Stephanie Bryant Anderson
Stephanie Bryant Anderson lives in Tennessee. Her poetry has been published in several online and print magazines throughout the US and Europe. She co-edits the literary journal, Up the Staircase (www.upthestaircase.org), a venue for confessional poetry.
Bryan Anthony
Bryan Anthony is currently completing his MFA in Creative Writing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He likes to put words next to other words.
Kate Daly
Kate Daly was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and is currently residing in New York City, Kate has spent the last year creating the "Have A Heart" series. All the paintings in the "Have A Heart" series are done in oil on either canvas or wood. The series is a tribute to the heart as an anatomical structure and an expression of all the meaning that has been bestowed upon it as a symbol. http://k8daly.com/
Jim Fuess
Janet Garber
Janet Garber is a freelance writer living on the outskirts of New York City.
Christ Golon
Chris Golon is a recent New York Film Academy graduate. His film, KNOCK 'EM DEAD, KID recently won an Award as an Official Selection at the 15th Annual Twin Rivers Media Film Festival: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3335659/awards. You can find the trailer for Chris's new film, CAHUENGA PASS, at http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Lr009-yxnlU. Chris Golon is also a screenwriter and has had one of his screenplays optioned.
Howie Good
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 15 poetry chapbooks and the full-length book of poetry, Lovesick, published in 2009 by Press Americana. His second full-length collection, Heart With a Dirty Windshield, will be published by BeWrite Books.
John Grochalski
John Grochalski is a published writer whose poems have appeared in your journal as well as Avenue, Thieves Jargon, The Lilliput Review, The New Yinzer, The Blue Collar Review, The Deep Cleveland Junkmail Oracle, The ARTvoice, Modern Drunkard Magazine, The American Dissident, My Favorite Bullet, Words-Myth, The Main Street Rag, Underground Voices, Eclectica, Zygote In My Coffee, the Kennesaw Review, Octopus Beak Inc., Re)Verb, Clockwise Cat, Ink Sweat and Tears, Cherry Bleeds, Indite Circle, Lit Up, Gloom Cupboard, One Night Stanzas, American Tanka, Tattoo Highway, Lit Up, Ghoti, The Smoking Poet, Why Vandalism, The Delinquent, Delirio, The Chiron Review, Gutter Eloquence, Opium Poetry, Mad Swirl, Deep Tissue Magazine, The Loch Raven Review, The Hidden City Quarterly, Poetic Desperation, Red Fez, Eviscerator Heaven, Unlikely 2.0, and the Orange Room Review. My short fiction has appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Fictionville, Bartleby Snopes, Retort, The Battered Suitcase, The Big Stupid Review, Pequin, and will be forthcoming in the anthology Living Room Handjob. His column The Lost Yinzer appears quarterly in The New Yinzer (www.newyinzer.com). John's book of poems The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out is out via Six Gallery Press and his chapbook Meditations On Misery With Women is due on Tainted Coffee Press in the fall of 2009.
Mathew Harris Lakeisha "Kee" Hughes
Kee is a Puerto Rican/Creole Queer poetess, journalist, advertiser, marketer, and former soccer player (16 years of experience). She is versatile and enjoys being able to take on various tasks within but not limited to the field of Communications.
Native of Los Angeles, CA Kee was raised single-handedly by her mother, and is the oldest out of six children (3 boys and 3 girls). She credits her younger siblings as the forceful drive behind her positive focus, and her mother for giving her the gift of gab.
She has worked for companies such as blackcollegewire.com, Digest News, ESPN College Sports, Times-Picayune, New York Times Journalism Institute, Vibe, BET, On Wax Magazine, Etc, MF Comics, The Los Angles Recording School, Human Rights Campaign, etc. .
Kee moved to San Francisco during the summer of 2008, to pursue her Masters of Arts in Communications. She is currently involved in several projects. She does Marketing with Curve Magazine, the nation’s best-selling lesbian magazine, and Movement Productions. She does freelance writing for various local, and national publications and is a counselor and soccer coach for disadvantaged children in Oakland, CA.
Asterios Kokkinos
Asterios Kokkinos has written for the National Lampoon & Cracked Magazine, and was featured on NPR's Marketplace. He is also a writer for the online magazines Gamer Road, Verbicide, Bestcovery & Technomaly.
Luke Krueger
Luke Krueger is a Chicago based playwright/professor. Over 30 productions of his work have occurred across the country. In 2006, he held the position of Emerging Writer in Residence at Penn State; in 2007, he was named resident playwright at Northern Stage, a LORT company in Vermont. This May, "(c)Sullivan or: The Place Where People Come to Die" will make its Chicago debut with Simple Theatre. Other recent productions include: "The Sublime Abortion of Man" (Chicago 2008), "The Kicker" (Portland, OR 2007), "Holliday Money Shot" (Portland, OR 2007); "Eat Me!" (Last Frontier Theatre Conference (2006), named Best of Conference). Luke is also the author of "A Noble Function: How U-Haul Moved America".
Justin Wade Thompson
Justin Wade Thompson was born in New Braunfels,Texas and currently lives in a humble trailer park in the capitol city of Austin. He has never pursued a higher education, career, or full-time employment. When he's not writing, Justin travels the country as a touring musician.
Davide Trame
David Trame is an Italian teacher of English. He has been writing exclusively in English since 1993. David's poems have appeared in magazines since 1999. His poetry collection “Re-emerging” was published by www.gattopublishing.com in 2006.
Ernest Williamson III
Ernest Williamson III has published poetry and visual art in over 250 online and print journals. He is a professor at Essex County College and ABD at Seton Hall University. Visit his gallery at http://www.yessy.com/
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Nikki Yeager
Nikki Yeager is a 20 year old artist living in New York City. She's a free spirit with an insatiable passion for travel. Within the last year and a half she's lived and/or worked in Japan, Cambodia and the Bahamas. Many of her experiences abroad show up in her mixed media art. She currently has plans for more travel after which she'd like to complete her first novel (with any luck in the publishing department). In the meantime you can find her work at various galleries and venues in NYC. Visit www.nikkiyeager.com for more information.
e. bojnowski
e.bojnowski writes poems and stories, makes collages, takes black and white photographs, and plays guitar in the bands Polyphonic Monk, Mocha Walrus, and eeeeeeee. e's work has appeared in several indie journals including The 14 Hills Review, The Suisun Review, and on cubeside.com. e plans to move to Canada. http://www.e-bojnowski.
Will Braden
Will Braden is a writer and filmmaker from Seattle, Washington. His films have been featured in programs and festivals from Los Angeles to Wichita and most recently on CNN, which also featured his cat haikus.
His writing has been featured on various sites such as indiebloggers.org and tastybooze.com and referenced by publications such as the New York Post and the Boston Globe.
He has a deep and profound respect for cats, although he does not always trust them.
Derek Brick
Charles Brooks III
Charles Clifford Brooks III is a poet and freelance writer living in Georgia USA. He was inducted into the National Creative Society his senior year at Shorter College where he also obtained a BS in History\Political Science with a minor in English Literature. Along with his creative endeavors, he also contributes articles to three magazines and a newspaper. His poetry has been published in over 40 magazines, 3 anthologies, and printed in five foreign countries. Charles Clifford is currently Poetry Editor for Literary Magic Magazine. Ghost Shadow Press picked up his first book of poetry “Whirling Metaphysics” to publish in 2009.
Brett Buchanan
Amanda Chartier
I've been an aspiring author for many years and am currently pursuing my BA in CIT and creative writing at Franklin Pierce University. Over the past eight years, I've had work published in seven anthologies. I hope to catch the eye of some Renaissance-style patron who might be moved to fund the publication of a book of my poetry. Here's to serendipty.
Howard Cohen
Howard Cohen is a director, producer, actor and writer. He is also the founder of the comedy film troupe The Jelly Moustache. With no creative academic background, Howard has learnt about film making and comedy writing through doing it and learning from others. Howard is a big fan of The Running Man action film, Bob Dylan and lemonade. Formed in 2008, The Jelly Moustache's work has been nominated for The London Short Film Festival, The Reel Short Film Festival as well as The Fastnet Short Film Festival. www.thejellymoustache.com
Kate Daly
Mario de Alba
http://arkonviox.net/crestoe/
Caroline Depalma
Caroline is a recent graduate of Oswego State University, in upstate New York and is now attending New School University in New York City as a candidate for her MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry Concentrate. Her work has recently appeared in Soundings East, as well as Mid-American Review, Flashquake, Saranac Review and other various literary journals. Caroline is also the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Award, 2006.
Damen Smith-Draeko
Damen Smith-Draeko is a playwright from Brooklyn, New York.
Eugene Duvidzon
Christian Elder
Christian Elder is an American poet and writer. Born in New York City, New York, Elder is the son of screenwriter/playwright Lonne Elder III. A filmmaker, a performer, a visual artist, and producer of spoken word events, Elder attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the Art Institute of Florence/Scuola Lorenzo de' Medici in Italy.
In 1994 Elder coordinated a series of poetry slams, showcasing the winning poets at the Southern California Lollapalooza shows. He later produced the LA Spoken in 1996, documenting more than 200 seminal LA poetry performers in a photograph inspired by the gathering of jazz legends in A Great Day in Harlem.
He is currently producing an untitled concert documentary about Los Angeles Poets.
Robyn Feeley
Bungalow Art Studio
www.bungalowart.com
Kristin Fialko
James Foster, Jr.
James Foster, Jr. is a Screenwriter/Publisher/
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Jim Fuess
Josh Godin
http://www.sour.org
Howie Good
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 15 poetry chapbooks and the full-length book of poetry, Lovesick, published in 2009 by Press Americana. His second full-length collection, Heart With a Dirty Windshield, will be published by BeWrite Books.
kj
kj loves his cheese, naps, literature and pianos.
Luke Krueger
Luke Krueger is a Chicago based playwright/professor. Over 30 productions of his work have occurred across the country. In 2006, he held the position of Emerging Writer in Residence at Penn State; in 2007, he was named resident playwright at Northern Stage, a LORT company in Vermont. This May, "(c)Sullivan or: The Place Where People Come to Die" will make its Chicago debut with Simple Theatre. Other recent productions include: "The Sublime Abortion of Man" (Chicago 2008), "The Kicker" (Portland, OR 2007), "Holliday Money Shot" (Portland, OR 2007); "Eat Me!" (Last Frontier Theatre Conference (2006), named Best of Conference). Luke is also the author of "A Noble Function: How U-Haul Moved America".
Christopher Mulrooney
Christopher Mulrooney has written poems in Beeswax, Vanitas, Guernica, Rune, The Delinquent, and fourW.
Ben Nardolilli
Ben is a twenty three year old writer currently living in New York City. His work has appeared in Houston Literary Review, Perigee Magazine, Canopic Jar, and Lachryma: Modern Songs of Lament, Baker’s Dozen, Thieves Jargon, Farmhouse Magazine, Elimae, Poems Niederngasse, Gold Dust, The Delmarva Review, Underground Voices Magazine, SoMa Literary Review, Heroin Love Songs, Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, Literary Fever, and Perspectives Magazine. In addition he was the poetry editor for West 10th Magazine at NYU and maintains a blog at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com.
Chris Paterson
Keisha Poiro
Joseph Baron-Pravda
www.angrysponge.com
Born Brooklyn, NY, graduate of the University of Florida College of Journalism, began a career in law in 1971, recruited at that university's law school for service as a 'kid' lawyer with the Federal Government during Watergate, where he immediately 'Felt' something was amiss; later as lobbyist and private businessman. He has been a prolific writer in all genres, with an emphasis on short works, including microfiction/flash fiction as well as full length and One Act Plays. A 10 page excerpt from his play 'Patsy', involving a fated 'reunion' of JFK Jr. & the oldest daughter of Lee and Marina Oswald, won him a highly competitive place at the Kennedy Center last summer, with subsequent lifetime privileges at the annual Intensives featuring such literati as Marsha Norman, Steven Dietz, Lee Blessing, et. Al.
A cancer survivor, now fully recovered and active as a 'try'-athlete, he writes full time, having been published in ebook and other electronic media, as well as print; his diversity writing is featured exclusively by the Office of Diversity Initiatives, Office of the President, University of Central Florida website; he now resides in New York and Florida.
His short fiction work is published regularly at Toronto's finest ezine: www.writerscramp.ca. He has also been recognized as a Lifetime Guest Artist at Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensives, and he was the Selected Playwright for 'Road Scholar', 2007 Political Theatre Festival, Teatro del Pueblo. www.teatrodelpueblo.org.
His short play 'Self Portrait with Giant Squid' was chosen competitively for filmic rendition by internationally acclaimed Full Sail Studios (www.fullsail.com). Joseph has also been retained as feature writer by www.bluellamastudios.com.
Brian Renner
Brian Renner's latest project, "Something in Common," co-written by award winning riter Jerii Rodman, was a quarterfinalist in The Writer's Network Competition in 2008. It has recieved very high marks in both story telling and concept. Brian has acting credits in film, television, and theatre. www.brianrenner.net
Jessica Rosevear
Jessica Rosevear is an MFA candidate at The New School in New York City. She is also an English teacher in New Jersey.
Rich Ryfe
Rich Ryfe is a playwright and actor working in the U.S. and Canada. He publishes essays and comedy sketches at: http://VaneAttempt.
Tiffany Slotwinski
Tiffany Slotwinski has a Masters in English, Creative Writing from San Francisco State, and is currently working on her first novel. She also dabbles in poetry, screenwriting, and filmmaking. Tiffany and her husband are expecting their first child in April, 2010.
Charles C. Somerville
William E. Spear
Mr. Spear is publisher and producer of Lit Between the Ears a publication which celebrates dramatic audio. In 2006, he published his first anthology, "Lit Between the Ears, Volume One: Chekhov, O. Henry, Spear and Tarkington On the Air". He is also founder and president of Hunterdon Radio Theatre, a 501-c3 tax exempt nonprofit New Jersey radio theatre corporation.
His second anthology, "Mayonnaise in My Cake and Other Delights", is scheduled to be published in October 2009. "Swing for the Fences" will be included.
Lit Between the Ears, Volume One: Chekhov, O. Henry, Spear and Tarkington On the Air
http://TwoPlusPlus.wordpress.
Mayonnaise in My Cake and Other Delights
http://TwoPlusPlus.wordpress.
Lit Between the Ears
http://Lit.TwoPlusPlus.com/
Benjamin Thornton
Josh Tremino
Josh Tremino is from Fair Oaks, California. A writer, teacher, and philosopher, he loves language. As a poet, he strives to find those slivers of perspective that light up reality.
Jeremy Trimble
Jeremy Trimble is a writer from Sacramento who loves fantasy and romance, though he's not so sure there's a difference. As a writer, he strives to create works that will challenge the reader's worldview.
Autumn Turley
Rob Watson
Rob Watson has studied screenwriting for three years at LBCC/CSULB and has written four feature-length screenplays, one of which is under option and currently in pre-production.
Michael Weems
Christopher Woods
Other photos by Christopher Woods have appeared recently, or shall soon appear, in ANDERBO, BAP QUARTERLY, PUBLIC REPUBLIC, NEWPORT REVIEW and NARRATIVE MAGAZINE. He lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas.
Dave Younger
Dave Younger is from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
