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Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy where she edits the Italian Niederngasse (www.niederngasse.com). Her poetry has recently appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, The Melic Review, Absinthe Literary Review and 2River View. She has received a nomination from VLQ for the 2003 Pushcart Prize.
M. E. Barrett is from the province of Ontario and finds inspiration in the work of writer/musician/cult figure Leonard Cohen. This new poet and aspiring novelist has never won a Nobel Prize or been invited to the White House, but we all have dreams...and nightmares...and isn't that where the the poem begins?
Leah Bobet studies English Literature and Linguistics at the University of Toronto. Her work has appeared recently in On Spec and Strange Horizons, and is upcoming in Arabella Romances and H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror. As well, she is this year's recipient of the Lydia Langstaff Memorial Prize. In her spare time she enjoys reading, playing guitar, costuming, and gourmet cooking. For more, see her website at www.geocities.com/cristalia_is.
Theresa Boyar lives with her husband and two sons in Helena, Montana, where she is currently working on a collection of short stories. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in 42opus, The Florida Review, Eclectica, The Pedestal Magazine, Slow Trains, Rattle, and Pierian Springs.
Jennifer Busick has published more than 60 articles, short stories and essays, as well
as four books. Her fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Beyond the Last Star, Black Gate, and other venues. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in South Carolina Wildlife, Smoky Mountain Living, and The Ridgewriter. Her most recent book is the OSHA Compliance Guide for Medical Employers, available from Aspen Publishers. Jennifer lives in Owensboro, Kentucky with her husband and two daughters.
Sudarshan Deshmukh creates mosaic art panels and decorative pieces, sculptures, paintings, and
drawings. Her works range from the abstract to the designative, and her
inspiration is derived from a wide range of sources, including internal
issues and meditations, technology, and the natural environment. Sudarshan includes
experiences from her past and her travels in the visual art she creates today.
Instead of concentrating initially on the outcome of her creative work, Sudarshan
often begins by understanding and working with her inner connection to the
materials. The actual process of creating a piece often becomes the message
of her work, and many of her images evoke an inner story that is unique to
each viewer.
Allison Floyd lives in the Bay Area, where she writes and performs her poetry.
John Grey's work has appeared recently in South Carolina Review, Bellevue Literary Review, New Laurel Review and Lullwater Review and is upcoming in Confrontation and Birmingham Poetry Review.
When Cathie Byers Hamilton was ten, she wanted to be a
writer, living in Hawaii with her cat. At 32, she is
content to be a writer, living in Maryland with her
husband, young sons, dogs, and cats. She’ll get to Hawaii
someday . . . maybe retirement?
Michael Hulme lives in Norwich, the county town of East Anglia. He writes
music articles and reviews for three British magazines, and is compiling a
collection of short stories. His ambition is to be published before he
reaches thirty. If you're reading this, I guess he's succeeded.
Barbara Jacksha is a freelance writer living
outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has appeared in such publications as
Peregrine, Rag Mag, Poetry Midwest, The Rockford Review, Carve Magazine,
E2K, and Mindprints. Her work has also received several honors, including a
nomination for the Pushcart Prize.
A. Leigh Jones resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she works for a travel agent and dreams of faraway places. Her flash fiction and non-fiction can be found right here at flashquake, and in the archives of Ideomancer as well. Her first novel, a paranormal romance, is forthcoming from ImaJinn Books.
Derrick Lin lives a quiet, happy life in San
Mateo, California with his wife, Sandra.
Jennifer Loring's short fiction has been published in the webzines The Door to Worlds Imagined, Disenchanted, Peacockblue, Aphelion and House of Pain, and in print in Requiem Aeternam, Parchment Symbols, Blue Food and Scared Naked. She has had three stories featured on the Erotica Readers Association website, and she will be included in the upcoming Cold Flesh anthology by Hellbound Books. She currently resides in Pittsburgh, where she is a concert promoter and clerical worker.
Originally from NYC, Allen McGill lives, writes, acts, and directs theatre in
Mexico. His published fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, photos, etc., have appeared in print as well as on line: The New York Times, The Writer, Newsday, Retrozine, Literary Potpourri, flashquake, Cenotaph, Poetry Midwest, Poetic Voices, Heron's Nest, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, World Haiku Review, many others. He is an editor for Simply Haiku (www.simplyhaiku.com).
Dianne McKnight’s flash fiction recently appeared or is forthcoming in Doorknobs and BodyPaint, Tattoo Highway, riverbabble, and In Posse Review. Recent awards include the 2003 Bloom’s Day Prize and the Hayward Faultline Prize. She lives in Vermont. Her email address is dmw@gmavt.net.
Clint Meadows is a 21-year old bagboy from Columbus,
Ohio. In addition to bagging your groceries, he enjoys
reading Vonnegut and Hempel, and idolizing his
heroes — John Cusack, Conan O'Brien, and Jack Black.
Debbra Mikaelsen lives and writes in the rainforest city of Vancouver. Her curiosity about the world is strong and she has been published in three countries, but her heart seems to be in the translucent atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest. She has just completed a novel. Recent publications include Storyteller, Story House, Carve Magazine, Mobius Journal for Social Change (2003) and Green’s (2002). She has a short story due to appear in For Women in 2004. She can be reached by e-mail at dmikaelsen@telus.net.
Sandra Ramos O'Briant spent several years working successfully as an executive recruiter. Eschewing the further pursuit of wealth, she quit the headhunting business and returned to her original ambition of writing a novel. An excerpt from that book, The Sandoval Chronicles: The Secret of Old Blood, was published by La Herencia, and latinola.com. Her work has appeared in Whistling Shade, and AIM Magazine. The short story, "Mrs. Frye," will appear in The Best Lesbian Love Stories of 2004, published by Alyson Books, at your bookstore in January, 2004. A nonfiction piece, "The Tattoo Lady, Mother and Me" will appear in The Ink Pot Literary Journal in March, 2004.
Jim O'Loughlin is host of the Final Thursday Reading Series and publisher of Final
Thursday Press. His work has been featured in Utne Reader's "Webwatch" and published
recently in The Green Tricycle, Pierian Springs, and Mocha Memoirs.
Kira Reoutt is a writer who lives in Berkeley, California
with her partner and two children. To learn more about her writing, visit her website at
www.kiwiroot.net or e-mail her at kiwiroot2000@yahoo.com.
T. J. Rivard has published stories in Oxford Magazine, Eureka Literary Magazine, and The Cafe Irreal. He has also published poetry in The Kentucky
Poetry Review and has held several writing residencies at the Mary
Anderson Center. Presently, he serves as chair of the Humanities and Fine
Arts, editor of The Whitewater Review, and professor of creative writing at
Indiana University East.
Over two hundred and fifty of Stephen D. Rogers's stories and poems
have been selected to appear in more than a hundred publications.
His website, www.stephendrogers.com, includes a list of new
and upcoming titles as well as other timely information.
After teaching writing and literature in college for twenty-five years, Wayne
Scheer retired to follow his own advice and write. Some of his stories have
appeared in Scrivener's Pen, Inkburns, Fiction Warehouse, Laughter Loaf and
The Phone Book. In 2002, flashquake nominated a nonfiction piece of his for a
Pushcart Prize. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and can be contacted at
wvscheer@aol.com.
Mary Lourdes Silva, born in Fresno, California, is the daughter of
Portuguese immigrants. This birthmark has been both a curse and a
blessing. Many of her essays and poems reflect the tug-and-pull
relationship between the Portuguese and American cultures. She graduated
from California State University, Fresno with an M.F.A. in creative
writing. She is currently working on a memoir about the child of
Portuguese immigrants who accomplished the great American Dream, but not
without loss and suffering.
Sarah Sousa is a poet and free-lance writer living in Western Maine. Her poetry has appeared in Wolf Moon Press, the anthology A Sense of Place, and is upcoming in The Anthology of New England Writers 2004 and Poetry Motel. Sarah will have a poem upcoming in Spire Press. Her essays and articles have appeared in Maine Times, Employment Times and Home Business Journal. She lives with her husband, a musician, and their two sons.
Cover artist Lauren Spitzberg won prizes as a child for her art, then gave it up for 15 years and became a writer. While she was going through the grueling publishing thing, she just picked up the
pencil again. Lauren just recently finished a children's book about some hapless swine. She draws a wonderful pig.
Peggy Vincent delivered nearly 3000 babies in her career as a Berkeley
midwife. Upon retirement, she wrote a memoir, Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a
Modern Midwife, which was published by Scribner in 2002. She has also
published many articles and first person essays. Peggy lives in Oakland, California,
with her husband and teenaged son, and is at work on a second book.
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