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Adam Silver

Flash fiction editor, Mannequin Envy

Alexandre Nodopaka

Contributing visual arts editor, Mannequin Envy. Born in Vladivostok, Russia 1940. Educated in Morocco (1947-1959) USA (1959-present).  Education: Ecole des Beaux Arts, Casablanca, Morocco. Publications: Peninsula Magazine - Livermore Times - Pleasanton Times -Dublin Independent - Menlo Park

Bill Winter

Bill Winter lives in Seattle, Washington.

Cassandra Robison

 An educator for twenty years, Cassandra has undergraduate and graduate degrees from the State University of New York, Fredonia, and the University of Arizona. She is a professor of English at a small college where she teaches creative writing and American Literature and is faculty advisor for the award-winning college literary magazine. Founding editor of the online quarterly journal Artistry of Life, her poetry and prose have been featured in the Fig, the Piedmont Literary Review, and Imprints; her poetry will appear in the winter issues of Word Riot, Sunspinner, and Adagio Verse Quarterly. Currently at work on her first chapbook of poetry and on her doctorate in higher education, she now lives, works, and finds her muse in Florida.

Charles P. Ries

Charles P. Ries lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His narrative poems, short stories, interviews and poetry reviews have appeared in over one hundred and twenty print and electronic publications. He has received three Pushcart Prize nominations for his writing and most recently read his poetry on National Public Radio's Theme and Variations, a program that is broadcastover seventy NPR affiliates.  He is the author of THE FATHERS WE FIND, a novel based on memory. Ries is also the author of five books of poetry - the most recent entitled, The Last Time which was released by The Moon Press in Tucson, Arizona. He is the poetry editor for Word Riot  and on the board of the Woodland Pattern Bookstore in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Most recently he has been appointed to the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission. You may find additional samples of his work by going to: literarti.net. email: charlesr@execpc.com

Christopher Major  

Chris lives in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, where he works for Social Services.  His poetry has been placed in over 60 UK print mags including:Outposts, Poetry Monthly, Raw Edge, Poetry Nottingham, Poetry Bradford, Pennine Platform, Monkey Kettle, Ugly Tree, Sepia, Breakfast All Day ect. Online at amongst others: Snakeskin, Zygote in..., My Fav Bullet, Undergroundvoices, Pemmican, James River Review, Out Of Order, Passenger May, High Horse, Remark, Thieves Jargon, Stirring, London Ghetto Poetry, Laurahird ,Mannequinenvy ect...

Corey Mesler

 is the owner of Burke’s Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Rattle, Pindeldyboz, Quick Fiction, Cranky, Thema, Mars Hill Review, Poet Lore and others. He has also been a book reviewer for The Memphis Commercial Appeal. A short story of his was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, published by Algonquin Books. Talk, his first novel, appeared in 2002. Nice blurbs from Lee Smith, John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, Frederick Barthelme, and others. He has a new novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, due out in 2005 from Livingston. His latest three poetry chapbooks are Chin-Chin in Eden (2003) and Dark on Purpose (2004) and Short Story and Other Short Stories (2006). He also claims to have written, "Your Auntie Grizelda." Most importantly, he is Toby and Chloe’s dad and Cheryl’s husband.

Craig Kirchner

Craig lives and works as a consultant in the Mid-Atlantic. Works have appeared in journals including Slow Trains, Lily, Erosha, Thunder Sandwich, 3 AM MAGAZINE,  Adagio, Triplopia, Laura Hird, Clean Sheets, Astropoetica, and Zygote in My Coffee. Has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

D.B. Cox

is a blues musician/poet, who has recently returned to South Carolina, from Massachusetts. He has had writing published on-line in: Verse Libre Quarterly, LauraHird.COM, Zygote In My Coffee, Remark, Underground Voices, Sacramento Poetry Art & Music, and others. His work has appeared in print in: Aesthetica, Circle Magazine, Shadow Poetry, My Favorite Bullet, Mystery Island Magazine and Open Wide Magazine

David Gaffney

David Gaffney was born in West Cumbria, studied in Birmingham and now lives in Manchester. He has worked as an English teacher, a film studies lecturer, a holiday camp entertainer, a medical records clerk, a pub pianist, a debt counsellor in Moss Side, a legal consultant in Liverpool, and now works for the arts council.  His stories have been published in print in Ambit, the Illustrated Ape, Ephemera,  Modart, and many other places, and his newnovel, Skip Trace, about a crooked debt counsellor and a conceptual artist with a taste for trepanning is available to publishers now. David Gaffney will be reading his sawn off tales live on Thursday 8th December at the bath house pub in Soho - 8.00pm

Dennis Mahagin

Dennis Mahagin's poetry can be found at Absinthe Literary Review, 3 A.M., Stirring, Erosha, 42opus, Edifice Wrecked, Underground Voices, and Frigg Magazine-- among other publications. His first book of poems is forthcoming from Suspect Thoughts Press. He would like to cordially invite one and all to visit his blog at: four hour hard on

Donna Dixon

Modest and talented southern Artist and Poet. 

Duane Locke

Doctor of Philosophy, English Renaissance literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities was Poet in Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years. Locke has thousands of poems published in print and on-line as well as 14 print booksand 4 E books of Poetry, including,The Squids Dark Ink, From a Tiny Room and The Death of Daphne and Observations, from Poetic Inhalation. He is also a painter, having many exhibitions. A recent book, Extraordinary Interpretations by Gary Monroe, published by University of Florida Press, has a discussion of Duane Locke's paintings. Also, a photographer, now has over 237 photos in e zines. He does close-ups of trash tossed away in alleys and on sidewalks. Now, he is doing a series called "mystic vegetation."He once lived in an old decaying house in the sunny Tampa slums, populated largely by drug dealers and the homeless. The house was condemned so Locke left Tampa to relocate in Lakeland, Florida. He lives by a lake with swans and many wild birds. The only disadvantage is that he can find no trash to photograph, no broken beer bottles on sidewalk, no litter as it was in Tampa.

Ellaraine Lockie is widely published and awarded in the U.S., Canada, England and Australia. Her first collection entitled 'Midlife Muse,' won Poetry Forum's chapbook contest and was subsequently published in 2000. Two additional chapbooks have been released in 2003: 'Crossing the Center Line' by Sweet Annie Press, and 'Coloring Outside the Lines' by The Plowman Press (Canada).

Eric Michaels

Erik  is relatively new to poetry. He has, however, been erotic his whole life. This, and other works of his, are simply new vents through which his pent-up eroticism spills. He can also be read at Clean Sheets.

Helen Dowdell

H.G. Dowdell is a former journalist and political speechwriter. Her articles have been featured in Essence and Self Magazines, the NY Amsterdam News, NY Newsday, and the City Sun News. Her flash fiction has been featured in Sister 2 Sister and Honey Magazines, and her short stories can also be found online at Hackwriters, The Copperfield Review, The Sidewalk's End, Skive Magazine, and are forthcoming at Ken* Again and Penwomanship .  She's presently busy at work on her second novel. email: helendowdell@earthlink.net.

J. Britton

Jai Britton was born in a barn (or so her mother said) in Saskatchewan, Canada where she learned to spell long words at an early age.  She amuses herself by telling Americans that she lives in an igloo, owns three Husky dogs and a racing sled and more often than not is believed.  Currently, she sells other people's poetry for a living hoping she can learn by osmosis.  She resides in Calgary , Alberta , Canada and owns no dogs.  This is her first publication.

James Lineberger

James Lineberger is a professional playwright and screenwriter. He was Playwright in Residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis for three seasons. His rock opera, THE SURVIVAL OF SAINT JOAN, was developed at the Buffalo Studio Arena, and the production transferred to Broadway. His screen adaptation for Twentieth Century Fox film of the Devery Freeman novel FATHER SKY was filmed as TAPS. 

His poems have appeared in Berkely Poetry Review, The Centennial Review; Coal City Review; Djinni; Exquisite Corpse; Hanging Loose; Hayden's Ferry Review; Mediphors; The New Laurel Review; New York Quarterly; Ontario Review; Oxford Magazine; Pembroke Magazine; Prairie Schooner; Rag Mag; Snake Nation Review; Sonora Review; Verse; and a number of online publications.

James Quinton

is 26 years old, lives in the UK and is editor of Open Wide Magazine

Jason Nunes

Jason is an award winning New York based screenwriter, author, and playwright. (and an artist and designer on the side to pay the rent) His one act "Roulette Night" recently won the critic's choice award at the 2005 Samuel French One Act Competition, his one act "Love in the Time of Atkins" was a semi-finalist, and, last year, his one act "Telling the Leaves" was a finalist. His short story, "Accidental Antichrist" was a finalist of the Santa Fe Writers Project, and his screenplay, "Resurrection Men" was a winner of the AIVF Screenwriters Mentorship program.* Jason's work has been called "Deliciously funny and revolting..."  In his non-existent free time, Jason publishes the lit and art webzine, TenThousandMonkeys.com. 

Jeff Foster

is  influenced by Gustav Klimdt and Jan Saudek, Foster tries to create nebulous pictures of spirituality with my photos. He has work coming out in Tarwolf review. Foster lives in NW Missouri with my wife and daughter where he runs his owncleaning business.

Joel Van Noord

 is a labour consultant in Washington DC and drives a truck through otherwise barricaded regions of the government. Find him at places like unlikelystories.org and crybloxsome.com

John Covello

Bio stuff...I'm 45 but act 12, from Long Island New York, married 20 years to my best friend ever, no kids 3 Great Danes, 7 cats. 

John Dorsey

is 28 yrs old, and currently resides in Toledo, OH 43620. He is the author of "Little Boy Beat: Selected Poems" Paladin M & E, Inc., 2004, "The Price of Sunshine" With Iris Berry, Feel Free Press, 2005, and "Harvey Kietel, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel" by S.A. Griffin, Scott Wannberg, and Dorsey... Butchershop Press, 2005 "Moshing With The Cosmos" Iris Berry and Dorsey. Available in some stores or from John Dorsey 2413 Collingwood Blvd.b225 Toledo, OH 43620

John Grey

Australian born poet, playwright, musician. Latest book is “What Else Is There” from Main Street Rag. Recently in Hubbub South Carolina Review and Journal Of The American Medica lAssociation.

John L. Campbell

Self-employed for most of his life as a manufacturers’ agent selling and marketing engineered components, Campbell retired in 1995. Since then, he has spent most of his time improving his writing skills. In the past ten years he has self-published three paperbacks, four chapbooks (one of short stories) and well over a hundred non-fiction articles for magazines and newspapers. He has been writing free verse ever since he discovered narrative poetry is an acceptable form despite whispers from greeting-card-readers who say his stuff doesn’t rhyme. His poetry has appeared in several annual issues of the Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, Free Verse, Ray Foreman’s The Clark Street Review, The Backstreet Poets’ Quarterly, and the 2005 writers’ anthology to be published by Goose River Press. On the Internet his poetry has made the cut for issues of Foreman’s The Midnight Diner, Wordriot, The Muses Review and Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry. He resides with his wife of fifty-four years in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

John Sweet

b. 1968, married, father of 2, living in the wastelands of rural upstate new york been publishing for 18 years now, a big believer in writing as catharsis, opposed to all “schools” of poetry and all attempts to label and classify approaches to writing. full length collection, Human Cathedrals, is available from ravennapress

The author lives in South Carolina with her family. She recently began writing poetry again after a 25 year hiatus. Some of her work can be found online at Red River Review, Clean Sheets, Dead Mule and thieves jargon.

Kelley White

Kelley is a pediatrition working in the inner city of Philadelphia.

Ken Mowrey

Kenneth Gurney

Kenneth lives a quiet life in Shorewood, WI (a suburb of Milwaukee).   He edits Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry, writes poetry and fiction of his own, reads, studies the American Civil War, goes for long walks, stays warm & dry and eats good food.  Kenneth works as a Library Clerk and sometimes, rarely anymore, does commision artwork.  He has  used up 7 or 8 out of his 9 lives in this grand adventure that goes  

Laura Stamps

 is an award-winning poet and novelist.  Over six hundred of her poems, short stories, and poetry book reviews have appeared in literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and broadsides, including the Louisiana Review, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Big City Lit, Poesy Magazine, American Writing, and the Chiron Review.  She is the author of more than twenty-five books and chapbooks, including "Cat Daze (Kittyfeather Press, 2004) and "In the Garden" (The Moon Publishing, 2004).  Her latest collection of poetry, "The Year of the Cat" (Artemesia Publishing, 2005), has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.  Several of her poems are included in the celebrity anthology "Open My Eyes, Open My Soul" (McGraw-Hill Books, 2003) and "Women of the Web Anthology of Poems" (Little Poems Press, 2005).  More information about books by Laura Stamps can be found at www.kittyfeatherpress.blogspot.com.

Lisa Zaran

Lisa is a poet and essayist living in Arizona.  She has authored two collections, the sometimes girl (InnerCircle Publishing) and You Have A Lovely Heart (Little Poem Press).  Some current work  can either be found or is upcoming in:  2River, Words Dance, Lily, Verse Libre Occasional, Wicked Alice, Gold Dust Magazine, Saucy Vox, 63 Channels, among others.

Lori Romero

is a published poet and fiction writer, and served as Artistic Director of Friends & Artists Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles. She currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Ms. Romero’s first chapbook, Wall to Wall, was recently published by Finishing Line Press (finishinglinepress.com). Her short story, Strange Saints, was a semifinalist in the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award and her recent screenplay was a finalist in the Hollywood Symposium. Her poetry and short stories have been published in journals which include Copper Nickel, Citizen32, Ibbetson St., Poetry Motel, Quercus Review, Monkeybicycle, Plum Biscuit, James River Poetry Review, and Pebble Lake Review. Her website is tarecords.com.

Luann Womach

Her poetry has appeared in Coffee! and Nowadays. Prose selections have been published in several anthologies. LuAnn is the former editor of InPosse Review at http://webdelsol.com. She resides in the rural solitude of Nebraska. www.luannwomach.com

Luis Berriozabal

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, 38, was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos (Mexico), and has lived in Los Angeles County since age 7. He works in the mental health field. His poems in English and Spanish have appeared in The American Dissident, The Blue Collar Review, Pemmican Press, and Struggle Magazine. His first book of poems, Raw Materials, is from Pygmy Forest Press.

An American poet, born NYC, Lynn has made her home Canada for the past twenty-five years. Seven published books, two more chapbooks forthcoming next year, work in fifty-five journals (on-line and in print) in five countries. Some of these are Storie (Italy),Niedergasse, (Switzerland) Acton (summer feature, Scotland, 2006), The Argotist, Trace, Interpoetry (England, on-line) Descant, Prism International Raddle Moon, (Canada), Poetry, The American Voice, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Southern Humanities Review, Chicago Sunday Tribune (the States.) I also have poems in thirty anthologies. Two PEN grants, one National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing grant. She worked for British-American poet, Denise Levertov, in Berkeley during the Sixties. Poet and Editor THE SORROW PSALMS: A Book of Twentieth Century Elegy Special Guest Editor, New Works Review Lynn's Homepage

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Margaret Evans

 is a native of the Washington, DC, area, and a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Business Administration. Her short stories and humorous philosophical essays are published in such literary magazines as Fullosia Press, Prose Toad, Palabras Press, ken*again, The Literary Brothel, NuPenz, and A Darker Vision. She is also the author of a full-length novel, The Sixth World. A synopsis and sample chapter of the novel, as well as ordering information, can be found on Evans's Web site, margaretevans.com 

Marie Lascu

is currently a student at Oakland University in Michigan. She has recently been published in such online zines as Children, Churches and Daddies, Zygoteinmycoffee, and Thieves Jargon.

mark s kuhar

is a cleveland, ohio-based writer, poet, editor & publisher. his work has appeared in many on-line publications including sidereality, litvert, eratio, muse apprentice guild, getunderground, & northern ohio live, as well as in the anthologies “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind: poets on 9/11” (regent press) & “the long march of cleveland,” “ornamental iron,” “mac’s turns a new trick” & “anthologese the next” (green panda press); america zen (bottom dog press) & “action poetry (a LitKicks publication). his chapbook – “acrobats in catapult twist” -- was published in June 2003 by seven beers and a hedgehogpress, of pepper pike, ohio, and his work has been published by 24th st. irregular press as part of the “poems-for-all” series. his ebook, “fractured rapture” was published on poeticinhalation.com. he has read his work on national public radio’s local affiliate, & is the host of the deep cleveland poetry hour, a live monthly spoken-word event. he is also the proprietor of deep cleveland llc,  which includes deep cleveland press, a small-press publishing company, & deep cleveland junkmail oracle, a literary e-zine dedicated to the spirit of legendary cleveland outlaw poet, artist & underground publisher d.a levy. he is the editor of ohio writer magazine. he is a graduate of ohio university (BA 1980), athens, ohio, with a degree in english/creative writing.

Maureen Tolman Flannery

 Ancestors in the Landscape: Poems of a Rancher’s Daughter was nominated for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Although she grew up in a Wyoming sheep ranch family, Maureen and her actor husband Dan have raised their four children in Chicago. A Fine Line was also published this year and produced as musical theatre. Her other books are Secret of the Rising Up: Poems of Mexico; Remembered Into Life; and the anthology Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places. Her work has appeared in forty anthologies and over a hundred literary reviews, recently including Midwest Quarterly Review, Amherst Review, Calyx, Atlanta Review, North American Review. Check out tmpoetry.com to see a chapbook and review of her latest book.

Maurice Oliver

spent almost a decade working as a freelance photographer in Europe. Then, in 1995, he made a lifelong dream reality by traveling around the world for eight months, recording his experiences in a journal instead of photographs. And so began his desire to be a poet. His poetry has appeared in The Potomac Journal, Circle Magazine, Bullfight Review, Tryst3 Journal, The MAG, Eye-Shot, The Surface, One Forty Two Magazine, Word Riot, Retort Magazine(Australia), Taj Mahal Review(India), Stride Magazine(UK),& online at ink-mag.com, friggmagazine.com, dash30dash.com & tmpoetry.com. He lives in Portland, Oregon where he is a tutor.

Nanette Rayman is a writer and actor living in New York City. She has been published for poetry and fiction in The Berkeley Fiction Review, The Worcester Review, Three Candles, Pedestal, Stirring, Concrete Wolf, Small Spiral Notebook, Red River Review, 5 Trope, Snow Monkey, Remark, Tyro's Pen, Verse Libre Quarterly, Inkburns, Millennium Papers, Disquieting Muses, Dakota House Journal, Comrades, Pinball, Xanadu —The Long Island Poetry Collective, The Rogue Scholar, Ululation, Octavo, Words and Pictures Magazine, Square Lake, Carve, The American Muse, Conversely, UNO Anthology. Runner-up for nomination for PUSHCART PRIZE 2003 Red River Review. Honorable Mention in 2000 Writer's Digest Fiction Contest.

Patricia Wellingham-Jones

BIO: Former psychology researcher, writer, editor, lecturer Patricia Wellingham-Jones has recently been published in Edgz, Ibbetson Street Press, HazMat Review. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her newest books are Belt of Transit (PWJ Publishing) and Hormone Stew (Snark Publishing); also published is Don't Turn Away: Poems about Breast Cancer. Her website is www.wellinghamjones.com.

Patrick Carrington

was born and raised in the boroughs of New York City. He teaches language arts and creative writing in southern New Jersey and lives on a secluded beach with his wife and the ocean they love. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in various print journals, including Bardsong, Clark Street Review, Devil Blossoms, Epicenter, Poetry Motel, and Willard & Maple, and on-line at Adagio Verse Quarterly, Artistry of Life, Carnelian, Clean Sheets, and Thieves Jargon.

Peter Schwartz 

Peter Schwartz is a poet, author, painter and playwright. He's recently published poems with 'Sein und Werden', 'Lily', and 'Freefall'. He has fiction with 'Pindeldyboz' and 'Dispatch' and paintings with 'HiNgE' and 'SubtleTea'. See a sample of his controversial journal at: www.watchtheeye.com. He now has over 100 poems published or pending. He now believes in magic.

Russel Bittner

Bitner lives in Brooklyn, New York. His poems and prose has been published on paper by: The American Dissident; The Blind Man’s Rainbow; The Lyric; The Barbaric Yawp; the International Journal of Erotica; Edgar Literary Magazine and Wicked Hollow. On-line, his poetry and prose can be found at:ken*again; SpillwayReview; Erotica-readers; EdificeWrecked; Ink-mag; GirlsWithInsurance; ThievesJargon; Fireweek, SalomeMagazine LongStoryShort and SouthernHum, Satin Slippers; Ink-mag; Skive Magazine; Quintessence- encouraginggreatwriting; Undergroundvoices; DeadMule; Pindeldyboz; Hackwriters; 10,000 Monkeys; writeThis; and the uncom.mon Yankeepotroast.org.

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s.n. jacobson

Jacobson was born March of 1955, in Manhattan, NY of Polish/ Jewish/ Survivors. My parents followed the borsch belt to Miami where my Father became an itinerant photographer. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area where he is working on a number of projects as well as doing commissions.Website: snjacobson.com

S.P. Flannery

Flannery was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, and now residea in Madison where he writes poetry and maintains a website he created about primates called "The Primata". His poetry has appeared in Mobius, Hummingbird, Avocet, Sidereality, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry, Liquid Muse Quarterly, Lunatic Chameleon, Lily, Spillway Review, Electric Acorn, Free Verse, and Plum Ruby Review. I also have poetry forthcoming in The Neovictorian/ Cochlea, Offerings, and Poetry Salzburg Review.

Scott Malby

Scott Malby lives in self imposed exile in Coos Bay, on the Pacific Coast of Oregon. He is not a balanced person. He lies to himself. He gives bad advice. New work out soon in Eclectica, Elimae, Circle Magazine, Zygote In My Coffee and other places.

Scott K.Odom

Scott K. Odom is a detective for a Sheriff's Department on the Central Coast of California. He uses photographs, found imagery, and digital manipulation in his collage work. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, The New York Quarterly, Pleiades, The Yalobusha Review, and others. He thinks the best thing about being a cop is being an artist. He lives in Cambria with his stunningly gorgeous artist wife and his stunningly teenaged daughter. Visit Scott's blog at: Dishwasher's Tears

Shara Faskowitz

Shara is a teacher, writer and editor currently living and working in Maine. Her work appears both on the Web and in print, in such publications as Exquisite Corpse, A Small Garlic Press, Erosha, Literary Mama and No-Troy.

Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper

Sharon is an active member of the Friends Of The Oregon Symphony, Words Of a Woman Net Society and very much a today's woman. An astrological Leo, this lady thrives on poetry and music. She has been published in dozens of on-line journals including 'lingerings', Ophelia's Muse, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Niederngasse, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetr, Verse Libre, Ascent Magazine. The SP Quill Quarterly, In The Eyes Of The Wild, Emerging from Twilight - Vol. 2, Before the Last Shadow Fades, Vol. 3, Panda Poetry Magazine, Battle Stars', Backstreet Poets Quarterly, Providers in Partnership for Kids, MiPo~Print, WRITE ON!!, Book of Remembrance Poetry Anthology, Vol. 2 and Peshekee River Poetry. Two e-chapbooks of her poetry, Mood Magic and A Slice Of Life were hosted by Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry in 2004 and MAG Press will be publishing her book Reach Beyond as the winner of the 2005 International Chapbook competition the end of this year.

Spencer Anthony Troxell

(24) lives in Cincinnati Ohio with his wife Abby and 2 sons, Spencer and Jack. He works at a factory and a bookstore and attend college at the University of Cincinnati. He lazily collects bottle caps and writes in his spare time, which is consequentially spare indeed. He's currently enjoying the second book of Don Quixote, the CD 'Freak In' By Dave Douglas, and teaching his son how to play soccer. Spencer Troxell 

Stephen Mead

Stephen Mead is a writer and artist living in northeastern NY. Links to his resume and some of his merchandise can be found via the following: new age dimensions publishing, cafe press, lulu equisito store, photoshow, absolute arts

Tamie Gaudet

graduated from Queen’s University, with degrees in English and education. She lives in the Thousand Islands with her family and divides her days between writing and international espionage. Okay, okay, so the latter is really laundry. Her poetry has appeared in Quills.

Tantra Bensko

Tantra is art editor of Mad Hatter's Review, a juror for both photography and painting for BTDesign Awards, and was World Class Photographer for The Times Journal of Photography. Her work can be seen in the current issue (7) of spartandog. Her solo show, Reality Burn!, is touring Spain. She has an upcoming solo show at Pigman Gallery, in San Francisco. She is also a writer with an MFA from Iowa, and a model.

Taylor Graham

Taylor is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra Nevada, and also helps her husband (a retired wildlife biologist) with his field projects. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, Poetry International, and elsewhere, and I’m included in the new anthology, California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University, 2004).

Terri Light

Terri Light is a graphic designer amid the glorious ruins of Detroit. Transplanted to the frontier of the new urban greenbelt from Virginia, she works and teaches at the private school portrayed in The Virgin Suicides and spends time encouraging native plants to prosper in abandoned lots. Her poetry appears in current or forthcoming editions of Ducts.org, ec;eclecta.org, Horseless Review, Hiss Quarterly, and nth position.

 Terry Rentzepis

 Terry is self-taught. He began experimenting with painting, after undergoing major back surgery. He mostly works in acrylic on canvas, but he owns alot of oil paints and  loves to work with old-world quills and ink which  remind him of his lifetime of doodling.  He wants the viewer to feel like he is intruding on his characters. Stumbling on  secret, guarded and very private emotions. Terry lives in Coconut Grove, Florida with his beautiful wife Sheri and his son Jake.

Tim McGovern

Tim McGovern lives west of Boston and has been writing, in one form or another, for several years. His interest in Zen and Buddhism is often reflected in his work. His poems have appeared in Zygote in my Coffee, Artistry of Life and Lynx. He is 46 years old. Email: satorimonkey@yahoo.com

Timothy McNeal

 lives in Alzey - Germany  His chapbook, "Timeless Without Time Is listed among the Top Ten Chapbook Best Sellers at www.shadowpoetry.com He was also the May/June Contest Winner at www.simplypoetry.com

Tom McDaniel

Tom's poems have appeared in Epos, Plains Poetry Journal, The Texas Review, The Florida Review, Blue Unicorn, Pulpsmith and other literary journals. He currently resides in a mystical landscape just east of Abilene, Texas.

Tom Meek

is a freelance journalist and universal grunt. His ramblings and rants have appeared in The Boston Phoenix, The Improper Bostonian, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Film Threat, Playboy.com and E! Online. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, practices yoga religiously and rides his bike everywhere. His fiction and essays can be found on The Boston Sports Massacre, The Sink, Thieves Jargon (a great little e-zine) and Word Riot. click here to visit his site

W. S. Cross

Photos and the text are excerpted from the novel Beyond You & Me, by Based on a journal written in 1975, and loaned to the author on the condition that the identity of the journal writer remain a secret. The resulting novel chronicles a 24 year-old married woman's journey of self-discovery as she struggles with the temptations of the Sexual Revolution.Excerpts from the book, background material, sources from the cultural touchstones of the period and even samples of music can be found at the novel's web site: Beyond You and Me.

Wayne Wolfson

is a California based author. His works have appeared in many journals and sites including Aesthetica, 10,000 Monkeys and Word Riot.

Wes Lee

Originally from the UK, Wes currently lives in New Zealand in a little bolt-hole at the beach. She directed her black comedy, ‘Woman with a Weapon’ at the Maidment theatre in Auckland. Her writing has appeared in various online and print publications: Stamp, Trout, PopMatters, Snorkel, Pleasures and Dangers: Artists of the 90’s. In 2002, she was an award winner in the New Zealand Society of Authors National Short Story Award. She has work forthcoming in The Ugly Tree. My story "Painting Julia" is now live at Thieves Jargon. My story "Those Days" is now live at Turbine.

William James

 (B.A, Creative Writing, specializing in poetry) Colorado State University 1990; poetry and prose published on both sides of the Atlantic, some newspaper and other opinion columns, edited and published two semi-annual print poetry magazines, Zang Spur Review and Dreamboat. Had an article in Alpacas Magazine and, under my pen name, Jean de Cherie, one erotic romance currently available in ebook from HeatWaveRomance.com (and soon to be in a print anthology presently titled Private Escapades) another ebook, also from HeatWave will release 7/1/05. Live in Colorado, where I grew up, having moved back from Cornwall after my divorce.

Willie Smith

Danny Houseman, writing in The Stranger (Seattle tabloid with a 100,000 circulation), blustered, “I wouldn’t mind cutting off Willie Smith’s oxygen supply. (Willie Smith) is a giant asshole.”  W. P. Swindon writes on the message board at the splendid online magazine Zygote In My Coffee, “I really don’t kike (sic) Willy’s (sic) work.” To see why these opinions are so well founded, the giant asshole himself invites the reader to peruse his bedtime tale “Spider Fuck” in issue #9 of Exquisite Corpse.  Guys like this are lucky to be alive. williesmith49@hotmail.com