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.Email

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.
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Buddy Wakefield

Buddy Wakefield is the two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion featured on NPR, the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and most recently signed to Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. In 2004 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Finals thanks to the support of anthropologist and producer Norman Lear then successfully defended that title at the International Poetry Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands against the national champions of seven European countries with works translated into Dutch.
In 2005 he won the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship again and has gone on to share the stage with nearly every notable performance poet in the world in hundreds of venues internationally from The Great Lawn in Central Park and Scotland’s Oran Mor to San Quentin State Penitentiary, House of Blues New Orleans and First Avenue.
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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 Email

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. Email: Mel Waldman

Nicole Walker

Nicole Walker is the editor of Quarterly West. She has been published in Seneca Review, Fence, Iowa Review, Puerto del Sol, among other places.Email

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?).Email

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. Email: Maureen Wallner

Adam Walsh:

Adam Walsh: His poetry is of projective verse as noted by the second generation American Modernist Charles Olson. Its form visually is as important verbally. The double spaced lines are intentional as with all elided words (elision). He earned a B.A. from the University of Montana and a MFA from Eastern Washington University under the tutelage of Christopher Howell.
"I lost all sensibility along with my hair at nineteen. Poetry permits the hanging of ourselves over and over again. Richard Hugo said something along the lines of: 'If you are going to kill someone, kill them in a poem;' it lasts much longer. Enough with death and suffering. Poetry, specifically the kind I compose, attempts to briefly show the reader themselves through a cracked mirror but saying it is inerrant; I am here to show the faults of others through my own. Speak of tolerance in your poems; rest under the words to attain a different level of sleep." Email: Adam Walsh

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. Email: John A. Ward

Paul Ward

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

Vernon Waring

Vernon Waring is a four-time winner of international poetry competitions sponsored by Tom Howard Books; three of the winning poems - "the death of memory," "juror number twelve," and "Not A Poem" - originally appeared in Ascent Aspirations Magazine. His work has also been featured in Nerve Cowboy, First Literary Review - East, WestWard Quarterly, and The Great American Poetry Show. Mr. Waring's short fiction has been singled out for commendation in the Glimmer Train, New Millennium Writings Awards, and Soul-Making Literary Competitions. He lives in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Email

Mathew Warner
Mathew Warner writes out of Burke VA.
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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). Email

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

Sebastien Wen

Sebastien Wen is a poet, playwright and spoken word artist based out of Calgary and Vancouver.
His poetry has been featured in the spoken word DVD Poets Asking For Exile (2011) and magazines such as Cicada (2012), The Claremont Review (2012) and Ascent Aspirations (coming 2013). Excerpts from his play The Backseat have been featured in Alberta Theatre Projects' Fresh Prints (2011).
He has featured as a performer in the Calgary Spoken Word Festival (2012) and The People's Poetry Festival (2012). Sebastien is studying English, History and Philosophy in his first year at the University of British Columbia. He strives to do things to your brain with his tongue.
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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

Danielle West

Danielle West, is originally from Michigan, now lives in Los Angeles with the two men in her life: her dogs. She's acquired a strong following through her personal blog and is also trained in the field of writing radio commercials. She enjoys great success as a model and actress. Corrine's Chronicles Blog

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. Email: July Westhale

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. Email: Duncan Whitmire

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. Email Les Wicks Home Page

Daniel Wilcox

Daniel Wilcox's wandering lines have appeared in many magazines including The Danforth Review, The Camel Saloon, Word Riot, Half Way Down the Stairs, and Unlikely Stories. Before that he hiked through Cal State University Long Beach (Creative Writing), Montana, Pennsylvania, Europe, Palestine/Israel...working in a mental institution, helping on a reservation, and teaching students literature for years. He now lives with his wife on the central coast of California where he ages but doesn’t petrify. Email: Daniel Wilcox

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.

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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. Email

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

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.
Email: Jeffrey Williams

Jill Williams

Jill Williams has two poetry books to her credit: The Nature Sonnets (Gival Press, 2001) and A Weakness For Men (Woodley & Watts, 2003). She has twice edited Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine and her work can be found on various websites including The Hypertexts,and Real Leight and her own website She is a firm believer that formal poetry will never go out of style. Email

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.Email

Leonore Wilson

Leonore Wilson's poems have been featured in Poets Against the War, Third Coast, Madison Review, English Journal, Poet and Critic, Quarterly West, Poetrybay.Email

Sheri-D Wilson

Sheri-D Wilson,The Mama of Dada
Spoken Word Poet, Multi-media Artist, Educator, Producer & Activist

Sheri-D Wilson has 8 collections of poetry; her most recent, Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe. Her collection, Re:Zoom (2005, Frontenac House), won the 2006 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for the CanLit Award.

In 2011 she edited, The Spoken Word Workbook: inspiration from poets who teach (CSWS/BCP), an educational tool for teaching and writing Spoken Word. The cutting-edge website connected to this book presents a possible direction for electronic publishing in the future.

She has 2 Spoken Word CDs (arranged by Russell Broom), and 4 award-winning VideoPoems including: Airplane Paula (2001), Spinsters Hanging in Trees (2002), all produced for BravoFACT.

In 2009 CBC called her one of the Top 10 Poets in Canada. In 2003 she won the USA Heavyweight title for poetry, and in 2006 The National Slam of Canada presented her with the Poet of Honour Award. Of the beat tradition, in 1989 Sheri-D studied at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, in Boulder, Colorado. In 2012 she was presented in the opening event of The National Slam of Canada in a Toronto event called, "Legends of Spoken Word."

Awards Include:
ffwd Readers’ Choice Award—Best Poet (2007-2011), CBC Arts Top 10 Poets in Canada (2009), 2006 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, Global TV's Woman of Vision Award (2006), SpoCan Award (2005), Bumbershoot Heavyweight Title for Poetry USA (2003), Gold Award at the Houston Film Festival (2003), Three ACE awards (2003), AMPIA (2003, for best short or vignette), CBC Face-off (2002).

Reading Highlights:
V125PC 2011 (Vancouver), National Slam-Legends of Spoken Word 2011 (Toronto), Vancouver International Writers Festival 2011, 2002, ‘00, ‘95, ‘93, ’90 (Vancouver), Maple Stirrup en El Arco de la virgin 2010 (Barcelona), Art 4 Change 2010 (Harlem), FiEstival maelstrÖm reEvolution 2010 (Brussels), Blue Met 2009 (Montreal), Voix d’Amériques 2008,‘05 (Montreal), Bumbershoot 2003, ‘99, ‘92, ‘91, ‘89 (Seattle), The World Poetry Bout 2002 (Taos, New Mexico), Poetry Africa 2001 (South Africa), WordFest 2008, 2000, ’95 (Calgary, Banff), Harbourfront Reading Series 1993 (Toronto), Small Press Festival 1990 (NYC).

Other Highlights:
Women and Words 2003-2011 (instructor), First Time Eyes: Unearthing Spoken Word 2007 essay (Canadian Theatre Review), Heart of a Poet 2006, featured poet documentary, Bowery Project 2005 (Instructor), Alberta Scene 2005 (a commemoration of Alberta’s centennial), Human Rights Symposium 2005 Victoria, Sounds Like Canada, 2002 CBC Poet in Residence, Addicted: Notes From The Belly Of The Beast 2001 essay Blackout, Confessions a Jazz Play, 1991 text of play (Theatrum).

Community:
A long-time advocate of Small Presses Sheri-D has had a lifetime desire to showcase the voice of all people. From 1988-1990, Sheri-D co-founded and organized the Vancouver Small Press Festival, and the Commercial Street Art Festival for the Normal Art Society in Vancouver.

The Calgary Spoken Word Festival which she founded in 2003, is one of the most respected Spoken Word Festivals in North America. Driven by the passion to connect people, voices and ideas she organized SWAN (Spoken Word Arts Network,’07, ‘05), she produced the 2008 National Slam and has been Director of the Spoken Word Program at Banff Centre since 2007.

Founder/ Artistic Director/Producer: Calgary Spoken Word Festival, since 2004.
Founder/ Director: Spoken Word Program @ Banff Centre, since 2007.
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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.
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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.Email

Marianne Woeste

Marianne Woeste: After retiring from her teaching career in 2009, Marianne began focusing more time on the craft of writing, which had only been a pastime during her working years. Since 2009 she has taken several writing classes, participated in writing workshops, joined a writers’ group, and has begun reading more poetry journals and websites. Email: Marianne Woeste

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.Web Site Email

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.EmailWeb Site

Leslie Wolter

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

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. Email

Kay Woods

Kay Woods has been writing and publishing short stories for a number of years. Her stories and poetry have appeared in magazines such as QWF and Mslexia. Email

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

Kirby Wright

Kirby Wright is the author of the companion novels PUNAHOU BLUES and MOLOKA'I NUI AHINA, both set in Hawaii. He is the 2011 Artist in Residence at Milkwood International, Czech Republic. He wishes to dedicate "Square Dancing at the Asylum, Worcester, Mass., 1949" to the memory of his great uncle Paul Nolan. Email: Kirby Wright

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