Issue 2 Contributors

  • Melissa is a girl who has a love-hate relationship with writing, in the way that she wishes she were better at other things aside from writing, yet is hopelessly addicted to it. Her other writings are at ohsostarryeyed.deviantart.com
  • Vanessa-Gabrielle:
    I am a Daughter of Mother Gaia.
    A Lucid Dreamer and Visionary Dancer.
    I live with my Ravens and Cats.
    I moved to the Mountains, to Dance my Visions.
    Through Poetry and Dance, I interpret them; and when the Wind is
    right, those of other Souls…my connection to Spirit.
  • Gary Beck has spent most of his life as a theater director, working as an art dealer when he couldn’t earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. He lives in New York City , where he’s writing fiction.
  • Dave Coates is from Belfast and is a Masters student at the University of Edinburgh, where he joined the editorial team at Read This Magazine. He loves the work of Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon and Mark Doty, and does not enjoy writing about himself in the third person.
  • Kiya Ewan: Born in California, raised in the bible belt- I love the arts. All of them- Writing and acting the most, although I take great pride in my art as well.. Although my parents want me to go into the medical field, I’m firmly planted in the pages of my notebook.
  • Tyrobia Harshaw is an up and coming author from Seattle, Washington, USA, with poems, short stories, plays, and a novel he is working on.  He is grateful to provide readers with a piece of his voice through literature.
  • Gary W Hartley was born in Leeds , UK , and is currently living a subsistence existence in London . He is a trained journalist; failed stand-up comedian and general opinion for hire who is making his first tentative forays into trying to get poems seen by others.
  • Chris Holdaway: I’m currently a second year student at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, studying towards a BA(Hons) degree in Linguistics. Studying language syntax and pragmatics sparked my interest for writing ‘constructively’, putting words together in ways that I find interesting. To me poetry is an artisan thing, I won’t profess to being an artist yet.
  • My name is Morgan Honeycutt.  I am 17 and in my second year of highschool.  I have only been writing for a few months, but have always had a great love of literature.  You can visit me online at http://refallath.deviantart.com
  • Joan Huang lives in a room with unicorn wallpaper, cartoon cat curtains, shelves of old books, an 1895 map of the U.S., an American flag and countless stuffed animals, where she reads whatever catches her eye, writes poetry and prose, draws and avoids homework, leaving only to eat and run.
  • Wendy K. was born and raised in Hong Kong but now attends vet school in Scotland for most of the year. Her major inspirations are the people around her, but anything that makes her think or feel usually finds its way into her writing for reasons and by methods she cannot explain.
  • Rowena Knight is in her second year at Durham University , where she studies Classics and History and helps run the university’s poetry group. She likes drinking tea, listening to Tegan and Sara, and lazing about in green leafy places with friends (preferably all at once).
  • Dave Lewis is an IT & Photography lecturer from Pontypridd, South Wales. He has always lived in Wales except for a short spell in Kenya in 1993-94. He has written newspaper columns, poetry for magazines, sports stories for the BBC and is organizer of the Welsh Poetry Competition – www.welshpoetry.co.uk
  • Omri J. Luzon started as a magazine-writer at the age of 18, but is writing ever since he discovered life. An ex-editor, a musician in heart, a writer in soul, and is now working on his first novel whilst struggling for self-discovery. Come visit him on – http://leoraigarath.deviantart.com/
  • Asmara Malik is a third year medical student living in Islamabad, Pakistan. She habitually writes love-songs for Trent Reznor. She suffers from perpetual tinnitus. She is tuned in to white noise and still hoping for you to call her on the ether one day.
  • A fourteen year old budding-writer Kathryne Owens was born in Houston, Texas in 1994 to a colorful family of nearly radical conservatives with less than tolerant attitudes. Though she emulated their political beliefs, she strayed away from their racial prejudices and both attitudes are regularly seen in her writing.
  • I’m Weston Scheffler and attended Rollins College as a freshman. I am currently an English major with a creative writing minor, with prospects of becoming a Classical Studies major with a specialty in mythology and cross cultural trends. I have been writing since junior year of high school and will continue so long as people will read it.
  • Gareth Trew is twenty-one years old and thoroughly enjoys living in London. He has a few previous publications to his name, but is still quite new to the poetry scene. As well as creative writing, Gareth is also keenly interested in the performing arts, particularly acting.
  • Sebastian Van Uytfange, 19 years old, was born and raised in Ghent, Belgium where he still lives and studies today. He attends one of the local colleges where he strives to become a teacher of English as a foreign language and moral sciences.
  • Chloe Waterfield is an English student living in Malta. She spends most of her time writing, drawing, dancing and going to the theatre. She hopes to make a career out of her writing someday, she just isn’t sure how to get there yet.
  • Dean West is a short story writer and poet from the South East of England. His works have been featured in Word Riot magazine and regularly updates a gallery of work on Deviantart.com which consists of poetry, prose and photography.He is currently working on a novel. http://www.deanwestface.deviantart.com/
  • Shirla White is a senior in high school and currently resides in the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada. She was a recipient of the Live Global Communications Literacy Award for Poetry and the Currie-Hyland Prize. If she isn’t writing or thinking about writing, she is most likely sleeping, with the occasional dream of writing floating into her subconscious.