Robert Naftal's previous publications were as an Economist, prior to his current career working in Washington, DC. He began writing fiction roughly one year ago, focusing on humor and horror. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied Economics and performed stand up comedy regularly." Email: Robert Naftal

Lois Nantais

Lois Nantais has a daytime gig at Lambton College in Sarnia, teaching human relations, social psychology and ethics. She is also busy working at finishing up an MA in Integrated Studies. She is a member of The Ontario Poetry Society. Email: Lois Nantais

James Nantau

James Nantau is a fiction writer living in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. His first novel Third & Nineteen, Tale of the Lonesome Loser was released in June 2008. He has BA and BComm degrees from University of Windsor and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario and is a commercial banker by day. A second novel is underway. Email: James Nantau

Julie Nariman

Julie Nariman is a teacher and assistant principal at a public school in New York City , and writes, hikes, and studies Korean and Spanish to have fun and get perspective on a gigantically complex school system. She has published essays in Transitions Abroad and The Korea Times, and was the winner of the Jake Cranage Poetry Award at Penn State University . Email: Julie Nariman

Thamsanqa Ncube

Thamsanqa Ncube was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where he attended school at Luveve as well as Founders High Schools. After completing his Accounting Management Studies at the Bulawayo Polytechnic College, Mr. Ncube immigrated to South Africa, where he lectured in Business studies at various colleges, before opening his own Business Training College, which he successfully managed for 3 years. Mr. Ncube became involved in the political movements based in South Africa, trying to solve the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe. As the regime became bolder and sought to crush any opposition at home and in neighboring countries, Mr. Ncube moved `to the United Kingdom, where he resided for 5 years. He is now back in South Africa, and lives in Pretoria with his wife and son. The poem "Voices" is extracted from Mr Ncube's published collection Mureza…In the Shadow of the Flag. Email: Thamsanqa Ncube

Eric V. Neagu

Eric V. Neagu lives in Chicago, where he works as a consultant. Eric has degrees from Purdue University and The University of Chicago. His fiction has appeared in Bartleby Snopes, The Pedestal Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Aphelion, and many other journals. In addition to fiction writing, Eric spends time working on environmental issues in post-industrial communities. He is working on his first novel and a documentary about the Great Lakes. Email: Eric V. Neagu

Julie Ngo

Julie Ngo is a high school student in her third year, doesn't consider herself an accomplished writer by any means, and only submitted her work because a certain English teacher asked her to. Julie was born in and currently lives in Toronto, with her over-protective, but indulgent family. She enjoys reading, playing all sports (except ones she hasn't tried yet, such as wrestling, boxing and cricket), playing (but not performing or practicing) the piano, and sleeping in boring classes at school. She recently wrote a novella for a class in school, which she enjoyed, but doesn't think she'd like to try it again, since staying up until four in the morning yelling at her computer monitor sort of scared her. Julie appreciates anything written by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and other classical writers, the Harry Potter series, and romance novels. She is a part-time lifeguard, swimming instructor, camp counsellor, and piano teacher, and is trying very hard to persuade her parents to buy her a car for her birthday. Julie is obsessed with the greatest show on Earth, The X-Files, and challenges anybody to disagree with her opinions of the show. Favourite quote? Duh. "The Truth Is Out There..." Email

Judith Neale

Judith Neale was brought up on Vancouver Island and is a trained Mezzo-Soprano and poet. She says, “My poems are like snapshots appearing on the page. They give a brief but intense look at love, sex, relationships, nature and desire. I prefer to keep my poems short to better capture the moments and images that are constantly filtering through my brain. With the belief that in brevity lies power, I like to start with a larger version of a poem and whittle it down to its essential self.” Email: Judith Neale

Melinda Neeley

Melinda Neeley is a freelance writer from Morrilton, Arkansas, with a degree in journalism. Her published writings include feature articles in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (a state newspaper), straight news and feature articles in the Log Cabin Democrat (a local Conway, AR, newspaper), and poetry in a regional publication titled, Reflections, a Poetry Quarterly. She has also served as editor of several local newsletter publications and has been a publications assistant for an accredited university. Currently, she and her husband run their own construction firm and she writes for pleasure. Email

Sheryl L. Nelms
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Bruce Nelson

Bruce Nelson has been writing around the corners of his career for years. He has been in education for over 20 years. Currently he is an elementary school principal. He has had poetry published in Oxford Magazine and Touchstone Magazine. He has won first place in the East Texas Poetry contest. He won 2nd place in a state contest put on by the Texas Byliners. He has had feature articles published in the local newspaper and city magazine. Email

Ryan Nelson

Ryan Nelson is an English Literature student at Western Washington University. Email: Ryan Nelson

Daniel Petter Nemo

Daniel Petter Nemo was born European, grew up American and drifted the world aimlessly until he settled the underground society Exilé Sans Frontieres (Amsterdam branch), which is so underground that it actually runs under ground in the flat below. Email: Daniel Petter Nemo

Emily Pittman Newberry

Emily Pittman Newberry was born in the mid-west during World War II and grew up in upstate New York during the post war boom and subsequent questioning of consumer culture and the spiritual and political upheavals. She went into the factories as a machinist to participate in political revolution and came out 30 years later as a mediator and facilitator.
After a long spiritual journey of inner truth seeking she came into acceptance of herself as a transgendered woman. She writes and performs poetry about the human condition. Her first book, Butterfly A Rose, was published in fall 2010. Email: Emily Pittman Newberry

Martina Reisz Newberry

Martina Reisz Newberry is the author of LIMA BEANS AND CITY CHICKEN: MEMORIES OF THE OPEN HEARTH—a memoir of my father—published by E.P. Dutton and Co. in 1989. (A chapter from the above-mentioned book was published in Cosmopolitan Magazine in January 1988.) She is also the author of THE STAR JASMINE CLUB—AN ADULT FABLE, a novel purchased by E.P. Dutton & Co. in 1991. She was the winner of i.e. magazine’s Editor’s Choice Poetry Chapbook Prize for 1998: AN APPARENT, APPROACHABLE LIGHT. She has written four novels and several books of poetry and has been widely published in literary magazines such as: 5 AM, Amelia, Bellingham Review, Black Buzzard Review, Cape Rock, Connecticut Poetry Review, Context South, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Hob Nob, i.e.,Innisfree, Iowa Woman, New Laurel Review, Passages North, Piedmont Literary Review, Snake Nation Review, Sonora Review, Southern Review of Poetry, Touchstone, Willow Review ,Women's Work, and many others. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry by poet Andrew Hudgins Scheduled for publication in 2005: Running Like a Woman With Her Hair on Fire/Poetry by Martina Reisz Newberry; Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, CA She has had residencies at Yaddo, Djerassi, and Anderson Center colonies for the arts. She lives in Hollywood with her husband, Brian and her cat, Gato. She is happier than any one has any right to be. Email

Steven Marshall Newton

Steve Newton studied with C. D. B. Bryant at the University of Iowa and Philip Roth at the University of Iowa Creative Writers Workshop. He studied graduate and undergraduate creative writing and poetry at the University of New Mexico. He is a professional songwriter, poet, and part-time photographer. His short story, "Nothing But A Kiss", won First Place in the Santa Fe REPORTER Annual Short Story Contest, "Somewhere in LA", received honorable mention in the ALIBI Magazine Short Story Contest, "Dominique's Mother" was a finalist in England's Gator Springs Gazette Annual Short Story Contest, and Dust Devil won First Place in Ascent Aspirations Magazine flash fiction contest. He has published these and other short stories in Amarillo Bay Literary Magazine, Juked, Evergreen Review, Hot Metal Press, Gator Springs Gazette, Ascent Aspirations, and BLINK. He has completed three mainstream contemporary novels, Southeast of Eden, The Ghosts of Babylon, Evangelo, and Shrinking Violet. Vurrently he is nearing completion on an historical fiction novel, Billy's Kid. Email: Steve Newton

Drusilla NicGowan

Drusilla NicGowan has been published in Reed Magazine and have won Honorable Mention in North Carolina State University's Academy of American Poets Award. Before studying poetry, she studied ecology and evolutionary biology. Email: Drusilla NicGowan

Rick Nicolet

Rick Nicolet is a writer and a producer in Hollywood. Email: Rick Nicolet

BZ Niditch

BZ Niditch's work is widely published in journals and magazines throughout the world, including: Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Art, The Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, Hawaii Review, Le Guepard (France), Kadmos (France), Prism International, Jejune (Czech Republic), Leopold Bloom (Budapest), Antioch Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. Email: BZ Niditch

Andrew Nightingale

Andrew Nightingale grew up in the woods of New Hampshire and completed his MS in math from Loyola University Chicago (2009). This poem was inspired (and partially written during) a significant moment in his life when he overcame a subtle (but long-term and torturous) illness. The hard part was identifying the illness and describing it to a doctor, who diagnosed him with "restlessness." He became mindful of the illness soon after a retreat as a Buddhist monk in a small jungle town. Now, he teaches high school math and English, and lives with his wife and daughter in Thailand. If you'd like to read more, you can find his essay about math and poetry at Web Link Email: Andrew Nightingale

Ashok Niyogi

Ashok Niyogi is an Economics graduate from Presidency College, Calcutta. He made a career as an International Trader and has lived and worked in the Soviet Union, Europe and South East Asia in the ‘80s and ‘90s. At 52, he has been retired for some years and has been cashew farming, writing and traveling. He divides time between California, where his daughters live, Delhi and the Indian Himalayas. He is increasingly involved in his personal spiritual quest and has undertaken serious study of scripture. He has published a book of poems, TENTATIVELY, [iUniverse, Lincoln, NE ­ 1995] and has been extensively published in print and on-line magazines in the USA, UK, Australia and Canada. Numerous chap books of his poems have been brought out by SCARS Publications, UC-Davis, Slow Trains and others. Ashok writes about life. Email: Ashok Niyogi

Stanley M Noah

Stanley M Noah has a degree from the Univ. of Texas at Dallas and is a member of The Academy of American Poets. He has published poems in the following: "Poesy," "Poetry Depth Quarterly," "Old Red Kimono" and other small presses. Been writing for four years. Email

Tanya Rucosky Noakes

Tanya Rucosky Noakes was born in the mountains east of Pittsburgh. She has degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in English Literature and Information Science, and a further degree in Environmental Education from Slippery Rock University. She has worked as an archivist, editor, organic farmer, teacher, UN representative, and park ranger and has wandered around Europe, the American West, and spend several years in Thailand and Taiwan. Currently she has wandered over to the other side of the planet where she owns an organic farm and runs a community environmental organization in rural Australia. She has been published in Taproot, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and Soul Fountain among others, and has a chapbook which came out in May. Email

Sandra Novack

Sandra Novack is an award-winning short story writer whose work has appeared in Descant, Mississippi Review, Paterson Literary Review, Northwest Review, North Dakota Quarterly, South Carolina Review, and Gulf Coast, among many others. Her collection, Love and Other Disasters, was a finalist in both the Spokane Prize and the Tartt Contest. She holds an MA in Literature and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College. She has taught at Duke University, NC State, the University of Cincinnati and on-line at writers.com. Email

Keith Nunes

Keith Nunes lives in Tauranga, New Zealand. He has been published here and there and writes to stay sane while around him volcanoes crank up the heat. Email: Keith Nunes

Teresa Nyenhuis

Teresa Nyenhuis is 26 years old, lives in Ontario and writes poetry mainly as diary entries. Sometimes she believes that she has something to say, and perhaps she says in eloqently, and at other times she says she might as well be mute. Comments from people who will not see her chin quiver are welcome.Email

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