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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.

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Liz Jacoby
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Chris A. James
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Leland Jamieson

Leland Jamieson lives and writes in East Hampton, Connecticut, USA. Recent and forthcoming work appears in numerous print and Internet magazines. His first book, 21st Century Bread: Poems, can be previewed and is available at Lulu.
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Pavol Janik

Pavol Janik was born in 1956 in Bratislava, where he also studied film and television dramaturgy and scriptwriting at the Drama Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (VSMU). He has worked at the Ministry of Culture (1983-87), in the media and in advertising. President of the Slovak Writers' Society (2003-07) and the Secretary-General of the SWS (1998-2003, 2007 - ). He has received a number of awards for his literary and advertising work both in his own country and abroad.

Notable Collections of poems: Nezarucene spravy (Undelivered Reports, 1981), Zrkadlo na konci leta (A Mirror at the End of Summer, 1984), Do videnia v mnoznom císle (Goodbye in the Plural, 1985), Hura, hori!, (Hurrah, It's Burning! 1991), Niekto ako boh (Someone Like God, 1998), Bud vona tvoja (Thy Scent Be Here, 2002), Kmitocet tvojich bokov (The Oscillations of Your Hips, 2002)

Collections of aphorisms: Dobra zrada nad zlato (Good Advice is Worth More Than Gold, 1996), Satanovisko (Satan's Place, 1999), Pes hore bez, 101 psin (A Topless Lark, 101 larks, 2000), Spinave cistky (Dirty Purges, 2002) Dramatic works: Tuctova komedia (Commonplace Comedy, 1986), Sukromny striptiz (A Private Striptease, 1993), Maturitny oblek (A School Graduation Suit, 1994), Nezna klauniada (A Tender Farce, 2004). Pavol Janik's plays in Canada : A collection of three plays by the Slovak dramatist Pavol Janik has been published in a Canadian university periodical, the Toronto Slavic Quarterly, under the title of "Dangerous Comedies" translated into English by Heather Trebaticka. The periodical is available on-line: http://www.utoronto.ca/tsq/09/index09.shtmlEmail: Pavol Janik

Jaz

Jaz is a singer, published poet and ASCAP member-songwriter. Her poetry has appeared in various publications including WRITE ON!, Struggle, Poetic Hours, Ascent Aspirations, WestWard Quarterly, and in the 2006 anthology Distinguished Writings/Publications Collection Book. In 2008, she has won 2nd place with monetary award and web publication on sps.com in the Eleventh Biannual Poetry Card Contest for Blue Mountain Arts. Jaz is honored to be used as a vessel as unto her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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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.

Amanda Louise Jendrick

Amanda Louise Jendrick is an aspiring writer living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Email: Amanda Louise Jendrick

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.

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Michael Lee Johnson

Michael Lee Johnson is a poet, and freelance writer. He is self-employed in advertising, and selling custom promotional products. He is the author of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom, http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-46091-7. He is also nominated for the James B. Baker Award in poetry, Sam's Dot Publishing. He is a contributor in the Silver Boomers poetry anthology about aging baby boomers, by Silver Boomer Books. Michael Lee Johnson presently resides in Itasca, Illinois, United States. He lived in Canada during the Vietnam era and will be published as a contributor poet in the anthology Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era publication scheduled for early 2008. He has been published in USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, Turkey, Fuji, Nigeria, Algeria, Africa, India, United Kingdom, Republic of Sierra Leone, Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, and Malaysia.

Visit his website at: Web Site
. He is now the publisher, editor of Poetic Legacy, Poetic Legacy

and Birds By My Window: Willow Tree Poems at Birds By Window.
Both publications are now open for submissions.

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

Francis R. Jones (Translator)

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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Jason Jones

Jason Jones is an editor and writer from the Philadelphia Area. He is currently working on Barcelona, a novel about the demise of a failed opera singer after his diagnosis with a terminal illness. His work has recently appeared in Philadelphia Stories, Flutter Poetry Journal, Cause & Effect, and is forthcoming in Literary Mary and Gargoyle Email: Jason Jones

Martin Jones

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

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.

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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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