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Mary T. Sala

Mary T. Sala is honored that her work is being presented in Ascent Aspirations Magazine. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Theatre Arts from Pomona College and a Master's Degree in Performance from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has trained England with teachers from the London Academy of Dramatic Art, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Central School and Weber Douglas School. She is a voice and speech trainer and has been teaching theatre/performance on the university level for over fifteen years. Her professional acting credits include the Off-Broadway production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle directed by George C. Wolfe and Once in a Lifetime performed at the Samuel Beckett Theatre. She has also performed for the Young Playwrights Festival, toured with the Lincoln Center and has been in several regional and national commercials. She recently wrote and directed her first one act play Holding the Space Open at the Knightsbridge Theatre and is continuing to explore her creative voice as a writer. She currently resides in Southern California with her husband and two children. Email: Mary T. Sala

April Salzano

April Salzano received her Masters in English from Queen Mary College, University of London and currently teaches at Penn State University, Shenango Campus. Her poetry has appeared in Allegheny Review and is forthcoming in Poetry Salzburg. She spends most of her time raising her two sons, ages 8 and 4. Email: April Salzano

Jagjit Sandhu

Janos Sandor

Steve Sangirardi

Steve Sangirardi has MS and lives in New York. He is also a husbad, father, and retired English teacher at 55 because of his MS. He just had a book of stories published by Wild Leaf Press, called Life on the Planet. If you goggle his name, you'll see the book's website and samples of his other work. Email: Steve Sangirardi

Peggy Sapphire
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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.

Email: Farrah Sarafa

Gerard Sarnat

Gerard Sarnat splits time between his San Francisco Bay Area forest home and Southern California's beaches, where he and his wife care for their first grandson. Gerry is a seeker and Jewbu, a father of three, physician to the disenfranchised, past CEO and Stanford professor, and virginal writer 'til the recent tender age of sixty-two. He has been published or is forthcoming in print and electronic literary journals including EZAAPP, The Hiss Quarterly, Pens on Fire, Poets Against War, Thieves Jargon, Underground Voices, Flutter, Jack, Atavar, Wilderness House Review, Aha!Poetry, Spindle, Defenestration, Black Zinnias,The Furnace Review, Stonetable Review , Bird and Moon, LoudPoet, SoMa, SNReview, Subtle Tea, Language and Culture, River Walk Journal, and Juked among others. "Just Like the Jones'," about his experience caring for Jonestown survivors, was solicited by The Jonestown Annual Report and will appear later this year. Gerry is currently working on an epic prose poem, "The Homeless Chronicles." He has been accepted into a four person writers' cooperative by The California Institute of Arts and Letters; Pessoa Press plans to publish his first book.

Email: Gerard Sarnat

Don Schaeffer

Don Schaeffer 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, Lilly Lit, Burning Effigy Press, Understanding Magazine, "Melange, Tryst, Quills, and others. His first book of poetry, Almost Full was published by Owl Oak Press early in the summer of 2006. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from City University of New York (1975) and lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba with his wife, Joyce. He recently became the granfather of Hannah Zoe Sasaki Schaeffer.
Email: Don Schaeffer
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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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Brendyn Schneider

Brendyn Schneider's short stories have appeared in Beginnings, The Elmont Herald and Mindprints, A Literary Journal. More of his work will appear in Our Town Brookline next year. He also writes a column called "The Light Upstairs" at Dadity.
The author is currently seeking a publisher for his two novels. He resides in Boston, MA.
Email: Brendyn Schneider

Chantel Schott

Chantel Schott is a self-taught abstract artist who has worked on projects both collaboratively and individually since 2005. She has exhibited at the ‘Painting a different picture’ exhibition in Brisbane and was recently a finalist in the 2009 Acquisitive Kath Dickson Art Award exhibition in Toowoomba, Australia. Chantel was runner-up this year for the Rock the Art Vote competition at sweetriot in New York and her artwork ‘At Sea’ appears on the cover of the 2010 McGregor Summer School brochure. She was the featured artist for Long Island Arts in New York and she has recently sold an exclusive collection of her greeting cards to the Darling Heights Australia Post Office in Toowoomba. Chantel enjoys working with acrylic, pastels and mixed media with her major focus on creating abstract art.
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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.

Alan Scott

Alan Scott is a native and continuing resident of California. The serpentine course of his life has wound from honor student to hippie dropout to office worker to science student to political activist, and most recently taken the form of unemployed non-profit administrator. He has been a closeted writer all the while, and Ascent Aspirations is the first to publish his work.
Email: Alan Scott

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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Anna Serio
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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.

Email: Andrew Shaffer

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."

Kory M. Shrum's

Kory M. Shrum's recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in North American Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Zone 3, Phoebe and elsewhere. She resides in Michigan with her pug as she happily serves New Issues Poetry and Prose press. Email: Kory M. Shrum

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.

Andy Sibbald

Andy Sibbald lived in the Yukon for 8 years, Nunavut for 10 years and the North West Territories for 2 years, and presently lives in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island. He has been involved in designing and implementing several healing camps and programs with First Nations and Inuit.
Email: Andy Sibbald

Gabrielle Sierra

Gabrielle Sierra is a 23 year old proofreader and freelance writer living in the West Village of New York City. Her fiction has been published on Opium.com, From the Asylum books and Press, Yankee Pot Roast, Defenestration, Thieves Jargon, Unlikely Stories, and Keepgoing. She is the Arts and Entertainment writer for UnVogue magazine and does the issue's Informer section. Gabrielle is also a leader for New York Cares, and has spent the past two months teaching the Young Authors Club. She hopes to someday be able to say that she writes full-time.Blog

Frank Sikora

Frank Sikora is a graphic artist and writer for an aerospace company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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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.

Daryl Sneath

Daryl Sneath was raised in a small town called Beaverton, and were there a hospital there, it is where he would have been born. After receiving an MA in English Literarture & Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, he moved to another small town called Port Perry where he currently teaches high school English, writes, and shares his days with his wife, Tara. He returns to Beaverton whenever he can. Email: Daryl Sneath

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. Email

Garrett Socol

Garrett Socol's fiction has been published in The Barcelona Review, Ghoti Magazine, Underground Voices, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, HobartPulp, 3711 Atlantic, and 3:AM Magazine. His plays have been produced at the Berkshire Theatre Festival and the Pasadena Playhouse.
Email: Garrett Socol

Henry Sosnowski

Henry "Hank" Sosnowski, South Chicago born Polish-American followed his gypsy heart across America from Alaska's Aleutian Islands to North Carolina's shore. Following Brecht's edict that an artist must "First feed the face, then talk right and wrong," Sosnowski worked as a newsboy, caddy, fry cook, steel worker, blues musician, pipefitter, pool hustler/card shark, landscaper, railroad brakeman, auto part salesman, actor, warehouse manager, woman's clothing rep, waiter, missionary, writer, Alaskan game warden, book store manager, morning DJ, corporate VP, marketing director, dishwasher, factory worker, car salesman, handyman, customer service rep, janitor, teacher, hot rod show promoter.
Sosnowski currently lives and teaches in Reno, Nevada, inspiration for his one-man traveling show: "Write Before Your Eyes! Hank the Revelator - Live on Stage 24/7!" For one week, Sosnowski comes to town to write/perform/live on an outdoor stage replica of a 1930s writer's; garret, melding written, spoken and performance art.
Sosnowski is the winner of the 2006 Sierra Arts Foundation Writer's Grant.
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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. Email

Ksenija Spasic

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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

There has been no influence under the politics of the NEA, and not a hint of the heavy hand of an MFA, in the diverse writings of personal conflict and social consciousness by the poet Spiel. He is published frequently, internationally, online and in independent press journals. His latest books are: “she: insinuations of flesh brooding,” published by March Street Press and “once upon a farmboy, ” published by MadmanInk . Learn more about Spiel at:Web
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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. Email

Al Staffetti

Al Staffetti, 260 Sarles, Pleasantville N.Y 10570 Email

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. Email

Gaia Standing

Gaia Standing has worked steadily for three years on a speculative science fiction novel taking place in New York City. It is currently being reviewed, and assigned to a literary agent and publisher.
Gaia had another article published by Ascent Aspirations in 2006, called 'Written,' about following ones wild and romantic dreams on a wave that splashes and transforms into yet another configuration of a dream we hadn't realized or seen within ourselves before.
Gaia lives in Vancouver, Canada, after living in NYC, LA, Santa Barbara, Nelson, BC, and the Midwest. She was born in Virginia Beach, VA where farmland and beaches meet harmoniously. She has worked as a Production Assistant in Los Angeles reading scripts and writing synopsis' on them in 2003-04.
She looks forward to you picking up a copy of her first novel, as she undergos writing the second.

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

Email: Gaia Standing

Jack Steinberg
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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.

Jack Stewart

Jack Stewart was educated at the University of Alabama and Emory University. From 1992-95 he was a Brittain Fellow at The Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has appeared in Poetry , The Gettysburg Review, The American Literary Review, The Dark Horse Review, The Southern Humanities Review, and other journals and anthologies, most recently in Image and Nimrod. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with his wife and two daughters and teaches at Fort Worth Country Day.

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Josh Stewart

Josh Stewart is a recent graduate of the University of Toronto, seeking employment. Josh enjoys sushi, hats, and Tuesdays.

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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. Email

Christine Stoddard

Christine Stoddard is a 2007 graduate of Yorktown High School in Arlington, VA and a rising freshman at Grinnell College on a full-tuition scholarship. She is currently a paid intern at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, as well as the fashion intern for WASHINGTON LIFE MAGAZINE. Her passions are art and writing, and she has been published both in print and online. To view some of her work, please visit Web Site, or join her fan clubs on Facebook (The Christine Stoddard Fan Club) and MySpace www.myspace.com/christinestoddard.

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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.

Lynn's book of short stories, Spin the Bottle: Kiss Me A Jewish child in the South has been accepted for publication by Plain View Press, Austin.

Garland Strother

Garland Strother is a native of north Louisiana and a retired librarian, who now lives in River Ridge, LA, near New Orleans with his wife, Liz, also a librarian. His poems have appeared in Louisiana Review , Arkansas Review, Texas Review, Common Ground Review, Plainsongs, Christian Science Monitor, Big Muddy, Foliate Oak, Southern Hum, Loch Raven Review, Orange Room Review, and others. Email: Garland Strother

Jane Stuart, Greenup, Kentucky

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.
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George Such

George Such has had a chiropractic practice in Richland, Washington for the past twenty-six years, and has recently completed an undergraduate degree in English at Washington State University TriCities. He hopes to do graduate study in English in the future. His poetry has been published in Dislocate, Hiram Poetry Review, Lullwater Review, The MacGuffin, Roanoke Review, Windfall, and several other literary journals. Email: George Such

Jim Sullivan

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

Mary Ann Sullivan is a Doctor of Arts student at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. She teaches writing and literature at McIntosh College in Dover, NH. The New York Times called her first novel, Child of War, set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, "an earnest first novel." She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College.
Email: Mary Ann Sullivan

Patrick Ryan Dunn Sullivan

Patrick Ryan Dunn Sullivan is a mathematician, linguist, and poet living indefinitely on the Korean peninsula.
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Victoria I. Sullivan

Victoria I. Sullivan, PhD, is retired university professor of biology, 4th generation native of Florida, and has published numerous in scientific papers, nonfiction for magazines and newsletters, and poetry. She is a resident of Sewanee, Tennessee, and winters in New Iberia, Louisiana. Email: Victoria I. Sullivan

Dee Sunshine

Dee Sunshine was born in 1962, in Glasgow, Scotland. He started writing poetry in his teens and was inspired to take his writing seriously after he won the Lochaber High School poetry competition in 1979. He was active in the London poetry scene in the early 80's and published a couple of chapbooks. He produced an alternative arts/ poetry zine, Dada Dance from 1984 to 1990.

In 1986, he commenced studies at Edinburgh College Of Art, specialising in Sculpture, which he studied to post-graduate level. Whilst at art school he won an Andrew Grant travelling scholarship to India; a John Kinross Scholarship to Florence, Italy; and participated in an exchange programme, studying for three months at L'Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Le Havre, France.

After graduating, he worked in community arts, arts development, film & television, and as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. He did his fair share of less glamorous jobs too, including a six-month stint in a fish factory. He's also put in a great many unpaid hours as editor of Acid Angel and The AA Independent Press Guide.

He retired prematurely from a glittering career in the Scottish film industry, after suffering a brain haemorrhage in September 2001 and was in hospital when the World Trade Centre was "attacked by terrorists". Ten days later his daughter, Rosie Sunshine, was born.

He has published two books of poetry, The Bad Seed (1998) and Dropping Ecstasy With The Angels (2004), and a novel, Stealing Heaven From The Lips Of God (2004). He also edited the charity poetry anthology The Book Of Hopes And Dreams (2006). His poetry and short stories have been published in hundreds of print and internet magazines worldwide, as has his art. His music is available extensively over the web and he has a MySpace at www.myspace.com/captainmelted for his more twisted/ cut-up electronica and another MySpace at www.myspace.com/sunshinesoundz for his more relaxed, ambient music.

Dee's third collection of poetry, Visions Of The Drowning Man (2009) has been released as an e-book, which can be downloaded for free from Obooko.com, as can his most recent publication, Red Dreams And Razorblades: Collected Poems 1980-2005 (2009).

Since 2006 Dee has been leading a nomadic, dividing his time between Scotland, Spain and India. When not writing, making art, making music or editing websites he has been pursuing his ambition to become a polyglot; attempting to improve his French and Spanish, as well as trying to fathom the mystery of Hindi.

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Andrea Bythe Svendsen

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

David Swartz

David Swartz is a prolific painter, writer and art teacher out of Toronto, Canada. His work is bold, bright, imaginative and promotes spiritual well-being. Above all, his 'birds on ladders' and 'hand the and!' paintings are about elevation, consciousness, and creative evolution. His birds have hands in the place of wings and elevate themselves by standing on ladders! Also, they are holding wheels of color, sometimes with eyes in the middle. He is currently exhibiting and doing live painting at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto and has been invited to put three ofhis works on permanent display at Mount Sinai Hospital. Selections from his work can be viewed at the following address: Blog

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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.

Maggie Switzer

Maggie Switzer is an undergraduate at Indiana University studying English, business, and arts administration. She does a lot of her writing in her business classes, where she feels it is more beneficial than listening to lectures. Email: Maggie Switzer

Suzanne Sykora

To date Suzanne has placed almost 60 poems in the small press or on the web, most recently with Think Journal (debut issue, launching), Ancient Paths, Bibliophilos , Talebones, the Iconoclast (# 98), KRAX Magazine, StarLine, Tales of the Talisman, the Green Rock Review, Aoife's Kiss and Sounds of the Night (Sam's Dot); as well as on the websites of Midnight Times , Abyss and Apex, Aphelion and Wild Violet. She has also placed 26 stories; most recently with Iconoclast, Barbaric Yawp, New Myths, Aphelion and Wild Violet. Email: Suzanne Sykora

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.

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