Ascent Aspirations Magazine Contributors Since 1997

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.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal

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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.

Nola Accili

Nola Accili is a French instructor at the University College of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Her work has recently appeared in Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing (University of Hawaii), Room of One's Own (Vancouver), Jones Av. (Toronto), and Down in the Valley, An Anthology (Fraser valley, B.C.)

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.

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Emmanuel Agrapidis

Emmanuel Agrapidis: A native New Yorker, Emmanuel Agrapidis spends his time looking under his boot soles. He has been published in several journals and works as a field reporter in New York City. Emmanuel received his B.A. in Literature and Writing from Columbia University. His highly anticipated full length collection entitled Devour the Earth is set to come out later this year. Emmanuel lives in Bayside, Queens with his wife and two sons.

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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 the contacts below.

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Zeena Communications

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.

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Home Page "The Dragon's Claw"

Tanisha Alexander

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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.

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

Robert Allan

Robert Allan is an anomic poet who writes cuz he can't help it. Born in Perth ON, he holds an HBA in English from the University of Toronto, and he currently writes in Montreal QC. Rousingly, Ascent Aspirations Magazine will be his first publishing credit.Email: Robert Allan

John P. Allen

John P. Allen is an unpublished writer working as a teacher's assistant for a school district north of Houston, Texas.

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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.

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.

Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson is a professor at Oregon State University and also a Catholic Deacon. He has published a number of books, including a book of poems, My Problem with the Truth, as well as poems in many journals.

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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.

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.).

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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.

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.

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.

Ashley Arnold

Ashley Arnold is an Adelaide-based writer with stories published in Ticonderoga Online, Flashquake and Lorelei Signal. His story "The River Man's Spirits" also appears in the Shadow Plays anthology. For more information see

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Johann Christoph Arnold

Johann Christoph Arnold is the author of ten books and a pastor in the Bruderhof Communities.

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Richard Arnold

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).

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.

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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.

LeAne 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.

Chanda Avik

Occupation: Management Consultant, freelance writer, with several articles, art reviews, short stories published in Indian dailies. Solo exhibition of paintings at Kolkata, June 2001. Poetry publications include Black Bear Review, Other Poetry, Adirondack Review, Three Candles, Morpo Review, 3rd Muse, Richmond Review, Voices, King Log and Sulekha. Forthcoming publications in Promise Magazine and Skyline Publications.

Dr. David B. Axelrod

Dr. David B. Axelrod has published in hundreds of magazines. His sixteenth and newest book is Another Way, poems derived from the Tao Te Ching. He is the recipient of three Fulbright Awards including his being the first official Poet-in-Residence in the People’s Republic of China. The New York Times described him as “A Treat!” He has shared the stage with such notables as Louis Simpson, X. J. Kennedy, William Stafford, Robert Bly and Allen Ginsburg and performed for the U.N., the American Library Association and hundreds of venues. He has been translated into fourteen languages.

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Len Bains

Len Bains is, in no particular order, a rocket scientist, a father of four, the carer for a severely handicapped child, a writer of fiction, and a brewer of beer.

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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.

Charlene Baldridge

Charlene Baldridge: Freelance Writer and member of San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Regularly writes for: Riverside Press- Enterprise, La Jolla Village News, Performances, Senior Life.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

Daniel Barbiero

Daniel Barbiero lives and works in the Washington DC area. His recent work appears or is forthcoming in Tamafhyr Mountain Irregular, Turbula, Ekphrasis, Listening to Water: The Susquehanna Watershed Anthology, Words-Myth, Ygdrasil and elsewhere. He is also active on the local improvised music scene as a double bassist.

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Jennifer Christina Barne

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.

John Barta

John Barta was born in 1941, Hungarian emigrant at fifteen, University of Toronto at nineteen, high-school teacher(English, history, drama) starting at twenty-three, marriage at twenty-four, first child at thirty-two, retired at fifty-six, CAA member since 1997, published in The Saving Bannis-er, Ten Stories High, The New Quarterly, Event, Hammered Out, at certain-uncertain points since 1997, date of death as yet a guess.

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Gary Beck

Gary Beck's recent fiction has appeared in 3AM Magazine, EWG Presents, Nuvein Magazine, Babel, Vincent Brothers Review, L'Intrigue Magazine, The Journal, Short Stories Bimonthly and Bibliophilos. His poetry has appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway. He is a writer/director of award-winning social issue video documentaries.

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Calvin Becker

Calvin Becker lives in Calgary, Alberta. He is interested in exploring the ideals and themes in a highly metaphorical and minimalistic style.

Ellen Behrens'

Ellen Behrens' life has followed a tourist route, taking her through several states and careers, including stints in amusement parks and apartment communities which she discovered were pretty much the same thing. With her husband, Robert Craig, she's rafted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, climbed mountains, and plans to do a lot more of the same. Her first novel, None but the Dead and Dying, was published in 1996 by Baskerville Publishers.

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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.

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.

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.

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Livia Belmont

Lark Beltran

Lark Beltran lives in Peru, where for over 30 years he has worked as an ESL teacher. A number of his poems have been published in e-zines.

Luis Benítez

Luis Benítez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1956). Member of the Latin-American Academy of Poetry, the International Society of Writers, the World Poets Society, the Argentinean Society of Writers and the Argentinean Foundation for the Poetry. He has received the tittle of Compagnon de la Poésie, from La Porte des Poétes Association, France. His 9 books of poetry, 2 essays and 2 novels were published in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, USA and Venezuela. Between another local and international awards, he has received: La Porte des Poétes International Award (Paris, 1991); Biennial Award of the Argentinean Poetry (Buenos Aires, 1991); Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Foundation Award of Poetry (Buenos Aires, 1996); International Award of Fiction (Uruguay, 1996); Primo Premio Tusculorum di Poesia (Italy, 1996) and 10me. Concours International de Poésie, accesit (Paris, 2003).

Since the ´90s, several reviews publish his poems in translation: Upstairs at Duroc and La Porte des Poétes (from Paris, France); The Boston Literary Review, Barnwood, And Then, Tamarind, Szrine, Green Mountains, Luz Bilingual and La Nuez (from USA); Inclement Poetry, Cauldrom, Littoral, Awe, Manifold and Poetry Monthly (from United Kingdom); Poetry Salzburg Review (from Austria); L´Ortica and Isola Nigra (from Italy), The Instanbul Literary Review (from Turkey) and others.

Poetry books by the author:

Poems from the Earth and the Memory (Buenos Aires, 1980), Mythologies/The Ballad of the Lost Woman (Buenos Aires, 1983), Behering and Other Poems (1st edition, Buenos Aires, 1985; 2nd edition Mexico DF, 1995), Wars, Epitaphs and Conversations (Buenos Aires, 1989), Fractal (Buenos Aires, 1991), The Past and the Eves (Venezuela, 1995), Selected Poems (USA, 1996), The Mare of the Night (Chile, 2001), The Venenero and other poems (Buenos Aires, 2005)

Email: Luis Benítez

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.

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.

Robert James Berry

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.

Sharon Maria Bidwell

Sharon Maria Bidwell is a writer from the UK and her work - poems, articles, short stories and novels - have appeared in print and online publications.

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David Biggs

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.

Beth L. Block

Beth L. Block: In addition to Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Beth's work has appeared in Cautionarytale, Red Booth Review, Pemmican Press, Identity Theory (Editor's Choice), The Dogwood Journal, Doorknobs & Bodypaint, Long Story Short, Simply Haiku, Amarillo Bay, River Walk Journal, and is forthcoming in PEARL Magazine. Many of Beth's haikus are published in the anthology, Across The Long Bridge.

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.

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.

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Dean Borok

Louis E. Bourgeois

John Bernard Bourne

Kristy Bowen

Kristy 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.

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Atomic Boy

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J. Boyer

Creative Writing Program,Department of English,Arizona State University,Tempe, Arizona 85287-0302,USA

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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, WOLLICOTT’S TRAVELING RABBIT’S FOOT MINSTRELS, 2002. ISBN 1-894910-08-7, TIME WENT BY, BUT SLOWLY, 2002. ISBN 1-894910-08-9, POACHING DEER IN NORTHERN ARIZONA, 2003. ISBN 1-894910-34-6, FIVE JEWISH BIKER CHICS, OUT OF CONTROL, 2004. ISBN 1-894910-X, 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. FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN. Reading, Stage Two Theatre, Chicago, April/May, 2003. Finalist for the 2002 Tennessee Williams Prize. 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. BLUE MOVIE and SAY YOU LOVE ME (from THREE PLAYS AND A BED). Hit and Run Theatre Company, The Rhumb Line, Gloucester, Massachusetts, In A Pig’s Eye, Salem, Massachusetts, April, 2004. TWO WOMEN, ONE MAN, AND A BED (from THREE PLAYS AND A BED).Reading, Hunziker Theatre/William Patterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, New Jersey, April, 2004. ORAL DEFENSE. Reading, FirstStage/Playwright’s Express, Los Angeles, May, 2004. THE SUBWAY SONATA. Off-Off-Broadway, Equity Showcase, The Little Theatre, June, 2004; Reading, Off-Off-Broadway, 92nd Street Y/Makor Theatre, August, 2004; Off-Off-Broadway, Belly, April, 2005. A CASE IS NEVER CLOSED.Reading, Oklahoma City Theatre Company, July, 2004; Finalist, 2004 Southwest Theatre Association New Play Award. THE CROWN PRINCE OF PERFECT. Reading, Hunziker Theatre/William Patterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, New Jersey, June, 2004; Off-Off-Broadway, Theatre Studio, December, 2004; Reading, Cheeky Maggot Theatre Company, London, England, TBA. J. 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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.

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.

Linda Breneman

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. He is the editor of Gemini, a fiction and poetry magazine to be introduced in September 2006.

Arndt Britschgi

Arndt Britschgi was born and raised in Finland. He spent the best (if not the longest) part of his life in Madrid, Spain, and recently took his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His writing has appeared in Literary Fragments, Kulttuurivihkot (Finnish), Southern Cross Review, the EOTU Ezine, Word Riot, Slow Trains Literary Journal, Milk Magazine, and The Modern Review.

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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.

Kenneth Brown

Kenneth Brown is 37 year old active duty soldier from Byron, GA, currently serving in Iraq. Email: Kenneth Brown

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.

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.

Patricia Brozinsky

Patricia Brozinsky ,Ph.D. a keen observer of human behavior has been a psychotherapist for seventeen years with a full-time private practice in East Patchogue, NY. She co-authored along with James A. Gibson, "Eat or Be Eaten: The Truth About Our Species, the Marriage of Darwin and Machiavelli," a book about human behavior. She taught psychology at the undergraduate level and co-lead workshops for Suffolk County Department of Mental Health, NY. The hyperlink to her website is Inventing Yourself The above article had its debut publication at: EzineArticles Email: Patricia Brozinsky

Shelton Bryant

Shelton Bryant is an editorial illustrator. He has done work for a number of publications and advertising firms.

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Scott Bryson

Scott Bryson is currently living and writing in Toronto, Canada.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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Barry Butson

Howard Camner

Howard Camner is the author of 16 books of poetry. He represented the U.S. in the Poet 2000 Sculpted Library, an international exhibition of the works of contemporary poets. He received the first annual MiPo Literary Award in 2004

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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 Toronto, ON, Canada. She is a Co-Editor of Descant Magazine, and is sometimes also considered a poet, a musician, or an ex-highland dancer.

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.

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.

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.

Patrick Carrington

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.

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.

Steve Cartwright

Steve Cartwright has done art for several magazines, newspapers, websites, commercial and governmental clients, and books. He also creates art pro bono for several animal rescue groups. He was awarded the 2004 James Award for his cover art for Champagne Shivers. He recently illustrated the Cimarron Review cover. Take a gander (or a goose) at his online gallery.

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Carol Casa

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Travis Cashey

John J. Cashon

John Cashon resides in Paducah, Kentucky. He has a degree in Environmental Sciences from Murray State University.

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.

Alan Catlin

Alan Catlin has published dozens of chapbooks and full length books. His latest chapbook is Our Lady of the Shipwrecks from Finishing Line Press and his selected poems Drunk and Disorderly from Pavement Saw. He is hard at work on his fictional memoirs and a series of "self portrait" poems. Email: Alan Catlin

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

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.

Cheryl Chambers

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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.

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.

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David Chorlton

David Chorlton was born in Austria, grew up in England, and spent several years in Vienna before moving to Phoenix in 1978. He enjoys listening to very old music, birding, and hiking in the Arizona landscape. Along with poems in magazines, he has a list of chapbook publications with Places You Can’t Reach (Pudding House Publications, 2006) being the latest, and recent books: A Normal Day Amazes Us (Kings Estate Press, 2003), Return to Waking Life (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2004), and Waiting for the Quetzal (March Street Press, 2006).

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David Churchill

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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.

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Will Clark

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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.

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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.

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.

Carol A. Cole

Carol A. Cole has had stories appear in Apollo's Lyre, Nimue's Grotto and Flashshot online and several print magazines.

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Travis Ray Cole

Travis Ray Cole is from Chicago IL. He writes poetry and songs and plays the guitar.

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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.

Ryan Michael Commins

Ryan Michael Commins currently lives in Hollywood amongst the freakiest of the freaks. He was raised on Long Island and has almost completely recovered. His day to day life includes perfecting his pong pong and ridiculing lousy commercials. Ryan hopes to one day fall into a lengthy coma.

Brittani Ann Conner

Brittani Ann Conner is an amateur writer who is currently entering her second year at Thompson Rivers University, working towards a BA with a major in Contemporary Literature. She has always expressed a keen passion for art which she hopes to share with others through her writing. Email: Brittani Ann Conner

Paul Conover

Paul Conover is a writer, philosopher, gourmet cook, consultant, engineer and CSIA ski instructor.

Angela Conrad

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.

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.

Norman Crabtree

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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.

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.

Jeff Crouch

Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. He's published on dozens of internet sites, and some of his best-liked work is on Ascent Aspirations. Contact

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 Femme Soul.

Femme Soul

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.

Carol Ramsden Deckert

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.

Jessica Del Balzo

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ramesh Dohan

Ramesh Dohan is a poet and writer from hailing from the Vancouver, Canada. His works have previously appeared in South Ocean Review, Attic Magazine, Word Salad to name a few.

Email: Ramesh Dohan

Mike Domonchuk

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.

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.

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.

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."

Doug Draime

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Derbhile Dromey

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.

Jim Dunlap

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.

Voices for Africa

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Amy Durant

Natasha Durich

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.

Amanda Earl

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.

Alison Eastley

Margarita Engle

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.

Mike Estabrook

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.

Sonya Easterday

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.

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.

Jacob Erin-cilberto

Jacob Erin-cilberto .... better known to his friends and co-workers as "Fog," teaches English at John A. Logan community college and Shawnee Community College. He has been writing since 1970 and has published in several small journals and anthologies, and received a pushcart prize nomination for 2006. Jacob also teaches poetry workshops for the Heartland Writers Guild, and Southern Illinois Writer's Guild where he is able to share his love for poetry with others. He is originally from Bronx, NY. He has published nine books of poetry.

Email: Jacob Erin-cilberto

John D. Evans

John D. Evans is the author and founder of The Evans Poetry Collection, a series of classically and divinely inspired poetry, philosophy, and word art. He is a member of the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Society of America.

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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.]

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, itter 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.

Michael Fahy

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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.

Joseph A. Farina

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.

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.

Rana Abduel Fatah

Rana Abduel Fatah is a third year English literature student in Damascus,Syria.

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.

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.

C. B. Forrest

C. B. Forrest lives in Ottawa. His short fiction won an award in the 2004 Canadian Authors Association Short Story Contest (National Capital Region), and he has twice won awards in the Ottawa Public Library Short Story Contest. His poetry most recently appeared in Bywords. He is currently compiling a chapbook of poetry.

Email: C. B. Forrest

Cindy Forsburg

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.

Christopher Fournier

Christopher Fournier is a Canadian writer living in Germany. His work has most recently appeared in Another Toronto Quarterly.

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.

Michael Fraley

Michael Fraley has had poems appear in Parnassus Literary Journal, Pegasus, and online in http://www.tmpoetry.com . He isa resident of San Francisco and a staff member at the University of San Francisco.

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)

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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 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.

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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

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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.

Jaia La Ferme

Jaia La Ferme has been writing for the simple love of the act her whole life. In the most recent years she has taken courses spanning from "Screenwriting 101" on the beautiful Big Sur, California coastline, to writing your "Dynamic Novel Synopsis" held on Vancouver's North Shore in BC. Jaia also wrote script coverages, including the synopsis' for scripts for the Indie film company Complex Films in Los Angeles.

She is in the process of finishing her first novel Caped In Mission to be released later this year. Caped In Mission is based on the journey of following one's dreams, the undiscovered dreams within our dreams, and the truisms we encounter once we've set out on the path to accomplish the dream. Often times leading us to discover the dream has shapeshifted into an entirely different dream--we had never dreamed of before! A twisted tale of discovery, adventure and fate; Jaia has been working on this story since '05.

Jaia devotes the rest of her time to sharing the journey of awakening through self-explorative movement classes in the Vancouver area, where she currently lives and plans to live for the rest of her life. After living in NYC, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Santa Barbara, CA; Miami, Florida; Virginia and the Mid-West of the USA, she has found Vancouver to be the place of her heart's keeping--a place where dreams come true everyday.

To join one of her movement classes or to contact Jaia please visit Raise Your Vibrations

Email: J. La Ferme

Michael Fitzgerald-Clarke

Michael Fitzgerald-Clarke is an Australian poet who lives in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. His third chapbook, Three Hundred and Sixty-four Paper Boats, is forthcoming from Pudding House. Email: Michael Fitzgerald-Clarke

Charles Frederickson

Dr. Charles Frederickson is a Swedish/American/Thai impassioned observer, daring experimentalist and progressive visionary who has wandered intrepidly through 206 countries, an original sketch and poem for each presented on http://www.imagesof.8k.com. A member of World Poets Society, based in Greece, his unique poetic style has been featured in: Ascent Aspirations, Auckland Poetry, Blind Man’s Rainbow, Both Sides Now, Caveat Lector, Contemporary American Voices, Cordite Poetry Review, Dance to Death, Decanto, ESC!, Feelings of the Heart, Flutter Magazine, Greatworks, Green Dove, Indite Circle, International Poet, Listen & Be Heard, Living Poets, Madpoetry, Melange, Newtopia, New Verse News, Peace Not War Japan, Planet Authority, Poetics, Poetry Canada, Poetry of Scotland, Poetry Stop, Poets for Peace, Poetry Superhighway, Pyramid, Sz, T-Zero, Ygdrasil, Ya’Sou! and Zafusy. Contact

Thomas Freudiger

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K. Edwin Fritz

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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.

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.

Alex Galper

Being brought to America at the age of 19 left Alex Galper no choice. He had to keep on writing poetry in the only language that he knew - Russian, and hope that one day it would be recognized in his homeland. Seventeen years later, the English translations of his poems have published in over 30 magazines in USA and UK, whereas in Russia, he is considered too marginal, extreme, and "too-American" to publish. Go figure... Email: Alex Galper

Heidi Garnett

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.

P.L. George

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Gemma

Gemma more often goes by the name of ShatteredRoses. She is a previously unpublished writer from North Wales in the UK.

Email: Gemma

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.

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.

Cynthia Glass

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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.

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Shahar Gold

Shahar Gold lives in Toronto and writes and studies philosophy. His writing tends to lean towards the absurd, deranged, bizarre, satirical, and disturbing. For all his writings visit writing.com (author: shahar) Email: Shahar Gold

Harvey Goldner

Harvey Goldner lives in Seattle, which is perhaps the world's most beautiful city whenever the sun is shining, which it isn't. His poems have appeared in various journals, print and online, in America and the U.K. His most recent chapbook, Her Bright Bottom,is available from Spankstra Press (Seattle), and a collection of his poems, The Resurrection of Bert Ringold, is forthcoming from Cinco Puntos Press (El Paso, TX) in the autumn of '07.

Email: Harvey Goldner

Bruce Goodman

Bruce Goodman is a New Zealander freezing to death in rural Quebec.

Taylor Graham

Taylor Graham is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada , and also helps her husband (a retired wildlife biologist) with his field projects. Her poems have appeared in America, The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, Poetry International, and elsewhere, and she’s included in the anthology California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University, 2004). Her newest book, The Downstairs Dance Floor (Texas Review Press, 2006),is winner of the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize.

Email: Taylor Graham

Whitney Gratton

Whitney Gratton is an undergraduate illustration student at Rochester Institute of Technology. She is just as thrilled to have her work published for the first time as she is to be in Scotland for the summer, studying modern literature and creative writing at the University of Edinburgh. "Home" is still the small town of West Chazy near Plattsburgh, NY, where the trees, fresh air, and open spaces, among other things, are essential to her long-term sanity and happiness. Email: Whitney Gratton

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.

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John Greiner

John Greiner's poetry has previously appeared in The Spahr Street Review and The Phoenix Magazine.

John Grey

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.

David Groulx

David Groulx lives in Moose Creek, Ontario.

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.

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Kenneth P. Gurney

Kenneth P. Gurney currently lives in Albuquerque, NM. His gypsy existence effects him in such a way so that he changes geography every 2-4 years. He day dreams about living on his bicycle for a year and touring the USA only as fast as he pedals. His poetry is published regularly around the web and in print. Currently, he produces Origami Condom, a poetry website that opened up in July 2007. When the thunderstorms come, you will find him out walking in them or watching them cross the valley when the storms arrive from the west. Kenneth is a baseball fan — Go Isotopes! Email: Kenneth P. Gurney

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.

Jan O. Hansen

Nels Hanson

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.

Jennifer Hartley

Jennifer Hartley attends Simon Fraser University as a mature student, and will shortly earn her undergrad degree in English literature. She has always had a passion for literature and visual art. She has previously had a poem published in IAMB, a creative writing journal published at Simon Fraser University.

Carla Hartsfield

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.

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.

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, Canadians 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.

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Natalie Helberg

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.

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.

Andy Henion

Andy Henion's fiction has been published in a couple dozen online and print magazines, including Pindeldlyboz and The Circle.

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.

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J.D. Heskin

Ed Higgins

Ed Higgins' poems and short fiction have appeared in Duck & Herring Co.'s Pocket Field Guide, Monkeybicycle, Pindeldyboz, and Bellowing Ark, as well as the online journals Lily, Cross Connect, Word Riot, The Centrifugal Eye, and Red River Review, among others. He lives on a small farm in Yamhill, Oregon with a menagerie of animals including a rescued potbelly pig named Odious. He teaches writing and literature at George Fox University, south of Portland, OR. Email: Ed Higgins

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.

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.

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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.

Martin Hoeldtke

Martin Hoeldtke is unemployed and unpublished. He lives in West Virginia, and graduated from WVU. Email: Martin Hoeldtke

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.

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R. Thomas Hogg

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.

Doug Holder

Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. His work has appeared in Poetica, Buckle, the new renaissance, Main St. Rag, and many others. He holds an M.A. from Harvard University in American Literature and Language.

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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).

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.

Antonio Hopson

Antonio Hopson is a Sunday school dropout whose prose often visits the existential. His surreal and poignant stories have been widely published in both print (Quiet Shorts Magazine and Old Growth Journal) and electronic journals (The Harrow Magazine, The Subterranean Quarterly, OutCry Magazine, Lost Magazine, The Piker Press and also NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse). He has received Farmhouse Magazine's Reader's Choice award and in 2006 I was invited to perform at Seattle's Richard Hugo House where he was a featured writer and read from his list of published work.

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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." etrySuperHighway 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.

Rebecca Housel

Rebecca Housel is a professor of writing and literature in upstate New York. She has been published in Quiet Mountain Essays, Brevity, Rochester Review and Redbook, among others.

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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.

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!)

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.

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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.

Rik Hunik

Rik Hunik is forty-nine years old. He has been working in construction for about thirteen years now. He has written dozens of fantasy stories and two fantasy novels, The Dark Gate and Getting It Up In Titslegas: The Erotic Adventures Of Erectus The Builder. He is working on another novel as well as more short stories. He has seven stories published now, with more upcoming. "The Hollow Idol's Eyes" in Of Unicorns And Space Stations, Winter 1999, "The Gold Watch" in Crimson Online Magazine #13., "The Sitting" in Black Petals, Summer 2003., "Erectus In The Temple Of Erotia" in Swingers Today, No. 83., "Joyride" in Tales Of The Talisman, Sept. 2005., "Erectus In Clitoria's Passion Pit." in Swingers Today No. 86, "A Sleeping Beauty" in Swinging Times National Edition No. 240, "The Treasure In The Monkey's Fist" coming soon in Wild Violet, "Key Service" coming soon in Wild Violet, and "In The Kettle" coming soon from Midnight Times.

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Alia Hussain

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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.

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.

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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 ompetition 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.

Chris A. James

Chris A. James , BFA, also known as 'purity control,' is a writer, composer, guitarist, violist, proud husband and cat person. He attended the same highschool as Steve Nash, and has met Eric Wilson, Dr.Robert Ballard (discoverer of the Titanic), W.D. Valgardson, Stephen Fearing, Susan Musgrave and Gordie Johnson; and once shared a stage with Paul Anka and Celine Dion. Chris currently lives over the creek and down the garden path outside of Langford, BC with his wife, two cats, and many, many guitars.

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Leland Jamieson

Leland Jamieson has been a performing arts center manager for most of his working life, is retired and lives in East Hampton, Connecticut, USA. His recent and forthcoming work appears in Bellowing Ark, Blue Unicorn, Neovictorian /Cochlea, Raintown Review, and 3rd Muse. He has gathered a number of his published formal poems, some with streaming audio, under the title Needles in a Pinewood at www.geocities.com/lelandjamieson. He is hawking a longer book manuscript by the same name.

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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.

Martin Jervis

Martin Jervis lives in Leeds, England. His poetry has been published in the UK, the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. He spends part of the year in India and has written a series of poems with an Indian theme. He has also travelled extensively and is currently completing a book of collected works.

He has been previously published in Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria), Outposts, The Black Rose, Jones Av. (Canada) Eclipse, Decanto, Starving Art (US), Expos’d, Everyman Press, Poetic Hours, Poetry Repair Shop (US), Stylus (AUS), Carnelian (US), The Quiet Feather, Poetry and Graphics Monthly, Whimperbang (US), Muuna Takeena (Finland), S P Quill (Canada), Poems Neiderngasse (US/Switzerland), Snow Monkey (US), Poetry Canada, Erbacce, White Leaf Review, BeWrite Books, Psychopoetica and others. White Leaf Review has published an ebook The Citron House in 2007. Email: Martin Jervis

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.

Michael Lee Johnson

Michael Lee Johnson lives in Chicago, IL. after spending 10 years in Edmonton, Alberta Canada during the Viet Nam era. He is a freelance writer and poet. He is interested in social, religious topics, and the need for universal health care in the United States. He is presently self-employed, with a previous background in social service areas. He has a B.A. degree in sociology, worked on a Masters Program in Correctional Administration. Recent published poems: The Orange Room Review website: http://www.freewebs.com/theorangeroomreview/; Bolts Of Silk website: http://boltsofsilk.blogspot.com; The Flask Review: http://www.freewebs.com/theflaskreview/; Apollo’s Lyre, in their webzine: http://www.apollos-lyre.com/; Chantarelle’s Notebook website: http://www.chantarellesnotebook.com; and Fresh! On Line Literary Magazine website: http://members.aol.com/shirgerald/shortst.htm

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Moctezuma Johnson

It is rumored that Moctezuma Johnson was found in a New Jersey sewer in 1975 although this cannot be verified. He is known for his phosphorescence and luminosity as well as his septic filth. You could consider him something of a Ra merged with Yeti -- an improbable spin of DNA mixing plant, animal, and human. Also, he writes a weekly column for a local newspaper in Oaxaca, Mexico where he lives with his clan. Email: Moctezuma Johnson

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Vyacheslav Kupriyanov,(Poet) studio26@hoefgen.de 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.

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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.

John Joyce

John Joyce was born at Hampton Court, in England. He held school records for running the mile. He was educated in London and Salford, Lancashire where he gained an honours degree in electrical engineering. Subsequent studies have been at Dalhousie University, University of British Columbia and Capilano College. John Joyce started writing philosophy at school and has been extensively published. "Moniques's Interview" was his first short play and "Going Standby" is his latest. He departed England for Montreal to go around the world, living at different times in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and Dartmouth.He resides in Vancouver, Canada with his wife Diane. Altus Arts Agency promotes his works worldwide.

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Karen Kalis

As a freelance writer, Karen has had over a dozen credits published and holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University.

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 One's Own, Carve Magazine, Emry¹s Journal, Bellowing Ark and Psychic Radio; and comment pieces in SageWoman and Penn Lines.

Aaron Karmin

Aaron Karmin is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in the state of Illinois. He attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook and received a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology. He earned his M.A. in Clinical Professional Psychology and an Advanced Certification in Stress Management from Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL. Aaron has provided individual and group therapy for the past 6 years. In addition, he has given numerous lectures on relaxation, goal setting, and communication skills. Aaron has traveled extensively through: Egypt, Japan, Turkey, Europe, and Alaska. He recognizes the need for flexibility and creativity to address the mind and body. Email: Aaron Karmin

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.

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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.

Kevin P. Keating

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).

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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.

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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

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Roger Kemble

Roger Kemble is a poet, artist, and a architect/Planner. He resides in Nanaimo, BC.

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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 is being has been updated to include the video of Penn's "poem for peace in many voices" and, in audio, all ninety translations of the poem!

Michael Keshigian

Michael Keshigian is a performing musician and collegiate music educator in Boston. His poems and short stories have appeared in numerous print and online journals. To date, has had 5 chapbooks of poetry published and is a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee. His latest book, Warm Summer Memories was published this summer by Maverick Duck Press. His most recent publications include Mannequin Envy, Ibbetson Street, Fairfield Review, Red River Review, and Sierra Nevada College Review. Email: Michael Keshigian

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. Email

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.Email

Shervin Kiani

Shervin Kiani is a writer currently living in Toronto. His publishing credits include Black Petals Magazine and Dream Fantasy International. Email

Mark Joseph Kiewlak

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). Email

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

Jake Kinzie

Jake Kinzie is on a mission to free the quirky, deviant, sometimes crazy ideas that lurk inside him itching to be heard. Writing is their channel to existence and publication is their pathway to eventual freedom. Some of his stuff has recently been spotted at Nuvein.com and WordRiot.org. Email: Jake Kinzie

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

Ruth Kephart

Ruth Kephart has been published in various journals and anthologies including Ink Blotter, Sonnetto Poesia, Gotta Write, and The Aurorean. She works as a Registered Nurse and writes poetry in her spare time. Email

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).

Barbara Kowal

Barbara Kowal is a journalist living in Colorado. Email

Amanda Krut

Amanda Krut is one lucky writer living in the majestic state of Colorado. The twenty-one year old is currently attending college despite her lack of a consistent major. Perhaps she should choose English...? Amanda! is now twice published and hopes to continue publishing as long as her fingers can tame the keyboard.

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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.

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.

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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

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:

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Andrew Lander

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.

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.

Ted Lardner

Wolf Larsen

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!

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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.

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.

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.

David Lawrence

David Lawrence has published over four hundred poems. New book, "Lane Changes" is coming out in March by Four Way Books.

Pete Lee

Pete Lee lives with his wife in Ridgecrest, California, a small town in the Mojave Desert midway between Mount Whitney and Death Valley. His poetry has recently appeared online at Right Hand Pointing, Unfettered Verse, The Orange Room Review, ken*again, and Antithesis Common.

Email: Pete Lee

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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.

Tom Leskiw

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.

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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.

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.

Michael Levy

Michael Levy is the author of eight inspirational books. Michael's poetry and essays now grace many web sites, journals and magazines throughout the world. Michael's new book The Inspiring Story of Little Goody Two Shoes will soon be available at all bookstores. Point of Life Email: Michael Levy

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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.

Paul Liddy

Richard Lighthouse

Richard Lighthouse is a contemporary writer and poet. He is a corporate executive and has traveled all over the world. He is also an engineer, artist, pilot, teacher, & musician. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University.

His work has been published in: West Hills Review: A Walt Whitman Journal, New York; Red Cedar Review, Michigan State University; Mudfish, New York; and many others worldwide.

Email: Richard Lighthouse

Judy Lightwater

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Brian Lindley

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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.

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.

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.

Duane Locke

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.

Rob Loughran

Rob’s novel High Steaks won the 2002 New Mystery Award. His how-to book for writers Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow: A Year-Long Program for Writing Success is available at www.lulu.com.

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.

Pamela MacBean

Pamela MacBean's poetry has been published in the US, UK, and Canada, including recently Interpoetry.com, Subtletea.com, Adagio Verse Quarterly, and poetexpress.com. She won a prize from Open Mind's Quarterly this year. She has had two poetry books published, A Dalton View, and Postscripts in Time. Pamela MacBean resides in New Hampshire.

Email: Pamela MacBean

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Djelloul (Del) Marbrook

Djelloul (Del) Marbrook was born in Algiers, grew up in Manhattan, and worked as a soda jerk, newspaper hawker, messenger, theater and nightclub concessionaire and as a merchant and Navy seaman. He was a reporter for The Providence Journal and an editor for The Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette, The Baltimore Sun, The Winston-Salem Journal & Sentinel, The Washington Star and Media News newspapers in Ohio and New Jersey. His poems and short stories have appeared in a number of journals. His unpublished work includes three novels, Divers' Angels, Crowds of One and Zij, two novellas, The Pain of Wearing Our Faces and Artemisia's Wolf, and a collection of short stories, Later For You. A collection of his poems, Nail Me to This Moment, will be published in 2006 by Three Conditions Press in Baltimore. He is contributing editor of Arabesques Literary and Cultural Review, a tri-lingual online journal. Email: Djelloul (Del) Marbrook

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.

Fainne Martin

Fainne Martin resides somewhere between idyllic Saltspring Island and Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a writer/editor, housepainter, treeplanter, and whatever else will pay her rent and and a buy her a good bottle of red wine every once in a while. She studied English Literature at the University of British Columbia. Email: Fainne Martin

Rethabile Masilo

Rethabile Masilo is a Lesotho national living in France. He's the father of two and enjoys playing soccer, writing, and cooking. He's co-editor of Canopic Jar, and has been previously published in Orbis, Canopic Jar and Sethala. Email: Rethabile Masilo

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.

Susan Maurer

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.

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.

Brian Mayer

Currently, Brian Meyer is an Assistant Principal working with at risk students. While his job does keep him busy, it also inspires him to compose as often as possible. Also, he has been working with writing groups and poetry readings on Long Island. He does devote a great deal of time to poetry (both composing and reading) and it is his hope to continue to develop as a writer. He lives on the North Shore of Long Island with his wife, Nancy, our four beautiful children and our twelve guitars. Email: Brian Mayer

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.

Julie Mazza

Julie Mazza's poetry has appeared in the March 2005 edition of Tryst Magazine, an online literary magazine and in the February 2007 Issue of Black Book Press. She has been writing since she was 15 and she also enjoys reading and painting. Email: Julie Mazza

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.

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.

Brian McDermott

After completing an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Villanova University, Brian McDermott traveled to Seoul where he taught English as a second language for one year and became an expert at using chopsticks. Upon returning to the U.S., he completed an MSW from the University of Pennsylvania and then worked as a social worker for two years before enrolling in the M.F.A. program in filmmaking at Temple University. Brian's MFA thesis film about aging entitled "Cigarettes and Fresh Air" was recently named a Filnalist in the 2007 Moondance Film Festival. Now an aspiring poet/screenwriter/filmmaker/therapist, Brian rides his bicycle 4 hours per day and also teaches Public Speaking at Temple University part-time while he decides what to do next. Email: Brian McDermott

Karyna McGlynn

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.

Ann McGovern

Ann McGovern is a prize-winning author of 55 books for children including STONE SOUP. Her poems have been published in 30 literary journals, including Oberon, Confrontation, and Georgetown Review. She lives in New York City.

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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.

Andrea McKenzie

Andrea McKenzie grew up in Victoria, B.C. where she still resides. She is a long-time fixture at the Mocambopo Poetry Series, which is now Planet Earth Poetry. Andrea holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Victoria. She is an aspiring poet, novelist, and freelance writer. Her poetry has appeared in Canadian Literature, Mocambo Nights, Quills, Boulevard and Rubicon Press. In 2005, she published her first book of poetry A Mother's String through Ekstasis Editions.

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.

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.

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.

Nicholas Messenger

Nicholas Messenger had his first poems published in New Zealand as a schoolboy . He won the Glover Poetry award in New Zealand in the 1970’s. In 2006 he has had poems published in About The Arts, Blackmail, Boloji, Coffee Press Journal, High Altitude Poetry, Identity Theory, Jacket, Monkey Kettle, Off Course, Pulsar, Taj Mahal Review, Web Poetry Corner and WOW. He has had a few small one-man shows of his paintings.

He was born in 1945, and after completing a degree at Auckland University, travelled extensively in South America, and lived in Europe for several years. For a long time he made his living as a teacher, of science, art, and languages, in High Schools in New Zealand, where he was a long-standing member of mountain Search and Rescue organisation. Now, after nine years in Japan teaching English, he is running a small home-stay business in Hokitika, New Zealand, with his Japanese wife. He has two grown-up children from a previous marriage.

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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.

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.

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.

Michael Mirolla

Michael Mirolla is a novelist and short story writer currently residing in Toronto. His most recent publication is Berlin: A Novel (available for purchase online at http://www.trafford.com/robots/03-1650.html). A collection of short stories — The Formal Logic of Emotion — was published by Nuage in 1992. One of the stories from the collection, "A Theory of Discontinuous Existence," was also selected for that year’s The Journey Prize Anthology, awarded for the best short fiction published in literary magazines in Canada during the previous year. He has had short stories published in numerous journals in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, including several anthologies such as Event’s Peace & War Anthology, Telling Differences: New English Fiction from Quebec, Tesseracts 2: Canadian Science Fiction, the Collection of Italian-Canadian Fiction, and New Wave of Speculative Fiction Book 1.

Saikat Mondal

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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.

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.

Amy Monticello

Amy Monticello is currently an MFA candidate at The Ohio State University.

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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".

Gordon Moye

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.

Christopher Mulrooney

Aongus Murtagh

Aongus Murtagh is an Irish writer living in Berlin, Germany.

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..."

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.

Bruce Nelson

Bruce Nelson has been writing around the corners of his career for years. He has been in education for over 20 years. Currently he is an elementary school principal. He has had poetry published in Oxford Magazine and Touchstone Magazine. He has won first place in the East Texas Poetry contest. He won 2nd place in a state contest put on by the Texas Byliners. He has had feature articles published in the local newspaper and city magazine.

Martina Reisz Newberry

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.

Steven Marshall Newton

Steve Newton studied with C. D. B. Bryant at the University of Iowa and Philip Roth at the University of Iowa Creative Writers Workshop. He studied graduate and undergraduate creative writing and poetry at the University of New Mexico. He is a professional songwriter, poet, and part-time photographer. His short story, "Nothing But A Kiss", won First Place in the Santa Fe REPORTER Annual Short Story Contest, "Somewhere in LA", received honorable mention in the ALIBI Magazine Short Story Contest, "Dominique's Mother" was a finalist in England's Gator Springs Gazette Annual Short Story Contest, and Dust Devil won First Place in Ascent Aspirations Magazine flash fiction contest. He has published these and other short stories in Amarillo Bay Literary Magazine, Juked, Evergreen Review, Hot Metal Press, Gator Springs Gazette, Ascent Aspirations, and BLINK. He has completed three mainstream contemporary novels, Southeast of Eden, The Ghosts of Babylon, Evangelo, and Shrinking Violet. Vurrently he is nearing completion on an historical fiction novel, Billy's Kid. Email: Steve Newton

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.

Tanya Rucosky Noakes

Tanya Rucosky Noakes was born in the mountains east of Pittsburgh. She has degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in English Literature and Information Science, and a further degree in Environmental Education from Slippery Rock University. She has worked as an archivist, editor, organic farmer, teacher, UN representative, and park ranger and has wandered around Europe, the American West, and spend several years in Thailand and Taiwan. Currently she has wandered over to the other side of the planet where she owns an organic farm and runs a community environmental organization in rural Australia. She has been published in Taproot, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and Soul Fountain among others, and has a chapbook which came out in May.

Sandra Novack

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.

Teresa Nyenhuis

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.

Donal O Brien

Donal O Brien is Irish who enjoys reading, writing, and poetry.

Shawn Oetzel

Shawn Oetzel has had short stories appear in The Writer's Post Journal, Universe Pathways, and Opinions Magazine. He currently writes DVD reviews for the online media source Static Multimedia and has also had reviews published with Fractal Matter and Associated Content.

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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.

Erin Ondersma

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.

Katie O'Sullivan

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. Owe

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.

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.

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.

Kristi Jaylise Parker

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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.

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.

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Diane Payne

Oddly enough, Diane is still living in a dry town. Her teenaged daughter thinks that's a good thing. The dogs and cats don't have an opinion one way or another. Diane teaches creative writing at University of Arkansas-Monticello, has been published in numerous journals, and is the author of Burning Tulips. You can read her work at: http://home.earthlink.net/~dianepayne/

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Bryn Pearson (Colvin)

Bryn Pearson operates Hollow Hills, a small online publisher selling unconventional fiction.

Eamil

Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Queen's Quarterly and elsewhere. Readers interested in learning more are invited to read his essay Magic, Illusion and Other Realities at www.geocities.com/simonthepoet which has a complete bibliography.

Bill Perry

Bill Perry is a British Columbia west coast writer originally from Connecticut who has spent his life in the outdoors as a ski jumper, ski instructor, mountaineer and forestry specialist. Currently he shares his time in Ucluelet, Mount Washington and Vancouver. He is the owner and operator of Green Wave Adventures that specializes in guided hikes and seaside scrambles along the Wild Pacific Trail.

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Stephen Perry

Steven F. Perry, Institut fuer Zoologie, Universitaet Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Schloss, 53115 Bonn, Germany

Milos Petrovic

Milos Petrovic is a poet and poetry performer (jazz & poetry sessions) from Serbia, former Yugoslavia (South Eastern Europe). He studied philosophy and Serbian language & literature in Belgrade. He has over 4 000 poems that have not yet been published. He does not intend to publish any of his work in Serbia any more, because conditions are very bad for self-governed artists of any kind. In the year (1999) when he finished high school he published his first book and two years later his second book was out. He was declared as the most talented poet in the last 25 years in his city. He won one national and several local poetry awards. Email: Milos Petrovic

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.

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Roy Pierson

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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"

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.

Paul Pinn

Karen R. Porter

Karen R. Porter lives in the Pinelands of New Jersey.

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Megan Powell

Megan Powell's short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, most recently Flashing in the Gutters, Murder Across the Map, Short Attention Span Mysteries, and Shadows Mystery Magazine. My editing projects include the webzine Shred of Evidence(www.shredofevidence.com) and the cross-genre anthology Crossings. Her novel, Waxing was released in fall of 2005.

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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.

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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Bernadette Raffoul-Serravalle

Bernadette Raffoul-Serravalle is currently working on a poetry manuscript.

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.

Jack Rauhala

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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.

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.

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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.

William de Rham

William de Rham: Born and raised in New York City, William de Rham is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. A former trial lawyer and the author of Smuggler’s Bluff (a novel being offered for publication), he resides in Maine where he is at work on a second novel and a variety of short stories. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the on-line magazines Pulse and New Works Review, and in the print journals RiverSedge and Broken Bridge Review.

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Amanda Reynolds

Mireille Ribière

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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

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.

Ken Rodgers

Ken Rodgers lives, writes and teaches in Boise, Idaho.

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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.

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 .

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.

Kelly Rothenberg

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“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.

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.

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.

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Farrah Sarafa

Farrah Sarafa is currently a graduate student in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has been reading and writing poetry since I was very young. She was the second place winner of the Marjorie Rappaport Poetry competition, (University of Michigan) spring 2003 for “Olive” and that same year “Paul Kutner” was chosen for publication by an American Library of Poetry” publication. This year she has published two poems with Tablets multicultural journal, won second place for “To My Brother” in the 6th Annual Chistell Writing competition and published “Palestinian Fig” with both Arabesques and the Litchfield Review. She has also published various war poems with Poetic.injustice.net and others.

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Don Schaeffer

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

Irmgard Schafer

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Lea Schizas

Lea Schizas is the founder and co-founder of 2 Writer's Digest Top Writing Sites of 2005 & 2006: Apollo's Lyre and The MuseItUp Club. She is a multi-published author and currently finishing edits on two new novels.

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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.

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.

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.

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."

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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.

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.

Andrew Shaffer

Andrew Shaffer's speculative short stories have appeared in Mobius, MicroHorror, Sputnik57, 55 Words, and Tales from the Moonlit Path. He is the recipient of several awards including 1st Runner-Up in Dark Recesses? 2006 Ghost Story contest. Andrew received his B.A. in English from the University of Iowa. You can visit him online at Web Site.

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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.

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Alexander Shaumyan

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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.

Tom Sheehan

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.

Sarah Sheikh

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."

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.

Melanie Simms

Melanie Simms has been publishing poetry for the past 7 years in various ezines, newspapers and magazines including the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, The Santa Cruz Sentinel, 3 Cup Morning, Zuzu's Petals among many others. She has served as Poet Laureate of her County (Perry, PA) from 2005-2006 and served as President of the Association of Pennsylvania Poets Lauerate. Her website is located at Melanie Simms Poetry and her first book, Waking the Muse is now in distribution and available on BarnesandNoble.com among various other national and international distibution sites. Email: Melanie Simms

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.

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.

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.

Kate Smith

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!

Lorena Smith

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.

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Meghan Smith

Meghan Smith is currently a third year social work student and a mother of a 6 month old baby girl. She has been pubished in a few journals and internet periodicals such as Ascent, Re:verse and Pandora’s Collective under her maiden name Meghan Johnston. She enjoys writing about relationships, nature and her experiences traveling around British Columbia.

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Rick Smith

Nathan B. Smit

Nathan B. Smith is 24 years old and has received a degree in psychology from Ohio State University, as well as having studied English/Literature at Heidelberg University, Portland State University, and Ohio State. He was born in northwestern Ohio and has been traveling and moving about the last few years, having recently lived in Vancouver British Columbia, Portland Oregon, New Orleans Louisiana, Berlin Germany, and is presently residing in Sarasota Florida. He has been taking on odd jobs to finance his leisures of reading, writing, and traveling. Most recently he has been employed as a bartender at an opera house. He has blue eyes and likes avocados and novels from the nineteen-twenties.

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.

Lindsay R. Snider

Lindsay R. Snider is a high school student in Illinois who has won the 2006 DAR Essay Competition. She also plays the clarinet and is a costume/makeup/hair stylist for high school musicals and plays. In the future she would like a career in jounalism, but would also like to write books on the side. Email: Lindsay R. Snider

Susan Snowden

Susan Snowden has published numerous stories, poems, articles, and interviews, and won prizes for my work.

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.

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 was 6 months old when the dark years of WWII were unleashed. He was 50 and in psychotherapy when it dawned on him the fear present in his parent’s bodies at that time of unprecedented upheaval surely must have had a profound affect on him. His newest chapbook, “come here cowboy: poems of war,” recently written at age 65 and released by Pudding House Publications in the fall of 2006, focuses on how wars, stretching from WWI to today’s aggressive hostilities, have imprinted his life.

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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.

Al Staffetti

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Jonathan Stamp

Jonathan Stamp was born in Vancouver in 1985. He splits his time between Vancouver and Kingston, Ontario as he is currently taking a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Queen’s University. His art and writing explores gender relations, masculinity, youth culture and the human condition in the twenty-first century. Besides his art and writing he enjoys playing guitar, snowboarding and acting in student films. He has been published in Lake Effect V.2 and Ultraviolet Issue 10.1. Email: Jonathan Stamp

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.

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.

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.

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

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 (b. NYC 1939) grew up in and around New York and in certain parts of the rural South which made a deep impression on her. Parents of Eastern European Jewish ancestors raised her in a rich artistic environment. Her memoir Indigo is based largely on these two locales. Chapters of Indigo have appeared in various venues such as StorySouth, Atlantic /3711, Verb Sap, The Square Table, Riverbabble and in Italy’s Storie. “Audubon Wallpaper,” a chapter which came out first in StorySouth was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She will have twelve books out by mid-2006, among them the anthology The Sorrow Psalms;A Book of Twentieth Century Elegy to be published by the University of Iowa Press, June 2006. Her work appears in over thirty anthologies, seventy journals. In the Sixties, she worked for poet Denise Levertov in the political environment of Berkeley. Most recently her prose has appeared in The Dublin Review. For the past twenty-five years she has made Victoria, British Columbia her home.

Ray Succre

Ray Succre is 30 and currently lives in Coos Bay, Oregon, a small, coastal town where art is sparse and, when it does exist is of a general relation to driftwood, deer, dying romance, or various maritime subjects. He has tried to leave the town numerous times. He is married, has just become a father, and loves the south coast. He writes each day and is very driven to better himself and his work. In addition to poetry, short stories, and essays, he pretends also to be a novelist and is an avid loiterer in restaurants. He is between dishwasher jobs and is currently a stay-at-home dad, which he loves dearly. His poetical fugue theory has been published in several publications and has appeared in the 5th International Anthology of Paradoxism, and his work has also appeared in The Book of Hopes and Dreams, an anthology out of Scotland. Ray has published hundreds of poems in publications spanning England, Ireland, Scotland, India, Canada, Finland, Singapore, Wales, New Zealand, Italy, Australia, Germany, Israel and throughout the United States, as well as in many online magazines. He is also a winner of the Adroitly Placed Word Award, for spoken word.

Jim Sullivan

Jim Sullivan has been online in Ascent, Pulse, Beef, Voiding the Void, Wings Online, and others.

Andrea Bythe Svendsen

Andrea Bythe Svendsen's poetry has or will appear in Chinquapin and Bear Creek Haiku.

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.

John Sweet

John Sweet is 37, and has been writing for 20 some 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.

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.

Suzanne Sykora

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Anca Szilagyi

Anca Szilagyi has a BA in English literature and archaeology from McGill University. She is a former editor of Scrivener Creative Review and her work has appeared in Stationaery, Southern Ocean Review, Fire With Water, Montage, Scrivener, Hotel, and Tangmonkey.com. She currently teaches English as a second language in New York City.

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.

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.

Doug Tanoury

Doug Tanoury was born and raised in Detroit and attended Wayne State University. His work has been published widely both in print and in electronic form. A number of his poetry collections are available in ebook form at: The Poetry of Doug Tanoury and The Poetry of Doug Tanoury. Doug's poetry has been the subject of features in the New York Times Online and The Detroit News. One of his poems also won Honorable Mention in the Detroit Metro Times "Get Lit" special issue of 2006. Much of Doug's online work can be read by typing his last name into any Internet search engine.

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Jeremy Tavares

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Alfred Taylor

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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 Concordia University concentrating on prose. She is assembling a collection of short stories and poetry, and working on her third novel.

Derek Tellier

Derek Tellier's work has appeared in Pindeldyboz.com, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Motel, Bluelit.com, and Small Spiral Notebook.com. He is a recent graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato’s MFA Creative Writing Program. He is currently working on a short story collection and teaching in the Twin Cities.

Email: Derek Tellier

Kim Thevenot

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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).

Gary Thoma

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.

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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.

David Thornbrugh

David Thornbrugh currently writes from South Korea, where he teaches English in a National University. He writes to push back the darkness a little bit at a time, in the same flighty manner as lightning bugs. He has been published in numerous small press journals, and once wrote the questions for a geography textbook. He prefers multiple choice questions to True/False.

Email: David Thornbrugh

Goldie Tompkins

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Dianna Toomey

Dianna Toomey is a poet and writer. Although currently living in Birmingham, AL, and devoting most of her time to writing, she has lived and worked in Chicago, NY and Boston, where she was successful in Modeling and Media Advertising. She has finished two manuscripts, Delish, and Real Life, Real Love, Real Poetry, and is currently working on a novel. In addition to her creative mind she enjoys traveling, painting and spending time with her two children.

Email: Dianna Toomey

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.

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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.

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

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Vladut Mircea Tverdohleb

Joe Vadalma

Joe Vadalma has loved science fiction and fantasy from the time he learned to read. His hobbies, besides writing, are adventure game playing and do-it-yourself projects. Before he retired, he was a technical writer at a major computer manufacturer. Several short stories of his have been published in E-zines, and he has sold a series of dark fantasy novels called The Morgaine Chronicles to Renaissance E Books, www.renebooks.com. Renaissance has also published a collection of his short stories, The Sands of Time, and two SF novels, Star Tower and The Bagod. Delingers Publishing, www.thebookden.com , has published his science fiction novel, The Isaac Project. The Book of Retslu, a humorous fantasy, has been accepted by Mundania, www.mundania.com , and will be published soon. His web site, The Fantastic World of Papa Joe, www.fantasticworld.cafe150.com, contains SF, fantasy and horror stories, serials, my blog and art.

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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."

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.

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.

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Paul Vantine

Paul Vantine is currently an English instructor at Cameron University in Lawton, OK, where he teaches freshman-level composition classes and Developmental Writing courses. In addition to his teaching duties, he serves as the Director for the Student Support Services Writing Lab, where at-risk college students receive additional and valuable one-on-one instruction. He has been published in The Armchair Aesthete, The Rose Review, The Cameron Forum, The Cameron Collegiate, The Wichita and another story has been accepted for publication in the magazine My Legacy.

Email: Paul Vantine

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. A year ago he began his own literary agency, The Circle Literary Agency, in North Florida. He lived almost all of his life in and around Youngstown, Ohio. He was fiction editor of Pig Iron Press, Youngstown, Ohio, for 12 years. He has had poetry and fiction appear in the following: Ascent Aspirations, 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, 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!

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.

S.C. Virtes

Look for SCV works in ANALOG (Jan 97), BEYOND, OTHER WORLDS, SPACE & TIME, PLANET, and many more.

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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.

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.

Jackie Waite

Naomi Wakan:

Naomi Wakan: Born in London, England. Graduated with a degree in Social Work from Birmingham University. Emigrated to Canada and brought her family (Beverly Deutsch, a graphic artist and Adam Deutsch, a computer systems analyst) up in Toronto. Worked as a psychotherapist specializing in early childhood traumas. Remarried to the sculptor, Elias Wakan, and travelled extensively including living two years in Japan.

With Elias had a small publishing house, Pacific-Rim Publishers, that published educational books which Naomi wrote and illustrated. She and her husband moved to Gabriola in 1996 and opened a studio, Drumbeg House Studio, where Elias makes wood sculpture and Naomi paints, writes and does fabric art. During this period Naomi has moved from writing books geared to children to books for an adult market. her essays and poetry have appeared in Resurgence, Geist, Room of One's Own, Kansai Time Out, Far East Journal and many other magazines and web-sites. She has read her writings on CBC and in poetry venues. She is also a member of Haiku Canada, The League of Canadian Poets and is on the board of Poetry Gabriola.

Recent Works

Segues, a book of poetry, Wolsak and Wynn, Spring, 2005. Writing, a book of poetry focused on reading and writing Naomi Wakan, Spring, 2005. Late Bloomer - on writing later in life, Wolsak and Wynn, Fall, 2006.

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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.

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Kevin Walby

Kevin Walby is from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Mel Waldman

Mel Waldman is a licensed New York State psychologist and a candidate in Psychoanalysis at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS). He is also a poet, writer, artist, and singer/songwriter. After 9/11, he wrote 4 songs, including "Our Song," which addresses the tragedy. His stories have appeared in numerous literary reviews and commercial magazines including HAPPY, SWEET ANNIE PRESS, CHILDREN, CHURCHES AND DADDIES and DOWN IN THE DIRT (SCARS PUBLICATIONS), NEW THOUGHT JOURNAL, THE BROOKLYN LITERARY REVIEW, HARDBOILED, HARDBOILED DETECTIVE, DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE, ESPIONAGE, and THE SAINT. He is a past winner of the literary GRADIVA AWARD in Psychoanalysis and was nominated for a PUSHCART PRIZE in literature. Periodically, he has given poetry and prose readings and has appeared on national T.V. and cable T.V. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Private Eye Writers of America, American Mensa, Ltd., and the American Psychological Association. He is currently working on a mystery novel inspired by Freud's case studies. Who Killed the Heartbreak Kid?, a mystery novel, was published by iUniverse in February 2006. It can be purchased at www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/, www.bn.com, at www.amazon.com, and other online bookstores or through local bookstores. Recently, some of his poems have appeared online in THE JERUSALEM POST. Dark Soul of the Millennium, a collection of plays and poetry, was published by World Audience, Inc. in January 2007. It can be purchased at www.worldaudience.org. A 7-volume short story collection will be published by World Audience, Inc. in 2007.

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.

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?).

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.

Paul Ward

Paul Ward has been writing for a number of years and has had over two dozen stories published in the last year.

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.

Mathew Warner

Mathew Warner writes out of Burke VA

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).

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.

Pavelle Wesser

Pavelle Wesser has published in online poetry anthologies such as Voicesnet.

Joanna M. Weston

Joanna M. Weston is married, has 3 sons, and shares space with two cats. She lives on Vancouver Island. She is a full-time writer of poetry, short-stories, and poetry reviews and is published internationally in journals, print and online, and anthologies. She has two middle-readers, THE WILLOW-TREE GIRL and THOSE BLUE SHOES, in print.THOSE BLUE SHOES for ages 7-12 $12.95 Cdn. ISBN 0-9739051-1-5 THE WILLOW-TREE GIRL for ages 7-11 $7.95 Cdn. ISBN 1-55352-073-4

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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." He has performed at festivals, schools, prisons etc. He runs workshops across Australia & is editor of Meuse Press which focuses on poetry outreach projects.

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William Wilde

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.

Guy Wilkinson

Guy Wilkinson was born in Liverpool, England, raised in Saskatchewan, and now lives with his wife and three children in Vancouver, where he teaches literature at Langara College. He has had stories and poems published in various U.S. and Canadian magazines and is currently working on a novel.. Email: Guy Wilkinson

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.

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.

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.

Charlotte Winder

Charlotte Winder is currently at veterinary college and is interested in the marriage of science and medicine with literature.

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.

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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.

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Leslie Wolter

Leslie Wolter is an English Instructor at McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois.

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.

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.

Linda Woolven

Linda Woolven has published over 50 poems in journals across Canada, the United States and the U.K.. The poems have appeared in Journals such as, Dana Literary Society, Amethyst Review, Write On, Sepia Poetry Magazine, New Mirage Quarterly, The Kaleidocope Review, Canadian Writer's Journal, Pink Chameleon and Fullosia Press. One of her poems received an award from Dana Literary Society. She published a chapbook, called Life's Little Lessons last summer that featured 26 poems.Email: Linda Woolven

Lisa Veyssiere

Lisa Veyssiere has studied fiction with the Stanford Writer's Studio. She works in public health surveillance, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family, and sometimes in New York, alone. She is currently revising a novel about finding lost things in Lower Manhattan and Northern Nevada. Email: Lisa Veyssiere

Michael T. Young

Michael T. Young's poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Home Planet News, The MacGuffin, NYCBigCityLit, RATTLE, Spillway, and many other journals. His most recent collection is Transcriptions of Daylight. He has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received the Chaffin Poetry Award for 2005. His work is also in the anthologies Phoenix Rising and Chance of a Ghost. He currently lives with my wife in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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.

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.

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Tessa Zeng

Tessa Zeng is a junior at Thomas Jefferson HSST in Alexandria, VA, where she is poetry editor for the literary magazine. Her poems have appeared in the New Moon Magazine for Girls, Surrounded Magazine, Coffee House Press (online), and will appear in Bear Creek Haiku.

Email: Tessa Zeng

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....)

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Victor Zorman

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