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Issue No. 1

Contributors

 

Stephen Ausherman

is the author of the award-winning novel, Typical Pigs, and a collection of travel stories, Restless Tribes. He lives in New Mexico.
Visit his site: www.restlesstribes.com

 

Kate Baggott

(http://www.katebaggott.com) is a Canadian technology journalist and freelance writer currently living in Germany. She has a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.F.A from the University of British Columbia. Her semi-regular musings on relationships, politics, work, parenthood and other joyful frustrations can be found in her blog at http://www.livejournal.com/users/baggyk

 

Ace Boggess

of Huntington, WV, has appeared in HARVARD REVIEW, NOTRE DAME REVIEW, FLORIDA REVIEW, RATTLE, and similar journals.  He is author of Displaced Hours, a novel (www.gattopublishing.com); The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled, poems (www.circlemagazine.com/beautifulgirl), and several songs available for free download as mp3s here or here.

 

Wendy Taylor Carlisle

 lives and writes in Texarkana, TX.  Her book, Reading Berryman to the Dog, was published by Jacaranda Press in 2000 and her
chapbook, After Happily Ever After, appears in the 2River Chapbook Series.  (http://2river.org/chapbooks/default.html).

 

Allison Chow

is currently a sophomore at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. In the warm months, she returns home to Toronto to work and study some more, as she dreams of one day becoming a surgeon. But also a poet. why not both? This is her first published work.

 

Hazera Forth

is 29 years old and generally writes contemporary science fiction with a philosophical theme.  She has had two science fiction shorts accepted at online sites.  "Hardware" is available to view at http://www.sffworld.com/authors/f/forth_hb/fiction/hardware1.html. Most recently, "Studying to be Clark Kent" was accepted by Pulp.net which should be available in the January 2005 edition.  She also performed eclectic, family oriented poems at poetry slams between 1995 and 1999.  Currently, Hazera is working as an Information Manager in the National Health Service.  She is also a member of Boot Camp Keegan, an online writing group with a tough ethos.  More details can be found here: http://www.alexkeegan.com.

 

Phoebe Kate Foster
My fiction and poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, anthologized in several collections, and has appeared in Prairie Schooner and other journals. I live in North Carolina, where I'm assistant editor at The Dead Mule, a Southern literary ezine, and at work on a short story collection and my first novel.

 

Lyn Lifshin

has published more than 100 books of poetry, including MARILYN MONROE, BLUE TATTOO, won awards for her non fiction and edited 4 anthologies of women's writing including TANGLED VINES, ARIADNE'S THREAD and LIPS UNSEALED. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject of an award winning documentary film, LYN LIFSHIN: NOT MADE OF GLASS, available from Women Make Movies. Her poem, "No More Apologizing" has been called "among the most impressive documents of the women's poetry movement." For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web site is www.lynlifshin.com

 

Jo McDougall

is the author of five published books of poetry. The latest, Satisfied with Havoc, was released in April 2004 from Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh.  She is the recipient of awards from the DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest foundation and the Academy of American Poets as well as fellowships to the MacDowell Colony. A native of Arkansas, she lives in Kansas City.  

 

Simon Perchik

is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Readers interested in learning more about him are invited to read Magic, Illusion and Other Realities at www.geocities.com which site lists a complete bibliography.

 

Adam Jeffries Schwartz

is a writer and a traveler. Upcoming publications in: Descant Magazine(Canada), Petit Journal (Mexico) & in the anthology, Walking Higher (USA).Online he has stories at Kaeidowhirl and Magazine Shiver

 

Thomas Wooten

contributes to The Ravenna Hotel. He lives in the American south.

 

Claire Zulkey

is a Chicago writer. She writes daily at www.zulkey.com