Issue 3 Contributors
- Trina Allen: Trina Allen is a longtime writer who recently turned to fiction. Her work can be found in magazines such as Chiron Review, Word Catalyst, and Thunder Sandwich. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, writer Harry Calhoun, and their Labrador. You can visit her online at www.trinaallen.com.
- Gary Beck: Gary Beck’s original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway and toured colleges and outdoor performance venues. He currently lives in New York City , where he’s busy writing fiction and poetry, which have appeared in numerous literary magazines.
- Kim Dela Cruz: Kim Dela Cruz is a Psychology major at Brandeis University who only began writing seriously within the past year, and she’s always looking for fresh inspiration, styles and techniques to explore. Many of her scribbles can be found at http://pardonm3.deviantart.com/
- William Doreski: William Doreski teaches at Keene State College in New Hampshire. His most recent collection of poetry is Waiting for the Angel (2009). He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in many journals, including Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, Natural Bridge.
- Howard Good: Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of nine poetry chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology. His first full-length book of poetry, Lovesick, is forthcoming from The Poetry Press of Press Americana.
- Joseph Grant: My short stories have been published in 181 literary reviews such as Byline, New Authors Journal, Underground Voices, Hack Writers, Six Sentences, NexGenPulp, Is This Reality Zine , Darkest Before Dawn, strangeroad.com, FarAway Journal, Full of Crow, Heroin Love Songs, Bewildering Stories, Writing Raw, Unheard Magazine, Absent Willow Literary Review.
- Regina Green: Regina Green is a poet and therapist. She appears in the online literary magazines Breadcrumb Scabs, A Little Poetry, Cahoots Magazine and physiognomy in Letters as well asBolts of Silk, Thirteen Myna Birds and A Handful of Stones. She is also included in two Spiraling poetry collections published through lulu.com. the poetry blog sites
- Paul Handley: Paul Handley spent a career as a student and a student of odd jobs. He has an MA, an MPA, and is ABD. He has driven a cab and sold meat door-to-door. Paul has work included or forthcoming in Anemone Sidecar, Apollo’s Lyre, Boston Literary Magazine, Ophelia Street, and others.
- Peycho Kanev: Peycho Kanev grew up in Bulgaria, and moved to the United States in 2007. He lives in Chicago now for reasons unknown even to him. He is 28 years old but actually, he is 2000. He thinks that writing poetry is tough, hard cruel game and if he had a chance he won’t do it anymore, but he can’t stop. He just can’t stop. He has been published in The Guild of Outsider Writers, Mad Swirl, Word Riot, The Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, and many more. He will continue to put the word down. His new poetry collection which is collaboration with the poet Felino Soriano and the Editor Edward Wells is out now and can be found at Amazon.com Link: http://www.amazon.com/r-Peycho-Kanev/dp/0979129494/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245405775&sr=8-1
- Lili Leader: Lili Leader is a student in Washington State. She spends her spare time writing, walking around her beautiful city, and playing with her cats. She’s been published in three anthologies and is well known in her local paper’s Opinion section. She thanks you for expanding your brain with poetry.
- James Mansfield: James is a Politics and International Relations student at the University of Southampton, UK. Writing lyrics and poetry is only a hobby and he has never before had any work published. His main influences are the cryptic writing of John Frusciante and his former girlfriend who was the first one to introduce him to poetry.
- David McLean: David McLean has a blog at http://mourningabortion.com where he gives details of otherr zine publications and several published and forthcoming books and chapbooks.
- Leslie Moon: Leslie Moon aka Moondustwriter presently writes scripts for radio. She recently published a children’s book based on stories she told her children. “Poetry is like painting. Some poems use broad brush stokes and other poems use fine wisps of color. My poetry is where you see the real me.”
- James Mudgway: I am 20 years old and I have recently moved to Wellington New Zealand. I have been writing for several years and enjoy it throughly. I can be found on DA under the user name 46630329 – or you could email me at james.mudgway@gmail.com.
- John Mulligan: JBMulligan has had poems and stories in dozens of magazines, including recently, Blue Unicorn, Freshwater, Argestes, Loch Raven Review, Doorknobs & Bodypaint and Aunt Chloe, and two chapbooks: The Stations of the Cross and THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS.
- Nannie: Nannie is a name belonging only to twenty-seven people in Sweden, among them, me. I am a writer, thinker, dreamer; a piece of jigsaw looking for its puzzle. Apart from that, I have unusually flexible nostril muscles and a knack for word searches. My thoughts and words can be found at www.followmebackhome.deviantart.com.
- Ben Nardolilli: Benjamin Nardolilli is twenty three years old and lives Arlington, VA. His work has appeared in Perigee, The Oklahoma Review, Hawk and Handsaw, Heroin Love Songs, Farmhouse Magazine, One Ghana One Voice, The Maynard, Elimae, The Houston Literary Review and Perspectives Magazine. He maintains a blog at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com.
- Elena Rardon: Elena Rardon is a seventeen-year-old aspiring writer from North Vancouver Island. Along with writing, she enjoys photography, daydreaming, and people-watching. Read more of her work at virago15.deviantart.com.
- Edward Rodosek: I am a Senior Professor in University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Beside my professional work I write science fiction. I am author of four novels and twelve collections of short sci fi stories in Slovenia. Nearly four dozen of my short stories were published in SF magazines in USA and UK.
- Ray Succre: Ray Succre currently lives on the southern Oregon coast with his wife and son. He has been published in a variety of publications across dozens of countries. His novels Tatterdemalion (2008) and Amphisbaena (2009), both through Cauliay, are widely available in print. A third novel, A Fine Young Day, is forthcoming in Summer 2010. He tries hard.
- Thomas Sullivan: Thomas Sullivan’s writing has appeared in Word Riot, 3AM Magazine, and Memoir (and), among others. His memoir about teaching drivers education (titled Life In The Slow Lane) is forthcoming from Uncial Press in Fall/Winter, 2009. He lives in Seattle.
- Elizabeth Kate Switaj: Since receiving her MFA from the now-defunct New College of California Poetics Program in 2004, Elizabeth Kate Switaj has published Magdalene & the Mermaids (Paper Kite Press), Shanghai (Gold Wake Press), and The Broken Sanctuary: Nature Poems (Ypolita Press). For more information visit www.elizabethkateswitaj.net
