension between persons living in pain and the struggle not to fail as human
beings also concerns him. mailto:gsparling@humboldt1.com
Jamison Spencer
Jamison Spencer always wanted to be a writer.
Then he hit adolescence and discovered indie rock. He's just now
finding his way back from the bars, clothes still smelling of smoke and ears
still ringing. He currently plays keyboards with the band Swoon and makes
records under the name The New Holden Folk Project. And he writes.
These days he's writing a lot.
Spiel
Spiel is a born maverick, describes himself as old at 64, and is a diverse full-time writer whose quirky short stories, raw poetry of conflict, and odd bits of art and photography may be seen in a wide array of independent publications such as: Abbey; AlphaBeat Press; Barbaric Yawp; Bathtub Gin; Chiron Review; Iodine; Nerve Cowboy; Parting Gifts & Thunder Sandwich. His most recent chapbooks, 2005, are: it breathes on its own, published by Pudding House Publications, and church floor, by Chiron Review Press. Email Spiel
Michael Spring
Michael Spring is the author of two poetry books: blue crow
and Mudsong. He was awarded the 2004 Robert Graves Award (Imago
Poetry/UK), and has published poems in Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Atlanta
Review, Dublin Quarterly, Midwest Quarterly, The Pedestal
Magazine, Poems Niederngasse, Southern Ocean Review, Verse
Libre Quarterly, and others. Email: Michael
Spring
Al Staffetti
Al
Staffetti
260 Sarles
Pleasantville
N.Y 10570
Laura Stamps
Laura Stamps is an award-winning poet and novelist. Over five hundred of her poems, short stories, and poetry book reviews have appeared in literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and broadsides, including the Louisiana Review, Ibbetson Update, Big City Lit, Poesy Magazine, American Writing, Fullosia Press, and Lummox Journal. She is the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry and prose. Her poetry chapbook "Cat Daze" was a Finalist in the 2004 Plan B Press Chapbook Competition, and her fiction chapbook "White Porches" was a Semi-Finalist in the 2004 Winnow Press Chapbook Award in Fiction Competition. Her chapbook "In the Garden" was a Top-Finalist in the 2004 Blue Light Press Poetry Prize and Chapbook Competition, and was recently published by The Moon. Two of her poems are included in the celebrity anthology "Open My Eyes, Open My Soul" (2003, McGraw-Hill Books). More information about books by Laura Stamps can be found at www.kittyfeatherpress.blogspot.com. Email: Laura Stamps
Richard Stevenson
Richard Stevenson is a Canadian poet living in
Lethbridge, Alberta ( originally hailing from Victoria, BC ). He has published
13 collections of poetry, including, most recently, "A Murder of Crows:
New & Selected Poems" (Black Moss Press, 1998 ), "Nothing
Definite Yeti" ( YA verse, Ekstasis Editions, 1999 ), "Live Evil: A
Homage To Miles Davis" ( Thistledown Press, 2000 ), and "Hot Flashes:
Maiduguri Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka" ( Ekstasis Editions, 2001 ). He
teaches Canadian Literature, Creative Writing, and Business Communication at
Lethbridge Community College. richard@pi-flora.com
Don Stockard
Don Stockard's background includes growing up on a
homestead and working as a commercial clam digger, a miner and a geophysicist.
He spent ten years in school studying math and science at Carnegie Tech,
Dartmouth and Caltech. He has also spent quite a bit of time bike touring in
Europe, mountain climbing and sailing. Over the last four years he has
accumulated over one hundred eighty credits, a hundred forty of which are short
stories. Some recent publications are: Raskolnikovâ's Cellar "Dark
Horse" Fall, 2001 Once Upon a World "Karmic Trap" Fall 2001
Armchair Aesthete "Frozen Monk" inter/Spring, 2001.
In addition Softspin Press published a collection
of his short stories in 1994. E-mail address Donstockard@aol.com
Aimee Stoddard
Aimee Stoddard has a B.A. in English. She works as
a textbook editor for Gibbs Smith, Publisher. She has recently co-authored a
fourth grade Wisconsin social studies textbook called The Wisconsin Journey
that was published this year. She is currently the project editor for a seventh
grade New Jersey social studies textbook and a fourth grade Arizona social
studies textbook. She has published a number of fiction and non-fiction short
stories in literary journals. She received honorable mention in City Weekly, a
newspaper in Salt Lake City, for a fiction piece in 2001. She won first place
in the fiction and non-fiction categories of a writing contest sponsored by
Metaphor, a literary journey, in 1999.
Alacrity Stone
mailto:alacritystone@hotmail.com
Douglas Storey
Douglas Storey is a retired educator and artist. His
photography reflects his artist's eye and his quest for natural images on his
travels.
Lynn Strongin
Lynn Strongin: Poet & Editor THE SORROW PSALMS Special Guest editor, New Works Review
Ray Succre
Email:
Ray
Succre
Jim Sullivan
Jim Sullivan has been online in Ascent, Pulse,
Beef, Voiding the Void, Wings Online, and others.jamsull@yahoo.com
Adam Jeffries Schwartz
Adam Jeffries Schwartz is a writer and a traveler. He has stories,
essays & poems in: Descant, Grimm, Jacaranda & Bleach Magazines. Online
he pops up at many sites, including: Mosaic Minds, Melange, Ghoti (Fish),
Litbits, Magazine Shiver, QVoices, Caprice & Forbidden Fruit. This year
he's in Asia. Email Adam Jeffries Schwartz
Peter Schwartz
Peter Schwartz is a poet,
author, painter and playwright. He has close to 100 poems published or pending.
He has fiction due out with Pindeldyboz, Dispatch and Monkeybicycle.
He has digital artwork on display at HiNgE, SubtleTea and The
Pedestal Magazine. He is currently working on getting two of his plays into
production. See a sample of his controversial journal at Watch the Eye.
This is the only poetry journal specifically focused on showcasing the
work of editors themselves. Email: Peter
Schwartz
Jonathan M. Sweet
Jonathan M. Sweet was born in Chicago but has lived much of his life in
"the toilet bowl of the South"--the setting for much of his fiction.
He was educated at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, where he worked as a
columnist for the campus paper, The Herald, for six months. ASU has served as
the model for many of the campuses in his stories, most notably Clark College
in "Eve Bade Adam Eat" and Postcards of the Hanging and Fulkes
University in "The Kestron Lenses".
Sweet graduated in 1998 with a BA in English. In addition, he holds a BS in psychology from Mississippi County Commmunity College (now Arkansas Northeastern College). His extensive knowledge of psychology can be seen in many of his stories.
In 2002 he released Almasheol: a collection of short stories, written since graduation, on various themes inspired by his life--job loss, breakups, betrayal, famuiily problems. Postcards, the followup, came out a year later. He also published a poem in a Famous Poets anthology the same year. His books may be bought by following the links at his website, welcometolemora.com, or by contacting him at belchie@hotmail.com.
Sweet, the author of more than a dozen novels and short stories as well as a
comic book artist and amateur photographer, has also worked as a shopkeeper and
an independent marketing executive for Melaleuca, Inc. He lives with his family
in the Missouri Bootheel. Jonathan M. Sweet
John Sweet
John Sweet is 37, and has been writing for 20some years now to varying degrees of success. His recent work has appeared in THE FLATLANDS, FAMILIAR, ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE, WHINO. He is married, a father of two, overeducated, underpaid, and deep in debt. He is a believer in writing as catharsis, and in the government as excess fat. Email: John Sweet
Elizabeth Kate Switaj
Elizabeth Kate Switaj's writing has appeared in several small press
journals and e-zines, inlcuding The Iconoclast, spooncore, Seeking The Lotus,
Eratio, Diagram, Electric Yeti, and Tin Lustre Mobile. She completed her BA in
1999 at The Evergreen State College and her MFA at New College of California in
2003. Currently, she resides in Anjo City in Japan's Aichi Prefecture.
Email: Elizabeth
Kate Switaj
Mark Talacko
After graduating from Syracuse Mark Talacko roamed
below the 49th parallel and grew bored and impatient. Now he is East, a Chinese
city just above the crab line, at work on a novel and a collection of short
stories, fighting off the growing restlessness that brought him there.
"Loving a Prostitute," comes from
"Signs of a Horrible Feast: Poems written without conquest," a
collection of poetry written and published by Mark Talacko and Timothy Davids
(Community Books, 2001). "Signs" presents two new and differing
voices writing to be heard, writing to challenge hearts and minds, and satiate
the need to transpose the things within upon a page.
Copies of "Signs" are available by
writing to Mark Talacko (xiamenkid@hotmai.com) or Timothy Davids (timothydavids@hotmail.com).
Signed copies available upon request.
Nicole Tanner
>>Nicole is a professional graphic designer
and journalist, but more than anything she is an aspiring writer. Another of
her short stories appeared in the February 2002 issue of the print publication
Futures. mailto:nicole@nicoletanner.com
Jeff Tannin
Jeff Tannin was born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley and therefore
constantly suffers from asthma and the lack of anything fun to do. He has
always known that he didn’t want to work for a living, but it wasn’t until the
end of his undergraduate degree at Fresno State that he decided to be a writer.
He is currently finishing up graduate school and although he still has to work
for a living, someday he hopes to be a full time storyteller. Email: Jeff Tannen
Doug Tanoury
Doug Tanoury grew up in Detroit and still lives in
the area. Doug is exclusively a poet of the Internet with the majority of his
work never leaving electronic form. He is published widely across the World
WideWeb. The greatest influence on Doug and his work was the 7th grade poetry
anthology used in Sister Debra's English class: Reflections On A Gift Of
Watermelon Pickle and Other Modern Verse, Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and
Hugh Smith, (c)1966 by
Scott Foresman & Company. Visit Funky Dog
Publishing at: http://funkydogpublishing.com/
Alfred Taylor
http://www.geocities.com/alfred34769
Vanessa S. Telaro
Vanessa Telaro
is the author of a novel in the contemporary genre: Keeping Awake.
Numerous poems (Cemetery Love, The Lulling Orchid, Occasional Bees, etc.) have
been published in various college anthologies (97-2000). Her short story “Black
Ain’t Black” is included in the fall 2002 issue of The Circle Magazine. She has
completed a major in both English and Creative Writing from
Kim Thevenot
Richard Thieme
Richard Thieme is an author, consultant, and speaker
focused on effective responses to technology-driven change. Thiemes work has
been translated into many languages and his articles are taught at universities
around the world. Richard Thiemes Islands in the Clickstream,a collection of
work from the past eight years, was published in July 2004 by Syngress
Publishing. Entering Sacred Digital Spacewas published in New Paradigms for
Bible Study: The Bible in the Third Millennium from T. & T. Clark, Ltd.,
June 2004. Identity/Destiny was published in "Prophecy Anthology, Volume
1," a full-color book featuring sequential art by artists such as Shannon
Wheeler, Scott McCloud, Sho Murase, Yuko Shimizu, Nathan Fox and Bernie
Mireault by Sequent Media (2004). stories in Analog Science Fiction, Ascent,
The Puckerbrush Review, Timber Creek Review, Porcupine, Zahir, anotherealm.com,
Erotic Fiction Quarterly, Electronic Writers Group, Phrack, Golf, Rogue ...
articles in: Forbes, Salon, Information Security, Secure Business Quarterly;
LAN Magazine, Village Voice, LA Weekly, South Africa Computer Magazine, Wired,
Counter Punch, Common Dreams, alternet, Internet Underground, National Catholic
Reporter, Asia Times Online, .net, Internet Today, Computing Japan, Business
Times of Singapore, Convergence (Toronto), Computer Underground Digest,
CTHEORY, DoubleClick, Ethical Spectacle, Small Business Times, Computer
Mediated Communication, Skeptica (Denmark), Milwaukee Business Journal,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Informatiebeveiliging (Netherlands). Now Magazine
(Toronto), Future Briefs, Access Control & Security Systems, Phrack
articles anthologized in: Digital Delirium, Cyber Reader II, Cyberculture (UK).
Email Richard Thieme
Gary Thomas
G. W. Thomas lives in Central British Columbia.
His work has appeared in over 100 different books and magazines including FLESH
& BLOOD, GOTHIC.NET and the up-coming STRANGEWOOD TALES. He is editor of
the free newsletter E-GENRE WEEKLY at http://e-genre.tripod.com/index.html
His web site is http://www.pgweb.com/~chucks
Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson: Michael Thompson lives and writes in Michigan with
his wife and dog. He has published two short stories and several as yet
unproduced screenplays.michael_thomp20@hotmail.com
Judith Tracy
369 Atwood
Drive, Lexington, Ky 40515,(606) 272-4806
Judith Tracy's short stories have appeared in both
print (Hot Blood X and the upcoming horror anthology, The Dead Inn) and E-zine
publications. The short story, "White Gloves", appeared in Ascent.)
February 28, 2001, my sci-fi book, "Destiny's Door", will officially
be released by Padwolf Inc., followed by two Young Adult, fantasy novels (three
and four in a series) in the Spring.
Visit her web site at http://jtracy.frenzmail.com
Davide Trame
Davide Trame is an Italian teacher of English living in Venice. His poems
have appeared in magazines since 1999: International Poetry Review, Salzburg
Poetry Review, Diner, Orbis, Chaffin Journal, Stand and others. Email: Davide Trame
Pushpa Tuladhar
Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar, age 54, poet, writing
poems in Nepal Bhasa and English, President of Nepal Bhasa Writers' Forum,
Published a poetry collection, Ghayanmo (The Grasses), Pushpa Tuladhar's Poetry
pages ( http://www.pushpatuladhar.netfirms.com ),
Editor of Layalama Online Magazine www.layalama.com
Vladut Mircea Tverdohleb
mailto:vladut_mircea@sympatico.ca
Jeff Van Hanken
Jeff Van Hanken received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from Duke University in May, 1988, with a concentration in French and German. During the following years, he was employed as the Assistant Editorial Page Editor of The Shreveport Journal in Shreveport, Louisiana. He and his colleagues were nominated by the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1991, he circumnavigated the world by plane, boat, bus, train, car and foot. In August, 1992, he entered the Graduate School at The University of Texas. He wrote, produced and directed the award-winning short film, “Bella! Bella! Bella!” in 1999. In 2000, he produced a series of award-winning short films with young Hispanic, Korean and African-American men from the Rampart district near downtown Los Angeles. From 2001-2005, he has worked as a full-time Instructor in the Film and Video Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma. In 2003, his feature script, “Billy Fail,” was named a semi-finalist at the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project. In 2005, he co-produced the feature film based upon his script. Currently, he is at work on several screenplays, a collection of short stories and a documentary project entitled "God's Leading Men." Email Jeff Van Hanken
Joel Van Noord
Joel Van Noord is a writer, photographer, and naturalist living in
Portland, Oregon. He is the founder of the Absurd Fish Tranquilizer. Email: Joel Van Noord
Richard Vallance
Richard Vallance is the Chairperson, Ottawa Chapter,of the Canadian Poetry Association and the editor of The New Pleiades Anthology of Poetry 2005.
Sam Vargo
Sam Vargo has an MA in English (from Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, USA) and has worked most of his adult life as a newspaper reporter. He has been a part-time English instructor at junior colleges and universities in Ohio, West Virginia and Mississippi. Although he lived almost all of his life in and around Youngstown, Ohio, for the past three years, he has been a Mississippi resident. He will be embarking on a Master of Arts in Teaching English program at Jackson State University, starting in summer 2005. He was fiction editor of Pig Iron Press, Youngstown, Ohio, for 12 years. He has had poetry and fiction appear in the following: Ascent, The Circle, Clark Street Review, Connecticut Review, The Cynic (an online magazine), Dandelion, Edifice Wrecked, Electric Acorn, Gypsy Blood Review, Higgensville Reader, Late Knocking, Licking River Review, Lynx Eye, Mastodon Dentist, The Nocturnal Lyric, nthposition, Ohio Teachers Write, Poetry Motel, Projected Letters, Red Dancefloor, Reed, Small Press Review, Subtle Tea, Verve, undergroundwindow.com, Yasse, and other presses and literary journals. Email: Sam Vargo
Justin Vicari
Mark Vickers
In the irreverent Benicia, California traditions
of artists Robert Arneson, Manuel Neri and Judy Chicago, sculptor and painter
Marques Vickers, 43, has chosen this "City by the Bay" (San Pablo
Bay) to specialize in his Figurative paintings, sculptures. Vickers has
exhibited extensively in the San Francisco Bay Area including exhibitions at
the Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco, Gloria Ferrer Champagne Cellars and Mark
West Vineyards. He has been acknowledged at the MAC21 Contemporary Art Fair in
Marbella, Spain for the past two years and EXPOART 2000 with the European Art
Channel in Cologne, Germany in international art competitions. During 2001, his
work has been showcased throughout the United States on a Tricom Pictures
television production and limited edition posters and prints through Barnes and
Noble.com.
He began publishing his own Internet web site at
www.marquesv.com in late 1999 has received numerous awards and media
recognition for its layout and content. He has published a book and monthly
electronic magazine entitled "Selling Art on the Internet" through
his company Marquis Publications (www.ArtsInAmerica.com) which is distributed
internationally. He is a published writer in numerous publications, has been
profiled extensively in print and electronic media throughout the San Francisco
Bay Area and internationally. He conducts seminars for visual artists and
galleries on selling art through the Internet and actively sells his work on
over 30+ international business exchange, B2B, auction and art portfolio
websites.
Jerry Vilhotti
Jerry Vilhotti graduated from the only college
that won the NIT and NCCA basketball tournament in the same year but more importantly
than that - a Jonas Salk who helped rid some of the world of polio with his
vaccine and who also was given the opportunity to contribute graduated from the
same school. Jerry Vilhotti has been fortunate to have had stories published in
The Dream International, Hob-Nob, Puck&Pluck, The Literary Review and many
other literary magazines. He lives in the Litchfield Hills, in a simpler place
in time, with a beautiful wife who treats him well (often he wonders why) and
they both helped in bringing three sort of nice kids into this world who have
gone off with three partners, as good, he hopes as the one he found long ago
and far away - just like the song! vilhotti@peoplepc.com
Marianne Vincent
Marianne Vincent has been writing poetry for years, and has just
recently achieved publication. In addition to her writing, she is an
administrative nurse who works at least 50 hours a week. Her work is
challenging and rewarding, but her first love is writing. A native of Syracuse,
NY, she lives with her husband and 12 year old daughter, Jess. She has two sons
who live in the area--and has been blessed with three gorgeous grandchildren.
She has been greatly influenced by her family and has an incredibly strong
Italian heritage. As a first generation Italian-American, she believes that the
heart of a person, especially a writer, is not complete without the love and
devotion of “La Famiglia”. It is most important to her to be able to continue
the tradition of success passed down from her ancestors. Her poetry comes from
within. Each poem tells a story, with a message that she strives to convey to
the reader, especially other women. She hopes that in some way, her writings
will encourage other Italian-American women to “bring forth” their talents. Email: Marianne Vincent
S.C. Virtes
Look for
SCV works in ANALOG (Jan 97), BEYOND, OTHER WORLDS, SPACE & TIME, PLANET,
and many more.Visit SCV Tales at http://www.scvs.com/scv/fic/
Emmanuelle Vivier
Emmanuelle Vivier is a Freelance Translator. She was born in Paris, France, but has lived in South-western Ontario for 18 years. She is an Associate Member with the League of Canadian Poets. Her work (in English & French) has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Tower Poetry Society (McMaster University), Room of One’s Own, Quills and Black Moss Press anthologies. She isa member of the Writing Salon at the University of Windsor with Marty Gervais.
Email:
Emmanuelle
Vivier
Chris Volkay
Levi Wagenmaker
Levi Wagenmaker, born in the last year of the 2nd
World War, cosmopolitan for the moment living in the Netherlands, retired
journalist, student days comedian and writer of satire (lyrics and music),
reactivated poet, Elizabeth's partner for 22 years, in love with language since
the first long forgotten word learnt, Flemish young poet Rhode Liana
Hagmeijer's English translator. Favourite poet: Eva Salzman. Private utopia:
the matriarchate. salman@xs4all.nl
Jackie Waite
Si Wakesberg
Si Wakesberg is a veteran journalist and writer who
has had both fiction and poetry published in print magazines and in electronic
magazines. E-mail Si Wakesberg
Kevin Walby
mailto:kev81@shaw.ca
Kevin Walby is from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Nicole Walker
Nicole Walker is the editor of Quarterly West. She has been published in Seneca Review, Fence, Iowa Review, Puerto del Sol, among other places. Email Nicole Walker
Ruth Walker
Michael Wallace
Michael Wallace is a successful grant writer with his
own small business and a doctorate in communications. He is also the son of an
electrician-turned-astrophysicist father and a librarian mother, which makes
for a rather offbeat upbringing (you can only imagine the kind of dinnertime
discussions at his house). "Peanut Butter Diplomacy" represents a
first foray into fiction for him, as well as a creative outlet for the left
side of his brain (or is it the right?). Michael Wallace
Anthony Walstorm is a Californian poet, living in Madrid, Spain. He
has been published in poetry reviews around the world in English and Spanish.
He has written a series of poems on poetry road tours, such as the present one
called The San Lucar Delta Poems, set at the Guadalquivir River delta
entrance (near Seville), the sea port from which Christopher Columbus set sail
to discover America.
Email: Anthony Walstorm
Robert Walton
Robert Walton has taught at San Lorenzo Middle School for thirty-five
years. He and his wife Phyllis have been married for thirty-two years. They
have two sons, Jeremy, 26 and Jon, 21, and make their home in King City,
California. Robert is a life-long rock-climber and mountaineer. He’s made
numerous ascents in the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite. His writing about climbing
has been published in the Sierra Club's Ascent, in "High" Magazine,
and in "The Climbing Art". Three of his books for children have been
published. Email: Robert Walton
Paul Ward
Paul Ward has been writing for a number of years
and has had over two dozen stories published in the last year.
pcward@talk21.com
Vernon Waring
Vernon Waring has been a newspaper reporter,
feature editor, and public relations account executive. He is currently
employed in the quality control department of a Philadelphia printing company.
His poetry has appeared in The Writer, The Iconoclast, the Alabama School of
Fine Arts Poetry Quarterly, the Midwestern University Quarterly, New Dimensions,
Anthology, the South Street Star, MAYA, and the Stylus. His work has also been
featured on NPR-sponsored Prairie Home Companion web site. His light verse has
been published in the Saturday Evening Post and the Philadelphia Daily News.
E-Mail: VKWaring@webtv.net
Mathew Warner
Mathew
Warner writes out of Burke VA You can E-mail him at mwarner@erols.com
Robert
Weir
BA. Psychology,
University of Calgary Counselling Certificate, Vancouver Community College
Hospital-Based Child and Family Counsellor Publications; The Antigonish Review
(129), Jones Av. (VIII/3), Event (Upcoming), Write Away (Fall 2003). Robert Weir
Jon Wesick
Holding a Ph.D. in physics and
having studied Buddhism for twenty years, Jon Wesick has enjoyed a front
row seat at a collision of worldviews. When he spots a shiny piece of wreckage,
he darts into the roadway and retrieves a poem, story, or novel. He has
published over seventy poems in small press journals like American Tanka,
Anthology Magazine, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, Edgz, The Kaleidoscope Review,
Limestone Circle, The Magee Park Anthology, The Publication, Pudding, Sacred
Journey, San Diego Writer’s Monthly, Slipstream, Tidepools, Vortex of the
Macabre, Zillah, and others. His chapbook, My Father’s Ashes,
won runner up in the San Diego Book Awards.mailto:jwesick@msn.com
Joanna M. Weston is married,with three sons. She has had poetry,
reviews, and short stories published in anthologies and journals for twenty
years. She has a middle-reader THE WILLOW-TREE GIRL and a chapbook WATCH-NIGHT
in print. THE WILLOW-TREE GIRL for ages 7-11 print edition now available: ISBN
1-55352-073-4 Web Site
Email: Joanna
M. Weston
Les Wicks
LES WICKS'
books are "The Vanguard Sleeps In" (Glandular, 1981),
"Cannibals" (Rochford St, 1985), "Tickle" (Island, 1993),
"Nitty Gritty" (Five Islands, 1997), "The Ways of Waves"
(Sidewalk, 2000) & "Appetites of Light" (Presspress, 2002).
"(He)assembles an amazing cast of people in recognizable often dark
places. With fine detail, their domestic & working lives are brilliantly
portrayed." Anthony Lawrence
He has performed at festivals, schools, prisons etc. He runs workshops across
Australia & is editor of Meuse Press which focuses on poetry outreach
projects.
meusepress@hotmail.com
Les Wicks Home Page
Emilia Wildfield
Emilia Wildfield's short stories have been published in literary journals such as Canadian Fiction and Modern Haiku, USA. During the last year, her work has appeared in Wascana Review, the issue of Lichen featuring couplings, and Other Voices. As well as winning several international awards, her poetry has been anthologized and performed in Japan and Toronto. Email Emilia Wildfield
Jill Williams
Jill Williams has two poetry books to her credit: The Nature
Sonnets (Gival Press, 2001) and A Weakness For Men (Woodley &
Watts, 2003). She has twice edited Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine and
her work can be found on various websites including The Hypertexts,and Real Leight and her own website She is a
firm believer that formal poetry will never go out of style.
Email: Jill
Williams
D. Harlan Wilson
D. Harlan Wilson's writing has appeared in a
number of magazines, most recently in Doorknobs & BodyPaint, Redsine,
Lethogica, The Café Irreal, Driver's Side Airbag, The
Dream Zone, Samsara Quarterly and Eclectica. A chapbook of
his stories was published in 2000, and his first full-length book, a collection
of forty-four stories called The Kafka Effekt, is due to be published
this Fall. Wilson holds two M.A. degrees, one in English Literature (University
of Massachusetts-Boston), the other in Science Fiction Studies (University of
Liverpool). Currently he is working on his Ph.D. in Twentieth Century American
Literature and Theory at Michigan State University.
Leonore Wilson
Leonore Wilson's poems have been featured in Poets Against the War,
Third Coast, Madison Review, English Journal, Poet and Critic, Quarterly West,
Poetrybay. Email: Leonore Wilson
A.D. Winans
A.D. Winans is a native San
Francisco poet, writer and photographer. His work has been published world-wide
and translated into eight languages. He is a member of PEN and a graduate of SF
State University. The former editor and publisher of Second Coming, he has seen
his work appear on many web sites as well as in literary journals and
neighborhood newspapers. Web Site dedicated to A.D. Winans Email: A.D.Winans
Charlotte Winder
Charlotte Winder is currently
at veterinary college and is interested in the marriage of science and medicine
with literature. Email: Charlotte
Winder
Wayne Wolfson
Wayne Wolfson is a California based author. His works have appeared in many journals and sites including Happy, 3 A.M Magazine and Saucy Vox.
J. Kevin Wolfe
J. Kevin Wolfe always has had that problem of
looking out the window. He was kicked out of Algebra II in the 10th grade for it.
A few decades later, his cube has a view of a pine that gets irritated at the
lightest of breezes. There are passionate sunsets in the winter and a constant
flux of cars overtop of 90% of the asphalt in the valley. They pay him to look
out this window now. Never underestimate how far your weaknesses will take you.
Sometimes he looks out other windows. He calls that poetry
J. Kevin Wolfe's poems have appeared in over 60
ezines and in a dozen print publications. 'The Year of Purple Lawn Furniture'
is a collection of new poems. J. Kevin Wolfe's poems have appeared in over 60
ezines and in a dozen print publications. His ebook, 'The Year of Purple Lawn
Furniture', is the first lanchable Palm OS ebook.
'The Year of Purple Lawn Furniture' An ebook of
poetry by J. Kevin Wolfe http://home.att.net/~jkevinwolfe/index.html
Leslie Wolter
Leslie Wolter is an English Instructor at McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois. Email Leslie Wolter
Alan Wood
Alan grew up in southern California, spent the
last ten years living in Portland, Oregon and he recently relocated to Las
Vegas, Nevada. His grandfather was an author and published several historical
novels before his untimely death at the age of 55. He was responsible for
two of the big thrills of Alan’s life. The first was when he dedicated
one of his books to Alan’s sister and Alan. The second was when he judged
a writing contest at Alna’s elementary school. He said Alan would have
been in the finals with his story, however, Alan was not eligible because the judge
was his grandfather. It was good enough for Alan that he thought his
story was good.
Alan loves to read all types of fiction but
especially enjoys the horror and techno thriller stories. His
favorite authors are Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Stephen King, and Tom Clancy.
Alan is currently writing short stories and
working on a novel. He is not yet a published author but enjoys the
process of writing so much that he will just take that when and if it
comes. The story is the thing. Read. Read. Read.
Write. Write. Write.
Christopher Woods
Christopher Woods is the author of a novel, THE
DREAM PATCH. His prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, was published by
PANTHER CREEK PRESS panthercreekpress.com. His collection of stage monologues,
HEART SPEAK, was published recently by STONE RIVER PRESS stoneriverpress.com. dreamwood77019@hotmail.com
Kay Woods
Kay Woods has been writing and publishing short
stories for a number of years. Her stories and poetry have appeared in
magazines such as QWF and Mslexia. Email Kay Woods
Linda Woolven has published 35 poems in journals across Canada, the
United States and England. The poems have appeared in Journals such as, Dana
Literary Society, Amethyst Review, Write On, Sepia Poetry
Magazine, New Mirage Quarterly, The Kaleidocope Review, , Pink
Chameleon and Fullosia Press. One of her poems received an award
from Dana Literary Society. She has also published a short story in Happy.
Email: Linda Woolven
Changming Yuan
Email: Changming
Yuan
Frank Zafiro
Frank Zafiro is 35 years old. He has been a law
enforcement officer in the Pacific Northwest for eleven years. He started
writing at thirteen, penning two hundred word vignettes that were largely
derivative of the work he was reading. He moved on to slightly more original
short stories and poetry. Several stories and about fifteen of the poems have
been accepted to small press magazines. He wrote his first novel at
eighteen...and it showed. It was atrocious, self-indulgent and maudlin. It also
only ran 45, 000 words and he thought he had War and Peace. It wasn't until
1995 that he wrote a second novel. This one was still rough but had some
promise. It sat in a drawer until recently, when he began editing it. At the
same time, he is working on another book with a friend. They are each writing
one of the main characters. It is shaping up to be interesting. Although he has
done many different things in his life, he has to say that all he ever imagined
himself as was a writer. In fits and starts through his life, he is making that
happen. Frank Zafiro
Darlene Zagata
Darlene Zagata is a freelance writer and poet. Her
work has appeared in several online and print publications including Verse
Libre, Wellspring Christian Poetry Journal, Spirithunter, Ascent and Some
Words. She is the author of "Standing On The Edge Of Time", a
collection of poems. She currently reside in Uniontown, Pa. with her family.
E-mail:
Website: The Write Way http://pages.ivillage.com/celia721/thewriteway/
Email: celiadee721@yahoo.com.
Gerald Zipper
Gerald Zipper is the author of the play, "A Little
Madness", produced at New York's Provincetown Playhouse. His other plays
have appeared or are sceduled to appear in San Diego, Denver, etc. His poetry
appears in over 250 literary and poetry magazines in the U.S., Canada, and
Europe. He served as Deputy Commissioner of a New York State agency, was hired
as "Consultant on the Arts" to the New York State Senate, and manages
a successful business enterprise. Several of the publications that have
published Gerald Zipper's poetry over the 1997-01 period include: The Pegasus
Review, VA; The Pointed Circle, Portland Community College, WA; The Poet's Pen,
GA; Skylark, Purdue University; AURA, Univ. of Alabama; ICON, Kent State Univ.,
OH; The Amherst Review, Amherst College, MA; Piedmont Literary Review, VA; OYEZ
REVIEW, Roosevelt Univ., Il; NEBO Literary Journal, Arkansas Tech University;
Maryland Review, Univ. of Maryland E.S.; Bay Area Poet's Coalition, CA;
Ellipsis, Westminster College; Sounds Of Poetry, MI; Parnassus Literary
Journal, GA; Apropos, PA....) Email: Via April
Amador Gerald Zipper
Victor Zorman