Shane Allison
Shane Allison is the author of three books of poems, Ceiling
of Mirrors, Black Fag, and Cock & Balls.
His poems and stories have appeared in Velvet
Mafia, Suspect
Thoughts, Mind
Caviar, StorySouth and
Best Black Gay Erotica. His fourth book, I Want to
Fuck a Redneck, is
forthcoming. He is friends with poet, Jarret Keene.
Read his Poetry
Melanie Blow
I am a staff writer for the Northwest Times (the newspaper for
the Charlotte and Maplewood neighborhoods and published by the
Maplewood Business Association). I also regularly contribute
editorials to the Democrat and Chronicle, and have been published in Reptiles magazine.
I am currently working on a collection of short stories dealing
with intergenerational abuse,
and have had one piece of short fiction published in the Muse
Apprentice Guild.
I currently live in Rochester with my husband, dog, cats and
bird. I work for the American Red Cross and am on the Board of
Directors for Prevent Child Abuse NY. I have been writing since
grade school, and that
occupies most of my spare time, but I am also an avid hiker and
bird watcher.
Read 'Runaway/Throwaway Episode'
Denise Dee
Denise Dee is a playwright, photograper and poet. She edited the
seminal punklitzines Lobster Tendencies and
The Closest Penguins. Her book Sowkins is available at http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/sowkins.html Some
of her favorite places she has been published are Street Spirit,
Primal Primers, The Awakenings Review, Ink, and The
City.
View her Photography
Sarah Eddenden
I’ve had short stories published on Outsider Ink, Suite
101, Tattoo
Highway, and Doorknobs and BodyPaint. My husband, my two kids and I just
set up home in the suburbs, which has given me a whole new way of looking
at things, and a whole new stack of short stories. I stand by my credo:
There’s nothing more interesting or more funny than life as it goes
by day to day.
Read 'In On'
Corey Mesler
Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke's Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee,
one of
the country's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He has published
poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Rattle, Pindeldyboz, Quick
Fiction, Cranky, Thema, Mars Hill Review, Poet
Lore and others. He has also been
a book reviewer for The Memphis Commercial Appeal. A short story of his was chosen
for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, published
by Algonquin Books. Talk, his first novel, appeared in 2002. Nice blurbs from
Lee Smith, John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, Frederick Barthelme, and others.
He has a new novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, due out in 2005 from Livingston.
His latest two poetry chapbooks are Chin-Chin in Eden (2003) and Dark
on Purpose(2004). He also claims to have written "It's my Party." Most importantly,
he is Toby and Chloe's dad and Cheryl's husband.
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Paula M Morell
Paula Martin Morell is an Arkansas native who has lived, among other places,
in New Orleans, Miami, Boca Raton, the US Virgin Islands, and Keystone, Colorado.
She and her husband and their two daughters (3 year old and 1 year old) currently
live in Little Rock where she writes and teaches writing. Her work has appeared
in publications such as Short Story Journal, New Works Review, Word
Salad, the
Little Rock Free Press, Quills and Pixels, the Double
Dealer Redux, and the
Arkansas Women's Journal, and her first book, broken
water (a novel-in-stories), was published in 2004.
Visit her online at: www.paulamorell.com
Read 'Reflection'
Naim Peress
My road to “Dark Valley” has been a short but eventful one. At the
age of twenty-five, I set out to write my first novel. After much research and
a trip to Israel, I adapted a story from the Talmud and turned it into a historical
novel, Righteous Among Men. Though my book suffered the fate of many first novels
(it went unpublished), it was an achievement for me because I had molded a vision
in my mind into a text that I could hold in my hand. After completing the first
book, I decided to write a second historical novel about Jews who fought for
both sides in the Civil War. As I researched this second book, I decided to
write a group of short stories to maintain and improve my writing skills. The
inspiration for “Dark Valley” came from my experiences working as
a full-time attorney for an insurance company on Long Island. The publication
of this story is the first great moment in my writing career.
I would like to thank the members of my literary group for their
constructive and helpful advice in revising “Dark Valley.” Above
all, I want to thank my girlfriend Chandeep Chauhan for urging
me to revise this story after sending my first version to Outsider
Ink. As a writer and as an individual, I am very fortunate for
the supportive people in my life. In this loneliest of professions,
we all need our friends.
Read 'Dark Valley'
Colin Pink
Colin Pink’s plays have been performed in New York City,
San Diego, Malibu and Brighton (UK). His fiction has been published
in Tales from Tartarus, Enigmatic Tales and All
Hallows and has
appeared on the internet at Outsider Ink, Velvet
Mafia and 3AM
magazine. Colin Pink lives and works in London, UK.
He is currently at work on a novel and can be contacted at
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Read 'Pleasure & Grief'
Robert J. Scholes
Robert J. Scholes is professor emeritus of linguistics of the University ofFlorida.
He received his BS and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University. Heserved on the
faculty
at Indiana, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Florida and as a research
scientist at IBM and Bell Telephone Laboratories. He received numerous grants,
including Fulbright and National Institutes of Health awards that sponsored research
and teaching in Israel and Kenya. He is the author of A Linguistic Approach
to
Reading and Writing, Tales of the Heart and Other Brainless Organs, Mail-order
Brides: A Report to Congress, and a hundred other works of fiction and non-fiction. He
currently lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he may be found every morning
writing away at Starbucks.
Read 'Daughters of Roxas'
Matt Thomas
Matt Thomas currently lives in Long Island and Syracuse, New York, where he is
enrolled as a graduate student in Syracuse University's English program. He works part
time as freelance writer and is currently working on his first novella.
Read 'Crossover'
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