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CONTRIBUTORS

Jeffrey Alfier is a technical writer living in Bechhofen, Germany. He holds an MA in Humanities, and is a member of the United Poets Coalition. Publication credits include Uno - A Poetry Anthology (2002), Because I Fly (2001), A Time of Trial (2002); and the journals, Border Senses, Columbia Review, CrossConnect, flashquake, Poetry Greece, Stolen Island Review, The Richmond Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review (forthcoming).

Russ Anderson lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, two cats, a (new) beagle, and a man-eating hamster named Cujo. He is a technical writer by day, and a not-so-technical writer by night. He is currently webmaster and contributor to Frontier Publications (http://www.frontierpubs.cjb.net).

Anne Bauer lives in Helena, Montana, where she works on an MFA degree in Vermont College's intensive residency program. This piece is excerpted from a longer short story. Besides fiction, Anne writes technical and business communications.

Kathy Briccetti is a writer in Berkeley, California. She is at work on a memoir about three generations of adoption in her family. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies.

Michelle Cameron's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in several electronic and print publications, including the LIPS, Uno; Midnight Mind; The Paterson Literary Review; Martha’s Vineyard: A Collection; Eclectica; flashquake; 2River View; and Samsara Quarterly; among many others. Michelle is a founding member of No Retreat: a women's poetry collective and lives in New Jersey with her husband and two sons.

Adam Connors lives in the tiniest flat in London.

Originally from New York, Rebecca Marshall-Courtois now teaches English in a French university. Her work has been published in Love Words, The Sidewalks End, Moondance, Literary Potpourri and E2K. New stories of hers are also due to appear in the upcoming issues of Thought Magazine and Virginia Adversaria. You can contact her at: rebecca.courtois@wanadoo.fr.

Phoebe Kate Foster is an associate editor at PopMatters (www.popmatters.com) and The Dead Mule (www.deadmule.com). Her short fiction is forthcoming or has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Slow Trains, Eclectica, Electric Acorn, Starry Night Review, Tattoo Highway, Megaera, Emrys Journal, The Dead Mule, and The Distillery: Artistic Spirits of the South, among others. She's presently working on two collections of short stories and a novel.

GAK is an artist. GAK is not a writer. In fact, GAK is lucky if he can write his own name in the mud with a stick. Suffice to say GAK hates writing bio's more than anything and prefers to let his work speak for itself. His anthology, Dead Cats Bouncing ( with Gerard Houarner ) sold out in a matter of weeks and is currently in its second printing as well as on the list for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award. You can find GAK-ART in such books as Bad News, 4X4, Excitable Boys and The Burden of Indigo. View a sampling from GAK's portfolio at www.gakart.com. (GAK apologizes for the gratuitous use of the word GAK during this bio.)

Ron Gibson, Jr. has recently been nominated for a Puschart Prize by The Paumanok Review, has had fiction and poetry included in various anthologies, is a staff member at Recluse Zine, and has previously appeared in publications such as Exquisite Corpse, Thunder Sandwich, The Whirligig, Snow Monkey, Green Tricycle, Pittsburgh Quarterly, etc. His band, The Alyssa Project, finished its multimedia concert tour of West Coast bowling alleys and is currently on hiatus. When not immersed in books about Northwest history, Native Americans, Chechnya, Russia, the Inuit, post-modern blue-collar bildungsromane, or listening to old-time radio shows or hanging out at the local comic book shop, Ron is expanding his fiction collection, This Coliseum of Mud, in hopes of having it published and thusly forgotten in the slash pile of other authors.

Swapna Goel is a former journalist who was shocked to discover she enjoyed creating fiction more than reporting facts. Flash fiction, memoirs, essays and humor stories are now her world. She lives in India but has been published at both home and abroad.

John Grey's work has appeared recently in South Carolina Review, Bellevue Literary Review and Peregrine and is upcoming in Confrontation and Lullwater Review.

Jeffrey F. Haines was born; he lived; he died in the future, but not today. Probably not tomorrow. Who knows about what lay hereafter that?

Patricia Harrington writes mysteries as well as essays and grants. Her debut mystery novel, Death Stalks the Khmer, has been used as a reading text for university social work studies. She conducts workshops on "Writing the Grant and Crafting the Mystery." Contact her at www.patriciaharrington.com.

Bradley Earle Hoge received his Ph.D. in Paleoecology from Rice University and is now a dutiful at-home Dad for two growing boys and their baby sister. Selections of his poetry appear in the collaborative anthologies Singularities and Everywhere Is Someplace Else from Plain View Press. His poetry appears in many other anthologies and small press magazines including most recently Red River Review, The Curbside Review, Big Muddy, the kerf, Suddenly IV, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and Rattle.

Scott Malby lives along the Oregon coast and writes what he wants to when the mood strikes him. Some of his work has been published online and in such journals as Bathtub Gin. However, most of it lies in piles on his bathroom floor.

Sandra McHugh is an American freelance artist who lives in Hollywood, Florida. She is retired from the biotech medical device industry where she sold arteries for bypass surgery.

Renate Moody lives in Greenback, TN with her husband John. More of her writing can be read at www.poetryuprising.com. She has been published on burningword.com and in Capsule Magazine.

Steven Pirie is to creative writing what al-Qaeda is to world peace — frankly, something of a nuisance. His writing has been published in a number of web-based magazines, several of which stopped trading soon after. He clings to the belief this is despite his best efforts, not because of them.

Gavin Salisbury has published poems and stories in a variety of magazines over the last few years, with recent acceptances by Dark Animus, Lunatic Chameleon, Scared Naked, and others. A chapbook of speculative poetry, Gravity's End, was published by Hilltop Press in 1997; a second, mainstream collection is due from Flarestack Publishing in the next year or so.

Wayne Scheer retired after teaching college writing and literature to follow his own advice and write. Some of his work has appeared in Blue Magnolia, Literary Potpourri, Unlikely Stories and The Phone Book. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2002 by flashquake. Wayne lives in Atlanta with his wife and can be contacted at wvscheer@aol.com.

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.

C.E. Staples is a writer living in Boston, Massachusetts. Her works have appeared in African Voices, Clean Sheets, flashquake, Ophelia's Muse and The Rose & Thorn Quarterly Ezine.

Thomas Paul {WORDWULF} Sterner-Howe lives in Lafayette, Colorado with wife, her two sons and his youngest son. Work published in 2002: Skyline Literary Review — Swan Song, Poetically Speaking — Like a Tear, Extant — Passage Preponderate. Winner of the Marija Cerjak Award for Avant-Garde/Experimental Writing 2001 & 2002.

Pat Tompkins is an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to two children's books, she has published articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Writer, Focus, invent, and other publications. Her fiction has appeared online for the Copperfield Review and Orchard Press Mysteries.

Susan B. Townsend is a writer and stay at home mother. Transplanted from the west coast of Canada five years ago, she now makes her home on a 300 acre farm in southeastern Virginia with her husband, five children, and a zoo full of animals. She can be reached at monitor@visi.net.

Some terms which can describe Alain Valet: Belgian surrealist, collagist, poet, digital artist, mail artist, alchemist, marbling maker, small press publisher, philosopher. These different aspects and technics are often mixed in his artworks which internauts can see here and there on Internet (go to: http://www.magikglasses.com/aez/alainswf.html or type "alain valet" in Google). Temporally and geographically, Alain Valet is born in 1967 and lives in the South of Belgium (Europa).

Ryan G. Van Cleave has taught writing at the Florida State University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay; he currently works as a freelance writer and editor in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His work has appeared in The Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, and Ontario Review.

Brad Wagshul lives in Miami, Florida. This is his first published story.

William John Watkins has just started sending out digital images. This is, in fact, the first color image he's had accepted. Two black & white images appeared in Able Muse, "Bewildered Angel" and "Cathedral," both of which accompanied poems.

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