Vladik Cervantes
Vladik Cervantes is a writer/poet whose work has appeared in many print and online publications, including The Lummox Journal, The Silverlake Local, Retort Magazine, Damaged Goods, Flipside, Circle Magazine, and "Streetnotes" (the online exhibition of XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics), among others. During the late 80s/early 90s Vladik was editor for HIP Magazine, a local LA zine that covered the creative underground scene of the time; receiving mention in radio, books, magazines, internet, and other media. He has two chapbooks, "Poignant Torsi" and "Uptown, Downtown, and Other City Sufferings" available at his website www.vladik.mine.nu and he is currently at work on his first novel.
Read The Hole (Solitary Confinement)

Chris Duncan
My name is Chris Duncan. I'm thirty-years-old and live with my wife and daughter in Abingdon, VA (southwest part of the state). I'm a graduate of Virginia Intermont College and currently enrolled in the MFA creative writng program at Queens University of Charlotte, NC. Previous publications include BoomerangUK and Carve Magazine.
Read Sam Hayter: Winner of the 2002 Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes

Marlena Fontenay
Marlena is a writer, performer, and artist, living in the mountains of West Virginia, with 2 wolves, 9 dogs, and 12 cats---all of whom she has rescued from uncaring humans. She started making art, through an art therapy program, in a psychiatric institution. Marlena is a multiple. The many voices inside her speak through her work---which includes assemblage sculptures, paintings and poetry.
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Charles Harvey
Charles Harvey, a graduate of The University of Houston, did not start writing until after he left college and landed a job as Computer Operator with a 3-day week that allowed him time to write. Occasionally his creativity catches fire, sometimes it's like a Lady in Waiting - waiting for the Queen to set something in motion. His catalyst was Rosellen Brown, a very inspiring teacher. His play, The Ladies and the Iron Ball was produced at Kuumba House in Houston, "Cheeseburger" won first place in the PEN/Southwest Prizes and was published in Ontario Review. He has had two short stories published in STORY Magazine. When Dogs Bark is his latest creative endeavor. It is a collection of some of my best poetry and stories. "I'm happy to be a writer. What else could I be?"
Read his It Began With Drawers

Marshall Moore
Marshall Moore lives in one of the less blood-drenched neighborhoods of Oakland, California, with his partner Anthony Ly. When Marshall's not stepping over syringes and homeless people, he juggles two careers: sign language interpreting and writing. He holds national certification from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf and is the author of the forthcoming novel THE CONCRETE SKY (Southern Tier, 2003). What a complicated and interesting guy he is. You'd like him. Whether he'd like you, however, is a completely different question. For more information about Marshall and his writing, or to send him an e-mail saying "wow, your story changed my life," please visit his website: www.marshallmoore.com.
Read The Right Way to Eat A Bagel

Patrick Porter
Patrick Porter is a 23-year-old writer, musician, and recent transplant from Denver, Colorado to Schenectady, NY. His first book of poetry, The Intrusive Ache of Morning, was published in 1999 by Chicago's Press of the Third Mind. A year later, Nervous Halo, a second poetry manuscript, was released by the late Paul Dilsaver's Arts and Academic Press. In addition to writing books, Porter records for the Australian indie label Camera Obscura Records. 'Reverb Saved My Life', a collection of home recordings created when Porter was 17 years old, is his most recent release with this label. In addition to many small solo/band tours, Porter has performed poetry readings with Jim Carroll, Shannon Dickey, and many others. Currently, Porter is recording a new album and searching out publishers for his admittedly colossal novel manuscript, Kristallnacht. His newest poetry manuscript, completed in November 2002 and titled Tender Sociology, is the work from which the poems in Outsider Ink have been culled.
Visit him online at NervousHalo.com
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Priscilla Rhoades
Priscilla Rhoades is a writer of short stories, poetry, and historical articles whose work has appeared recently (or is soon to appear) in Lodestar Quarterly, In Posse Review, Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly, and other publications. A transplanted Californian, she now lives on two acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina.
Read Stare Number Twelve

Elizabeth Routen
Elizabeth Routen, 22, is a native of Hampton Roads, Virginia. She is the author of the short story collection Voices on the Stair (2001), from which "Day Labor, Light Denied" is excerpted. Her essays, poetry and fiction have appeared or are soon to appear in publications including Artemis, Vincent Brothers Review, Story Digest, and storySouth. She is currently at work on a novel, The Long Road Home, and on a second, as-yet-untitled fiction collection.
Visit her online at: http://routen.windriverpress.com
Read Day Labor, Light Denied: A Portrait

Adrienne Williams
Adrienne Williams lives in South Carolina with four cats, one mother, one father, one brother and an irritable fish. She is a writer, artist, dancer, feyrieprincess, water buffalo tamer, and Human Rights activist who works twelve hours a day in a plastic coating and dry-cleaning-bag manufacturing plant in her spare time.
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Sean Meriwether - Editor
Sean's fiction has been defined as dark realism, his subjects rooted in the grotesque nature of everyday life. His work has been published in Of the Flesh, Best Gay Erotica 2002 and Best Gay Erotica 2001, and has appeared online in 3AM Magazine. He is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel. In addition to writing, he has the pleasure of editing Outsider Ink and Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction. Sean lives in New York with his partner, photographer Jack Slomovits, and their two dogs. Together they form Blowsquish.com, an internet design company.
Visit his website at: seanmeriwether.com
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