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Jerry Quickley, originally from NYC, is currently living in Los Angeles. He was Playwright in Residence at the Tiki Ti Theatre Company in Manhattan in 1994-95. During that period he also directed a series of one acts and short films. He has performed poetry at venues across the United States and abroad. Jerry is also a three time Los Angeles Poetry Grand Slam winner, and a two time National Poetry Slam finalist. He has been featured and his work has been published in several anthologies, magazines, and newspapers including Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, SP Mag, Beyond the VCP, LA Weekly, The Village Voice, and several others including the upcoming Nuyorican Anthology. His work is also published in the book "Soul of the Game" (Melcher Media:1997), Slam (Putnam Penguin:2000), and he is the editor of the anthology "Juke Joint Magic" (Juke Joint Still Press: 1998). He has performed his poetry on the LifeTime Cable Network series "The Men's Room", CNN, and written for NFL Films. Jerry also performs on the new CD "UnBound" (Nu Groov:2000) with Pharoah Monche, Talib Kweli, Aceyalone, Zach DeLaRocha, Ursula Rucker, Saul Williams, and other hip hop and spoken word artists. James Quinton is 25. When not writing he runs the Open Wide website, www.openwidemagazine.co.uk a home for literary talent from around the world. Pedro Trevino-Ramirez resides in the American desert with his fiancée and seven cats. He hopes to continue his writing in a cooler place. dan raphael ("Portland's Tallest Poet") has recent works in Raven Chronicles, Shattered Wig, Sniffy Linings, Pemmican and Urvox. His last two books are When A Flying City Falls (nine nuses) and Showing Light a Good Time (Jazz Police.) But he's best experienced live, which happens frequently in the Portland-Seattle region.
Francis Raven: (no bio available) Christine L. Reed is the editor of Maelstrom and operates a home cleaning business in Tranquility, NJ where she lives with her 3 children. Her work has been published recently in Rosebud,The Melic Review, Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, and The Journal of New Jersey Poets who nominated her work for the Pushcart Prize Anthology.
Jolene Meeks-Reed: Cofounder/Senior Board of Director of NPAC (Net Poetry & Art
Competition), writer, amateur photographer and retired journalist. I am 29,
married to a wonderful man, am owned and operated by four dogs and live in
the beautiful state of Tennessee. I've been published in both online and
print media. Brendan Regan was born in Iowa and grew up in Bowling Green, Ohio. He did undergraduate work at Bowling Green State University, and currently lives a double life in Denver, Colorado, slaving in the corporate world by day and writing by night. His work has appeared in Prairie Margins and is forthcoming in Bardsong. Billy Reynolds: My poems and reviews are either out or forthcoming in "Mississippi Review," "Sycamore Review," and "Third Coast."
Jason Kelly Richards was born in Kentucky, raised in North Carolina and is currently planning
his escape from Florida. He has published in Pearl, The Chiron Review and others plus online at PoetsCanvas and ThunderSandwich. Charles P. Ries lives and writes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has completed a novel based on memory titled, THE FATHERS WE FIND: The Making of a Humble, Pleasant Boy. Holy Water is excerpted from this work. His second book of poetry titled Monje Malo Speaks English was published in January 2003 by Foursep Publications. He is on the board of the Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. His work was nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize by Anthology. Also in 2003 his poetry won top honors in the 30th Annual Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest and the 2nd Annual Milwaukee.Com Poetry Contest. His poems, poetry reviews and short stories have appeared in over seventy print and electronic publications. Some of these being: CLARK STREET REVIEW, FREE VERSE, STAPLEGUN PRESS, LATINO STUFF REVIEW, WORDRIOT, CIRCLE MAGAZINE, PEARL, PHILADELPHIA POETS, PIDJIN, THUNDER SANDWICH, WISCONSIN REVIEW, HALFDRUNK MUSE, REMARK, PITCHFORK, ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE, PUDDING MAGAZINE and TMPoetry. He can be reached at charlesr@execpc.com.
Bill Roberts lives between Denver and Boulder and at 69 still works parttime in New Mexico. When he's not traveling or laboring, he writes poetry to relax and has relaxed a lot these past ten years, having published works in more than a hundred small press magazines. Paul Rogalus: I teach American literature and writing at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. My micro-stories have appeared in Northern New England Review, flashquake, the Drexel Online Journal, and FLASH!POINT, and I also have a chapbook of short-short stories out, called "Meat Sculptures," which was published by Green Bean Press in 2002. Rob Rosen lives, loves, and works in San Francisco. His first novel,
"Sparkle", was published in 2001 to critical acclaim. His short stories
appear regularly on more than three-dozen literary sites worldwide, and have
been published in the literary anthologies Mentsh (Alyson, 2004), I Do/I
Don't (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004), Travel a Time Historic (Cyber Pulp,
2005), Short Attention Span Mysteries (Kerlak Publishing, 2005), and
Brotherhood (Alyson, 2005). Fred Royall began writing at age 35 in connection with psychiatric
treatment. He has published a 'zine for friends for three years. Some of
his work has recently been accepted for publication in The Rose and Thorn,
Ink Mag, Subtle Tea, Prose Toad, and Stick Your Neck Out. He is an amateur
country blues guitarist. Shelly Reed is faceted as your mother's best stone and a recluse with a fetish for yes, shoes. She's worked in the cosmetic, electric sunlight and medical professions and runs a five star bed and breakfast for stray cats. Her poetry has recently appeared or is scheduled for appearance with Megaera, Lyrical Iowa, Eleven Bulls, October Moon, 42 Opus, Snow Monkey, Peshekee River Poetry, Erosha, Thunder Sandwich, Wilmington Blues, readingdivas, Poets In Tents Literary Journal, and Whistling Shade. Shelly hales from Iowa where it ain't over until the pig squeals and bad hairdos come a dime a dozen.
Steven J. Reimer: I'm a welfare worker on the east side of Detroit. Never published. Three kids , a wife , no dog . I was born and raised in Fashionable Ferndale Michigan and still afflict that city with my presence.
John Reismiller has lived in the Pinelands of southern New Jersey for almost 50 years in the quiet, little village of Green Bank, N.J. at the edge of the Mullica River. The author says he is a spirited 77 years of age, going on 50. He lives a secluded but contented life amidst the flora and fauna of a New Jersey State Forest. John was formerly a teacher and holds graduate degrees in History and Literature. Since leaving the teaching profession, he writes poetry, biographical and nature articles and essays for both print and the Internet. His interest is writing, writing and more writing. Stan Rice is the author of six collections of poetry, including Radiance of Pigs, Fear Itself, and Singing Yet. For many years he was associated with San Francisco State University, where he was Professor of English and Creative Writing, Assistant Director of the Poetry Center, and Chairman of the Creative Writing Department. He has been the recipient of the Edgar Allen Poe Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and a writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. [Note: Stan Rice died of a brain tumor at the age of 60 on December 9, 2002.] Jonathan K. Rice: I edit and publish Iodine Poetry Journal (no website yet), and I just had a chapbook published entitled, "Shooting Pool With A Cellist." (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2003)
Jason Kelly Richards: I first published about ten years ago. Since then my poetry has appeared in Lucid Moon, Pearl and several other publications. I won the 1998 Chiron Review Poetry Contest. Currently I am working on a collection of short stories and trying to get past the fifth chapter of a novel. Correspondence is always welcome at Jkrich57@AOL.com *Elliot Richman lost his biography three years ago.
*Steve Richmond: (no bio available) Owen Roberts lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife and three children. Owen has assembled 4 books including 'The Effects of Drugs and Prostitution', 'SourMilk' and '3' an anthology featuring Justin Barrett, Henry Denander and Owen Roberts. In June of 2003 Bottle of Smoke Press (bospress.com) will release a book of Owen's poems titled 'My best years are probably behind me'.
Rayn Roberts teaches English to university students in South Korea where he is coordinating "Poetry on The Peaks!". He has published or is about to be in Rattle, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetic Voices, Rattapallax, Limestone Circle, Earth First! & others. He appears in 2 anthologies by Beyond Borders Press in 2002: The Book of Hope & The World Healing Book which include poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Dalai Lama, Rita Dove, John Kinsella & others. Profits from the sales go to UNICEF to aid the children of Afghanistan. The anthologies are available from Barnes & Noble or directly from Beyond Borders Press. More info online here and here.
Karla Rogers: (no bio available) Tania Rochelle: I've been published in several print and online magazines, including Iris, New York Quarterly, Blue Moon and Three Candles. I also have work in the anthology Split Verse and in the forthcoming We Used to be Wives (I've written a lot of divorce poems--what can I say?) I teach writing at Portfolio Center in Atlanta. Linda Rosenkrans is a wordaholic who admitted that she was powerless over her prose, and that her life had become manageable. She came to believe that a power greater than herself (her muse) could restore her to sanity and she's been successfully writing ever since. Linda resides in Los Angeles with her baby boy, a Chihuahua named Amigo. Her work has appeared in: 63channels, Abby's Realm, Any Dream Will Do Review, Babel Magazine, Deviant Lit, EIDOS Magazine, GetUnderground, KungFuOnline, The Nocturnal Lyric, PoetrySuperHighway, Prometheus, Scriberazone, Suzerain Enterprises, (Fighting Chance Magazine), The Muse Apprentice Guild, The Nocturnal lyric, Undershorts, Unlikely Stories, Updare and many others.
Michael Rothenberg, poet, songwriter, editor, and co-founder of Big Bridge Press. He is also co-editor and co-founder of JACK Magazine. His books of poetry include What The Fish Saw, Nightmare Of The Violins, Favorites Songs, and The Paris Journals (published this year by Fish Drum, Inc.) His poems have been published in Cortland Review, Sycamore Review, Archipelago, Exquisite Corpse, Zyzzyva, Prosodia, Frank's Home, Jacket, Fish Drum and other publications. His novel Punk Rockwell was published by Tropical Press. He is editor of Overtime: Selected Poems of Philip Whalen (Viking Penguin) and most recently editor of The Selected Poems of Joanne Kyger due out fromViking Penguin in 2002. Ryan Rowe: I live outside Raleigh, NC and slave away in the bowels of the agri-tech industry. I appear in such publications as Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, Cokefishing in Alpha Beat Soup, Way Station and remark to increase my financial stature. My wife and cat appreciate it. C.C. Russell was born in East Liverpool Ohio but has spent most of his life on the plains of Wyoming. He currently works as a convenience store clerk and as a d.j. at a Laramie WY bar. He has been told that he writes very boring contributor's notes Anthony Salerno: I live and work in Brooklyn, New York and am currently finishing a Master's Thesis on the poetry of Charles Simic. I've most recently been published in 3rd Muse Poetry Journal and Hinge Online.
Kate Salvino lives in Malibu, CA. Lynne Savitt is a poet with 10 books to her credit. Her latest, The Deployment of Love in Pineapple Twilight, should be out in 2006. Her latest editorial work can be seen in Art Beck's, Summer With All Its Clothes Off, due out summer 2005 from Gravida Press.
Phil Scalia: (no bio available) Ryan Scheer has been writing for 10 years, but is just "trying a hand" at publishing. He struggles to understand American television, does not comb his hair, and stays crunchy, even in milk. He currently resides in the Piedmont of North Carolina.
Wayne Scheer: After teaching writing and literature in college for twenty-five years, Wayne Scheer retired to follow his own advice and write. Some of his stories have appeared in Flashquake, Literary Potpourri, Dana Literary Society Online Journal, Hiss Quarterly, Quintessence, Flash Me Magazine, insolent rudder, and Smokelong Quarterly. In 2002, he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Wayne lives in Atlanta with his wife, and can be contacted at wvscheer@aol.com.
Julie Schillinger is a librarian assistant in a R&D library of a chemical company in northeast Ohio. Her poems have been published in Agnieszka's Dowry, Gravity: A Journal of Online Writing, The Hold, Moondance, Highbeams, Mindfire, Thought, )ism(, Pulse, and in print at Moongate de Homo Sentiens, Imps in the Inkwell, and the anthology Silhouettes In the Electric Sky, published by Newton's Baby. Julie writes poems on company time.
Paul Sexton has been performing at and hosting poetry events in Dallas, Tx since 1995. He hosted the popular Zombies weekly open mic for two years, did a two year stint as the 4th Monday host at Deep Ellum's Darkroom, and has hosted or featured at dozens of other venues and festivals in the area. Paul has published 5 chapbooks with Genuine Lizard Press in Fort Worth and several hundred have been sold. Several feature articles have been written about Paul in the Arlington Morning News (2), The Dallas Morning News (3)The DFW source and the UTA Shorthorn. His work has also been published in print in The Word, ArtsDFW, Happy Kitty and Venue, as well as having two pieces included in Vol 3 of "In our Own Words, a Generation Defining itself." Pauls Work has appeared online at: Thunder Sandwich, Siennas Poetry Suite, Aegisegyptus, Dallspoets, Unlikely Stories, Dallas View, The Crowley Cats Page, Deblo.com, Tongue, and Freezine Quarterly. Page at http://wheelofdharma.tripod.com/sextonpoet
Glynne Sharp: I am a teacher from Tottenham, Ontario. I currently have many poems, plays and short stories in circulation both on the Internet and in print. I've recently completed my first screenplay. I write because I enjoy it and it keeps me sharp. Gerald Sheagren: I'm a fifty-six-year-old, balding, white-bearded, slightly pudgy factory worker from Torrington, Connectcicut. Avid reader, fiction and non-fiction alike. Diehard Conservative who's bark is worse than his bite. Lover of American history and collector of Civil War artifacts. Father of two, grandfather to four. I work for the Timken Corporation, one of the leading producers of automotive and aircraft bearings in the world, and have plans of retiring in six years. Whereas many wives are football widows, my wife is a short story widow. A few short words at the supper table and I'm off, conjuring up new characters and new plots.
Andrew Shelley was born 1962, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. Read English at Cambridge. Did a Ph.D. on Samuel Beckett at Oxford, where he held a Research Fellowship (1990-92). On completion of this abandoned academia and critical prose and returned to a long-held ambition to write creatively. Has lived and worked in Greece, Turkey and Italy. Currently working on a fourth (unpublished) collection of poems. Academic articles and reviews in, among others, Essays in Criticism , Encounter , The New Statesman and Society and PN Review. Poems in various little magazines, webzines and anthologies including the Oxbridge May Anthologies of poetry and short fiction. Individual poetry publications are Peaceworks (The Many Press, 1996) and Requiem Tree , (Spectacular Diseases, 2002).
Shoshauna Shy:Pudding House Publications released my first chapbook, "Souped-Up on the Must-Drive Syndrome" this year. My work has appeared on-line at Avalon, Eclectica, The Horsethief's Journal, Gravity and elsewhere. Dan Sicoli, (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) is co-founder and co-editor of Slipstream Magazine & Press, now in its
22nd year of publishing. His poetry has appeared in numerous litmags,
e-zines, anthologies, and audio poetics cassette tapes including Chiron
Review, All Shook Up: Collected Poems About Elvis, Sheila-Na-Gig, Bathtub
Gin, Disquieting Muses, Nerve Cowboy, Spoken War, Flower Thief, Zero City,
Prose Ax, Erosha, American Contemporary Headcheese, and Alpha Beat Soup.
You'll find his monthly poetry page in the e-zine The Hold
(www.the-hold.com/sicoli.html). Email: Slipdan@aol.com. John Oliver Simon, fifth-generation Californian born 1942 in exile in Nueva York, a pediatrician's cowbird fledgling presented to my ostensible father (my mother confessed on her deathbed). Educated at Putney, Swarthmore, UC Berkeley. Poet-teacher since 1971 with California Poets In The Schools, now Associate Director of Poetry Inside Out (project of Center for Art in Translation). More than 500 poems and translations in mags and anthos from Abrazas to Zyzzyva. NEA 2001 Translation Fellowship for Gonzalo Rojas, Chile, 1917 (From the Lightning due from Green Integer). Caminante (2002, orphan of Creative Arts Book Company), 131 eight-line poems with comentarios, Gary Snyder writes "a major poem, gritty and elegant, hard-earned, oriented by stars and late night conversations on the long road." Contributing Editor to Poetry Flash and Temple. Articles on Latin American poetics. Read it all and weep here.
Paul Skyrm: Re-entered Gaia, April 16, 1976 at 2:41PM Mantua Ohio. Satori in Sedona Arizona Las Vegas Nevada Chicago Illinois New York City New York State Revere Massachusetts Windsor Ontario Canada. Studied English & Creative Writing at Kent State. August 2002 - December 2002 will journey to Walla Walla Washington & write, climb mountains, help open a bookstore & shake the devils out of bones with Charles Potts. Accepted to Naropa University, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Fall 2003.
B. J. Smith is a graduate of the University of Iowa and co-author - with his wife, Susan - of a book about Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His flash fiction story "The Chase" was published in The Independent Mind and his essays have appeared in The Pedestal Magazine and The Iowan.
*Bart Solarczyk : I been around small press since the early 80s, edited Burnt Orphan for a few years where I published the likes of Chandler, Todd Moore, Androla, Steve Richmond, Nimmo, Sutherland, Cat, many others. Lately my poems show up in print in Lilliput Review & on-line at the-hold & of course TS (my favorite on-line mag!). Margo Solod has been an innkeeper, chef, lighting designer and factory worker to support her writing habit. After 20 years of traveling, 4 chapbooks, 80+ published poems in 60+ magazines, 3 trucks and 9 sets of tires, she has settled in the middle of 72 acres in the Shenandoah Valley of VA.
*David Spicer lives in Memphis and appeared in the original Thunder Sandwich. Spiel was born out west to decent white folk on a small farm the same year the U.S entered WWII. His writing often defies categorization. His poems of conflict, quirky short stories, and odd bits of art, have been widely published in recent independent press publications such as: Abbey; AlphaBeat Press; Barbaric Yawp; Bathtub Gin; Blind Man’s Rainbow; Chiron Review; Impetus; Iodine; Nerve Cowboy; No Exit; Parting Gifts; Pearl; Poesy; Poetry Motel; Slipstream; St. Vitus Press & Poetry Review Anthology: Crude (Pudding House Publications), Unexpected Harvest (King’s Estate Press) Chaps: Pieces of Blood, shat?ter tan?gle shr?ed, bacon lips, Honeysuckle Veins Most recent chaps, Insufferable Zipper (Four Sep Publications) & Human, (Pudding House Publications) David Mark Speer is a short story writer and poet who has been writing for the public's rabid consumption in both forms since 1990 and lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can find his work in a chapbook entitled, "Space & Direction: Grand Island, Nebraska" and more recently in the anthology, "Rag Shock: FOUR" from Lunar Offensive Press (lunoff@mindspring.com). David was also for many years the host of a wildly popular open-mic lovingly referred to as "Smash Nova's Saturday Joyfest" and is still, in his heart of hearts the wildly popular Smash Nova (kajillionaire, playboy & industrialist).
*t.k. splake is the bardic Trout Dancer of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Author of numerous books, he has a large collection of poems, photos and freewrites coming from Thunder Sandwich Press sometime in 2002. His work, both photographic and written, has appeared throughout the small press here and abroad during the past two decades. Eric Smiarowski has been published at Outsider Ink (also online) and a small magazine out of upstate New York called Dead Owl Press
Gena Smith: I am an artist, writer, martial artist, and returning student pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry. Although I have won a number of awards for my art, I have not attempted to make my poetry public until recently. *Willie Smith, while guest faculty at Naropa Institute, read his cautionary tale SPIDER FUCK, then that same year (1995) read SF at a Seattle literary arts festival. Has been pretty much dead ever since. SF can be read at corpse.org Issue #9. Bring your own cookies. j. m. starino is a spoken word artist, resides in Lexington, SC. Reads venues Columbia, Greenville, Greenwood, Sumter, SC and Charlotte, NC. He has been writing poetry, poetic email, and dedications feverishly for the past three years. Some friends know him as SilDag.
Harding Stedler earned his terminal degree at Florida State University in English Education. The last 19 years of his 34-year teaching career were spent at Shawnee State University, from where he retired in 1995. He is currently secretary of the Poets' Roundtable of Arkansas. William F. Stocks was born May 13, 1952 in Craig, Colorado and am a lifelong resident of Dixon, Wyoming, a tiny hamlet located in the Little Snake River Valley in "South Central" Wyoming, about forty miles North of Craig. My academic credentials are nearly nonexistent. I graduated from Little Snake River Valley High School in 1970, and spent the previous school year 1968-69 as a full scholarship student at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. After graduation, I attended the fall semester 1970-71 at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. From there, I've evolved through many types of work experience, into a blue-collar family man, with a kind of existentialist philosophy. I'm married, work a regular job, and have three sons, 27, 25, and 2. Yeah two…a…long story. I read mostly online in the small press, have unsuccessfully entered a few academic poetry contests, and have never been published.
Alex Stolis was born and raised in Minnesota, he left his career two years ago to go back to school and play stay at home dad to his two children and his two black labs. He also works full-time in the evenings as a janitor. He writes mostly when he should be eating or sleeping. Recent publications include, Nerve Cowboy, Illya's Honey, Black Bear Review, Poetry Motel. He is also Associate Editor of the on-line Literary Review Samsara Quarterly. Trina Stolec: I studied creative writing, drama and dance at The Cincinnati School for Creative and Performing Arts, Berea College and The University of Toledo. I've performed in Community Theater and performed my poetry at numerous places since 1985. I've had more than 200 poems published in over 50 small press zines, and I'm the front-person for the band Logic Alley whose second CD of spoken word tunes, "Diabolical Songs" is currently available on our website, Logic Alley. Rich J. Stone is a New York-based playwright, monologist and aspiring novelist, whose comedy has been performed across the United States and in the U.K. He was selected by the BBC as one of the best American monologists at the 1995 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His plays have been published in "Poetry and Plays" and "Main Street Journal", and his sports columns have been published in "Neon Journal", "One Big Tome" and "The Attitude."
Cheryl Strauss is a professional writer and editor employed by a large Web design firm. In addition, she does freelance work for my her own pleasure. A recent sample of her non-fiction appeared in Hip Mama magazine http://www.hipmama.com/features/tattoo.html). Two of her short fiction pieces have just been accepted by Scarlet Letters (www.scarletletters.com) and Penthouse. After 12 years of writing what she calls crisis poetry her recent publication credits have finally given her the fever and emboldened her to submit work. Though she published one poem in college that won an award offered by the literary magazine Erato (1988), since that time she has not attempted to place her poetry. Belinda Subraman’s poetry, stories and art can be found in hundreds of journals, reviews, anthologies and chapbooks. Since 1994 her archives are housed at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in the Center for Southwest Research. Belinda is also a Registered Nurse specializing in hospice care. Chris Sumberg has had work in RealPoetik, Bogg, Temp Slave! and a slew of other zines.
Zen Sutherland: (no bio available) John Sweet - not much to say by way of bio. i live
in endicott, ny with my wife and child, been writing for 18 years, involved
w/ the small press for 12. i like to let my writing speak for itself.
Doug Tanoury grew up in Detroit and still lives in the area with his wife and three children. Doug has been published widely in both traditiona print journals and at literary web sites across the Internet. Several of his electronic chapbbooks are available at Funky Dog Publishing The greatest influence on Doug and his work was the 7th grade poetry anthology used in Sister Debra's English class: Reflections On A Gift Of Watermelon Pickle And Other Modern Verse, Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith, (c)1966 by Scott Foresman & Company. Mark Terrill: Born in Berkeley, California, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, I've pursued many different callings, including bartender, taxi driver, gravedigger, sawmill worker and merchant seaman. In 1982 I was a participant in Paul Bowles's writing workshop in Tangier, Morocco, and have lived in Germany since 1984, where I've worked as a shipyard welder, road manager for rock bands, cook and postal worker. In 1994 Lawrence Ferlinghetti published four of my poems in the anthology Ends & Beginnings (City Lights Review #6), and since then I've published a half-dozen books and chapbooks, including The United Colors of Death (Pathwise Press, 2003); Bread & Fish (The Figures, 2002); Here to Learn; Remembering Paul Bowles (Green Bean Press, 2002); Kid with Gray Eyes (Cedar Hill Publications, 2001); as well as a collection of my translations of the poetry of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Like a Pilot (Sulphur River Literary Review Press, 2001).
Susan Terris: (no bio available) Jeffrey S. Thompson was born in Riverside,CA in 1972. He has been published in print and the internet. His first novel 12,000 Miles was released in November 2003. His next book, All That is Wrong with Ben and Mia is expected to be released at the end of 2004. *Cheryl A Townsend is the publisher of Impetus and owner of the
mostly sporatic cat's Impetuous Books in Kent, Ohio. She spends as much time as she can behind her
Canon AE-1...and is looking forward to more. Tribe lives in Northern Ohio. He suffers from narcoleptic Tourette's syndrome. Tribe's fiction has appeared in Plot With Guns and is forthcoming in Blue Murder. Susan B. Townsend is a writer and stay at home mother. Transplanted from the west coast of Canada six years ago, she now makes her home on a 300 acre farm in southeastern Virginia with her husband, five children, and a menagerie of animals. Her work has appeared in Megaera, Ink Magazine, Unlikely Stories, Cold Glass, The Fiction Warehouse, Pierian Springs, Poor Mojo's Alamanc(k), The Dead Mule, Pindeldyboz, and Wild Violet. She can be reached at monitor@visi.net. John Tyson is the founder of singlepress responsible for Accurate Key a letter press broadside magazine. His first poems were composed with spit & breath on car windows during long trips. Milwaukee is where he lives with 2 birds 2 cats & sometimes his 2 sons.
Corinna Underwood: (no bio available) Jim Valvis has placed work in hundreds of literary magazines, both online and off. His first novel is seeking a publisher. He lives in Issaquah, Washington with the poet Katrina Grace Craig and their daughter Sophia. He's working on two new novels and a collection of poems. Valvis received two Pushcart nominations in 2001. Those interested can reach him at valvis@ketzle.net. Ronn Venable: The widowed father of two adult sons, my voice is penned from the life-experiences I have encountered as a Seventies vagabond. Following a Jack Kerouac inspiration, I traveled across the nation from Ohio valleys to Upstate New York, zigzagging the Midwest to California and to Florida, settling in Florida for twenty years to raise a family. Eventually, I returned to my roots in Southern Ohio and discovered what I want to be when I grow up. At the tender age of 50, I fulfilled a childhood, quixotic dream and picked up a pen . . . Joseph Veronneau lives in Burlington, Vermont. His poems have appeared or are to appear in Chiron Review, Antipatico, remark, Words Dance, and many others. He enjoys watching his neighbors puking into the streets on Friday nights after one too many, and also enjoys laughing at them for this. Joseph runs Scintillating Publications. Nathan Versaw: I'm twenty-five years old. I was born, raised, and cultivated in the Mormon mecca of the world, Salt Lake City, Utah. I am not Mormon. Currently, I work as a printing press operator. I think growing up and living in a conservative right-wing environment has geared my writing more towards the disassociated. Besides writing I enjoy reading, drawing, and any sport you can do with a beer can in your hand. I encourage any comments/criticisms towards my work.
Laki Vazakas: (no bio available) Michael Ward is a British writer living in Florida. He attended creative writing classes at Nottingham University, England. For the last four years he has sent out a 4,000 word newsletter six times a year to around 200 people on four continents. He has almost completed his first novel which will be a commercial thriller. Michael can be reached at michael.ward3@worldnet.att.net Chocolate Waters has been writing and publishing poetry for over four decades. The author of three collections, she is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Poetry and a fellowship from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her work, which has been nominated for several Pushcart prizes, has appeared recently in Caprice, Van Gogh’s Ear, The Pedestal Magazine and Mirror Mirror: Reflections on the Way We Look. In 2003 Waters released a limited-edition CD entitled Chocolate Waters Uncensored, which spans twenty-five years of performance work from the New York nightclub S.N.A.F.U. and other Manhattan venues. A few copies are still available from Eggplant Productions and at www.chocolatewaters.com . Chocolate Waters lives in Manhattan where she runs a poetry submission service for poets, tutors individual clients and is a frequent participant in the New York City poetry circuit.
. Michael Ward is a British writer living in Florida. He attended creative writing classes at Nottingham University, England. He is currently working on his third novel. Christopher Wells: Born and raised in rural Michigan, I now live in Columbus, OH, where I make a living working as a staff member of The Ohio State University. I recently had a prose poem published in the January 2004 issue of Mocha Memoirs (www.mochamemoirs.com) .
Neil Wellen: Political Humorist. Satirist. Illustrator. Right to Free Speech Advocate. Cartoonist. Tattoo Artist. All of the above. Patricia Wellingham-Jones is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, author of Don't Turn Away: Poems About Breast Cancer, Apple Blossoms at Eye Level, Welcome, Babies and the Lummox Press Little Red Book series, A Gathering Glance, as well as editor of Labyrinth: Poems & Prose. She has been published widely in print and online journals and anthologies.
Kyle Valanne: (no bio available) Tim Wells is the editor of the poetry 'zine 'Rising'. He lives in North East London and is doing very well. Michael David West has been writing for about four years. He thought it would be easy but quickly learned that it has many ups and downs. West considers himself a simple story teller who writes of the things that have meaning to him. Joanna M. Weston, born in England, lives in Western Canada; married, 3 sons, two cats. A writer, knitter, and gardener. Is a full-time writer of poetry, short-stories, children's books and reviews. Has published internationally for many years in journals and anthologies. Her middle-reader 'The Willow Tree Girl' published online and in print,2003.
Renee Wexler: (no bi available) Derek White: My fiction has been recently published in DIAGRAM, CrossConnect, Gestalten, Aught, and Unwound, with forthcoming publications in Experimental Forest, Lost and Found Times. Del Sol Review, and Perspektive. I currently work as technical writer for pressplay,
(an online music subscription service) and am a contributing editor to jaunt magazine.
I have also worked as a field geologist as far north as the Artic Circle, crewing on yachts in the South Pacific, on a dairy farm in New Zealand, as a carpenter in Argentina, and on a film in southern France. I received a Masters degree in physics from the University of Arizona, a B.A. in mathematics from UC Santa Cruz, and went to high school in Mexico. Kelley White: I was born and raised in New Hampshire, have degrees from Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, and have been a pediatrician in inner-city Philadelphia for the past twenty years working with families challenged by poverty, substance abuse, and domestic violence. I write to survive. I started sending work out three years ago with very modest goals (I hoped to have a half dozen poems published by my fiftieth birthday in 2004) but have had somewhat surprising success, with 1200 poems accepted or published by 250 journals including American Writing, The Café Review, Chiron Review, Feminist Studies, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Medical Humanities, The Larcom Review, Minnesota Review, Nimrod, Poet Lore, Rattle, and Whiskey Island Magazine. A book of my "medical" poems, The Patient Presents, was published by The People's Press in Baltimore and a chapbook of very different material, "I am going to walk toward the sanctuary," was published by Nepenthe Books/Via Dolorosa Press. I received a Pushcart nomination for an experimental piece (from Gravity Presses) in 2000, my first year of submission and again in 2002. This spring I received a contract to publish a second chapbook, "Blues: Songs for Desdemona," with Via Dolorosa Press and to publish At the Monkey-Feast Table with ZeBook Company, a new online poetry publisher. The People's Press has recently accepted another manuscript, tentatively entitled "Late" for publication in January 2004. Teresa White: (no bio available)
G Allen Wilbanks: I have had stories published in the past with magazines and e-zines such as Black Petals, Night Terrors, Dark Moon Rising, Nocturne Horizons, Burning Sky, Deep Magic, and others. I have also had a few pieces selected for anthologies published by Flesh & Blood Press and Amberlin Books.
Gary Charles Wilkens: I study in the MA in English program at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. I work as a teaching assistant while actively pursuing a career as a poet and creative writing teacher. Past poems have appeared in The Texas Review and The Adirondack Review. Lori Williams is a born and bred New Yorker, who is planning to relocate to Florida in the next few months. There comes a time when a fresh start calls, and she can no longer ignore the din. Mother of a 16 year old boy, she has been writing poetry since her early teen years, and could not stop if she tried. Her work has been published in Prose Ax, MiPoesias, Poetic Voices and Neiderngasse, among others and will soon be seen in Mind Caviar and Nectarzine. She is an administrator at MiPoesias, an on line poetry forum. D. Harlan Wilson's fiction has appeared in a number of magazines, most recently in Doorknobs & BodyPaint, Redsine, Diagram, The Café Irreal, Driver's Side Airbag, The Dream Zone, Samsara Quarterly, Eclectica and Absurdism. A chapbook of his stories was published in 2000, and his first full-length book, a collection of forty-four stories called The Kafka Effekt, was published in 2001. Wilson holds two M.A. degrees, one in English Literature (University of Massachusetts-Boston), the other in Science Fiction Studies (University of Liverpool). Currently he is working on his Ph.D. in Twentieth Century American Literature and Theory at Michigan State University.
Wilson's Web Site
Lindsay Wilson has escaped Southern California for the wide open spaces of Wyoming, and has a tremendous crush on his space heater. He's had 3 chapbooks published; his latest chapbook is, bakersfield 99 published by the Lummox Press. He will be the editor of the Owen Wister Review this fall, and still edits Unwound magazine.
A. D. Winans is a San Francisco born poet and writer who has been publishing since the 60s, and somehow has managed to maintain his sense of humor. The former editor and publisher of Second Coming Magazine and Press, a poem of his has been set to music and will be part of a recital at Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in NYC next year. To prove miracles still happen, he was even paid for it. Leah Wingate: I now attend Centenary College of Louisiana and have had some poems published in Pandora's Box, the school's literary magazine. I will be a junior this upcoming year and plan to graduate with a major in Communication.
Renee Winter teaches literature and writing at a public middle school. She also develops scripts with her students, then directs and produces the plays they create. She lives with her two angel daughters and her loving husband in California. Dale Wisely has poems and short fiction in America, Amaryllis, Birmingham Poetry Review, National Catholic Reporter, Poet’s Canvas, Salt River Review, Main Street Rag, Birmingham Arts Journal, Blue Collar Review and elsewhere. He is the author of two chapbooks, Visitation (Mercy Seat Press) and Seven Stars. He is the editor of the on-line literary journal, Right Hand Pointing. Francine Witte lives in White Plains, NY. She taught in the New York City Public School system for eight years. Her poems have appeared in Calliope, Tar River Poetry, Cream City Review, The Nebraska Review and many others. Her chapbook The Magic in the Streets is published by Owl Creek Press. She is the author of a number of one-act plays that have been produced in New York City. Her first screenplay "Die, Hamlet, Die!" won the 2000 Pillage Hollywood Screenwriting Contest. Wayne Wolfson: I am a California based author. My works have appeared in many journals including Happy, 3 A. M. Magazine and Retort.
Vera Wolynsky: I am very ceremonial about my life. The rites, the passages, have become more sacred with time. I perform my own sort of ceremonies to sanctify them in my life. Sometimes I treat this as a "fun" thing, but deep down, it means something. David Wright's poems and essays have appeared in The Midwest Quarterly, re:generation quarterly, and Karamu, among others. His poetry collection, Lines from the Provinces, was recently published. He teaches writing and literature in Decatur, Illinois. Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Kirby has been nominated for The 2002 Pushcart Prize and is a past recipient of the Anne Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel.
Gerald Yelle lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. He holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts. He has worked as a computer operator and customer service representative, and currently teaches high school English. Recent poems have appeared in The Temple, Poetry East, and 88. Robin Young discovered her natural talent for sculpture while taking classes at the Baum School of Art in Allentown, PA. She pursues sculpture in addition to her career as a nurse. Through her work she strives to capture emotions, spirituality, fantasy, and romance. Andrena Zawinski, born and raised in Pittsburgh PA, now makes her home in Oakland, CA where she teaches creative writing. Her poetry has appeared in Quarterly West, Santa Clara Review, Slipstream, Panhandler, and elsewhere. She is Feature Editor of PoetryMagazine.com Nick Zegarac: Born in Windsor, Ontario, Nick Zegarac's creative talents are firmly grounded in the arts. His numerous credits include; contributions to The Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor Citizen, a collection of short stories, numerous poetry credits and the authoring of two screenplays currently under consideration in Hollywood. He continues to be active on the literary scene, this past year as part of the editorial board responsible for Black Moss Press' upcoming release of, "Totally Unused Hearts" and is currently campaigning for a publishing house to share his interest on a book concerning an overview of Hollywood film making. He writes DVD reviews for Amazon and his work as a poet is featured on several internet literary sites, among them, Joe Zorzi is 27 and harks from the depths of darkest flattest England. He is a member of Alex Keegan's Bootcamp and has had stories published in a number of magazines including Defenestration and Bluemag. |
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