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Greg Beatty attended Clarion West science fiction writing workshop in the summer of 2000. He recently moved to Bellingham, and, except for the rain, is liking it. Greg recently had a piece of flash fiction accepted by Ideomancer.com; his non-fiction regularly appears in Strange Horizons and New York Review of Science Fiction. Visionary intuitive artist and award-winning essayist Bobbie Bowden has been an artist since she was 5 years old. With no formal training beyond high school and a few brush-up courses on technique as an adult, she continually experiments with style, in watercolor, acrylic and pastel. She has shown her work in several New York and New England venues. Gary Cadwallader only sends stories to the web. Gary has published in InterText, Literary Potpourri, The Romantic Bower and others. Live in Kansas City, Mo. He has a small herd of showhorses, all American Saddlebreds. However, he couldn't ride a boxcar with the doors shut. Phyllis M. Camplin is the classic Aquarian underachiever: creative, charismatic, and funny with an astoundingly short attention span. In the past, many doubted that Phyllis' stories were true until they met her family! She is forever grateful to her relatives for being an endless source of material. Javier Chavira will receive his M.F.A. from Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL. He has an M.A. (1999) and a B.A. (1996) from Governor's State University, University Park, IL. Javier's 2001 exhibitions have included: Alice & Arthur Baer Exhibition, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL; Faculty Exhibition, Prairie State College, IL; De Nuestras Raices / Of Our Own Roots, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL; 9 Chicago Artists in Havana Cuba, Casa de La Cultura, Havana, Cuba; Remembrance Exhibition, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL; and Latino Horizons, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL ATL Group Exhibition, The Arte de Mexico Gallery, Chicago, IL. Javier won 1st place in the Latino Horizons Exhibition, judged by Mario Castillo, Columbia, College, Chicago, IL. He is a member of The Friends of Community Public Art. SuzAnne C. Cole, a community college English instructor for most of her career, now concentrates on writing. Her short play "White Linoleum" has been produced in Houston and Long Island City, and a short play, "Someday Baby," was published in Aries 2000. She has also published To Our Heart's Content: Meditations for Women Turning 50 (Contemporary l997), and had poems, fiction, and essays published in a variety of anthologies, journals, and newspapers including Newsweek, the Houston Chronicle, the San Antonio Express-News, Troika, Personal Journaling, and Writing Your Life Story. Valerie Collins is a British freelance writer who has lived in Barcelona, Spain, for many years. Her articles and stories have been published in World Wide Writers, The Broadsheet, The Reporter, Flying Colours, Verbatim and The Rotarian, amongst others. She has written for the Insight Guide to Barcelona and is co-founder and editor of the Worlds Apart Review, a website for expat writers at www.worldsapartreview.com. "Black Dress" was the winner of the 1999 Autumn Competition at the Jacqui Bennet Writers Bureau. It has been featured in the Rose & Thorn Literary Ezine, the Reading for Real series published by Lynx Publishing, and Hackwriters.com. Renee Holland Davidson writes: "My first poems — written as a lovestruck, idealistic teenager — are tucked away in Pee-Chee folders in the back of my closet, safe from the world. Life intruded on my creativity in my twenties and thirties, but I was reintroduced to my Muse at forty-something. For better or worse, I won't let her leave me again." Sudarshan Deshmukh is an sculptor, painter, and mosaic artist living in Toronto, Canada. She includes experiences from her past and her travels in the art she creates today. Her art begins from within: instead of concentrating on the outcome of her creative work, Sudarshan begins by working with her inner connection to the materials. Thus, the process of creating a piece often becomes the message of the piece. Sudarshan can be contacted at sri_rama@hotmail.com. Peggy Duffy has published short stories in various print and online journals, including Drexel Online Journal, Able Muse, melange, Whole Terrain, and So To Speak, where "A Temporary Measure" first appeared. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chronicle for Higher Education, and elsewhere. Her fiction has received the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award and a Heritage Writer Award, and was recognized by the Virginia Commission for the Arts as a finalist in the 2001/2002 Individual Artist Fellowship program for literary artists. She can be contacted at pduffy@his.com Elizabeth Boltson Gordon writes plays, essays and poems in Pittsburgh, PA. Her short plays were produced by Potluck Productions in 1997 and 2001. Her full-length play, A Hungry Heart, won Gemini Theatre's New Play Festival 2000. A recent poem appears at http://www.rt66.com/~sfpoetry/sagan/pantoum2.html#gordon, an essay at: http://post-gazette.com/forum/20010918edgord0918p5.asp. F.J. Gouldner writes exclusively in the short form because he believes it to be the most powerful. Like an uppercut from a fierce young boxer he affects you in the shortest amount of time and space. Carlos Hernandez earned a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Binghamton University in May 2000. He presently works as the Director of First-Year Studies at Pace University, and has published fiction and poetry in such places as The Paterson Literary Review, Sun Dog, Slant, and Happy, where his co-authored short story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. "After the Salad but Before the Main Course" began as a short story that consisted entirely of dialogue (!), which is was what prompted Carlos to re-envision it as a play. Many thanks to Liz, Cynthia, and Margaret for their edits and suggestions. Gerald Kamens has worked many places, including, chronologically, a mental hospital, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the White House, and the U.S. Senate. These jobs have shaped his views on trust, intimacy, and life. He now works for Search for Common Ground, an international conflict resolution organization headquartered in Washington, DC. Currently, he's writing a series of children's books. Gerald's latest published story, "French Lessons," appeared in the fall 1996 issue of Vignette. Debra Purdy Kong has published over 70 short stories, essays, and articles for publications in North America and England. She has also published a mystery novel called Taxed to Death, and is currently marketing a second novel. She lives in the Pacific Northwest. Helen (Len) Leatherwood isa replanted Texan who has lived in Los Angeles for the past seven years. She is a founding member of the Westside Writers' Group of LA which was begun shortly after taking her first writing class through UCLA extension in 1994. Helen has just finished her first draft of a memoir entitled, Taking Care of Our Own, and is currently in rewrite. Her work has been published on Nerdnosh.com, a site devoted to memoir. David Lignell lives with his wife Colleen and their three children in Lawrence, Kansas. He is an active member of Pam Casto's Flash-Fiction Workshop listserv, where he's met many talented writers. He holds a Masters degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Western Michigan University and works in Human Resources for Hill's Pet Nutrition, a division of the Colgate-Palmolive company. William LoneFight is a Natchez-Kialegee Creek poet and artist from Wetumka OK. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Stanford University, Oklahoma City University and Kialegee. William's work has been anthologized in Returning the Gift edited by Joseph Bruchac, and has been published widely. "I believe in the medium of online publishing because it once more brings poetry to the people. No more dusty shelves." Patricia Moore has been a freelance artist since 1964. She has studied at The Art Institute of Chicago. She has had one woman shows at American Bar Association, University of Chicago; and Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Her work is in the permanent collections of Amoco Incorporated, National Bank Corporation, Northern Illinois Gas Company, Aetna Insurance Corporation, and The American Bar Association amongst many others. In 1998 a painting, Star Gazer Lily was selected as an Easter Seal in a national competition. The Easter Seal was sent to 15 million homes across the country. Her work is sold in many galleries throughout the Midwest including The Sales and Rental Gallery of The Art Institute of Chicago, Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Catherine Nichols is a freelance editor who lives in Jersey City, New Jersey with her husband and teenage daughter. Her fiction has been published in the anthology Cemetery Sonata, as well as in the on-line publications Vestal Review, Cenotaph, and Cenotaph Pocket Editions. G. L. Pettigrew has recently recieved a master's degree in biology from Central Missouri State University. His writing has appeared in places such as Red River Review, Red Ink, Cafe Bellas Artes, Poet's at Moonspinner's, Bluesap, and anthologies by Golden Apple Press, Native West Press, in the anthology In our own words: A generation defining itself, volume III, an anthology of work by Generation X authors. G. L. has been a feature reader at Moonspinner's Cafe', Columbus, Ohio, and at the Warrensburg Art Festival, Warrensburg, Missouri. Over one hundred of Stephen D. Rogers' stories and poems have been selected to appear in publications including The-Phone-Book, Thema, and In A Nutshell — An Anthology of Micro Speculative Fiction. After teaching writing and literature in college for twenty-five years, Wayne Scheer recently retired to take his own advice and write. Some of his stories have appeared in Kafenio, LoveWords, Prose Ax, Sugar Mule, Dead Mule, When Falls the Coliseum, NovelAdvice, Inscriptions, Prose Ax, Wild Violet and Wee Ones Magazine. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and pet turtle. Pearl Stein Selinsky's work has been published in anthologies and in a number of magazines, I.e. Poetry, The Prarie Star, P.D.Q., ZamBomba. Eva Sippel's work has been published in various magazines around the country, among them Indefinite Space, Kiosk and the Tampa Review. Her first book, a collection of poetry called Breathing In was published last in the fall of 2000. "Coyote" is part of that collection. Besides poetry, Eva also writes short stories and screenplays. You can visit her web site at www.schnuffie.com. Geri Taran is co-founder and executive director of Georgia Writers Association. She is the senior editor of Georgia Writers News/Mag, a bi-monthly publication of GWA. A writer, editor and artist of diverse interests, she is the author of Adventures of The Snowman, a cat lovers'/children's book published on audiocassette tape, a poetry collection, On Wings of Word, and two small cookbooks, What to do with the Tomato, and What to do with Zucchini. She is also a publisher (Dolphins & Orchids Publishing) of literary specialties. As a freelance writer she has published numerous stories, business articles and interviews. Ms. Taran lives in Marietta with her husband, a tall, handsome, Cajun, seventh son, and shares her office with three feline co-editors, YumYum, a Chocolate Siamese, Oliver, a Lavender Siamese, and Spirit, the snow-white, pink-nosed, blue-eyed reincarnation of the late Snowman. You You may contact her at: freelancer@mindspring.com. Bob Thurber lives a charmed life in Massachusetts where he works full time at writing and part time at not much else. His essays, poems and fictions have appeared in a number of print and online publications. He is now a Contributing Editor to Linnaean Street, and co-editor of the critically acclaimed literary site, Gargoyle: Arts and Letters on the Web. He may be contacted at bobthurber@yahoo.com. |
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