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Michael A. Arnzen (arnzen@gorelets.com) has appeared in Vestal Review, Minima, 42opus, Insolent Rudder, and Literary Potpourri. His fourth poetry book, Freakcidents: A Surrealist Sideshow, is forthcoming this winter from DarkVesper Publishing. Arnzen teaches writing at Seton Hill University, located just outside of Pittsburgh, PA. He was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for his first horror novel, Grave Markings, in 1995. He invites readers to visit his home page: www.gorelets.com.

A. Davis Broughton is a freelance artist living in Pemberville Ohio with his wife and two daughters. He received his BFA and Art History Certificate from the University of Cincinnati with a focus on printmaking in 1989. He went on to gain his master's degree (also in printmaking) from Bowling Green State University in 1997. Mr. Broughton has been in numerous national and international juried exhibitions. His work has been published in magazines such as Manhattan Arts magazine and in LIA (Life Imitating Art). More of his work can be seen at www.wcnet.org/~katrac.

G. O. Clark lives and works in Davis, California. His writing has appeared in Asimov's, Talebones, Space & Time, and many other publications. A book of his poems, A Box Full Of Alien Skies was published by Dark Regions Press in 2001.

Adam Eisenstat lives in New York City, where he has been on a lengthy personal odyssey to the juncture where showbiz meets sales. He has been a musician, a performer, and a shill; also, an outlaw, an outcast, a villain, a victim, a man with a vision, a low culture grubworm, a burrowing braggart, and more.

Debi Faulkner received a BA in English/Creative Writing from Wayne State University and had a chapbook published there in 1991. Her work appeared in small Detroit-area publications before she dropped off the face of the Earth only to reappear in The Netherlands where she now resides with her husband and two children.

Richard Fein is widely published in both print and the Web journals. In addition to writing he has an interest in digital photography. He has two personal Web sites where his work can be found: http://expage.com/page/richardspoems — Poems
http://www.pbase.com/bardofbyte — Photo Album

J. Malcolm Garcia's essay is based on his recent experiences as a reporter in Afghanistan. He has had fiction and essays published in Five Fingers Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Denver Quarterly, Chicago Tribune, The Kansas City Star, San Francisco Chronicle and SF Weekly.

L. G. Hunt has published fiction in seventy magazines and anthologies. "Kerosene" is his first submission to an online publication.

A. Leigh Jones is one of the volunteer staffers at Strange Horizons, a weekly Web-based magazine of and about speculative fiction. Her short fiction has previously appeared right here at flashquake, and is soon to be seen in an upcoming issue of Ideomancer. She currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband Greg and his cat, a shy hunter called Bella.

Jennifer LaConte has been writing stories and plays since age five. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Otterbein College, and is currently seeking a master's degree through Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction distance-learning program. She resides in Akron, Ohio.

Michael Lewandowski is an artist and art teacher who resides in upstate New York with his wife Sharon and their two children, Christine and Nicholas. Having grown up in rural Rensselaer County, Michael's work is strongly influenced by the barren countryside groomed so delicately by those who live there. The basic tools and materials that past generations used to maintain their way of life serve as motifs for him. A simple hand auger is as important as the man who used it. Years of labor is contained within the tool and deserves as much attention as any object man has valued.

Michael also transforms cherished photographs into one-of-a-kind oil paintings in the style of Norman Rockwell. These paintings, called Nostalgic Photo-Paintings which can be seen on his web site (http://michaellewandowski.tripod.com/index.html) in Gallery 3.

Lyn McConchie has published 170 stories professionally since 1991. This includes work in a wide variety of North American, Australian, New Zealand, Irish, and English Magazines as well as work in major theme anthologies; Space Opera, Merlin, Catfantastic III, IV and V, (DAW USA) and Further Adventures of Xena: Warrior Princess, (Ace, USA.) I have also published a number of books, including: The Key of the Keplian,which appeared mid-1995 from Warner Aspect and continues to sell, and Ciara's Song, published Warner July '98. TOR Books published Beastmaster's Ark this June in hardcover and Beastmaster's Circus is to appear, also in hardcover, late 2003. Most recently TOR has also accepted two fantasy novels, The Duke's Ballad (sequel to my 1998 fantasy, Ciara's Song,) and Silver May Tarnish.

Maggie Mountford is a writer living in Somerset, in the West Country, United Kingdom. Maggie has published poems and short stories in her own country. She shares a home with her husband, Peter, and two crazy cats. She is in permanent mid-life crisis and her writing tends towards the darker side of the human situation, though not exclusively.

Beverle Graves Myers is a retired psychiatrist and full-time writer who lives in Louisville, Kentucky. She is currently working on a series of historical novels set in the musical world of eighteenth-century Venice. Her work has been published at Fables.org and Orchard Press Mysteries and will soon appear in Spirits and Sleuths and in Bullet Points, an anthology of flash mysteries.

Mitali Perkins was born in Calcutta, India, but grew up in Northern California. She has published short stories in India Currents, With, Spirit, and BiffsBoards.com, and is the author of two young adult novels. She currently lives in Newton, Massachusetts, and maintains a website for young immigrants called The Fire Escape. (http://www.mitaliperkins.com)

RGarfield has been writing poetry for almost 40 years. He moderates two poetry groups and runs his own Challenge Centre for poets to exercise their talents at http://pub54.ezboard.com/bthechallengecenter. In his other life, he is a computer systems person oriented towards business applications in the industrial environment.

Susan Richardson is an experienced writer and tutor of writing from Wales. Her work has appeared in a range of journals in the UK, USA and Australia, including Envoi, Hecate and Iota. She recently won second prize in the Artists Embassy International poetry competition and her poetic drama "Two Of Me Now" was published by Cecil Woolf in The Bloomsbury Heritage Series.

Jill Robinson lives in Glasgow, Scotland. She shares a house with her husband, two children, a tankful of fish, a couple of newts and an alarming number of books.

Previously published work includes "A New Song" at Firstwriter ezine. She can also be found in the December issue of Muse Apprentice Guild and the upcoming January issue of Lovewords.

Gina Romsdahl is a native Californian, spending most of her years between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe. Her hobbies involve paper, be it cutting out pretty pictures, making collages, or occasionally writing on it. Several of her non-fiction animal stories appear in the Listening to the Animals series of Guideposts Books.

Holly Rose is a writer, cellist and martial artist residing in Berkeley, California.

Tracy Rubert holds an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently resides in Orange County, California, where she works as a freelance writer and adjunct English instructor for local colleges. Her fiction has most recently appeared in Whiskey Island Magazine and Wicked Alice.

Timothy Russell has published poems here & there, now & then. His five chapbooks are out of print, and Adversaria, his full-length collection, is nearly so. He's now attempting a comeback.

After teaching writing and literature in college for twenty-five years, Pushcart Prize nominee Wayne Scheer recently retired to follow his own advice and write. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in flashquake, Literary Potpourri, The Phone Book and The Rose and Thorn. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife.

James Simpson is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer by night, and a production artist by day. His fiction has appeared in Big City Lit, storySouth, Literary Potpourri, and Permafrost. He is currently working on getting through the day with less and less sleep. He lives on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and two daughters.

Durlabh Singh am an artist based in London, England, and has exhibited widely including London, Paris, New York, Helsinki, Kenya and India. His work is in both private and public collections. Durlabh's aim is to revitalize contemporary art by introductions of new forms and expressions.

Gideon Piers Alexander Smith is a British transplant in the American Midwest. He has published nonfiction and fiction in a variety of media including Science, The Green Tricycle, The Chelsea Rag and Doorknobs and Bodypaint.

Charles West was raised a nomadic military brat living around the world and the U.S. He is currently a high school teacher working in Fresno, CA, and living in the Sierra Nevada foothills. He has published poetry and fiction in a variety of publications, including stories in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Isaac Asimov, Aim, Ameila, Fan, Light, and Hardboiled. His mystery novel, The Sacred Disc, was published in 2000 by Salvo Press.

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