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Cathy Tatusko has been locally published and is attempting to reach national (and beyond) audiences. She was invited to perform spoken word poetry at the “Bloomfield Sacred Arts Festival” and participates in local poetry slams. She was also a featured poet onthe Poetry Exchange web site. With a bachelor’s degree in English, she is trying to find a way to get paid for what she loves; writing. |
| The monster, poetXtreme, was born in Cuba to a pair of Californians. Also known as pXt (pronounced "psst"), he was published in several forgotten rags while still a teenager and into his early twenties. After a two decade silence, and two failed marriages, poetXtreme is once again offering his poetry to the reading populace. He is also the father of three humans; a stepdaughter, a son, and a daughter. |
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Darren
Speegle
A resident of Germany, Speegle's work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in various publications, including Redsine, Chiaroscuro, Writer Online, Antipodean SF, Thorns of Nature, Infernal, and Darkness Rising. |
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Scott Tinley is the author of 4 non-fiction sports related titles, is currently an MFA student at San Diego State University and swears he was straight when he wrote SerendipitUs in his head while surfing a large January swell near his home in Del Mar, Calif. He is married, has two children (that he knows of) and dreams deep and often. |
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A native Rhode Islander, Dave Lipscomb is a recovering East Coaster currently residing in Southern California. A graduate of some tiny community art college somewhere in New Haven, his first written work appeared in an issue of the legendary New Haven underground 'zine Vicarious Thrill in the late 80's. His international art debut appeared in a '93 issue of the British goth 'zine Roisin Dubh. He has also created many works on commission and collaborated on many super-obscure self-published comic books. When not doing time as a wage slave for Der Ubermaus, Dave spends his time drawing, writing, and playing bass guitar. |
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Andrew
Penland is a self-taught artist and poet living in Concord, North Carolina.
His influences include Basquiat, Cummings, Burroughs, Bukowski, Miro,
and Rza of the Wu-Tang Clan. To see more of his work visit these sites
http://andrew_octopus.tripod.com/theoddityfactory/index.html |
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Whitney Trettien, a resident of Frederick, Maryland, has had both fiction and nonfiction published in numerous webzines. A full-time junior in high school and a part-time Hood College student, she co-owns and operates Moonslush and is a tireless promoter of DIY activism in her spare time. |
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Mike
Philbin (aka Hertzan Chimera) is a senior 3D artist on the Sick Puppies
project Ghost Master in Oxford. Under the pseudonym Michael Paul Peter,
he is the author of the legendary 1990 Creation Press psycho-erotic
novel RED HEDZ. Under the Hertzan Chimera keyboard name, his chapbooks
NEURONE FRY UP and THE LESS FASIONABLE SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE and his
sci-fi horrotica novel SZMONHFU (pronounced like the French "Je
m'en fous!") were released by Eraserhead Press of Portland, OR.
2002, sees the release of the parallel constitution split-brain shock
horror novel UNITED STATES also from Eraserhead Press. The Hertzan Chimera short story THE SHELL BREAKER was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2001. Mike Philbin is a member of the H.W.A. Find out more at his "official" website www.hertzanchimera.com. For info on SZMONHFU" - 278 pages of psycho-horrotica visit www.eraserheadpress.com. Also check out "BROKEN" - twisted gore-soaked tales of sex, pain & death www.mediumrarebooks.com. |
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Harold Jaffe is the author of 10 books, including seven fiction collections and three novels: False Positive; Sex for the Millennium (Black Ice Books, 1999); Othello Blues (FictionNet, 1996); Straight Razor (Black Ice Books, 1995); Eros Anti-Eros (City Lights, 1990); Madonna and Other Spectacles (PAJ/FSG), 1988); Beasts (Curbstone, 1986); Dos Indios (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983); Mourning Crazy Horse (Fiction Collective, 1982); and Mole's Pity (Fiction Collective, 1979). Jaffe's fiction has appeared in such journals as Mississippi Review; City Lights Review; Paris Review; New Directions in Prose and Poetry; Chicago Review; Chelsea; Fiction; Central Park, Witness; Black Ice; Minnesota Review; Boundary 2; ACM ; Black Warrior Review; Cream City Review, Two Girls'Review, and New Novel Review. And his stories have been anthologized in Pushcart Prize; Best American Stories; Best of American Humor; Storming the Reality Studio; American Made; Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydreaming Nation; After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology; Bateria and Am Lit (Germany), Borderlands (Mexico), Praz (Italy), Positive (Japan), and elsewhere. His novels and stories have been translated into German, Japanese, Spanish, French, Dutch, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian. Harold Jaffe has won two NEA grants in fiction, a New York CAPS grant, a California Arts Council fellowship in fiction, and a San Diego fellowship (COMBO) in fiction. Jaffe is editor of Fiction International. You can visit his home page at http://www.jaffeantijaffe.com |
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M. Garrow Bourke’s artwork and fiction largely remain an underground phenomenon. Fried Anchovies with Bloody Bouillabaisse, his incindiary first novel, and his essay "The Art of Ribbing: a History of Sexist Humor" caused quite a stir among readers. Bourke (whose last name defies pronounciation) is currently hiding out and working on his second novel. When the urge to write wanes Bourke resorts to extreme digital image rendering. He is a traveling man who calls the roads of the United States of America his home. |
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Valerie Epstein is currently a student in Studio Art at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD. Valerie holds a B.A. in Psychology and hopes to enroll in a Master's program in Art Therapy in the fall of 2002. Eclectic in subject and materials, her art explores a range of emotional states and experiences. Valerie can be contacted at vgepstein@yahoo.com. |
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David was born in Vancouver an eon ago, but was transported to Sydney, Australia as a babe. He has been published in Antipodes, LINq, and The Pen & Quill. His poems and short stories have also appeared in bush anthologies, and he has won a number of short story competitions. When not writing, he works with autographic memorabilia, antiques, star profiles, and is 1930s film buff. For relaxation, he plays Tournament Bridge, and remains a great fan of Bernie Rhodenbarr and Matthew Scudder. As always he calls the Blue Mountains west of Sydney home. He can always be contacted at bacall1@dingoblue.net.au |
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Born a poor black child in rural Manhattan in the mid 60's, polycarp kusch grew to define the term--disinterested party. Lacking both ability and drive, he rose quickly in academic and business circles and finally landed a job as a K-Mart cashier. The following day he was fired and dedicated his life to literature. Popular opinion said this was a bad thing. This man should not be allowed access to sharp things like pencils. Then came latex gloves and computers and people forgot about polycarp kusch. But soon after World War 2, the "lost writings" of polycarp were rediscovered by a new generation of people with way too much time on their hands--and thus was born--the cult of the polycarp. He now lives in Budapest, Hungary existing on a simple diet of pork and Czechoslovakian beer with his third wife Evacarp. |
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Hugh Tribbey is an assistant professor of English at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, where he teaches literature and creative writing and has served as one the facilitators of the Vistas of the Word Writers' Conference. His poetry has appeared in poethia, ixnay, Lost and Found Times, POTEPOETZINE, Flint Hills Review, and elsewhere. Other work is forthcoming in the spring issue of Crosstimbers. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. |
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Margie Prahl is an artist and abstract painter living in Alexandria, VA. She has studied art for many years at The Torpedo Factory Art Center a unique and highly respected visual arts center. She recently made her debut at Alexandria's Art on the Avenue where her paintings were much in demand. To see more of her work visit Margie's web site http://www.angelfire.com/art2/mprahl/index.html |
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Steven L. Patterson is a freelance writer working in east Tennessee. He has been published in VW Trends magazine. Patterson enjoys writing poetry in addition to his "marketable" writing. He is also a graphic artist with works seen on www.trilliumgapfolkart.com |
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After my brother and then my wife died, the world became a dark foreboding pit, quicksand to my soul, as I sank into the madness of grief. Prose was a lifeline and my catharsis, offering token words to the emptiness that filled each day. Slowly, I learned to look at the fears echoing off my heart-chambers that ached so bad I felt as if my chest would burst wide open.
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Raymond Betancourt is a self-taught artist and poet living in New York. To see more of his works visit these galleries, Breaking Art , Live to Paint, Now Surreal. |
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Long ago Max Strange discovered how to deal with pre-bedtime-snacking-induced nightmares...write 'em down and share them! Strange has had several stories, poems, and art pieces in the speculative fiction small press, but that was almost a decade ago before life intruded and Strange became too busy to write. Recent events have awakened Strange to the fact that no one is promised "a round 'tuit," and nightmares had better be shared while they can. |
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Kevin L. Donihe has had over 100 stories and poems published in/accepted into over 70 magazines and anthologies in five countries. These venues include: The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers (Published in the U.K. by Constable & Robinson and in the US by Carroll & Graf), Eldritch Tales, Cemetery Sonata II (Chameleon Publishing), Darkness Rising (Cosmos Books), Thin Ice, Crossroads, Enigmatic Tales, Nasty Piece of Work, Frisson, Roadworks, Freezer Burn Magazine, Rictus, The Dream Zone, Penny Dreadful, Psychopoetica, Frightnet, and many others. Shall We Gather at the Garden? -- an 80,000 word novel -- was recently released in trade-paperback by Eraserhead Press. He is also the editor of BARE BONE -- the second issue of which is going to press this month. Visit his web site at http://users.chartertn.net/mbs/kldwriter/ |
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Jennifer Callahan founded her own imprint at the age of sixteen, and has published a short story collection and a novella. Now 22, she continues to write and publish, maintaining an official web presence for her work at Vanity Press: Version 3.0, www.geocities.com/citizeness3 . She plans to attend law school next year, but promises not to start writing like John Grisham. Unless she can get some really, really good money out of it. |