Contributors
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Zack Kopp is a freelance writer who blends social and political themes with raw, wild soul from the bottom of the can. He currently reviews books and conducts interviews of authors for The Examiner in Denver and has long served as the editor of an irregular journal of quantum thought called The Gut. Kopp, who holds a masters of fine arts in writing from Vermont College, is writing his fantastic biography as it occurs. |
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Steve Calamars lives in San Antonio, TX. He has a B.A. in Philosophy and works in a grocery store. The stuff he writes can be found (or will be found) in bottle rockets, Chiron Review, Harpur Palate, Gutter Eloquence, Zygote in My Coffee and other places he won’t bore you with. His first poetry chapbook, American Violence, will be released April 2010 from New Polish Beat. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee. He blogs at http://dirtywordsoncleanliving.blogspot.com/ |
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Mark Thomas Wickham holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in Salt Lake City.
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Brandon S. Roy is the editor of The Panulaan Review.His work has appeared in numerous reviews and journals, including the LitSnack,Breadcrumb Scabs and Ghoti Magazine.
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Mari has a long and checkered past, including stints in journalism, public relations, advertising, marketing, technical writing, graphic design, convention management, alternative lifestyle advocacy, leadership training, and various-and-sundry business documentation and communication. She holds a Bachelor's in Writing from the University of Colorado Denver, an MBA from the prestigious School of Hard Knocks, and has been working on her Honorary Doctorate since childhood. In a former life, she was a prolific poet, a mediocre vocalist, and a surprisingly good actor, and the host of Denver's poetry slam in the early 90s. At the moment, she is very slowly, and quite surely, developing new forms of interfaith communication that she hopes will change the world. She is also perfecting her fiction and creative non-fiction styles with two concurrent book-length projects dealing with self-actualization, belief systems, universal energy, greed, corruption, and murder. |
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Lené Gary lives in Montpelier, Vermont and is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her recent awards include First Place, Second Place and Honorable Mention in the Poetry Society of New Hampshire’s National Poetry Contest; Honorable Mention, California Institute of Arts and Letters; and Best Overall, KNOCK Ecolit Contest. Her recent and forthcoming publications include Watershed, SAGE, Connotation Press, Silkworm, Crash, Grandmother Earth, Vermont Nature, KNOCK, The Poet’s Touchstone, and M Review. When she’s not writing, she can be found paddling her well-worn, Mad River canoe. |
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Holds a BA from the University of Southern Maine in History and Philosophy, an MAR from Yale Divinity in Religion and Literature, and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Creative NonFiction. He teaches classes in Literature, Creative Writing, and Religious Studies at two Boston-area colleges. His NonFiction and Poetry has appeared in Palimpsest, Words and Images, the Gut, and the Maine Scholar. He received an Honorable Mention for "emerging writer" from Our Stories. He lives in Brighton, MA, with his wife and two tuxedo cats. His interests include Medieval Christian Mysticism, Sufi Poetry, the Mandolin, Dark Romanticism, and the Southern Gothic. |
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Shane Roeschlein is a writer. He spent a dozen years as a music journalist, interviewing bands, listening to musicians talk about themselves, eventually aging himself out of relevance. He spends the majority of his time writing and playing music while doing online content management to supplement his income. He resides in San Diego, CA
Essays, interviews are available on http://www.acoatofredpaintinhell.com
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Hey there! Sit down, have a drink. We should get acquainted... Me? I'm JAMES GATES. What's that? Well, that's a tricky question...You might call me a Wichita...what? Character? Fixture? Gargoyle? I don't know for sure... I've lived in the Wichita area almost 79% of my life. Most of the time I haunt Delano and the Old Town district like they were my own personal Whitechapel-you may only catch glimpses of me, floating in the background at a bar, a show or an art opening, but there are traces of me everywhere. (Wow, that didn't sound creepy at all, did it?) I've been around long enough to have met some people... And let's face it, I'm recognizable. I'm six and a half feet tall, rail-thin with blond hair, goatee and yellow-tinted glasses-I look like the three-way love child of Andy Dick, Shaggy, and Lurch from The Addams Family. |
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Stefan is a writer and teacher currently living in Portland, Or.
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Raoul Vehill can't stand cars and cellphones, digs frankenbikes, and talking to freaks face to face. He has always been a compulsive proponent of Do It Yourself culture.
After growing up in Denver, he's been an infamous punk singer in Honolulu, an award winning z grade filmmaker in Chicago, and since returning to Denver has written fiction and edited his uncle's autobiography.
More of Vehill's work at;
http://www.enlightened-pyramid.com/
http://disinfortainment.blogspot.com/
John Gallegos was a safecracker, stick up artist, check forger, dope dealer and professional criminal of the old school. Most of his carrer he did in Denver. He spent a significant percentage of his life in prison, like most pros.
His straight jobs included working for an auto service, paving crew, foundary and he fought forest fires in California. He had two daughters.
John studied philosophy by thinkers like Kant, Hegel, Shopenhauer and Nietzche. He lived what poet Eric Hoffer called, "a passionate state of mind".
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Christopher Noel teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in Vermont, where he runs Tall Rock Retreat, an artists' hideaway (www.tallrockretreat.com). He is the author of two novels, a memoir, and a collection of short stories. His new nonfiction book is entitled Impossible Visits: The Inside Story of Interactions with Sasquatch at Habituation Sites. He has traveled throughout North America on Sasquatch expeditions and worked closely with families who have experienced repeat visitations from this intelligent primate species.
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Sara was born in the past but has seen the future. She is a creative spirit, an animal lover and an intuitive thinker. Her creativity has been manifested in oil paint, words, photographs, found objects and hula hoops.
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Mighty Mercury is the experimental partner site to Dscriber, hosting a continually updated selection of short fiction, verse, art, photography, and commentary (mainly interviews, reports, and reviews), and longer works of fiction and nonfiction are published serially by invitation.
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Otis Funkmeyer is the kind of guy you just can’t help but love. Born and raised in Arundel, Maine, just minutes from the Bush enclave, he shares the given first name George with two former presidents of the United States. He grew up in the country on a farm and loved sports and math and computers. Around age 18, he had an epiphanal experience that life was not all it was cracked up to be—that he had been sold a bill of goods that he was no longer satisfied with. He got most of his money back and headed out on his own into the hinterlands. He became a dancer and a dreamer and an explorer of the things on the outer edges of reality and he started wondering, is any of this even real? Is this anything more than a projection of my consciousness, all fractaled out in such a way to be crisp and sharp and ultra-high-def, to make me forget that I’m the thing making it? He discovered that, yes, in fact, he was the one making it, and said, ok, let’s really get this thing cooking. 9 days later he met Jenny Funkmeyer and together they have begun to weave a story for the ages: a story of breaking free, of believing in oneself, of trusting in the immense power of this thing we call life, of knowing the benevolence of the light, and of leaping into a new reality, where love reigns supreme, and we frolic and play and breakdance all day and then eat some coconut ice cream. Otis loves life, even though it sometimes feels incredibly painful to be experiencing it, and wants to really get to the bottom of the whole thing, to explore beyond where anyone else has ever explored, and to bring back something of such immense beauty that the whole world just wells up with tears and holds hands and has a big laugh and a big cry together. Otis loves group hugs too. And Jenny. A lot. |
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Nathan Payne is a songwriter currently residing in Austin, Texas.
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Chandra E.A. Dickson has an M.F.A. in creative writing from Wichita State Univeristy where she studied with Albert Goldbarth. She is currently the edtior for Poetry for the Masses and Blank Zine. Her poetry has appaered in The Cimarron Review.
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Brian Potrafka, 42, is currently employed (through a temp agency) as a Medical Coding/Billing Instructor. He is obsessed with text sports simulations and throws lots of fits.
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Michael de Yoanna is a freelance journalist and chief editor of dscriber.com and it's growing network of sister sites, including MightyMercury.com. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Salon, The Washington Times and 5280. He has contributed to the CBS "Evening News" and been quoted or featured on NPR, Colorado Public Radio, on television and in print. Michael began freelancing in late 2007, after seven years at daily and weekly newspapers as reporter and senior reporter. He has appeared at several forums, including the 2009 Investigative Reporters and Editors conference. Michael, who lives in Colorado, holds 12 professional awards for news features and investigations. Michael believes in the power of the written word, particularly poetry, and will occasionally attempt to hold his own with the talented stable of contributors at MightyMercury.com. |
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