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PAUL BECKMAN has had his short stories published in numerous magazines including,
Other Voices, Playboy, The Connecticut Review, 5 Trope, Parting Gifts, Sugar Mule,
The Writer's Voice & others. He has stories upcoming in Tight & Onthebus. Beckman
has received 3 Pushcart Prize nominations--the latest for his recent story in The Connecticut Review.
He had a collection of short stories Come! Meet My Family and is now seeking a publisher
for The Town Jew Convention and other stories.
JANET BUCK is a six-time
Pushcart Nominee and the author of four collections of poetry. Her
work has recently appeared in Three Candles, Red River, Pierian
Springs, Stirring, PoetryBay, Arbutus, Poetry Magazine.com, Ygdrasil,
The Green Tricycle, Niederngasse, Offcourse, The American Muse,
and hundreds of journals world-wide. In 2002-2003 Buck's poetry and
essays are scheduled to appear in Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, Mississippi
Review, Artemis, The Montserrat Review, Recursive Angel, The Foliate
Oak, Southern Ocean Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Coelacanth, Cordite,
CrossConnect, and The Oklahoma Review.
JOE CALIGUIRE lives in New York. He is rereading Madame Bovary. His work has
been published at Doorknobs & BodyPaint (Issue #25, 2002; Issue #29, 2003). Joe is currently writing a novel.
JOSEPH M. FARIA was born on the island of Sao Miguel, in the Azores. He was brought to the United States
when he was nine months old, by his mother, in 1950. He studied Creative Writing at Roger Williams University.
He published his first poem when he was twenty-three: "The Black Crow Symphony: 4th Movement", Ishmael,
Spring 1973. His short story "Threshold" won 2nd Prize in the 1997 CWA National Writing Competition. His
first book of short stories, FROM A DISTANCE, was published in the Azores in June 1998 by Nova Grafica,
Lda. He has poems forthcoming in NEO, a European literary print journal, RIVEN a poetry print journal, and
a book of poetry to be published in Winter 2003 by LitPot Press, CA. Joe is also the Contributing Editor of
the web quarterly, Linnaean Street. He lives and breathes in Warren, RI.
ZAAK FRESH:
Bowling Green Univ. -- English, economics.
Single, No children, New Jersey
RAFAEL JESÚS GONZÁLEZ
was born in the bicultural/bilingual setting of the El Paso/Juárez area
and attended the University of Texas at El Paso, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, & the University of Oregon. Professor of Creative
Writing & Literature, he has taught at the University of Oregon, Western
State University of Colorado, Central Washington State University, the
University of Texas at El Paso, and Laney College, Oakland (where he
founded the Mexican and Latin American Studies Dept.) He has also taught
in the grade schools under Poets in the Classroom. His poetry and scholarly
articles appear in reviews & anthologies in the U.S., Mexico & abroad;
his collection of verse El Hacedor De Juegos/The Maker of Games
published by Casa Editorial, San Francisco, went into a second printing.
He has thrice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Also a visual artist,
his work has been exhibited at the Oakland Museum of California; the
Mexican Museum of San Francisco; the Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee;
& others in the U.S., Mexico, and abroad. He was Poet in Residence at
the Oakland Museum of California and the Oakland Public Library under
the Poets & Writers "Writers on Site" award in 1996 and has been selected
for the Annual Dragonfly Press Award for Literary Achievement for 2002.
He is on the Board of Directors for the University of Creation Spirituality/Naropa
University, Oakland; on the Latino Advisory Committee of the Oakland
Museum of California; and on the Alameda County Office of Education
Arts Advisory Board.
VIOLET GOULDING
DIANNE MC KNIGHT has been writing for over twenty years. She has a BA and MA in English, a MFA in
Writing from Vermont College and has published stories in various literary magazines including
River City Review. She has flash fictions in the current issue (#30) of Doorknobs & BodyPaint and
in the Summer 2003 issue of flashquake. Dianne was also a finalist in the Glimmer Train October
2002 Poetry Open. She lives in Vermont.
CHRISTOPHER NOVAK is a San
Francisco filmmaker and photographer. His work covers a broad range
of media; however, the underlying themes have centered on the relationship
between "natural" and "synthesized" environments
ELIZABETH SCOTT
JESS SWAIN loves creative writing, acting and all
aspects of the theater.
She has performed in mainstage dramatic readings with Sticks and Stones
Productions, and served as House Manager, Assistant Stage Manager and
Props Master. As a member of the Sticks and Stones Players interactive
youth theater company, Jess has performed many roles, and choreographed
and written several songs and raps for productions at the Kaufman Theater,
American Museum of Natural History (NYC). She also performed her own material
in the Second Stage Theater Outreach Program, "In the Door." Jess is currently
the Assistant Director of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" at
Hunter College High School, NYC, where she is a junior.
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.
The greatest influence on Doug's work was 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) He still keeps a copy of it at his writing
desk. Visit Funky Dog Publishing: http://www.funkydogpublishing.com/
KIRBY WRIGHT
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