Summer 2004

Carmen Adair lives in Washington State. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Opium, insolent rudder, Hobart, Cautionary Tale, the-phone-book.com, and The Green Tricycle. She can be contacted at rainchimes@hotmail.com.

Dan Allawat lives and works in South Florida. He has had short stories published in Dead Mule: School for Southern Literature and Skyline Literary Magazine.

Travel and living abroad are the inspiration for much of Konnie Andrews' writing. She hopes this will remain true for years to come.

Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy. Her poetry has recently appeared in Drexel Online Journal, Triplopia, Tryst and Tattoo Highway. She has received a nomination from VLQ for the 2003 Pushcart Prize. An e-chapbook of her poetry, Dirt Therapy has recently been launched by Slow Trains (http://www.slowtrains.com).

Louise Campbell is a healthcare worker, business owner, and mother in British Columbia. She is currently devoting time to furthering her career as a freelance writer.

Rebecca Marshall-Courtois's work has appeared in previous issues of flashquake as well as several other print and online publications including Thought Magazine, Literary Potpourri, Freefall, The Listening Eye, Saucy Vox and Smokelong Quarterly. She lives in France, teaches English to future doctors and is completing a doctorate and a novel while raising three daughters. To her, people don't get bored, just lazy. Read more of her work at: http://www.geocities.com/rebeccamarshallcourtois/bio.html

Pamela Lindsey Dreizen lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she attends fiction-writing workshops at Stanford University. Her fiction has appeared in Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Lynx Eye, The Powhatan Review,The Binnacle, and Hindsight. She gave birth to a son, Sam, in May 2004.

Richard Fein's work has been published in many web and print journals. He has two personal web sites on which he's posted his poetry and photography. They are:
http://expage.com/page/richardspoems — Poems
http://www.pbase.com/bardofbyte — Photo album

Alexandra Fox is a middle-aged, middle-England village dweller. She is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of three. She is not university educated and has run her own business for the last twenty-five years, sub-editing and typesetting scientific and medical textbooks and journals. Recently, she decided that she needed to write her first short story, and now she doesn’t want to do anything else. Her very short flash “The Ice House” was a winner of the BBC London Book Fair competition, and she hopes she will be able to write other stories that people will want to read.

Suzanne Cheryl Gardner is a visual artist, graphic designer, illustrator, children's book illustrator, art director. She attended Los Angeles Trade Technical College and has been a graphic designer for over 25 years. She has used her design experience in art direction, performance art pieces and marketing projects and is otherwise a self-taught artist. Her bright, whimsical images are created for children's books, greeting cards, prints, and illustration of all kinds. Her background is with the metaphysical and symbolic aspects of life. She also creates "Empowerment Paintings" on commission embodying images and symbols to inspire and empower. You may purchase prints of any image on her website, or buy one-time rights to DIGITAL IMAGES at www.suzannesart.com or email her at biz@suzannesart.com or call her at 360-638-1721.

Annette Gendler is trying to learn all she can about writing creative nonfiction. Because of a demanding day job and three young children, she wakes up at five in the morning to write. She lives in Chicago with her family.

Laura Anne Gilman is the author of more then twenty short stories, three non-fiction books for teens, several non-fiction essays, three media tie-in novels, and a forthcoming original novel, Staying Dead, out in August 2004, with the second book scheduled for the summer of 2005. For more information, go to http://www.sff.net/people/lauraanne.gilman.

Dawn Goldsmith reviews books for Crescent Blues E-magazine and Publisher's Weekly; writes personal essays published in Christian Science Monitor, Skirt Magazine, as well as in various anthologies including Cup of Comfort and Knit Lit Too. Her work has also been published in the online journals Lovewords and Green Tricycle.

Barbara Jacksha is a freelance writer living outside Santa Fe, NM, with her husband, two dogs, and a growing pack of neighborhood coyotes. Her work has appeared in variety of publications, including Peregrine, Mindprints, the Beloit Fiction Journal, Dark Moon Lilith, Poetry Midwest, Carve Magazine, and flashquake. Her work has also received several honors, including a Pushcart Prize nomination.

Barbara is currently working on several flash stories, a novel set in northern Minnesota, and a screenplay set in Santa Fe. She's also thrilled to be joining the flashquake team!

Miriam N. Kotzin teaches literature and creative writing is Director of the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. She is advisor to Maya, the student literary magazine. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in: The Iron Horse Literary Review, The Painted Bride Quarterly, Boulevard (for which she is a contributing editor), The Mid-American Review, The Southern Humanities Review, Pulpsmith, Confrontation, Small Spiral Notebook, Drexel Online Journal, the Vocabula Review, Three Candles, Poetry Super Highway, For Poetry.com, Word Riot, Front Street Review, Open Wide, Segue, edificeWRECKED!, Shampoo, Circle Magazine, Branches and Blaze. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum, Slow Trains, Littoral, Storied World, Southern Ocean Review and Xaxx.

Laura Loomis is a social worker in the San Francisco area, currently looking for a publisher for her novel about child protective work. Her fiction has appeared in Anotherealm, Ken*Again, and Out of Line.

Melissa Marr teaches college composition and literature courses ranging from Basic Grammar, to British Literature, to Gender Studies. Until this year, she has taught both online and in the classroom (at university and community colleges). In January 2003, she moved (with spouse and children) to Southern California and switched to teach only online and Distance Education courses. Melissa's prior publications and presentations have been restricted to work of an academic nature, particularly in gender studies and facilitating online education.

Mimi Martin is a rancher by marriage, a mother by luck, a naturalist by accident, and a writer by need. When not working for the government or being choregirl for her husband, she's picking ticks off her horse and attempting to learn the craft of writing. For Mimi, finding the perfect word can be as satisfying as popping a gorged tick under her boot.

Julie McGuire is a full-time office manager for a small law firm in Washington, D.C. She has published poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction pieces. She is currently working on her first novel. She lives in Virginia with her husband and two sons.

Ellen Meister lives in the suburbs of New York with her husband and three children. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous print and online journals, including Nassau Review, Hobart #4, Quintessence, Fiction Warehouse, Word Riot, Pindeldyboz and SmokeLong Quarterly, where she subsequently served as guest editor. You can contact her at ellenmeister@hotmail.com.

Nick Mistretta spent his 30th birthday at work. Delivering pizzas. It was shortly thereafter that he emerged from the fog. After earning a degree in journalism he left for India. He traveled around the world, wrote Vagabond Zoo, taught English in Korea. And now he’s hunkered down in Thailand.

Caroline Moore is currently a 20-something student at the University of Maine, working toward a BA in new media arts. She nurses a passion for photography in her spare time.

Thomas O'Connell is a temporarily retired librarian living in New Hampshire with his wife and daughters. His poems and stories have appeared in Brevity, Prose Ax and The Journal of Kentucky Studies, as well as others.

Carol D. O'Dell’s work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines including Atlanta Magazine, Southern Fiction Edition, Storyteller Magazine, Chicken Soup Celebrates Sisters' Words of Wisdom, Jacksonville Magazine, Tickled by Thunder, Blue Moon Review, O’ Georgia, HER Education Magazine, POD Medical Journal and AIM—America’s Intercultural Magazine. "Down the Aisle" is an excerpt from her narrative nonfiction work titled Mothering Mother. You can finc Carol's web site at http://home.comcast.net/~cdodell/.

Christopher Owens lives on the coast of North Carolina with his wife and three children. He has previously been published by flashquake, Lamination Colony, insolent rudder, and mitrochondria. When not writing, he may be found screaming obscenities at park benches and other such inanimate objects.

Marcia Peck has just finished her first novel, Water Music. Chapter Four of Water Music is included in A Sense of Place: Cape Women Writers. She received a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Fellowship in 2002 and a Loft-Jerome Foundation Mentors Award. "Long Distance" won the Lake Superior 2003 Writers Contest and appeared in the Duluth Symphony program. Marcia is a cellist with the Minnesota Orchestra.

Christina Ranon's short fiction and poetry have been published in the Minetta Review, State of the Arts, Celebration, Erosha, Stirring, Wicked Alice, Liquid Muse, Snow Monkey (forthcoming), and Many Mountains Moving (forthcoming). She has had a play performed by the Florida Studio Theatre and has been chosen to read at NYU's Creative Writing Colloquium.

Annetta Ribken is a single mom living in the wilds of Kentucky by way of upstate New York. She is currently trying to learn how to drawl and is recovering from seeing pig's feet for human consumption in the local grocery store. Annetta's work has been published in Sasee Magazine and will be seen in upcoming issues of flashquake. She is a proud member of the For Writers, By Writers and CriticalMS workshops.

Stories by Bruce Holland Rogers have won a Pushcart Prize, the Nebula Award, and the Bram Stoker Award, among others, and have been translated into over a dozen languages. He lives in Eugene, Oregon.

Kay Sexton has an overdeveloped work ethic and a fig tree in her garden. She finds it hard to reconcile the two. In the past 12 months she has been published by E2K, Literary Potpourri, MiPo, Pierian Springs, SaucyVox.com, Smokelong Quarterly, The Sidewalk's End, Thought Magazine, Wired Art for Wired Hearts and Yankee Pot Roast. She has just won the Jerry Jazz Fiction contest, and she has a quarterly column at www.moondance.org. The fig tree is also flourishing.

Fariel Shafeewas born in 1975, and is a PhD candidate at the physics department of Princeton University. Many of her family members are involved in the arts, so she has been fortunate in learning to appreciate art from an early age. Fariel's website (http://fariel1.tripod.com) contains more of her artwork, both digital and traditional. She hopes you enjoy them!!

Donna George Storey lives in northern California with her husband and two sons. She is the author of Child of Darkness: Yôko and Other Stories by Furui Yoshikichi, a translation with critical commentaries. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, AGNI Online, The Absinthe Literary Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Carve Magazine, In Posse Review, Rain Crow, Wine Spectator, and Zoetrope: All-Story Extra. A story published in Prairie Schooner received special mention in Pushcart Prize Stories 2004.

Kayla Williams received her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She lives in San Rafael, CA and is currently at work on a novel.

Rebecca Wolsk is a freelance writer from Washington, DC. Her work has appeared in Literary Mama; Brain, Child; Glass; and in several arts and humanities databases. She has an article forthcoming in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and is currently at work on a novel entitled Food and Worry.

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