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CONTRIBUTORS

David Atkinson has been writing poetry for about seven years. He has been published both in the UK & USA and was included in Poetry Now's Top 100 poets of 1999. More recently, David was the winner of the Portstewart Red Sails Festival Poetry Competition 2000, and 2nd place in the Bridget Winter Poetry Competition 2001.

Besides being a monumental klutz, Jennifer L. Baum is a freelance writer who often comes up with her best fiction ideas while concussed. Her work has appeared in Scrivener's Pen and she is a columnist for both absolutewrite.com and aspire2write.com.

Sara Joan Berniker lives in Peterborough, Ontario, and is currently at work on a novel. She's recently sold stories to Not One of Us and Agony in Black. She can be reached at berniker@juno.com.

E. Bills is a 35-year-old construction worker who lives with his wife and four children in Aledo, Texas.

Don Caudill currently lives in Nashville. He has been seen around town performing standup comedy and doing singer/songwriter shows. His written work has been accepted for publication in Drang, Unlikely Stories and Literary Potpourri.

Khristina Chess received a double major in Technical Writing and Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University, and she is currently employed as a Technical Manager at Intergraph Corporation, where she is responsible for usability and user interface consistency for all products in the Process, Power, and Offshore division. Her first poem was published in Young Author's Magazine in 1986, and her poetry has also appeared in college publications, including The Oakland Review. Chess is currently working on her fifth novel. She lives with her husband in Huntsville, Alabama.

Jenny Collins congratulates the 2002-03 Sugar Bowl Champion Georgia Bulldogs. When she's not earning money betting on college athletics, Jenny pours beer at The Ship Tavern in Portland, Oregon. You can reach her at jlctrc@ipns.com, but no dirty talk.

Peggy Duffy's work has appeared and is forthcoming in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Brevity, Octavo, Drexel Online Journal, Whole Terrain, So To Speak, Pierian Spring, flashquake and elsewhere. Her fiction was recognized by the Virginia Commission for the Arts as a finalist in the 2001/2002 Individual Artist Fellowship program for literary artists. She maintains a website at http://www.authorsden.com/peggyduffy.

Melanie Faith graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1999 from Wilson College, with a BA in English. She is a tutor at The Mercersburg Academy, where she assists students with English, American History, SAT prep and French. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, Facets Magazine, Ken*Again, 3rd Muse, Thought Magazine, Pierian Springs, Rearview Quarterly, Verse Libre, Digges' Choice, YAWP, Coelacanth Magazine and is forthcoming from Artemis Journal, Promise, The Blue Fifth Review, Adagio Verse Quarterly, and a British literary journal, Carillon. She recently completed her first chapbook manuscript.

Margaret A. Frey began her career as a copy/production editor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her early fiction appeared in The Asphodel. More recently her work appeared in Writer Digest's Chronicle Series, July '02; Bovine Free Wyoming and Literary Potpourri (March '03); and elsewhere. Margaret was a finalist in the 2003 Erma Bombeck writing competition, human-interest category. She writes from the foothills of the Smoky Mountains.

John Grey is an Australian born poet, playwright, musician, a US resident since the late 70's. His latest chapbook is The Secret Address ($5 from Snark Publications at 637 W Hwy 50 #119 O'Fallon IL 62269.) John's work was recently published in Plainsongs, Arnazella and The Sierra Nevada College Review.

Shane Michael Guy is a writer currently living in Ohio (with several cats). He has written for himself for about 20 years, but has only recently begun to submit his work. You can reach Shane at shane.guy@webworkzisp.com.

A. Leigh Jones resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she works for a travel agency and dreams of faraway places. Her short fiction has recently appeared right here at flashquake, and has also been spotted in the archives at Ideomancer. Her first novel is forthcoming from ImaJinn Books.

A native of California, K. I. M. considers herself primarily a writer and has been writing since childhood. She was Managing Editor for Computer Instructor Magazine and Editorial Assistant for Photographer's Forum and Pacific Purchaser Magazine. Her writing has appeared in such publications as: Ariel VI, Dream International Quarterly, I Love Cats, Orphic Lute, Sanctuary Online, Valley Star and The Writer. This was her first attempt at electronic artwork. Visit her online shop at www.cafeshops.com/koiomo.

Danielle LaVaque-Manty's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Pindeldyboz, Eyeshot, Vestal Review, and Literary Potpourri. She will be a student in the MFA program at Ohio State University beginning this fall.

D.L. Mayhew is a musician and freelance writer. She has published poetry, essays, and short stories in The Paterson Literary Review, Exponent II, Orphic Lute, Sensations, Without Halos, Short Stories Bimonthly and Ascent.

Originally from NYC, Allen McGill lives, writes, acts and directs theatre in Mexico. His published fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, etc., have appeared in print as well as on line: NY Times, The Writer, Newsday, Retrozine, Laughter Loaf, flashquake, Herons Nest, Cenotaph, TempsLibres, Autumn Leaves, Poetic Voices, Amaze-Cinquain, Bottle Rocket, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, World Haiku Review, many others.

Dianne McKnight has been writing for over twenty years. She has a BA and MA in English, a MFA in Writing from Vermont College, and she has published stories in various literary magazines including River City Review. She has two flash fictions in the current issue (#30) of Doorknobs & BodyPaint and she was also a finalist in the Glimmer Train October 2002 Poetry Open. Stones is from an in-process, book-length sequence of short short stories called The Lucy Stories. She lives in Vermont with her husband, five dogs, and a cat. They all like to go for walks in the woods together.

Carole Moore is a newspaper columnist and former reporter who's also worked in broadcasting and as a police officer. Her essays and articles have been published both regionally and nationally. She will study creative nonfiction with Phil Gerard this summer as a participant in the Elizabeth Squires McDaniel residency program at Peace College. Moore lives on the coast of North Carolina with her husband, two children and cats.

Susan Richardson is an experienced writer and tutor of writing from Wales. Her work has appeared in a range of journals, both on and off-line, in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia, including Envoi, Poetrix, Iota and the winter 2002 issue of flashquake. Her poetic drama "Two Of Me Now" is published by Cecil Woolf in The Bloomsbury Heritage Series. For further information about her work, please visit www.susanrichardsonwriter.co.uk.

Alvaro Rodriguez is completing a master's degree in literature at the University of Houston-Clear Lake in Texas. "Things We Don't Talk About" is one of a series set in South Texas; another story, "Son of the Hawk," was one of flashquake's Pushcart Prize nominees in 2002. He is currently at work on his first young-adult novel and lives in Galveston, TX, with his wife and two children.

Lenora K. Rogers has published fiction in many small press magazines, both genre and literary. She has a story in the recently-published collection The Ghost in the Gazebo: An Anthology of New England Ghost Stories (Rock Village Publishing). She is currently working on a novel.

After teaching College writing and literature for twenty-five years, Wayne Scheer recently retired to follow his own advice and write. His stories have appeared in The Phone Book, E2K, Literary Potpourri, StoryOne and Unlikely Stories. In 2002, Flashquake nominated him for a Pushcart Prize. Wayne lives in Atlanta with his wife. He can be contacted at wvscheer@aol.com.

Susan Scott has been writing since she figured out which end of the crayon was up. She's had several short stories and poems published, and has a piece of flash coming out soon in Peeks & Valleys. Sue is co-editor of a start-up ezine, Long Story Short. She has two cranky cats that do the housework. Sue can be found in front of her computer any hour of the day or night, but please don't wake her up.

Lorie Shaw scribbles in earnest from her home in Texas. She divides the rest of her time between her husband, daughter, two German Shepherds, and the circulation desk at the local library. Her currently unpublished short story, "Before School," will be made into an independent short film in April 2003.

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.

Emmett Stinson is an editor and writer in Washington, DC. This is his first published piece of prose. He can be reached at mylesnagopleen@yahoo.com.

Dianne Thomas is a Detroit-based freelance writer.

Marge Tolchin has been writing nonfiction since she started her first diary at age 11. Personal essays have appeared in the Journal of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Studies, and as a chapter in Living Well with Hypothyroidism, by Mary Shomon. Other work has appeared in Women's Monthly, and in Letters from Camp Rehoboth. Currently, she is looking forward to retirement so she'll have more time to write. In the meantime, she is grateful for her loving circle of family and friends. Just for today, she is hale and hearty, happy and single.

Patti Weisgerber is a novice writer whose work has recently appeared in The Harrow, Pindeldyboz.com, The-Phone-Book, Insolent Rudder and Whistling Shade (under the psuedonym P.D. Sunderland).

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