Donal O Brien

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

Andrew Oerke's

Andrew Oerke's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, and in numerous other magazines. In 2006 two new books of his poetry, African Stiltdancer and San Miguel de Allende, were published jointly by Swan Books and the UN Society for Writers and Artists. They received the United Nations Literature Award.
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Shawn Oetzel

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

Trisha Ofstedal

Trisha Ofstedal has been creating fiction since even before she learned the alphabet. After a reckless and painful adolescence, she began a wandering migration toward happiness that included fulfilling her ever-persistent dream of becoming a writer. While she has found happiness, she still wanders and enjoys the plethora of inspiration it provides for her writing. She currently lives/writes in Ohio surrounded by her rowdy family and variety of even rowdier house pets. Email

Sean O'Gorman

Sean O'Gorman began to write poetry at 15 and kept with it as a way to deal with personal issues and it slowly became a way to communicate with those around him. As a slam poet he has had the opportunity to contribute to more than just slam scenes. It has become a tool in his life that allows him to contribute to fundraiser’s of all kinds. He had the opportunity to be a part of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in both 2010 on the Wild Card team and in 2011 on the Capital Slam team. He has published 2 volumes of poetry and has been featured on the Live at Capital Slam CD for 3 years in a row. His love for the art form comes through in his ability to create connections with the audience and fellow performers.

Brianne O'Grady's

Brianne O'Grady's poetry has been accepted for publication by Four and Twenty and Canadian Stories magazines. She is the co-author of a children's book written for Ontario's Best Start Program and in August 2008, she received an honourable mention in the We Are Many Festival's Short Fiction Contest. Brianne is originally (and at heart) a girl from rural Ontario.

Geraldine O’Kane

Geraldine O’Kane Based in Northern Ireland Geraldine O’Kane has been writing poetry for over 10 years, she has had several poems published in local magazine's and online e-zine's, Black Cat Poems, Speech Therapy and Allo Trope, Short, Fast & Furious. She has previously been part of a local writing group at the Craic Theatre and has performed some of her work in local Theatres and the Dungannon Borough Council Arts Festival, Purely Poetry and Belfast Community Arts. Her poetry is mostly inspired by observation and the human condition and emotion. She is currently working full-time for a national newspaper and is currently studying for her degree. Email: Geraldine O’Kane

Stephen Oliver

Stephen Oliver is the author of fifteen titles of poetry. His work has appeared in innumerable international literary publications. A number of his satirical essays feature in Antipodes, A North American Journal of Australian literature.

Stephen lived in Paris, Vienna, London, San Francisco, Greece and Israel. Signed on with the radio ship The Voice of Peace broadcasting in the Mediterranean out of Jaffa, Israel. Freelanced as production voice, narrator, newsreader, announcer, voice actor, vocal coach, journalist, radio producer, copy and feature writer. Lived in Australia for the last two decades. Currently resides in NZ undertaking research for a writing project.

His two new titles are, Harmonic, a collection of poetry (2008), and KING HIT CD, written & read by Stephen Oliver to original music by Matt Ottley (2007). Both titles published by Interactive Publications, Brisbane, dist. in Australia and New Zealand. For further info: Titles and CD Baby: CD

Books Published

Henwise (1975), & Interviews (1978), Autumn Songs (1978), Letter To James. K. Baxter (1980), Earthbound Mirrors (1984), Guardians, Not Angels (1993), Islands of Wilderness - A Romance (1996), Election Year Blues (1999), Unmanned (1999). Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978-2000 (2001), Deadly Pollen (2003), Ballads, Satire & Salt - A Book of Diversions (2003), Either Side The Horizon (2005). Harmonic (2008). Link A Simple Tale from the CD King HIT

Nicholas Reid: Visiting Fellow, School of Humanities, Australian National University and Sometime Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Anne Britting Oleson

Anne Britting Oleson is a writer with a paying hobby of trying to teach high school English. After fifteen years out of college, she decided she'd got enough nerve to go back and earn that blasted MFA. She is very glad she did--in the past couple of years she's had the chance to work with magnificent people such as Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Theodore Deppe (I love Ted), Baron Wormser and Gray Jacobik. These days she is touring local reading venues with Simply Not Done, a feast of words by wild women; we’ve recently performed at the Cornelia Street Café in New York City as part of the Mamapalooza Festival, which was a blast.

She has most recently been published in Animus, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Café Review, Cimarron Review, and a whole slew of other places: a poem of hers was chosen to appear in Letters to the World, the anthology of the WOM-PO listserve from Red Hen Press. The Church of St. Materiana, my chapbook, was published in October 2007 by Moon Pie Press; another chap, The Beauty of It, was published by Sheltering Pines Press in August, 2010. Email: Anne Britting Oleson

Jane Olivier

Jane Olivier, born 5 May 1953 in Peterborough, Ontario, raised in South Africa. Travelled extensively throughout Africa on business and as journalist and editor. Registered and managed an NGO in Cambodia caring for orphans and displaced children, built orphanage and school. Since 2009 travelling and currently visiting Laos. Email: Jane Olivier

Norman Olson

Norman Olson is a 59 year old poet, artist and civil service worker. Since publishing his first poem in 1984, after many years of submission and rejection, he has published hundreds of poems and drawings in 15 countries and all over the USA. He worked in a factory printing telephone books from 1968 to 1988 and since then has worked at civil service clerical jobs. Web Site Email: Norman Olson

Erin Ondersma
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Ryan O’Rourke
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Sergio Ortiz

Sergio Ortiz studied English literature at Inter-American University in San German, Puerto Rico, philosophy at World University, Culinary Art at The Restaurant School in Philadelphia, and trained as a Daily Living skills instructor from the visually impaired at the Texas Lions Club in Kerrville. His work has been published in POUI, The Cave and Origami Condom. He is a retired English teacher. Email: Sergio Ortiz

Louise Ostling

Louise Osting was born and raised in Sweden. She lived there until she was nineteen when she moved to the United States to pursue her education. She is currently a freelancing journalist and a tennis coach in El Paso. She has just finished her MFA degree in creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has previously published short stories in CrossConnect and BorderSenses. She is a regular contributor to The El Paso Times, What"s Up, and Sun Tennis. Email

Katie O'Sullivan
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Christine Ottoni

Christine Ottoni is a twentysomething writer based out of Toronto Ontario. As a recent graduate of the University of Toronto, she is relishing her quarter life crisis. Email: Christine Ottoni

Scott Thomas Outlar

Recently Scott completed a novel, The Awakening of Numa, in which a narrative, poetry, lyrics, prayers, meditations and musings intwined together to tell the story of A New Dawn in this Golden Age of Consciousness.This is an excerpt from that book. Email: Scott Thomas Outlar

Laurence Overmire

Laurence Overmire is an American actor/director/writer who has worked on stage, film and television. His poetry has been or will be published in "Kimera," "The Penwood Review," "Nuthouse," "Lynx Eye," "Emotions," "Angelflesh," "Maelstrom," "The Laire," "Uprising," "Office Number One," "Superior Poetry News," "Main Street Rag Poetry Journal," "Children, Churches and Daddies," "The Gentle Survivalist," "Short North Gazette," "Nomad's Choir," "Improvijazzation Nation," "The Writer's Exchange," "Over the Back Fence Magazine," "Niederngasse," "Apples and Oranges," "Pegasus," "Blind Man's Rainbow," Wings," "L'Intrigue," "Mobius," "Footprints," "Vol. No. Magazine," "Some Words," "Shadyvale Magazine," "Transcendant Visions," "Art Villa," "Bonfire," "Ygdrasil," "Aileron," "Barbaric Yawp," "Webstatic," "Seeker Magazine," "Ixion," "Unlikely Stories," "Poetry in the Light," "Horsethief's Journal," "Avalon," "Mind Fire Poetry Journal," "Burn," "ArtsFusion," "Manx Fiction," "Eclectica," "ShallowEND," "Carved in Sand," "The Courtship of Winds," "Psychopetica" and others.

Steve D. Owen

Steve D. Owen's writing is based upon the seedy underbelly of the American dream/reality -- especially that of the dysfunctional family. Having grown up in and barely escaped his own abusive family environment, and having worked as a counselor with emotionally disturbed (abused) children for (going) on four years now -- he has a lot to share with our society in regards to what really goes on...and shouldn't. However, he also looks into the polluted pot of politics and religion - national, international, historical -- and enjoys tearing apart the paradigms of any scared cow. His goal is to be truly non-biased and intellectually honest. Email

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