Anne Bauer lives and writes fiction in the Queen City of the Rockies, in a mini-van equipped like a jet liner. Her previous work has appeared in flashquake, Pindeldyboz, and others. She hopes to complete her MFA from Vermont College July, 2006.
Sarah Black is a former Naval Officer who lives and works on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.
David Bright has published short stories in The Iconoclast, The Rose & Thorn Literary E-Zine, Artisan, Café Irreal, The Scrivener's Pen, The Pegasus Review and several other magazines. This is his first published poem. He lives near Cape Cod.
Arthur Davis Broughton is a freelance artist / illustrator living in Ohio with his wife and three daughters. He has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions . His work can currently be seen at the Echo gallery in Chicago Illinois and Art and Soul in West Lafayette Indiana. His illustrations have been published in magazines and webzines including The Third Alternative, Strange Horizons, and Paradox magazines.
Kristy Chaboudy lives and writes in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of Western North Carolina. She is a "non-traditional" (older) student at Brevard College who recently made the bold decision to switch the emphasis of her English major from Education to something truly useful: Creative Writing.
M. Chavez lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most recently her poem, "So You Want to Be a Stripper," was integrated into the play "Pure Gold Baby," a fall 2004 Milk & Honey production in Portland, Oregon. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in the 2River View, Dogwood Press, SoMa Literary Review, and Word Riot.
Rachel Elizabeth Cole lives just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband and their two sons. Her fiction has appeared in Write Away, Gator Springs Gazette, and is forthcoming in Canadian Stories. Autumn is her favourite season.
Justin Crouse lives in Mid-Coast Maine with his muse, Angie, and three-year-old Wild Thing, Max. Justin is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel. His work has appeared, or is scheduled to appear, in Heat City Review, Foliate Oak, The Pedestal Magazine, Spillway Review, The Story Garden, Unspoken Dreams, Prose Toad, and 3711Atlantic. He can be reached for comment at www.justincrouse.com.
Kirsten Culbertson's work has been published recently on the Los Angeles Times web site and in Pearl magazine, and she has a story forthcoming in the Fall 2005 issue of Night Train. She teaches writing at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.
Kathleen Dunn De Mers has written poetry and stories for herself since the fifth grade. She is now turning some of her recent work loose.
She co-wrote (with Patricia A.Dunn) "Reversing Notions of Disability and Accommodation: Embracing Universal Design in Writing Pedagogy and Web Space", published in Kairos, A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy, Spring 2002.
CK Edgeware's work has appeared in the online journal Antimuse, and the print journals Poetry Conspiracy, Up Against The Wall, Mother, Proofrock, and others. She lives in San Diego, California.
Paul Alan Fahey is a learning disabilities specialist at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria. He is also the editor of Mindprints, A Literary Journal, a creative forum for writers and artists with disabilities. His work has recently appeared in Pebble Lake Review, Harvest and Byline.
Joy Elaine Gee is a retired school teacher who is re-entering the world of writing after a twenty-year absence. Her story "Crash" is an account of her first and only motorcycle accident, which happened just hours after she took her new bike off the showroom floor.
John Grey is an Australian born poet, playwright, musician. US resident since late 70s. John's latest book is What Else Is There from Main Street Rag. Recently John has been published in Agni, Drexel Online Review and Arkansas Review with work upcoming in South Carolina Review, Hubbub and Sojourn.
Ona Gritz's chapbook of poems, Left Standing, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She is also the author of two children's books, Starfish Summer (HarperCollins, 1998) and Tangerines and Tea (Harry N. Abrams, forthcoming 2005). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous anthologies and journals including Paterson Literary Review, Moment, Poetry East, The Pedestal Magazine, Literary Mama, flashquake, Lily and Ekphrasis where she was a finalist for the 2004 Ekphrasis prize.
Lisa Ohlen Harris writes from Fort Worth, Texas. Read more of her work in the current issue of Eclectica Magazine.
Jeanne Holtzman is an aging hippie, writer and women's health care practitioner, not necessarily in that order. Born in the Bronx, she prolonged her adolescence as long as possible in Vermont, and currently lives with her husband and daughter in Massachusetts. Her personal essays have appeared in The Providence Journal, The Drexel Online Journal, Writer's Digest, The First Line and The Iconoclast. You may reach Jeanne at J.holtzman@comcast.net.
Cathie Byers Hamilton's work has been published in flashquake, Frederick's Child Magazine, and Michael Wilson's book, Flash Writing. She lives in Frederick, Maryland with her husband and sons.
Michael Hulme lives and writes in a small corner of England. He was first published in flashquake in Autumn 2003, and has since had short stories published on line and in print. Michael is completing a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.
Carter Jefferson, a former naval officer, journalist, history professor, and psychotherapist, now teaches writing to the senior set at U. Mass./Boston. His stories have appeared in a literary magazine and in e-zines, and he even sold one, hand-bound and illustrated, in an art gallery. He also published a political biography, but that was a while back. His book reviews have appeared in the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. All sorts of stuff is available at his website: http://carterj.homestead.com/.
Karen Kalbacher has been published in print and on the Internet since 2000. She works as a freelance artist and writer. Her website is: http://www.ozmia.com.
Living and working in Louisiana, Vanessa Kincaid divides her time between her job, her writing, and her hobbies, which include old movies and travel. Previously unpublished, she now hopes to do it again — soon. She cannot remember a time when she wasn't making up stories. Sometimes she even writes them down. She has lived in five different states and has worked in fields that range from retail to law enforcement to mental health care, which gives her ample fuel for her imagination.
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 Spanish Moss and Out of Line. A recent story in Margin was nominated for a Pushcart Award.
Katherine "Kat" Mannel has been taking classes at Tall Grass Association Arts School for seven years, beginning with a classes taught by Patricia Moore (a former featured artist on flashquake). Kat has won numerous awards for her artwork, averaging twenty awards each year for the past four years at the Will County Fair, and also the SICA Best of Show award earlier this year. Commercially, she does a lot of tattoo designs and commissioned work.
Dianne McKnight is a graduate of the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College. Her flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear in Doorknobs and BodyPaint, Tattoo Highway, riverbabble, flashquake, In Posse Review, Hobart, Mississippi Review.com, and The Green Tricycle. She lives in Vermont.
Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz lives in the desert where she writes, reads and raises children and turtles. Her work has appeared in various places, online and in print. She can be reached at gwendolynjoycemintz@yahoo.com.
Over three hundred of Stephen D. Rogers's essays, stories, 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.
Lori Ruediger has taught many levels and kinds of expository writing for more than 25 years, and she has practiced creative writing since she learned to hold a pencil and shape letters back in kindergarten. To support this habit and herself, Lori finds her day job as a senior technical editor eminently satisfying.
An expatriated Floridian, Gloria Slater, lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her essays have been published in The St. Petersburg Times, The Buffalo News, The Rochester D∧C, among others. Her fiction has been seen in The Mockingbird Journal. She writes a monthly humor column for a local newspaper while staying on the good side of government officials, family and close friends.
Jan Steckel's fiction has appeared in Margin, Lodestar Quarterly, So to Speak, Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine and elsewhere. A Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic, she later cared for Spanish-speaking patients as a California pediatrician. Four years ago she left the practice of medicine and now writes full-time. She is working on a book-length collection of interrelated short stories, five of which have appeared in print. You can read more of her work at www.jansteckel.com.
Pat Tompkins is an editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her essays and stories have appeared in a variety of publications, including the Spring 2003 issue of flashquake.
Mark Venturini's publishing credentials include fantasy short stories published in The Leading Edge and Flash Me Magazine. Mark is the founding member of the Pittsburgh East Scribes Writers Group and is a member of the WorD (Write or Die) Writers Group in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and the Greensburg Writers Group in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.