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Khurshid Alam (poetry) was previously a correspondent to an English tabloid, The Guiding Star (Guwahti, Assam, India).  He is a Technical Writer and writes web contents, technical documentation, and business writings.  He is now writing poems, stories and currently working on a novel.  Some poems have been published in various journals and magazines in India and many are in the queue to be published.  khurshids.poetry@yahoo.com

Eileen Green Alexander (photography) grew up on Long Island, with a photographer Dad, lives now in Maryland, since about 1980.  She is a school teacher and a mom with a passion for photography, especially of people and animals.  eileenmikirose@gmail.com

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal (poetry) works in the mental health field in Los Angeles, CA.  His first book of poetry, Raw Materials, was published by Pygmy Forest Press.  His poems have appeared in Free Verse, Pemmican, and Zygote In My Coffee and he has work appearing in Ascent Aspirations, Cerebral Catalyst (both online journals), and in Blue Collar Review & Remark Poetry Journal (print journal).  Recently, he had chapbooks published by Kendra Steiner Editions, Still Human, and by Deadbeat Press, Before & Well After Midnight.  He has a new chapbook, Overcome, co-authored by photographer Cynthia Etheridge, and published by Kendra Steiner Editions.  Around October 2010, his chapbook, The Book Of Absurd Dreams, will be published by New Polish Beat.  Cuatemochi@aol.com

Charles C. Brooks III (poetry) is from Georgia USA, has been published in The Dead Mule, Eclectica, Gloom Cupboard, Cerebration, Juice, Foliate Oak, Deep South, The Istanbul Literary Review, Prick of the Spindle, Conversations, nibble, Semaphore, and Pulsar.  He is currently Poetry Editor for Literary Magic Magazine.  Charles Clifford’s poetry has been featured on the Joe Milford Poetry Show.  He believes every artist should join The Guerilla Poetics Project.   ccbrooks3@yahoo.com

Kevin Brown (prose) recently won the Permafrost Literary Journal's Midnight Sun Fiction Contest, the Touchstone Fiction Competition, and placed third in the Cadenza Fiction Contest.  He was nominated for the 2007 Best American Short Stories, and has published in Alligator Juniper, sub-TERRAIN, Rosebud, New Delta Review, Underground Voices, Conclave, Crannog, Mississippi Crow, Vulcan, and NANO Fiction.  5ivelights@gmail.com

Carand Burnet (poetry) is a painting student at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire and is originally from South Carolina. Her poems have appeared in The Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal, The Elegant Thorn  Review, Omphalos Journal, Robot Melon, and others.

Üzeyir Lokman ÇAYCI (art) is a poet, a writer, a versatile artist.  He was born in 1949 in Bor, one of the beautiful cities of Turkey, where he attended primary and high school.  He graduated as an Architect-Designer of Industry from The Fine Arts Academy of State in Istanbul.  His important works are Akþamlarýn Duraðý and Karar; he has written many poems, stories and articles as well.  He has been drawing and painting since he was 14 years old.  ÇAYCI  resides in France.  He received The Award of Eagerness by the Radio NPS of Holland in 1999 and The Award of Palmares  by the Organization of Les Amis de Thalie in France.  He works in The Center of Adult Education (AFPA) at present.  uzeyir.cayci@wanadoo.fr

Robert Cullen (poetry) is a treasure hunter on the run in a city of shadows, stumbling from time to time over the odd curiosity and things of Beauty.   willoughbyarts@hotmail.com
 
Kristina Marie Darling (poetry) is a graduate of Washington University.  Eight chapbooks of her work have been published, among them Fevers and Clocks (March Street Press, 2006), The Traffic in Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2006), and Night Music (BlazeVox Books, 2008).  A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems appear in such journals as Gargoyle, Miller's Pond, Illya's Honey, Big City Lit, and Janus Head: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies.  Recent criticism has also been published in issues of The Boston Review, Modern Language Studies, New Letters, The Colorado Review, Shenandoah, and other periodicals.  Awards include residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Centrum Foundation, and the Prairie Center of the Arts, as well as scholarships to attend the Squaw Valley Writers Conference and the Ropewalk Writers Retreat.  kristinamariedarling@yahoo.com 

Holly Day (poetry) is a travel writing instructor living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her husband and two children. Her most recent nonfiction books are Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, and Walking Twin Cities.  lalena@bitstream.net

Mark DeCarteret (poetry) has appeared in numerous publications including AGNI, Caliban, Chicago Review, Conduit, Cream City Review, Diagram, Forklift, Ohio, gutcult, h_n gm_n, Horse Less Press, Hotel Amerika, Killing the Buddha, La Petite Zine, lift, Mudfish, Mudlark, New Orleans Review, Shampoo, Third Coast , Typo, and 3rd Bed as well as the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press, 2000) and Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader (Black Sparrow Press, 1999).  Work is also forthcoming in Boston Review, Coconut, failbetter, Salamander, and Superstition Review. Four books total: Over Easy (chapbook—Minotaur Press), Review (Kettle of Fish Press), and The Great Apology (chapbook--Oyster Rive r Press for which he also edited Under the Legislature of Stars—62 New Hampshire Poets).  And the latest, (If This Is the) New World, just published this year with March Street Press.  This past April he was selected as the seventh Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.    MarkDCart@aol.com

Bob Eager (prose) According to legend, Bob Eager is local Phoenix, Arizona actor Edgar Rider. Bob Eager denies this saying Mr. Rider is nothing more than a miserable cretin.  Edgar Rider has found success as a dance champion at CMOP and as a script supervisor for a feature film called Bad TIming.
He cannot be compared to Mr. Eager's amazing seminars on everything on how to eat an enchilada or how to confront a potato. No matter what harsh criticisms are hurled at Bob Eager, he is always able to stir up a crowd with controversy. His supposed alter ego, Edgar Rider has been published in Dead Mule School of Southern Literature later reprinted in its original form in Avatar review. Bob Eager  has been published in Right hand Pointing. bobeager@aol.com

James A. Ford (prose) Writing has been a passion of his for many years. His first publication credit dates back to the last century—1996. Fortune smiled again with published stories in both May and June of this year. He really writes stories as an outlet for his own mind, but "boy it sure is nice when some one else likes them too."  fordmail@rogers.com

August Franza (poetry), novelist, poet, and playwright lives on the south shore of Long Island with his wife, Amy.  He is 76 and has three very grown kids. He is the author of The Events at Vista Bay (optioned for film development) and The Murder of Hitler as well as numerous novels, plays and books of poetry.  He earned a Ph.D. in English in 1981 from Stony Brook University. Mr. Franza was chairman of the English Department at Syosset High School, Long Island, in the 1960s.   gusami7@optonline.net

Alex Gagne-Hawes (poetry) was born in Juneau, Alaska. He graduated from Reed College in 2007 with a theater degree and went to Los Angeles to point lights at
stages. Then he went to Chicago and helped create underground performance spaces. Now back he’s in Portland, writing and producing plays in his basement. He thanks his distant family for being such wonderful dears.   gagnehawes@gmail.com

Maureen Griswold (prose) has been an RN and a print journalist.  Her work has appeared in Common Dreams and Unlikely Stories.  She resides in San Jose, California.  maureengriswold@sbcglobal.net

Initially NO (art) composes punkgothic songs for guitar and vocals. Her chord choice is edgy and intriguing and her vocals have a wide range. She also performs comedy with her trumpet, dubbed ‘Hornie’. Hornie mimicks things like cows, elephants, horses and circular saws. Initially NO also creates visual art, which is available online. She performs poetry regularly in venues around Melbourne and has poetry published in Platform magazine and Galaxy journal.  initiallyno@yahoo.com

David Kowalczyk (poetry) lives and writes in the woods outside of Batavia, New York.  He likes, in no particular order, foggy mornings, Thai food, Maggie Mae Ryan, Canadian ales, and the geese that fly over his house.  He has taught English at several American colleges as well as in South Korea and Mexico.  His poetry and fiction have appeared in five anthologies and sixty magazines, including St. Ann's Review, California Quarterly, and Why Vandalism? dvdkowalczyk@yahoo.com

Robert Laughlin (prose) lives in Chico, California. He is the creator of the Micro Award, an annual competition for previously published flash fiction. Two of his short stories are MWA Notable Stories, and his first novel, Vow of Silence, is available from Trytium.   pc-privconfounder@sbcglobal.net

Joseph Lewis (poetry) has published poetry in various print and ezines including ken*again, Sunspinner and sometime city.  He has poems forthcoming in the regional anthology Poet's Domain.  He lives in Virginia.  ezwriter101@gmail.com

Lyn Lifshin (And another thing...)'s Another Woman Who Looks Like Me was published by Black Sparrow at David Godine October, 2006.  It has been selected for the 2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize. (ORDER@GODINE.COM).  Also out in 2006, her prize winning book about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse, Ruffian:  The Licorice Daughter:  My Year With Ruffian from Texas Review Press. 

Other of Lifshin’s recent prizewinning books include Before It's Light published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997.  Other recently published books and chap books include: In Mirrors from Presa Press and Upstate:  An Unfinished Story from Foot Hills and The Daughter I Don't Have from Plan B Press.  Other new books include When a Cat Dies, Another Woman's Story, Barbie Poems, She was Found Treading Water Deep Out in the Ocean, and Mad Girl Poems.  A New Film about a Woman in Love with the Dead came from March Street Press in 2003. 

She has published more than 120 books of poetry, including Marilyn Monroe and Blue Tattoo.  She won awards for her non fiction and edited four anthologies of women's writing including Tangled Vines, Ariadne's Thread and Lips Unsealed.  Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject of an award winning documentary film, Lyn Lifshin:  Not Made of Glass, available from Women Make Movies.  Her poem, No More Apologizing has been called among the most impressive documents of the women's poetry movement, by Alicia Ostriker.  An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical series, On The Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Lace, was published Spring 2003.  What Matters Most and August Wind were recently published.  Tsunami is forthcoming from Blue Unicorn. World Parade Press will publish Poets (Mostly) Who Have Touched Me, Living and Dead:  All True, Especially the Lies.  Texas Review Press published Barbaro:  Beyond Brokenness in 2008 and World Parade Books just published Desire in 2008. And Drifting is just online.  Red Hen has published Persephone in 2008.  Coatalism Press just published 92 Rapple Drive and Goose River Press will publish Nutley Pond.  Clevis Hook Press just published Light at the End, The Jesus Poems, and Finishing Line Press published Lost in the Fog; also, Ballet Madonnas was published by Mastodon Dentist.  For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web site is www.lynlifshin.com. onyxvelvet@aol.com

Duane Locke (poetry) lives hermetically by ancient oak, an underground stream, and an osprey’s nest in rural Lakeland, Florida. He has of August 2009, 6,402 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 three 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) . Has interviews in Counter Example Poetics, Eviscerator Heaven, Pen Himalaya, Ann Arbor Review, and Bitter Oleander.  For more information click “Duane Locke” on Google Search, over 500,000 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.  His interest are philosophy (PostModern, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger), Insects, butterflies, birds, Opera, Mahler, and Viennese music. duanelocke@gmail.com

James B. Nicola (poetry) has been or will be published in a score of journals including Borderlands, The Cortland Review, MacGuffin, Illuminations, Nimrod, Iron Horse, and Dana Literary Review (award winner). A stage director by profession, he won a CHOICE Award for his book, Playing the Audience.  jbnicola@juno.com

Wayne Scheer (prose) has been locked in a room with his computer and turtle since his retirement. (Wayne's, not the turtle's.)  To keep from going back to work, he's published hundreds of short stories, essays and poems, including, Revealing Moments, a collection of twenty-four flash stories, available as a free download at http://www.pearnoir.com/thumbscrews.htm.  He's been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net. wvscheer@aol.com

Iolanda Scripca (poetry) 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.  www.scripca.com

Adam Shlager (poetry) works as a slightly distracted consultant for the healthcare industry. He writes much of his poetry on his 2+ hour daily commute and wrangles with words and meaning in the venerable City Hall Poets Workshop. He is currently collecting creative and enthusiastic personal rejections from some of the finest poetry journals in the country. When not writing poetry or advising someone about the current or future state of healthcare, Adam spends time with his daughter and wife, who are teaching him how to enjoy life and laugh. He can't wait to see what happens next.  adam.shlager@gmail.com

Aristotle Sinclair (poetry) is a poet of neoteric contemplation.  He reads Duane Locke and Constance Stadler to become acclimated to excellent poetry.  He wrote his first poem on 8/13/09, and has received acceptances to Writers’ Bloc, The Catalonian Review, Writing Raw, and The Legendary.  In the rarity of spare time, he reads various texts
and quotations from philosophers, and thinks Thelonious Monk is the epitome of a jazz genius.  He records occurrences at http://aristotlesinclair.blogspot.com/.
aristotlesinclair@gmail.com

Tom Sheehan (poetry and prose)'s  Epic Cures (short stories), won a 2006 IPPY Award.  A Collection of Friends, Pocol Press, was nominated for Albrend Memoir Award.  He has nine Pushcart and three Million Writer nominations, a Noted Story nomination, a Silver Rose Award from ART and the Georges Simenon Award for Excellence in Fiction.  He served in the 31st Infantry Regiment, Korea, 1951-52.  He has published four novels, four books of poetry.  In publication process are two short story collections, Brief Cases, Short Spans (due fall 2008,Press 53) and From the Quickening (due spring 2009, Pocol Press). He meets again soon for a lunch/gab session with pals, the ROMEOs, Retired Old Men Eating Out, (92/80/79/78).  They’ve co-edited two books on their hometown of Saugus, MA, sold 3500 to date of 4500 printed and he can hardly wait to see them.  His pals will each have one martini, he’ll have three beers, and the waitress will shine on them.  tomfsheehan@comcast.net

Felino A. Soriano (poetry), (b. 1974, California), is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults.  He has authored 15 collections of poetry, including “Apperceptions of Reinterpretations” (Calliope Nerve Media, 2009), “r” (please press, 2009), “Search among the Absent Found” (Recycled Karma Press, 2009), and “Among the Interrogated” (BlazeVOX [books]), 2008.  He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, www.counterexamplepoetics.com, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, www.differentiapress.com, dedicated to publishing e-chapbooks of experimental poetry.  He is also a contributing editor for Sugar Mule, www.sugarmule.com.  Philosophical studies collocated with his love of classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. felino@felinosoriano.com

Susan Dale Stacey (prose) has seven pages of publishing credits.  Her chapbook of thirteen poems, Spaces Among Spaces, has been on LanguageAndCulture.net since the autumn of 06. She also has a page of her jazz poetry on Jerry Jazz Musician. She was October’s featured writer in Pegasus with nine  poems published, and won first prize of $100.00 from JMW Publishing in 08. Recently, she was runner up in a chapbook contest for Shadow Poetry: the title of her chapbook, Bending The Spaces Of Time. She is published in the autumn in languageandculture.net with two short stories and one poem.  susan_stcy@yahoo.com

Pat St. Pierre (photography) has been published in a variety of places. Her photos have been included and on the covers of Flutter, Litchfield Literary Review, Touch, Pond Ripples, Shine, Wee Ones, pending Women's Southern Review (Jan), etc. Her writing has been published in such places as Lutheran Parenting, The Kids Ark, Pens on Fire, Knowonder, The Homesteader, The Gardener's Gazette, etc. Her 1st chapbook is published by www.foothillspublishing.com and her 2nd chapbook pending publication by The Finishing Line Press.  pat0240@hotmail.com

Thomas Sullivan (prose) has appeared in 3AM Magazine and Defenestration, among others. He is the author of Life In The Slow Lane, a comic memoir about teaching drivers' education (forthcoming Fall, 2009 from Uncial Press).  tmpsull@gmail.com


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