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Sascha Akhtar

Sascha Akhtar was born and educated in Pakistan. She is a poet, journalist, dancer, photographer and filmmaker, a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of a chapbook Golum and The Grimoire of Grimalkin available from SALT publishing. She has shown and performed her work in the USA, London and Pakistan. In 2003 she received a fellowship from the Creative Writing department at UMASS Amherst, and was invited to Harvard University to read from her work in 2004. She recently was part of a year-long initiative by the International Museum of Women in San Francisco, exhibiting work by women artists from around the globe. An exhibition of her works is upcoming at The Commune in Karachi. She is the co-producer of the La Langoustine Est Morte reading series in London.

Lester Allen

Lester Allen has been slinging the ink for as long as he can remember. A full-time writer, he is currently working on completing his first chap book "Sink it in the Pocket of the Heart." His poems occasionally grace the pages of the small presses where he is working hard to make a name for himself. When he's not writing he enjoys; horse racing, billiards & drinking Guinness. Writing bios in the third person doesn't quite make his list. You can find him on MySpace.

George Anderson

George Anderson grew up in Montreal and now lives in Wollongong, Australia. He has published widely in mainstream and alternative magazines over the last five years. In early 2008 you will find more of his stuff on My Favorite Bullet, Lit Chaos, Yellow Mama, Red Fez, Literary Tonic, Lost Beat Poetry, Bolts of Silk and many others. He edits the student poetry journal Ephemeral now in its fifth print edition.

Diane Andrews

Diane was born in Wainuiomata, NZ in 1953. She and her husband sailed from Sydney to Cairns in a tiny boat. You can find the book at Adventure Yarns. She now lives in Cairns, and is involved in many activities from fossicking to publishing and poetry performances. She has recently survived cancer, with the most amazing response seen by oncologists, using medical treatment, diet and alternative medicines. Read her article about it at Healthy Options. Diane has been featured in many poetry and short story anthologies and placed in several competitions. She also runs a monthly poet/muso night.

Sophia Argyris

Sophia Argyris was born in Belgium but now lives in London. She has been writing for the past two years. Her poems have been published in magazines such as Inclement, Pyramid, Argotist, and The Scruffy Dog Review amongst others. Read more of her work at EditRed.

Jacques Auslander

Jacques Auslander has been writing prose poems and micro fiction forever and has just recently reached a state of awareness where he is prepared to let them breath.

Aya Ibrahim Bassiouny

Aya Ibrahim Bassiouny has been writing poetry and short stories for almost half her life. Her work has been published or forthcoming in Word Riot, Istanbul Literature Review, Foliate Oak, the Binnacle and other literary publications. She lives in Cairo and is currently doing an M.A. in Middle Eastern History.

Shaindel Beers

Shaindel Beers’ poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry Miscellany, Minnesota Review, and The New Verse News. She is currently a professor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in Eastern Oregon’s high desert and also serves as Poetry Editor of Contrary Magazine and as a Poetry Reviewer for Bookslut.

Recent work can be found online at The Apple Valley Review, Projected Letters, Ignavia Press, the Minnesota Review and Thieves Jargon.

Miles J. Bell

Miles J. Bell is 36. His father was a boxer and his mother was a chihuahua. He can juggle but can't whistle, which he suspects is what has held him back all these years. He has appeared across the small press & released three chapbooks, with a fourth to follow this year, a split with Ed Churchouse entitled "Everyone knows this is nowhere". You should Google him (He's not the rodeo rider from Amarillo).

Sandy Benitez

Sandy Benitez's poetry has appeared in over sixty print and electronic journals. She was nominated for Best of the Net, 2006. Her first book of poetry, Ever Violet, was released in April 2007 and is available for purchase at DN Publishing. She goes by the pen name, Sandy Hiss.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Luis was born in Mexico. He now works and lives in Los Angeles County, CA. Raw Materials, his first poetry book was published by Pygmy Forest Press and Without Peace, his first chapbook was published by Kendra Steiner Editions. Read more of his poetry at Pemmican Press and in his Laura Hird showcase.

Judy Blank

Having completed 2 of the standard 4 years on the post-secondary highway to success, Judy Blank snuck out a keyhole and spends her time working, writing, and doing everything she didn't get to do in the classroom. Filling her space in Northeast Ohio with traintracks, teahouses, baking and words, she tempers her wanderlust with travel plans, some of which actually materialize.

Louis E. Bourgeois

Louis E. Bourgeois was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in the Slidell/LaCombe area, as well as East New Orleans on Bayou Sauvage. He has published translations, fiction, memoirs, poetry, and interviews in over two hundred magazine and journals in North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2004, he was the winner of the University of Milwaukee’s Cream City Review’s poetry contest for his poem “The Shed: The Daughter of Shadows Speaks from Max Beckmann’s The Dream (1921).” In 2006, his poetry was accepted for inclusion in Scrivener’s Best American Poetry 2007.

Sean C. Bowen

Sean C. Bowen sometimes writes under the pen name "yesk". He started submitting for the first time in mid-november 2007 and since then has had poems published in/by Senseless Offerings Zine, Gloom Cupboard, Madswirl, Yellow Mama Press, Throwrag Zine, Conceit Magazine, Type A+B Positive, The League Of American Poets, The Cerebral Catalyst, Literary Tonic, Poetic Legacy, Why Vandalism?, The Lotus Reader, Hobson's Choice Zine, The Hobo Eye, Zapata! Publications, Inaugural Issue of AGUA Magazine - Scintillating Publications & more. You can find more of his work on his MySpace.

Alan Britt

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. 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.

Zachary Bush

Zachary C. Bush, 23, is a writer of poetry and prose. He lives in Statesboro, Georgia. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of small press journals and e-zines including GHOTI Magazine, Poetry Super Highway, The CommonLine Project, The Noneuclidean Cafe, The (P)oet (P)lant (P)ress: LUNCH Anthology, R.KV.R.Y, Zygote in my Coffee, Thieves Jargon, Underground Voices, and Chronogram, among others. He is the author of two forthcoming chapbooks of poetry through Scintillating Publications and Pudding House Publications.

Ashley Callender

'Ash' is Ashley Callender, who hails from Launceston, Tasmania. Ash has a weakness for highbrow literature and lowbrow film noir. One day he hopes to write a novel. You can find a collection of his very short stories entitled 'Short Man Syndrome' at Lulu.

MK Chavez

Poet MK Chavez writes about strippers, the beauty that can be found in ugliness, the mystery of feeling bad about feeling good, little birds, big consequences. Her work has been published online and in print. Her chapbook "Virgin Eyes" is available through Zeitgeist Press. Most recent and upcoming publications include Poesy, Poems-for-All, Snow Monkey, Instant Pussy, Underground Writers, and Wings of Icarus. You can find out more about her poetry at Little Brown Sparrow. She is also the co-host of Acker's Dangerous Daughters, a San Francisco quarterly reading series of Cherry Bleeds.

Ryan Collins

Ryan Collins is a former editor of Columbia Poetry Review. He has read his work on Neighborhood Public Radio’s “Poetic License” and his work as appeared in Black Clock, Caffeine Destiny, Columbia Poetry Review, Cranky, Keep Going, The 2River View, Verse Daily and Word Riot. He is the Literary Arts Administrator at Quad City Arts, a regional arts non-profit; there, he is the managing editor of Buffalo Carp & curator for THE WORD reading series. He also plays drums in the rock band SHARKS. He lives in the Quad Cities, Midwest United States, where he was born.

Paul Corman-Roberts

Paul Corman-Roberts has enjoyed a successful career of running opium dens for speed addicts and blackmailing shuttered up business fronts. His first collection of fiction and poems "Coming WorldGone World" is available from Howling Dog Press at Amazon or at PCR's own website. He also edits poetry for Cherry Bleeds.

John Darling

Since 1976, John Darling has written and published numerous short stories, poems, plays, and magazine articles. He has had one play produced in the United States and Canada. Mr. Darling has also written three books. One is a book about how bands were inspired to choose their stage names another is a cookbook that he compiled from his grandmother's favorite recipes. His latest book, Woman In Black, is collection of short stories, novellas, and one play that were written in a variety of genres.

Teri Davis Rouvelas

Teri Davis Rouvelas lives in Rhode Island, which isn't really an island, with a bunch of animals and occasionally has contact with humans. Her stories have appeared on SmokeLong Quarterly, Insolent Rudder and in a few print anthologies. She won the EditRed Editors Choice Award, 2006. While she considers her greatest achievements to be her children, she also makes one helluva fantastic clam chowder, although her meatloaf is known to be a little on the dry side.

Mercedes Dawson

Mercedes Dawson is a 26 year old who lives and breathes in Manchester, working hard to play hard. She spends her free time painting, performing with her Sax, writing and making sure she takes full advantage of all that Manchester has to offer. Mercedes wants randomness and spontaneity in her life, travelling the world when she can and meeting as many people as possible. Her future is a blurry scene. She is very close to her family and surrounds herself with diverse friends as often as she can.

Doug Draime

Doug Draime's most recent books are "Eyestone" (Kendra Steiner Editions, 2007) and "Spiders And Madmen" (Scintillating Publications, 2006). He began to publish in the 'underground' and small press in the late 1960's while living in Los Angeles, becoming part of the notorious L.A. poetry scene of the latter 20th century. His poetry, short stories, and plays continue to appear in publications worldwide. He currently lives in Oregon with his wife, Carol.

Aleathia Drehmer

Aleathia was born in the 70's to set of wanderlust parents. She has an odd sense of humor and likes to be observant. Writing started as a portal to another dimension when she was 10 years old....she is still floating in space. Her work has been published in Zygote in My Coffee, Laura Hird, The Cerebral Catalyst, Haggard & Halloo, Juice, Outsider Writers, Word Riot, Silenced Press, and Flutter. She has upcoming work in Rural Messengers Press, Cherry Bleeds, Poet Plant Press, and Mystery Island.

A collection of her work can be visualized at her homepage 'My Abdication'.

Meredith Ebel

Born spanish in one of those little hippie regimes in Southern California, Meredith packed up and moved to the most non-diverse place she could think of: Pennsylvania. Her work has been published in various zines including Shitter and Positive & Negative Space. Her day to day occurences can be previewed here: A Secret Message Blogspot

T.J. Forrester

T. J. Forrester is a long distance hiker who has backpacked the trails that compose the Hiking Triple Crown. He's writing a linked story collection about characters whose lives intersect the Appalachian Trail. His fiction has appeared in Harpur Palate, The MacGuffin, The Mississippi Review and Night Train, among others. Read his interview with Kelly Spitzer, and contact him via email.

Rachel Fox

Born and raised in Northern England, Rachel Fox now lives on the Angus coast in Scotland. She publishes poetry postcards and reads fortnightly at the Montrose folk club. More information and lots of poems at her homepage 'Crowd-Pleasers'.

Michael Frissore

Michael Frissore's work has appeared in print in Monkeybicycle and Blacklisted Magazine, and online at Yankee Pot Roast, decomP, and elsewere. He writes periodically for Flak Magazine, The WRIToracle, and Undress Me Robot. Mike grew up in Massachusetts, and now lives in Tucson, Arizona with his wife.

D. Garcia-Wahl

D. Garcia-Wahl is the author of ALL THAT DOES COME OF MADDEN’D DAYS and ASHES OF MID AUTUMN. He is putting the finishing touches on three more novels, another collection of poetry, and a collection of short stories. He was recently interviewed for a new HBO documentary. He divides his time between America and Paris. For further poetry and information, visit his website 'Dylan Garcia Wahl'.

Andrea Grant

Ms. Grant, sometimes known as "The Pin-Up Poet," has had more than 150 articles, poems and photos published internationally. She has already been the subject of three documentaries. Her reputation comes from an unusual melding of poetry, photography, spoken word, audio recording, video, and live performance to create a dynamic expression that can be understood on many levels. Themes include irony, mythology, and the contradictions of modern womanhood, infused with allegorical humor.

Stevie Gray

She's been writing since she was old enough to hold a pen and doesn't appear to be about to stop any time soon. If, for whatever reasons, she couldn't write, she'd probably become a serial killer. Her work comprises tales of bleak dystopian futures, political diatribes, neo-pulp fiction and lots of poems, many of them about rain. Most of her writing is done when she really ought to be asleep. It probably shows. She knows how to hold a grudge, and her role-model in all things is R.P. McMurphy.

John Greiner

John Greiner is a poet and playwright living in New York City. His poetry has most recently appeared in Sein und Werden, nthposition, Audience, Zygote in my Coffee, The Beat, Tryst, Psychopoetica, The Blue House, All Rights Reserved, The Argotist Online, Moria, Ascent Aspirations, The Green Muse and Inscribed. His theatrical pieces have enjoyed successful runs in New York, Chicago and in Massachusetts.

John Grey

An Australian born poet, playwright, musician, his latest book, “What Else Is There” is available from Main Street Rag. Recent work has appeared in The English Journal, The Pedestal, Pearl and the Journal Of The American Medical Association.

Michael Grover

Michael D. Grover is a Florida born poet. As a drifter has lived all over the country. Michael's poetry has been published all over the literary underground. Michael is now back in Florida from there he hosts the website Covert Poetics, co-edits CP Journal, and hosts a reading at Exodus Coffee & Culture in Port Saint Lucie. Michael spends entirely too much time in his lab where he experiments with words and sound. He plans on moving soon once again. His newest chapbook is titled "The Man That Lives In The Park".

Melissa Hansen

Melissa Hansen lives in San Francisco where she writes stories and poems. She has published and forthcoming work in various literary zines. Currently she is into her graphic novel and dissecting her previously written poems, resulting in built poems and forced poems, as well as writing in her sleep poems. She also likes poems. You can visit her on MySpace.

Sharon Harriott

A Consumer Electronics PR by day, Sharon spends her free time delving into her creative mind to pull out the stories that play there, hoping one day she'll find the stamina for a novel. You can read her latest audiobook reviews at Audiogeist.

Kyle Hemmings

Kyle Hemmings recently finished his MFA in creative writing from National University in CA. His other interests are cooking, burning what he cooks, baking, and listening to anything by Neil Young.

Matthew Hinton

Matthew Hinton calls North-Eastern PA his stompin' ground, though he now lives in Greenville, South Carolina. There, he is the manager of one most unique record stores in all of the rebel states: Horizon Records. When not fighting local marauders, he writes plays, poetry, and sing-a-longs about VD. He is currently a student of the Wilkes University MA Program in Creative Writing. He dreams in analog.

Paul Holman

Paul Holman is the author of The Memory of the Drift, an ongoing serial poem. A new edition is due from Shearsman in October 2007. Much of his work can be read online at Great Works. The poems republished here have previously appeared in Great Works, Silver Star, and the 2006 Field Study Report.

Mike Hood

Mike Hood is a former newspaper and television journalist who lives in San Antonio, Texas with four dogs, a cat, two gay tree squirrels and an above average wife. He has co-authored one non-fiction book, recently finished another, and his third is in rewrite. Mike has had articles published in mainstream magazines and newspapers. His short stories will be appearing next month on Every Day Fiction and Drabblecast.

Cicily Janus

Cicily Janus is a writer living in Colorado Springs with her family, rats and cats. Her short fiction, non-fiction and columns have appeared in or are scheduled to appear in: Aesthetica, Del Sol Review, Underground Voices, Eclectica, The Guild of Outsider Writers, Writers Post Journal, Venus Envy: Magazine for Women, Perspectives, Dogzplot and Tuesday Shorts to name a few. Currently she is an associate editor for the magazine, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens: A Literary Journal of the Absurd and Surreal. Her novels, Burden of Betrayal and The Reluctance of the Ruling are in progress. You may contact her through her page on MySpace.

Karen Jones

Karen Jones has been writing for many years, mainly short stories and flash fiction, with the occasional wander into poetry. She is currently working on a comedy/crime novel. She was short-listed for the 2007 Asham Award and has had short fiction published in Writers' Forum Magazine, Candis Magazine and The Writers' Bureau website. A substantial portion of her micro-fiction will appear in the forthcoming Guildhall Press book, 'The Wonderful World of Worders'.

Leslie Joseph

Leslie Joseph is a mental health professional and freelance writer. She is a contributor at Popmatters.com, international pop culture criticism site. Leslie’s poetry, erotica, fiction, and essays have been published by Alyson Books, Je Saurai Magazine, and Flutter Poetry Journal. Upcoming work will appear in Edit Red’s anthology, City Smells and 34th Parallel Magazine.

Tim Kenny

Having idled away the years tracking down dreams to bottle and label, Tim is currently seeking willing windows in which to display his curiosities. You can find recent poetry cooking in Medusa's Kitchen and flash fiction in Literary Fever.

Sarah Layden

Sarah Layden's fiction appears or will appear in Artful Dodge, Contrary, Vestal Review, 42opus and Diet Soap. She teaches writing at IUPUI and Marian College in Indianapolis, writes novels, poems and non-fiction articles, and aspires to grow more than two tomatoes per summer in a measly backyard garden.

Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman is a Professor of English at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut and has previously published essays, fiction, and poetry in dozens of online and print magazines, such as Hackwriters, Empty Mirror Books, T-Zero, The New Formalist, Canopic Jar, Red River Review, Umbrella, SNReview, Switchback, Entelechy: Mind and Culture and Identity Theory.

Karen Lillis

Karen Lillis is a writer and artist currently based in Pittsburgh after over a decade in New York City. Her books include the poetic novels “i, scorpion: foul-belly-crawler of the desert” (Words Like Kudzu Press, 2000), “The Second Elizabeth” (Six Gallery Press, late 2007), and the illustrated novella, “Magenta’s Adventures Underground: A Fable for the Police State” (Words Like Kudzu, 2004). She writes regularly for the anti-war and poetry newspaper, “New York Nights,” and she has read her work extensively to audiences in New York, across America, and in Paris.

Jamie Lin

Jamie Lin has been writing since middle school but only recently started getting serious. She now flourishes solely due to her ability to express herself in words. Her verbal communication is beyond hopeless. Her pieces have been published in places like Verbsap, Cherry Bleeds and Insolent Rudder. Visit her homepage 'Jamie Lin'.

Henry Long

Henry Long is a painter, poet and photographer. Born in 1962 and raised outside of Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, he currently resides in Delaware along with his wife, Emma Etain Long, also a painter. He is the recipient of many grants and awards for his painting, poetry, works on paper and photography, as well as the Delaware Division of the Arts 2002 Individual Artistic Fellowship Grant as an Emerging Professional in Poetry. Two chapbooks of his poetry are now available: “Goat Love,” and “(y) A Collection of Poems from the 1992-2007 Chapbooks.” Please visit his homepage 'Henry Long' for more information or his page on MySpace.

Duane Locke

Living in rural Lakeland, Florida, Duane Locke, Ph. D. (Metaphysical Poetry) has had (as of May 07) 5,877 poems published in print and e-zines & 17 print and e-books published. Also, a painter, he has exhibited widely - a discussion of his work appears in Gary Monroe’s 'Extraordinary Interpretations' (University of Florida Press). Recent exhibition, “Outsider Art” at Polk Museum. A photographer, with 289 photos published on internet. he does close-ups of tossed away trash, Mystic vegetation, visual music and nature (primarily small insects). For more information, interviews, awards, etc. click on Google, has quasi half-million entries. Listed in Who’s Who in America (Marquis).

F.D. Marcél

F.D. Marcél began as a staff correspondent for the Reading Eagle newspaper. His work has appeared in various publications, both online and in print, including Getgo Magazine, The Centrifugal Eye, Alighted E-Zine, Juked, Zygote In My Coffee, Cherry Bleeds, and Sub-Lit as well as upcoming work for Outsider Writers and decomP .. When not aimlessly wandering North America, he sleeps comfortably.

Mike Marcellino

Marcellino, living in Cleveland, began writing just before and during the Vietnam War, where he was an Army war correspondent. Some of his writings about (written usually at night in a bunker with a flashlight under a blanket on a bottom bunk under mortar and rocket fire) and photographs of soldiers, civilians, especially children caught in war were published in Outsider Writers in September as Featured Poet of the Week. He edits The Cleveland Reader, a journal of literature and arts. You can visit him on MySpace, where you can also find the homepage of his spoken word/music collaboration with Abe Olvido - Split Pea/ce.

Wayne Mason

Wayne Mason is a writer and factory worker from central Florida, when he grows up he wants to be Kannon. His work has been published throughout the small press and he is author of one chapbook 'Broken Zen'. His personal website can be found at Guerrilla Poetics.

Michele McDannold

Michele has spent most of her life living in rural Illinois, surrounded by corn, river rats and rednecks. She likes corn. Her poetry has been published in various small press publications, most recently at Juice Online, Rattlesnake Review, Zygote in my Coffee and Literary Chaos. She is also the poetry editor for Lit Circus at the Guild of Outsider Writers.

Deb McGovern

Deb McGovern currently resides in Minneapolis, MN with her five room-mates, cat, and dog. She believes that the mundane parts of life are the most important. Deb started writing during an extended travel in South America. She writes short stories about people trying to find themselves and people trying to find other people. Most of her stories are based on dreams she has. Visit her WordPress site to read tales of Delilah and more. If you send her a comment she might mail you homemade vegan baked goods.

David McLean

David Mclean was born in Wales though he has lived in Sweden since 1987. He has published poems in about 125 zines over the past year or so. Examples are Clockwise Cat, why vandalism? and BlazeVOX. Other work is published or forthcoming in Zygote in My Coffee, Erbacce, Sein und Werden, Venereal Kittens, and Gold Dust. He has a chapbook called "a taste for mourning" out before Xmas at 'Erbacce' which is a perfect prezzy for your local pastor, priest, or psychiatrist.

More information about McLean is on his page at MySpace.

James Meredith

James Meredith, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a past winner of The Brian Moore Short Story Award. His stories and poetry have been published in various anthologies and magazines in Ireland, the UK and the USA.

Hollace M. Metzger

Hailing from New York City, Hollace M. Metzger is a poet, architect, painter, and photographer educated in the United States, London and Venice. A prolific writer in recent years, she has performed in public salons throughout New York including the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe. In addition to writing, her paintings have been sold across the U.S. and her poetic endeavors include collaborations with composers and artists in the US, UK, Spain and Italy. Her recent release, 'Observing the Labyrinth from Heaven' takes the reader on a journey of mind, space and time travel, from the past into the future, the bitter-sweetness of urban life and love paired with childlike optimism and deep sensual undertones. It is a glimpse into the library of the next generation of poets. You can find more detailed insights into the work in Hollace's interview for Magazine BLU.

R.C. Miller

Born 1974 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, R.C. Miller currently lives and works in New York City. He may be reached by writing to roadinsect@yahoo.com or by visiting him on MySpace.

Suchoon Mo

A former Korean Army Lieutenant and retired university academic living in the semiarid part of Colorado, Suchoon Mo's poems have appeared in East and West, Bitter Oleander, Dissident Editions, Taj Mahal Review, Religious Humanism, Thunder Sandwich, Spillway Review, the Stylus Poetry Journal, Word Riot, Word Myth, Tryst, Subterranean Quarterly, Underground Window, Orange Room Review, Round Table Review, Strange Road, Feathertale, Snakeskin, Flutter, Poetry Cemetery, The Quirk, Autumn Leaves, Commonline Project, BlazeVox, and others. His music compositions appear in Unlikely 2.0, Mad Hatters Review, Sage of Consciousness, Strange Road, The Adroitly Placed Word. He has no formal music education.

Kristine Ong Muslim

More than six hundred poems and stories by Kristine Ong Muslim have been published or are forthcoming in over two hundred journals and magazines worldwide. Her work has appeared in Adbusters, Bellevue Literary Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Dog Versus Sandwich, Foliate Oak, Free Verse, GlassFire Magazine, GUD Magazine, Iota, JMWW, Mastodon Dentist, Monkey Kettle, Noneuclidean Café, Otoliths, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Midwest, PoetryRepairShop, Right Hand Pointing, Slow Trains, Slurve Magazine, Thieves Jargon, Turnrow, and Void Magazine. Her publication history can be found here.

Mathias Nelson

Mathias Nelson has been published both online and print in numerous magazines, some of which are Zygote In My Coffee, decomP, Madswirl, and Cherry Bleeds. He will be included in the "My Time" - Words & Images Created During, or Inspired By, the Lunch Break, print book anthology, due out September 03, 2007 through Poet Plant Press. He is the coolest motherfucker living, at least in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Bette O'Callaghan

Her poems have been published in Rising, Ape Magazine, Rue Bella, Scene 360, Humdinger magazine and Velocity, the Best of Apples & Snakes. Been there, done that, snorted it, jacked it up, sucked it off, fucked it up and still here to tell the tale. And what tales!

Read and listen to more poetry by Bette O'Callaghan at her MySpace.

Alan Orr

Alan Orr is a young fictionist with a BA in Creative Writing from the Colorado College. His stories have appeared in "The Leviathan," a college literary magazine. He plans on making it big, kicking @$$ and taking names. Currently he is depressed and anxious in his new home city, Portland, Oregon.

Ananda Osel

Ananda Selah Osel is a writer of poetry and Editor-In-Chief of The CommonLine Project. Ananda's no-nonsense autobiographical poems can be found in print and in online magazines. New work is forthcoming in Zygote In My Coffee [#4]. Ananda lives and does all sorts of cool things at his home in Seattle, Washington.

Milner Place

A well published writer in UK magazines, Milner has had eight poetry collections published thus far - seven in the UK & one in Spain (in Spanish) - and is currently working on a further three collections. Experienced in performance, especially in collaboration with musicians, he has appeared on TV in BBC 1's Bookmark, as well as doing several radio pieces for BBC 3 & 4. He is also editor for the Poetry Circle.

Rob Plath

my name is rob plath and i'm a 37 year-old poet from ny. i've published well over a 200 poems in 70 magazines and journals. i have one book called "ashtrays and bulls" (liquid paper press) and four forthcoming this year: "tapping ashes in the dark" (lummox press) , "sour milk for the soulless" (cat scan press), "my soul is a broken down valise" (pooka press), and "hooked to an iv bag filled with bile" (scintillating publications). i'm currently the poetry editor of jd finch's print magazine "the whirligig" and also editor of henry chalise's webzine called "neo lampshadian outpost." back in '95 -'97 i was tutored by allen ginsberg at brooklyn college and later in 2002, i performed on a spoken word/music cd with david amram.

Kenneth Pobo

My favorite fun thing is my weekly radio show called "Obscure Oldies" on Saturdays at WDNR.com from 6-8pm EST. You can hear a rare Micky Dolenz single from 72 or a Jon & Robin unreleased track. I've been writing poetry since I was 15 and I'm now... well, whatever, 52 I guess. I garden like Bette Davis wiping Lesley Howard's kiss off her face in Of Human Bondage. Today I executed two dozen beetles. I am for capital punishment for beetles, not for people (though I can think of many politicians who test my belief).

Misti Rainwater-Lites

Misti Rainwater-Lites writes a lot of poems, some of which have appeared online and in print in zines such as St. Vitus Press, Zen Baby, Zygote in my Coffee, The Cerebral Catalyst and Words Dance. She lives in Albuquerque with her husband.

Erin Reardon

Erin is a recovering Catholic, nicotine patch addict, and part-time writer. She resides in Somerville, Massachusetts. She has been published in various online magazines and has two self-published titles called 'Tales of a Sunday School Dropout' & 'Sleeping on a Bed of Percocet White'. She has also been a featured poet at Stone Soup Poetry, Boston's longest-running poetry series.

William de Rham

Born and raised in New York City, William de Rham is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in RiverSedge, Puckerbrush Review, Ascent Aspirations, Fiction on the Web, and two anthologies soon to be released by Edit Red, as well as other publications. He lives in Maine where he is at work on more stories.

Sean Ruane

Sean Ruane is a shuffle footed basket of slurs. He likes coffee, beer, and Boolean algebra. He lives in Baltimore. He has a masters degree in experimental psychology and is working on masters degrees in computer science and creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. He has been published or has work forthcoming (mostly forthcoming) in Juked, Word Riot, Edifice Wrecked, Thieves Jargon (as E.F.Arnau), Monkeybicycle, Eyeshot, elimae, Johnny America, Sein und Werden, 3AM Magazine, Wandering Army, the Flask Review, Mississippi Crow, Boston Literary Magazine (as Axel Finn), Clockwise Cat, the Houston Literary Review and Art and Prose Magazine.

A.F. Rützy

A.F. Rützy was born in 1972 in Joensuu, North Karelia which is widely considered to be the treasure chest of Finnish folklore and a cultural melting pot for Russian and Finnish traditions. He currently resides in Helsinki, Finland with his family. Casperian Books is publishing his debut novel "End Credits" (Spring 2008). Contact him on his homepage 'Rutzy'.

Alice Shin

Alice Shin finds it difficult to publicly brag about her accomplishments (of which there are few and many) and to speak of herself in the third person. Nonetheless, she will, in a grand show of modesty, reveal to her many imaginary fans that she's a winner of EditRed's 2007 Flash Fiction competition and has work published in 34th Parallel's premiere issue.

Larissa Shmailo

Larissa Shmailo has been published in About: Poetry, Big Bridge, Rattapallax, and many other publications. Her recent poetry CD, The No-Net World has received rave reviews. Larissa translated the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun; DVD of the original English-language production is part of the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art. She recently contributed translations to the anthology New Russian Poets forthcoming from the Dalkey Archive Press. She is curator of Sliding Scale Poetry and a director of TWiN Poetry.

Hannah Silva

Hannah Silva is a poet and theatre maker based in Devon, UK. She has shown her performance work in Holland, Germany, Japan and England. As a performance poet she is known as 'Silva Danca' and performs regularly in Devon and London. Her poetry has been published by Openned, Great Works and is forthcoming from Tears in the Fence. For more information about her work please visit her MySpace.

David Six

My name is David Six. I am a prose writer and poet. I was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire and am currently living in London. I have spent much time living in various locations in France. I wear an unusual blue jacket and enjoy eating decorated cakes which I prefer to buy from fashionable high-street establishments.

Felino Soriano

Felino Soriano, from California, currently studying philosophy, is employed as a behavioral assistant. Through his occupation he is able to counsel, create goals with, care for, and learn from developmentally disabled adults. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in Black Mail Press, La Fenêtre, Rogue Poetry Review, Blaze VOX, Ken*Again, Ann Arbor Review & Blue Fifth Review, among others.

Spiel

Pushcart Prize contender, the poet Spiel, is a tight-wired maverick painting naked word portraits of humankind, thin-layering its hirsute beastiness, occasionally revealing its humanity through scores of independent press publications, online and off, throughout the world, commonly employing poetry of conflict, profoundly human short stories and seductive spoken word recordings. His most recent releases are: 'They', a new book of poetry published by March Street Press and, 'breathing back words', an 80 minute cd collaboration with composer, Jack Moss. Learn much more about Spiel at his homepage 'the poet Spiel' and also at Laura Hird.

Serena Spinello

Serena Spinello is 26 years old and lives in New York. She has been published both online and in print. Her recent poetry can be read in Conceit Magazine, Sien und Werden, The Centrifugal Eye, Cause and Effect, Mississippi Crow, Lachryma: Modern Songs of Lament, Zygote in my Coffee, 63 Channels and Clockwise Cat. Contact Serena via email at shadigirl@optonline.net. She will eat anything that is covered in peanut butter.

Alex Stephens

Alex Stephens is an aspiring writer and photographer currently residing in Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended the University of Utah where he studied film and creative writing. He is currently compiling short stories for a collection and is always looking to pursue other avenues of artistic expression.

Jenny Stewart

Jenny Stewart has been working on her art-poems for about eight years and has over a hundred to share with the people she meets. She dreams of sharing with everyone words that speak to past and present - Dreams, thoughts, feelings - moments that were all felt, still feel, now and always.

Julian Stockdale

Julian Stockdale is a poet from New York City. Referred to as the 'Rimbaud of SoHo' by peers, Julian has appeared in Jersey City's annual Poetry/Visual Art series 'A Summer Spoken For: the sound of ground breaking in Poetry' in 2007 and has appeared in group shows in Paris and New York City. Since then he has been perfecting his own voice over poetry rich in vivid imagery and intense, passionate wordplay attempting to make each line a remembered one.

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

I was born in Greenwich Village, New York, and was raised in both the city and in the country across the Hudson River in New Jersey. I was educated at home, eventually to enter Fordham University where I received a degree in philosophy. My poetry and prose have appeared in print in Barrow Street, The Germ, jubilat, Spinning Jenny and in Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, and online at Ghoti, Onedit, Zafusy, Hutt, Cordite Poetry Review and at Xcp: Streetnotes. My interview with the writer Colin Wilson is online at The Argotist Online. I live in Brooklyn Heights, New York, where I edit the online poetry journal, eratio, and work as a private docent.

Adelle Stripe

Adelle Stripe was born in York in 1976. She spent seven years in retail hell, working dead end jobs in Edinburgh and Leeds before moving to London where she promoted venues, club nights, and bands around Whitechapel and Shoreditch. She writes about music for The Stool Pigeon and 3AM, is a BA student at Greenwich University and is also a copywriter. Her poetry and prose has appeared in the underground press and online in the following places - Scarecrow, Rising, Flux, Brand, Vomit in The Mainstream, Laura Hird, Paris Bitter Hearts Pit, Full Moon Empty Sports Bag and Savage Kick. Adelle is the editor of the definitive Brutalist weblog Straight From The Fridge, which promotes new and undiscovered writing talent. Alongside Tony O'Neill and Ben Myers, Adelle makes up one third of The Brutalists, who published their debut collection Nowhere Fast in 2007.

Ray Succre

Ray Succre currently lives on the southern Oregon coast with his wife and baby son. He has been published in Aesthetica, Small Spiral Notebook, and Coconut, as well as in numerous others across as many countries. He tries hard. For inquiry, publication history, and information, visit his blogspot.

William Taylor Jr.

William Taylor Jr. lives in San Francisco with his wife and a cat named Trouble. His work has been widely published in the small press and across the internet in such publications as Poesy, Anthills and The Chiron Review. His work is scheduled to appear in upcoming issues of the New York Quarterly and his latest book, Words For Songs Never Written, a selection of new and collected poems, is now available from Centennial Press. A book of new work is currently in progress with Sunnyoutside Press. Visit him at 'The Sad Dumb World of William Taylor Jr.'

Elo-Mall Toomet

Elo-Mall Toomet was born and is currently living and raising her child in the beautiful old town of Tartu, Estonia. Influenced by landscapes, seasonal changes and close human relations, she is dedicated to exploration of the inner worlds, finding ways in dark places and creating maps to be able to return. Her main fields of expression are illustrating fairy-tale books and writing poetry, some of which has been published in Estonian. More recent work can be found in a volume of poems in English, called “The Pain in the Beautiful Answer” and in her MySpace blog.

Joseph Veronneau

Joseph Veronneau has had poems appear or are forthcoming in the following publications: Ken*Again, Because We Write, Chiron Review, Chantarelle's Notebook, Cerebral Catalyst, Locust, Thieves Jargon, The Other Side of the Ragged Edge and many others. He also runs Scintillating Publications, a chapbook publishing press.

Christian Ward

Christian Ward is a London based poet whose poetry has appeared in numerous online and print journals. You can find Christian on MySpace whilst his last chapbook, 'The Sea', can be downloaded free of charge from Janet Kuypers.

Jim Warner

Following a lonely Danville adolescence during which he gained an encyclopedic knowledge of popular music, Jim Warner earned degrees in Psychology and English. He performs across the northeast, and is the long-time host for the Wilkes-Barre Barnes & Noble Poetry Series. Jim’s work has appeared in HAZMAT REVIEW, MID)RIB, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, GOT VERSE and IN THE ARMS OF WORDS: POETRY FOR DISASTER RELIEF as well as being featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Channel’s independent artist program website ZeD. He is also the host of MANUSCRIPT RADIO, an arts and culture talk show, on 90.7fm WCLH. Jim Warner currently lives and works in Wilkes-Barre, as Assistant Director of Graduate Creative Writing Programs at Wilkes University.

Nicolette Westfall

Nicolette Westfall wrote poetry while living on an isolated Northern Canadian First Nation Rez. She's been published in 63 Channels and Word Riot. Her poetry is in the upcoming Just Like A Girl: A Manifesta! anthology.

Keith Wood

Keith Wood successfully escaped from Philadelphia, lived in Austin, Texas for a while, but now is back home in Mississippi. He has been published in a few little magazines and wrote for Woopsy magazine for a while. He sends most of his stories and poems to Underground Voices and Cherry Bleeds, and hopes that his mom isn’t reading any of them.

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