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.
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Jackie Waite
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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
Compositions:Notes on the written word, Wolsak and Wynn, 2008
Late Bloomer – on writing later in life, Wolsak and Wynn, 2006
Segues, Wolsak and Wynn, 2005
Haiku-one breath poetry, Stonebridge Press
Writing, a book of poetry focused on reading and writing Naomi Wakan, Spring, 2005.
Naomi Wakan's Site
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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
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Kevin Walby is from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Johanna Wald
Johanna Wald has been published in The Externalist, MotherVerse, and Pilgrimage Press,
and has two essays due for publication this spring: one in an anthology about the election of 2008 and one in SLAB Journal.
Email: Johanna Wald
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.
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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.
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Ruth Walker
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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?).
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Pat Wallace
Pat Wallace has been published in The Fairfield Review,
Shadow Poetry Quarterly Magazine, and PKA's The Advocate, as well as served as
assistant editor on the spring 2007 edition of Dogwood. He currently resides in Manhattan.
Email: Pat Wallace
Maureen Wallner
Maureen Wallner: A Canadian-American, née Québec, and a graduate of Augustana College (IL)
in English literature with a minor in journalism, my short fiction has appeared in New England Writer’s Network (Blue Tattoo), in biasonus.net (Two Fires), Le Forum and Left Curve (Twenty-one Days and Bandit respectively, March and April ‘11). My nonfiction, creative nonfiction (Barbara’s Basement, March ’11) and poetry have also appeared in magazines, with short fiction and poetry placing and winning in contests. Mountains Never Meet, Book 1 of my historical fiction trilogy, is currently with an editor for agented launching this fall.
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Robert Walton
Robert Walton has taught at San Lorenzo Middle School for thirty-five years. He and his wife Phyllis have been married for thirty-two years.
They have two sons, Jeremy, 26 and Jon, 21, and make their home in King City, California. Robert is a life-long rock-climber and mountaineer.
He’s made numerous ascents in the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite. His writing about climbing has been published in the Sierra Club's Ascent,
in "High" Magazine, and in "The Climbing Art". Three of his books for children have been published.Email
John A. Ward
John A. Ward was born on Staten
Island, attended Wagner College in the early 60's, sold his first poem to
Leatherneck magazine, and became a scientist. He is now in San Antonio
running, writing and living with his dance partner. Links to his work can
be found at Blog.
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Paul Ward
Paul Ward has been writing for a number of years and has had over two dozen stories published in the last year.
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Vernon Waring
Vernon Waring's poetry has appeared in The Writer, The Iconoclast, Alabama School of Fine Arts Quarterly,
Midwestern University Quarterly, New Dimensions, and Anthology as well as on the Prairie Home Companion's Web site.
His light verse has been published in the Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia Daily News, and WRITE ON!! Poetry Magazette.
His short fiction and poetry have also been featured online in Ascent Aspirations Magazine. He resides in King of Prussia,
Pennsylvania.
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Mathew Warner
Mathew Warner writes out of Burke VA. Email
J.S.Watts:
Born in London, England, J.S.Watts now lives, works and writes in East Anglia. She has had poetry
published in a variety of magazines and publications in Britain including Envoi, Tandem, Orbis, Acumen and The Ugly Tree.
Email: J.S.Watts
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).
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Kara Weiss
Kara Weiss lives in Seattle, Washington where she attends the MFA program at the University
of Washington. She is the 2008-2009 recipient of the Ingam Fellowship, and has been twice
published in Word Riot. She is currently at work on her first book, a fictional account of young ex-patriots living in Saigon.
Email: Kara Weiss
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.Email
Pavelle Wesser
Pavelle Wesser has published in online poetry anthologies such as Voicesnet.Email
Cara West
Cara West is a New England native. She enjoys bocce on the beach and walks around the city. She attended
Harvard University and has taught and lectured on a variety of topics.
Email: Cara West
July Westhale
July Westhale is a poet and activist with a weakness for botany and hot air balloons. in 2004 she won the Out!
Redwood Lesbian Rainbow Literary Award for Prose and was published in College of the Redwood’s literary journal, Poets
and Writers. In August 2010, she was invited to participate in and publish with InterDisciplinary's International
Conference on Performance Theory in Prague with her article "Entrails and the Bedroom: Sexual and Geographical
Borderlands in Queer Bodies". Her poetry has been published in Spork Literary Press (November 2010), Bitch You
Left Me, and Tule Press. Her fiction has published in Full of Crow (January, 2011). She is a graduate of Mills
College and is currently working on her MFA in Creative Writing at California College of the Arts.
She lives and writes in an attic in Alameda with her two cats, z and blue.
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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 Web Site
Duncan Whitmire
Duncan Whitmire lives and writes in Los Angeles, California.
His stories unto this point have appeared in college literary magazines such as Prairie Margins
, and Crosscut. Duncan's story, "Grandma Cass", is scheduled to appear in the fall issue of Amarillo Bay.
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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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Phoebe Wilcox
Phoebe Wilcox is a lifelong resident of Eastern Pennsylvania . The first chapter of her novel,
Angels Carry the Sun, has been published in Wild River Review, and an excerpt from a second novel
in progress, The Use of Flower Symbolism in Feminist Art and Literature, has been published in Wild
Violet. Her story, "Carp with Water in Their Ears", published in River Poets Journal has been
nominated for this year's Pushcart Prize. Recent poetry may be found in Blue Collar Review and
Word Riot, and is forthcoming in Fiction at Work, VISIONS,The Battered Suitcase,
The Northville Review, Waterways, Counterexample Poetics, Glossolalia, Sixers
Review and in a chapbook of the River Poets. She has also been the recipient of a James Michener Scholarship award.
William Wilde
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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.
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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..
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Jeffrey Williams
When Jeffrey was younger, he never dreamed of ever entertaining the notion of becoming a writer. He wanted to be a fireman
, priest, race car driver or a child psychiatrist. That all changed one day when he was channel surfing
in search for something to do that wouldn't bore him to tears. It was a scorching hot Sunday afternoon
with temperatures in excess of ninety degrees. He was lying on his floor with the remote in his hand dying
for something. Then inspiration came. he happened upon the "Lifetime" channel that was airing one
of his favorite sitcoms, "The Golden Girls." The episode was about Blanche's discovery that she was meant
to be a great Southern writer. Following the episode, he decided to write a story himself. The rest, as they say,
is history. He caught the "writing" bug and was hooked. He has never stopped writing.
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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.
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Michael Williams
Michael Williams is a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer currently living part
time in the Bahamas. He has a certificate in creative writing from the London School of Journalism, and has had work
accepted and published by The Lakeview Review, as well as being the recipient
of the 2004 Cecelia Lamont Literary Award. Email: Michael Williams
Natalie Williams
Natalie Williams is of African/Irish ethnicity and was born in 1981 in Harare, Zimbabwe and lived a life
immersed in creative activity, from music, singing training, creative writing, school newspaper production and editing
and acting. She won an Honours Eistedford award for her poem 'The Thicket and The Musgrove' at the age of nine with various
other poems/stories printed in local newspapers and magazines. Writing is her passion, finding inspiration by dark fantasy,
story telling and poetry, and she continues to develop ideas formed by simplicity and warmed to readiness with imagination.
Her inspirations at a young age came from Tolkien, Grimms Fairy Tales, Walter de la Mare and Edgar Allen Poe.
This world where bad/good combined seem to form a new reality which provided her with inspirations for some of her
favourite pieces of work.
Her poetry collection Daydreams in Mermaid Grass can be found on Amazon or ordered direct from my publisher
JM Publishing.
Email: Natalie Williams
D. Harlan Wilson
D. Harlan Wilson's writing has appeared in a number of magazines, most recently in Doorknobs & BodyPaint, Redsine, Lethogica,
The Café Irreal, Driver's Side Airbag, The Dream Zone, Samsara Quarterly and Eclectica. A chapbook of his stories was published in 2000,
and his first full-length book, a collection of forty-four stories called The Kafka Effekt, is due to be published this Fall. Wilson holds
two M.A. degrees, one in English Literature (University of Massachusetts-Boston), the other in Science Fiction Studies (University of Liverpool).
Currently he is working on his Ph.D. in Twentieth Century American Literature and Theory at Michigan State University.
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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.
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A.D. Winans
A.D.Winans with the late Jack Micheline
A. D. Winans was born in San Francisco and graduated from San Francisco State University. He returned
from Panama in 1958 to become part of the Beat and post-Beat era. He is the author of 45 books and chapbooks
of poetry and prose including North Beach Poems, The Holy Grail: The Charles Bukowski Second Coming Revolution,
North Beach Revisited, This Land Is Not My Land and The Wrong Side Of Town. For seventeen years he edited
and published Second Coming Magazine/Press. He worked for the San Francisco Art Commission (1975-80),
during which time he produced the Second Coming 1980 Poets and Music Festival, honoring the late poet
Josephine Miles and the late blues musician John Lee Hooker. He has received past editor and publishing
grants from the NEA and the California Arts Council, and writer assistance grants from PEN and the Academy
Winans was born in San Francisco and graduated from San Francisco State University.
He returned from Panama in 1958 to become part of the Beat and post-Beat era.
In 1983 he was awarded a San Francisco Arts and Letters Foundation cash award
for his contribution to small press literature. In 2006 he was awarded a PEN Josephine Miles Literary
Achievement Award for his book of poems, This Land Is Not My Land, published by Presa Press.
His poetry, prose, essays and book reviews have appeared in over a thousand literary magazines and
anthologies, including City Lights Journal, Poetry Australia, the New York Quarterly, Beat Scene,
Beatitude, Rattle, The Smith, the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press),
and Inside the Outside, Presa Press. His poetry has been translated into nine languages.
In 2004 a song poem of his was performed at Tully Hall, New York City. Such noted poets
and writers as Colin Wilson, Studs Terkel, James Purdy, Peter Coyote, Jack Hirschman,
and the late Jack Micheline and Charles Bukowski have praised his work.
In 2007 Presa Press published a book of his selected poems The Other Side Of Broadway:
Selected Poems 1965-2005 with a foreword by Jack Hirschman (San Francisco Poet Laureate).
He has worked at a variety of jobs, most recently with the U.S. Department of Education (Office for Civil Rights),
as an Equal Opportunity Specialist, investigating claims of discrimination against minorities, women, and the disabled.
He is a member of PEN, and has served on the Board of Directors of many arts organizations, including the now
defunct Committee of Small Press Magazine Editors and Publishers (COSMEP). He is listed in The Gale Research
Contemporary American Authors and the Gale Research Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series.
His essay on the late Bob Kaufman was published in American Poetry Review and was republished
in January 2007 by the Writer’s Research Group. His archives and the archives of Second Coming Magazine
and Press are maintained at Brown University.
For more information visit his website: Web Site
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Charlotte Winder
Charlotte Winder is currently at veterinary college and is interested in the marriage of science and medicine with literature.
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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.
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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.
Eli Hiroshi Wood
Eli Hiroshi Wood Born: April 9, 2001 in San Francisco, CA, USA
Grade 1 student at Simon Fraser Elementary School in Mount Pleasant,
Vancouver, BC. Eli is into dinosaurs and wants to become a palaeontologist in the future.
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.
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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.
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Linda Woolven
Linda Woolven has have published over 60 poems in journals across Canada, the United States and the U.K..
The poems have appeared in Journals like, 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 also
published a chapbook, called Life's Little Lessons last summer that featured 26 poems. Two of her poems
will be part of a collection of poety, in book form.
Email: Linda Woolven
David Wright
David Wright is a high school English teacher living on Canada’s majestic west coast. His short
stories have appeared in over a dozen publications including Neo-Opsis Issue 12, MindFlights
Issue 1 and Cover of Darkness May 2009. Email: David Wright
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