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Paula Marafino Bernett (poetry) draws inspiration from a range of psychological landscapes; her work reflects a deep curiosity about the mind's cognitive forays into language and association, not constrained by linear thought. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Anemone Sidecar, California Quarterly (CQ), The Chaffin Journal, Eclipse, The Hiss Quarterly, Margie, Milk Money, Rattle, Salamander, Sierra Nevada College Review, and Tar River Poetry. She is  a former member of the editorial board of Global City Review and was awarded the Resident Writer's Award from the 2009 Taos Summer Writer's Conference sponsored by UNM, and was one of three first-prize winners in WordHustler's 2009 Summer Poetry Contest. She has participated in conferences, workshops, and fellowships nationwide and holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.    paulabernett@gmail.com         

captain deepthoughts (love m. call) (poetry) is an 18 year old who is exploring the medium of poetry; she lives in maine. xlovexcallx@gmail.com

Nathan Combs (photography) of Harrisonburg, Virginia, first got interested in photography in 1994, and thinks of himself more as a photojournalist than as an artist.  He graduated from the Hallmark Institute of Photography in 1997.  nathancombs57@yahoo.com

Michael Estabrook (poetry) is a baby boomer who began getting his poetry published in the late 1980s. Over the years he has published 15 poetry chapbooks, his most recent entitled “When the Muse Speaks.” Other interests include art, music, theatre, opera, and his wife who just happens to be the most beautiful woman he has ever known.   mestabrook@comcast.net

William Gladys (prose) is the pen name of Brian Rayner. Under his pen name he published (through his own Derek Books) a satire, Monarchy:  Politics of Tyranny & Denial, an irreverent critique of royals and monarchy in Britain at the present time, which is being stocked by local bookshops and some branches of Ottakers.  He self-published because he was fed up with delays from interested publishers in Great Britain.  He has a BA in English Literature from Cardiff University, is a pensioner, married with three children with hordes of grandchildren rooting about his place from time to time.  Writing short stories is a new venture for him.  His hobbies include stained glass work, walking his dog Daisy, and playing the blues on trumpet.  He is keen on flying single engine aircraft, but the cost is prohibitive at present.  He enjoys listening to Miles Davis and William Orbit and reading prose and poetry; poetry-wise he likes Sylvia Plath and will not apologize to those who consider her rather over the top and angst ridden.  william.gladys@tiscali.co.uk

John Grey (poetry) is an Australian born poet, and a US resident since the  late seventies. He works as a financial systems analyst. He has been published recently in the Talking River, South Carolina Review and Karamu with work upcoming in Prism International, Poem and the Evansville Review.    jgrey10233@aol.com  

Robert L. Harrison (poetry and photography) earned a B.A. from Stony Brook University and an advanced study degree from Hofstra University in Instructional Communications.  Robert is an historian, as well as a playwright, poet and photographer.  He has researched and published articles on Long Island's historic past and has presented lectures on forgotten Long Islanders, the Island's baseball history, and presentations on Long Island poets.  Robert's plays "Bloom & O'Hara," "Confessions of a Shakespeare Addict" and "The Long Island Dead Poets Society" have all been presented on Long Island.  He has published over 400 poems in his own poetry books, as well as in magazines and literary journals.  In 1995, one of Robert's poems received a Grammy nomination in the spoken word category and he co-authored the children's book "Goblin Giggles" with Gene Fehler, published by Simon & Schuster.  Robert has served as the poetry judge for the Freeport Council of the Arts Celebration of Poetry contest for Nassau County high school students.  As a photographer, Robert has been written about in Newsday and the New York Times.  His photographs have been shown in more than 100 exhibits across Long Island.   Among his many photographic awards is a 2004 Folio Award from the Long Island Coalition for Fair Broadcasting and an Award of Excellence from the Art League of Long Island.  Robert is listed in Marquis Who's Who in America.  Recently, his work "Light Design" was picked by a curator from the Whitney Museum for the Firehouse Gallery, Nassau Community College.  He has had photo displays at the Wantagh Public library and the Merrick Public Library   harrisonbd@hotmail.com

Ken Head (poetry and prose) is presently based in England, although for many years he lived in South-East Asia.  His poems appears regularly in a variety of print and online publications and a number have been anthologized.  To date, he has published one full collection, Listening For Light and three chapbooks, Long Shadows, A Devil’s Dozen and Still Lives.  Online, he has featured as Poet Of The Week on Rick Lupert’s Poetry SuperHighway and as one of two Poets Of The Month Caught In The Net at Jim Bennett’s The Poetry Kit.  In this year’s Indigo Dreams Press competition, his entry, Finding The Heart, was commended by the judges and placed in the top ten.   Anyone interested in hearing Ken read will find him among the poets recorded online at Poetcasting.  His website is at www.kenhead.co.uk.  

Jean C. Howard (poetry) Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, performance poet, Jean Howard, resided in Chicago from 1979 to 1999. She has since returned to Salt Lake City. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Clackamas Literary Review, Harper's Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Eclipse, Folio, Fugue, Fulcrum, Crucible, Gargoyle, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Burning World, The Distillery, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Pisgah Review, Pinch, The Cape Rock, Quiddity Literary Journal, Grasslimb, Rattlesnake Review, Concho River Review, Spillway, Spoon River Review, Willard & Maple, Wisconsin Review, Chicago Tribune, among seventy other literary publications. Featured on network and public television and radio, she has combined her poetry with theater, art, dance, video, and photography.

A participant in the original development of the nationally acclaimed "Poetry Slam," at the Green Mill, she has been awarded two grants for the publication of her book, Dancing In Your Mother's Skin (Tia Chucha Press), a collaborative work with photographer, Alice Hargrave. She has been organizing the annual National Poetry Video Festival since 1992, with her own award-winning video poems, airing on PBS, cable TV, and festivals around the nation. jhoward1352@qualified-sales.com

Steve Karas (prose) was born and raised in Chicago where he now lives with his wife and newborn daughter.  His short stories have recently appeared in Xenith, Bartleby Snopes, and Foliate Oak.  You can visit his website at stevekaras.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter at KarasSteve.    skaras@live.com

Rita Marie Kepner (And another thing...) The majority of Rita Kepner’s published writings have been non-fiction -- as writer, editor of one weekly newspaper and managing editor of another with various pieces published in local, national and international publications.  She wrote speeches, produced informational and news broadcast videos, earned national photojournalism awards for newsletter writing and editing and radio program awards for on-air contributions. Christmas Guitar is a first fictional short story, rooted in non-fictional reality. Rita is also an artist whose work has appeared earlier in this publication. rita.kepner@gmail.com

Duane Locke (featured poet) lives hermetically alone by an oak, the home of a squirrel, with a daily visitation from a cardinal, a bird, not a cleric, not a baseball player, in Tampa, Florida. Sometimes the visitor is a raccoon, and even a pleated woodpecker.

He has as of January 2010, 6,611 different poems published in print magazines, American Poetry Review, Nation ,etc. and e zines, Counter Example Poetics, Pen Himalaya (Nepal) and 21 books of poems. His four latest books, 2009, are Yang Chu’s Poems (376 pp.) Crossing Chaos, Canada (order from publisher or Amazon); Voices from a Grave (40 pp.) erbacce, England (order from erbacce), and Soliloquies from a High Wall Hidden Cemetery (37 pp.) Differentia Press, California (Free download, www.differentiapress.com), 53 paged A Marble Nude Pauline Borghese with a Marble Apple in her Marble Hand, Scars press,(used in college classes as a textbook) Forthcoming in 2011 or 12, Bitter Oleander Press will republish his first 11 books of his Poems (1968-1978) in one volume, over 300 pages.

Has interviews in Counter Example Poetics, Eviscerator Heaven, Pen Himalaya, Ann Arbor Review, Bitter Oleander, many other places. For more information click “Duane Locke” “Duane Locke, books” or”Duane Locke, Arts.“on Google Search, over a million entries. Is in Who’s Who in America (Marquis).

He is also a painter and photographer. An account of his painting is in Gary Monroe’s Extraordinary Interpretations ( U of FL press). His sur-photos are scattered throughout the internet, and he has done many book covers.

Has a Ph. D, specializing in English Metaphysical Poetry (Donne to Marvel). His doctoral dissertation, “Images and Image Symbolism in Metaphysical Poetry.” is on UF internet. His paintings, over 300, are on sale at 290 Parrulli Drive, Olmond Beach, Fl, 32174-- See: lisastonearts.com.
His interests are philosophy (PostModern, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger), Insects, butterflies, birds, Opera, Mahler, and Viennese music.
lockeduane@gmail.com

Jennifer Lund (prose) lives in Ontario, Canada.

Joseph V. Milford (poetry) edits the journal SCYTHE with his wife.He is a full-time English professor. His first book came out on BlazeVox Press, 2010. He is the host of the Joe Milford Poetry Show. Other than that, he drinks more beer than an ancient Sumerian god. jmilford2005@hotmail.com

Agholor Leonard Obiaderi (poetry) is from Delta State in Nigeria. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in the English Language. He is a  High School teacher who considers himself a collector of poetic imagery. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Short Story Library, The Legendary and Barnwood  Literary Journals.
obiaderi@yahoo.com

Scott Owens (poetry) Author of 7 collections of poetry and over 800 poems published in journals and anthologies, Scott Owens is editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, Vice President of the Poetry Council of North Carolina, and recipient of awards from the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Academy of American Poets, the NC Writers’ Network, the NC Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of SC.  He holds an MFA from UNC Greensboro and currently teaches at Catawba Valley Community College.  He grew up on farms and in mill villages around Greenwood, SC. asowens1@yahoo.com

Quentin Poulsen (prose) is a former journalist from Wellington, New Zealand, teaching in Spain, though currently on extended vacation in Turkey.  He studied literature at Doane College in Nebraska and won a share of the university's literary award in 1993.  He is now seeking a publisher for his short novel.  quentinpoulsen@yahoo.com.au

Helen R. Peterson (poetry) has been published in over 100 online and print journals, both nationally and internationally. Most recently she’s had work accepted at Word Riot, Juked, Existere, and Strong Verse. She was also featured in The Lunch Break Book published by Poet Plant Press, was the editor of the small print journal Chopper, and read at the Bowery Poetry Club in November. A mother of three living in Connecticut, you can find her blog at http://mspetersonexplains.wordpress.com/

Henry Rappaport (poetry) was born in Monticello, New York, in the Catskill Mountains, and received his B.A. in English literature from Syracuse University, where he won the University's Whiffen Prize for poetry and co-founded the magazine Poems and Prints. He was awarded a Danforth Fellowship and received his M.A. from the University of Washington—thanks, in part, to an original body of poetry entitled Spring Flowers This Year. Since graduating, Ihe has continued both writing and publishing, founding Intermedia Press in Vancouver, and publishing several of his own books of poetry. Living in the diverse Vancouver community and traveling regularly has allowed him to pursue his love of languages and has exposed him to the Eastern arts of Tai Chi, yoga, and bonsai.
 
His poems have appeared in The Alembic, Argestes, The Broome Review, The Café Review, The Cape Rock, The Cincinnati Review, Ellipsis, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Grain, Juked, Poet Lore, Poetry Northwest, Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art, Quiddity International Literary Journal, Ship of Fools, Syracuse Poems, West Coast Review, and the anthology Rocksalt: An Anthology of B.C. Poets. henry@hento.ca

Don Riesett (prose) Born in Baltimore's Pigtown, he graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor's degree in journalism before moving on to a career with a major New York ad agency. In advertising's shallow Machiavellian waters, he found myself sinking into the mud of confused self-identity, leading to long-term psychiatric institutionalization. Eventually he was able to reestablish himself with a rapidly growing regional ad agency, became CEO of its international portfolio in London and traveled the globe. He currently teaches at a school for disadvantaged youth in Baltimore. 

His writing is a reflection of these diverse experiences-from the creative corridors of ad agencies and the locked wards of mental hospitals to the rooftop ledges of Manhattan and the Himalayan foothills of Nepal.

His work has been published in The Awakenings Review, Fox Cry Review, Home Planet News, North Atlantic Review, Palo Alto Review, Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine, The South Carolina Review, and The Writers Post Journal. donriesett@gememail.net

Daniel Romo (photography) is an MFA candidate at Queens University of Charlotte, but represents the LBC. His poetry can be found or is forthcoming in
Gargoyle, The Los Angeles Review, MiPOesias, > kill author, and elsewhere. His first book of poetry, Romancing Gravity, is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press. His writing can be found at danielromo.wordpress.com. danjromo@gmail.com

Iolanda Scripca (poetry and photography) lived in Eastern Europe for the first 20 years of her life, in a loving family.  Her mom was a teacher and high school principal and her dad a published writer, poet and TV producer. An unforgettable moment was her collaboration with her Dad in the translation and adaptation of a children's book by the Bulgarian author Leda Mileva. She is a graduate of Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Bucharest.  Nowadays she enjoys Southern California and possesses a CA Teaching Credential.  Ms. Scripca publishes in several Romanian-American Newspapers both in Romanian and English.  Lava of My Soul, a collection of her  poems and essays, was published in 2009. www.scripca.com

Eva-Maria Sher (poetry) was born in Germany at the end of World War II and started writing poetry almost as soon as she could spell. After emigrating to the US at 17, she studied literature and the expressive arts, became a US citizen, a teacher, got married, adopted three children, and, for a while, was a stay-at-home mom. After the children were grown, she began writing poetry again, this time in her adopted language, from the perspective of an elder woman trying to find her place in a society that places much value on youth, material success, and the external journey of life. She currently lives with her husband near Seattle, Washington, where she gardens, paints, writes, and opens her studio to children, as well as adults.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Big Scream, California Quarterly, Cadillac Cicatrix, The Cape Rock, Front Range Review, G.W. Review, The Old Red Kimono, RiverSedge, Ship of Fools, Soundings East, Westview, and Willow Review.  playfularts@knarfmail.com

Jinen Jason Shulman (poetry) He writes: "My recent inspirational bestseller, The Instruction Manual for Receiving God (Sounds True, 2006), was a finalist in the prestigious Books for a Better Life Award. I am also the author of Kabbalistic Healing: A Path to an Awakened Soul (Inner Traditions, 2004) and numerous other books, monographs, and music CDs. My work has been published at various times in various ways by Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Grove Press, among others. I write under the name Jinen Jason Shulman.

 I am a modern Kabbalist and a recognized Buddhist teacher and Dharma lineage holder. I founded A Society of Souls, a school based in New Jersey and the Netherlands dedicated to the awakening of the human spirit through the work of Nondual Healing, the Work of Return, Impersonal Movement, and the Magi Process. I have served as a faculty member at the New York Open Center, Esalen Institute, and Omega Institute. I have been a member of the Professional Advisory Board of the Center for Spirituality and Psychotherapy at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City." jashulman1@evetsmail.com

Sam Silva (poetry) has published at least 150 poems in print magazines, including Sow's Ear, The ECU Rebel, Pembroke magazine, Samisdat, St. Andrew's Review, Charlotte Poetry Review, Main Street Rag, and many more. Has published at least 300 poems in online journals including Jack Magazine, Comrades, Megaera, Poetry Super Highway, physik garden, ken*again, -30-, Fairfield Review, Foliate oak, and dozens of others. Three legitimate small presses have published chapbooks of his; three of those presses have nominated work of his for Pushcart a total of 7 times. Bright Spark  Creative of Wilmington purchased rights to his first full length book EATING AND DRINKING and put the book out through author house at there expense. He now has many books and chapbooks available at http://www.lulu.com/samsilva54 and as kindle books at Amazon.com And his spoken word poetry is available at the major digital markets such as Apple i tunes.
samsilva54@nc.rr.com

Dyane Silvester (prose) works in a technical profession and writing gives expression to her creative side. She is fairly new to writing fiction but has previously published factual articles about hiking (her other passion) and wildlife. When she is not writing, hiking, or working, she'd probably be lost in a book (fiction or travel), painting, or learning lines for her various amateur dramatic escapades. Although she loves to be busy, she is trying to learn not to feel guilty about doing just nothing occasionally!  dyane100@hotmail.com

Darren Singer (art) is an artist and photographer based in New York City.  Mr. Singer:  "Bridges have enabled the development of societies spanning the ages. As primitive as the log fallen over a ravine, the bridge enables communication between two seemingly separate components. It is the third element which unites the two, creating something much greater than the sum of its parts.

Living in New York I am fortunate to be surrounded by numerous iconic bridges that enabled the development of New York City as a cultural, technological, as well as commercial hub of the world. I am struck by the majesty of the scale of these "gentle giants," imposing their presence over the NY waterways, like veins coursing with life, imbuing the boroughs with life and character.

In my work I tend toward engaging compositions using skewed perspectives to challenge as well as humble the viewer by conveying the extraordinary mass of these structures, forcing the viewer to look with a renewed vision at these amazing feats of modern engineering. Vibrant colors, tones and textures soak the rigid geometries and give life to these otherwise lifeless structures. It is through its utility that the bridge generally has meaning and significance; I am seeking to liberate it from this narrow view and imbue the structure with life."
Works Shown:
1997- Winner Spring Arts Fair Tulane University
1997- Group Show at Crescent City brew house
2001- Cafe 18, NYC solo show
2002- Get Real Art, NYC
2003- Solo show JEC, NYC
2007- Solo Show King David
2010-Group Show at Stanton Street Synagogue
2011-Commission from Two Trees for  Gair 2 building
2011- Solo show at Superfine, Brooklyn, NYC
Upcoming…
September 2011- Group show Rebar,Brooklyn, NYC
September 2011-Solo Show at Astor Bake Shop LIC, NY
September 2011-Pieces in Steward Stand Design,Brooklyn NYC
darrensinger@verizon.net

Laura Solomon (poetry) has an honours degree in English Literature and a Masters degree in Computer Science (University of London, 2003).  She has published two novels with Tandem Press: 'Black Light' (1996) and 'Nothing Lasting' (1997).  Her play, based on her short story, 'Sprout', was part of the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  Short stories published in the UK include: 'Sprout' (2004 Bridport International Short Story competition anthology), later translated into Czech by Olga Walló and appearing in "krásná" in the Czech Republic in 2011, 'The Most Ordinary Man in the World' (2005 Bridport International Short Story competition anthology), ‘Alternative Medicine’, (Willesden Herald International Short Story competition, 2007) and 'The Killing Jar', (The Edinburgh Review, August 2007).  Poems published in the UK include ‘The Latest Lighthouse Keeper’ (commended, Ware Poets Competition, 2007), ‘You Will Know When You Leave’ (shortlisted, Bridport 2008 Poetry competition, published in London Poetry Festival anthology) and ‘Apocryphal’ (runner up, Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition).  Her poem ‘Pythia Gets the Blues’ was a runner up in the Essex Poetry Festival Competition.  Her short story collection ‘Alternative Medicine’ was published in early 2008 by Flame Books, UK.  Her novel ‘An Imitation of Life’ was published by Solidus, UK, in late 2009.  Her novel ‘Instant Messages’ was published in 2010, was shortlisted for the 2009 Virginia Prize and won the 2009 Proverse Prize.  The two sequels to ‘Instant Messages’, ‘The Theory of Networks’ and ‘Operating Systems’ have been accepted as by Proverse Hong Kong, along with a short story collection ‘The Shingle Bar Taniwha and other stories’.  Her poetry collection ‘In Vitro’ was published by Headworx, New Zealand in early 2011.  nomolos9@hotmail.com

Felino A. Soriano (poetry) (b. 1974) is a case manager and advocate for adults with developmental and physical disabilities. In 2010, he was chosen for the Gertrude Stein "rose" prize for creativity in poetry from Wilderness House Literary Review.  Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to various idioms of jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences.  For information, including his 41 print and electronic collections of poetry, over 2,500 published poems, interviews, and editorships, please visit his website: www.felinoasoriano.info

Dirk van Nouhuys (photography) is a native of Berkeley with a BA from Stanford in creative writing and an MA from Columbia in contemporary literature. He is married with three grown children. He worked for decades as a tech writer and manager. A few years ago he devoted full time to fiction.
He writes short stories, some experimental forms, and occasionally verse, but mostly novels, which have been published only in excerpts or serially. About 70 items of fiction and a few poems have appeared in literary or general magazines. He occasionally publishes photography. He has just republished his 1986 translation of Jos Vandeloo's The Danger and the Enemy. You can learn more about him at his web site, www.wandd.com.  DHvN@wandd.com

Patrick J. Wilson (prose) lives in Brunswick, Georgia where he works as a Supplemental Instructor/Tutor of English and Math at the College of Coastal Georgia. Furthermore, he works as a Substitute Instructor at the Brunswick Job Corps Center and a Substitute teacher for Glynn County Public Schools. In addition, he is currently pursuing his M.A. in English from Georgia Southern University.He is married to a magnificent woman, both inside and out, and he presently shares three cats and one visiting dog together.  pw00270@georgiasouthern.edu

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