Ascent Aspirations Magazine Contributors Since 1997

Malaika King Albrecht

Malaika King Albrecht has been published in a few literary magazines, including Quarterly West, Exquisite Corpse, and New Orleans Review. Most recently two poems were accepted in the soon to be published book titled Fire in the Womb: Mothers and Creativity. She graduated with an MA from Old Dominion University. She has two daughters and is currently a stay at home mom.

Email: Malaika King Albrecht

Mumia Abu-Jamal

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Noel Ace

Noel Ace is currently a high school English teacher in Southern California. His publishing credits include "artisan, inc" and "Eyes," both print magazines. His fiction can also be found on the internet on sites including "The Fiction Network," GeekGirl," "Planet Magazine," "Vanguard," "Ibn Quirtaba," and "Dream Forge.

Nola Accili

Nola Accili is a French instructor at the University College of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Her work has recently appeared in Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing (University of Hawaii), Room of One's Own (Vancouver), Jones Av. (Toronto), and Down in the Valley, An Anthology (Fraser valley, B.C.)

Jane Adam

Jane Adam started writing poetry a few years ago in a moment of desperation. She got surprisingly decent results, so she kept at it. Her poems now appear online in Antipatico, Remark, and Spent Meat, and have been accepted for Nerve Cowboy and Chiron Review. One poem was in Slipstream #23 and the editors nominated her for a Pushcart Prize in 2003. She has lived in Buffalo, NY since 1981, and has taught freshman English at nearly every college in the area since then. It has become so important to her to put her poems out into the world.

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Emmanuel Agrapidis

Emmanuel Agrapidis: A native New Yorker, Emmanuel Agrapidis spends his time looking under his boot soles. He has been published in several journals and works as a field reporter in New York City. Emmanuel received his B.A. in Literature and Writing from Columbia University. His highly anticipated full length collection entitled Devour the Earth is set to come out later this year. Emmanuel lives in Bayside, Queens with his wife and two sons.

Email: Emmanuel Agrapidis

Zinta Aistars

Zinta Aistars is the published author of three books. She is an editor and writer for LuxEsto, the Kalamazoo College alumni magazine and contributing writer to Encore magazine. Her work has also appeared in the Kalamazoo Guide, Kalamazoo Gazette, Welcome Home and Parade of Homes magazines. She has published poetry, travel essays, stories, and articles in the United States, Latvia, England, Sweden, Germany, and Australia. Her work also appears on many e-zines - including Ash Canyon Review, Spoiled Ink, 63Channels.com (featured writer in upcoming Aug/Sept 2005 issue), HerCircleEzine (upcoming September 2005 issue), The Redbridge Review, River Walk Journal, Flashquake, milk magazine, The Surface, Serene Light, Word Riot, Burning Word, The Moon, insolent rudder, Bobbing Around, coilMagazine, Poems Neiderngasse, The Paper, Poetry Life & Times, QuietPoly Writer's Magazine, Midwest Book Review, WriteSight and others. Her poetry appears in the literary anthology, Persistence of Dreams, compiled by Redbridge Review. Zinta has recently completed her second collection of poetry, Tumbleweed Waltz.

Viestarts Aistars has had his artwork (oils, watercolors, etchings, pencil drawings) exhibited at the Detroit Art Museum, Indiana Art Center in Indianapolis and South Bend, Indiana, the Kalamazoo Art Institute, Grand Rapids Art Museum, as well as Latvian art exhibits in Seattle, Washington, New York City, Reading, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio, to name only a few. He has had over 50 one-man art exhibits in the Midwest and Eastern United States, including Boston, New York City, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Saginaw, Grand Rapids, and many other cities nationwide. He has won numerous prizes and his work has been purchased by countless private collectors, also by the State Museum in Riga, Latvia, the Art Museum in Jelgava, Latvia. A painting of a Latvian woman in folk costume hangs today in the Riga Pils (Riga Castle), the president's residence in Riga, Latvia. More of his work and information about the artist can be found at the contacts below.

Artist Site

Zeena Communications

Zinta Aistars

Jesse Akaike
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Sidney Alexander

Sidney Alexander is a metaphysical freethinker who not only thinks highly in the spiritual but curses loudly when his oh-so-physical beloved cars decide to give him a hard time by dying and costing him money. Hence that's why he works for an automotive parts company. He is currently a regular columnist for Shadow Feast.

Shadow Feast

Home Page "The Dragon's Claw"

Tanisha Alexander

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Tanisha Alexander

Tim Alexander

Timothy Alexander's fiction has appeared in many small press and literary publications including: Armchair Aesthete, Barbaric Yawp, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, and Pindeldyboz. Timothy resides in the US Penitentiary at Marion, IL.

Jeffrey C. Alfier

Jeffrey Alfier currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, hold an MA in Humanities, and has served as an adjunct faculty member of City Colleges of Chicago - European Division. In addition, He is a member of the Canadian Poetry Association, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and Phi Kappa Phi. His poetry publishing credits - outside of professional journals - include The Animist, Asili, Coffy Time Blues, Evolution's Voyage, Gravity, Maelstrom, Niederngasse (forthcoming), Nieve Roja Review, Parchment Symbols, Pif Magazine (reviews), Poetry Magazine, Poets4Peace, Pyrowords, Recursive Angel, Riding the Meridian, Poetfest, Poetic Express II, PoetryRepairShop, Savoy Magazine, Thermopylae, Twilight Journal, and Sauce*Box.

Shane Alison

Robert Allan

Robert Allan is an anomic poet who writes cuz he can't help it. Born in Perth ON, he holds an HBA in English from the University of Toronto, and he currently writes in Montreal QC. Rousingly, Ascent Aspirations Magazine will be his first publishing credit.Email: Robert Allan

John P. Allen

John P. Allen is an unpublished writer working as a teacher's assistant for a school district north of Houston, Texas.

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Alexandre Amprimoz

Alexandre Amprimoz is a poet, critic, translator, writer and programmer. He teaches Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Canada. Books include: A Season For Birds: Selected poems by Pierre Morency. Translation.Toronto: Exile Press, 1990; Venice At Her Mirror: Essay by Robert Marteau. Translation. Toronto: Exile Press, 1990 ; Nostalgies de l'ange. Ottawa: Editions du Vermillon, 1993. He has recently published poems in: Alsop Review, Antigonish Review, Octavo, Dégaine ta rime, Résurrétion, Hélices and LittéRéalité.

Tim Amsden

Tim Amsden: Among other places, Tim Amsden's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pudding Magazine, Potpourri, Out of Line, Driftwood, Permafrost, Illia's Honey, Slant, Heartlodge, New Mexico Magazine, Facets, a Pima Press poetry anthology on aging, and a Pudding House Anthology on consumption. He has won a variety of awards, including second place in both the 2002 and 2005 Southwest Writers Conference poetry contests. He worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, and now lives in Ramah, New Mexico.

Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson is a professor at Oregon State University and also a Catholic Deacon. He has published a number of books, including a book of poems, My Problem with the Truth, as well as poems in many journals.

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George Anderson

George Anderson grew up in Montreal and presently lives and teaches in Sydney, Australia. He has published poetry in dozens of magazines worldwide. He edits the student literary magazine Ephemeral.

Julie Donner Andersen

Julie Donner Andersen is the author of “PAST: Perfect! PRESENT: Tense! Insights From One Woman’s Journey As The Wife Of a Widower” (iUniverse, Inc.).

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Derly Andre

Arlene Ang

Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy as a freelance translator and web designer. She also edits the Italian Niederngasse (www.niederngasse.com). Her poetry has recently appeared in Poet's Canvas, Scrivener's Pen, Sometimes City, Tryst, three candles and sidereality. Recent awards include: Absinthe Literary Review 2002 Eros & Thanatos Prize Winner and Clean Sheets 2003 Poetry Contest 2nd Place Winner.

Rosemary C. Anderson

Rosemary C. Anderson's publications include about 44 articles and biographies and one story (mostly in a small art magazine), and over 20 poems in publications such as Main Street Rag, Frogpond, RE:AL, Sinister Wisdom, Jewish Currents, Luna Negra, The Plaza (Japan), The Distillery, etc. She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara and is originally from a small town in Illinois. She works as editor of Redgreene Press (fine poetry) and also as Anderson Publishing. Formerly, she owned a small art magazine, IWAA NEWS. She is also an artist - painting, drawing, mostly (portraits, still-life, abstracts), and has some photographs published. She is a disabled veteran , renovating an old house.

Daniel Michel Antil

Daniel Michel Antil was born on December 18, 1962, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spent much of his youth reading and writing. His greatest literary interest has always been in the genre of horror and fantasy. His writing influences include Poe, Kafka, and Lovecraft, to name a few. Daniel currently resides in Oregon, where he lives with his beautiful wife, Cookie Holley. Together, they run an independent record label and several radio shows, for which Daniel -- under the guise of "Midnight Rider" -- serves as a DJ. Poetry Publications: (title; publication; publisher; date) "High Flier"; Liberation; Sorrows Press; 1969. "My God, The Dinosaur", "Cremation", & "Changes"; The Highlander; SLCC Journals; 1983. "Enigma Echo"; TINAE; http://www.littlebehemoth.com/ ; 2001.

Aurora Antonovic

Aurora Antonovic is a Canadian freelance writer, visual artist, and the former co-editor and columnist for the GT Times. Her poetry has appeared in recent months over 200 times in publications such as Adagio Verse Quarterly, Promise, Blind Man's Rainbow, The Bohemian Rag, Regal Quill Quarterly, Black Mail Press, Makata, The Entouist, and Poetic Voices. She currently resides in Ontario.

Ashley Arnold

Ashley Arnold is an Adelaide-based writer with stories published in Ticonderoga Online, Flashquake and Lorelei Signal. His story "The River Man's Spirits" also appears in the Shadow Plays anthology. For more information see

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Johann Christoph Arnold

Johann Christoph Arnold is the author of ten books and a pastor in the Bruderhof Communities.

Johann Christoph Arnold

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Bruderhof Communities

Richard Arnold

Richard Arnold lives on a modest acreage near Errington, BC. He teaches English at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo. Besides writing and reading poetry, he likes spending time with his family, hiking, canoeing, and camping. His work has been published in many print and electronic places across North America. He has two collections of poetry to his credit: a chapbook from Leaf Press (2002) and a haiku pamphlet from Island Scholastic (2003).

David Aronson

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.

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Jessica Austin

Jessica Austin has a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia. She has work scheduled for publication in the online magazine 491 Neo-Naïve Imagination. She lives in Poquoson, Virginia (a modern-day fishing town sandwiched between water and marsh), with her husband, two young daughters, and one mischievous dachsund. She teaches English to secondary school students and hopes to obtain a master's degree in literature or writing.

LeAne Austin

Peter Austin

Peter Austin lives with his wife and three daughters in Toronto. His poetry has appeared in magazines/anthologies in Canada (including Queen's Quarterly, The Dalhousie Review, The Prairie Journal, Contemporary Verse 2 and Ascent Aspirations) and several other countries. As well as poetry, he writes plays, and his musical adaptation of The Wind in the Willows has enjoyed four productions, the most recent in July '07, in Worcester, Mass.
Email: Peter Austin

Chanda Avik

Occupation: Management Consultant, freelance writer, with several articles, art reviews, short stories published in Indian dailies. Solo exhibition of paintings at Kolkata, June 2001. Poetry publications include Black Bear Review, Other Poetry, Adirondack Review, Three Candles, Morpo Review, 3rd Muse, Richmond Review, Voices, King Log and Sulekha. Forthcoming publications in Promise Magazine and Skyline Publications.

Dr. David B. Axelrod

Dr. David B. Axelrod has published in hundreds of magazines. His sixteenth and newest book is Another Way, poems derived from the Tao Te Ching. He is the recipient of three Fulbright Awards including his being the first official Poet-in-Residence in the People’s Republic of China. The New York Times described him as “A Treat!” He has shared the stage with such notables as Louis Simpson, X. J. Kennedy, William Stafford, Robert Bly and Allen Ginsburg and performed for the U.N., the American Library Association and hundreds of venues. He has been translated into fourteen languages.

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Len Bains

Len Bains is, in no particular order, a rocket scientist, a father of four, the carer for a severely handicapped child, a writer of fiction, and a brewer of beer.

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Jason Baker

Jason Baker graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in English. He lives in Toronto, Ontario where he works as a business writer. Jason enjoys writing stories in the area of dark fiction.

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Kim M. Baker

Kim M. Baker has been teaching writing in academe and business for 15 years. She currently is a writing coach at Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, RI. Kim has performed her poetry in Providence, RI at Got Poetry Live, sponsored by Got Poetry

She has been published at Nimble Spirit in May 2007.

Email: Kim M. Baker

Joe Balaz

Joe Balaz lives in northeast Ohio. He is the author of Domino Buzz, a cd of music-poetry Web Site
He is also co-author of JOMA—online, an online gallery of concrete poetry and photography with photo-artist Mary Ellen Derwis Joma
His recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Icon, Oregon Literary Review, AdmitTwo, Eleventh Transmission, Right Hand Pointing, The Cerebral Catalyst, Clockwise Cat, Neon Literary Magazine, Zygote in my Coffee, Otoliths and Subtle Tea.
Email: Joe Balaz

Charlene Baldridge

Charlene Baldridge: Freelance Writer and member of San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Regularly writes for: Riverside Press- Enterprise, La Jolla Village News, Performances, Senior Life.

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Richard Ballon

Richard Ballon lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has had poetry appear in The Haight Ashbury Review, Social Anarchism, Lilliput Review, the Saint Anthony Messenger, Oinionhead, Changing Men and Anything that Moves.

Donna Bamford

Donna Bamford is a part time free lance journalist, EFL teacher, struggling creative writer, world traveler, and would be actress. She resides currently in London, Ontario though she has also lived in London, England, Paris, Athens and India and has travelled in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nepal as well as most of the countries in Europe. Despite the travel she still calls Toronto home. She has written three children’s books which she is trying to get published as well as a novella called My Villa in Tuscany and lots of poetry. Her interests include anything to do with the arts and travel. She has an Honours BA in English from the University of Toronto and speaks French fluently as well as passable Italian and German. Her poetry and essays have been published in a number of online magazines and a few print magazines such as Qwerty, Bywords, Ascent, Ygdrasil, Great Works, Scriberazone, 7:24, The Mag, Another Toronto Quarterly, Scrivener’s Pen, Tryst, and The Globe and Mail.

Annie Banks

Annie Banks is currently a freshman at Mount St. Mary's College. She plans to pursue a degree in English and become a professor. In addition to her studies, reading the classics and writing for the college newspaper occupies most of her time. On campus, she is in the process of organizing a poetry society for aficionados of verse. Several of her other interests include painting and theatrical arts. This is her first experience submitting literature for publication.

Suzanna Banwell

Suzanna Banwell has been a Human Rights Lawyer for the better part of the last 20 years. She is now home full time with her two sons and loving every minute of it. Or almost every minute.

Daniel Barbiero

Daniel Barbiero lives and works in the Washington DC area. His recent work appears or is forthcoming in Tamafhyr Mountain Irregular, Turbula, Ekphrasis, Listening to Water: The Susquehanna Watershed Anthology, Words-Myth, Ygdrasil and elsewhere. He is also active on the local improvised music scene as a double bassist.

Email: Daniel Barbiero

Beebe Barksdale-Bruner
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Jennifer Christina Barnes

Jennifer Christina Barnes graduated from the University of Maryland with an English degree and a concentration in Poetry/Creative Writing. She has had numerous poems and articles published both in print and online, most recently appearing in A Little Poetry. Jennifer is co-author of the e-book Skin for the Bloodless as well as Assistant Editor of the online literary magazine The Dream People, (www.dreampeople.org). She is also editor of the chapbook anthology The Best of The Dream People Poets.

Christopher Barnes

Christopher Barnes in 1998 won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 200 he read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology Titles Are Bitches. Christmas 2001 he debuted at Newcastle's famous Morden Tower doing a reading of his poems. Each year he read for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and he participated in workshops. 2005 saw the publication of his collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh. On Saturday 16th August 2003 he read at the Edinburgh Festival as a Per Verse poet at LGBT Centre, Broughton St.

He also has a BBC webpage BBC and Video Nation
(if first site does not work click on SECTION 28 on second site.

Christmas 2001 The Northern Cultural Skills Partnership sponsored him to be mentored by Andy Croft in conjunction with New Writing North. He made a radio programme for Web FM community radio about his writing group. October-November 2005, he entered a poem/visual image into the art exhibition The Art Cafe Project, his piece Post-Mark was shown in Betty's Newcastle. This event was sponsored by Pride On The Tyne. He made a digital film with artists Kate Sweeney and Julie Ballands at a film making workshop called Out Of The Picture which was shown at the festival party for Proudwords. The film is going into an archive at The Discovery Museum in Newcastle and contains his poem "The Old Heave-Ho". He worked on a collaborative art and literature project called How Gay Are Your Genes, facilitated by Lisa Mathews (poet) which exhibited at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University before touring the country and it is expected to go abroad, funded by The Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute, Bioscience Centre at Newcastle's Centre for Life. He was involved in the Five Arts Cities poetry postcard event which exhibited at The Seven Stories children's literature building. In May 2006 he had a solo art/poetry exhibition at The People's Theatre. Take a look at their website Gilbenkian

The South Bank Centre in London recorded his poem "The Holiday I Never Had", and he can be heard reading it on Poetry Magazines

Email: Christopher Barnes

Thomas Robert Barnes

Thomas Robert Barnes has been published widely in the small press. He is currently doing readings and a seminar "Ritual of Success" in California and abroad. He is an avid telemark skier, rower and a flyfisher.

John Barta

John Barta was born in 1941, Hungarian emigrant at fifteen, University of Toronto at nineteen, high-school teacher(English, history, drama) starting at twenty-three, marriage at twenty-four, first child at thirty-two, retired at fifty-six, CAA member since 1997, published in The Saving Bannis-er, Ten Stories High, The New Quarterly, Event, Hammered Out, at certain-uncertain points since 1997, date of death as yet a guess.

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Helen Bar-Lev

Helen Bar-Lev was born in New York City in 1942. She has lived in Israel for 36 years. She holds a degree in Anthropology from California State University, Northridge, 1972. Since 1976 Helen has devoted herself to art: painting, teaching and writing poetry. From 1989 until 2001 she was a member of the Safad Artists' Colony in the Upper Galilee where she had her own gallery. In January 2007 she and Johnmichael Simon moved to Metulla, the northernmost town in Israel.

To date Bar-Lev has participated in 80 exhibitions, including 30 one-person shows. She was the curator of the widely acclaimed Homage to Yosef Hirsch exhibitions (appearing in 3 venues) in 2002 and 2003 in which 53 of Hirsch's former students participated. Her poems and paintings have appeared in many online journals such as The Other Voices International Project; The Coffee Press Journal; Boheme Magazine; The Poetry Bridge; Sketchbook; River Bones Press; The Hypertexts; Palabras-Press; Poetry Super Highway, Gostinaia, etc., and also print anthologies including Meeting of the Minds Journal;, Voices Israel Anthologies; Manifold Magazine of New Poetry (U.K.); Lucidity Poetry Journal, and Across The Long Bridge and Sailing in the Mist of Time, both anthologies of Award-Winning Poetry; Harvest International; Poesy first international issue; For Loving Precious Beast, An Anthology of Poetry edited by Yolanda Coulaz; Ibbetson Street 21; The Rogue Scholars, June 2007, Magnapoets; Eden Waters Press, Windsor ReView.

A book entitled CYCLAMENS AND SWORDS with poems of Israel by Helen and Johnmichael Simon has been published by Ibbetson Press of Boston, Mass. and may be ordered from the authors hbarlev@netvision.net.il. It is also available via Lulu. Her watercolour paintings and sketches are featured throughout the book.

Helen is a member of Voices Israel English Poetry Society and The Israel Artists' and Sculptors' Association, of the Canadian Federation of Poets and Canadian Poetry Association. She is the global correspondent in Israel for the Poetry Bridge and Editor-in-Chief of the Voices Israel Annual Anthology.

Gary Beck

Gary Beck's recent fiction has appeared in 3AM Magazine, EWG Presents, Nuvein Magazine, Babel, Vincent Brothers Review, L'Intrigue Magazine, The Journal, Short Stories Bimonthly and Bibliophilos. His poetry has appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway. He is a writer/director of award-winning social issue video documentaries.

Email: Gary Beck

Calvin Becker

Calvin Becker lives in Calgary, Alberta. He is interested in exploring the ideals and themes in a highly metaphorical and minimalistic style.

Ellen Behrens'

Ellen Behrens' life has followed a tourist route, taking her through several states and careers, including stints in amusement parks and apartment communities which she discovered were pretty much the same thing. With her husband, Robert Craig, she's rafted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, climbed mountains, and plans to do a lot more of the same. Her first novel, None but the Dead and Dying, was published in 1996 by Baskerville Publishers.

Email: Ellen Behrens

Everette Bell

Everette Bell is a fiction writer who enjoys all genres. His stories have been published in various magazines and webzines throughout the small press. Look for his forthcoming chapbook from Yard Dog Press.

Steve Bell

Steve has been writing for several years in India. He has spent several years living there. He has written in the UK as a journalist and spent much time researching on the dark side of life in London's King Cross.

Tim Bellows

Tim Bellows is a poet, writer, and teacher – devoted to wildland, the simplicity of inward travel, and Mozart’s notion about “Love, love, love” as “the soul of genius." Living in Northern California, Tim has taught college writing for over eighteen years. He graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has seen publication of poems in many journals – and in A Racing Up the Sky (Eclectic Press), Wild Stars (Starry Puddle Press), and Desert Wood (University of Nevada Press). If you’d like Tim’s free Lightship E-Newsletter of tips for creative writers on the journey of “divine things more beautiful than words can tell” (Walt Whitman), contact him at star999@sbcglobal.net and put "Yes!" in the subject line. (Put "Unsubscribe” to be taken off the list.) *** Visit timbellows.com where his books and selected poems are available, toll free.

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Livia Belmont

Lark Beltran

Lark Beltran lives in Peru, where for over 30 years he has worked as an ESL teacher. A number of his poems have been published in e-zines.

Luis Benítez

Luis Benítez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1956). Member of the Latin-American Academy of Poetry, the International Society of Writers, the World Poets Society, the Argentinean Society of Writers and the Argentinean Foundation for the Poetry. He has received the tittle of Compagnon de la Poésie, from La Porte des Poétes Association, France. His 9 books of poetry, 2 essays and 2 novels were published in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, USA and Venezuela. Between another local and international awards, he has received: La Porte des Poétes International Award (Paris, 1991); Biennial Award of the Argentinean Poetry (Buenos Aires, 1991); Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Foundation Award of Poetry (Buenos Aires, 1996); International Award of Fiction (Uruguay, 1996); Primo Premio Tusculorum di Poesia (Italy, 1996) and 10me. Concours International de Poésie, accesit (Paris, 2003).

Since the ´90s, several reviews publish his poems in translation: Upstairs at Duroc and La Porte des Poétes (from Paris, France); The Boston Literary Review, Barnwood, And Then, Tamarind, Szrine, Green Mountains, Luz Bilingual and La Nuez (from USA); Inclement Poetry, Cauldrom, Littoral, Awe, Manifold and Poetry Monthly (from United Kingdom); Poetry Salzburg Review (from Austria); L´Ortica and Isola Nigra (from Italy), The Instanbul Literary Review (from Turkey) and others.

Poetry books by the author:

Poems from the Earth and the Memory (Buenos Aires, 1980), Mythologies/The Ballad of the Lost Woman (Buenos Aires, 1983), Behering and Other Poems (1st edition, Buenos Aires, 1985; 2nd edition Mexico DF, 1995), Wars, Epitaphs and Conversations (Buenos Aires, 1989), Fractal (Buenos Aires, 1991), The Past and the Eves (Venezuela, 1995), Selected Poems (USA, 1996), The Mare of the Night (Chile, 2001), The Venenero and other poems (Buenos Aires, 2005)

Email: Luis Benítez

Rachel Bennett

Rachel Bennett was born in Rock Island, Illinois, in 1979, and moved to New York City in 2001, after participating in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Irish Writing Program in Dublin, working in a nursing home in Ecuador, and earning a B.A. in English from Grinnell College. Her poems have won two Whitcomb Prizes judged by Gerald Stern and James Galvin, respectively, and appeared in Buffalo Carp, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Rhapsoidia, elimae, Alba, The Big Toe Review, zafusy, Adagio Quarterly Review, Laika Poetry Review, and Blood Lotus; two poems included in Rhapsoidia were 2006 Pushcart Prize nominees. In July 2007, Miss Bennett was invited back to Dublin to give a reading and talk to current students in the Irish Writing Program. She currently lives in Brooklyn, develops programs for the Medicare Rights Center, and teaches poetry in New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal has poems published in Prose Toad, Cerebral Catalyst, Wilmington Blues, Zimmerzine, and Open Wide Magazine, Thunder Sandwich, Nth Position, and Spitfire Poetics. He works in the mental health field and was born in Mexico.

Robert James Berry

Simon Bestwick

Simon Bestwick, born 1974. lives and works in the Manchester area in the UK. About thirty or forty short stories have been punished in various small press magazines including NASTY PIECE OF WORK, SACKCLOTH AND ASHES and ENIGMATIC TALES. He has had one story nominated for the British Fantasy Award, another is being adapted into a comic strip, and he has had two honourable mentions in the 1998 YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR and four in the 1999 edition. More fiction is forthcoming in the anthologies BENEATH THE GROUND (edited by Joel Lane), DARKNESS RISING (edited by Len Maynard and Mick Sims) and in John Pelan's William Hope Hodgson tribute anthology, and in the magazine ALL HALLOWS. Various novels are making the rounds with agents/publishers.

Sharon Maria Bidwell

Sharon Maria Bidwell is a writer from the UK and her work - poems, articles, short stories and novels - have appeared in print and online publications.

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David Biggs

Karen M. Black

Karen grew up in Collingwood, Ontario, fascinated by tales of the supernatural. She has a degree in Biology and English from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management. In the corporate world, she has been ghost writing benefits and pension communications since 1991. Personally, she enjoys writing sensuous tales with emotional impact and vicious little twists. When she’s not writing, you’ll find Karen having dim sum in Toronto’s Chinatown, cooking for friends, watching eclectic live music, or spending time at the cottage. She’s also completing a karmic astrology internship program with Creative Choices in Baltimore. Karen currently lives a walk away from corporate life, in downtown Toronto.

John Blackwood

John Blackwood, is a, British, ex-Civil Servant, ex-Architectural Draughtsman, Interior Designer, Graphic Designer and Furniture Maker, currently resident in South East Italy, as far down on the right hand side as you can go. Look for Lecce on the map. He moved back here in '98 after spells back in the UK, Czech Republic and Turkey. Prior to that there had been 11 years here in the 80s and early 90s and, back in the 70s, 6 years in Franco's Spain. How come? English Language teaching is the day job. Now. So from writing role plays, simulations, comprehensions texts and stories for classroom use, a bit of creative writing isn't a huge leap. Other short fiction is in the pipeline. The big one - a 500 page noir set in Southern Italy - is two chapters short of completion. Other interests include the obvious British ballsports - Football, Rugby and Cricket - Architecture and Heraldry. Eating out and travel are not interests; they are the sine qua non of life.

Via San Francesco d'Assisi, 40 I-73047

Monteroni di Lecce, Italy

C. L. Bledsoe

C. L. Bledsoe was born and raised on a catfish farm in eastern Arkansas, in the Mississippi River delta near the middle of the USA. He has poems, essays, articles and short stories published or forthcoming in over forty literary journals both online and in print, including Nimrod, Story South, DMQ Review, The Dead Mule, Hobart Pulp, Eyeshot, Euphony, Eratio, Cedar Hill Review, and My Favorite Bullet. He is entering the MFA creative writing program at Hollins University in Virginia this fall.

Beth L. Block

Beth L. Block: In addition to Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Beth's work has appeared in Cautionarytale, Red Booth Review, Pemmican Press, Identity Theory (Editor's Choice), The Dogwood Journal, Doorknobs & Bodypaint, Long Story Short, Simply Haiku, Amarillo Bay, River Walk Journal, and is forthcoming in PEARL Magazine. Many of Beth's haikus are published in the anthology, Across The Long Bridge.

Jon Boilard

Jon Boilard's fiction has appeared in literary journals in the United States, Canada and Europe, and his story entitled "Before Dying" was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize as one of the best of 2002. Several of the others have won individual small press awards. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in The Baltimore Review, Barbaric Yawp, Beloit Fiction Journal, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Black Mountain Review, CrossConnect, The Dalhousie Review, Dirty Dishes, Event, First Class, Front & Centre, Hindsight, Ink, The Laurel Review, The MacGuffin, Parting Gifts, Puerto del Sol, Rattapallax, RE:AL, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The San Francisco State University Review, The Sulphur River Literary Review, Thought Magazine, Transfer, Whiskey Island Magazine and The Xavier Review.

Averil Bones

Christian R. Bonawandt

Christian R. Bonawandt has had more than two dozen of his short stories published on a number of web zines since 2001, including Demensions Zine, Planet Magazine, Aphelion Webzine, Twlight Times.com, Dark Moon Rising.com and Sword's Edge.net. His first novel, Dreamers, is available through Stone Garden Publishing.

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Dean Borok

Gerald Bosacker

Gerald Bosacker, Poet and tale teller lives in Arkansas, retired from the corporate world where he was miscast as Vice President of a large chemical company. He now does penance for his sins against the environment with his anti-war activism and poetry.
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Louis E. Bourgeois

John Bernard Bourne

Kristy Bowen

Kristy Bowen's work has appeared most recently in Moon Journal, Poetry Midwest, and Prairie Poetry. Her work is forthcoming in Mentress Moon, Half Drunk Muse, and Eclectica. After studying English and Theatre Arts at Rockford College, where she won the College Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, she received an M.A. in English Literature from DePaul University in 1999. Her latest project is launching the on-line literary zine Wicked Alice. She also serves as contributing editor for "20th Century Women Authors" at Suite101.com. She currently lives in Chicago.

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Atomic Boy

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J. Boyer

Creative Writing Program,Department of English,Arizona State University,Tempe, Arizona 85287-0302,USA

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Karen Bramblett

Karen Bramblett has written poetry for over 30 years and is eager to share it. She lives in California with her husband and three cats.

Erin K. Brandel

Erin K. Brandel has published in The Freehand Press, The Grinnell Review, and in Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine. In the summer of 2004, she received a fellowship to Norcroft, A Writing Retreat for Women.

Linda Breneman

David Bright

David Bright has published short stories in The Iconoclast, Artisan, Synapse, The Pegasus Review, The Rose & Thorn Literary E-Zine and others.

He has worked in journalism contributing to a variety of publications ranging from Computerworld to Woman's World. He lives in Onset, an old fashioned village near Cape Cod. He is the editor of Gemini, a fiction and poetry magazine to be introduced in September 2006.

Arndt Britschgi

Arndt Britschgi was born and raised in Finland. He spent the best (if not the longest) part of his life in Madrid, Spain, and recently took his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His writing has appeared in Literary Fragments, Kulttuurivihkot (Finnish), Southern Cross Review, the EOTU Ezine, Word Riot, Slow Trains Literary Journal, Milk Magazine, and The Modern Review.

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Alan Britt

Alan Britt teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University. His recent books are Vermilion (2006), Infinite Days (2003), Amnesia Tango (1998) and Bodies of Lightning (1995). Essays recently in Clay Palm Review and Arson. Interviews and poetry (selected) recently featured in Steaua (Romania), Latino Stuff Review and Poet’s Market 2000. Other poems (selected) in Agni, The Bitter Oleander, Christian Science Monitor, Cider Press Review, Cold Mountain Review, Confrontation, English Journal, Epoch, Fire (UK), Flint Hills Review, Fox Cry Review, Gradiva (Italy), Kansas Quarterly, The Kerf, Magyar Naplo (Hungary), Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Midwest Quarterly, New Letters, Pacific Review, Pedrada Zurda (Ecuador), Puerto del Sol, Queen’s Quarterly (Canada), Revista Solar (Mexico), Rosebud, Second Aeon (Wales), Sou’wester, Square Lake, Writers’ Journal, plus the anthologies, Fathers: Poems About Fathers (St. Martin’s Press: 1998), Weavings 2000: The Maryland Millennial Anthology (Forest Woods Media Productions, Inc., St. Mary’s College, MD), and La Adelfa Amarga: Seis Poetas Norteamericanos de Hoy (Ediciones El Santo Oficio, Peru, 2003). Recent readings: SUNY at Albany, NY, 2006; Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose, NY, 2006; Towson University, Towson, MD, 2006; PCA/ACA Conference, Boston, 2007.

Alan received his Masters Degree from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He performs poetry workshops for the Maryland State Arts Council and occasionally publishes the international literary journal, Black Moon, from Reisterstown, Maryland, where he lives with his wife, daughter, two Bouviers des Flandres, and two formerly feral cats. Email: Alan Britt

Lisa Marie Brodsky

Lisa Marie Brodsky is an MFA Poetry student at University of Wisconsin-Madison and an intern at The University of Wisocnsin Press. She teaches undergraduate creative writing as well as children's creative writing. She has been published in "The North American Review," "Poetry Motel," "Atlanta Review," "Cadence," "Premiere Generation Ink," among others.

Kenneth Brown

Kenneth Brown is 37 year old active duty soldier from Byron, GA, currently serving in Iraq. Email: Kenneth Brown

Randall Brown

Randall Brown teaches writing at Saint Joseph's University. He is a Pushcart nominee and holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College and a BA from Tufts University. His stories, poems, and essays have been published widely, with recent work appearing or forthcoming in Hunger Mountain, Connecticut Review, The Saint Ann's Review, Dalhousie Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Vestal Review, Cairn, King's English, and others. He has recently finished a collection of (very) short fiction, Mad To Live.

He has also had the pleasure of working closely with some amazing writers, including Douglas Glover, Abby Frucht, Nance Van Winckel, Terri-Brown Davidson, Ellen Lesser, and Pamela Painter. And he's a supporter of a number of literary journals, including Night Train, London Magazine, Zoetrope All-Story, Crazyhorse, and others. Email: Randall Brown

Randy Brown

Randy Brown: Twenty or so of his works have appeared or are forthcoming in several print and online journals, including Timber Creek Review, The Iconoclast, Word Riot, FRiGG, Hobart, and Ink Pot. Also, his writing has recently gained him admittance into Vermont College's Masters of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing program. Also he continues to work with seven-time Pushcart-nominated Terri Brown-Davidson.

Michael H. Brownstein

Michael H. Brownstein has been widely published throughout the small and literary presses. His work has appeared in The Cafe Review, Kings River Press, Skidrow Penthouse, Ariel, Oyez Review, River King Poetry, and others. He has been featured in a number of on-line journals including chicagepoetry.com, Milk, poetrysuperhighway.com, and Muse Apprentice Guild. In addition he has won a number of awards including the Ommation Press Best Chapbook Award and Triton College's International Poetry Prize. He published The Paper Bag and WYMBS Broadside, wrote for the Chicago Reader and other Chicago area newspapers, and has an educational column in the South Street Journal. In addition, he has a number of chapbooks published from 1988 through to 2004.

Murray Brozinsky

Murray Brozinsky's fiction and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals. Most recently he has published pieces in 3711 Atlantic, Aesthetica (forthcoming), Brink, Laughter Loaf, Opium Magazine, and Prose Toad. He has also written non-fiction for Wired Magazine and Business 2.0.

Patricia Brozinsky

Patricia Brozinsky ,Ph.D. a keen observer of human behavior has been a psychotherapist for seventeen years with a full-time private practice in East Patchogue, NY. She co-authored along with James A. Gibson, "Eat or Be Eaten: The Truth About Our Species, the Marriage of Darwin and Machiavelli," a book about human behavior. She taught psychology at the undergraduate level and co-lead workshops for Suffolk County Department of Mental Health, NY. The hyperlink to her website is Inventing Yourself The above article had its debut publication at: EzineArticles Email: Patricia Brozinsky

Shelton Bryant

Shelton Bryant is an editorial illustrator. He has done work for a number of publications and advertising firms.

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Scott Bryson

Scott Bryson is currently living and writing in Toronto, Canada.

Deborah Brown-Volkman

Deborah Brown is a noted personal coach and motivational speaker that supports people in removing obstacles so they can reach their goals and surpass their dreams. In 90 days, Deborah has helped clients locate careers they love, find intimate relationships, and have their needs met by family, friends, and co?workers just by asking. Having a life you love starts when you believe you can. Deborah helps you believe that you can.

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Anne Brudevold

Anne Brudevold has taught at UMass Amnerst, SUNY Stony Brook and Westfield State College. She currently runs Eden Waters Press and is widely published. She lives in the Boston/Cambridge area.
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Rebecca Buchanan

Janet Buck

Janet Buck, Ph.D. is the author of four collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in CrossConnect, Zang Spur Review, Pif Magazine, The Dakota House Journal, The Melic Review, Stirring, Countless Horizons, Ascent, Tapestry, The Rose & Thorn, Avatar Review, pith, Perihelion, In Motion, OffCourse, and hundreds of journals world-wide. In the year 2000, Janet was of ten U.S. poets to be featured at the "One Heart, One World" Exhibit at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City. Her poem "Acrylic Thighs" was translated into five languages and paired with original artwork. The tour traveled to France, Australia, Vietnam, Brazil, and Japan. In 2001-2002, Buck's poetry is scheduled to appear in PoetryBay, The Montserrat Review, Runes, The Pedestal Magazine, Concrete Wolf, The Carriage House Review, Swagazine, PoetryRepairShop, Slow Trains, Verse Libre Quarterly, Wicked Alice, Facets, Southern Ocean Review, Artemis, The American Muse, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly. Recent awards include The H.G. Wells Award for Literary Excellence, First Place in Kimera's Poetry Contest 2001, Editor's Choice Award for Sol Magazine, and the 2001 Kota Press Anthology Prize. In 2001, Janet's poem "The Teapoy" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Pedestal Magazine. Janet Buck is a three-time Pushcart Nominee and the author of four collections of poetry. Her work has recently appeared in Three Candles, Red River, Pierian Springs, Stirring, PoetryBay, Offcourse, Ascent, The American Muse, and hundreds of journals world-wide. In 2002-2003 Buck's poetry is scheduled to appear in Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Gin Bender, Artemis, The Montserrat Review, Recursive Angel, The Foliate Oak, Southern Ocean Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Coelacanth, Cordite, CrossConnect, and The Oklahoma Review.

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April Bulmer

April Bulmer's latest books are Black Blooms and The Goddess Psalms (Serengeti Press.) She also released a chapbook called Life Lines in January (Poetry and Good Cheer Press). April's education is in the area of creative writing and women and religion. She writes about spiritual issues. She lives in Cambridge, Ontario.
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J. Alan Burdick

J. Alan Burdick was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on Oct 24, 1934. He received his BA from James Millikin University(chemistry and math), MA from Brooklyn College (psychology), and his Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba (psychology). He is married to Elaine Louise, and has two sons: Dakin, and Mathew. He has published over 50 articles in refereed journals, mostly in the field of psychophysiology. Burdick was drafted and served as a PFC (Cryptology). He has received grants from the U. S. Public Health Service, and the Medical Research Council of Canada. Jim has lived in the US, Turkey, Canada, England, and Saudi Arabia, and traveled extensively. Presently he is retired and lives with his wife in a log cabin on a lake in rural Kentucky. Dr. Burdick is listed in: Who's Who in the Midwest (1981), Who's Who in the East (1982) , Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology (1983), Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals (1985), Who's Who in the Behavioral Sciences(1985), and has been and still is a reviewer for Psychiatric Services (Hospital and Community Psychiatry ,(American Psychiatric Assoc.). He has been licensed as a psychologist, social worker, and NCADC, and is a Fellow and Diplomat of the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists.

Ginger Bush

Byron Bussey

Barry Butson

Howard Camner

Howard Camner is the author of 16 books of poetry. He represented the U.S. in the Poet 2000 Sculpted Library, an international exhibition of the works of contemporary poets. He received the first annual MiPo Literary Award in 2004

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Alex Maeve Campbell

Alex Maeve Campbell lives in Toronto, ON, Canada. She is a Co-Editor of Descant Magazine, and is sometimes also considered a poet, a musician, or an ex-highland dancer. Email

James Robert Campbell

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Kirsten Campbell

Kirsten Campbell is a non-fiction writer and poet who lives in the New York area with her two daughters. Her poetry has been published in P.A. &M., and Beauty Talk Magazine of Atlanta, Ga., and several magazines in New York such as The Interracial Voice. Her mother is German, her father, Jamaican and Scottish. Her parents abandoned her when she was very young, left her with her Jamaican grandmother without any paperwork proving where she was born. Due to immigration problems that stemmed from her birth abroad, she's lived a very unusual life, so much so that her life's story is now sought by several agents in tri-state area.

Stephen J. Canham

Stephen Canham has studied writing at Conestoga College in Kitchener / Waterloo and is currently midway through a two-year correspondence course on Freelance Writing with ICS.

Heather Cardin

Heather Cardin holds a Master's degree in English literature from Carleton University. She taught for twenty years in several Canadian provinces and in Papua New Guinea. She has published poems with World Order and bywords.ca, was shortlisted for the Great Canadian Literary Hunt in 2004, produced the chapbook Wild Blueberries, and has been the featured reader for Sasquatch in Ottawa. She has a book on successful marriages at press in the U.S., due for release in 2006. Married and the mother of three teenagers, she currently lives in Gatineau, QC and is working on poetry and a second non-fiction manuscript.

Mike Carlson

Mike Carlson's four years as a Marine Corps officer left him with a need to explore the complex issues that soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors wrestle with every single day, especially in the aftermath of combat. Carlson was honorably discharged from the Corps in October 2004. He plans to pursue an MFA in creative writing. This is his first attempt at writing fiction.

Patrick Carrington

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 Epicenter, Willard & Maple, Bardsong, Poetry Motel, and Clark Street Review, and on-line at Carnelian, Thieves Jargon, Clean Sheets and mannequin envy.

Patrick teaches creative writing in New Jersey, and is the poetry editor at Mannequin Envy (www.mannequinenvy.com). His manuscript Thirst (Codhill, 2007), winner of Codhill Press’ 2006 Poetry Chapbook Award, has just been released (www.codhill.com). His poetry has appeared recently (or is forthcoming) in The Connecticut Review, The Potomac Review, Rattle, The Evansville Review, The New York Quarterly, Hunger Mountain, and other journals. Rise, Fall and Acceptance (MSR Publishing, 2006), his first collection, is available at Main St. Rag’s online bookstore (www.mainstreetrag.com).

Patricia Carroll

Patricia Carroll is a west coast artist who works in water colour, acrylic and fibre. She weaves tapestries and paints from within an inspirational world of fantastic realism.

Steve Cartwright

Steve Cartwright has done art for several magazines, newspapers, websites, commercial and governmental clients, and books. He also creates art pro bono for several animal rescue groups. He was awarded the 2004 James Award for his cover art for Champagne Shivers. He recently illustrated the Cimarron Review cover. Take a gander (or a goose) at his online gallery.

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Carol Casa

A short story" SUBURBS"

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Travis Cashey

John J. Cashon

John Cashon resides in Paducah, Kentucky. He has a degree in Environmental Sciences from Murray State University.

R. T. Castleberry

R. T. Castleberry is the co-editor and co-publisher of the monthly poetry magazine Curbside Review. His poetry has been published in various magazines, including Zuzu's Petals, Snake Nation Press, Poet Lore, Another Chicago Magazine, Borderlands, Illya's Honey and Main Street Rag.

Alan Catlin

Alan Catlin has published dozens of chapbooks and full length books. His latest chapbook is Our Lady of the Shipwrecks from Finishing Line Press and his selected poems Drunk and Disorderly from Pavement Saw. He is hard at work on his fictional memoirs and a series of "self portrait" poems. Email: Alan Catlin

J.W.Caughlan

J.W.Caughlan reads and writes poems almost everyday. He has recently retired from teaching after thrity-three years. He draws and paints and has had three shows of his art work locally in Quesnel, B.C. He has had poems published in Shawnee Silhouette and Green's Magazine. In the past he drew and wrote a monthly column for Wells News.

Uzeyir Lokman Cayci

He is a poet, a writer, a versatile artist... He was born in 1949 in Bor that is one of the beautiful cities of Turkey. He attended primary and high school there. And then he graduated as an Architect - Designer of Industry from The Fine Arts Academy of State in Istanbul. His important works are, Aksamlarin Duragi , Karar, he has many poetries, stories and articles as well. It was called every body attention to his fine arts drawing / painting pictures since 14 years old. His poetries were translated into French by Yakup YURT who loves art. The Reward of Eagerness was given by The Radio NPS of Holland in 1999 and The Reward of Palmares was given by The Organization of Les Amis de Thalie in France to him. He placed in a poem competition from the same Organization at the same year too. He works in The Center of Adult Education ( AFPA) at present.

John Chadwell

"Pelican Crossing"

Kent Clair Chamberlain

Kent Clair Chamberlain writes out of Ashland, Oregon.

Cheryl Chambers

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Mohandas Charles

Mohandas Charles lives and works in Montreal as a high school Mathematics teacher. He writes mostly short fiction, but occasionally dabbles in poetry. He is a fabulous cook, He can name at least 10 or 12 constellations and knows the first 300 digits of pi by heart.

Claire Ryan Chilton

Lawrence H. Climo

Lawrence H. Climo is a Vietnam Vet, a practicing psychiatrist and father of three adult daughters with three grandchildren. When his wife, Diane, isn't in her garden and he is not engrossed in reading or writing, they enjoy riding their motorcycles along New England country roads.

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David Chorlton

David Chorlton was born in Austria, grew up in England, and spent several years in Vienna before moving to Phoenix in 1978. He enjoys listening to very old music, birding, and hiking in the Arizona landscape. Along with poems in magazines, he has a list of chapbook publications with Places You Can’t Reach (Pudding House Publications, 2006) being the latest, and recent books: A Normal Day Amazes Us (Kings Estate Press, 2003), Return to Waking Life (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2004), and Waiting for the Quetzal (March Street Press, 2006).

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David Churchill

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Anastasia Clark

Anastasia Clark has been writing poetry for over 30 years. She is a native of Massachusetts, currently residing in South Florida. She has two children and one grandchild. She is a Contracts Manager for an aircraft parts dealer. She has been published in VOiCE Magazine, Epiphany Magazine, EOTU Magazine, Poetic License Poetry Magazine, Black Creek Review, Speaking Leaves, Poet’s Portico, Windward Oahu News, ONYX, and Town of Framingham - Anniversary Celebration Writing Contest She is currently serving as the POETRY EDITOR for Epiphany Magazine where she chooses submissions for publication and also writes a monthly POETRY COLUMN: "PASSPORT TO POETRY." She is currently marketing 5 poetry manuscripts and 6 children's book manuscripts.

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Will Clark

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Jane Tyson Clement

When Jane Tyson Clement died last March, hundreds of her poems were uncovered in private notebooks. The few poems that traveled beyond her hands during her lifetime were widely admired and drew critical acclaim. In December 2000 we will publish the first comprehensive anthology of Clement's poetry: 'No One Can Stem the Tide'. Now you can help us give the works of this self-effacing but gifted poet the audience they deserve.

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Michael Coblenz

Michael Coblenz is an intellectual property attorney in Lexington, Kentucky. Before attending law school he served in the United States Air Force as a B-52 Navigator. He has published legal articles in the Minnesota Intellectual Property Review and the Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology, book reviews in The Federal Lawyer, and Op/Ed pieces in a number of newspapers including The Lexington Herald-Leader.

John Colagrande Jr.

John Colagrande Jr. has recently had his fiction appear in Carve, Big Bridge, The Miami Herald, The Miami Sun Post, and Mary. "Mack and Needs" is from his collection Miami, a work in progress.

Carol A. Cole

Carol A. Cole has had stories appear in Apollo's Lyre, Nimue's Grotto and Flashshot online and several print magazines.

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Travis Ray Cole

Travis Ray Cole is from Chicago IL. He writes poetry and songs and plays the guitar.

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Linda Collins

Linda Collins is a former book editor, magazine writer and newspaper reporter whose fiction has recently appeared in Wilmington Blues and whose nonfiction has appeared in various Canadian publications including The Toronto Star, Homes, A la Carte, and Toronto Parent. She has two grown children and lives in Toronto.

Ryan Michael Commins

Ryan Michael Commins currently lives in Hollywood amongst the freakiest of the freaks. He was raised on Long Island and has almost completely recovered. His day to day life includes perfecting his pong pong and ridiculing lousy commercials. Ryan hopes to one day fall into a lengthy coma.

Brittani Ann Conner

Brittani Ann Conner is an amateur writer who is currently entering her second year at Thompson Rivers University, working towards a BA with a major in Contemporary Literature. She has always expressed a keen passion for art which she hopes to share with others through her writing. Email: Brittani Ann Conner

Paul Conover

Paul Conover is a writer, philosopher, gourmet cook, consultant, engineer and CSIA ski instructor.

Angela Conrad

Angela Conrad lives in SW Missouri with her husband Jerry. She has written two novels, worked as a procedure editor, and is thankful to have thirty-seven published works in the following magazines in 2002/2003: Ascent, Orchard Press Mysteries, The Copperfield Review, The Murder Hole, The Oracular Tree, EWG Presents, The Circle, American Feed, The Pink Chameleon, The Green Tricycle, Pindeldyboz, The Enigma, The Storyteller, Cenotaph, and Earthbase 3000. Angela Conrad lives in SW Missouri with her husband, Jerry. Her mission in writing is to sing the song of unknown heroes, to entertain, to provoke thought, and to tell a good story. She has written two novels and worked as a procedure editor, but now dedicates herself to writing fiction full time. The Circle Magazine-Online-www.circlemagazine.com “One Day,” Spring issue, March 2002. A historical, first person account of a common soldier at the battle of Fredericksburg/Civil War, fiction. Ascent-Online–www.bcsupernet.com/users/ascent “Whoever You Are,” May 2002. A mystery, suspense tale; can you release the devil on the world? Enigma-Print Quarterly-PA “Saved, but Lost,” -Summer, 2002. Fiction: a concise drama about a train crash and the emotional damage it leaves behind. The Pink Chameleon-Online-www.geocities.com/thepinkchameleon/index.html “The Caretaker,” Issue No. 3-June 2002. Fictional view of a slow illness, and the stamina it requires. “The Journey Home,” Issue No. 3-June 2002. An overachieving woman receives a message through tragedy. Pindeldyboz-Online-www.pindeldyboz.com “Stan’s Last Gamble,” June Issue 2002. A humorous satire of a minor gambler, who wins big only to lose everything. Earthbase 3000-Print Quarterly-OR “John Casey Gets a Visitor,” Issue 2002. A storm as a character, takes revenge on a murderer. The Storyteller-Print Quarterly-AR “Past Dramas,” -July/Aug./Sept. Fall Issue, 2002. A fictional, crime/suspense piece told by a sociopath. “Desperation,”-Oct./Nov./Dec. Winter Issue, 2002. A woman locked in her room, with the police on the way, hides a secret crime.

Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper

Living in Portland, Oregon, 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 'lingerings', The Words of a Woman Net Society, Horsethief Journal, Wired Arts from Wired Hearts, Painted Poet Literary and Art Journal, Fluid Ink Press, Ophelia's Muse, Stride Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Vinland Journal, Poetry Niederngasse, Arcanum Cafe, Some Words, Poetic Reflections, Wilmington Blues, In The Eyes Of The Wild, Rustlings Of The Wind, Westlovian Gazette, Erosha Literary Journal, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry, Creations Journal, Emerging from Twilight - Vol. 2. and Before the Last Shadow Fades, Vol. 3, both A Shadow Poetry Collection, Panda Poetry Magazine, Mi Poesias E-Zine, Battle Stars', Providers in Partnership for Kids, Swan Dive, Wicked Alice, Verse Libre, La Rosa Blanca, Scope Journal, Haiku Hut, WRITE ON!!, Book of Remembrance Poetry Anthology, Vol. 2, Muse Whispers, The Green Fuse, Peshekee River Poetry, The Circle of Addiction, Sound and Silence Magazine, Sol Magazine, Australian Poetic Society, Poetic Voices and many others.

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D.B. Cox

D.B. Cox is a blues musician/poet, originally from South Carolina, but now resides in Watertown Massachusetts. He is a virtual newcomer. Some of his poetry has recently been published in a 2004 edition of Ken*Again and has also appeared in the Spring Edition of Adagio Verse Quarterly.

Norman Crabtree

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Anthony Cristofani

Anthony Cristofani was two months from completing his BA in philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, when he and his wife were arrested. In prison he finally began to submit his work, and has recently been published in the Chiron Review, the Minnesota Review, POETALK, Black Widow’s Web of Poetry, and Free Lunch. He paroled and recently completed his degree at the University of California, Riverside.

Sarah-Jane Critchley

Sarah-Jane Critchley was one of ten runners up in the Mslexia Poetry competition 2004, (Issue 22,July, August, Sept 2004) judged by Selima Hill and has other poems published in anthologies. She has also written children's stories, but has retained a fascination for the weird, way out and twisted. She grew up on Sci-fi and loves the freedom that the medium gives. She is older than she wishes she was, but not as wise as she'd like. She lives in Tunbridge Wells with one husband, two children, two guinea pigs and two fish.

Jeff Crouch

Jeff Crouch is an internet artist in Grand Prairie, Texas. He's published on dozens of internet sites, and some of his best-liked work is on Ascent Aspirations. Google "Jeff Crouch" to see where he's been on the internet or visit his page on blueprintreview.de for more information.
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Yorgos Dalman

Yorgos Dalman has published in America in Samsara Quarterly, Flesh & blood, The New Absurdists and The Cafe Irreal. Currently he is also translating the works of D. Harlan Wilson (The Kafka Effekt & Stranger on the Loose) for the Dutch magazine market.

Meghashri Dalvi

Meghashri Dalvi is a well-established science fiction writer in India. Her stories are published in Marathi, a regional language of India, and translated in English / other regional languages. Her short stories have won numerous prizes. She is engineer by profession and enjoys popular science writing, too. Her first book about machines and their history has won her accolades. "The Shopping Trip" and "The Space Child" show her in the light science fiction mood where she very often excels. Address: A-202 Madhu Milan, Eksar Road, Borivli (W), Mumbai 400 103, INDIA Tel no: +91-22-891 5070

Alison Daniel

Alison Daniel lives and works in Australia. Her work has been widely published in many ezines (Atomic Petals, Stirring, The Absinthe Literary Review, Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), Mentress Moon, Conspire, Eleven Bulls. Forthcoming poems will be published in Jack, Junket and Taint.

Joshua Danka-Dake

Joshua Danke-Dake’s "Me, the Devil and the English Language" won third place in the 2002 CCL Writing Contest and was published with more of his work, including its sequel, in Oral Roberts University's literary magazine, Promethia.

Pamela Z. Daum

Pamela Z. Daum's work has been published in Satire Magazine and BMW Roundel, Taj Mahal Review and Gray's Sporting Journal. She has been writing short stories since her childhood. You could say she has lived a rich fantasy life. Essentially, she looks at everyday events taking place between characters and note the subtle, yet complex details. She writes each story from this point of view.

Terri Brown-Davidson

Terri Brown-Davidson is on the poetry and fiction faculty at Gotham Writers' Workshop. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in more than 750 journals, including TRIQUARTERLY, HAYDEN'S FERRY REVIEW, DENVER QUARTERLY, THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, and NEW YORK STORIES.

Holly Day

Holly Day's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have most recently appeared in Canadian Woman Studies, Skyway News, and Ruah. She currently works as a reporter and a writing instructor in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and lives with her two children and husband. Her hobbies include skateboarding, crocheting, and trying to peaceably communicate with uncooperative vending machines.

Lori Ann Day

Lori Ann Day has been writing poetry for years, and she enjoys sharing her work with others. She has been published several times by minor publications, and the local newspaper in Watsonville. She also writes song lyrics for the songs that she sings in clubs. Some of her work has been featured in Femme Soul.

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Anthony De Sa

Hugo De Sarro

Hugo De Sarro is a former college English instructor. He has published poetry, essays and short stories in a variety of journals, including Snowy Egret, Colorado Review' Sparrow: Yearbook of the Sonnet, Christian Science Monitor, FreExpression, PDQ, Pulsar, Black Bear Review, Eureka Lit.Mag.

Carol Ramsden Deckert

Carol Ramsden Deckert is a former winner of Canadian Author & Bookman's poetry contest. A collection of her poetry was read on radio by Sheila Martindale on the program "Cabbages and Kings" in London, Ontario. She has published poems in Canadian Author & Bookman, and is included in a poetry collection entitled "Voices From the Niagara" (Moonstone Press). Her poems have also appeared in Tower Poetry Journal and in the professional teaching journal, "Indirections." Her short stories and articles on the craft of writing have been published in "Indirections" on many occasions. One of her short stories, "Canaries Have Wings" was circulated to forty countries in a journal for educators of gifted children: "Gifted International." Carol formerly graduated with a Masters Degree in English from McMaster University where her poetry won a "Special Achievement Award." Presently she is Head of English at Orchard Park Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario.

Jessica Del Balzo

Robert Demaree

Robert Demaree retired recently after 42 years as a teacher and administrator in schools in the U.S., in Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia and North Carolina. He was born in Pennsylvania and has family ties to New England, so he has always been interested in what Donald Hall calls “a pleasure of place.” He has written A History of Greensboro Day School, a chapbook of poems called New Hampshire Pond, and has had over 125 poems published or accepted by approximately 45 periodicals.

Ernest Dempsey

Ernest Dempsey is a geology graduate, now looking forward to receiving his MA in English Literature. He has authored two books: Islands of Illusion (poetry) and The Biting Age (short fiction). Dempsey is a founding member of the World Audience Inc. World Audience and is completing is first novel. He also writes essays, freelance articles, blogs, and conducts author interviews.
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Amanda Dexter

Amanda Dexter like many other Canadians, is an aspiring author. She writes poetry, short stories, essays, and is working on a novel. She currently resides in the far North of Alberta, where she works as a grade six teacher. The community in which she lives is a Mennonite Community, which is very different from her upbringing. She is originally from Liverpool, Nova Scotia where she spent the first 24 years of her life. Upon graduation she moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia and completed a B.Sc. with an Advanced Major in Psychology at Dalhousie University. She then completed a B.Ed. at Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The poem presented here is part of a series in progress based on personal experience.

Christopher Discenza

Christopher Discenza was born in Santiago, Chile, and raised in Long Island, New York. He received a BFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2001. He has recently decided to pursue a career in creative writing at the subtle behest of others, including artists and art dealers. He currently lives in New York City.

Malcolm Dixon

Malcolm Dixon is originally from Liverpool. His fiction has appeared in the Newport Review, Wind Magazine, the Briar Cliff Review, Literary New York and Cranky. In 2003 he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He now lives north of Canterbury, on the Kent coast.

Ramesh Dohan

Ramesh Dohan is a poet and writer from hailing from the Vancouver, Canada. His works have previously appeared in South Ocean Review, Attic Magazine, Word Salad to name a few.

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Mike Domonchuk

Mike Domonchuk is a freelance writer residing in Kitchener, Ontario. Up until now he has not yet been published although his submission count, at last tally, was past 50. He has completed several short works and he has nearly completed his second full length novel and has begun ideas for a screenplay. He feels his first publication will start the ball rolling. He is chief writer of a 5 issue (and counting) comic book, that has been published on the independent market.

Steven Dorrell

Steven Dorrell is a MA student in Critical and Cultural Studies. He has written several stories and a play performed at the Oxford Playhouse. He is presently working on his first novel.

Jack Downs

Jack Downs is a technical writer and project manager by day, and lives with my wife and our four- and two-year old boys in Maryland. Weekends, whether foul or fair, the family is out with their pop-up trailer, enjoying each other, and scrounging up new story ideas.

Kevin Doyle

Kevin Doyle is an English teacher and part-time writer from the American Midwest. Most of Kevin's short fiction falls in the horror or dark fantasy genres. However, this piece, while it does have some dark aspects, is a bit more realistic than the majority of his work. His material has appeared in a number of journals including "The Edge, Tales of Suspense;" "The Nocturnal Lyric" and peridotbooks.com. He also has new stories pending publication in "Outer Darkness" and "The Edge." A native of Kansas, he's spent several years teaching English and communications at a couple of community colleges in Kansas, and this year has taken on a new position teaching high school English in central Missouri. The idea for this particular story came to me a few years ago when I lived close to a railroad track. I enjoyed listening to the trains going up and down the tracks all night. For me, it was a nice, soothing sound. But I got to thinking once about how other people might react to the sounds of trains constantly moving outside their house. Out of this line of thought came "Deliberates."

Doug Draime

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Derbhile Dromey

Derbhile Dromey is a freelance writer and journalist based in Ireland. She has been published in a number of magazines and Web sites, and her work has also appeared in a number of local creative writing anthologies.

Jim Dunlap

Jim Dunlap is a 7 year past Newsletter Editor for the Des Moines Area Writers' Network, Senior Contributing Editor to the POETS' PORCH and Book Editor for The New Pleiades Poetry Anthology (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada/ Las Vegas, NV, USA). Jim is co-author (with 5 others) of Five Gates of Poetry, author of "Entwined In Wonder" (by himself), and co-author (with 3 others), of The MysticEast Poetry Anthology (India). He has been in the Writers' Digest top 100 in three categories, and in Who's Who In America, and in Who's Who In The World; and in the the Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. He has appeared in numerous small press magazines to date, including PLAINSONGS, POTPOURRI, CANDELABRUM (Wisbech, England), the PARIS/ATLANTIC (Paris, France), and online in UNLIKELY STORIES, POETRY REPAIRSHOP, INDIE JOURNAL and POEMS NIEDERNGASSE (Switzerland). Jim is also webmaster for the anti-genocide website, Voices For Africa.

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Amy Durant

Natasha Durich

Natasha Durich is a self-proclaimed poet-dreamer. She holds a degree in psychology and is working toward a degree in law. She lives and writes in Victoria, BC.

Amanda Earl

Amanda Earl has had poetry published most recently in Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, Fall 2004, and her first chapbook, Blood Orange, was published by the University of Ottawa English Department's Friday Circle in 2003. She is the managing editor of Bywords.ca and the Bywords Quarterly Journal.

Alison Eastley

Margarita Engle

Margarita Engle is a botanist and the Cuban-American author of two "magic realistic" novels, Singing to Cuba (Arte Publico Press) and Skywriting (Bantam). Her shorter works appear in journals such as Atlanta Review, Bilingual Review, California Quarterly, LUNA, Poetry Midwest, and Poetry Greece. Her experimental work appears in Blackbird, Indefinite Space, Prakalpana Literature (India), and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin's Press,1996). Engle's literary awards include a San Diego Book Award and a Cintas Fellowship. Extensive travel in Cuba and other parts of Latin America has influenced her writing.

Mike Estabrook

Mike Estabrook seems to have been writing poetry for so long that Methuselah should be taking notice, but in reality, time is simply doing its thing streaking ahead blithely pulling all of us along for the wild ride whether we like it or not; this reminds him, that he has published 15 chapbooks over the years, the last one being “when Patti would fall asleep” by Liquid Paper Press in 2003, and makes him realize it’s time to work on another one.

Sonya Easterday

Sonya Easterday received her B.A. in English from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She has been previously published in "Children, Churches and Daddies", and local zines. She has participated in spoken word performances in Knoxville and Nashville TN. She also plays bass and sings in her band, Kamuy.

Dustin Engstrom

Dustin Engstrom was raised in the small town of Crosslake, MN. He holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota, Morris where also studied writing. He lives in Seattle with his partner Robert and works in administration at a mainstage theatre.

Jacob Erin-cilberto

Jacob Erin-cilberto .... better known to his friends and co-workers as "Fog," teaches English at John A. Logan community college and Shawnee Community College. He has been writing since 1970 and has published in several small journals and anthologies, and received a pushcart prize nomination for 2006. Jacob also teaches poetry workshops for the Heartland Writers Guild, and Southern Illinois Writer's Guild where he is able to share his love for poetry with others. He is originally from Bronx, NY. He has published nine books of poetry.

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John D. Evans

John D. Evans is the author and founder of The Evans Poetry Collection, a series of classically and divinely inspired poetry, philosophy, and word art. He is a member of the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Society of America.

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Margaret L. Evans

Margaret L. 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 have been published in such literary magazines as Fullosia Press, Prose Toad, Palabras Press, The Literary Brothel, ken*again, and A Darker Vision. She is also the author of a full-length novel, The Sixth World.]

Zdravka Evtimova

Zdravka Evtimova's short stories have been published in the USA Antioch Review, Mississippi Review online, Night Train, In Posse Review, the anthology “The Best Fiction of Eclectica”, UK Quality Women’s Fiction, The Dreamcatcher, Canada Filling Station Magazine , Lichen, Australia Going Down Swinging Literary Magazine, Antipodean, Germany, France, Russia, India, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Argentina, Turkey and Serbia. Two of her short stories have been broadcast on Radio BBC, UK. Her short story collection, itter Sk,y was published by Skrev Press, UK, in 2003. Her novel, God of Traitors, was published as a e-book by booksforabuck.com Dallas, Texas in June 2004. Her short story collection, Somebody Else, won the ‘best short story collection by an established author’ award of MAG Press, San Diego, California in 2004.

Michael Fahy

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R. Edward Farber

Edward Farber has returned to his first love, fiction, after a lifetime of writing non-fiction--newspaper, advertising,public relations. Now that he is "retired", he is at the computer more than ever and loving every minute.Two of his stories appeared in Artisan,one a prize winner in their short story contest. Another appeared online in EWG Presents,and Cricket Magazine just accepted his first stab at a children's story.

Joseph A. Farina

Joseph A. Farina practices law in his hometown of Sarnia, Ontario. His poetry has appeared in the Alberta Poetry Yearbook, and in the newsletter of the Association Italian Canadian Writers. He won second prize in the Sarnia Observer "My Hometown" contest for his essay "My New Home Town." Several of his poems have been published in Green's Magazine and in Quills.

Devlin Farmer

Devlin Farmer is originally from British Columbia but has found himself recently living in Boston, Massachusetts. His stories have previously appeared in B&A (Blood and Aphorism) and Scrivener.

Rana Abduel Fatah

Rana Abduel Fatah is a third year English literature student in Damascus,Syria.

Eileen Fay

Eileen Fay is a freelance writer and former elementary teacher who is working only part time at home now as she looks after her 91-year old Mother full time. She has lived abroad (British Isles) for five years, and in Las Vegas and Southern Calif., as well, although she is a native New Yorker with an intermittent hankering for life in B. C. and/or the Maritimes.

Richard Fein

Deborah Finch

Deborah Finch lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband and daughter and makes her living as a research biologist and technical writer. Nature has been a primary influence. Her poetry appears in online and print journals including Avocet, Owen Wister Review (OWR), Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Mentress Moon, Moongate Internationale, The Dragonfly Review, 3rd Muse, 2River View, Salt River Review, FZQ, Melic Review, Poems Niedergnasse, and others. She won first place in the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Press Association Journal Competition for poems published in OWR.

Misha Firer

Misha Firer was born in 1979 in Ulyanovsk, Russia. He lived in Israel, New York and currently resides in Oakland, California. This year, 32 of his short stories appeared in BIG News, In Posse Review, Nuvein, Paumanok Review, Scarlet Letters, Slow Trains, Spoiled Ink, Vestal Review, Word Riot and elsewhere. His short story “Prayer Notes” (Rose & Thorn, Fall 2004) was nominated for Pushcart Awards. "Modern Day Invisible Man" appeared in Ascent Aspirations Magazine this year. "The Hunchback" can be considered as its sequel of sorts.

C. B. Forrest

C. B. Forrest lives in Ottawa. His short fiction won an award in the 2004 Canadian Authors Association Short Story Contest (National Capital Region), and he has twice won awards in the Ottawa Public Library Short Story Contest. His poetry most recently appeared in Bywords. He is currently compiling a chapbook of poetry.

Email: C. B. Forrest

Cindy Forsburg

Cindy Forsburg's poems have appeared in various publications including South Dakota Magazine, South Dakota Review, SubtleTea (forthcoming), Twilight Times, and the Vermillion Literary Project. She is a college instructor and small business owner in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Christopher Fournier

Christopher Fournier is a Canadian writer living in Germany. His work has most recently appeared in Another Toronto Quarterly.

Wilder Fox

Richard W. Fox teaches astronomy, physical science, and physics at various Chicago-area colleges and universities. His work has appeared in the Dana Literary Society Online Journal, The Taj Mahal Review, Ascent Aspirations and in other places.

Michael Fraley

Michael Fraley has had poems appear in Parnassus Literary Journal, Pegasus, and online in http://www.tmpoetry.com . He isa resident of San Francisco and a staff member at the University of San Francisco.

David P. Fraser

David likes to balance his life among a variety of activities in the areas of writing, education and sports. When he is not formally working as an educator, he is either writing and researching or involved in one of the following sports: alpine skiing, ski teaching as a full time professional ski instructor at Mt. Washington, BC http://www.mtwashington.bc.ca/winter/default.cfm , windsurfing, tennis, golf, cycling, hiking. In addition he likes to garden, listen to the blues, and search for his way through Taoism. He has built his second water garden which has become his new daily sanctuary. His is learning and refining his Spanish fluency and will travel back to Central and South America in the near future. He lives among the flora and fauna of the British Columbia West Coast. David is the editor of Ascent Magazine - Aspirations for Artists (established 1997)

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David Fraser has had work published in Mimesis, In Complete, Windings, In Writing Group, The Starlight Cafe http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/, Kookamonga Square http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Tower/9556/David.html Above Ground Testing http://www.angelfire.com/on/abovegroundtesting/agt28cover.htm, Poetry Exchange http://www.w3px.com/, Wilmington Blues http://www.wilmingtonblumes.co/, Steel Point Quarterly http://members.tripod.com/steelpoint/, Expressions 30 ( Jan. 2003) http://samsdotpublishing.com/expressions.htm, Outer Rim http://www.geocities.com/~outer-rim/frameindex.html, Dream Forge http://www.pcisys.net/~drmforge/, Circle Magazine http://www.circlemagazine.com/ Ascent Magazine http://www.bcsupernet.com/users/ascent. Lunatic Chameleon ( April/May 2004) (Nov. 2003) http://www.geocities.com/nancatbird/index.html The Muse Apprentice Guild (Spring 2003) http://www.muse-apprentice-guild.com/spring_2003/davidfraser-fiction/home.html The Writer’s Hood ( Fall 2003) http://www.writershood.com/htms/thr3.htm Turbula (Fall 2003) http://www.turbula.net/ Locust Magazine (Sept. 2003) http://www.locustmagazine.com/locust/18.php - Cafe_Trieste Fiction on the Web http://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/apologize.html Canadian Poets on the Web http://www.geocities.com/poetrywings/Canadian.html Ydgrasil http://www.synapse.net/~kgerken Oasis (January 2004) http://www.driftersoasis.com Poetry Super Highway (April 2004) http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ppa350a.html - fp3 Perigee (May 2004) http://www.perigee-art.com Poetry Inhalations (August 2004) http://www.poeticinhalation.com/tlm_v4i4.html - david%20fraser Ardent (August 2004) http://ardent.poetryinarts.org/ Regina Weese (Oct. Nov. 2004) www.reginaweese.com Three Candles (Oct.2004) Three Candles Bewildering Stories (Fall 2004) http://www.bewilderingstories.com/ Lyrics from one poem have been published and performed through Ex Tenebris In the past David has written a weekly newspaper column in the Beeton Record. He resides now on the left coast of Canada and is currently a full time writer.

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Paul M. Frasier

Paul M. Frazier, Ph.D. received his B.A. in Theatre with an emphasis in Performance from the University of Michigan - Flint, his M.A. in Theatre with an emphasis in Directing from Michigan State University, and his Ph.D. in Theatre specializing in Directing and Staging from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His dissertation was titled Patterns in Recent Science Fiction Drama, which was the first scholarly work on the subject of science fiction dramatic literature. His performance credits include roles in Our Town, The Threepenny Opera, Marat/Sade, The Respectful Prostitute, and Guys and Dolls. His directing credits include Macbeth, A Midsummer's Night Dream, and two productions of 'night, Mother.

His publishing credits include a series of newspaper theatre reviews of summer stock productions in the summer of 1985. Additionally, he has presented several scholarly theatre papers at regional and international theatre conferences. He is currently working as a freelance web developer, using Microsoft technologies. Also, he is pursuing a lifelong dream of writing science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He has no publications yet, but he has great hopes.

Dalmazio Frau

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Jesse Ferguson

Jesse Ferguson is a fourth year English Literature major at the University of Ottawa. He was raised in Cornwall, Ontario, and he has been writing poetry and songs for roughly five years. He is currently studying creative writing under the poet Seymour Mayne, and his work has appeared in the University of Ottawa’s magazines Nexus, Innuendo and Yawp (He is now on the editorial board of the latter). Some of his poems also appear in Yalla, Redfez.com, Ygdrasil, Stridemagazine, High Altitude Poetry, The Big Tex[t], The Magazine Shiver and Saucyvox.com.

Jaia La Ferme

Jaia La Ferme has been writing for the simple love of the act her whole life. In the most recent years she has taken courses spanning from "Screenwriting 101" on the beautiful Big Sur, California coastline, to writing your "Dynamic Novel Synopsis" held on Vancouver's North Shore in BC. Jaia also wrote script coverages, including the synopsis' for scripts for the Indie film company Complex Films in Los Angeles.

She is in the process of finishing her first novel Caped In Mission to be released later this year. Caped In Mission is based on the journey of following one's dreams, the undiscovered dreams within our dreams, and the truisms we encounter once we've set out on the path to accomplish the dream. Often times leading us to discover the dream has shapeshifted into an entirely different dream--we had never dreamed of before! A twisted tale of discovery, adventure and fate; Jaia has been working on this story since '05.

Jaia devotes the rest of her time to sharing the journey of awakening through self-explorative movement classes in the Vancouver area, where she currently lives and plans to live for the rest of her life. After living in NYC, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Santa Barbara, CA; Miami, Florida; Virginia and the Mid-West of the USA, she has found Vancouver to be the place of her heart's keeping--a place where dreams come true everyday.

To join one of her movement classes or to contact Jaia please visit Raise Your Vibrations

Email: J. La Ferme

Michael Fitzgerald-Clarke

Michael Fitzgerald-Clarke is an Australian poet who lives in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. His third chapbook, Three Hundred and Sixty-four Paper Boats, is forthcoming from Pudding House. Email: Michael Fitzgerald-Clarke

Charles Frederickson

Dr. Charles Frederickson is a Swedish/American/Thai impassioned observer, daring experimentalist and progressive visionary who has wandered intrepidly through 206 countries, an original sketch and poem for each presented on http://www.imagesof.8k.com. A member of World Poets Society, based in Greece, his unique poetic style has been featured in: Ascent Aspirations, Auckland Poetry, Blind Man’s Rainbow, Both Sides Now, Caveat Lector, Contemporary American Voices, Cordite Poetry Review, Dance to Death, Decanto, ESC!, Feelings of the Heart, Flutter Magazine, Greatworks, Green Dove, Indite Circle, International Poet, Listen & Be Heard, Living Poets, Madpoetry, Melange, Newtopia, New Verse News, Peace Not War Japan, Planet Authority, Poetics, Poetry Canada, Poetry of Scotland, Poetry Stop, Poets for Peace, Poetry Superhighway, Pyramid, Sz, T-Zero, Ygdrasil, Ya’Sou! and Zafusy. Contact

Thomas Freudiger

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K. Edwin Fritz

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Rebecca Frye

Rich Furman

Rich Furman is a professor in the Department of Social Work at Colorado State University, and has had numerous poems published in literary journals throughout the years. As far as other relevant biographical information, in case you are curious, he enjoys contemplating the meaning of his navel, lives with two terrifying looking yet sweet American Bulldogs, a sweet looking and sometimes terrifying fiancé, and two kids who are as terrifying as banana slugs to a rhinoceros. He has traveled and lived in Central America, and tries to get back as often as he can. He loves to read poetry from the small press, poetry that is real, alive, hits you in the gums and gets out. He loves to receive feedback on his work, if you are so inclined. Rich Furman, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Colorado State University.

David Gaffney

David Gaffney has been published in Ambit, Modart, The Illustrated Ape, Bored Mag, Ephemera, Rant, thephonebook.com, The Stand (2006) Index, Skive Mag, Somewhat, Blowback Mag, Transmission, Cautionary Tale, FACT Mag, Papercut, Word Riot, Stand Off, The Quiet Feather, Mooch Mag, Revolve, Defenestration, The Ugly Tree, Cent, and in the states Modernfix and Juked.

Alex Galper

Being brought to America at the age of 19 left Alex Galper no choice. He had to keep on writing poetry in the only language that he knew - Russian, and hope that one day it would be recognized in his homeland. Seventeen years later, the English translations of his poems have published in over 30 magazines in USA and UK, whereas in Russia, he is considered too marginal, extreme, and "too-American" to publish. Go figure... Email: Alex Galper

Heidi Garnett

Adicus Ryan Garton

Adicus Ryan Garton is the editor of the online science fiction magazine Atomjack. He is currently teaching English in South Korea.
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Vanessa Gebbie

Vanessa Gebbie is a journalist living and working in the UK. She teaches Creative Writing at a rehabilitation centre, and her own short fiction has been widely published in print and on the web.

P.L. George

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Gemma

Gemma more often goes by the name of ShatteredRoses. She is a previously unpublished writer from North Wales in the UK.

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Nicole Gervace

Nicole Gervace lives in Nederland, CO. Her work has appeared in XCP:Streetnotes, Can we have our ball back?, SHAMPOO, and the Fifth Street Review. Her essay, "The Safehouse Teaching Journal" will be featured in the November Issue of Quiet Mountain Essays. And, her chapbook titled "Bite Marks Visible" is forthcoming from Binge Press.

James Aloysius Gibson

James Aloysius Gibson, Ph.D., East Patchogue, NY, co-authored Eat or Be Eaten: The Truth About Our Species, The Marriage of Darwin and Machiavelli available via amazon.com. He presented over one hundred stimulating and thought provoking workshops on human behavior. Jim attended Columbia University, NYC, for his graduate work. He taught Human Behavior and the Social Environment for over twenty years on the graduate level at the School of Social Work, State University of New York at Stony Brook and simultaneously maintained a full-time private practice of psychotherapy and supervision in East Patchogue, NY. Jim appeared on local television where he shared his philosophy of human behavior. He and Pat Brozinsky have been in collaboration since 1990. His url: