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Tanushree Vachharajani

Tanushree Vachharajani completed her undergraduate studies in Eng Lit from St. Xavier's college at Mumbai, India, and is currently continuing her Master's course in the same subject from Mumbai University. Through college, her extracurricular activities ranged from events and contests in art, writing and theatre (primarily acting). She previously won a second place in an all India short fiction contest, published papers in her school and college magazines, participated in Ithaka, the St. Xavier's theatre festival, and worked as a script writer for Tinkle, a popular Indian children's magazine as well as a copywriting intern at the erstwhile advertising firm RMG David (sister concern of Ogilvy and Mather).

Email: Tanushree Vachharajani

Joe Vadalma

Joe Vadalma has loved science fiction and fantasy from the time he learned to read. His hobbies, besides writing, are adventure game playing and do-it-yourself projects. Before he retired, he was a technical writer at a major computer manufacturer. Several short stories have been published in E-zines, and he has sold a series of dark fantasy novels called The Morgaine Chronicles to Renaissance E Books, Page Turner Editions. Renaissance has also published three collections of his short stories, The Sands of Time, Mordrake's Apprentice, and Love Among the Stars; three SF novels, Star Tower, The Bagod, and The Isaac Project; and two dark fantasies not part of the Morgaine Series called The Laws of Magic and Raven Lenore, Psychic Investigator. These books are all available at Fictionwise eBooks, Fictionwise. The Book of Retslu, a humorous fantasy, has been published by Mundania Press, Mundania. Coming soon to Mundania Press is The Search for Prince Knight Black. His web site, The Fantastic World of Papa Joe, Web Site, contains SF, fantasy and dark fantasy short stories, serials, his blog and art.
Email: Joe Vadalma

Jeff Van Hanken

Jeff Van Hanken received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from Duke University in May, 1988, with a concentration in French and German. During the following years, he was employed as the Assistant Editorial Page Editor of The Shreveport Journal in Shreveport, Louisiana. He and his colleagues were nominated by the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism for the Pulitzer Prize. In 1991, he circumnavigated the world by plane, boat, bus, train, car and foot. In August, 1992, he entered the Graduate School at The University of Texas. He wrote, produced and directed the award-winning short film, “Bella! Bella! Bella!” in 1999. In 2000, he produced a series of award-winning short films with young Hispanic, Korean and African-American men from the Rampart district near downtown Los Angeles. From 2001-2005, he has worked as a full-time Instructor in the Film and Video Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma. In 2003, his feature script, “Billy Fail,” was named a semi-finalist at the Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project. In 2005, he co-produced the feature film based upon his script. Currently, he is at work on several screenplays, a collection of short stories and a documentary project entitled "God's Leading Men."

Richard Vallance

Richard Vallance is the Chairperson, Ottawa Chapter,of the Canadian Poetry Association and the editor of The New Pleiades Anthology of Poetry 2005.

Home Page

The New Pleiades Anthology

Annuska Van Der Pol

Annuska Van Der Pol is a trained mental health and addictions practitioner and a trained museum educator. Alongside that she has been doing automatic writing since she was seventeen years old. Furthermore, she also creates drawings which she calls communication drawings. She is passionate about birdwatching and photography. She lives on Vancouver Island. Annuska has travelled to approximately twenty-four countries and believes in Existentialism. Email: by Annuska Van Der Pol

Margot Van Sluytman

Margot Van Sluytman, MA, is an Award-winning poet and author of Sawbonna: Justice as Lived Experience.

Member of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association
Member of Restorative Justice International
Member of the National Association for Poetry Therapy

Books about Justice, Reconciliation, and Biblio-Therapy by Margot Van Sluytman
1. Sawbonna: I See You. A Real Life Restorative Justice Story. Foreword by Howard Zehr, PhD
2. The Other Inmate: Mediating Justice-Mediating Hope. Poetry & Workbook for Restorative Practices
(Available in English & French. French Translation Funded by Correctional Services Canada)
3. Dance With Your Healing~Tears Let Me Begin to Speak. Workbook for Your Healing Words
3. Contemplative Waiting - Write Into the Heart of Your Spiritual Journey
4. Layers of Possibility: Healing Poetry From the Members of the National Association for Poetry Therapy Foreword by Dr. Robert Carroll, UCLA
5. Wild Self-Real Self: Surrender Not Control. Workbook and Journal for Your Wild Words

"Van Sluytman invites you to go beyond the entrenched concepts of what it means to be, offering a guide to use your own words to breakthrough the cycle of doubt and despair." Professor Reinekke Lengelle, U of A

Email: Margot Van Sluytman

J. Edward Vanno

J. Edward Vanno is a writer, photographer, and naturalist living in Portland, Oregon. He is the founder of the Absurd Fish Tranquilizer.

Paul Vantine

Paul Vantine is currently an English instructor at Cameron University in Lawton, OK, where he teaches freshman-level composition classes and Developmental Writing courses. In addition to his teaching duties, he serves as the Director for the Student Support Services Writing Lab, where at-risk college students receive additional and valuable one-on-one instruction. He has been published in The Armchair Aesthete, The Rose Review, The Cameron Forum, The Cameron Collegiate, The Wichita and another story has been accepted for publication in the magazine My Legacy.

Email: Paul Vantine

Sam Vargo

Sam Vargo was awarded an MA in English and a BA in Political Science from Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, USA. He spent most of his adult life working as a full-time newspaper reporter and editor for daily newspapers and business journals. He taught English as an adjunct instructor at a number of universities and community colleges in West Virginia, Ohio, Mississippi and Florida. Vargo was fiction editor of Pig Iron Press, Youngstown, Ohio, for 12 years. He has had poetry and fiction appear in the following: Ascent Aspirations, Blue Fifth, Centrifugal Eye, The Circle, Clark Street Review, Connecticut Review, The Cynic (an online magazine), Dandelion, Edifice Wrecked, Electric Acorn, Gypsy Blood Review, Higginsville Reader, Late Knocking, Licking River Review, Lynx Eye, Mastodon Dentist, The National Lampoon Humor Network (College Stories, THE PHAT PHREE, Points In Case, The Frown), The Nocturnal Lyric, nthposition.com, Ohio Teachers Write, Poetry Motel, Projected Letters, Red Dancefloor, Reed, Small Press Review, Verve, undergroundwindow.com, White Leaf Review UK, Yasse and others. Ascent Aspirations is one of Vargo's favorite literary e-zines. "David Fraser is always on the cutting edge of literature and writing, as a publisher, editor and writer. Ascent Aspirations is a Canadian gem, an international venue of the best writing anywhere online," says Vargo, who resides in Jacksonville, Florida. Email: Sam Vargo

Oscar Varona

Oscar Varona is a writer but nobody thinks he is; a librarian who doesn’t feel like he’s one; a loser… of time who has published a book of short stories Tremolo; a weirdo who has published short stories in e-zines in Argentina, Mexico, the US, and Spain. A bored animal who works on an arty e-zine called Delirio. An unhealthy smoker born in Madrid, Spain, 40 years ago, who draws and makes collages about strange things. He still fights against dumb publishers and best-seller readers. Email: Oscar Varona

Andrea Shumovsky Vasile

Andrea Shumovsky's work can be read in Clevermag.com : September, November 2001, and January and May 2002. She writes poetry for adults and children. She has a diverse education beginning in Early Childhood Education, Pharmacy Technician and Specialized Publishing from Canada and the United States. Although she misses the beautiful beaches of the Jersey shore, her true home is Canada where the vast landscape continually inspires her.

Kevin Vautier

Kevin Vautier is a fisherman, oyster fisherman, clam digger and a poet who works the sea on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Email: Kevin Vautier.

Dana Verdino

Dana Verdino initially went to school for business but went crazy in her cubicle, so then she got an M.A. in Education, and now works as an ESL teacher. Her stories have appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, Postcard Shorts, and Chemistry and Numbers 2. Aside from teaching, cooking, and watching horror movies with her husband in South Carolina, Dana is currently working on a memoir. Email: Dana Verdino

John Vespasian

John Vespasian has lived in New York, Madrid, Paris, and Munich. His stories reflect the values of entrepreneurship, tolerance, and self-reliance. He blogs at his Blogspot Email

Lisa Veyssiere

Lisa Veyssiere has studied fiction with the Stanford Writer's Studio. She works in public health surveillance, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family, and sometimes in New York, alone. She is currently revising a novel about finding lost things in Lower Manhattan and Northern Nevada. Email: Lisa Veyssiere

Justin Vicari

Mark Vickers

In the irreverent Benicia, California traditions of artists Robert Arneson, Manuel Neri and Judy Chicago, sculptor and painter Marques Vickers, 43, has chosen this "City by the Bay" (San Pablo Bay) to specialize in his Figurative paintings, sculptures. Vickers has exhibited extensively in the San Francisco Bay Area including exhibitions at the Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco, Gloria Ferrer Champagne Cellars and Mark West Vineyards. He has been acknowledged at the MAC21 Contemporary Art Fair in Marbella, Spain for the past two years and EXPOART 2000 with the European Art Channel in Cologne, Germany in international art competitions. During 2001, his work has been showcased throughout the United States on a Tricom Pictures television production and limited edition posters and prints through Barnes and Noble.com. He began publishing his own Internet web site at www.marquesv.com in late 1999 has received numerous awards and media recognition for its layout and content. He has published a book and monthly electronic magazine entitled "Selling Art on the Internet" through his company Marquis Publications (www.ArtsInAmerica.com) which is distributed internationally. He is a published writer in numerous publications, has been profiled extensively in print and electronic media throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and internationally. He conducts seminars for visual artists and galleries on selling art through the Internet and actively sells his work on over 30+ international business exchange, B2B, auction and art portfolio websites.

Lynne Vigue

Lynne Vigue is a free-lance writer and photographer based in Meriden, Connecticut. Email: Lynne Vigue

Jerry Vilhotti

Jerry Vilhotti graduated from the only college that won the NIT and NCCA basketball tournament in the same year but more importantly than that - a Jonas Salk who helped rid some of the world of polio with his vaccine and who also was given the opportunity to contribute graduated from the same school. Jerry Vilhotti has been fortunate to have had stories published in The Dream International, Hob-Nob, Puck&Pluck, The Literary Review and many other literary magazines. He lives in the Litchfield Hills, in a simpler place in time, with a beautiful wife who treats him well (often he wonders why) and they both helped in bringing three sort of nice kids into this world who have gone off with three partners, as good, he hopes as the one he found long ago and far away - just like the song!

Kim Vincent:

Kim Vincent: By age 16 Kim Vincent was captivated by the metaphysical. This fascination is still with him and shows up in his eight books. In his 30’s he was hosting home discussion groups and playing the organ in two different churches. By age 40 he had one of the largest collection of metaphysical books in Canada and had developed a 160 acre spiritual retreat which was attended by folks from all over the world. At the same time he organized university seminars and was featured on various radio shows and hosted a 33 week television series entitled "This Psychic World." It was then that an editor from Doubleday came across some of his lecture papers and asked him to write an encyclopedia on parapsychology. That was almost 30 years ago. Once hooked, he has been writing ever since, during which time he had a construction business, a land development company, an architectural design practice, a vinyl window factory and a pewter foundry. Email: Kim Vincent

Marianne Vincent

Marianne Vincent has been writing poetry for years, and has just recently achieved publication. In addition to her writing, she is an administrative nurse who works at least 50 hours a week. Her work is challenging and rewarding, but her first love is writing. A native of Syracuse, NY, she lives with her husband and 12 year old daughter, Jess. She has two sons who live in the area--and has been blessed with three gorgeous grandchildren. She has been greatly influenced by her family and has an incredibly strong Italian heritage. As a first generation Italian-American, she believes that the heart of a person, especially a writer, is not complete without the love and devotion of “La Famiglia”. It is most important to her to be able to continue the tradition of success passed down from her ancestors. Her poetry comes from within. Each poem tells a story, with a message that she strives to convey to the reader, especially other women. She hopes that in some way, her writings will encourage other Italian-American women to “bring forth” their talents.

S.C. Virtes

Look for SCV works in ANALOG (Jan 97), BEYOND, OTHER WORLDS, SPACE & TIME, PLANET, and many more.

SCV Tales

Emmanuelle Vivier

Emmanuelle Vivier is a Freelance Translator. She was born in Paris, France, but has lived in South-western Ontario for 18 years. She is an Associate Member with the League of Canadian Poets. Her work (in English & French) has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Tower Poetry Society (McMaster University), Room of One’s Own, Quills and Black Moss Press anthologies. She isa member of the Writing Salon at the University of Windsor with Marty Gervais.

Chris Volkay

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