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Cassandra Dallett

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Cassandra Dallett lives in Oakland, CA. She is currently unemployed, a sometime student, and a full time mama. She writes poetry and short stories of memoir. Cassandra has published in Cherry Bleeds, Street Spirit, Opium Poetry2.0, The Mylvia Street Journal, and The Beat Museum of San Francisco.
Email: Cassandra Dallett

Yorgos Dalman

Yorgos Dalman has published in America in Samsara Quarterly, Flesh & blood, The New Absurdists and The Cafe Irreal. Currently he is also translating the works of D. Harlan Wilson (The Kafka Effekt & Stranger on the Loose) for the Dutch magazine market. Email

Meghashri Dalvi

Meghashri Dalvi is a well-established science fiction writer in India. Her stories are published in Marathi, a regional language of India, and translated in English / other regional languages. Her short stories have won numerous prizes. She is engineer by profession and enjoys popular science writing, too. Her first book about machines and their history has won her accolades. "The Shopping Trip" and "The Space Child" show her in the light science fiction mood where she very often excels. Address: A-202 Madhu Milan, Eksar Road, Borivli (W), Mumbai 400 103, INDIA Tel no: +91-22-891 5070 Email

Alison Daniel

Alison Daniel lives and works in Australia. Her work has been widely published in many ezines (Atomic Petals, Stirring, The Absinthe Literary Review, Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), Mentress Moon, Conspire, Eleven Bulls. Forthcoming poems will be published in Jack, Junket and Taint. Email

Joshua Danka-Dake

Joshua Danke-Dake’s "Me, the Devil and the English Language" won third place in the 2002 CCL Writing Contest and was published with more of his work, including its sequel, in Oral Roberts University's literary magazine, Promethia. Email

Pamela Z. Daum

Pamela Z. Daum's work has been published in Satire Magazine and BMW Roundel, Taj Mahal Review and Gray's Sporting Journal. She has been writing short stories since her childhood. You could say she has lived a rich fantasy life. Essentially, she looks at everyday events taking place between characters and note the subtle, yet complex details. She writes each story from this point of view. Email

Cortland James Davidson

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Cortland James Davidson is a eightteen-year-old university student from Alberta. He enjoys reading, writing, and wrestling in his spare time. Email: Cortland James Davidson

Terri Brown-Davidson

Terri Brown-Davidson is on the poetry and fiction faculty at Gotham Writers' Workshop. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in more than 750 journals, including TRIQUARTERLY, HAYDEN'S FERRY REVIEW, DENVER QUARTERLY, THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, and NEW YORK STORIES. Email

William G. Davies Jr.

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William G. Davies Jr. lives with his wife of thirty-eight years, in rural Pennsylvania on ten acres where they bottle our own wine. Email: William G. Davies Jr.

Devin Wayne Davis
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Alexander J. Dawson

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Alexander J. Dawson: experimental involvement in words, sights, sounds and actions. Thrilled to add Ascent to the memory place. Email: Alexander J. Dawson

Cameron Dawson

Barb Day

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Barb Day, a.k.a. Jaded, is a spoken word artist from Paris, Ontario whose poems range from humorous to getting the word out on serious social issues. She has competed nationally at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and performs regularly at various events, festivals and competitions across the Province. She is a member of the Cambridge Writer’s Collective and has just completed her first children’s book, a 25 chapter novel, A Pirate’s Gold. Email Barb Day

Holly Day

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Holly Day's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have most recently appeared in Canadian Woman Studies, Skyway News, and Ruah. She currently works as a reporter and a writing instructor in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and lives with her two children and husband. Her hobbies include skateboarding, crocheting, and trying to peaceably communicate with uncooperative vending machines. Email

Lori Ann Day

Lori Ann Day has been writing poetry for years, and she enjoys sharing her work with others. She has been published several times by minor publications, and the local newspaper in Watsonville. She also writes song lyrics for the songs that she sings in clubs. Some of her work has been featured in Femme Soul. Femme Soul Email

Frank De Canio

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Frank De Canio has been published in more than 90 magazines(and/or e-zines); Danger, Pleiades, Genie, Write On!!, Red Owl, Nuthouse, Love's Chance, Words of Wisdom, Rook publishing, Illogical Muse, The Lyric, Free Lunch, Art Times, Pearl; with Hazmat, Medicinal Purposes, Blue Unicorn and Ship of Fools, Raintown Review, and others pending. He was born and lives in New Jersey, but his cultural breeding grounds are in New York City. He likes music of all kinds from Amy Beach to Amy Winehouse; from Albinoni to Zap Mama. He likes the poetry of Dylan Thomas, Alan Ginsburg, Sylvia Plath. Shakespeare is his soulmate and solace. Email: Frank De Canio

Ivan de Monbrison

Ivan de Monbrison was born in Paris in 1969 from a french protestant father and an egyptian muslim mother, both mixed with jewish origins. His interest in art can be linked to a very liberal artistic education, where african and ocenian arts were in the center of his interests. This left him with a desire to pursue the question of what art meant in the old days, and how can this be dealt with in our modern and absurd world of thriving technology.
Is art religious? Thus In which way can in it still be in a non-sacralized world? Chasing the human figure in a distorted way, like Bacon and Giacometti did in the past, has appeared for him the best way for this non-religious "spiritual " quest. It has apperead to get even more important as art has tended to become nowdays more and more similar to publicity, and fashion. Ivan's works have been shown in the recent years in various countries. Artist's Web Site
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Anthony De Sa

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Hugo De Sarro

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Hugo De Sarro is a former college English instructor. He has published poetry, essays and short stories in a variety of journals, including Snowy Egret, Colorado Review' Sparrow: Yearbook of the Sonnet, Christian Science Monitor, FreExpression, PDQ, Pulsar, Black Bear Review, Eureka Lit.Mag. Email

TATJANA DEBELJACKI

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TATJANA DEBELJACKI is a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia UKS and the Haiku Society of Serbia HDS Montenegro - HUSCG & HDPR, Croatia. She has published three collections of poetry: A House Made of Glass, published by ART Uzice, Yours, published by Narodna Knjiga, Belgrade and Vulcano by Haiku Lotos, Valjevo, as well as a CD-book, A House Made of Glass by ART,Uzice. Her most recent book is AH-EH-EEH-OH-OOH! is published by POETA Belgrade. Email: TATJANA DEBELJACKI

Carol Ramsden Deckert

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Carol Ramsden Deckert is a former winner of Canadian Author & Bookman's poetry contest. A collection of her poetry was read on radio by Sheila Martindale on the program "Cabbages and Kings" in London, Ontario. She has published poems in Canadian Author & Bookman, and is included in a poetry collection entitled "Voices From the Niagara" (Moonstone Press). Her poems have also appeared in Tower Poetry Journal and in the professional teaching journal, "Indirections." Her short stories and articles on the craft of writing have been published in "Indirections" on many occasions. One of her short stories, "Canaries Have Wings" was circulated to forty countries in a journal for educators of gifted children: "Gifted International." Carol formerly graduated with a Masters Degree in English from McMaster University where her poetry won a "Special Achievement Award." Presently she is Head of English at Orchard Park Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario. Email

Ralph M. DeFrangesco

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Ralph M. DeFrangesco is currently with Accume Partners, a consulting organzation, where he works with fortune 500 companies developing security programs, assessments, strategic and enterprise architectures, and disaster recovery programs. He also teaches for Drexel University as Adjunct Professor in their Computer Security program. He holds a BSCS, MBA, and is currently a PhD condidate. He has written a novel and a self-help book on time management as well as several technical papers, poems, and short stories. He lives in Harleysville, PA with his wife, two children, two cats and two dogs. His hobbies include furniture building, martial arts, and rock and ice climbing. Email: Ralph M. DeFrangesco

Tom Deiker

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Tom Deiker: Since retirement from psychiatric hospital administration, Tom Deiker has formed a Des Moines community theatre company, Lucubrations, continues to write short fiction, poetry, and plays, has placed articles, essays, short fiction and poetry in several dozen publications, including: Cimarron Review, Fugue, Galaxy, Newsweek, and Plain Dealer Magazine. Email: Tom Deiker

Jessica Del Balzo
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Cristina Del Canto

Cristina Del Canto's work has been published in The Battered Suitcase, Burning Word, Bewildering Stories and Blue Lake Review. Email: Cristina Del Canto

Robert Demaree

Robert Demaree retired recently after 42 years as a teacher and administrator in schools in the U.S., in Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia and North Carolina. He was born in Pennsylvania and has family ties to New England, so he has always been interested in what Donald Hall calls “a pleasure of place.” He has written A History of Greensboro Day School, a chapbook of poems called New Hampshire Pond, and has had over 125 poems published or accepted by approximately 45 periodicals. Email

Margot Demopoulos

Margot Demopoulos' work has appeared in the Kenyon Review and is forthcoming in the Sewanee Review. Email: Margot Demopoulos

Jennifer DeMoss
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Steve DeMoss

Steve DeMoss is twenty-one years old and resides in Walla Walla, WA. He has been writing poetry for the past five years and has been publishing for the past three. A few of his publications include the January 2007 issue of Poesia, volume number 18 of Idiom 23, and the Autumn 2007 issue of Writer’s Bloc. His work can also be found numerously in other small online journals. Currently he is writing a book entitled, Menlo Park: The Contemplations and Musings of a Constructive Demolitionist. When he is not busy writing hr engages himself within other mediums of art, such as film, music, and drawing. Email: Steve DeMoss

Ernest Dempsey

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Ernest Dempsey is a geology graduate, now looking forward to receiving his MA in English Literature. He has authored two books: Islands of Illusion (poetry) and The Biting Age (short fiction). Dempsey is a founding member of the World Audience Inc. World Audience and is completing is first novel. He also writes essays, freelance articles, blogs, and conducts author interviews. Email: Ernest Dempsey

Roger Desy

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Roger Desy has taught literature and creative writing at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh and St. Peter's College, Jersey City. He turned to technical writing and editing. Over the last few years he has written and rewritten lyric poems, where he began. The best lyrics, he likes to say, are still unwritten. He tries to make his work clear, idiomatic, and accessible, as if it were needed. Poems have been printed in Blue Unicorn, Epicenter, Poet Lore, and others. Email: Roger Desy

Ann M. DeVenezia:

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Ann M. DeVenezia: A retired high school and county college English teacher turned poet, my three books are Grave Rubbings: New and Selected Poems, Riding My Tricycle: Poetry of Dreams and Visions, and Telling Abuse: New Poems. My work appears in several print and non-print journals, including Avocet, Caduceus, Connecticut River Review, Italian Americana, LIPS, Paterson Literary Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, Red River Review, and Shot Glass Journal. Most recently, my poem "Waiting for My Friend" was included in the anthology The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop. Email: Ann M. DeVenezia

Paul DeVito

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Paul DeVito has a masters from Syracuse U. Email: Paul DeVito

Amanda Dexter

Amanda Dexter like many other Canadians, is an aspiring author. She writes poetry, short stories, essays, and is working on a novel. She currently resides in the far North of Alberta, where she works as a grade six teacher. The community in which she lives is a Mennonite Community, which is very different from her upbringing. She is originally from Liverpool, Nova Scotia where she spent the first 24 years of her life. Upon graduation she moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia and completed a B.Sc. with an Advanced Major in Psychology at Dalhousie University. She then completed a B.Ed. at Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The poem presented here is part of a series in progress based on personal experience.Email

Matthew Di Paoli

Matthew Di Paoli received his BA at Boston College where he won the Dever Fellowship and the Cardinal Cushing Award for Creative Writing. He recently finished his MFA at Columbia University for Fiction. He has been published in the West Coast Journal, Gigantic, and Post Road literary magazines among others. Currently, he is writing a novel entitled Idol of Id and teaches in the Advanced Creative Writing Summer Program at Columbia University. Email: Matthew Di Paoli

Tiana Diaz

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Tiana Diaz has studied writing at Interlochen Arts Academy, Towson University, and at Hopkins. She has had poetry (and essays)in Grub Street Wit, Baltimore's City Paper, Beginnings, CIRCLE Quarterly, WomanWarp, and other publications. A special education teacher, she lives in Baltimore with her husband and four cats. Email: Tiana Diaz

Cameron Dick

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Cameron Dick is an 18 year old undergraduate English student at the Glendon Campus of York University. His poetry has appeared in the literary annual, Challenger International, and the York University publication, ProTem. Email: Cameron Dick

Conrad DiDiodato
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Ofelia Dina
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Ira Director:

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Ira Director, the Chicago born poet and artist, earned an MA in creative writing from Bar-Ilan University in Israel. In addition to poems appearing in numerous exhibitions as integral components of paintings, they have been published in B'nai B'rith (Fall 2003), Voices Israel (2004) and ARC 17 (Summer 2005) as well as being awarded an honorable mention in the Reuben Rose International Poetry Competition (2004). Email: Ira Director

Christopher Discenza

Christopher Discenza was born in Santiago, Chile, and raised in Long Island, New York. He received a BFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2001. He has recently decided to pursue a career in creative writing at the subtle behest of others, including artists and art dealers. He currently lives in New York City. Email

Abraheem Dittu

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Abraheem Dittu is a 20 year old poet, playwright and college student from Los Angeles. Previously published in various online journals and academic publications. Currently working on a creative writing degree and several projects. Email: Abraheem Dittu

Malcolm Dixon

Malcolm Dixon is originally from Liverpool. His fiction has appeared in the Newport Review, Wind Magazine, the Briar Cliff Review, Literary New York and Cranky. In 2003 he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He now lives north of Canterbury, on the Kent coast. Email

Katrina Dobson
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John H. Doe

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John H. Doe lives in New York City. John Doe is his real name. Email: John H. Doe

Ramesh Dohan

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Ramesh Dohan is a poet and writer from hailing from the Vancouver, Canada. His works have previously appeared in South Ocean Review, Attic Magazine, Word Salad to name a few. Email: Ramesh Dohan

Mike Domonchuk

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Mike Domonchuk is a freelance writer residing in Kitchener, Ontario. Up until now he has not yet been published although his submission count, at last tally, was past 50. He has completed several short works and he has nearly completed his second full length novel and has begun ideas for a screenplay. He feels his first publication will start the ball rolling. He is chief writer of a 5 issue (and counting) comic book, that has been published on the independent market. Email

Toby Donovan

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Toby Donovan is a young writer living in New York City. He was educated at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where he read Modern History and wrote a thesis on the use of the death penalty in 18th century England. He has been a permanent resident of the United States since 2008, and has also lived and worked in Australia, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, where he was born. He received a National Award for a piece of music he composed for gamelan orchestra – Pharaoh’s Grave – which was performed at the Royal Festival Hall in London and broadcast on BBC Radio. His fiction has been published by Atticus Review, Blue Lake Review, and Black Heart Magazine. Email: Toby Donovan

Steven Dorrell

Steven Dorrell is a MA student in Critical and Cultural Studies. He has written several stories and a play performed at the Oxford Playhouse. He is presently working on his first novel. Email

Teresa Chuc Dowell

Teresa Chuc Dowell teaches English literature and writing at a public high school in Los Angeles. Her poetry has been published in journals such as the National Poetry Review, Verse Daily, and miller’s pond (online) and her creative nonfiction have been published in journals such as Memoir Journal, Sugar Mule, and Mosaic. Teresa’s poem, "Names", is forthcoming in the anthology Poets of the American West (Many Voices Press, 2010). Teresa earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and is currently working on an MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) at oddard College in Vermont. Email: Teresa Chuc Dowell

Jack Downs

Jack Downs is a technical writer and project manager by day, and lives with my wife and our four- and two-year old boys in Maryland. Weekends, whether foul or fair, the family is out with their pop-up trailer, enjoying each other, and scrounging up new story ideas.Email

Kevin Doyle

Kevin Doyle is an English teacher and part-time writer from the American Midwest. Most of Kevin's short fiction falls in the horror or dark fantasy genres. However, this piece, while it does have some dark aspects, is a bit more realistic than the majority of his work. His material has appeared in a number of journals including "The Edge, Tales of Suspense;" "The Nocturnal Lyric" and peridotbooks.com. He also has new stories pending publication in "Outer Darkness" and "The Edge." A native of Kansas, he's spent several years teaching English and communications at a couple of community colleges in Kansas, and this year has taken on a new position teaching high school English in central Missouri. The idea for this particular story came to me a few years ago when I lived close to a railroad track. I enjoyed listening to the trains going up and down the tracks all night. For me, it was a nice, soothing sound. But I got to thinking once about how other people might react to the sounds of trains constantly moving outside their house. Out of this line of thought came "Deliberates." Email

Doug Draime
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Derbhile Dromey

Derbhile Dromey is a freelance writer and journalist based in Ireland. She has been published in a number of magazines and Web sites, and her work has also appeared in a number of local creative writing anthologies.Email

Graham Ducker:

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Graham Ducker: A graduate of Laurentian University with an honours degree in Geography, Mr. Ducker spent many years of teaching as a Principal and Primary Specialist in various Ontario schools. The most enjoyable times were the fifteen years as Kindergarten teacher at the Morson Public School near Lake of the Woods. Now retired, he has completed a book of memoirs entitled Don't Wake The Teacher documenting these special years of this unique school, published and released October 2004. Email: Graham Ducker

Jim Dunlap

Jim Dunlap is a 7 year past Newsletter Editor for the Des Moines Area Writers' Network, Senior Contributing Editor to the POETS' PORCH and Book Editor for The New Pleiades Poetry Anthology (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada/ Las Vegas, NV, USA). Jim is co-author (with 5 others) of Five Gates of Poetry, author of "Entwined In Wonder" (by himself), and co-author (with 3 others), of The MysticEast Poetry Anthology (India). He has been in the Writers' Digest top 100 in three categories, and in Who's Who In America, and in Who's Who In The World; and in the the Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. He has appeared in numerous small press magazines to date, including PLAINSONGS, POTPOURRI, CANDELABRUM (Wisbech, England), the PARIS/ATLANTIC (Paris, France), and online in UNLIKELY STORIES, POETRY REPAIRSHOP, INDIE JOURNAL and POEMS NIEDERNGASSE (Switzerland). Jim is also webmaster for the anti-genocide website, Voices For Africa.

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Murray Dunlap

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Murray Dunlap's work has appeared in about fifty magazines and journals. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times, as well as to Best New American Voices once, and his first book, -an early draft of Bastard Blue (then called Alabama) was a finalist for the Maurice Prize in Fiction. Bastard Blue, was published on June 7th, 2011 (the three year anniversary of a car wreck that very nearly killed him...). The extraordinary individuals Pam Houston, Laura Dave, Michael Knight, and Fred Ashe taught him the art of writing. Email: Murray Dunlap

Amy Durant

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Robin Wyatt Dunn

Robin Wyatt Dunn lives in The Town of the Queen of the Angels, El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles, in Echo Park. He is 33 years old. Email: Robin Wyatt Dunn

Tarah Dunn

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Tarah Dunn grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. She received her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Florida in 2008. Her work has been published in Quarterly West. In the Happy Valley of Western Massachusetts, Tarah lives by a river with her child, dog, and cat. Email: Tarah Dunn

Natasha Durich

Natasha Durich is a self-proclaimed poet-dreamer. She holds a degree in psychology and is working toward a degree in law. She lives and writes in Victoria, BC. Email

J.K. Durick

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J.K. Durick presently a writing teacher at the Community College of Vermont, after a long career teaching literature, humanities, and writing at Trinity College of Vermont. His recent poems have appeared in the SN Review, Onion River Review, Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal, and in the anthology, The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices From the Robert Frost Place. Email: J.K. Durick

Thom Dworsky

Thom Dworsky currently lives in near Pittsburgh, PA and he is graduating from National University's MFA in creative writing program this month. His work has appeared in various publications including the online poetry journal tinfoildresses. Email: Thom Dworsky

Timothy Dyson:

Timothy Dyson: took a thirty-three year break from writing poetry, to pursue a living in Human Resources. Now he is able to do what he thoroughly enjoyed all those years ago. Only one poem has been accepted so far at Spokenwar but he ia fine with it. There's more perspective, more realization now than when he was young, eager and trying to get his MFA. Email: Timothy Dyson



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