Contributors' List & Bios:
| William Allagrezza: (no bio available) Ray Abruzzi: (no bio available) Jane Adam started writing poetry just a few years ago in a moment of desperation, got surprising results, and kept at it. Her poems now appear in Antipatico, Remark, Chiron Review, and Slipstream. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2003. Since 1981, she has lived in Buffalo, NY, where she has taught freshman English at nearly every college in the area.
Carolyn Adams has been active in the literary and visual arts since 1988. As a member of the Flying Dutchman Writers Troupe, she helped organize readings in the Houston area, and she continues to participate in events for numerous other groups across Texas. Her poetry, fiction, photography, and illustrations have been published or will soon appear in the print and on-line journals Taj Mahal Review, RiverSedge, Yellow Bat Review, Tryst, Avatar Review, and Alsop Review, among others. She currently co-edits and co-publishes Curbside Review.
Sarah Allard is a nineteen year old English major studying at Framingham State College in Massachusetts. She spends her time staring out windows and biting her nails. Jed Allen : I'm a jazz pianist and poet, and teach at Phoenix Community College where I also coordinate a creative writing program. I'm peddling a manuscript, The Fear of Algebra, and am working on a book of music and poemsJohn Thomas Allen. I am 22 years old, from Albany, New York. I have lived here my entire life, apart from some travelling, and am currently a philosophy major in college. I have been writing poetry and short stories since the age of 14. I will be appearing in the next issue of Falling Star Magazine and the next two issues of Forever Underground Magazine. Trina Allen’s writing has been published in magazines including Dana Literary Society and Thunder Sandwich. Her articles about teaching have appeared in educational magazines such as Education Today and Science Scope. She is finishing her first children's novel, Katharine Taylor and the Magic Quilt, for children ages nine to thirteen, and has begun work on a book for middle school science teachers. Shane Allison: (no bio available)
Pietro Aman is a 20 year old American student living in a foreign city. His wife loves him, as does his mother. He has been published recently in
The Paumanok Review and Tryst. John Amen's poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in various publications, including The Drunken Boat, Sidereality, The Melic Review, 2River View, Samsara Quarterly, Disquieting Muses, and Branches Quarterly. He has performed widely as a musician, both as a solo act and with a band, and has released three recordings, Wild but Willing, Eat Mine, and Four Forty Four. His first book of poetry, Christening the Dancer, is scheduled to be released in late 2002. He is editor in chief of the online literary publication The Pedestal Magazine. George Anderson: I was born in Montreal and presently teach English and History in Sydney, Australia. In the last two years I have had dozens of poems accepted for publication in a variety of Australian publications, including Social Alternatives, Five Bells, SideWaLk and The School Magazine. I edit the student poetry journal Ephemeral and recently featured in an Australian Bulletin article hortensia anderson lives in new york city on the lower east side. she is the author of 3 chapbooks and 1 full-length volume of poetry, TRUST (1995, Fly-By-Night Press). her current passion is collaborative verse examples of which can be found by "googling" her. hortensia@walrus.com David Andrews's poetry has appeared in over a dozen forums, including Fence, Pavement Saw, and h2so4. He is currently Culture and Criticism editor of Bridge magazine. As such, he has solicited and edited writing from Robert Creeley, Marjorie Perloff, Charles Bernstein, Charles A ltieri, Robert Von Hallberg, Tom Clark, Rikki Ducornet, Barry Gifford, Toby Olson, Nicholas Mosley, Jerome Klinkowitz, Eric Schaefer, Alan Soble, and dozens of other writers. His essays have appeared in over fifty forums, with long scholarly pieces appearing in The Chicago Review, The Journal of Popular Culture, Hunger, The Journal of Film and Video, Film Criticism, Context, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, Nabokov Studies, and many edited collections. He has also published a critical monograph on Vladimir Nabokov (Edwin Mellen, 1999), edited a casebook (Dalkey Archive, 2003) on Gilbert Sorrentino’s novel Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, and is now finishing the first study of American softcore cinema (Ohio State University Press, 2005). He has taught American literature, film, and writing at five different universities.
Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy where she edits the Italian Niederngasse. Her poetry has recently appeared in Drexel Online Journal, The Pedestal Magazine, Tryst and Tattoo Highway. She has received a nomination from Verse Libre Quarterly for the 2003 Pushcart Prize. An e-chapbook of her poetry, "Dirt Therapy" is being hosted by Slow Trains www.slowtrains.com).
*Ron Androla is a poet. RD Armstrong
started writing poetry a long time ago, but he's only been reading it for about ten years. These days he divides his time between publishing other poets, working for the MAN and hanging out at Portfolio Café. Drop by some morning and maybe you'll catch him in. He started the Lummox Press in 1995. In the beginning it was primarily for self-publishing purposes, but in 1998 he began to publish other writers & poets. In 1999, under the imprint of The Little Red Book series, he began to publish the work of one poet a month and have published 40 Little Red Books so far. He also publish the Lummox Journal (have done so since late 1995). It's a small-press, DIY monthly, examining the creative process using interviews, essays, poetry & illustrations to explore the obstacles to, as well as, the rewards of that creation. In February of 02, not only did Raindog turn 51, but he also published the 75th issue of Lummox. Raindog's new motto: A mind is a terrible thing. Aurora Antonovic is a Canadian writer, visual artist, and the former co-editor and columnist for the now-defunct GT Times. Her poetry has recently appeared over 200 times in seven countries and five continents. She currently resides in Ontario.
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.
Peggy Aylsworth is co-director of the West Coast Poets and Writers Forum. Her poetry has appeared in Cincinnati Poetry Review, Laurel Review, Blue Buildings, Beyond Baroque Magazine, California Quarterly and others. In 1989, "Letters To The Same Address, a book of poems in dialogue with her husband, Norm Levine, was published by Momentum Press, followed in 1995 by their second book "Along These Lines". Cheryl B. is a multi-genre writer who has performed her work throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia and England. Her writing appears in numerous anthologies, literary journals and ?zines as well as in five chapbooks. She is the editor of the literary web-site www.motoroilqueen.com, a graduate of NYU and will receive her MFA in Creative Nonfiction writing from The New School in May 2002. James Babbs: I have poems forthcoming in Dream Fantasy International, Hazmat Review, Poetry Motel, Spillway and Zillah. In 2003 I self-published my first collection, Dictionary of Chaos. Although, I attended Illinois State University twice I have, yet, to get a degree but it sure was fun. I write poetry for the joy of it but, in order to pay the bills, am employed by the Postal Service as a rural mail carrier. In my free time I enjoy reading and listening to Neil Young and free jazz.
LaTonya Baldwin: (no bio available) Rusty Barnes: I grew up in Mosherville, PA (pop. 250) and now live in Boston MA. rustybarnes23@yahoo.com David Bates is currently residing in Austin, TX. Co-founder and Editor of MY FAVORITE BULLET. Recent chapbooks include PUNCHED THE MOON IT WOULDN'T FALL (2001 Interior Noise Press) and CASHING IN THE DEVIL'S LUCK (2003, Interior Noise Press) Other work has appeared in SPENT MEAT, UNDERGROUND VOICES, SPILLWAY REVIEW, and ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE.
Bill Beaver: At an early age Bill Beaver was impaled in a chariot accident his body and mind put in cryogenic fugue for 3 thousand years he was thawed out in 1949 to make way for frozen peas when D A Levy died he began to write was interrupted by a decade of self-induced LSD therapy in 1978 he got his first computer began to rebuild his communication centers published the journal Valley Fever (guaranteed not to sag!) interrupted again in 1990 by angry ghosts spent five years doing video for a modern dance company - writer, programmer, videographer, photographer, animator, teacher - two years ago in a tiny cell in Durango, Co the muse kicked his head sharp stiletto heels he has to hurry it could happen again communication could fail at any moment it could happen again ... Jennifer Beebe lives in Seattle, WA. where she relentlessly mothers her three-year-old son while working towards her degree. When she comes up for air, she writes. John M. Bennett's 2 most recent books are rOlling COMBers, Potes & Poets Press; and CHAC PROSTIBULARIO, co-author Ivan Arguelles, Pavement Saw Press.
Janet Bernichon: (no bio available) J. Berk: At just under 6 feet, Berk is a bit undersized to play the forward position and lacks the ball-handling skills to play guard. Nonetheless, he can contribute with defense and hustle, and has an above average jumpshot from the 15-18 foot range Tantra Bensko: Tantra is bigger than her body. See her art website, Tantragarden if you are too. John Birkbeck: I went thru childhood thinking something was the matter with me, but I didn't know what. Convinced I was insane, I decided to fool the world by faking a sane exterior, trying out dignified poses in front of a mirror, and jotting down my mad thoughts in secret. I then discovered that I was distantly related to Lord Byron, so I began reading his poems and trying to imitate them. I even grew to look like pictures of him.I didn't publish any poems till I was well into my 40s, but since then have published four books, and have appeared in small magazines and anthologies around the world. Ehren Bivins: I am a twenty-five year old painter, songwriter and writer from Franklin, Tennessee. Later on this summer, I have a CD entitled SONGS OF THE INNER STATION coming out on Penetrator Records. My poems have appeared in Gnome:An Online Journal of Underground Writing, and a short story has been published in The 13thWarrior Review.
Cortney Bledsoe: I grew up on a catfish farm in eastern Arkansas. I have poems, essays and short stories published or forthcoming most recently in Nimrod, Story South, Hobart Pulp and the DMQ Review, among other places. Eric Bliman: I edit the print magazine "Yawp" based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My poems have appeared on the web, at: Poetrymagazine.com, and in print magazines including: Taproot, and Alpha Beat Soup. Roger Bonner started writing poetry and stories when he was a ten-year-old boy living in Los Angeles, and he has been hooked on creative writing ever since. He moved back to his native Switzerland when he was twenty-one. He has published mainly in England, but most recently in the USA: The Drunken Boar and Samsära. Bonner's
Web Site can be found here. Danna Jae Botwick is a Las Vegas native who considers herself an artist that accidentally got an MBA. She is raising her beautiful 9-year-old daughter, Lucy, and hosts more than one open mic in Las Vegas. Program Administrator for a defense contractor by day, she prefers to think of her role in the poetry community as her "real life." Mike Boyle was the singer / songwriter / guitarist in New Left, a seminal, progressive punk band in the 80's. As part of the indie, DIY rock scene, they released 2 singles on their own label and recived significant college radio airplay across the USA. New Left disbanded in 1986 in New York City amid rumors of substance abuse and in-fighting. Boyle started writing poetry in Hoboken, NJ in 1986. He currently lives and works in Harrisburg, PA.
BM Bradley: (no bio available) Daniel Brenner grew up near Harrisburg, PA, graduated from Bard College in Annandale, NY, and since then has lived in Kingston, NY, Hoboken, NJ, and Jersey City, NJ, where he currently writes and lives. Terry Brix is a chemical engineer whose poetry about his travels around the globe has been published in The Evansville Review, Seasons of Change, Exit 13, Curbside Review, New Rag Rising, Sensitive Poetry, Branches Quarterly, Small Brushes, Fireweed and Liberty Hill Poetry Review. His poetry collection Chiseled from the Heart was published in 2000 by Vigeland Museum, Norway. Teresa Browning lives in far southeastern Kentucky amidst the mountains and abandoned coalfields with her psychotic dogs, children and spouse. Nick Bruno's poetry has appeared in publications such as: Verse Libre Quarterly, The Poetry Super High Way, Electric Acorn, Poor Mojo's Almanac, Unlikely Stories, The Breath E-zine and Another Toronto Quarterly. He holds a Masters in Sociology along with a T.E.S.L. degree. He recently spent several years in Europe, where he taught English as a second language. He is presently living and writing in Canada.
John Bryan lives in Canberra, Australia. He has been published in various journals such as fourW, Gnome, Unlikely Stories, Pulsar Poetry Magazine, Konfluence, Atomic Petals, The Doomed City, Experimental forest Press, and Antipodean SF to name a few. Gina C. Bryson: Approximately three years ago my journal entries (or poems) lifted themselves from hiding and made their way to the poetry page. Through the privacy of internet poetry workshops and my local library, I have been able to develop my voice for an audience more and more. In doing this, I¹ve found a language I had not dared to look at this concretely before. I am accustomed to being misunderstood, and writing has very much to do with displaying a little bit of my twist on things. My recent online publications include The Drunk Duck, Free Zone Quarterly, Friction Magazine, and The Adirondack Review. I live in the most beautiful part of New Jersey with my extremely talented husband and FIVE children. Janet Buck is a six-time Pushcart Nominee. Her poetry has recently appeared in 2River View, Offcourse, Octavo, The Pedestal Magazine, Wicked Alice, and hundreds of journals worldwide. Janet's second print collection of poetry, Tickets to a Closing Play, was the winner of the 2002 Gival Press Poetry Award and her third collection, Beckoned By The Reckoning was released by PoetWorks Press in the spring of 2004. Links to more of her work here. Karalyn Burlone is an artist and poet who resides in Peekskill, NY. She dislikes the smell of wet wool, going to bed early, and cell phones with walkie-talkie features. She likes being totally submerged in water, (Atlantic Ocean is best) and being outside at night. Her chapbook, 'The Seams That Seal Our Fates Are Split,' is available for three dollars from: Back Door Press, 1 Latonia Rd. Rye Brook, NY 10573.
Loren Laird Burris: I am a college Junior, majoring in English Lit with a view to attend Trinity College, Dublin for graduate school. Apart from books and writing, I am an enthusiast of travel and Pre-WWII American music. Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci: The poems, stories, and letters of Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci have appeared in New York Times, New York Sunday News, Uno, Christian Science Monitor, and Cats Magazine, and many others here and abroad. He is a middle-school English teacher and adjunct professor. He's written several books, including Promising the Moon, a collection of poems dedicated to his wife Sharon, A Family of Sicilians: Stories and Poems, and his new book, co-authored with Paul Juszcyk, Two Can Play This Game. He has done hundreds of poetry readings and lectures on "Growing up Sicilian."
Ace Cabbage is a homesick Detroit social problem residing in Oakland CA. He drives big tractors and transit buses on a chassis dynamometer to analyze emissions. Turn-ons include trains, space travel, guns, hallucinogens, class warfare and pushy people. He?s got a big old cat named Sonny and is fond of telling new acquaintances "Ace don't go nowhere SonnyCat don't go."... And he means it.-$$$ *Harry Calhoun has been published all over the place but you’d probably only recognize a few of those — Writer’s Digest and the National Enquirer, for instance. He’s managed to string together a living from writing, though, currently doing marketing and “e-learning” for IBM. He’s had poems and fiction and essays published in over 300 magazines, and that and five bucks will get him a latte, moose it, at Starbucks. He’s recently married to fellow writer Trina Allen and that is a very, very good thing. Ptim Callan: I have been nominated for the 2002 Pushcart Prize, and my writing has appeared or is soon to appear in over a dozen literary magazines including ZYZZYVA, Hunger Magazine, Poetry Midwest, Tatlin's Tower, and Eyeshot. I also have written and produced films screened at San Francisco Independent Film Festival, The Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, and many other festivals. I took my English degree from UCLA, where I was fortunate enough to study creative writing under Robert Coover and John Barth.
J.J. Campbell J.J. Campbell (b. 1976) lives, writes and dies a little each day in Brookville, Ohio. He's been widely published over the last decade in the small press, most recently in Zygote in My Coffee, My Favorite Bullet, EastVillagePoetry.com, Antipatico and Shotgun Mouth. J.J.'s most recent chapbook, "feel my disease", was published by Scintillating Publications (Burlington, VT). You can contact J.J. via email at jcampb4593@aol.com or via his homepage http://hometown.aol.com/jcampb4593/myhomepage/profile.html.
Pris Campbell began writing poetry in the fall of 1999 and has been published (or has poems pending publication) in numerous journals, such as Verse Libre, The Dakota House, Erosha, Peshekee River Poets, Short Stuff, MiPo Weekly and Digital, Women of the Web Anthology, MiPo quarterly and MiPo Bonsai 2004 Print, among other print and ezine publications She has placed in a number of poetry contests .Previously a Clinical Psychologist and sailor/traveler, illness has forced her to temporarily park her vagabond shoes. She makes her home in the greater West Palm Beach, Florida , USA. with her husband and one crazy dog.
Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives quietly in east Texas, land of Budweiser and boviculture. She publishes widely on the web. Her first book, Reading Berryman to the Dog came out from Jacaranda Press, December, 2000. Amberlee Carter is a 22 year old writer/poet who lives a quiet, simple
life in Idaho. She currently has work featured in Megaera and Unlikely
Stories. R.T. Castleberry: I am the co-editor and co-publisher of the monthly poetry magazine Curbside Review. My poetry has been published in various magazines, including Zuzu's Petals, RiverSedge, Borderlands, Illya's Honey, Visions International, Lucid Stone and Another Chicago Magazine. *Alan Catlin has been around the 'littles' since the middle seventies. In that time he's managed to publish over 45 chapbooks in prose and poetry including the in-progress series of Killer Drinks poems (now going on Vol 5) a short novel, From the Waters of Oblivion ( concerning a bartender who calls himself Dr. Death because he makes Killer Drinks) and the forthcoming selected poems from Pavement Saw Press, Drunk and Disorderly. He is a bartender in Albany, N.Y. and hasn't had a drink in many years, though he's made more than his share.
Travis Catsull roams the lands on silver stilts and swamp tongue trails. Former assistant editor of The Temple Poetry Magazine and editor of Haggard and Halloo Independent Publications, Travis remains a gigolo to an impressive concubine. "Open Spirit" and "$100,000.00" are two chapbooks of poetry and prose available through Tsunami Inc. from this unmistakable ghost watcher. Bud Caywood studied Furniture Design at Randolph Community College in Asheboro, North Carolina. He is a freelance furniture design consultant and has been creating art and word in North Carolina for more than thirty years and currently lives in Hickory, North Carolina. He is active in the arts community in Wilkes, Davidson, and Caldwell counties as well as Catawba county. While a member of Full Circle Arts in 2001, he created "The Writer's Stage", a venue in Hickory for literary artists to share and read their work. He is a member of the Hickory Museum of Art and many other galleries. Caywood is the recipient of several furniture design awards, including the Daphne Award of Merit by The Hardwoods Association and the Pinnacle Design Award by The American Society of Furniture Designers, where he served as Executive Director for three years. His art has won awards as judged by Juan Logan, Toni Carlton, Jim Kellough, Vandorn Hinnant and James Sanders. In 1969, while in high school, his work received recognition winning three awards in the New Jersey State Arts & Crafts Competition in furniture design, jewelry and sculpture. His poems have been published in The Sparrowgrass Poetry Forum, The American Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, American Poetry Anthology and many other publications. He has received literary awards from Iliad Press, Verses Press, The Writer's Workshop of Asheville, American Press and The North Carolina Poetry Society. His first collection of poems titled "BLUE", was published by Amaranth Press. Caywood's studio is located in the Mountain View area of Hickory, North Carolina. On November 17, 2002 he formed the e-POETS SOCIETY.
Joel Chace's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in print and electronic magazines such as the following: The Seneca Review, The Connecticut Poetry Review, Lost and Found Times, Tomorrow, No Exit, Pembroke Magazine, Crazy Horse, Kudos (England), Porto-Franco (Romania), Ninth St. Labs, Recursive Angel, Highbeams, Switched-on-Gutenberg, Kudzu, Pif, The Morpo Review, Snakeskin, The Experioddicist, Big Bridge, potepoetzineseven, and potepoettextsixteen. Northwoods Press, in 1984, published his collection of poems entitled The Harp Beyond the Wall . Persephone Press, in 1992, published his second book, Red Ghost, which won the first Persephone Press Book Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in that same year. Big Easy Press, in 1995, brought out a collection entitled Court of Ass-Sizes. In June, 1997, came a full-length collection, Twentieth Century Deaths, from Singular Speech Press. The Melancholy of Yorick and maggnummappuss (nominated for a 1998 Pushcart Prize) appeared in 1998, and Naluca Rosie--a bi-lingual edition of his poems--has just been published in Romania. Uncertain Relations was published in June by Birch Brook Press. Greatest Hits is forthcoming from Pudding House Publications. He is presently serving as Poetry Editor for the Antietam Review (Hagerstown, Maryland), as well as for the electronic magazine 5_Trope. David Chorlton grew up in industrial Manchester, England, before moving to Vienna in 1971 and staying there for seven years. Travel around Europe during that time left him with a full bank of impressions that continue to surface in his work. The Southwest provided the eye-opening experience of stunning scenery and an awareness of nature that he was not prepared for. His short collection of poems, Common Sightings, with a desert theme, won a Palanquin Press award in 2001, and a new book, A Normal Day Amazes Us appeared in 2003 from Kings Estate Press.
Tara Chapple lives in England with her father, mother and two cats. During her relatively short writing career she has been published several times in the USA and hopes to continue writing at University and beyond. Dave Clapper lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two sons. He is the Editor of SmokeLongQuarterly and has been published in InkPot, 3AM Magazine, and Pindeldyboz, among others.
Joyce Chelmo: I live in northwestern Minnesota and am a writer and an artist. I'm married and have two grown sons. I've been writing most of my adult life. Started taking it more seriously once my oldest son left for College. When I'm not writing I'm drawing. My favorite writers are Charles Bukowski, Brautigan, and Emily Dickenson. I relate to Emily because I tend to be a bit antisocial, and find beauty is little things. I write about everything from character writes to Haiku's.
Glen Clark is a degree-carrying line cook from the dying, former coal mining town of Carbondale located in the valley of northeast Pennsylvania. Miles Clark: The orphaned child of a exocommunicated Roman goddess and a federal narcotics agent, Miles Clark's youth was spent in the Tibetan foothills, mastering the art of the Shao-Lin and fighting guerrilla warfare against the Chinese military. Discovered by a National Geographic photographer at age 14, he moved to Minneapolis, graduated from Harvard Summa Cum Laude, and went on to publish a series of groundbreaking studies on psychobiological... wait, you won't believe that. But his work has been published/forthcoming in "In Posse Review," "5_Trope," "Opium Magazine" and "3AM Magazine," among others. And he is a contributing editor for Poindexter Journal.
Michael Coblenz is an attorney in Lexington, Kentucky. Before law school he served in the United States Air Force as a B-52 navigator. "Theory" is his first story accepted for publication.
Cait Collins: (Ms_AllThat) is the illustrious & irreverent editor of The Ho!d and head-mistress of MS-AllThat.Com & fingerprintpress with numerous chapbooks available through amazon.com and more (we hope) on the way. Spoon-fed from cait's words..."We are always looking forward to more of her work." (NOTE--Cait lost her fight with breast cancer in February, 2005. A tribute page can be found here. Jenny L. Collins writes short fiction when she's not playing head bar wench at The Ship Tavern in Portland, Oregon. Her publication credits include Flashquake, Word Riot, Quintessence and Hip Mama among others. You can reach her at jenny@ipns.com or by giving a heads up across the room if you need another round.
Jack Conway's newest book, My Picnic With Lolita and Other Poems was published in 2004 by North Country Press. His poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, The Columbia Review, Rattle, Yankee, Stickman, The Land-Grant College Review and the Norton Anthology of Light Verse. He teaches writing at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts. Michael Cocchiarale lives and works in Chester, PA.
Glenda Cooper : My poems have appeared in both print publications and e-zines, including Mobius, Baker Street Irregular, Thunder Sandwich, Disquieting Muses, Eclectica, and Anthology 2000 from Professional Touch Press. D.B. Cox: Blues musician/poet, originally from South Carolina, but now resides in Watertown Massachusetts. A virtual newcomer, some of his poetry has recently been accepted to appear in Adagio Verse Quarterly.
Katrina Grace Craig: (no bio available) Justin Crouse lives in Mid-Coast Maine with his muse, Angie, and
three-year-old Wild Thing, Max. Justin is currently working on a collection
of short stories and a novel. His work has appeared, or is scheduled to
appear, in Heat City Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Foliate Oak, Spillway
Review, The Story Garden, River Walk Journal, Lily, Unspoken Dreams, Prose
Toad, and 3711Atlantic. He can be reached for comment at
www.justincrouse.com Catherine Daly lives in Los Angeles. Her work has been widely published on the internet and in print.
Holly Day: (no bio available) Aleksey Dayen is a Russian prose writer, a poet, a publicist, a translator, an artist. Was born (1972) and has grown in Kiev, veins in Moscow, since 1994 - in New York. His works have been published in periodicals in Russia, USA, Ukraine and other countries. Author takes active participation in a literary life of the USA; performs in clubs, universities and libraries. Aleksey works as an editor-in-chief of the literary periodical " Member's Magazine ". Dayen - is the author of two books of poetry - "Bestiary" (1993, Moscow, Russia), " City Vertical. Verses: 1994-2002 " (2003, New York, USA) and books of prose " City Vertical " (2003, Novokuznetsk, Russia).
Henry Denander works as a business manager for Swedish artists and composers. He has poems, drawings and illustrations appearing or forthcoming in Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, ZZZ Zyne, The Hold, Remark, Pearl and Bukowski Review. His first book, which includes poetry and art, is out now from Bottle of Smoke Press, VA. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Richard Dinges, Jr.: I manage business systems at an insurance company. Red River Review, Writer’s Bloc, Mudfish, and South Dakota Review have most recently accepted my poems for their publications.
Richard Denner, a jack of all trades, lives with his elderly mother near Sebastopol, California. He is the impresario of dPress chapbooks, and his Collected Poems: 1961-2000 has been published by Comrades Press.
KM Dersley's collection of stories and articles, Sketches by Derz, came out in 2001. He currently edits the website The ragged EDGE which has featured alongside his own poetry and prose the work of Gerald Locklin and A.D. Winans, amongst others.
John Dorsey's work has recently appeared in Mystery Island Magazine, fearless, Poesy, Spent Meat, Open Wide, Mouseion, Liquid Ohio, Underground Voices, the Dublin Quarterly, and in "Little Boy Beat:Selected Poems" published by Paladin M & E, Inc. He is also the co-author of “The Price of Sunshine" with Iris Berry, forthcoming from Feel Free Press.
Lynne Douglass is a West Virginia native currently residing in the Southern California desert. She writes, paints, takes photos and had been published before... blah blah blah. Lisa Doherty was a Naval Officer for seven years, stationed in Washington, DC and on the tropical island of Guam. She now lives in Wisconsin, thanks to a mid-western husband. She enjoys working for the Feds, walking her two wild beasts, and daydreaming.
Doug Draime: Writing since I was 15, and started publishing in the late '60's. Recent chapbook, Slaves Of The Harvest (Indian Heritage Publishing). Latest magazine pubs. Lummox Journal, Pitchfork, American Dissident, Lynx Eye, etc. Won PEN grants in '87 and '92. Member of The Academy of American Poets. Born in Vincennes, Indiana, and have lived in Pittsburgh, Pa, Chicago, Germany, and Los Angeles. Moved up from L.A. to Oregon in 1981, where I still reside. Also write short stories and plays.
Etabu Larry Dunn is a Chicago poet with computer work and saxaphone music. Catherine Dundon: I am an as-yet unpublished writer, busy collecting rejection slips, which makes me feel quite official. Until the stack is taller than Jack London's reputed four foot tall pile, I'm remaining optimistic. I live in Houston, Texas, with my husband and four children.
Christopher Eck: (no bio available) R.M. Engelhardt: Previously a native of upstate (Albany) NY poet and writer R.M. Engelhardt currently lives & works in the Florida Keys. He is the author of seven books of poetry and has been published in such journals & online zines as Poetry Magazine, Outsider Ink.com, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Verve, Mobius and many others. He is the creator of such poetry groups as www.AlbanyPoets.org (com) as well as the Albany Poetry Syndicate and the winner of the 2002 Kota Press Anthology Contest. At this time he is working on his next book due to be published in 2005.
Margarita Engle is a botanist and the Cuban-American author of two novels, Singing to Cuba (Arte Publico Press) and Skywriting (Bantam). Her work appears in a wide variety of journals, including Atlanta Review, Bilingual Review, California Quarterly, LUNA, Sidereality, Tin Lustre Mobile, and many others. Books pending publication include a young adult novel-in-verse (Henry Holt & Co.). Literary awards include a Cintas Fellowship and a San Diego Book Award. Margarita Engle lives in central California, where she enjoys hiking and hiding in the forest to help her husband with his volunteer work for a wilderness search-and-rescue dog training program. John C. Erianne's poetry has been published in many small press journals over the last fifteen years, including Black Spring Review, POET, Taproot Literary Review, Asylum, Angelflesh, Skylark, The Plastic Tower among many others. His work has been published online in Gravity, Thunder Sandwich, Mind Fire, Gray Matter Tapestry, Disquieting Muses, Realpoetik and SpokenWar, etc. He is the publisher of Asterius Press which produces the print journals, Devil Blossoms, and tripwire as well as the online zines, The Doomed City, Gnome, New World Poetry and The 13th Warrior Review. His third collection, The View from Down Here will be published in the Summer of 2000. Michael Estabrook: Seems I’ve been writing poetry for so long that Methuselah should be taking notice, but in reality, the truth is time is simply doing its thing streaking ahead merely pulling all of us along for the wild ride whether we like it or not; reminds me, I’ve published 15 chapbooks over the years, the last one being “when Patti would fall asleep” by Liquid Paper Press in 2003, guess it’s time to work on another one.
Jerome Estes: Graduate of Ohio Institute of Photography 1972. Multiple Solo Exhibits in Ohio, Kentucky, Key West, and St Thomas, USVI 1972-1980 All Ohio Polaroid Show 1983 Allied Artists Juried Exhibtion, Charleston, West Virginia 1993 Works on Walls, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV 1994 West Virginia Artists Series, Charleston, WV 1994 Member and Exhibitor, MAGNET Gallery, Indio, CA 1997-1999 Joseph M. Faria was born on the island of Sao Miguel, in the Azores. He was brought to the United States when he was nine months old, by his mother, in 1950. He studied Creative Writing at Roger Williams University. He published his first poem when he was twenty-three: "The Black Crow Symphony: 4th Movement", Ishmael, Spring 1973. His short story "Threshold" won 2nd Prize in the 1997 CWA National Writing Competition. His first book of short stories, "FROM A DISTANCE", was published in the Azores in June 1998 by Nova Grafica Press. He is the Assistant Editor of the web quarterly, "Linnaeanstreet.com." Richard Fein: I have been published in many web and print journals. I have two
personal web sites on which I've posted my poetry and photography. they are:
poems and
photo album
Cherilyn Ferroggiaro is an Italian brat from Sonoma, California. She is currently studying to become a Physician's Assistant, enjoys writing, medicine and photography. She has been published for photography, graphics, writing and poetry both online and in print. Her most recent publishings are in Poems Niederngasse and Babel Magazine.
Ron Fields is a recent graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, obtaining his degree in English and Philosophy. He resides in Madison, Tennessee, with his wife, two cats, and ferret. Mike Finley writes about business and economics by day, but by night it's back to the old navel. He lives with his family in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has many free downloads - humor, essays, poems and nonfiction at his site.
Tia Finn is a transplanted itinerant creative junkie, practices the art of poem building, canvas wrecking and child rearing in the desert landscape of eastern Arizona. Schooled in the northeast she spent eighteen years as the director of an avant garde collector's gallery travelling between the cities where folks dont turn up their nose at that stuff. While her paintings have been exhibited sporadically in places like New York, Miami and Santa Monica, her poetry has heretofore been kept on a shelf. For purposes of earning her daily bread, Tia works and writes as the "Career Guru" specializing in quality of life career changes for the employment challenged, and teaches life skills (as though she had some) at several shelters, churches and educational facilities in the Phoenix area. Kathy Fish has had two flash fiction pieces recently published in a new literary ezine, The Painted Moon Review.
Glen Flower is a Writer, Engineer, sometime Scuba Divemaster who lives in Australia. For kicks Glen enjoys barbequing, cockroach racing and travelling. He has been published in The Word, Skive and Seventh Quark magazine. Glen writes with Alex Keegan's Boot Camp. Jerome Forbes was born and raised in a small town in Michigan where the greatest form of entertainment to be found was watching the stoplight change colors. Not singing well enough to call myself a singer, or acting well enough to call myself an actor, I've concentrated on prose as a way to express myself. Writing is a love-hate thing for me. As much as I enjoy it, it always seems to frustrate me to no end, and I'm happy when I finish with each piece...only to begin another.
Jason Fraley is a senior at Concord College in West Virginia. A loving fiancée and oversized Pez collection play important roles in his days. His first chapbook of poetry, The Arche of Existentialism, is available through Little Poems Press. Featured poet in the September 2003 issue of SaucyVox, his poetry has appeared in Verse Libre Quarterly, Carnelian, The Journal, Poindexter, and Poems Niederngasse. Christopher Frederick lives in Bethlehem, PA and is a furniture designer/maker and fine artist. He drinks a fair amount of beer and wine (pabst and maddog). Steve Fried has lived in Pittsburgh, Lewisburg, Syracuse, DC, Charlotte Amalie, Manhattan, Staten Island and Brooklyn, where he has been employed as a steelworker, advertising circular distributor, photographer, newspaper proofreader, taxi driver, emergency medical technician and teacher of poetry in the public schools. He currently lectures in writing and research methods in the College of Staten Island/CUNY's adult degree program at the Hospital Workers Union Local 1199/SEIU. He is a former director of Brooklyn Poetlink, an organization for increasing the public's access to poetry, and is inventor of a poetic form, the Placket, which has been featured as a teaching tool in Teachers and Writers. His Lunar Offensive Press prints poetry and fiction chapbooks, and the literary tri-annual RAG SHOCK. His books include Going Through Doors: NYC EMS Poems (Lunar Offensive); The Rough Sex Defense for Matricide with illustrator Steven Fagan (Suicide Graphics); Plackets (Juxta/3200 Press); and Women and Men of Air: Extermination Camp Songs with co-author Elliot Richman (Vedem Press). He performs his poetry with collaborator and guitarist Nelson Alxndr. His video WARinWARd was a selection at the 2003 Forest FIlm Fest. Projects in preparation include several poetry-performance videos and a collaboration with other producers to film street action at the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC. coeurl@mindspring.com
John Gardiner: (no bio available) Vanessa R Gebbie is a journalist living and working in the UK. Her short fiction has been published widely on the net and in small press literary magazines. She has won or been placed in several literary short fiction competitions. She teaches Creative Writing at a rehabilitation centre. Elise Geither: My poems have appeared before in Thunder Sandwich as well as: The Blue Review, Whiskey Island, The Mill, Slant, The Artful Dodge, etc. My short stories have appeared in: The Fossil Record. My plays and monologues have been produced in LA, NYC, and Cleveland.
Sara Gelston was born in a dirty little town outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the early 80’s. She currently makes her home in the western Maine mountains where she divides her time between being a part time poet, a full time student, and an occasional editor for the Beloit Poetry Journal. Ron Gibson, Jr.: Ron once was commissioned by Jacques Chirac to build an Inukshuk, caught a biologically altered virus in a Chechen rebel encampment, word associates satori with Christina Ricci's crotch, pedals a Big Wheel along the interstate, hits people and unsuccessfully claims he has refuted idealism thus, and has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Suspect Thoughts, Driver's Side Airbag, etc. Tim Gilmore performs regularly at readings and spoken word events in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida. He edits the Florida literary e-zine deadpaper, and has recently been published in North Florida's "Fiction Fix" and Andre Codrescu's "Exquisite Corpse."
B. Gleed teaches writing and literature at Southern New Hampshire University and has taught at several other small colleges. He is a contributing editor at Maelstrom and a poetry editor at Moondance. A graduate of the master's creative writing program at the University of New Hampshire where he studied under Charles Simic, his poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Isosceles, Kettle of Fish, Pregnancy, Concrete Wolf, the Anthology of the Houston Poetry Fest 2001, The Boston Globe, the web site of Harvard University, and other print and online publications. Gleed has also written news and features for the Portsmouth Herald in Portsmouth, NH. He lives in Fremont, NH on the banks of the Exeter river with his wife and two young boys .
Gary Glauber: When not writing fiction, Gary Glauber is a music journalist for PopMatters and Fufkin. His story "Takedown" was named "A Notable Online Story of 2003" by StorySouth's Million Writers Award judges. More than twenty-five of his stories have been published at various places, among them Slow Trains, Megaera, Facsimilation, Skive, Littoral, Poor Mojo's Almanack, Pindeldyboz, Eyeshot, Hobart, 42 Opus and Long Story Short. Contact Gary at gigwords@optonline.net.
Karl D. Gluck has published book of poems, Phantasmagoria, and his work has appeared in many magazines, among them Ignite, Rattapallax, The New Press, Open Mike: An Albany Anthology and Skidrow Penthouse. He studied Russian language and literature in college and, for the past ten years, Chinese has been his main hobby. He speaks both languages fluently and works in Manhattan as a program director for an organization that helps new immigrants to find work. Michael Goodfellow was born in Toronto, Ontario and currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. John G. Gorman is a wine and fiction writer. His screenplay "For The Love of Auntie" won the 2003 NY International Independent Film and Video Festival. Some of his fiction can be found in Mind Mined and the Olive Tree Review.
F.J. Gouldner has a home page here
Taylor Graham is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada and helps her husband (a retired forester) with his field projects. Her latest book is Still Life with Wood Smoke, a "shirt-pocket edition" from Mt Aukum Press, 2002.
Nathan Graziano: I edit a print zine called The Brown Bottle that's put out bi-annually with a supplement broadside series called Happy Hour thrown in for good measure. I've published poetry and short fiction in a number of zines, most recently Nerve Cowboy, Staplegun, Angelflesh and Unwound. I have two chaps out. Aldo Green: I live on a small island off of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. I've been a Punk for almost twenty years. I only began writing poetry three years ago and I have just had my first poem published. I like to skateboard, snowboard, play music and watch Trailer Park Boys. I have a ten year old son and have been divorced for a long time. I spent eight years in San Francisco as a illegal alien working as a motorcycle messenger then later as a bike messenger. Now a days I am lost in dreams and jobs My favourite quote is:
"If man is educated in such a way as to pass judgement upon others, then he is not worthy of his education." Aldo Green
David Greenspan: (no bio available)
Larry D. Griffin: (no bio available) S. A. Griffin is a crash vampire living in El Lay. He is a father, husband, Vietnam era vet and human being. He has been lucky enough to make his living as an actor and poet for 28 years. Even luckier that he is married to a librarian. Co-editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel with John Dorsey & Scott Wannberg in April of '05. Awards & taxes. Kenneth Gurney lives in Shorewood, WI and partakes in the
Milwaukee poetry scene. He edits Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry. |
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