Contributors
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Lauren Tivey has given up the rat race to travel the world teaching English as a second language, and she is currently terrorizing the small city of Jiangyin, China. She holds a MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and her work has appeared in Red River Review, Snakeskin, The Sierra Nevada College Review, Medicinal Purposes, and a bunch of others. She has been a forklift operator, museum attendant, pizza delivery driver, real estate agent, landscaper, and paralegal, among other things. She gets a kick out of exploring old Buddhist temples, graveyards, obscure literary sites, and other such places that cause her friends and family to label her as "a little weird." Though she thinks she is kick-ass, she still misses her kitty cat in the U.S.
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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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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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Alana I. Capria (born 1985) has an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She worked as a newspaper reporter for three years before getting tired of spending long nights at township meetings. Capria enjoys vegetarianism, abandoned structures, ghost stories, science, and strange histories/mythologies. She lives in Northern New Jersey with her fiancé and rabbits. Her website is http://alanaicapria.com.
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TwighLight Uprisings is a group of artists whose style of story-telling emphasizes in telling stories where choice is a recurrent theme in almost every storyline. With stories that are enhanced through unique stylized art as well as highlighting unique and well-developed characters, TwighLight Uprising’s strategy is to take storytelling in a new direction.
Find us on Facebook or myspace just search "Twighlight Uprisings"
(and we do not endorse or are affiliated in any way with Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" Vampire series) |
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Just your average neurotic with some things to say about stuff sometimes loosely veiled in allusion or something
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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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Tony Adame graduated from Southern Oregon University with a BA in English (2001) and is the author of a play, "Jolly Jack Tar," that was performed at several Oregon universities in 2004 and 2005 and was one of the winners of Eastern Oregon University's New Playwright Contest in 2004. He's won awards for sports writing in Oregon, California and Kansas. He lives in Wichita, Kansas, where he is a sports writer and copy editor. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/t_adame |
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Makes Meatballs without Meat, Love without the Leaning, and Idolatry without Golden Calves. He holds an MAR, MFA, and BA, but not exactly in that order, he doesn't exactly hold them all at the same time (his hands would get too tired), and one doesn't necessarily build upon the other. He has a PhD in progress, but progress, like masturbation, is nothing to brag about.... unless there are others to admire it. He has been a bagel cook, a bouncer, a 7-11 Midnight to Eight Manager, a Prostitute, a Goth musician, a Record Store Villain (and sometimes a Hero), a Restraint Officer, a Cartographer, an Editor (still is), a Minister, a bar fighter, and a professor of Esoteric Studies (still is). He hopes to be a full time Writer someday, the way Wonderbread is a full time bread even though it is unqualified to be considered so. He is a proud member of an active artistic family. His uncles, Glen and David, are a well known poet and painter, respectively. His cousin, Daryl, is a not so well known aspiring writer. There are many actors, writers, photographers, and painters in his family, worth and not worth mentioning. The Morazzini's are a ferocious brood of House Goblins. His great grandfather was "Chef of Chefs" in Italy! Giordano's NonFiction and Poetry has appeared in The Cafe Review, Palimpsest, Words and Images, the Gut, and the Maine Scholar among other places. He received an Honorable Mention for "emerging writer" from Our Stories in 2009. He lives in the fine state of Perdition, with his wife and two tuxedo cats. His interests include: Christian Mysticism, Gothic Music and Culture, Ashtanga Yoga, Veganism, Tantra, and Consciousness Studies.
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Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Matthew Revert is the washed up flotsam of the absurdist writing world. Acknowledged by few and enjoyed by less, his fiction has been described as "definitely written to some extent". His first book, 'A Million Versions of Right' was released in July 2009 by LegumeMan Books. The overwhelming majority of people who have read this book have admitted to doing so
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Shawnsey Narcensio Rudolph hopes to some day live up to the grandeur of his name. Until then he will take the knowledge he acquired while earning his MFA at Georgia College & State University and continue to pursue a life of literary citizenship through teaching, writing, reading, and hoping for balance.
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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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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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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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