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Carol Alexander: A writer for trade and educational publishing, Carol Alexander has authored numerous children’s books, served as a ghostwriter for radio and trade publishing, and taught at colleges around the metropolitan area. In 2011-2012, her poetry appears in literary journals and anthologies published by Avocet, Boyne Berries(UK),Chiron
Review, Cave Moon Press, The Canary,Danse Macabre, Earthspeak ,Eunoia Review, Fade Poetry Journal ((UK), Fat Daddy’s Farm Press, Fried Chicken and Coffee, The Mad Hatter’s Review, Mobius, Numinous, OVS,Red Poppy Review, Red River Review, River Poets Journal, Sleeping Cat Books, The Whistling Fire, andWrite Wing Publishing.
B.W. Archer was born in Cambridge, England in 1975. He works for the National Health Service, which is pretty dull. His poems have appeared in a number of journals/magazines internationally including: Iota, Under the Radar, Dream Catcher, Fourteen Hills, Beatdom, FourW, Poetry Salzburg Review and Blue Collar Review.
Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 16 year old internationally award winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic,The World Photography Organisation, Nature's Best Photography, Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland trust and Postal Heritage. Her photography has been published in the Telegraph , The Guardian, BBC News Website and on the cover of books and magazines in the United states and Canada. Her art is globally exhibited , having shown work in London, Paris, Indonesia, Los Angeles,Florida, Washington,Scotland,
Wales, Ireland,Canada,Spain,Germany, Japan, Australia and The Environmental Photographer of the year Exhibition (2011) amongst many other locations. She was also the only person from the UK to have her work displayed in the National Geographic and Airbus run See The Bigger Picture global exhibition tour with the United Nations
Iternational Year Of Biodiversity 2010.
[email protected]
www.eleanorleonnebennett.zenfolio.com
Mike Berger is an MFA, PhD. He is a retired psychologistand writes poetry and short stories full time. He has been writing poetry for less than two years. His work appears in seventy-one journals. He has published two books of short stories and seven poetry chapbooks, He is a member of The Academy of American Poets. poetry chapbooks, He is a member of The Academy of American Poets.
Mihir Chitre "I am Mihir Chitre, 24. Professionally a copywriter with an advertising agency, I see literature and copywriting as two entirely different entities. I live in Mumbai (Bombay) and have been involved in various kinds of writing since the age of 18. Short Fiction and Poetry remain my preferred genres. I have previously been
published in magazines such as Indian Literature, Reading Hour, Kritya and Enchanting Versesamong others. Blue and Yellow Dog is the first magazine based outside of India to publish me and I am grateful to them for the same, for I believe that art surpasses all barriers of space and time. I have also been fortunate enough to be invited to read my poetry in the Young Writers' Meet 2012 in Baroda organized by the Sahitya Akademi which is a national-level event. I have always been curious about new English literary journals all over the world and I look to contribute my bit to them whenever I can."
Julia Ciesielska was born in 1979 in Naklo n/Notecia, Poland. Since 2006, she lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she works as a Translator and as Business Support in a Recruitment organization known for Oil & Gas world wide. She has studied English Literature at the Master degree level and made certificate in Practice Personnel/HR at Queens University, Belfast. Julia’s interests, echoed in her poetry, include the feminist revision of life or naturalistic perception of daily routines. After attending workshops of creative writing, organized by Lyric Theatre in Belfast, she also got interested in writing plays. Inspired by pieces of Martin Lynch she is working on a project that is presenting with the eyes of polish minorities their observations of living abroad.
Linda Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in several magazines such as: Magic Cat Press, Bigger Stones, Carnage Conservatory, Blood Moon Rising, and Daily Love among others.
Lewis Gesner
Stephen Gilchrist is a Long Island native who is currently drifting through his mid-20s while trying to make sense of the world by means of the written word. While he still considers himself in the inchoate stages of his writing career, he is widely considered to be a master pulmonary day trader of oxygen and carbon dioxide commodities. At the moment, he's happily unmarried and spends most of his time reading, writing, cycling, sleeping, or going on walks with his beloved canine companion, Caoimhe.
Jason Gordon’s poems have appeared in Abbey, Bathtub Gin, the Delmarva Review, Poetry International, and Presa, among others. His first chapbook, I Stole a Briefcase, was published by Pudding House Press in 2008. Currently, he lives in Catonsville, Maryland, where he teaches English at a high school for students with emotional disabilities.
Rachel Kearney is a writer based in the southwestern United States. She is currently writing the last few thousand words in her novel, and has work either forthcoming or published in Eunoia Review, Quantum Poetry Magazine, and Subliminal Interiors, among others.
William Keckler’s poems have appeared recently in Cafe Irreal, Gone Lawn, Experiential-Experimental
Literature and other mags and are forthcoming in others. He is a poet who's been writing many years but just now returning to trying to publish work. His books include Sanskrit of the Body (Penguin) and Recombinant Image Day (online ebook at Broken Boulder Press).
Scott Keeney is the author of Sappho Does Hay(na)ku(Sephyrus, 2008). Recent work can be found in Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Juked, Mudlark, Otoliths, Reconfigurations, Stirring, Tinge, and UCity Review.
Richard Kostelanetz
Amanda Krueger is currently a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, pursuing a Bachelors of Arts in Creative Writing.
Wayne Mason is a writer, sound artist and factory worker from Central Florida. His words have appeared across the small press in magazines both print and online. He is the author of an eclectic body of work including numerous amounts of poetry, short stories, five chapbooks. He is the former poetry editor for Side Of Grits, and The Tampa Bay Muse. He also founded and led the now defunct poetry collective Wordcore.
Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published five novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The Ballad of theTwo Tom Mores (2010), Following
RichardBrautigan (2010), and Gardner Remembers (2011), 2 full length poetry collections, Some Identity Problems (2008) and Before the Great Troubling (2011), and 3 books of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009), Notes toward the Story and Other Stories (2011) and I’ll Give You Something to Cry About (2011). He has also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. With his wife, he runs
Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.
Steven Minchin is a 37 year old student of utterance and transcription. Outside of his mother's hope chest his work has appeared in mad swirl, vox poetica, Heavy Hands Ink, and other_____. Steven lives alone and finds it crowded.
Tracie MorellTracie Morell is just a poet who received a BA in English Literature from Pennsylvania State University. Her writing has won the following awards: 2011- The Farrell Literary Nonfiction Award, 3rd Place, 2011- The
Sonnenberg Poetry Award, 3rd Place, 2002- Award for Creative Excellence, Pennsylvania College English Association. Tracie is on a mission to engage a meaningful discourse about the treachery of beauty, and she’s willing to talk to anyone who is willing to discuss how terrible angels are.
Keith Moul has been developing a collection of what he calls "idiomatic" poems, each beginning with a common
idiom using the "to take" infinitive, then developing alternative meanings in the poems. The collection, called To Take and Not Have, now is complete and seeking a publisher. These poems are from earlier in the process and are reprinted as revised versions. In addition to his chapbook, The Grammar of Mind, published by Blue & Yellow Dog Press, Red Ochre Press will have released Beautiful Agitation, a winner of its 2011 chapbook contest. Keith also publishes his photos widely.
Al Ortolani is a teacher in the Kansas City area. His writing has appeared in The New York Quarterly, The Midwest Quarterly, New Letters, The English Journal and others. His third book of poetry, Wren’s House, is to be released this winter from Coal City Press in Lawrence, Kansas. Al works closely with the Kansas City Writer’s Place and is an editor with The Little Balkans Review.
Jay Passer: born San Francisco 1965. Repeat contributor to several online publications. Author of chapbooks most recently Only Human By Conditionavailable from Crisis Chronicles Press. Another chap to appear late 2012 from Corrupt Press, At The End Of The Street. Passer's work has been represented in the small presses since 1988.
Lin Powell’s creative work has been published in New Millennium Writings, Palo Verde, Highlights for Children, Self-Realization Magazine, Emeritus Voices, and other venues.
Ben Rasnic is originally from Jonesville, a small rural town in extreme Southwest Virginia, population< 1000. Currently, Ben resides in Bowie, Maryland and earns a paycheck as an accountant for a paper recycling company in Alexandria, Va. His poems can be found on numerous internet websites and in a few “old school” printed publications. His chapbook “The Day the Looking Glass Shattered” appears in The Camel Saloon’s Books on Blog September, 2012.
Michelle Reale is an academic librarian on faculty at Arcadia University in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She is the author of four chapbooks. She has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She blogs on social justice, immigration and migration www.sempresicilia.wordpress.org
Walter Ruhlmann was born in 1974 in France. He currently lives in Nantes where he works as an English teacher. He has been publishing mgversion2>datura (ex-Mauvaise graine) for over fifteen years. Walter is the author of several poetry chapbooks and e-books in French and English and has published poems in various printed and electronic publications world wide. He is a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee for his translation of Martine Morillon-Carreau’s poem “Sand début ni fin, ce rêve” published in the January 2011 issue of Magnapoets. His blog http://lorchideenoctambule.hautetfort.com/
Felino A. Soriano has authored 50 collections of poetry, including Of oscillating fathoms these nonverbal chants
(Argotist Ebooks, 2012) and Analyzed Depictions (white sky books, 2012). He publishes the online endeavors Counterexample Poetics and Differentia Press. His work finds foundation in philosophical studies and connection to various idioms of jazz music. He lives in California with his wife and family and is a case manager and advocate for adults with developmental and physical disabilities. For furtherinformation, please visit www.felinoasoriano.info.
Emily Treakle-Chase is a writer, pet owner, wife, parent, and employee, living in Western Washington, within sight of the volcano Mt. Rainier. She holds a BA from the University of Puget Sound in English, with an emphasis in Creative
Writing.
Barbara Young lives where she was born, Nashville TN. She attended a Baptist liberal arts college during the 1960s. Began writing again about three years ago. Change fascinates her.
Review, Cave Moon Press, The Canary,Danse Macabre, Earthspeak ,Eunoia Review, Fade Poetry Journal ((UK), Fat Daddy’s Farm Press, Fried Chicken and Coffee, The Mad Hatter’s Review, Mobius, Numinous, OVS,Red Poppy Review, Red River Review, River Poets Journal, Sleeping Cat Books, The Whistling Fire, andWrite Wing Publishing.
B.W. Archer was born in Cambridge, England in 1975. He works for the National Health Service, which is pretty dull. His poems have appeared in a number of journals/magazines internationally including: Iota, Under the Radar, Dream Catcher, Fourteen Hills, Beatdom, FourW, Poetry Salzburg Review and Blue Collar Review.
Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 16 year old internationally award winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic,The World Photography Organisation, Nature's Best Photography, Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland trust and Postal Heritage. Her photography has been published in the Telegraph , The Guardian, BBC News Website and on the cover of books and magazines in the United states and Canada. Her art is globally exhibited , having shown work in London, Paris, Indonesia, Los Angeles,Florida, Washington,Scotland,
Wales, Ireland,Canada,Spain,Germany, Japan, Australia and The Environmental Photographer of the year Exhibition (2011) amongst many other locations. She was also the only person from the UK to have her work displayed in the National Geographic and Airbus run See The Bigger Picture global exhibition tour with the United Nations
Iternational Year Of Biodiversity 2010.
[email protected]
www.eleanorleonnebennett.zenfolio.com
Mike Berger is an MFA, PhD. He is a retired psychologistand writes poetry and short stories full time. He has been writing poetry for less than two years. His work appears in seventy-one journals. He has published two books of short stories and seven poetry chapbooks, He is a member of The Academy of American Poets. poetry chapbooks, He is a member of The Academy of American Poets.
Mihir Chitre "I am Mihir Chitre, 24. Professionally a copywriter with an advertising agency, I see literature and copywriting as two entirely different entities. I live in Mumbai (Bombay) and have been involved in various kinds of writing since the age of 18. Short Fiction and Poetry remain my preferred genres. I have previously been
published in magazines such as Indian Literature, Reading Hour, Kritya and Enchanting Versesamong others. Blue and Yellow Dog is the first magazine based outside of India to publish me and I am grateful to them for the same, for I believe that art surpasses all barriers of space and time. I have also been fortunate enough to be invited to read my poetry in the Young Writers' Meet 2012 in Baroda organized by the Sahitya Akademi which is a national-level event. I have always been curious about new English literary journals all over the world and I look to contribute my bit to them whenever I can."
Julia Ciesielska was born in 1979 in Naklo n/Notecia, Poland. Since 2006, she lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she works as a Translator and as Business Support in a Recruitment organization known for Oil & Gas world wide. She has studied English Literature at the Master degree level and made certificate in Practice Personnel/HR at Queens University, Belfast. Julia’s interests, echoed in her poetry, include the feminist revision of life or naturalistic perception of daily routines. After attending workshops of creative writing, organized by Lyric Theatre in Belfast, she also got interested in writing plays. Inspired by pieces of Martin Lynch she is working on a project that is presenting with the eyes of polish minorities their observations of living abroad.
Linda Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in several magazines such as: Magic Cat Press, Bigger Stones, Carnage Conservatory, Blood Moon Rising, and Daily Love among others.
Lewis Gesner
Stephen Gilchrist is a Long Island native who is currently drifting through his mid-20s while trying to make sense of the world by means of the written word. While he still considers himself in the inchoate stages of his writing career, he is widely considered to be a master pulmonary day trader of oxygen and carbon dioxide commodities. At the moment, he's happily unmarried and spends most of his time reading, writing, cycling, sleeping, or going on walks with his beloved canine companion, Caoimhe.
Jason Gordon’s poems have appeared in Abbey, Bathtub Gin, the Delmarva Review, Poetry International, and Presa, among others. His first chapbook, I Stole a Briefcase, was published by Pudding House Press in 2008. Currently, he lives in Catonsville, Maryland, where he teaches English at a high school for students with emotional disabilities.
Rachel Kearney is a writer based in the southwestern United States. She is currently writing the last few thousand words in her novel, and has work either forthcoming or published in Eunoia Review, Quantum Poetry Magazine, and Subliminal Interiors, among others.
William Keckler’s poems have appeared recently in Cafe Irreal, Gone Lawn, Experiential-Experimental
Literature and other mags and are forthcoming in others. He is a poet who's been writing many years but just now returning to trying to publish work. His books include Sanskrit of the Body (Penguin) and Recombinant Image Day (online ebook at Broken Boulder Press).
Scott Keeney is the author of Sappho Does Hay(na)ku(Sephyrus, 2008). Recent work can be found in Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Juked, Mudlark, Otoliths, Reconfigurations, Stirring, Tinge, and UCity Review.
Richard Kostelanetz
Amanda Krueger is currently a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, pursuing a Bachelors of Arts in Creative Writing.
Wayne Mason is a writer, sound artist and factory worker from Central Florida. His words have appeared across the small press in magazines both print and online. He is the author of an eclectic body of work including numerous amounts of poetry, short stories, five chapbooks. He is the former poetry editor for Side Of Grits, and The Tampa Bay Muse. He also founded and led the now defunct poetry collective Wordcore.
Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published five novels, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002), We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006), The Ballad of theTwo Tom Mores (2010), Following
RichardBrautigan (2010), and Gardner Remembers (2011), 2 full length poetry collections, Some Identity Problems (2008) and Before the Great Troubling (2011), and 3 books of short stories, Listen: 29 Short Conversations (2009), Notes toward the Story and Other Stories (2011) and I’ll Give You Something to Cry About (2011). He has also published a dozen chapbooks of both poetry and prose. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. With his wife, he runs
Burke’s Book Store in Memphis TN, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.
Steven Minchin is a 37 year old student of utterance and transcription. Outside of his mother's hope chest his work has appeared in mad swirl, vox poetica, Heavy Hands Ink, and other_____. Steven lives alone and finds it crowded.
Tracie MorellTracie Morell is just a poet who received a BA in English Literature from Pennsylvania State University. Her writing has won the following awards: 2011- The Farrell Literary Nonfiction Award, 3rd Place, 2011- The
Sonnenberg Poetry Award, 3rd Place, 2002- Award for Creative Excellence, Pennsylvania College English Association. Tracie is on a mission to engage a meaningful discourse about the treachery of beauty, and she’s willing to talk to anyone who is willing to discuss how terrible angels are.
Keith Moul has been developing a collection of what he calls "idiomatic" poems, each beginning with a common
idiom using the "to take" infinitive, then developing alternative meanings in the poems. The collection, called To Take and Not Have, now is complete and seeking a publisher. These poems are from earlier in the process and are reprinted as revised versions. In addition to his chapbook, The Grammar of Mind, published by Blue & Yellow Dog Press, Red Ochre Press will have released Beautiful Agitation, a winner of its 2011 chapbook contest. Keith also publishes his photos widely.
Al Ortolani is a teacher in the Kansas City area. His writing has appeared in The New York Quarterly, The Midwest Quarterly, New Letters, The English Journal and others. His third book of poetry, Wren’s House, is to be released this winter from Coal City Press in Lawrence, Kansas. Al works closely with the Kansas City Writer’s Place and is an editor with The Little Balkans Review.
Jay Passer: born San Francisco 1965. Repeat contributor to several online publications. Author of chapbooks most recently Only Human By Conditionavailable from Crisis Chronicles Press. Another chap to appear late 2012 from Corrupt Press, At The End Of The Street. Passer's work has been represented in the small presses since 1988.
Lin Powell’s creative work has been published in New Millennium Writings, Palo Verde, Highlights for Children, Self-Realization Magazine, Emeritus Voices, and other venues.
Ben Rasnic is originally from Jonesville, a small rural town in extreme Southwest Virginia, population< 1000. Currently, Ben resides in Bowie, Maryland and earns a paycheck as an accountant for a paper recycling company in Alexandria, Va. His poems can be found on numerous internet websites and in a few “old school” printed publications. His chapbook “The Day the Looking Glass Shattered” appears in The Camel Saloon’s Books on Blog September, 2012.
Michelle Reale is an academic librarian on faculty at Arcadia University in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She is the author of four chapbooks. She has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She blogs on social justice, immigration and migration www.sempresicilia.wordpress.org
Walter Ruhlmann was born in 1974 in France. He currently lives in Nantes where he works as an English teacher. He has been publishing mgversion2>datura (ex-Mauvaise graine) for over fifteen years. Walter is the author of several poetry chapbooks and e-books in French and English and has published poems in various printed and electronic publications world wide. He is a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee for his translation of Martine Morillon-Carreau’s poem “Sand début ni fin, ce rêve” published in the January 2011 issue of Magnapoets. His blog http://lorchideenoctambule.hautetfort.com/
Felino A. Soriano has authored 50 collections of poetry, including Of oscillating fathoms these nonverbal chants
(Argotist Ebooks, 2012) and Analyzed Depictions (white sky books, 2012). He publishes the online endeavors Counterexample Poetics and Differentia Press. His work finds foundation in philosophical studies and connection to various idioms of jazz music. He lives in California with his wife and family and is a case manager and advocate for adults with developmental and physical disabilities. For furtherinformation, please visit www.felinoasoriano.info.
Emily Treakle-Chase is a writer, pet owner, wife, parent, and employee, living in Western Washington, within sight of the volcano Mt. Rainier. She holds a BA from the University of Puget Sound in English, with an emphasis in Creative
Writing.
Barbara Young lives where she was born, Nashville TN. She attended a Baptist liberal arts college during the 1960s. Began writing again about three years ago. Change fascinates her.