Irène Kaesermann

Irène Kaesermann was born and raised in Switzerland. German is her mother tongue; her second language is English, in which she likes to read and write. Her aim is to say as much as possible in a minimum of words, so she writes verse and short stories. She has published German haikus, poems and prose pieces. Email: Irène Kaesermann

Robert Karaszi

Robert Karaszi: In 1990 Robert Karaszi worked as a lyricist, singer/songwriter for an independent record label where he also freelanced as a writer for upcoming artists. Today he leans towards writing more contemporary poetry. His work has appeared in The Tower Journal, Blue Hour Magazine and is forth coming in various print and online publications. Currently he resides in New Jersey and is active in poetry readings and related events. Email: Robert Karaszi

Karen Kalis

As a freelance writer, Karen has had over a dozen credits published and holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Antioch University.Email

Janne Karlsson

Janne Karlsson is an illustrator/comic artist from Linköping, Sweden. He is mainly recognized in the street paper community in Europe and North America where he is currently contributing with the "Street Life" cartoon strips. Currently he is drawing for more than 50 different publications in many various genres (social justice, horror, funny mainstream, sci-fi etc). His employees vary from Hells Angels to the catholic church. When he is not drawing he is either playing football (soccer in the U.S?) or taking long walks with his sons. He is also regularly lifting heavy weights to try to get the pain of living go away. If there are still any hours left on the day, he is probably playing the guitar. Heavy Metal of course. You can reach Janne via his personal website
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Margaret Karmazin

Margaret's credits include short stories in North Atlantic Review, Potato Eyes, Mobius, Reader¹s Break, Aim Magazine, Papyrus, Chiron Review, West Wind Review, Algonquin Roundtable Review, Weber Studies, Futures, Virginia Adversaria, Timber Creek Review, Desperate Act, Short Row to Hoe Division, Eureka Literary Magazine, Mountain Luminary, thINK, S.L.U.G.FEST, The Oracular Tree, Ceterus Paribus, Cenotaph, Matriarch's Way and Short Stories Bimonthly; stories accepted for upcoming publication in A Room of One's Own, Carve Magazine, Emry¹s Journal, Bellowing Ark and Psychic Radio; and comment pieces in SageWoman and Penn Lines.Email

Aaron Karmin

Aaron Karmin is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in the state of Illinois. He attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook and received a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology. He earned his M.A. in Clinical Professional Psychology and an Advanced Certification in Stress Management from Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL. Aaron has provided individual and group therapy for the past 6 years. In addition, he has given numerous lectures on relaxation, goal setting, and communication skills. Aaron has traveled extensively through: Egypt, Japan, Turkey, Europe, and Alaska. He recognizes the need for flexibility and creativity to address the mind and body. Email: Aaron Karmin

George K. Karos

George K. Karos was raised in Martinsburg,West Virginia, where he attended public schools until the completion of seventh grade. He then attended and graduated from Saint James School located in Washington County, Maryland. He received his Bachelor of Arts from West Virginia University in 1991, and his Master of Arts from American University in 1999. For over two decades, George has studied, performed, and worked with numerous arts projects, musical collaborations, and arts-related organizations facilitating various art-mediums and expression as an artist, a magazine columnist and poetry editor, lead singer for rock bands, performance artist, and folk singer. As a solo artist/acoustic guitarist and songwriter, he has toured and performed in musical venues throughout America with an emphasis on the regions of his Mid-Atlantic roots. Over the last 20 years, he has had three books of poetry published by Red Dragon Press and also performed solo performance art works in improvisational settings in regional art spaces with nationally known artists and music groups. He currently lives in Central Florida and works as a communications director of an international boarding school where he continues to write, record, tour, and perform his acoustic music infused with poetry. Email: George K. Karos

Marcelle Kasprowicz

Marcelle Kasprowicz was born in Niort, France in l942. She received an M.A. in Foreign Language Education from UT at Austin in l983. She is an Austin resident, retired after teaching twenty-five years in the public schools. he has been writing poetry for ten years. She writes in English and French, both. Her poems have been published in the Austin International Poetry Festival Anthology Di-verse-city 1997, l998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004. She was awarded the first prize in 2001 for House of Bones in the AIPF Anthology.Email Web Site

Susan L. Kates

Susan L. Kates'essay is about plains country in Oklahoma. Her work has appeared in The Laurel Review, The Journal, and Borderlands:Texas Poetry Review.Email

Karen Katz

Karen Katz is a writer, voiceover talent and attorney living in Massachusetts. She has voiced commercials, industrials and novels for over 10 years. Her written work includes the graphic novel AttorneyMan (with Raul Gonzales) and work for trade publications. Sitting with Sadness stems from Karen’s work on the Samaritan’s helpline. Email: Karen Katz

Kevin P. Keating

Kevin P. Keating teaches English at Baldwin Wallace College in Cleveland, Ohio. His fiction has been published in the prestigious literary journal Exquisite Corpse (Summer/Fall 2004). In April 2004, he was awarded 2nd Place in the Lorain County/Ohio Arts Council Contest for Fiction, which was judged by Nancy Zafris, editor of the Kenyon Review. The story was subsequently published in Subtle Tea (May 2004). His work has appeared (or will soon appear) in a number of literary journals, including Inertia (December 2004), Pierian Springs (Fall 2004), Slow Trains (September 2004), Tryst (September 2004), Cherry Bleeds (September 2004), Numb Magazine (September 2004), Skyline Magazine (September/October 2004), Tattoo Highway (August 2004), Raging Face (August 2004), Exquisite Corpse (Summer/Fall 2004), Kant Magazine (July 2004), Wild Child (July 2004), Cerebration (June 2004), Thunder Sandwich (June 2004), Subtle Tea (May 2004), The Circle (Summer 2003), Eyes (Summer & Fall 2001), Eschaton’s Terminal Journal (Spring 1999), The Inflated Graveworm (Winter 1997), Whiskey Island (Spring 1997), and Bohemian Pupil (Fall 1996).Email

Michael Keel

Michael Keel is 34 years old and currently freelances for a few magazines with articles covering food, wine and local businesses in Northern California. He is also a ex-head chef managing a kitchen and currently working on two other books. His passions lie in writing, traveling, learning about different cultures and eating different foods from around the world. His website can be found here: MFBIZ and is best viewed in Firefox/Mozilla browser. Email: Michael Keel

Nancy Ryan Keeling

Nancy Ryan Keeling is a multimedia artist, poet, playwright. She is the author of Estrogen Power, a poetry collection. Her work has recently been published in Anderbo and Calyx. She also has work on display at the International Collage Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas. Email Nancy Ryan Keeling

Eliza Kelley

Ward Kelley

Ward Kelley has seen more than 1000 of his poems appear in journals world wide since he began publishing in 1996. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Kelley's publication credits include such journals as: ACM Another Chicago Magazine, Rattle, Zuzu's Petals, Ginger Hill, Sunstone, Spillway, Pif, 2River View, Melic Review, Thunder Sandwich, The Animist, Offcourse, Potpourri and Skylark. He has been honored as featured poet for Seeker Magazine, Physik Garden, Poetry Life & Times, and Pyrowords. Recently he was the recipient of the Nassau Review Poetry Award for 2001.

Credit list:

POETRY COLLECTIONS & NOVEL "comedy incarnate" on CD ROM by Kedco Studios (Las Vegas, NV) , "histories of souls" an ebook & POD by Word Wrangler Publishing, Inc. (Montana) ,"comedy incarnate" on AUDIO CD by Artvilla (Tennessee) ,"the naming of parts" an ebbok by Shyflower Press (Minnesota) ,"Divine Comedy" a novel, ebook & POD by Word Wrangler Publishing, Inc. (Montana) Of the 1051 published pieces, some have found their way into: PRINT MAGAZINES ACM, Another Chicago Magazine Ginger Hill The GSU Review Limestone The Listening Eye The Lucid Stone Mad Poets Review Nassau Review The Old Red Kimono Porcupine Literary Magazine Potpourri Rattle River King Skylark Spillway Sulphur River Review Sunstone INTERNET Adirondack Review The Animist Ariga Big Bridge Lynx: poetry from Bath Melic Review Oblique Offcourse The Paumanok Review Pif Poetry Magazine.Com Pulse Pyrowords Renaissance The Rose & Thorn San Francisco Salvo Sonata Thunder Sandwich 2River View Unlikely Stories Zuzu's PetalsEmail
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Erren Geraud Kelly

Erren Geraud Kelly is a poet based in New York City, by way of Louisiana, by way of Maine, by way of California and so on. He has been writing for 21 years and has over three dozen publications in print and online in such publications as Hiram Poetry Review, Mudfish, Poetry Magazine(online) and other publications. His most recent publication was in In Our Own Words, a Generation X poetry anthology; I was also published in other anthologies such as Fertile Ground, Beyond The Frontier and other anthologies. He recieved his B.A. in English-Creative Writing from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He also loves to read and he loves to travel, having visited 45 states and Canada andEurope. The themes in his writings vary, but he has always had a soft spot for subjects and people who are not in the mainstream. But he never limits himself to anything and always tries to keep an open mind. Email: Erren Geraud Kelly

Roger Kemble

Roger Kemble is a poet, artist, and a architect/Planner. He resides in Nanaimo, BC. Email

Penn Kemp

Since 1966, Penn Kemp has taught creative writing and sounding in Canadian schools, from Kindergarten to University. As performer and playwright, sound poet Penn performs in arts festivals and conferences around the world, giving readings and workshops, recently in Glastonbury. A prolific artist, she has to date had six plays produced and eight CDs. Penn has Canada's first poetry CD-ROM, On Our Own Spoke to her credit: "a delight for the ear and to the eye". Penn's videopoem, "Re:Solution", won for best performance (The Voice Award), Vancouver Videopoem Festival, 2001. Among her publications are twenty books of poetry and drama as well as fiction: pennkemp.ca. The Association of Canadian Studies has sponsored Penn's tours throughout India and Brazil, with the Canada Council's aid. Poem for Peace in many voices is being has been updated to include the video of Penn's "poem for peace in many voices" and, in audio, all ninety translations of the poem!

She is a London ON activist poet, performer and playwright, Penn Kemp is the 40th Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets. She received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal for her service to the arts. As London’s inaugural Poet Laureate, Penn presented poetry at many civic functions.. As Writer-in-Residence for Western University (2009-10), her project was the DVD, Luminous Entrance: a Sound Opera for Climate Change Action, Pendas Productions. She continues to host her Lit-on-Air program on Radio Western, Web Site.
Home Site: Penn Letters
Jack Layton: Art in Action

"Read this beautiful book about Jack's passion for the arts. He loved to make music, dance and he was happiest when he led massive sing-alongs. I hope Jack's story will inspire you to live your life based on love, hope and optimism." Olivia Chow, NDP MP Trinity Spadina, Toronto

"If you want a better Canada; if you want to know what Canada can be, then you need to allow yourself to be inspired by Jack Layton. And this superb, engaging book is the place to start." Tim Flannery (The Weather Makers, chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council) Email

Harold Kempka

Harold Kempka's stories have been published in magazines and ezines such as: Long Story Short, The Shine Journal, Fiction Flyer, Black Petals, and Microhorror.com, as well as, The Beaches of Belmont hardcover anthology. He lives in Highland, California with his wife and son, and is currently working on a novel set in Vietnam. Email: Harold Kempka

Raud Kennedy

Raud Kennedy is a writer and dog trainer. To learn about his most recent work, Gnawing the Bone, a collection of dog fiction, visit Raud Kennedy Email: Raud Kennedy

Ruth Kephart

Ruth Kephart has been published in various journals and anthologies including Ink Blotter, Sonnetto Poesia, Gotta Write, and The Aurorean. She works as a Registered Nurse and writes poetry in her spare time. Email

James Kepler I

James Kepler I is an ex hip hop artist turned songwriter for all genres imaginable. New to the field, James Kepler I has a fondness to poetry because of the emotional rhythmic story likeness he has had to pen in song lyrics. James Kepler hopes to accomplish worldwide success through multiple publications through his poems. Web Site Email: James Kepler I

Mary Lou Kersey

Mary Lou Kersey lives in Calgary. Hates the snow. She spends a lot of time writing - actually rewriting - and working on improving her writing skills. She has written two novels and they are prepublished - maybe one day....... Email: Mary Lou Kersey

Michelle Kern

Michelle Kern is presently earning her B.A. at Sarah Lawrence College in New York where she devotes serious attention to reading and writing poetry. Some of her favorite poets and teachers are Matthea Harvey, Marie Howe, Thomas Sayers Ellis, and Martha Rhodes. Michelle has interned for Community-Word Project, a New York City based arts-in-education organization and she currently works as an Administrative Assistant for Powercom, a communications contractor. Michelle also enjoys harvesting organic vegetables and wild game to cook for her family. Email: Michelle Kern

Michael Keshigian

Michael Keshigian's seventh poetry chapbook, Wildflowers, will be released this Fall 2011 by Flutter Press. He has been widely published in numerous national and international journals and appeared as feature writer in over a dozen publications. Recently, his collection of poems entitled Lunar Images, was set to music for Clarinet, Piano, and Narrator by Boston composer Dennis Leclaire and premiered at Del Mar College in Texas on November 5, 2010. A Boston premier took place on March 7, 2011 at the Berklee College of Music and a September 2011 performance occurred in Moleto, Italy. Web Site Email: Michael Keshigian

Christopher Kesner

Christopher has started his masters in English at the University of Ottawa this September. Publications have appeared in the magazines Nepenthe and Blurred Realities. He has written for the local papers The Chronicle and The Norse Star, and was a finalist in the Kitchener-Waterloo English Awards. Email

Khaibit

Khaibit is a Sign Language Interpreter, movie prop collector, evil goth chick, digital artist, and professional neurotic. She is a cult film fanatic and aspires to direct her own evil subversive cult film. Her fiction, art, and poetry have been featured in a number of publications, including The Aether Sanctum, The Dream People, The Random Stain, The Whetstone, and The Isis Papers.Email

Shervin Kiani

Shervin Kiani is a writer currently living in Toronto. His publishing credits include Black Petals Magazine and Dream Fantasy International. Email

Mark Joseph Kiewlak

Mark Joseph Kiewlak has been an author for about fifteen years now, mainly short stories and poetry. Recently his work has appeared in Wild Violet, The Bitter Oleander, Black Petals, and Once Upon a Time. He has also written for DC Comics (FLASH 80-PAGE GIANT #2). Email

Willie James King

Willie James King has published Wooden Windows with a foreward by Yusef Komunyakaa. He has studied with Robert Polito, who directs the writing courses at the New School, New York. Email

Teagan King

Teagan King is a student at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan, graduating this Spring. Upon graduation she will be moving to a local youth camp where she works and will be busily planning her September wedding. Other than writing she enjoys painting, reading and watching endless episodes of Doctor Who. Email: Teagan King

Jake Kinzie

Jake Kinzie is on a mission to free the quirky, deviant, sometimes crazy ideas that lurk inside him itching to be heard. Writing is their channel to existence and publication is their pathway to eventual freedom. Some of his stuff has recently been spotted at Nuvein.com and WordRiot.org. Email: Jake Kinzie

Matthew Kirshman

Matthew Kirshman lives in Seattle, Washington with my wife and two daughters. He is an English teacher, but before that has had a varied career—telephone repairman, bartender, and cook, to name a few. Publication credits include: Altpoetics, Annapurna Magazine, Apeiron Review, The Bacon Review, BlazeVOX, Café Irreal, Charter Oak Poets, Dirigible: Journal of Language Arts, Futures Trading, Helix, Indefinite Space, Key Satch(el), Mad Hatters’ Review, Phoebe: The George Mason Review, posthumous papers (NothingNew Press), Vangarde Magazine, The Wayfarer, Wilderness House Literary Review, Xenarts, and Z-Compositio. Email: Matthew Kirshman

Tammy R. Kitchen

Tammy R. Kitchen has previously been published in The Story Garden. She hopes to become well-published so she'll never have to do physical labor again. Email

Steve Klepetar

Steve Klepetar teaches literature and writing at Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota. His work has appeared in many journals, including GHOTI, Snakeskin, New Works Review, and others. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize the past three years. Steve Klepetar

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Angelika Kolompar

Angelika Kolompar came to Canada with her Danish Mother and Hungarian Father. She has been published in North America, Eruope and Japan. The first major award was from Japan. Her first passion is haiku, but now tanka is her next pursuit. Her first book, Vancouver Island, Haiku and Tanka was published in 2006. The plan is to revise it soon. She draws her inspiration from beautiful Vancouver Island, where she lives with the sea and sky a glance away from her windows. Her love of the ocean is also seen in her dragon boat activity. See takes great pleasure in this sport and looks forward to the racing festivals in the Summer months. Email: Angelika Kolompar

Leonard Kogan

Leonard Kogan lives and works in New York.

Selected Solo Shows
2007 "Atmosphere", Anelle Gandelman Fine Art. Larchmont, NY.
2004 “SUR/FACE/S”, Nexus Project Gallery. New York, NY.
2004 “FUSSION 2004”, Globe Institute Gallery. New York NY.
2000 Museum Yanko-Dada of Modern Art. Ein-Hod, Israel.

Selected Group Shows
2012 Meter Room, TURTLE SALON. Coventry, UK. Curator Michael.H. Shamberg
2011 Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, TURTLE SALON. Paris, France. Curator Michael.H. Shamberg
2005 Project Diversity at a multi-venue Exhibition of Brooklyn Artists. Brooklyn Sputnik Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2005 Collision Machine. Brooklyn, NY.
2005 “Reflections“, Nexus Project Gallery. New York, NY.
2004 “The After Light”, The Andy Warhol Factory. New York, NY.
2002 "Artik 4", Scholarship winners of The America-Israel Cultural Foundation. University of Tel- Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2001 Contemporary Art Center. Rishon-LeZion, Israel.
2001 "Artik 3", Scholarship winners of The America-Israel Cultural Foundation. University of Tel-Aviv. Tel Aviv, Israel.
2000 “Wall flowers”, Herzliya Museum of Arts. Herzliya, Israel

Education
1997-1999 Beit Berel College of Fine Arts. Kfar-Saba, Israel.
1994-1997 Avni Institute of Fine Arts. Tel-Aviv-Jaffo, Israel.

Teaching
1998-2001 Lecture at Beit Berel College of Fine Arts. Kfar-Saba, Israel.

Grants
2001 America Israel Cultural Foundation, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2000 America Israel Cultural Foundation, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Artist's Web Site
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Toshiaki Komura

Toshiaki Komura completed an MFA program at Cornell University in 2002; after teaching introductory creative writing courses for two years at Cornell as a lecturer. He is presently working toward a Ph.D. in English Literature at University of Michigan, focusing on modern poetry and poetics. His work has appeared in several publications, (Contemporary Rhyme, Offerings, Three Cup Morning, The Same, The Storyteller, Poetic Hours, among others), and his awards include Corson-Bishop Prize (2002) and Alexander Laing Memorial Prize (1998).Email

Laird Kopp

Laird Kopp's work has appeared in Cymbals, Echoes Magazine, Manifold, and several publications in the Philadelphia area. Currently an English teacher and poetry club advisor at The Haverford School (PA), he also enjoys composing and performing folk-rock songs with his brother at venues in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. Email: Laird Kopp

Barbara Kowal
Barbara Kowal is a journalist living in Colorado.
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a.m. kozak

A.M. Kozak is a bathing and beer enthusiast who lives in what seems to be an old attic converted into an apartment, making a living thru playing music, poker and publishing. Email: A.M. Kozak

Heidi Kraay

Heidi Kraay is a writer and theater artist currently living in Boise, Idaho. She writes plays, poetry, stories and essays while working in theater production and teaching creative writing. Some of her work has been published in Anastamoo, The 5-2, Log Cabin Books, The Zodiac Review, theBOISEAN, among others, and her plays have been developed and produced locally, regionally and in NYC. Heidi holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Boise State University and especially loves bridging gaps between genres through collaborative experimentation. Email: Heidi Kraay

Amanda Krut

Amanda Krut is one lucky writer living in the majestic state of Colorado. The twenty-one year old is currently attending college despite her lack of a consistent major. Perhaps she should choose English...? Amanda! is now twice published and hopes to continue publishing as long as her fingers can tame the keyboard.Attic Full of Salt Email

Lavinia Kumar

Lavinia Kumar lives in New Jersey. Her degrees all in the sciences, but the arts have been waxing for some time, her family has a variety of cultures and immigrants: travel is a necessity. Her poetry has appeared in Waterways, Thatchwork (Delaware Valley Poets), Orbis, US1 Worksheets (upcoming), Caper, and the US1 newspaper. Email: Lavinia Kumar

Len Kuntz

Len Kuntz has placed over fifty stories in lit journals such as JUKED, GHOTI, ELIMAE, MUD LUSCIOUS and others. Email: Len Kuntz

Stuart Kurtz

Stuart Kurtz is a free-lance writer of arts reviews, social commentary, travel, and interview pieces. His work appeared in 18 languages, and he is now a drama writer and poet. He is available for hire at writerstuartk@gmail.com and has a blog of Blog Email: Stuart Kurtz

Adam Kuzma

Adam has been published in Harpweaver, published by Brock Univ., the poem, "Like Wine Poured Out" won the Can. Auth. Assoc. Prize for Poetry. He has also appeared in several Hamilton literary mag's including Kairos. Email

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