Michael Cannon
Michael Cannon. Twenty-three years old. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts and moved to Boston when I was nineteen. Started writing as a substitute for sleep and still use it today in place of psyche meds. This is my first time ever being published and looking at all the other writers who’ve been in this circuit, I’m wondering how’d I luck out to get my name aside there’s? It’s an honor. I now live in Florida where I work as a member of one of the wildest group of outsiders: High-Steel Ironworkers, out of West Palm Beach Ironworkers Union Local 402.
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Yvonne Chism-Peace
The poet Yvonne writes short fiction under the name Yvonne Chism-Peace. In 2003 she won the Leeway Award for Emerging Writers (Fiction). In 2002-03 these ezines published her stories: Muse Apprentice Guild, Melic Review, Wired Hearts, The3rdegree, Tattoo Highway, Pindeldyboz, Moxie, ken* again, Inkburns, Word Riot, Clever Magazine, Moondance, Feminista, and In Posse Review.
Her books of poetry are IWILLA SOIL, IWILLA SCOURGE, and IWILLA RISE (Chameleon Productions Inc. 1985, 1986, 1999) for which she won NEA fellowships. She was the poetry editor at MS. magazine (1974-1987).
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Stephen Donaldson
Stephen Donaldson lives and works in New York City where he spends most of his free time writing fiction, reading fiction, thinking about fiction, and riding dirtbikes.
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John Flynn
John Flynn's work has appeared in a variety of lit mags. He has published three chapbooks of poetry and a book of short stories. His poems have earned awards from the Worcester County Poetry Association and the New England Poetry Club. The title story of his short story collection, "Something Grand" won the HG Roberts Foundation award from Kansas State University. John works in New York City, lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Duane Locke
Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy, English Renaissance literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities was Poet in Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years. Has had over 5,000 poems published. As of February 2004, 5,102 poems published. Over 2,000 were published in print magazines, such as American Poetry Review, Nation, and Bitter Oleander. In September 1999, he became a cyber poet, added over 3,000 poems published in E zines. Is the author of 14 print books of poetry, and in 2002, added 3 E books, The Squids Dark Ink, From a Tiny Room, and The Death of Daphne. The entire Spring 2004 issue of the magazine Bitter Oleander will be devoted to a 92 page interview with Duane Locke and will include a large selection of his poems. Forthcoming in Potomac Review an article by Donald Ryburn on the poetry of Duane Locke.

He is also a painter, having many exhibitions, his latest at the city art museum in Gainesville, Florida. A recent book, Extraordinary Interpretations by Gary Monroe, published by University of Florida Press, has a discussion of Duane Locke’s paintings. Also, a photographer, now has over 184 photos in e zines. He does close-ups of trash tossed away in alleys and on sidewalks.

His old biographical notes, published many time, are now obsolete. The notes stated that he lived in an old decaying house in the sunny Tampa slums, populated largely by drug dealers and the homeless. The house was condemned by the city of Tampa inspectors, and after his living at this location for fifty years, he was forced to leave within six days. The forced move was due to the fall of the bungalow in his large back yard. The bungalow contained a priceless literary scholarly library which is now under debris. An army of inspectors descended and decided he could no longer live in his home, so Duane Locke left Tampa to relocate in Lakeland, Florida. He lives by a lake with swans and many wild birds. The fall was a “Fortunate Fall,” for he now lives in a more desirable and pleasant location at Lake Morton Plaza. The only disadvantage is that he can find no trash to photograph, no broken beer bottles on sidewalk, no litter as it was in Tampa.
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Heather McFall
Heather McFall is an English major at Washington State University. She lives in Seattle, Washington with her sailor husband and two little boys. She was born in 1983 in El Paso, Texas and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is new to the Navy Wives Club, but she doesn’t really fit in there, or anywhere for that matter, it must be all those weird little stories she writes. Heather focuses her passion on writing literary and experimental short fiction, she is also working on her first novel.
Read 'How to Have an Affair with Your High School Botany Teacher'

Caroline Moore
I'm a university student enrolled in the new media design program at the University of Maine, but I nurse a passion for photography in my spare time. I especially like focusing on the gritty aspects of Maine life, and visiting familiar places and transforming them through my photography. The photographs were taken in my hometown, North Amity, in an abandoned property next to my parents' home.
Visit her online at: http://www.sixhours.net
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C.C. Parker
C. C. Parker lives in Seattle. He has been writing for a longtime. He has published over a hundred stories, net and print. Notable publications: Flesh and Blood, Bare Bone, Decadence 2, The Dream People, etc . . . Aside from this, he works at a small, independent video storewhere he is actively corrupting the minds of impressionable viewers:" Have you ever seen Visitor Q?" He is also a staff writer for Cherry Bleeds.
Read 'This Moral Phantasmagoria'

Robert Steven Rhine
Robert Steven Rhine is the author of "MY BRAIN ESCAPE ME" (Sun Dog Press), heralded by Publisher's Weekly as "a successful mix of humor and horror." A frequent magazine contributor, Rhine has sold fiction to over one hundred magazines and published anthologies. His successful comic book series "SELECTED READINGS FROM SATAN'S POWDER ROOM," led to a second, "CHICKEN SOUP FOR SATAN," and the upcoming "SATAN GONE WILD." The three comic books are part of an proposed graphic novel. Rhine's short animated pilot "SICKCOM" was recently bought by SPIKE & MIKE's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation and is currently on world tour. Rhine also wrote, directed, produced and starred in "ROAD LAWYERS," winner at the Chicago, Houston and New York Film Festivals (released by AIP); and, also, "VINNIE AND ANGELA'S BEAUTY SALON & FUNERAL PARLOR," grand prize winner at the Australian International Film Festival (sold to Universal Studios/Hypnotic Films). Rhine recently completed a second book which he hopes to have published in his lifetime.
Visit Robert Steven Rhine online at: http://www.robertrhine.com/
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Kelly Spitzer
Born to the mountain desert of southwest Colorado, Kelly now lives in the Pacific Northwest. She misses turquoise skies, roasted chilies and picking juniper berries. If you ask her why she moved, she will not tell you. Her most recent work has appeared in Orchard Press Mysteries, Green Tricycle and Monkeybicycle.
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Trupthi
Trupthi is 19, currently studying journalism at LSR in the rapidly transforming capital of India. She is the co-founder editor of Real Politik, an economic political newsletter with social connotations. She maintains an online column at www.poeticinhalation.com.
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Andrew Lundwall - Guest Poetry Editor
Andrew Lundwall is the founder of The Tin Lustre Mobile. He, with Star Smith, is a managing editor of Poetic Inhalation. His poetry, prose, and visual poetry have been published by (or shall be forthcoming with) numerous print and electronic literary journals, such as: Lost & Found Times, Over the Transom, Big Bridge, Eratio, Shoestring, The Muse Apprentice Guild, Shampoo, Moria, Deep Cleveland, Sidereality, Retort Magazine, SpaceBreather, Aught, xStream, Ink Magazine, Dream People, Dead Drunk Dublin, Oracular Tree, Blackbox, Score, James River Poetry Review, Zygote in My Coffee, Subterranean Quarterly, 88, Near South, Picklebird...

Recently Lundwall has had two new electronic chapbooks published:
"eye pharmacy" (xPressed, xpressed.org)
"stormy body-work love" (Tamafyhr Mountain, tmpoetry.com)
Visit Andrew Lundwall online at: Poetic Inhalation

Sean Meriwether - Editor
Sean's fiction has been defined as dark realism, his subjects rooted in the peculiar nature of everyday life. His work has or will be published in Love Under Foot and Best Gay Erotica 2002, and appeared online in Lodestar Quarterly and 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 Sean Meriwether online at: seanmeriwether.com
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