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Ray Adams

Ray Adams is a writer living in northern California. He is currently finishing his novel, Selling for the Blind. He is a gold life master in the American Contract Bridge League and wrote a weekly bridge column for his local newspaper for twenty years. He has an M.A in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Kansas and worked as a Russian linguist in West Berlin during the cold war. He has been a science fiction fan for decades. Email: Ray Adams

Malaika King Albrecht

Malaika King Albrecht has been published in a few literary magazines, including Quarterly West, Exquisite Corpse, and New Orleans Review. Most recently two poems were accepted in the soon to be published book titled Fire in the Womb: Mothers and Creativity. She graduated with an MA from Old Dominion University. She has two daughters and is currently a stay at home mom.

Email: Malaika King Albrecht

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal Web Site

Noel Ace

Noel Ace is currently a high school English teacher in Southern California. His publishing credits include "artisan, inc" and "Eyes," both print magazines. His fiction can also be found on the internet on sites including "The Fiction Network," GeekGirl," "Planet Magazine," "Vanguard," "Ibn Quirtaba," and "Dream Forge.

Nola Accili

Nola Accili is a French instructor at the University College of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Her work has recently appeared in Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing (University of Hawaii), Room of One's Own (Vancouver), Jones Av. (Toronto), and Down in the Valley, An Anthology (Fraser valley, B.C.)

Jane Adam

Jane Adam started writing poetry a few years ago in a moment of desperation. She got surprisingly decent results, so she kept at it. Her poems now appear online in Antipatico, Remark, and Spent Meat, and have been accepted for Nerve Cowboy and Chiron Review. One poem was in Slipstream #23 and the editors nominated her for a Pushcart Prize in 2003. She has lived in Buffalo, NY since 1981, and has taught freshman English at nearly every college in the area since then. It has become so important to her to put her poems out into the world.

Email: Email: Jane Adam

Susan Adams

Susan Adams is a Research Scientist and an Australian poet who has been published in anthologies, online and print literary journals both in Australia and internationally. She has been read on ABC Radio National 'Poetica', All in The Mind' and '360'. Recent publications have included Eureka Street, Nth Position (UK), Great Works (UK), Eclecticism, Sugarmule (USA), Hecate, and Social Alternatives. Email: Susan Adams

Emmanuel Agrapidis

Emmanuel Agrapidis: A native New Yorker, Emmanuel Agrapidis spends his time looking under his boot soles. He has been published in several journals and works as a field reporter in New York City. Emmanuel received his B.A. in Literature and Writing from Columbia University. His highly anticipated full length collection entitled Devour the Earth is set to come out later this year.

Email: Emmanuel Agrapidis

Carolyn Agee

Carolyn Agee, Poet

Carolyn Agee is an actress and internationally published poet, living in the Pacific Northwest. Her recent and forthcoming credits include Petrichor Machine, The Lorelei Signal, and Moon Washed Kisses. Facebook Link Email: Carolyn Agee

Zinta Aistars

Zinta Aistars is the published author of three books. She is an editor and writer for LuxEsto, the Kalamazoo College alumni magazine and contributing writer to Encore magazine. Her work has also appeared in the Kalamazoo Guide, Kalamazoo Gazette, Welcome Home and Parade of Homes magazines. She has published poetry, travel essays, stories, and articles in the United States, Latvia, England, Sweden, Germany, and Australia. Her work also appears on many e-zines - including Ash Canyon Review, Spoiled Ink, 63Channels.com (featured writer in upcoming Aug/Sept 2005 issue), HerCircleEzine (upcoming September 2005 issue), The Redbridge Review, River Walk Journal, Flashquake, milk magazine, The Surface, Serene Light, Word Riot, Burning Word, The Moon, insolent rudder, Bobbing Around, coilMagazine, Poems Neiderngasse, The Paper, Poetry Life & Times, QuietPoly Writer's Magazine, Midwest Book Review, WriteSight and others. Her poetry appears in the literary anthology, Persistence of Dreams, compiled by Redbridge Review. Zinta has recently completed her second collection of poetry, Tumbleweed Waltz.

Viestarts Aistars has had his artwork (oils, watercolors, etchings, pencil drawings) exhibited at the Detroit Art Museum, Indiana Art Center in Indianapolis and South Bend, Indiana, the Kalamazoo Art Institute, Grand Rapids Art Museum, as well as Latvian art exhibits in Seattle, Washington, New York City, Reading, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio, to name only a few. He has had over 50 one-man art exhibits in the Midwest and Eastern United States, including Boston, New York City, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Saginaw, Grand Rapids, and many other cities nationwide. He has won numerous prizes and his work has been purchased by countless private collectors, also by the State Museum in Riga, Latvia, the Art Museum in Jelgava, Latvia. A painting of a Latvian woman in folk costume hangs today in the Riga Pils (Riga Castle), the president's residence in Riga, Latvia. More of his work and information about the artist can be found at the contacts below.

Artist Site

Zeena Communications

Zinta Aistars

Jesse Akaike
Email: Jesse Akaike

Maia Akiva

Maia Akiva is originally from Israel. She's a Self Help Fiction writer. Her plays had readings all over USA. Her short story, one act and sketches where published in magazines. This year she completed her first play "inspiration" and is working on her first book "The Human Happiness Campaign". You can find her writing at: Web Page Email: Maia Akiva

Ariel Akselrad

Ariel Akselrad is currently a creative writing student at Purchase College in New York. She has been writing since the tender age of 6, when her grandmother gave her an old journal full of crispy, yellowed blank pages. She soon became addicted to the pain and misery that accompanies the life of an artist and has been masochistically engaging ever since. Email: Ariel Akselrad

Liliana Alam

Liliana Alam is 21, half Bengali (Bangladesh)-half Russian, and has experienced different styles of life throughout her nomadic existence. She believes in questioning the nature of...everything. She experiments with various mediums such as: oil, watercolour, pen, pencil, colour crayon, colour marker. These visual images come from within her mind and really shape themselves rather than the artist shaping them.

Email Liliana Alam

Sidney Alexander

Sidney Alexander is a metaphysical freethinker who not only thinks highly in the spiritual but curses loudly when his oh-so-physical beloved cars decide to give him a hard time by dying and costing him money. Hence that's why he works for an automotive parts company. He is currently a regular columnist for Shadow Feast.

Shadow Feast

Home Page "The Dragon's Claw"

Tanisha Alexander

Email: Tanisha Alexander
Tanisha Alexander

Tim Alexander

Timothy Alexander's fiction has appeared in many small press and literary publications including: Armchair Aesthete, Barbaric Yawp, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, and Pindeldyboz. Timothy resides in the US Penitentiary at Marion, IL.

Jeffrey C. Alfier

Jeffrey Alfier currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, hold an MA in Humanities, and has served as an adjunct faculty member of City Colleges of Chicago - European Division. In addition, He is a member of the Canadian Poetry Association, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and Phi Kappa Phi. His poetry publishing credits - outside of professional journals - include The Animist, Asili, Coffy Time Blues, Evolution's Voyage, Gravity, Maelstrom, Niederngasse (forthcoming), Nieve Roja Review, Parchment Symbols, Pif Magazine (reviews), Poetry Magazine, Poets4Peace, Pyrowords, Recursive Angel, Riding the Meridian, Poetfest, Poetic Express II, PoetryRepairShop, Savoy Magazine, Thermopylae, Twilight Journal, and Sauce*Box.

Michele Alice
Email: Michele Alice

Shane Alison

Robert Allan

Robert Allan is an anomic poet who writes cuz he can't help it. Born in Perth ON, he holds an HBA in English from the University of Toronto, and he currently writes in Montreal QC. Rousingly, Ascent Aspirations Magazine will be his first publishing credit.Email: Robert Allan

John P. Allen

John P. Allen is an unpublished writer working as a teacher's assistant for a school district north of Houston, Texas.Web Site

William L. Alton

William L. Alton was born November 5, 1969 and started writing in the Eighties while incarcerated in a psychiatric prison. Since then his work has appeared in Main Channel Voices, World Audience and Breadcrumb Scabs among others. In 2010, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has published one book titled Heroes of Silence. He earned his both BA and MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon where he continues to live. Email: William L. Alton

Alexandre Amprimoz

Alexandre Amprimoz is a poet, critic, translator, writer and programmer. He teaches Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Canada. Books include: A Season For Birds: Selected poems by Pierre Morency. Translation.Toronto: Exile Press, 1990; Venice At Her Mirror: Essay by Robert Marteau. Translation. Toronto: Exile Press, 1990 ; Nostalgies de l'ange. Ottawa: Editions du Vermillon, 1993. He has recently published poems in: Alsop Review, Antigonish Review, Octavo, Dégaine ta rime, Résurrétion, Hélices and LittéRéalité.

Tim Amsden

Tim Amsden: Among other places, Tim Amsden's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pudding Magazine, Potpourri, Out of Line, Driftwood, Permafrost, Illia's Honey, Slant, Heartlodge, New Mexico Magazine, Facets, a Pima Press poetry anthology on aging, and a Pudding House Anthology on consumption. He has won a variety of awards, including second place in both the 2002 and 2005 Southwest Writers Conference poetry contests. He worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, and now lives in Ramah, New Mexico.

C.B. Anderson

C.B. Anderson lives in Maynard, Massachusetts with his wife and two children. For over twenty years he was the gardener of the PBS television series, The Victory Garden. Nowadays he gets his hands dirty without pay. His poems have appeared in dozens of print and online journals over the past five years, and one of them published in The Raintown Review was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Email: C.B. Anderson

Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson is a professor at Oregon State University and also a Catholic Deacon. He has published a number of books, including a book of poems, My Problem with the Truth, as well as poems in many journals.

Email: Chris Anderson

George Anderson

George Anderson grew up in Montreal and presently lives and teaches in Sydney, Australia. He has published poetry in dozens of magazines worldwide. He edits the student literary magazine Ephemeral.

Julie Donner Andersen

Julie Donner Andersen is the author of “PAST: Perfect! PRESENT: Tense! Insights From One Woman’s Journey As The Wife Of a Widower” (iUniverse, Inc.).

Web Site.

Janet Shell Anderson

Janet Shell Anderson is currently nominated for both the Micro Prize and the Pushcart Prize. She has been published by Vestal Review, Grey Sparrow Press, Gemini Magazine, Convergence, Four Cornered Universe, Pindeldyboz, LITSNACk, The Citron Review and others. She often writes about the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, knows the "real" Wambli, loves science fiction, has taught language and literature at the University of Maryland and Doane College as a visiting professor and is an attorney. The area described in this piece really exists and local legend has it more than one person has disappeared down that cliff. Probably not, she says, but it's fun to speculate. Email: Janet Shell Anderson

Derly Andre

Steve Andreorio

Steve Andreorio: Recently retired school district administrator and not so recently retired soldier. Taking advantage of climbing a few of the more reasonable fourteeners in Colorado. Previously published:

Short Story, Easy Pickins, published in Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine.
Flash Story, "Perfect Date", published in Wicked Stories.
Short Story, "Dolphin", published in Nefarious.
Short Story, "Not Right", published by Darkfire.
Short Story, "Hikin", published in Surprising Stories. Email: Steve Andreorio

Arlene Ang

Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy as a freelance translator and web designer. She also edits the Italian Niederngasse (www.niederngasse.com). Her poetry has recently appeared in Poet's Canvas, Scrivener's Pen, Sometimes City, Tryst, three candles and sidereality. Recent awards include: Absinthe Literary Review 2002 Eros & Thanatos Prize Winner and Clean Sheets 2003 Poetry Contest 2nd Place Winner.

Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson is a Professor of English at Oregon State University and a Catholic Deacon. He has published several books, including a book of poems, and poems in various magazines and journals. Email:

Rosemary C. Anderson

Rosemary C. Anderson's publications include about 44 articles and biographies and one story (mostly in a small art magazine), and over 20 poems in publications such as Main Street Rag, Frogpond, RE:AL, Sinister Wisdom, Jewish Currents, Luna Negra, The Plaza (Japan), The Distillery, etc. She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and is originally from a small town in Illinois. She works as editor of Redgreene Press (fine poetry) and also as Anderson Publishing. Formerly, she owned a small art magazine, IWAA NEWS. She is also an artist - painting, drawing, mostly (portraits, still-life, abstracts), and has some photographs published. She is a disabled veteran , renovating an old house.

Susan Anmuth

Susan Anmuth lives in Newark, NJ with her grown son Ethan, 15 year old Yorkie Tatiana, and appropriately jealous cat Jelly. She is working on a Bad Series. Email: Susan Anmuth

Demi Anter

Demi Anter has performed in and organized spoken word events throughout Santa Barbara, San Diego, Palm Springs and Los Angeles. She has won awards for her poetry, short stories, essays, plays and visual art on both local and national levels. In 2011, Anter was invited to perform a solo show in her hometown in the Coachella Valley. In 2012, she was named first runner-up at UCSB’s first annual college-wide slam and was accepted into the Department of Art Honors Program for her work in visual and performance art.
Anter is currently an undergraduate at University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is majoring in Literature and Book Arts in the College of Creative Studies (Thanks to the internationally acclaimed artist and performer Prof. Kip Fulbeck, UCSB boasts the first ever spoken word course offered as a part of a college art program’s core curriculum). In her free time, Anter edits the arts section of UCSB’s newspaper, The Daily Nexus, runs the spoken word group Right Side Up Poets, and daydreams about large, ginger cats.

Demi Anter
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Email: Demi Anter

Daniel Michel Antil

Daniel Michel Antil was born on December 18, 1962, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spent much of his youth reading and writing. His greatest literary interest has always been in the genre of horror and fantasy. His writing influences include Poe, Kafka, and Lovecraft, to name a few. Daniel currently resides in Oregon, where he lives with his beautiful wife, Cookie Holley. Together, they run an independent record label and several radio shows, for which Daniel -- under the guise of "Midnight Rider" -- serves as a DJ. Poetry Publications: (title; publication; publisher; date) "High Flier"; Liberation; Sorrows Press; 1969. "My God, The Dinosaur", "Cremation", & "Changes"; The Highlander; SLCC Journals; 1983. "Enigma Echo"; TINAE; http://www.littlebehemoth.com/ ; 2001.

Aurora Antonovic

Aurora Antonovic is a Canadian freelance writer, visual artist, and the former co-editor and columnist for the GT Times. Her poetry has appeared in recent months over 200 times in publications such as Adagio Verse Quarterly, Promise, Blind Man's Rainbow, The Bohemian Rag, Regal Quill Quarterly, Black Mail Press, Makata, The Entouist, and Poetic Voices. She currently resides in Ontario.Email

Luke Maguire Armstrong

Luke Maguire Armstrong was a baby, who became a boy, who became a man. After finishing degrees in philosophy and English in Chile, Luke did what any financially oblivious recent grad would do: took out a large student loan and planned to backpack from Chile to Alaska. He ended up stopping in Guatemala, where he spent four years as director of the social services programs of the educational development organization Nuestros Ahijados. These efforts were featured on the 2010 ABC News Global Health Special: Be the Change, Save a Life. Follow his every move at Travel Write Sing Email: Luke Maguire Armstrong

Rd Armstrong

Rd Armstrong AKA Raindog began his most recent incarnation as a poet in the early 90s. He has 18 chapbooks, 9 books to his name and has been published in nearly 300 poetry magazines, anthologies, blogs and e-zines. He also operates the Lummox Press which published the Lummox Journal, for 11 years; the Little Red Book series (60 titles) and the new RESPECT series of perfect bound collections of poetry. This November he will publish LUMMOX, a new, annual magazine of poetry. Since 1995, Raindog has labored to serve the world of small press poetry and continues to do so to this day. Visit his website at Lummox Press
Email: Rd Armstrong

Ashley Arnold

Ashley Arnold is an Adelaide-based writer with stories published in Ticonderoga Online, Flashquake and Lorelei Signal. His story "The River Man's Spirits" also appears in the Shadow Plays anthology. For more information see

Web Site

Email: Ashley Arnold

Johann Christoph Arnold

Johann Christoph Arnold is the author of ten books and a pastor in the Bruderhof Communities.

Johann Christoph Arnold

Johann Christoph Arnold's Web Site

Bruderhof Communities

Richard Arnold

Richard Arnold lives on a modest acreage near Errington, BC. He teaches English at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo. Besides writing and reading poetry, he likes spending time with his family, hiking, canoeing, and camping. His work has been published in many print and electronic places across North America. He has two collections of poetry to his credit: a chapbook from Leaf Press (2002) and a haiku pamphlet from Island Scholastic (2003).

David Aronson

David Aronson is a visual artist and poet active in the underground zine and mail-art world. His work has appeared in Spunk, Gristle, Driver’s Side Airbag, Siren’s Silence and The Brobdingnagian Times, as well as in collaboration with experimental poet Mark Sonnenfeld for Marymark Press and his own zine of underground art and poetry, The Alchemical Wedding.

Web Site

Simon Atwood

Simon Atwood is originally from British Columbia but has found himself recently living in Boston, Massachusetts. His stories have previously appeared in B&A (Blood and Aphorism) and Scrivener. Email

Jessica Austin

Jessica Austin has a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia. She has work scheduled for publication in the online magazine 491 Neo-Naïve Imagination. She lives in Poquoson, Virginia (a modern-day fishing town sandwiched between water and marsh), with her husband, two young daughters, and one mischievous dachsund. She teaches English to secondary school students and hopes to obtain a master's degree in literature or writing.

LeAne Austin

Peter Austin

Peter Austin lives with his wife and three daughters in Toronto. His poetry has appeared in magazines/anthologies in Canada (including Queen's Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, The Prairie Journal, Contemporary Verse 2 and Ascent Aspirations) and several other countries. As well as poetry, he writes plays, and his musical adaptation of The Wind in the Willows has enjoyed four productions, the most recent in July '07, in Worcester, Mass.
Email: Peter Austin

C.R. Avery

C.R. Avery Outlaw Hip-Hop Harmonica Player
Beatbox Poet
Punk Piano Player
String Quartet Raconteur
Rock & Roll Matador
Playwright

Whether performing to thousands at the Royal Albert Hall or the lucky few who made it inside the packed past capacity speakeasy, C.R. Avery is a unique, raw and dynamic performer. His genius lies in many genres - blues, hip-hop, spoken word and rock & roll. He is a one-man band, but one for this generation; with the rare ability to sing poetic verse while beatboxing simultaneously while pounding the piano and adding harmonica like a plot twist. A multi-talented front man for his Legal Tender String Quartet; a crazed lead singer/harp player for his rock & roll band The Special Interest Group; a lyrical dynamo & the musical backbone of the spoken word trio Tons of Fun University.

From musical beginnings in his late teens, C.R. Avery has recorded over fifteen albums as well as writing & directing six hip-hop operas, which were mounted and performed from New York’s Bowery to L.A.’s South Central. He has toured throughout Canada (including almost every major folk festival) the USA and Europe (headlining or opening for Billy Bragg, Buck 65, and Sage Francis) and garnered the attention of music peers the likes of Tom Waits (“...he’s blowin’ my mind”); blues harp trail blazer Charlie Musselwhite (“...no one plays harmonica like him… no one…”); and folk legend Utah Phillips (“...raw talent”).

His incredible live performances have been described as Bob Dylan in the body of Iggy Pop; colliding with Little Walter, the Beastie Boys and Allen Ginsberg. Every show is all or nothing and his fearless approach to all genres of music both on stage and in the studio proves the longevity of this talented, astonishing creator has so much more to come.

For more information see his Web Site
Email: C.R. Avery

Chanda Avik

Occupation: Management Consultant, freelance writer, with several articles, art reviews, short stories published in Indian dailies. Solo exhibition of paintings at Kolkata, June 2001. Poetry publications include Black Bear Review, Other Poetry, Adirondack Review, Three Candles, Morpo Review, 3rd Muse, Richmond Review, Voices, King Log and Sulekha. Forthcoming publications in Promise Magazine and Skyline Publications.

Dr. David B. Axelrod

Dr. David B. Axelrod has published in hundreds of magazines. His sixteenth and newest book is Another Way, poems derived from the Tao Te Ching. He is the recipient of three Fulbright Awards including his being the first official Poet-in-Residence in the People’s Republic of China. The New York Times described him as “A Treat!” He has shared the stage with such notables as Louis Simpson, X. J. Kennedy, William Stafford, Robert Bly and Allen Ginsburg and performed for the U.N., the American Library Association and hundreds of venues. He has been translated into fourteen languages.

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