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In 1992 Anselmo Alliegro attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, and worked with some of the best artists in the
country. In 1995 he gained a scholarship to Parsons School
of Design in New York City. Anselmo is a working artist,
and has exhibited in galleries and benefits throughout New
York.
Theresa Boyar lives with her husband and two sons in Helena, Montana, where she is currently working on a collection of short stories. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, The Adirondack Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Slow Trains, The Paumanok Review, Rattle, Samsara Quarterly, and Eclectica.
Chris Brogan is 33 and
lives in northernmost Massachusetts with his wife, Katrina,
their baby, Violette, and a cat named Papillion.
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.
A.K. Cotham wrote her first poem at six (loftily titled "I am a queen with a shining crown," a degree of pride which has sadly been tempered with time) and her first story soon after (something about a cat that barks). Primarily a novelist, her shorter work has appeared in magazines such as ByLine, Iconoclast, Kimera and 12th Planet.
Peter Fagan has a story pending publication in THEMA
(Spring 2004) and has published fiction at the Cafe
Irreal and Susquehanna University's Apprentice Writer.
He won the Groton School Creative Writing Prize and
studied writing at Middlebury College. He can be
reached at pbfagan@yahoo.com.
Marcia Fairbanks now writes from a home office overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. Her
work has been published in Kinesis, Travelers' Tales, Northeast Corridor, Contemporary
Haibun, and other journals. Her adventure in search of the "Ghost Orchid of
Fakahatchee" is upcoming in Tampa Review. She agrees with Anne Lamotte that "there is
ecstasy in paying attention."
Debi Faulkner’s work has appeared online in flashquake, Can We Have Our Ball Back, ken*again and Moondance and in print in Yemassee, Sea Change Poetry Journal and The Prague Literary Review and elsewhere. She lives in The Netherlands with her husband and two children.
Though she still considers herself a Californian at heart, Janet E. Gardner
now lives and writes in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She is a professor of
English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she teaches
writing, English literature, and drama.
Colin Garrett attended Wesleyan University and currently lives in Santa Fe.
T. R. Healy was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. His short stories have appeared in such publications as The Bitter Oleander, The Fairfield Review, Limestone, and Wild Heart.
M.K. Hobson's short fiction has appeared in SciFiction, After Hours, Talus and Scree, Metropolis Monthly, and the Hiroshima Signpost. She is currently the Creative Director of a marketing agency in Portland, Oregon, where she has helped produce award-winning campaigns for a variety of national and international clients.
Kurt Hohmann has been writing for almost twenty years, but only started
to escape the drudgery of engineering manuals in the past five. His short
fiction has appeared in Futures Mystery Anthology, and more recently in the
College Cryer. He is currently putting the finishing touches on a novel.
James Jakimowicz is a teacher. He lives and works in Asia and Australia.
Originally from NYC, Allen McGill lives, writes,
acts and directs theatre in Mexico. His published
fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, etc., have
appeared in print as well as on line: The New York Times,
The Writer, Newsday, Retrozine, Laughter Loaf,
flashquake, Heron's Nest, Cenotaph, TempsLibres,
Autumn Leaves, Poetic Voices, Amaze-Cinquain,
Bottle Rocket, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, World
Haiku Review, and many others.
Christopher Owens lives on the coast of North Carolina with his wife and three children. He is a founding member of the online writing collaborative Criminals from the Neck Up [www.untruecrimes.com]. When not writing, he may be found screaming obscenities at park benches and other such inanimate objects.
Something of an adventuress in her twenties, Jamie Pearson once slept with an impoverished member of a European royal family just to be able to say she had done it. These days she just longs for eight uninterrupted hours of sleep.
Sharon Cupp Pennington resides in Texas, and is presently working on her
first novel in the romantic suspense genre, Hoodoo Money. Her short stories
have appeared in The Emporium Gazette, Written Wisdom and Seasons for
Writing. Her children's book, Imaginary Barry, was recently named a finalist
for the Crossroads Press 2003 Author's Choice Award.
Mitali Perkins 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)
James A. Roberts, II is a writer and editor living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He holds a juris doctor from Cornell Law School and is a former managing editor of the Cornell Law Review. He is writing a memoir about his experiences with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The Opposite End of the House earned an Honorable
Mention in the personal essay category of the Personal Journaling Joy of Writing Competition.
After teaching writing and literature in college for twenty-five years,
Wayne Scheer retired to follow his own advice and write. Some of his recent
work can be found in The Phone Book, Scrivener's Pen, Insolent Rudder and
Unlikely Stories. In 2002, he was nominated by flashquake for a Pushcart
Prize. Wayne lives in Atlanta with his wife and can be contacted at
wvscheer@aol.com.
David J. Schwartz has, on more than one occasion. His fiction has or will
soon appear in On Spec and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. He is a
graduate of the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop. He prefers to ride his
bike, though he might do better with a helmet.
Marge Ballif Simon teaches art in Florida and freelances as a
writer-poet-illustrator. Her poetry, fiction, and art have appeared in hundreds of
publications, including Amazing Stories, Nebula Awards 32, Tomorrow, Space & Time, The
Pedestal Magazine, and Strange Horizons. She is former president of the
Science Fiction Poetry Association, edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, "Blood &
Spades: Poets of the Dark Side," and is HWA Membership Chairman. Her poetry
collections inlcude Stoker finalist 2003 Night Smoke with Bruce Boston and
Artist of Antithesis, 2003.
Robin Slick resides in downtown Philadelphia and just returned from East Germany where her rock star kiddies inexplicably performed with ex-members of Frank Zappa's band at a four day festival devoted to his music. She now knows that time does in fact freeze in some locations. Robin has been published in Small Spiral Notebook, In Posse Review, Insolent Rudder, Fiction Warehouse, Reading Divas, Hackwriters, Nagoya Writes, and Word Riot. An excerpt from her new novel, Three Days in New York City, will appear in the September, 2003 issue of print magazine NFG.
Maureen Taylor is a transplanted mountain woman, who recognizes the importance of discovering subtleties in life, and struggles mightily to avoid them. She shares her home with two dogs, a cat, and on alternating weeks, a doctor who can name every bacteria they create. She is a part time freelance editor and full time earth mother, who does not take the seriousness of life to heart. She stores it, rather, in her digestive tract, where it morphs into poetry. Mercifully.
Selena Thomason writes mostly science fiction, but sometimes feels called to other forms and genres. Although she holds a B.A. in Drama and works full-time in theatre administration, writing continues to be her first love.
Charles Tuomi is a software engineer and speculative
fiction writer. His work has appeared in
Chiaroscuro.
Lizzy Leaman Waronker published her first poem at age seventeen.
More recent work has appeared in ONTHEBUS. She lives in Los Angeles, California
and is writing her first novel.
Didi Wood's stories have appeared in flashquake, Night Train,
Retrozine, and other publications. She lives with her husband and two
sons near Seattle (go, Mariners!).
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