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Michael Zadell

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Michael Zadell holds a BS in Computer Science (1993, Summa Cum Laude) and an MA in History (2010) - both degrees earned from Cleveland State University. After 20 years as a computer systems designer, Michael now writes poetry and history full time. He currently resides in a lakefront community outside Cleveland, Ohio. Email: Michael Zadell

Frank Zafiro

Frank Zafiro is 35 years old. He has been a law enforcement officer in the Pacific Northwest for eleven years. He started writing at thirteen, penning two hundred word vignettes that were largely derivative of the work he was reading. He moved on to slightly more original short stories and poetry. Several stories and about fifteen of the poems have been accepted to small press magazines. He wrote his first novel at eighteen...and it showed. It was atrocious, self-indulgent and maudlin. It also only ran 45, 000 words and he thought he had War and Peace. It wasn't until 1995 that he wrote a second novel. This one was still rough but had some promise. It sat in a drawer until recently, when he began editing it. At the same time, he is working on another book with a friend. They are each writing one of the main characters. It is shaping up to be interesting. Although he has done many different things in his life, he has to say that all he ever imagined himself as was a writer. In fits and starts through his life, he is making that happen.

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Darlene Zagata

Darlene Zagata is a freelance writer and poet. Her work has appeared in several online and print publications including Verse Libre, Wellspring Christian Poetry Journal, Spirithunter, Ascent and Some Words. She is the author of "Standing On The Edge Of Time", a collection of poems. She currently reside in Uniontown, Pa. with her family.

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Omar ZahZah

Omar ZahZah's work has appeared in such publications as Vulcan: a literary dis-allusion, Poetic Diversity, The Chiron Review, RipRap, and Schlock. “Death Went Into The Place,” the first installment of Death, a webcomic on which he is collaborating with fine artist and graphic novelist Eliza Frye (and which may be viewed at www.deathcomic.com), appeared in Narrative. Several of his poems were featured in the anthology Beside The City of Angels: An Anthology of Long Beach Poetry, and his short story, “The Morning After,” was featured in the anthology Suffer Eternal: Tales of the Undead. He is currently a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Love (or loathe) more of his work at His Web Site. Email: Omar ZahZah

Tessa Zeng

Tessa Zeng is a junior at Thomas Jefferson HSST in Alexandria, VA, where she is poetry editor for the literary magazine. Her poems have appeared in the New Moon Magazine for Girls, Surrounded Magazine, Coffee House Press (online), and will appear in Bear Creek Haiku.

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Christopher M. Zimmerman
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Gerald Zipper

Gerald Zipper is the author of the play, "A Little Madness", produced at New York's Provincetown Playhouse. His other plays have appeared or are sceduled to appear in San Diego, Denver, etc. His poetry appears in over 250 literary and poetry magazines in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He served as Deputy Commissioner of a New York State agency, was hired as "Consultant on the Arts" to the New York State Senate, and manages a successful business enterprise. Several of the publications that have published Gerald Zipper's poetry over the 1997-01 period include: The Pegasus Review, VA; The Pointed Circle, Portland Community College, WA; The Poet's Pen, GA; Skylark, Purdue University; AURA, Univ. of Alabama; ICON, Kent State Univ., OH; The Amherst Review, Amherst College, MA; Piedmont Literary Review, VA; OYEZ REVIEW, Roosevelt Univ., Il; NEBO Literary Journal, Arkansas Tech University; Maryland Review, Univ. of Maryland E.S.; Bay Area Poet's Coalition, CA; Ellipsis, Westminster College; Sounds Of Poetry, MI; Parnassus Literary Journal, GA; Apropos, PA....)

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Victor Zorman

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Milenko Županovi

Milenko Županovi was born in 1978 in Kotor (Montenegro). He still lives in Kotor but he is Croatian. Email: Milenko Županovi?

Fredrick Zydek

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Fredrick Zydek is the author of eight collections of poetry. T'Kopechuck: the Buckley Poems is forthcoming from Winthrop Press later this year. Formerly a professor of creative writing and theology at the University of Nebraska and later at the College of Saint Mary, he is now a gentleman farmer when he isn't writing. He is the editor for Lone Willow Press. Email: Fredrick Zydek



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