| Beverley Andalora | By day, Beverley is a technical writer for a computer systems company in Silicon Valley. This job serves well to subsidize her addiction--animals. Beverley shares her life with four dogs and a cat. She spends most of her time away from her paid job working with San Francisco Samoyed Rescue, rescuing Samoyed dogs across Northern California and helping find them new homes. |
| Johann Christoph Arnold | Johann Christoph Arnold is the author of ten books, including Why Forgive?, and a founder of "Breaking the Cycle," a program aimed at reducing violence in schools by teaching forgiveness and nonviolent conflict resolution.] |
| Chris Bauer | Like his favorite author, Chris Bauer was an unemployed oil company executive when he started writing in mid-life. To his amazement, he discovered he was really a fantasy writer half his age. Thanks to writer's group therapy, he has six short stories and two poems published in paying markets. This success has only nurtured his paranoia at being surrounded by so much young talent. |
| Linda L. Bielowski, Ph.D. | Linda L. Bielowski is a practicing psychotherapist and board certified pastoral counselor, who refocused on her writing after facilitating a spirituality group and participating in a poetry exhibit at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies including the following: Ariga, Muse Apprentice Guild, Enfuse, Eintouist, Poetism, Poetic Hours, Verses, SpaceBreather, SubtleTea, Unarmed, Pure Christians, A flippant Way, Listening to the Birth of Crystals, Promise, Subjective Substance, Conspire; among others. Dr. Bielowski has published a first collection of poetry in a chapbook Spirit Echoes and has received a contract from PublishAmerica for her second anthology Contemplative Persona, scheduled for release in 2004. She was recently named "New Talent" by Little Treasures/SoulComfort. In her leisure time, the author chases three feline muses: Sedgwick. Joshua, and Sara. |
| Marcia Borell | Marcia Borell loves to create just about anything by hand, illustrations and flashfiction are her current favorites. Check out her work with FMAM and at her website. |
| Donnie Cox |
Blues musician/poet
Originally from a small town in South Carolina. Now resides in Watertown, MA. At the age of 14, picked up the guitar, and a couple of years later played his first paying job with a band. Once he discovered that someone would actually pay him, to do what he would gladly do for nothing, he was sold on rock & roll. After a 4 year stint, with the Marines in the 60s', spent a few years in the southeast playing whatever jobs he could find in clubs and bars. In 1978, moved to Boston to attend the Berklee School of Music. Eventually found the blues circuit in New England, and since then, has played the music he loves with some good bands, in a lot of places. He enjoys writing poetry for the same reason he loves playing the guitar; a way to communicate how he feels, at a given time, on a given day. |
| Alison Daniel | Alison Daniel is a reluctant nurse who keeps the police and courts busy in her small Tasmanian coastal town, handling the unreasonable consequences of liasons with feeble married men. Some bloke said she's a brunette with a cute bum; he might be right. |
| Greg DeClue | Greg DeClue primarily writes fiction in the suspense/action/thriller genres, 'tho he's been known to pen an occasional poem or song. He's a member of Writers Under the Arch and can be reached at shadowhawk1369@hotmail.com. |
| Doug Draime | Doug Draime's latest chaps are "Unoccupied Zone" (Pitchfork Press, 2004), "Spleen" an e-book, (Poetic Inhalation, 2005) and forthcoming from Scintillating Publications, "Spiders And Madmen". His writing has appeared in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and online 'zines for nearly 4 decades. Born in Indiana, he has made his home in Pittsburgh, Chicago, West Germany, and Los Angeles, where he first started to publish in the late '60's. He currently resides in foothills of southern Oregon. |
| Alison Eastley | I live and work in Australia. My husband Steve is a constant source of amusement and incentive, my children Thomas, the wild child - James, and Nicholas are great for earthing me - usually in the kitchen. Other work of mine can be found in Taint, The Adirondack Review, Tryst and many other fine jounals. |
| Jay Feeney | My name is Jay Feeney, I am 20 years old (21 on October 5th, 2002 thank Fucking God) and I have been writing songs/poems since I was 12 years old. My main influences are Jim Morrison, Axl Rose, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix. I believe that today's music scene needs a swift kick in the balls (not that it has any) and I am hoping to put together a band that can shake up the bullshit we have going today, much like The Doors or GNR or Nirvana did in their respective time periods. My website has a lot of my lyrics, so check it out if interested, and email me if you feel the same way I do about today's music scene. |
| Cindy Fehmel |
Cindy Fehmel is unique and multi-talented, and St. Louis is bookmarked with her creativity. Past roles include: Host of KCLC Blues program, Band Promotions/Booking for concert venue Mississippi Nights, and making videos for Concordia Publishing House.
Presently her muse is content with her employment as Librarian Asst., evidently one catalyst for her latest prolific spurt of writing. When not actively engaged in socio-political causes, Cindy's passion for lifting the downtrodden is often channeled into her prose and poetry. |
| Donald Fox | Donald Fox is an artist and writer living in Houston where he teaches English and painting. He has exhibited and published widely, has been a teaching artist in residence at Yosemite National Park on three occassions, has read essays on Pacifica radio, and was part of a group of visiting artists to the former Soviet Union in the late 80s. His artwork can be seen at Victor's Fine Arts Gallery and CustomPaintings.com |
| Jane Gwaltney (Poe Sparrow) | Jane Gwaltney, co-editor of Tribal Soul Kitchen and member of the Midwest Writers of Horror, responds to simple commands. She sleeps in a corner of the living room and bothers no one. Samples of her poetry, fiction, and art appear in such publications as Dreams and Nightmares, Fiction Inferno, Wicked Hollow, Whispers From The Shattered Forum, Science Fiction Poetry Review, EOTU, Rhapsoidia, Scared Naked, Thirteen Stories, Shadowland, Redsine, and others... |
| Jeannette Harris | Jeannette Harris created "A Country Rag", an online publication that explores and celebrates country, especially Appalachian, culture through poetry, short stories, graphics, photography, music, topical articles, regional cuisine and links. |
| Jnana Hodson |
Contrary to a common presumption, Jnana’s not a woman. The name’s Sanskrit, where Rama, Krishna, Shiva, Arjuna, and Ganesha are also all males. He’s had the handle for more than three decades now.
Web-zine appearances include Comrades, Deep Cleveland Junkmail Oracle, Hobart, Jack, Third Muse, and Tryst. |
| Jean Jones | Jean Jones was born in Bandung, Indonesia of an American father and an Indonesian mother. After living in both Thailand, and Iran, Mr. Jones moved to the United States with his parents and family in 1975. He attended St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, North Carolina and studied poetry at St. Andrews College with Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Ron Bayes. Mr. Jones transferred to and graduated from The University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1986 with a BA in English studying under Charles Fort. He attended and received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio in 1988. He studied under both Michael Mott and Howard McCord. Among his awards are the Irina Ratushinskaya Freedom Book Award from Bowling Green State University and the UNC-W Creative Writing Program Book Award. He has been published in numerous magazines including Kansas Quarterly, Pembroke Review, The Lyricist, and The Wilmington Review among others. |
| Karl Koweski | Karl Koweski is a thirty year old displaced Chicagoan now living on top of a mountain in Alabama. His chapbook, "Can't Kill A Man Born To Hang", is available through Bospress.net. |
| Gary Lehmann | Gary Lehmann teaches writing and poetry at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His poetry and short stories are widely published -- about 60 pieces a year. He is the director of the Athenaeum Poetry group which recently published their first chapbook, Poetic Visions. He is also author of a forthcoming book of poetry entitled Public Lives and Private Secrets [Foothills Press, 2005]. When not writing or teaching, he interprets 19th century shoemaking at the Genesee Country Museum. |
| Dr. Prasenjit Maiti | Print credits include 2River View, A Hudson View, Blue Collar Review, Brittle Star, Brobdingnagian Times, Carillon, Circle, Concrete Wolf, Diner, Famous Reporter, Fire, Green Queen, GW Review, Harlequin, Hermes, Homestead Review, Konfluence, Micropress Oz, Monkey Kettle, Nightingale, Nomad, Paper Wasp, Parting Gifts, Peeks & Valleys, Phoenix, Poetic Licence, Poetry Church, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Poetry Greece, Poetry Scotland, Promise, Pulsar, Quercus Review, Rattle, Red Lamp, Reflections, Skald, Skyline, South, Spinnings, The Journal, WinterSPIN and Xtant. Dr Maiti has been widely published in electronic journals as well in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. His CD-ROM credit till date is Heist. He of late tends to specialize in monologic prose poetry. |
| Christopher Major | Chris Major lives in Staffordshire, England. Several of his poems have appeared in the UK print press and online - including at Remark, OpenWide, Zygote in my coffee, and This is it. His chapbook, All of This and Nothing is being published by Feel Free Press in the Autumn of 2004. |
| Scott Malby | Scott believes himself to be alive but is actually an artistic performance generated by a multi-media unreality oriented group of post-humanistic postmodern ezines called “The Wayne Morse Confabulation” living in Iraq and performing in the culturally free media capitol: Coos Bay, Oregon. He is available for post card signings and guided imagery tours in and around the Pacific-Rim. You cannot contact him. If you are interested in further-future information he will contact you sometime in the past via the new age medium of String Theory. |
| John M. Marshall | John M. Marshall received the 1994 Poet Laureate Award from the North Carolina Poetry Society, as well as the 1993 John Foster West Award from Charlotte Poetry Review. His poetry has appeared in diverse magazines including Southern Poetry Review, Ingenue, Bouillabaisse, and Earthwise. |
| Stephen Mead | Stephen Mead is a published artist/writer living in northeastern NY. A resume and samples of his artwork can be seen in the portfolio section of Absolute Arts, and 123 Soho. Stephen also has several title pieces of e books online at Scars Publications and Design. These pieces incorporate both image and text. |
| Corey Mesler |
I have published prose and/or poetry in Canopic Jar, Mars Hill Review, Jabberwock Review, Big Muddy, Mid-American Poetry Review, Independence Boulevard, Snakeskin (England), Freewheelin' (England), The Pegasus Review, Electric Acorn (Dublin), and others. I have a chapbook of poems, Piecework, from the Wing and a Wheel Press. I have work in the anthologies Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball (Breakaway Books), Pocket Parenting Poetry Guide (Pudding Press), Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure (New World Press) and Smashing Icons (Curious Rooms).
I recently won the Moonfire Poetry Chapbook Competition and my chapbook, Chin-Chin in Eden, has just been published by Still Waters Press. One of my short stories was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel. My novel-in-dialogue, Talk, was published by Livingston Press in 2002. Raves from Lee Smith, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Stern, Debra Spark, Suzanne Kingsbury, Frederick Barthelme and John Grisham. I've been a book reviewer (for The Commercial Appeal, BookPage, The Memphis Flyer, Brightleaf), fiction editor (for Ion Books/raccoon), university press sales rep, grant committee judge (for The Oregon Arts Council), father and son. With my wife I own Burk's Book Store, one of the country's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. |
| Jon Moran (Purple Ronnie) | Jon/Ronnie lives in Manchester, the UK's second city (it's official at last! Ahem...). He's 20, and is coming to the end of Music Technology course. He is a voracious keyboard player, desperately trying to make something new out of rock music with his bands Rapid Pig and Dr Flidget. He is also an ardent nonsense-talker, and would give anything for a cigartette right now, including toast. |
| John Newmark (Gavroche) | Literary Editor for Tribal Soul Kitchen, John is a writer of poetry, creative non-fiction, science-fiction, and fantasy, and has been published in several college newspapers and literary magazines. He has also created four chapbooks of his poetry. He performs his poetry at local open-mics and during the day uses his writing and persuasive skills to find money for a local not-for-profit. You can find out how scary the inner-workings of his mind are here. |
| Ashok Niyogi |
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' (both from A-4 Publications) and one book of poems from the USA - 'Tentatively' (iUniverse). He has been published extensively on line and in print in the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada in magazines and Anthologies. |
| Angela Pancella | Angela is an employee of a bunch of cloistered contemplative nuns who wear pink habits. She has learned how to bellydance, sung Irish folk songs in a Donegal pub, made up her own language, and hosted a radio show where she got to play whatever she liked. Her first book is an unconventional biography of Marc Connors of the legendary Canadian a cappella group The Nylons. You can read more of her writing on her own web-journal. |
| Simon Perchik | Simon Perchik has 18 collections of poetry, and has been published in Partisan Review, Poetry, The Nation, and The New Yorker. Born in 1923 in Paterson, New Jersey, he now resides on Long Island. His website was created by his grandson, Casey. |
| Gordon Purkis | Gordon has been a fan of The Doors since 1986. His poetry has appeared in Rogue Scholars, and The King's English. He is editor of Mastodon Dentist. |
| Ian Pyper | In 1955 Ian was born in Liverpool, England, with only a thumb and two fingers on each hand. He does his somewhat obsessive drawings in ink and watercolor on paper and wallpaper backing. In an article in Les Friches de l'art (1994), Joe Ryczko coined the term "paleolithique moderne" to describe Ian's work, which bares a resemblance to tribal and aboriginal body maps. Drawing faster and slower according to internal rhythms, he works every day until the pain in his wrist forces him to put down the pen. His art comprises a personal, spiritual diary, and he is often reluctant to surrender it to the marketplace. |
| James Quinton | James Quinton has been writing from an early age and he vividly remembers winning a writing competition at primary school. In more recent years he has had poetry and fiction published in over 80 ezines, magazines and presses. His first paperback poetry collection, ‘Ambulance’ is due for release late 2005. He also runs Open Wide Magazine, a bi monthly hard copy arts magazine. |
| Dee Rimbaud |
DEE RIMBAUD is an artist and writer, living in Glasgow, Scotland. His first collection of poetry, “The Bad Seed” was published by Stride (1998). His second collection, “Dropping Ecstasy With The Angels” will be published by Blue Chrome in the spring of 2004. His poetry, prose, short stories and artworks have appeared in over 200 print magazines and anthologies worldwide. His work is also beginning to appear online.
UK publications include Acumen, Aireings, Ambit, Cutting Teeth, Dream Catcher, The Erotic Review, Global Tapestry, Headpress, The Interpreter’s House, Kindred Spirits, Liar Republic, Magma, New Writing Scotland, Nomad, Northwords, Other Poetry, Orbis, Oxford Quarterly Review, Reater, Scotland On Sunday, Spume, Tandem, Tears In The Fence, Understanding, Urthona. USA/ Canada publications include The American Muse, The Antigonish Review, Bathtub Gin, Broken Pencil, Brutarian, Descant, Fine Madness, Gargoyle, Kiss Machine, Long Shot, Lungfull!, Main Street Rag, North American Review, Pearl, Rattapallax, Slipstream, Toronto Review, Trouvére Literary Review, Whiskey Island. A web-site of his artwork and writing can be seen at Thunderburst. ‘Dropping Ecstasy With The Angels’ can be ordered online at Bluechrome Publishing. You can contact Dee via e-mail . |
| Rob Rosen | Rob Rosen lives, loves, and works in San Francisco. His first novel, "Sparkle", was published in 2001 to critical acclaim. His short stories appear regularly on more than thirty five literary sites around the world, and have been published in the literary anthologies Mentsh (Alyson, 2004), I Do/I Don't (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004), Travel a Time Historic (Cyber Pulp, 2005), and Brotherhood (Alyson, 2005). Feel free to visit him at his website, or email him. |
| Giorgio Ruzzene (Joe Roots) | I live on the ancient continent between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea. My mothertongues are Italian and German, but for poetry and song lyrics I prefer English. |
| Kevin Saidler |
Kevin Saidler has lived and studied in London, New York and France, picking up a B.A. and an M.A. along the way. He is originally from the West Highlands of Scotland and currently lives in Antwerp.
Previous literary and photographic credits include Open Wide Magazine, 63Channels.com, Bloc, Birmingham Words, Destination Anywhere (a book of short stories from Feel Free Press) and The Global Vision Platform. His photographic web site can be found at: kevinsaidler.com . |
| M.S. Sekuloff | Born in Ottawa, Michael retains imagery of his childhood in his writing. Having lived in poverty himself, the plight of the poor and underdogs of life shows in his poems. He has spent the last 24 years working as a locksmith by day, but at night becomes the wandering internet poet, using different names. |
| Keith Sikora |
Keith Sikora is a writer & artist living in northern California with
his wife, Beth, Risse, their Jack Russel terrier and cats, Taz, Murphy and Korky.
Keith's first collection of poetry, "Voices of Light" was published by Tiger Moon Press in 2001. His work has appeared both in print and online in Aoife's Kiss, Champagne Shivers, ETOU, The Fifth Di ...., Futures, Mobius, Red Owl, Scavenger's Newsletter, Shadowland, The Threshold and Tribal Soul Kitchen, among others. |
| Erik Smetana | Erik Smetana's avocation is writing while his occupation, until he can master this whole words on paper thing, keeps him busy in the trenches of corporate America. His writing will or has appeared in places, including, Thieves Jargon, ERE, Contingent Workforce, Web Mystery Magazine and Zygote In My Coffee. Additional information on Erik and his work can be found at blockandmain.blogspot.com. |
| Christopher Stuck | Christopher Stuck, 22 years old, is a man of a million faces. He was an original contributor for the original Tribe ezine in 1997. Born in Western Massachusetts, he traveled all over the continuous United States as a young child before settling back in New England where he lived from 89-99. He is interested in writing, creating music, making films, communication, and basic human interaction. He currently resides in Houston, Texas. |
| John Swee | John Sweet has been writing for 20+ years now, publishing since the dark days of the Reagan administration. He is 36, married, father of 2, overeducated, underemployed, heavily in debt. New work appears in Underground Window, Above Ground Testing, East Village Poetry and Underground Voices. Latest collections include the chapbook, "Famine" and the e-chap, "In the Known World", online at Slow Trains. |
| Doug Tanoury |
Doug Tanoury is primarily a poet of the Internet with the majority of his work never leaving electronic form. His verse can be read at electronic magazines and journals across the world. Collections of poetry by Doug Tanoury can be found at Funky Dog Publishing and Athens Avenue. Several ebook collections of poetry by Doug Tanoury can be read and downloaded here.
Doug grew up in Detroit, Michigan and still lives in the area. He credits his 7th grade poetry anthology from Sister Debra's English class, Reflections On A Gift Of Watermelon Pickle And Other Modern Verse, (Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith, (c) 1966 by Scott Foresman & Company) as exerting the greatest influence on his work. He still keeps a copy of it at his writing desk. |
| Davide Trame | Davide Trame lives in Venice, Italy, and teaches English. He's been writing poems since 1993, and they have been published in magazines in U.K, U.S, Canada, Japan and South Africa. |
| Teresa Tunaley |
Born in the UK but now residing in the Canary Islands, Teresa finds more time to devote to her hobbies. For more than 30 years she has been doodling traditionally with pencils and dabbling with watercolours. More recently she uses a more modern technique using software such as Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro to produce her creations.
Along with her published stories and poetry, she can also be credited with illustrations for author stories and bold cover art for on-line magazines. "I would like to think that I am very versatile in my choice of genre; I am certainly inspired by numerous different things nearly every day! And the fact that others may enjoy my work gives me the confidence to continue." |
| Robert Vella (Lancelot) |
I'm 25, from Australia, New South Wales (my state), the central coast (my area).
I'm a registered nurse though soon not to be (whoohoo!!!) and very into music... Love the doors, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, Violent Femmes, DJ Shadow, Australian bands (of whom you've probably never heard) and many others from different genres of music. I've been writing regularly/semi-regularly for the last 6yrs, mostly being able to write about experiences I have had or want to have. Writing is a release, and a pleasure, creating something, an image or a glimpse of an imaginary world and using language to express an emotion or state of being... it is a privelege to be able to do so. |
| W.B. Vogel |
From the dark heart of Missouri, William Blake Vogel III writes a unique brand of Classic Horror that bleeds with a poetic edge. Influenced by the likes of Poe and Lovecraft, Vogel's work reflects a deep love for the Gothic/Horror genre.
W.B. Vogel has sold pieces to CHAMPAGNE SHIVERS, BLOOD ROSE, BLACK SATELLITE, SCAVENGERS, FANTASQUE, etc. His first E-book, "No Man's Land," was published by TWILIGHT TIMES BOOKS, in July 2002 and is also available at eBookAd. William also writes a column, "Theories In Chaos," for THE ETERNAL NIGHT. |
| Blake Walker | I'm a scientist with a passion for raising Cattleya orchids and classical music. My various writing includes poetry, short stories, magazine articles, and historical miniature gaming rule sets. I am also working on a hard-military sci-fi novel. When not doing any of the above, I spend my free time hanging out with aging baby-boomer arm-chair generals who paint lead historical miniatures, roll lots of dice, and drink beer at gaming converntions. |
| Gary West |
I am a lifelong Doors fan who just happens to have been born on Jim Morrison's 18th birthday.
My poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming, in frisson, Black Petals, The Harrow and the anthology, Side Show: Tales of the Big Top and the Bizarre. |
| Karen Wood | I've been drawing and painting all my life, been in the underground zine and mail art scene, and now I am looking for a bigger audience on the web and in galleries, museums, etc. You can see and learn more about me and my art here. |
| Ken Zowal | Southern California native, Bay Area from early 80s. Middle manager in telecom, married 25 years, no kids. Psych BA (California State U), MBA - Santa Clara University. Into travel, tournament chess, and exploring the Blues roots of rock via Nat King Cole, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, and the tragically short career of Stevie Ray Vaughn. |