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Kathryn Atwood’s
poetry has been published in SecondWind, Robes and Rags, and will
appear in an upcoming issue of Applecart. Her book and
film reviews have been published at PremierReview.com,
BookPleasures.com, and MonstersandCritics.com. She
researches and performs historical music programs (www.historysingers.com)
and drives her three kids around everywhere.
Amanda Auchter is the editor of Pebble Lake Review. She is the
recipient of the 2005 Bucknell Younger Poets Seminar fellowship and the 2004
Howard Moss Poetry Prize. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Bellevue
Literary Review, Born Magazine, Cimarron Review, Hawai’i
Pacific Review, Phoebe, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere.
Don Baker’s serious
involvement in photography began about 1966, mostly in still life, but with
some early work shooting MIT Crew in B&W. He recently switched from
medium-format B&W and 35mm color slides to digital photography, learning
to use a six-color giclee printer with pigment ink.
Tom Block is an artist and writer whose work is concerned with the
intersection of morality, religion and human behavior. As you can imagine,
this nexus is a particularly ugly place to work. For more information about
his work, please visit www.tomblock.com
Ariane Bolduc holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of
Southern California and a M.F.A. from Ohio State University. She lives in
Columbus, Ohio where she works as the Associate Director for Grants &
Foundations at the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Her work is forthcoming in The
Connecticut Review and The Laurel Review.
Bill Cowee received an Artist’s Fellowship in Literature from the Nevada Arts
Council in 1998 and was a Governor’s Arts Award recipient in 2001. Bill is
editor of the Ash Canyon Review, a freelance writer, columnist and a
founding member of the Ash Canyon Poets.
Born in London, Aidan Andrew Dun spent a fantastical childhood in the
West Indies and knew his calling for poetry from an early age. He returned
to London as a teenager, then travelled globally for more than a decade
before writing his first epic poem Vale Royal, (Goldmark 1995)
which, launched at the Royal Albert Hall, earned him the title Poet of
Kings Cross. His second epic Universal (Goldmark 2002) was launched in
the USA with a reading at City Lights, San Francisco. He is currently at
work on a third epic and has a volume of shorter poems
in preparation.
Gene Fehler teaches poetry writing to youngsters as a visiting poet in South
Carolina’s Artist-in-Education program. His newest book, Goblin Giggles: A
Ghastly Lift-the-Flap Book is scheduled for publication this coming
August by Simon & Schuster. In his spare time, he loves to play softball,
basketball, golf, and tennis.
Teresa Franks is a photographer and graphic designer from Memphis, Tennessee.
She began photographing flowers in 2004. Images from the series The Language
of Flowers have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationwide.
Nancy A. Henry lives in Gray, Maine and has been an attorney for 20 years,
working as an advocate for abused and neglected children and the mentally ill.
Her poems have appeared in sidereality, Rock Salt Plum, Pedestal,
Poetrybay, three candles, Poetry International, Southern Humanities Review,
and many other electronic and print publications. She is co-editor and
publisher of Moon Pie Press.
From 1986 to 1996, Joseph Lisowski was Professor of English at the University
of the Virgin Islands. St. Thomas serves as the setting for Looking for
Lisa, his recently published novel available from Fiction Works (http://www.fictionworks.com). Dr. Lisowski is now
teaching at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. Recent
chapbooks include Letters to Wang Wei, along with two essays, (Words
on a Wire); After Death’s Silence (2River View); and Grief Work
(Kota Press), JB, a dialogue in poem form between John the Baptist and
King Herod (PoetryRepairShop), Stashu Kapinski Strikes Out (Rank
Stranger Press), Fatherhood at Fifty (Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry), and Sketches
of an Island Life (dpi press).
Harold Lorin has published numerous books and articles in Computer Science
and Technology where he has made his primary career. His interests focus on
knowing why one thinks one knows something and the history of ideas. Despite
that he is sometimes even intentionally and has many adorable eccentricities.
Kelly Ann Malone was born and raised in Southern California in 1963. She has
been writing since she was 14 years old. Some of her poetic influences are
Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, Edna St.Vincent Millay and Poe. Ms. Malone has
three sons and a husband, so it’s safe to assume a dirty bathroom as well.
Linda Maxwell, a native of Perth, Western Australia, is a registered
nurse specializing in slow stream rehabilitation. Her childhood was
spent in such remote locations as Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and
Bangladesh. She has two children, Catherine and David, and enjoys
writing confessional non-fiction in her spare time.
Poet and freelance writer Jonathan Mills grew up in a haunted house in
Maryland. He lives outside Washington, DC, where he enjoys gardening, music,
and interacting with the great outdoors.
Ann Naylor is a graduate from the University of Texas. Ms. Naylor is
currently working on compiling a body of work that reflects my love of color,
movement, and energy. Her preferred media is oil painting on canvas but she
also works with wood grains.
John J. Nauke was born in Huntington, NY in 1974. He attended Marist College
in Poughkeepsie where he achieved a B.A. in History/Education and Hunter
College in NYC where he achieved a M.A. in history. He currently lives
in Manhattan and teaches Social Studies in the Bronx.
Billy Newman studied
photography at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.
Using conventional camera and film, Newman presents an intimate view of the
natural world. He scans the film then adjusts the images for color, contrast
and tone only. His digitally output images are shown and collected throughout
the Southeast.
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Baldwin C. Newton holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Meerut
University in India and a Diploma in Fine Arts from Lucknow UP India. He has
received numerous accolades including awards from the Art Crowd International
Art Competition, ACC’s Fred Bond Gallery, and New York Arts International.
Newton’s paintings have been exhibited in India, Europe, Canada, and
throughout the United States in invitational exhibitions.
Kim Northrop is an artist and
writer living in Sarasota, Florida. Her work reflects her ongoing interest in
the written word and the process of being human.
Leah Oates has photographed on residencies in Taiwan, Oregon, Vermont
and Illinois. Oates has exhibited in numerous venues including
PS122, Open Studio Gallery, The Islip Art Museum, and the
Philadelphia University of the Arts, Flux Factory, Bard College Fisher
Art Gallery, The Knitting Factory, Metaphor Contemporary Art,
Sara Nightingale Gallery, A Taste of Art Gallery and Real Art
Ways. Her work is in numerous private and public collections
including Rochester Institute of Technology, MoMA, Kohler Art Library,
Yale University, British Museum, Walker Art Center, Brooklyn Museum of
Art and the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2005-06, Oates has
upcoming residencies in Finland and Newfoundland, Canada. Oates has a
M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a B.F.A. from
the Rhode Island School of Design and is a Fulbright Fellow for
graduate study at The Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.
Allan Peterson’s All The Lavish In Common, won the 2005 Juniper Prize
in Poetry and is forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press in
2006. Anonymous Or won the Defined Providence Press competition and
was published in 2002. Recent publications include: Prairie Schooner; West
Wind; Square Lake; Belleview Literary Review Recent Online : Perihelion;
Typo; Iodine; Octopus; Right Hand Pointing Awards: Arts & Letters Poetry
Prize; Florida Arts Council Fellowship; National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship. Mr. Peterson has been nominated five times for the Pushcart
Prize.
Daniel Petrov is a New York City-based painter. He received a BFA from
the San Francisco Art Institute in 1992. His focus is the human figure,
which he renders with dynamic, emotional brush strokes. He strives less
for realism than psychological acuity.
Megan Pinch is an artist working in photography, bookmaking, and digital
imaging. Her images have been exhibited nationally and have received numerous
accolades. She attended graduate studies at Rochester Institute of Technology
and Visual Studies, where she received her M. F. A. degree. For two years,
Megan was a visiting professor at Holy Cross College, and she recently
accepted a tenure-track teaching position at Texas Tech University in
Lubbock, Texas.
Kenneth Pobo’s book Introductions appeared in 2003 from Pearl’s
Book’Em Press. His work can be read at Forpoetry.com, Three Candles, The
Poetry Kit, Big Toe Review, Drexel Online Journal, and elsewhere. He
loves to garden, collect old glass, and hunt down obscure records from the
late 60s-early 70s.
Marina Lee Sable’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Eclectica,
T-zero, Poetry Super Highway, Ragged Edge, Between Kisses, Dark Krypt, Lost
in the Dark, and other magazines.
Matthew Sailor currently lives outside of Evergreen, Colorado. In his day-to-day
life he works for a large insurance company and teaches writing for Westwood
College. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Emerson
College. His work has also appeared in The Beacon Street Review and Elevated
Living.
Jauneth Skinner is a graphic artist whose works have been widely
exhibited nationally and internationally. Selected exhibitions and
collections include The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Artemisia
Gallery, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, and Anchor Graphics in Chicago;
Minnesota State Arts Board, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minnesota
Historical Society, and Minneapolis Art Institute; United Nations’ Fourth
World Conference on Women, Bejiing, China; Kennaraháskóli Islands University
Print Collection at Reykjavík, Iceland; Le Volpi é L’Uva and Old Bridge
Gallery in Florence, Studio la città in Verona, and Rossi Library Archives in
Rome, Italy. Skinner earned a Master of Fine Arts from Bowling Green State
University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Associates of Science in
Commercial Art Technology from Indiana University.
Kim Stratford’s bio was not available at the time of publication.
Todd Swift has lived in Europe for much of the past decade. He is the author
of three collections of poems, most recently Rue du Regard (DC Books,
2004); and an editor of five poetry anthologies. He is poetry editor of
Nthposition. He recently guest-edited "The New Canadian
Poetry" section for the 2005 issue of New American Writing.
He appears in the new anthology of contemporary Canadian poets, Open
Field, from New York’s Persea Books.
Kimberly Thorpe is a painter specializing
in oils. She makes imaginative painterly landscapes and abstractions with a
focus on color and light. She exhibits and sells her work in juried
exhibitions and galleries. She is also the recipient of many awards and
honors.
Sheri Watson’s
poetry, articles, and short stories have been published in the Llewellyn
Journal, Underground Voices and SageWoman. She is deciding
whether to pursue a Master’s degree in Divinity with an eye on a Sacred
Theology Doctorate, or a Poetics MFA. She runs two online ezines and loves
reading the high quality submissions she receives.
C. J. Wiley teaches creative writing in Seattle, Washington. Her short fiction
has appeared in numerous national and international publications. She is the
author of several novels including Church Of Dogs, recently
released by Heliographica Press.
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