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Adrienne Allmann is a mother of two living in upstate New York. When she's not writing, she enjoys spending time with her children, and trying to keep up with the laundry. Her fiction has been previously published in such forums as Deep Magic (http://www.deep-magic.net).
Noel Beebe has been inspired by many artists and all kinds of work, but is mostly self-taught. Noel had three years of university training in fine arts and many good shows in the past. She quit working on art over 20 years ago and has only recently begun again. She now uses her new-found friend and enemy the computer as her studio, canvas, paint, and brushes.
The computer is one of the reasons for her starting over, because of it she
has a huge studio space that she doesn't have to heat, keep clean, or travel half-way across town to. You can discover why she quit work for over 20 years and see work she was doing back
then, at http://www.artoutofline.com/20%2Byears/20plus.html, http://www.artoutofline.com/infoago.html, or
http://www.artoutofline.com. All of the work shown here is done in PhotoShop. The average image size is around 17" by 24" and will, if interest is shown, be available as prints.
Leah Bobet studies English Literature and Linguistics at the University of Toronto. Her work has appeared recently in Strange Horizons and Arabella Romances, and is upcoming in H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror. As well, she is a 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 http://www.geocities.com/cristalia_is.
N.M. Brewka has had five plays produced in the Boston area in the past five years. Recent short stories appear in Cup of Comfort for Courage and KnitLit Too: Stories from Sheep to Shawl. Her poetry has appeared or will appear in Glassworks, a collection of stories and poems published by Pudding House Press, and The North American Review.
Eric Burger is a recipient of a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His poems have recently appeared in Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review,
CutBank, Comstock Review, POL, and Green Mountains Review. He has work
forthcoming in Puerto Del Sol and Drexel Online Journal. He lives in Salt
Lake City, Utah.
Marlissa Campbell has published short fiction in the Extremes 5 horror
anthology, and in the late HMS Beagle. In her other life, Marlissa has a
Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology, specializing in embryology and environmental
causes of birth defects. To learn more, visit her website at:
http://home.comcast.net/~marlissa/index.html.
Candace Carman was born yesterday. Today she lives. Tomorrow she will die. In between she has worked at various jobs, has had two books of poetry published, is a member of PEN International and recently has started having her images published and sold. In September she had a photo essay in LitPot and will have another one in January 2004. She is obsessed with beauty and with power and all those elements of the natural world which are innately beautiful and powerful.
Jay Caselberg is an Australian writer based in London. His work has
appeared in numerous venues worldwide. His first novel WYRMHOLE,
a nominee for the Best Science Fiction Novel for 2003 for the Aurealis Awards is
available from Roc Books. The sequel, METAL SKY will be out in
September. Visit his website at http://www.sff.net/people/jaycaselberg.
Patti Cassidy is a writer/photographer/videomaker who lives on an island in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. She moved there after spending half of her life in the desert of Arizona. She revels in contrast.
Jim Driesen is a writer (most of the time) living in the Cascade
foothills southeast of Seattle, Washington. His stories have appeared in
The Seattle Times, Point-No-Point Magazine, The Arizona Literary
Journal, and other publications kind enough to say "yes." Other stories
have earned "finalist" status or placed at the Pacific Northwest
Writer's Conference, Midwest Writer's Conference, and the agonizing
24-Hour Short Story Competition (writersweekly.com). He promises never to unleash his "novel in thirty days" on an unsuspecting public. Jim's e-mail
is jimdries@usa.net and his website is www.foothillscreative.com.
Barry Ergang has published fiction, poetry and non-fiction in a variety of publications, print and electronic, including The Listening Eye, Maelstrom, QPB Presents the World's Best Shortest Stories, Stereophile, Nefarious, Lucid Moon, Erehwon, Proof Rock, and Barbaric Yawp. He has work forthcoming in Mysterical-E, Web Mystery Magazine, and Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine.
Marcia Fairbanks works as a freelance copyeditor and proofreader in southwest Florida. She’s careful to leave enough free time for beach walks, birdwatching, and of course, her own writing. Her recent pieces have appeared or are forthcoming in Contemporary Haibun, Tampa Review, and Snowy Egret. She is a current Pushcart Prize nominee. You can talk to her at marciafair@comcast.net.
H. A. Fleming lives in New York. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied creative writing. Her poetry and short stories have been published in or are forthcoming in Barcelona Review, Carve Magazine, Literary Potpourri, Word Riot, The Vestal Review, and other journals. She can be reached at HAFleming79@aol.com.
Michelle Garren Flye is a full-time writer, wife and mother who currently lives in Maryland. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her short stories have appeared in Hobartpulp.com, The-Phone-Book.com, Thirteen Stories, BleedingSky.com, TheMurderHole.com and HorrorLibrary.net. Ms. Flye may be reached at: mgflye@yahoo.com.
B.A. Goodjohn, originally from the United Kingdom, now resides in Forest, Virginia.
Her poetry and short stories have appeared in or are due to appear in The
Texas Review, The Cortland Review, Wind Magazine, E2K, Smokelong and other
journals. Contact: bunny[at]lynchburg[dot]net.
Vicki Graf is a freelance writer with an aspiration to
spread the word that disabilities and abilities go hand in hand.
A lifetime of chronic illness has strengthened her intention to
write about the possibilities open to disabled people — if they so
choose. She lives with her family in Vista, California. Iron Butterfly is
her first published work of fiction.
Bill Hearst lives, works, and writes in Portland,
Oregon. His stories have appeared in Ipsissima
Verba—the Very Words and Thrust, both now belly-up.
Joanna Hooste lives in Ithaca, New York and is a freelance writer. She has been previously published in Green Tricycle and Scribendi.
Steve Howard is a graduate from Western Washington University. He majored in creative writing. He has published short stories in the online literary journals Voiding the Void, Oh So Beautiful, and Southern Ocean Review (http://www.book.co.nz/sor23.htm). He is currently living in Japan teaching English.
Marian Kensler is a freelance writer living in Illinois. Her work has also appeared in Strange Horizons (www.strangehorizons.com) and The Circle (www.circlemagazine.com).
Geoff Keston is a short story author, technical writer, and journalist. His work has appeared in magazines and on the Web. He lives in southern New Jersey and writes frequently about life, entertainment, and events in the greater Philadelphia area.
Swapna Kishore works in the field of software and has written books and training material. Of late, she has started writing essays, stories and humor.
Lennart Lundh is a poet and internationally recognized military historian who turned to short fiction in his mid-fifties.
Ruth Mark is currently a Neuropsychology lecturer at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands. She was born and raised in Northern Ireland. She writes poetry, essays and is editing her first novel in whatever spare time she can grab! Her work has been published in diverse print and web venues including Riviera Reporter, Dakota House Journal, Electric Acorn, Poems Niederngasse, Midnight Minds, Miller's Pond, Snakeskin, Poetry Superhighway and many more.
Following a career as an Air Force pilot, E. J. McGill earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. His mystery novel, Immaculate in Black, was published by St. Martin's under the Thomas Dunne imprint, and his flash mystery, "Polls Don't Lie" won a 2000 Derringer Award in the category. McGill is an active member of Mystery Writers of America.
Christopher Owens lives on the coast of North Carolina with his wife and three children. He has previously been published by flashquake and will have a piece in an upcoming issue of insolent rudder. When not writing, he may be found screaming obscenities at park benches and other such inanimate objects.
Danny Rhodes is thirty two years old and
lives in Kent, England where he teaches English
Language and Literature to teenagers. He writes
mostly for this age group and has had some success at
local and national level.
He has recently had work published on the BBC website, has had two pieces of
work published by openwidemagazine and his children's
novel Storm Clouds is currently being considered for
publication by a publisher in the UK.
Lori Sambol's short fiction has been published in The New Orleans Review,
Red Rock Review, and 13th Moon. She is currently working on a novel.
Bill Sander is a retired chiropractor living in Cayce, SC. Many of his SF stories have appeared online. "The Anti-Alien" is currently featured in the March 2004 issue of AlienSkin Magazine (alienskinmag.com).
Wayne Scheer recently took an early retirement from college teaching to
follow his own advice and write. Some of his stories have appeared in Scrivener's
Pen, E2K, Literary Potpourri, Dana Literary Society Online Journal and
Laughter Loaf. In 2002, flashquake nominated him for a Pushcart Prize. Wayne lives
in Atlanta with his wife, and can be contacted at wvscheer@aol.com.
Tobias Seamon's work has appeared at 3rd Bed,
Locus Novus, The Mississippi Review, and Strange
Horizons, among others. His first novel The
Magician's Study is forthcoming in September 2004
from Turtle Point Press. He lives in Albany, NY.
Michael Smith is an avid canoeist and amateur astronomer. He practiced neurology for 17 years and now consults in medical statistics and medical errors. He has written a weekly astronomy column for 19 years and has published more than 40 articles on neurological conditions, wilderness canoeing, Navy medicine, medical statistics, and "chasing" total solar eclipses. He won the American Academy of Neurology's Creative Expression Award in 2003 for his essay "A Wise Owl." You can reach Michael at mssq@comcast.net.
Doug Tanoury is primarily a poet of the Internet with the majority of his
work never leaving electronic form. His verse can be read at electronic
magazines and journals across the world. Collections of poetry by Doug
Tanoury can be found at: http://home.comcast.net/~dtanoury1/Tanoury.html.
Doug credits his 7th grade poetry anthology from Sister Debra's
English class, Reflections On A Gift Of Watermelon Pickle And Other Modern
Verse, (Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith, © 1966 by Scott
Foresman & Company) as exerting the greatest influence on his work. He
still keeps a copy of it at his writing desk.
Esther E. Wheatley is a Web site editor living on Walton-on-the-Naze, on the
east coast of England. She studied Modern Languages at Cambridge University
and English Literature, singing, guitar and drumming at Kingston
Polytechnic, interspersed with periods of squatting in Hackney, East London
and busking on the Underground. She has written plays for primary school children which have been performed
at her old school in Essex and helps out at a local youth drama group. Her
eight-year-old daughter is currently assisting her with submissions for a
poetry anthology aimed at encouraging children to experiment with form.
Kathryn Yelinek works and writes in Colorado, but her heart
belongs to the farm country of Pennsylvania. Her first nonfiction
book A History of South Mountain Restoration Center was published
in 2001. Kathryn enjoys the theater, traveling, and star-gazing. She
is at work on her next book.
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