Contributors

Sara-Anne Beaulieu is a recent graduate of the Masters of Fine Arts Program in Poetry from New England College, and is the Program Director of Literature and Poetry for Warwick Museum of Art in Warwick, Rhode Island. (read Disownment, Silence and Unbroken)

Russell Bittner is a Brooklyn-based fetishist whose favorite pair of heels go hiking in a thing called poetry – late at night; behind locked doors; with the lights dimmed.  He has been published on paper by:  The American Dissident; The Blind Man’s Rainbow; The Lyric; The Barbaric Yawp; The International Journal of Erotica; and Wicked Hollow.  Two of his poems will appear in Diverse Publications, Ltd. In October, 2004.  On-line, his poems can be found at: ken*again.com; quintessence encouraginggreatwriting.com; spillwayreview.com; erotica-readers.com; edificewrecked.com and ink-mag.com.  His prose is better defined, if also more severely restrained at:  SatinSlippers.com; ink-mag.com; DeadMule.com and GirlsWithInsurance.com.  An additional short story will appear at GirlsWithInsurance.com in October, 2004.  A second Flash piece will go up on Undergroundvoices.com in November, 2004.  He has just completed (September, 2004) his first novel, Trompe-l’oeil. (read Aubade To Marit, Never Played)

Liz Dolan, a former English Teacher, is most proud of the alternative school she ran in the Bronx. She has published poems, memoir and short stories in New Delta Review, Nidus, Rattle,Small Spiral Notebook, The Pedestal, Mudlark, Bardsong, The Delaware Anthology, and numerous other journals. She has received many grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts,one of which she is using to facilitate a traveling exhibit of her fellow poets’s poetry throughout southern Delaware. (read A Balm in Gilead)

John Flynn has earned writing awards from the New England Poetry Club, the HG Roberts Foundation, Worcester County Poetry Association, and RPCV Writers and Readers. Recent stories have appeared in The Paterson Review, and Outsider Ink. His latest chapbook of poems, A Dozen Lemons In Autotropolis is now available from Pudding House. (read Harmony Loves a Violin)

Carol Graser lives in the Adirondacks of upstate New York and is  currently the host of a monthly  poetry series at historic Caffe Lena in Saratgoa Springs. Her work has appeared in The Lullwater Review, So to Speak, Chaffin, and The Worcester Review, among others. (read Application and Bagels)

Ann Hite's short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including The Dead Mule, Fiction Warehouse, The SiNK, Rocking Chair Reader, Moonwort Review, and Poor Mojo’s Almanac. Ann has a large family, over 1,000 books, a flower garden, and her laptop. (read Mister Snake Gets Religion)

James Lee Jobe has three chapbooks out; DARK LIKE MY FATHER, 1995, Small Poetry Press; RED SKELTON'S GHOST, 1998, Cold River Press; SEVEN DAYS IN YOLO, 1999, One Dog Press. His poems have appeared in Manzanita, Poetry Now, Pearl, Tule Review, and many other publications. (read Washing Her Hair)

Steve MacKinnon lives in Natick, Massachusetts with his wife and daughter, Caroline. “The Secret” was a finalist in Rosebud’s 2005 X.J. Kennedy Award competition.(read The Secret )

Joon-Hee Park is currently living in Jakarta, Indonesia and is an 11th grader at Jakarta International School. (read Lollipop)

Erik Rhey is a fiction writer originally from Wisconsin. His stories have appeared in The Melic Review and The Attic. He pays the rent as a staff writer for PC Magazine. He is currently an MFA student at New School University and is editing his first novel as well as a collection of short stories. He lives in Brooklyn. (read Aperture)

Penny Rock is a business consultant, inspirational speaker, author, and poet. She is a Vietnam War veteran and breast cancer survivor who writes about transcending adversity, survival, and creativity. She wants her voice to be used for healing and peace in every arena of life. Penny resides in the San Francisco bay area. (read Before the War)

Tom Sheehan is the author of "A Collection of Friends," memoirs, from Pocol Press; "This Rare Earth & Other Flights," poetry, from LitPot Press, and three mystery novels. He has five Pushcart nominations and a Silver Rose from ART for short story excellence. His poetry and short stories have been published in Story South, Paumanock Review, Small Spiral Notebook, 3amMagazine, Eclectica, Megaera, Perigee, Black Medina, Projected Letters, Prose Toad, New Works Review, Triplopia, Spoiled Ink, Square Table, Rose & Thorn, Fiction Warehouse, elimae, Tryst, Eleven Bulls, Cyber-Oasis, 3 Candles, Snow Monkey. He lives in Saugus, MA and has been retired for 15 years. (read The Rescues of Brittan Courvalais)

Nicholas Soucy is a 21-year-old Michigan college student, majoring in peace studies and philosophy. He is a member of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, a conscientious objector to war and a published freelance writer. (read Breathing Underwater )

Over six hundred of Laura Stamps' poems, short stories, and poetry book reviews have appeared in literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and broadsides worldwide.  She is the author of more than twenty-five books and chapbooks, and her latest poetry book, "The Year of the Cat" (Artemesia Publishing, 2005), has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.  More information about books by Laura Stamps can be found at www.kittyfeatherpress.blogspot.com. (read Pink Flowers )

Gene Tashoff thinks of himself as a copywriting dinosaur and a fiction-writing up and comer. His short stories have appeared in the Northwest Review. Hampton Shorts, Brookln Diary and Acorn, and his poetry in Evergreen , Beloit Poetry Journal, Wisconsin Review, as well as the maiden issue of Plum Biscuit. A NYWC member for five years, he regards it as his fiction-writing touchstone. (read Escape Artist)

Dawn Wingfield was born in London but now lives in Colorado with her husband, four children and two dogs. Her short stories have appeared in Espresso Fiction, Mocha Memoirs and in the Sexy Shorts anthologies published by Accent Press in the UK. (read Three Days)