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CAROLYN ADAMS is an artist and poet who lives in Houston, TX. Her
art and writing have been published in numerous print and web-based
publications, such as HazMat Review, The Alembic, Mad Hatters
Review, Mannequin Envy, and Foliate Oak, among others. She is the
author of the poetry chapbook Beautiful Strangers (Lily Press, 2006),
and of the art web chapbook, What Do You See?, published by Right
Hand Pointing, and available for free download at:
http://www.righthandpointing.com/carolynadams/carolyn.pdf.
MARK BULWINKLE received a BA from the University of Pittsburgh,
an MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, and soon
thereafter, attended John O' Connel Trade School where he learned
enough about welding to get a job related to the Alaska Pipeline Project.
He would remain a Boilermaker, welder, and ship-fitter in shipyards for
the next twelve years. In 1984 he began to show his "graphic" steel
sculpture nationally and continued to do so for a decade. He has
recently began releasing over forty years of his graphic imagery, mostly
on the internet. These days Mark survives on the kindness of strangers
and the coins at the bottom of the fountain of slowly evaporating infamy.
HOWIE GOOD is a journalism professor at the State University of New
York at New Paltz. He is the author of four poetry chapbooks, Death of
the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007) from FootHills
Publishing, Strangers & Angels (2007) from Scintillating Publications,
and a forthcoming e-chapbook from Right Hand Pointing.
PETRA KUPPERS has performed poetry for a good many years. Her
work has found its way into many disability culture publications, where
her work is read (what a pleasant surprise), and even written about. A
collaborative poetry collection by performance artist Neil Marcus,
photographer Lisa Steichmann and herself, entitled ‘Cripple Poetics,’ is
forthcoming with Homofactus Press in the Summer of 2008.
RAVI MANGLA lives in Fairport, NY. His work has recently appeared
in elimae, Eclectica, Johnny America, and McSweeney's Internet
Tendency. He maintains a blog - mostly for show - at
ravimangla.blogspot.com.
COREY MESLER has published in numerous journals and anthologies.
He has published two novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002) and We
Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006). His first full length poetry
collection, Some Identity Problems (2008), is out from Foothills
Publishing. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous
times, and one of his poems was chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s
Almanac. He has two children, Toby, age 19, and Chloe, age 12. With his
wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and
best independent bookstores. He also claims to have written “These
Boots are Made for Walking.” He can be found at:
www.coreymesler.com.
J.R. PEARSON lives in Dalton Gardens, Id with his wife and two pups
(he uses the dog angle to publish his work). He wears a single pair of
jeans for a week at a time, believes fleas are lucky, & cries every time
Jack Gilbert writes about Michiko. In the end he's just like you or me
only smells worse, never shaves & ultimately lives in his own filth. His
work has appeared in or is forthcoming online as well as in print from
Tipton, Cherry Blossom Review, ditch, The Houston Review, Dogzplot
& many more. He is a member of an experimental group of
collaborator's called Orzel Transtextual Poetry. He was born in Lansing,
Michigan and still dreams of the Great Lakes.
SEAN RUANE has been published in thieves jargon, eyeshot, sien und
werden, mississippi crow, 3 A.M magazine, monkeybicycle, elimae (as
julio froberg) and other places. he writes shit in a grad program at johns
hopkins university. many midgets believe that their souls will escape
through their mouths when they smile, so they don't often smile, even
for pictures, but what they don't know is that their souls actually escape
through their rectums during bathtime. sean is of normal stature, but
takes showers anyway. he may be reached at sruane2@jhu.edu.
MATTHEW SAVOCA is a short man with shaggy twisted hair. he is
from philadelphia originally but now exists in various places in europe
where he has access to free and comprehensive health care coverage. he
is slowly becoming a farmer maybe. seageometry.blogspot.com
SIMON A. SMITH lives and writes in Chicago. His fiction has
appeared or is forthcoming in Quick Fiction, Storyglossia, Look-Look,
Dogzplot, Columbia Chronicle, Insolent Rudder and others. He edits
the literary journal (www.bruiserreview.com) and can be contacted at
simon.something@gmail.com.
BRANDI WELLS is a student at Georgia Southern University, soon to
graduate with a BA in Writing and Linguistics and a BA in English. Her
fiction appears in or is forthcoming in Hobart, Saint Ann's Review,
elimae, Eclectica, Wandering Army and Vulcan. She sometimes blogs at
http://brandiwells.blogspot.com/
SHELLIE ZACHARIA teaches in Gainesville, Florida. Her stories have
appeared in Hobart, Opium, Keyhole, The Pinch, Georgetown Review,
Inkwell, and elsewhere.