The Cerebral Catalyst

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Zoe Alexandra's writing has been published in Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 (Cleis Press), My Time — Lunch Book (Poet Plant Press), Zygote in My Coffee, The Commonline Project, Instant Pussy, Mad Swirl, Deconstruction Quarterly, Silenced Press and forthcoming poems will appear in Remark, Pink Elephants on Review, Word Riot and Debris Magazine.

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George Anderson was born in Montreal and presently teaches in Sydney, Australia. He has published, or is forthcoming, in dozens of magazines in the English-speaking world, including New England Review, LINQ, Blackmail Press, Unlikely Stories and Another Toronto Quarterly. He edits the student magazine Ephemeral.

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James Babbs was born during the Johnson administration when the average household income was $6,899.00 and a gallon of gas cost just 32¢. He still dreams of becoming a rock star, but would settle for Emperor of Wyoming. His poetry collection, Dictionary of Chaos, is still available from xlibris.com. Some recent poems have appeared in Abbey, Little White Poetry Journal, Nerve Cowboy, Pudding Magazine, Remark and Words Dance; and on the internet at My Favorite Bullet, Spent Meat, Thieves Jargon, Word Riot and Zygote in My Coffee.

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Keri Baker has been writing since she was a teenager, and intends to keep going 'til they plant a tulip in her and deem her fertilizer. For the non she is going back to college at the tender age of thirty-three to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. Circus clown and wild goat tamer have been listed among the possibilities.

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Leah Baldwin is a Single Black Female just trying to get by in this thing we affectionately call life.

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Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. Her stories, editorials, poetry, reviews and articles have appeared in a wide number of printed anthologies, collaborations and journals, and have won many awards. She is the author of The Art of Assessment, and Quark Soup. Her novel Sleep Before Evening will be available from BeWrite Books early in 2007.

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John Banks is a sometime literature student — and fulltime dreamer and philandering cad. He is based in Manchester, UK. If you must contact him, email; jonbanx@hotmail.com.

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Check out Ronan Barbour's myspace at myspace.com/ronanbarbour.

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Chris Baribeau's poems and prose can be found in various webzines. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Find his recent work at Litchaos, Haggard and Halloo, and forthcoming in the June edition of Spent Meat. He is also deeply and sexually honoured to be in the first print edition of Zygote in my Coffee.

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Christopher Barnes won a Northern Arts writer's award in 1998. He's read at Newcastle's famous Morden Tower and the Proudwords Lesbian and Gay Writing Festival. His collection Lovebites was published by Chanticleer Press in 2005. He is currently working on a radio programme for Web FM, as well as a collaborative art and literature project called How Gay Are Your Genes, for The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University. In May 2006 he had a solo art/poetry exhibition at The People's Theatre. His BBC webpage can be found here.

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Gary Beck's recent fiction has appeared in 3AM Magazine, Fullosia Press, EWG Presents, Nuvein Magazine, Vincent Brothers Review, The Journal, Short Stories Monthly, L'Intrigue Magazine, Babel Magazine and Bibliophilos. His poetry has appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. He is a writer/director of award-winning social issue video documentaries.

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Miles J. Bell is 36 and lives in England. His father was a boxer; his mother was a Cocker Spaniel. He has had around 100 poems published across the small press. His latest chapbook, Let's Get Visible is available from Blackheath Books (Google 'em!).

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Sydney Bergman divides her time between Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., and Narnia - though, of late, she's come out of the closet. Ba da bing. Drop her an e-mail at sbb23@pitt.edu.

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Niall Berkeley can be found skiing in Colorado while there's still a chance.

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Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal lives in West Covina, California.

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Kristin Blank is a Renaissance woman. She is the vocalist for Sing the Evens, Play the Odds. She writes the underground comic Hate Your Friends. In her spare time, she likes to curb stomp triflin' fools.

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Louis E. Bourgeois has published seven collections of poetry. His most recent collection, OLGA, is forthcoming in September 2005 by WordTech. He teaches literature and writing at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

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With several small press publication credits to date he constructs some of the most wonderfully twisted writing without all the rules. Thought provoking & brutally honest. Sometimes erotic or even down right dirty. All of the time real. This describes Sean C. Bowen's writings on the everyday thoughts that course through the human animal. Urban writing of the highest calibre, full of nasty fibre and calories; skeletal and street level like the best Velvet Underground or Lou Reed. myspace.com/yeskone.

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Luke Boyd worked at a sawmill and a trucking company to put himself through college and now is an inner-city high school teacher in Allentown, Pennsylvania. According to his students Boyd has invented the Internet, the number 7, and sarcasm. Some of his work has been published (or is pending publication) through: Silverthought, Megan's Closet, Bewildering Stories, Dark Sky Magazine, and Wanderings. He is rumored to believe in unicorns.

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T.E. Brady, American poet on skid row. Born and raised a hillbilly, now living in New England.

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Emily M. Brown is aware of how cliché it is to be a liberal arts major who works in a Barnes & Noble café. She aspires to leave central PA and become a film critic. She is secretly in love with Joel Stein and can say "I speak a little Swedish" in Swedish.

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John Bryan has also been published in Unlikely 2.0, Mad Hatter's Review, Half Drunk Muse, Subtle Tea, Turk Magazine, Stirring, Mipoesias, Outsider Ink, Thisisitmagazine and Triplopia, to name a few.

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Zachary C. Bush, 23, is a writer of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. He lives in Statesboro, GA. His work has appeared in over a dozen literary journals including VOX, Chronogram, Word Riot, Noneuclidean Cafe, R-KV-R-Y, and The Cerebral Catalyst. His first chapbook, Outside the Halfway House, is forthcoming this summer by Scintillating Publications.

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J.J. Campbell (b. 1976) lives, writes but mostly dies a little each day in Brookville, Ohio. He's been widely published in the small press, most recently in Zygote in My Coffee, Cherry Bleeds, Zen Baby, Concrete Meat Sheet and Underground Voices. J.J. can be reached via email at jcampb4593@aol.com.

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Ralph-Michael Chiaia — a.k.a. RMC, a.k.a. Parliament/Ralphadelic, a.k.a. the Scruff Daddy, then changed to the In the Buff Daddy (recently changed to Pea Diddy, then Brie Diddy), with his sidekick the Notorious P.O.P.E. live on MTV, that'll do: back to the spiel — is a surrealist and realist writer. He has been compared to Italo Calvino, Julio Cortazar, the Yeti, and The Notorious BIG. Check him at his blog or at Literary Chaos, where he is an editor.

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Joshua C. Clark is the Editor-in-Chief and Webmaster of The Cerebral Catalyst. He lives in New York City. He has cool hair. E-mail him at editor@cerebralcatalyst.com.

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Jenny L. Collins is the head bar wench at The Ship Tavern in Portland, Oregon, where they follow the Mariners and root for the Cubs. Her short fiction has been most recently published in Hiss Quarterly, Ten Thousand Monkeys and NFG. You can send your regards to jenny@ipns.com.

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Joseph L. Conty, Jr. wears a buffalo hide tunic and sips peach nectar from a chalice. Known to drink multiple flagons of mead for breakfast and chew bear fat for gum, he would like to remind the public that anyone else who dares to use the moniker of "Captain Fun" isn't fit to carry his merkin.

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Ryan Crawford is a poet and aspiring novelist currently living in Seattle. He believes in the healing powers of chocolate and thunderstorms, and has been published in Fragments.

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Caitlin Crowley is a young author from Minnesota, which is very frustrating. She goes to high school, where she plays The Best Instrument in band.

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Randy Dalzell lives in Philly, PA. He's been published in Thieves Jargon, Cherry Bleeds, and some other fiction journals. He can be reached at DalzellR@gmail.com, or via his blog at randysthought.blogspot.com. He thanks you for reading.

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Learn more about John Darling at www.ucandream.net.

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Brandon Dennett is a professional bohemian who appreciates comments, good and bad, and conversations about everything and nothing. Drop him a line at wolfskindancer@yahoo.com.

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Yale R. Deskins is an MFA candidate at Columbia University, specializing in poetry.

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Phil Doran is a (UK) performance poet/comedian/teacher/father/writer. He has published work in Zygote in My Coffee and has also self-published a book of 60-odd short stories. More poems and fiction on www.thespaghettifaction.blogspot.com.

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Aleathia Drehmer writes because she has to. Her work has previously been published in Zygote in My Coffee, The Cerebral Catalyst, Lunatic Chameleon, Haggard & Halloo, High Contrast, and Flutter. She will be in Laura Hird's Showcase this spring.

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Stan Dunn teaches at a state university on the east coast of the United States. When he is not teaching or trying to write poetry, he is cleaning his bird cages. In addition to poetry, he works in experimental watermedia painting and has had a number of awards for the work.

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P.S. Ehrlich's "Plue Velvet," is a stand-alone excerpt from the in-progress 13 Black Cats Under a Ladder. Other recent excerpts from 13BC have appeared in Thieves Jargon, Ten Thousand Monkeys, Unlikely Stories, The Sidewalk's End, and his own skeeterkitefly.com.

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Adam Engel is a Contributing Editor for Cyrano's Journal. Adam has published poetry, fiction, articles, and reviews in several websites and magazines such as CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Online Journal, Hudson Review, Accent, The Concord Journal, Beacon, Art World, Ward6 Review, CounterCurrents, LewRockwell.com, Literal Latte, Lummux, POESY, Chronogram, Press Action, and many others. Adam was a featured reader, along with Robert Creeley, Suzanne Pomme Vega, Robert Bly and others at the Woodstock Poetry Festival, August, 2001, where he read from his first book of poetry, Oil & Water. He can be reached at bartleby.samsa@verizon.net, or at his partially completed (very partially) website at adamengel.com.

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Ivan Faute is a doctoral candidate in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (please do not hold that against him). He also writes plays but does not act or sing or dance. See more at ivanfaute.com.

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Matt Finney is a seventeen-year-old poet/writer from Millbrook, Alabama.

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Matthew Flaming was born in Los Angeles and currently lives in Brooklyn where he is an MFA student in the NYU Creative Writing Program. His short fiction and critical essays have appeared online and in print: among other places, in the Timber Creek Review, Retort Magazine, Literary Potpourri, and 3AM Magazine. His home on the web is matthewflaming.com.

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Michael Frissore lives in Leominster, MA with his wife. He is a staff writer at The WRIToracle and enjoys Chinese food, time travel and referring to himself in the third person. He often tells people he's a matador.

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Click here for more from Ra Gabriel.

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Barbara Galvin lives in San Francisco. She's hoping to catch the film "Breakfast on Pluto" to see if she recognizes herself.

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Abigail George studied film and television production for a short while, which was followed by a brief stint as a trainee at a production house. She is an aspiring writer and poet.

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P.L. George's work can be found at several online webzines as well as in Absolute literary anthology.

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Steven Gillis is the author of the novel The Weight of Nothing (Brook Street Press, January, 2005) Steve's first novel, Walter Falls, was published in 2003 and went on to be named a finalist for both the 2003 Book of the Year for Literary Fiction by ForeWord Magazine and also a finalist for the Independent Publishers Association 2004 Book of the Year; the only novel to be named a finalist for both awards. (Walter Falls was recently released in paperback.) Currently at work on a new novel, Temporary People, Steve's stories, articles and book reviews have appeared in many journals, including: Tryst, The Beat, Gargoyle, Facets Magazine, FriGG, Arriviste Press, The Paumanok Review, Boom For Real, Orchid, FENCE, The Cellar Door, DJN, Rain Taxi, Detroit Free Press and The Ann Arbor Paper. Steve teaches writing and literature at Eastern Michigan University and is the founder of 826 Michigan, a nonprofit mentoring and tutoring organization for public school students specializing in reading and writing and a chapter of Dave Eggers' 826 Valencia. All author proceeds from Steve's novels go to his 826 Michigan foundation. Steve lives in Ann Arbor with his wife Mary, and children Anna and Zach.

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Stephen J. Golds, "Established 1983," was born and raised in London Colney, St. Albans, U.K and is now working as a labourer for a plant hire company, driving a JCB forklift, badly. He has been published in a variety of magazines, and is currently working on a collection of short stories and an anthology of poems. Jobs that he has been hired and fired from include: machine operator in a cardboard box factory, sauce adder in a pasta factory, cleaner, construction site labourer and shelf stacker. His hobbies include being rejected and ejected by bouncers from bars and nightclubs and poking wasps' nests with sticks. He has only been stung four times.

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Rebecca Gonzalez was born in the Bronx and currently lives in Pennsylvania with her cat, Sashi. She has been published in Haggard and Halloo, Poetryyork, and Fledgling Rag, as well as other periodicals. When she is not possessed by el duende, she is chasing him. Yes, she likes Lorca, Neruda, and Gibran.

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Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007), both from FootHills Publishing. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Right Hand Pointing, Stirring, Flutter, The Rose & Thorn, 2River View, Prairie Poetry, Poetry Bay, Juked, ken*again, and Lily. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2006.

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Joseph Grant comes to us from New York City and his short stories have been published in over 35 literary reviews and e-zines such as Byline, The New York Bar Guide (as a reviewer), New Authors Journal, Howling Moon Press, Hack Writers, New Online Review, Indite Circle, and has written articles for various newspapers, such as The Pasadena Star, San Gabriel Tribune and the Whittier Tribune. He has published a work of verse, "Indigo," with Alpha Beat Press and is working on his first novel. Mr. Grant resides in Los Angeles, CA.

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John Grey's latest book is What Else Is There from Main Street Rag. He has been published recently in Agni, Hubbub, South Carolina Review and The Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Tamsyn Grey is a free spirit, artist & writer who resides in western Pennsylvania where she is currently seeking a means to quit her day job in social services.

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M.W. Hamel has previously been published in First Class, The Mandrake Review, Down In The Dirt, Modern Drunkard Magazine, and most recently Underground Voices.

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Damion Hamilton is from Saint Louis, Missouri, and works in a warehouse. He believes writing should be honest and written in blood. He's been published in such places as: Thieves Jargon, Zygote In My Coffee, The Laura Hird Showcase, Blowback Magazine, Thunder Sandwich, Strange Road, Masodondentist and others. Feel free to google him.

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Tom Hamilton used to write along with his good friends at the Rockford Writers Guild, but has since relocated to Memphis, Tennessee. His work has been featured in over seventy publications, including No Exit, The Windless Orchard and Thin Air.

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Jonathan Hayes lives in San Francisco, California. He has taught poetry at 826 Valencia — a writing center for children — located in the Mission District of the City.

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Chris Helms is currently organizing a campaign to have both video games and real life be recognized by the Olympics.

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Dave Hemmings is 26 and lives in Brighton. He has been published by The Cerebral Catalyst, Zygote in My Coffee, My Favourite Bullet, Ascent Aspirations, Laurahird.com, Strange Road and The Beat. To order a copy of his book, The Joy of Taking a Dump in a Public Toilet and Some Other Poems, e-mail tylersclockwork@hotmail.com and say you want to buy one! They only cost 2 quid. The book contains four poems and two lino prints.

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Jeremy Hendrix has delusions of quitting his day job. He stores his junk at Non-Addictive Sleep Aid and hangs around a bit at storiesmania.net.

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Poet, editor, and publisher, Le Hinton, is the author of the chapbook Cultivating Darkness and two book-length collections of poetry, Waiting for Brion (2004) and Status Post Hope (2006). He is also the founder and editor of Iris G Press which publishes the poetry journal Fledgling Rag. He lives in Amish country in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he sometimes sneaks into a cornfield to play his saxophone.

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Janie Hofmann lives and writes in Vancouver, BC, and her work has appeared in Elimae, Southern Ocean Review and will be appearing in Underground Voices.
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Emme Hor was born in KL, Malaysia. She has a degree in Law. Also, she has an incredible ass and big tits. If you compliment her on her poetry she may sign a picture of her ass for you as a souvenir. She looks like a supermodel, standing over 1.8 metres tall. She was once offered 10,000 dollars to take a Bukkake. Whether or not she accepted can be neither confirmed nor denied. She has been writing poetry since college as an escape from the regiment of words. Mail her at dear.hor@gmail.com See more about her at http://emhor.blogspot.com.

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Zachary Houle is a 2004 Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2005 recipient of a fiction writing grant from the City of Ottawa, Canada. His work has appeared in Pindeldyboz, Word Riot, Thieves Jargon, The Danforth Review, SPIN Magazine and others. He is the former associate books editor of Popmatters.com.

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Bryon D. Howell is a poet currently residing in New Haven, Connecticut. He has been writing poetry for a great number of years. Recently, work of his has appeared in Unlikely Stories, poeticdiversity, and Censored Poets.

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Don Hucks lives in Arlington, Texas. His fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Baker's Dozen Review, Brink, Clockwise Cat, The Pedestal, and 971 Menu.

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Tricia Hunt is a paranoid narcoleptic who sleeps with all the lights on, the television blaring, and sets three alarm clocks every night, just in case. She also has an intense irrational fear of talking to strangers on the phone, which makes it difficult to order Chinese food.

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Justin Hyde lives in Iowa. He once artificially inseminated pigs for a living. He can be reached at jjjjhyde@yahoo.com. Click here to visit his blog. His first first book of poetry, Down Where the Hummingbird Goes to Die, is now available from The Guild of Outsider Writers and Zygote in My Coffee.

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Caroline Imreibe lives in Chicago and works in advertising.

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Michael Internicola is the author of four novels, Kiss Me Baby, Sunflowers!, Chaz, and All Our Skies are Blue and three collections of poetry, Malism, As Right as Rain, and The Darkest Place is Under a Streetlight. His poems, prose and fiction have appeared in numerous magazines. He lives in Key West, Florida.

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Daniel S. Irwin is an artist/writer (both a matter of opinion) who works as a medic in a maximum security prison, as his creditors expect to be paid, and it's a daily decision as to whether he should be let out at night... especially when the moon is full. He's had work published in various publications throughout the world... and various works rejected throughout the world... is there no humor in France?

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Joy St. John Johnson has published poems on the net and in print. Most recently she won second prize for formal poetry in the Poetry of the Pagan contest by Oestara Publishing, anthology forthcoming. She lives in Alabama.

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Mr. Michael Lee Johnson lives in Chicago, IL after spending 10 years in Edmonton, Alberta Canada during the Vietnam era. He is a freelance writer and poet. He is heavy influenced by Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Leonard Cohen. 200-plus poems pending publication or published. He is a member of Poets & Writers, Inc.; Directory of American Poets & Fictions Writers. Recent publications: The Orange Room Review, Bolts of Silk, Chantarelle's Notebook, The Foliate Oak Online Literary Magazine, Poetry Cemetery , Official Site of Laura Hird, The Centrifugal Eye, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Scorched Earth Publishing and many others. Published in USA, Canada, New Zealand, Nigeria Africa, India, United Kingdom.

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It is rumored that Moctezuma Johnson was found in a New Jersey sewer in 1975, although this cannot be verified. He is known for his phosphorescence and luminosity as well as his septic filth. You could consider him something of a Ra merged with Yeti — an improbable spin of DNA mixing plant, animal, and human. Also, he writes a weekly column for a local newspaper in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he lives with his clan. Visit http://johnshon.blogspot.com for more from Moctezuma Johnson.

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Jason Jordan is a 23-year-old writer from New Albany, Indiana who always says he's from Louisville, Kentucky because people actually know where that is. He's been published in The Edward Society, RAGAD, decomP, the2ndhand, and others, and his debut is entitled Powering the Devil's Circus, which can be ordered through his official website: poweringthedevilscircus.com.

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Meghan Kallman lives in Cochabamba, Bolivia, where she directs an integral community arts and environmental education program when she is not writing. In past lives she has made a living as a dancer, a painter, a social worker, a sailor, and a teacher.

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Paul Kavanagh was born in 1971, and this accounts for his perplexity with money. A nomad is he, forever peripatetic, a quixotic exile. H. Langden says: "Paul Kavanagh cannot sit still, he drinks too much tea, he succumbs to Pascal's melancholy for he is unable to remain quietly in a room." He is happy. His wife is happy.

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Vernard Kennedy is a New York City Public School teacher. He holds degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing. He is a member of the Zoetrope and Museitupclub writing communities.

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Sheila Knowles is an Irish woman who is currently living in Germany, teaching English and constantly on the lookout for the next revolution. She has been the poetry editor at The Indite Circle for the last two years and has also published poems in On2raj and Remark.

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David LaBounty lives with his wife and two sons. His poetry has recently appeared in Boston Literary Magazine, The Verse Marauder, Four Volts and in upcoming issues of Autumn Sky Poetry and Pemmican. His bio is pretty boring, though when he was trying to be the next Hemingway he served in the navy, worked in a Nevada gold mine and also held jobs as a mechanic, a reporter and a salesman.

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C.D. Lake teaches for a living and writes poetry when he becomes sufficiently inspired. His work has appeared in Eclectica Magazine and Central Avenue. He has called many places home, but his current and final home is Albuquerque, New Mexico (where he lives with his current and final wife).

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After ten years in the print industry, Andrew Lander set up a bookselling company which he has now run for the last nine years. He writes and paints, when time allows, and his work can be seen in many print and online journals. He also designs & edits the print and online poetry journal from Showcase Press. You can view some of his artwork by going to: http://www.outofoffice.deviantart.com.

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Pete Lee lives with his wife in Ridgecrest, California, where he works as an independent bookseller. His poetry has most recently appeared in the online journals Antithesis Common, The 13th Warrior Review, Alba, The Country Mouse, Shampoo, and The Rose & Thorn.

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Visit pointoflife.com for more from Michael Levy.

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Dan Lewis resides in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he earns his living as a technical writer and lives his earning as a poet. Old enough to know better, he still finds himself walking in the world agog. Publication credits include The Worcester Review, Diner, Beloit Poetry Journal, Paper Street, Segue, and others.

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Anthony Liccione lives in Texas, but his heart resides in New York. His poetry has appeared in Indite Circle, Gloom Cupboard, Mastodon Dentist, Paper Wall, Locust Magazine, Straight From the Fridge, Great Works, Lucid Rhythms, Death Metal Poetry and others. His latest book Please Pass Me, the Blood & Butter is available at Lulu.

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Richard Lighthouse is a contemporary writer and poet. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University. His work has been published in: The Penwood Review, West Hills Review, Mudfish, and many others worldwide.

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Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy, English Renaissance literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, was Poet in Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years. He has published over 5,000 poems. He is the author of 14 print books of poetry, and 3 E-books. He is also a painter and photographer. His old biographical notes, published many times, are now obsolete. The notes stated that he lived in an old decaying house in the sunny Tampa slums, populated largely by drug dealers and the homeless. The house was condemned by the city of Tampa inspectors, what he calls the "Tampa Gestapo", and after his living at this location for fifty years, he was forced to leave within six days.

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Søren Lundi is the second best dressed man in Pittsburgh. His first book can be ordered from fatalromantic.com.

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Carla MacKinnon may not be much of a poet but she makes a mean Chocolate Crunch. She is currently in London, England, working on a political novella about Bruce Willis.

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Chris Major lives in Staffordshire, England, where he has placed poetry in print mags. Online at, amongst others: Stirring, Poetrykit, Undergroundvoices, My Fav Bullet, Zygote in My Coffee, Remark, etc.

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Charles Marchetti is a columnist and frequent contributor to the Cerebral Catalyst. He attempts to adhere to a philosophy where all time is one, so that he is justified in missing his deadlines. At present he is working on a novel as well as his M.F.A. at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Ruth Mark is a licensed psychologist, poet and editor. She’s Irish but currently lives in The Netherlands where she teaches undergraduates about the workings of the brain. Her work has been published in diverse print and web venues including Riviera Reporter, Dakota House Journal, Poems Niederngasse, Midnight Minds, Snakeskin, Wicked Alice, Pebble Lake Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Superhighway, Green Tricycle and many more. She also reviews on a regular basis for Tamafhyr Mountain Poetry and The Blue Iris Review. More details can be found at: www.remark.be.

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Rachel Markowitz is a writer from Brooklyn.

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Nicky Marsh is a writer and sometime poet from Bradford, England. She's a founding member of a yet-to-be-named Writers' Circle, although she occasionally wonders whether this one couldn't more accurately be called a Writers' Triangle.

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Wayne Mason is a writer from central Florida. He won't bother boring you with publishing credits; he's been published here and there.

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Paul Masterson is an indiependent artus who werks, writes and deconstructs things some place in Georgia.

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Michele McDannold is a poet from downstate Illinois. Her poetry has been published in a few places like Red Fez, Lit Chaos, decomP and Zygote in my Coffee.

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Leopold McGinnis is the founding editor of Red Fez Publications, a founding member of The Guild of Outsider Writers and the author of three independently published novels: The Red Fez, Game Quest and Bad Attitude. He's been published here and there, in print and online, which apparently makes his artistic qualities credible. Currently, he lives in Canada with about 30 million other people and his website, leopoldmcginnis.com.

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Stephen Mead's newest work, Safe & Other Love Poems, is a fifty-minute celebration of romance set to music. Mead's poetry has been appearing in both literary print magazines and online sites internationally since the early 1990s.

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Corey Mesler has published prose and poetry in over seventy books and magazines. He is the author of three chapbooks of poetry; Piecework, Chin-Chin in Eden, and Dark on Purpose, and two more are scheduled for publication in 2006. His novel-in-dialogue, Talk, was published in 2002, and another novel, We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, is forthcoming. He has been a book reviewer, fiction editor, university press sales rep, grant committee judge, father and son. He owns Burke's Book Store with his wife in Memphis, Tennessee.

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A.S. Morgan holds an MA in Myth and Society from the University of Wales, Lampeter. Recently, her work has been published in Reflection's Edge, Great Works, and 27 rue de fleures. Her website is atrophiedannie.blogspot.com.

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See more of Dave Morrison at www.dave--morrison.com.

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Ashley Nagrant is a fairly temperamental writer from Pittsburgh, PA. Eventually she'd like to write a novel, or some short stories, or wrestling storyline. Right now, however, she'd settle for a sandwich.

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J.D. Nelson experiments with words and sound in his subterranean laboratory. His poems have appeared in many print and online publications. He lives in Colorado. Visit J. D.'s website, MadVerse.com, for more information.

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Mathias Nelson is the coolest motherfucker living (at least in La Crosse, Wisconsin).

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Renée K. Nicholson writes reviews of fiction, non-fiction and poetry for the online publication The Beat, and is a featured writer at healthdiaries.com for her blog, Life With RA, about rheumatoid arthritis. She trained in classical ballet, earned a BA in English/Creative Writing from Butler University and will begin a MFA at West Virginia University in Fall 2005.

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Lisa Nickerson's children are hungry because she's too busy trying to write poetry. Her poem "Tom said Frank O'Hara would plant a poem in your head," has been accepted for Snow Monkey's 2008 Spring publication. Several poems will appear in the November issue of the Clockwise Cat's Imitation issue and her poem "le jardin" won an honorable mention in the Florida Gwendolyn Brook's Poetry Association's 2006 Annual Contest. She lives in New England.

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Ashok Niyogi was born in Calcutta in 1955. He was schooled all over India in Irish Christian Brothers' Schools and graduated with Honors in Economics from Presidency College. Ashok spent 30 years in the world of International Commerce, 15 in East Europe and Russia and the CIS. His work has taken him all over the world and he now divides his time between California where his two daughters live, Russia and India. He is currently unemployed because writing poetry is not considered gainful employment, but does have a timber plantation in Goa, India. Ashok has two books of poetry in India: Crossroads and Reflections in the Dark and one book of poems from the USA, entitled Tentatively. He has been published extensively online and in print in the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada in magazines and anthologies.

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Michael Obilade lives and writes in Massachusetts. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Fantasy Magazine, TQR, Verbsap, and Cafe Irreal.

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Confessional author Donald O'Donovan is a former long-distance truck driver from Cooperstown New York. He has self-published several books, including Tarantula Woman, Babbylon and Twenty Thousand Years in Disneyland. His most recent novel, Gargantua, is looking for a publisher. Donald O'Donovan is currently working at a minimum wage job, writing a screenplay, and narrating The Coming of the Horseclans by Robert Adams for MG Audio Books. He lives in Los Angeles. Email: voiceover@centaurpress.com.

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Ananda Selah Osel's autobiographical poems have appeared in print as well as in online magazines. He is the founding editor at The Commonline Project. Ananda lives, rides his bike and drinks plenty of wine in Seattle, Washington. Read more of Ananda's work at: Ananda-Osel.com.

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James O'Shea was born in New York City and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. At age eleven, he began a series of moves around the country and the world. First Toronto, Singapore, and then back to the United States: Connecticut, Harlem, Boston, Washington D.C., San Diego, Brooklyn and the enchanted island of Puerto Rico. He moved to his new home of Chicago in January of last year. His interest in poetry came out of the observations he made, the lessons he learned and the people he met throughout his travels. James has recently appeared in Remark, Concrete Meat Sheet and Zygote in my Coffee. You can read his blog at http://ghostscenes.blogspot.com.

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Greg Osisek is in his first year as a resident of New York. A college dropout, he is single, spawnless, and likes filtered cigarettes, dark-haired women, and whiskey on the rocks. He can be reached for comments, questions, or information regarding his weekly mp3 e-mail distribution list at gregosisek@gmail.com.

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Nick Ostdick is a fiction writer from the Chicago area. He is the author of the novel Sunbeams and Cigarettes, and his short fiction has appeared in many online and print publications. He is currently working on a new novel. Visit him at www.freewebs.com/nickostdick.

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Dwayne Pagnotto was a chief Prince of Atlantis before it was swallowed by the sea, he has held council with kings and queens and prophets of old, and has since returned in his present form to help mankind in their struggle for peace. He is the author of a book of poetry, entitled Sipping Nectar With the Gods.

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Nicholas Pelescak is a 23-year-old Reserve Soldier from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is currently working on a Master's Degree in Social Work, training for city boxing tournaments, and writing poetry on a daily basis.

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Michael Pepper lives in Leicester, England.

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Julio Peralta-Paulino is a former contributor to The Cerebral Catalyst and he is currently at work on several projects. Some of his publication credits include Write Between The Lines, Jack Magazine, Segue, Chronogram, Stylus Poetry Journal, Skive Magazine, Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), Eclectica, Words Dance, Chick Flicks, Locust, Interpoetry, Erosha, and The Green Silk Journal. Upcoming publications include The Southern Ocean Review, Subtle Tea, The Rose & Thorn, and Smokebox. His official site is http://inkrealm.blogspot.com.

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Paul Petit lives in Liverpool, UK, and writes poetry based on observations and disillusionment. He regularly does spoken word events around the city, and more of his work can be found on www.le-petit.co.uk.

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Mary Phillips lived in Oregon and now she lives in Pittsburgh. Don't ask her why.

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Cameron Pierce has been published or accepted by a growing number of publications, including The Dream People, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, Specusphere, Susurrus, and at least 3/5 a handful of others. His e-book, "Notes from the Final Judgment," is soon to be released by Meat Hook Press. Cameron is currently serving as editor for The Primordial Review, a journal specifying in the cosmic bizarre.

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Rob Plath has published one book of poems called Ashtrays and Bulls, which won 1st place in Nerve Cowboy's 2003 chapbook contest. His work has been published in a lot of journals and magazines, including Barfing Dog Press, Big City Lit, Blowback, Chiron Review, Devil Blossoms, Evolution, Gnome, Long Island Quarterly, Lunatic Chameleon, Pearl, Poetrybay, Polarity, Sho, Soul Fountain, Stickman Review, The Idiot, and Zygote in my Coffee, and forthcoming in Showcase Press Poetry Journal, and the Ragged Edge. In 2002, he was part of the spoken word/music CD Northport Celebrates Jack (a Kerouac tribute), and was a student of Allen Ginsberg's.

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Adam Pober sometimes lives in New Jersey, as everyone does at some point in their lives. Just wait. He writes, makes off-colour comments and sometimes gets a little handsy. But it's all part of his charm. E-mail him at bulletproofheeb@gmail.com and he'll make fun of you.

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Katharine Polenberg's poems have appeared online in Laura Hird's Showcase, Triptych Quarterly Fiction, Zygote in My Coffee, Thieves Jargon and Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), and forthcoming in Cherry Bleeds. She resembles a real person, living or dead. You can find more by visiting her at http://www.freewebs.com/outsiderartist/index.htm.

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Misti Rainwater-Lites writes a lot of poems and blogs and the occasional short story and novel. Her poems have been published in various online and print zines such as Zygote in my Coffee, Poesy, Cliterature Journal and Nerve House. Misti is also the editor and publisher of a print pornographic poetry zine called Instant Pussy.

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Kimberly Raiser has also appeared in The Taj Mahal Review, Silver Thought, Anotherrealm.com and under the pseudonym "Constance Laurel" at takethe.net. Visit her at strandedanthology.blogspot.com.

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Cat Rambo's work has previously appeared in such magazines as The Florida Review, 13th Moon, Asylum, and Sundog.

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Joseph Reich is a social worker who works out in the state of Massachusetts; a displaced New Yorker, who sincerely does miss diss-place, most of all the Smoothies on Houston Street, the Thai food, and bagels and bialys from The Lower East Side; When we all get a little older, hopes to bring wife and child back to play in the parks and playgrounds of New York. His work has appeared in such literary journals as Poesy, Dispatch, Falling Star, Color Wheel, Bareback, And Then, Graffiti Rag, Main Street Rag, Bouillabaisse, Decanto, Rogue's Scholar, Poetry Motel, The Beat, The Potomac, Poetry Super Highway, Panic Brixton Poetry, Istanbul Literature Review, The Taj Mahal Review, Stirring, Scrivener Creative Review, Thieves Jargon, CC & D, Down In The Dirt and Ascent Aspirations.

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Andy Riverbed is a 21-year-old Puerto Rican influenced by surrealism and punk rock. His idol is Lautreamont. Click here to view his myspace profile.

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Phillip M. Roberts is a 33-year-old writer who says this about his work: "What I craft in language is mostly done alone. By the time a story or poem is willingly and openly shared, I'm thrilled that someone might take the time and considerately read." His story "Mosley's Spheres" is from a collection called Deviance Incorporated.

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Alison Ross has published essays and poetry in Exquisite Corpse, Muse Apprentice Guild, Democratic Underground, Creative Loafing, and Nova Express. She is a regular contributor to Democracy Means You.

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Moneer Sadraii is a mountain climber, a student, a small business entrepreneur, a Persian pastry chef, a singer, a dancer, a professional carting driver, an artist, a clown, and last but not least, a grateful writer.

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Mike Saoud has devoted his life to yelling at people until they start making sense. Progress has been slow.

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D. Richard Scannell writes and illustrates For the Hermits. He lives in New York.

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After teaching writing and literature in college for twenty-five years, Wayne Scheer retired to follow his own advice and write. Recent publications include Ha!, Moonwort Review and Cynic Magazine. Wayne lives with his computer in Atlanta and can be contacted at wvscheer@aol.com.

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G. David Schwartz is the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz continues to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is now in stores or can be ordered.

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The short fiction of Vera Searles has appeared in many small press publications. She recently completed a fantasy novel.

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Julie Ann Shapiro is a freelance writer. She won second place in Writer Online's "My First Crush Contest". Short stories and essays have appeared in the San Diego Union Tribune, Mega Era Magazine, Millennium Shift, Orgease Journal, Alternate Species, Story South, Science Fiction and Fantasy World, Seven Seas Magazine, Word Riot, Green Tricycle, All Things Girl, Ultimate Hallucination, The Glut, Somewhat, Dovetail Journal, Uber, Moon Dance, The Quarterly Staple, Opium Magazine, Journal of Modern Post, Rumble, Long Story Short, Cellar Door Magazine, Edifice Wrecked, Espresso Fiction, and Santa Fe Writers Project.

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John Shumate is finishing his first year in the MFA program at West Virginia University.

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Willie Smith is deeply ashamed of being human. His work celebrates this horror.

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Serena Spinello is 26 years old and lives in New York. She will eat anything that is covered in peanut butter and seeks to make the people around her feel extremely awkward. Her recent poems have been published in Clockwise Cat, 63 Channels, Sien en Werden, The Centrifugal Eye, Lachryma: Modern Songs of Lamen and Zygote in My Coffee. Serena can be contacted via email at shadigirl@optonline.net.

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Cate Stevens-Davis is a college student in Pittsburgh, PA. She loves Shakespeare, Evelyn Waugh and men in kilts. Someday she hopes to go to grad school and drive herself further into debt. Check out fathounddog.com for more of her verbal and visual pursuits.

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Cait Stuff writes, reads, works, and rents her authorial skills to others for beer money. Because her teleportation skills aren't what they used to be, she does all of this by only sleeping in small chunks.

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John Sweet is 36, married, and a father of 2; is opposed to all schools of poetry and organized religions, and has been listening to too many Swans albums lately. A believer in writing as catharsis, lots of odds and ends floating around out there in cyberspace, others collected on yellowing paper, an assortment of obscure chapbooks, and one full length collection, Human Cathedrals, out from Ravenna Press. "Someone told me it's been taught to a creative writing class in a community college down south for 2 years in a row now, so go figure."

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Christian W. Thiede is a member of the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel. He lives in MySpaceland along with his six billion closest friends. Currently, he is enrolled at Goddard College in the MFA Creative Writing Program. His work can be found in the Pitkin Review, Zygote in My Coffee, Bent Pin Quarterly, Harrisburg Review, Fledgling Rag, The Central Pen, and many others. He has two published chapbooks: Gazing Behind My Eyes and Random Poems Now With Homes. For you brave souls, click twice at your own risk: almostuptown.com; myspace.com/xpoet.

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Steve Thomas lives, learns and writes in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. If you liked you might email him at tokath55@yahoo.com.

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Joel Van Noord, upon discovering that he lacked a tagline, submitted the following: "What, wait... uh, eh... fuck. Ok. Eeee uh, Iiiiiiiiiii, sch, bbbbuuuuuuuuurrk. Man, I really don't know. Ok. Um. Shit. Shit shit shit. Ur. I don't, maybe. Iiiii. Ok, wait... like this... heeeet ur a bleeee s tar uh. I don't er, ah. Ok... ok." Also, he likes friends: myspace.com/jvnjvn.

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Joseph Veronneau has had poems appear or forthcoming in the following publications: Chiron Review, Lily, Lunatic Chameleon, Ken*Again, Zygote In My Coffee, Chantarelle's Notebook, Thieves Jargon, and many others. He also runs Scintillating Publications, a chapbook publishing press.

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John Frank Weaver is a third year law student at Boston College Law School. His work has appear in McSweeney's, Defenestration, the Boston Globe's Sidekick Magazine, and others.

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Brandi Wells is a student at Georgia Southern University, soon to graduate with a BA in Writing and Linguistcs. Her poetry can be found in The Foliate Oak and Zygote in My Coffee.

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Daniel E. Wilcox earned his B.A. in Creative Writing from Cal State University, Long Beach and was therefore poor for years. Being a radical activist and wanderer of plenty of where also helped. His poetry has appeared in various journals including The Centrifugal Eye, Lucid Rhythms, The November 3rd Club, Right Hand Pointing and The Externalist. A short story based on his time in the Middle East was published in the September 2007 issue of The Danforth Review. Currently, he is working on a novel and a poetry collection, and living on the California coast with his mysterious wife and youngest son. Website: http://seaquaker.com.

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Karl Williams lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. If you like his story, you may find something of interest at karlwilliams.com.

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Robin Wright is a disaffected high school student from the Philadelphia suburbs who does things and also writes stuff sometimes. One time she cut her finger on a Mountain Dew can. It was funny for all.

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Mickey Z. can be found on the Web at mickeyz.net.

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Alexander Zelenyj's previous work has appeared in several publications, including Front & Centre Magazine, Whispers of Wickedness, and Revelation Magazine, and anthologies such as Windsor Salt and The Sands of Time. He has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council under recommendation of Coach House Books, Descant Magazine, and Kiss Machine Magazine towards two separate novels-in-progress. He is currently a regular fiction columnist for Upfront Magazine. His first children's book will be published in the fall of 2005, and his speculative fiction novel Black Sunshine is scheduled for release in July, 2005.

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