...Contributor Info...

Twan, Fart of a Witch: Twan has been writing for nine years. Twan was most recently published in Zoetrope, The Boston Review, and Jelly Jam Tart. Twan has taught throughout New England at RISDI, Brown University, Rhode Island College, Boston College, and Northeastern. Twan was a graduate of UCSD’s MFA program in creative writing and published in Sand Diego’s Daily Journal. Twan has settled in Rhode Island, teaching at The Poet’s Laureat’s Guild of Writing and trying to persue a career in writing. Twans motto is, “If you can say it spare, Leave it Bare.”

Robert Gibbons, Distant Intimacies: Robert's prose poems have appeared in Conspire, The Drunken Boat, Evergreen Review, Exquisite Corpse, Frank, Gargoyle, In Posse Review, Linnaean Street, The Literary Review, Slow Trains, & Tatlin's Tower. Linnaean Street has launched an online chapbook series with Robert's collection of prose poems, "Brief History of Erotic Gesture." His third chapbook of prose poems, "This Vanishing Architecture," was published in recently by Innerer Klang Press, Charlestown, MA.

Behlor Santi, Moonlight and Magnolias:Behlor Santi is a 21-year old writer living in New York City. She has published fiction and poetry in many small magazines, including Wilmington Blues, EWGPresents, and The Dead Mule. She has a poem forthcoming in The Cortland Review. She's currently working on a story collection, and a chapbook of poetry.

Janet Buck, Ph.D. Raw Chilies, Death Does This: Janet is the author of four collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in CrossConnect, Pif Magazine, The Melic Review, Big Bridge, Disquieting Muses, Stirring, Avatar Review, pith, Perihelion, Apples & Oranges, In Motion, OffCourse, and hundreds of journals world-wide. In the year 2000, Janet was of ten U.S. poets to be featured at the “One Heart, One World” Exhibit at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City. Her poem “Acrylic Thighs” was translated into five languages and paired with original artwork. The tour traveled to France, Australia, Vietnam, Brazil, and Japan. In 2001-2002, Buck's poetry is scheduled to appear in PoetryBay, The Montserrat Review, Runes, The Pedestal Magazine, The Carriage House Review, Swagazine, PoetryRepairShop, Slow Trains, Kimera, Verse Libre Quarterly, Wicked Alice, Facets, Southern Ocean Review, Artemis, The American Muse, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly. Recent awards include First Place in Kimera's Poetry Contest 2001, Editor's Choice Award for Sol Magazine, and the 2001 Kota Press Anthology Prize. In 2001, Janet’s poem “The Teapoy” was nominated by The Pedestal Magazine for a Pushcart Prize.

Phil Pisani, The Tyro, the Tutor and the Triptych: Phil is the co-author of the book From Heroin to Heresy: The Making of An American Social Thinker, William Neal Publishing. Phil has placed first in American Zoetrope's Top Three category for a novella and second for a screenplay. Phil has published pieces in: FFM e-zine and A Long Trip Home e - zine. He is currently finishing a novel "Maggie's Wars" and continues to write short stories, poems, novellas and screenplays.

Pamela Garvey, The Scars of Practice: Pamela has published poems in several national journals and she is now sending out stories for publication. She has an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and teaches literature, creative writing and composition at St. Louis Community College-Meramec.

Thomas Christopher, Detroit: Thomas has lived in Iowa, Seattle, Montana, New Jersey, and is currently at work on an MFA at Western Michigan. For the past six years he has worked as a night clerk in a variety of hotels.

Jennifer Gibbons, Holy Ghost Coming to Look for Me: Jennifer Gibbons has been published in Frefall, Blue Collar Press, Purple Prose, Electric Acorn, and The Blue Review. She lives in California and is working on a novel.

Rafeeq O. McGiveron, Great-Grandpa Bill's Toilette, 1935: Rafeeq is an advisor at Lansing Community College in Michigan. At MA+45, he has taught English for over a decade.  He has published over a dozen articles of criticism on Willa Cather, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Sharon Olds, Amy Lowell, and others in such journals as Western American Literature, Extrapolation, The Explicator, and ScienceFiction Studies.  His poetry occasionally has appeared in regional publications.

Barbara Iobst, Afternoon calls a carp into the air: Barbara shares her life with 13 animals and her husband in Virginia.  She spent three years writing poetry in the MFA-Creative Writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University, and taught freshman and sophomore writing for seven years.  Now she cares for her 12 dogs and cats, formerly homeless, some blind, some wild, some crazy. The 13th animal is her horse who she bribes with carrots at his boarding school.

Joseph Conlin, The Day There Was No Magi: The short fiction of Joseph Conlin also has appeared in the Fairfield Review, SNReview, Sulphur River Review, Maryland Review, and Algonquin Roundtable Review, and his nonfiction in Entrepreneur, Laptop, and Sales & Marketing Management magazines. His novel, Rooted Sorrows, is in search for an agent and/or publisher. Conlin teaches English composition at the University of Bridgeport and edits the online literary quarterly the SNReview (http://members.aol.com/jconln1221/snreview.htm).

Elise Miller, Bermuda Socks: is currently completing her first book, Cock-Crazy!, a collection of personal essays chronicling her relationship to the male member, mostly during the asymmetrical 1980s, when she was a love-starved, rosary beadazzled Jew-waver. Elise has been published in The Sun Magazine, on bkyn.com, massconfusion.com and slowcrack.com. She's read portions of Cock-Crazy! at the Knitting Factory, HERE Arts Center, Halcyon, Makor, and at The Living Room, where she curates and hosts the East Side Oral readings series. She can be reached at eastsideoral@hotmail.com Elise was also a contributor to Small Spiral Notebook's December 2001 edition!

Tom Sheehan, Four Parts of Creature, Apple Pine Mountain, The Great God Shove, The Hermit of Breakheart Woods: Tom Sheehan has new work in Small Spiral Notebook, 3am Magazine (poem/novel); poems in Melange, Free Zone Quarterly, Split Shot, Drunk Duck, Slow Trains, Stirring, Eclectica, Arbutus, Dakota House, Samsara (with short story); poem coming in Carnelian, and short story and memoir coming in The Paumanok Review. His novel, "Vigilantes East," is in print production. He is a Pushcart XXVII  and Silver Rose Award nominee. Tom was also a contributor to Small Spiral Notebook's December 2001 edition!

Emma Straub, A capella, Another Flight of Steps: Emma is from New York City. Her poems have appeared in Hanging Loos' and The Boston Review. She is currently a senior at Oberlin College.

Jason Lee, I'm a Golden Monkey, Silkroad: Jason graduated from Vassar College with a degree in English in 1995.  His thesis was a collection of poems he worked on with Eamon Grennan.

James Braly, Britney Speared, A Suite Escape: James writes short comic essays for print and performance in small magazines and small theaters, respectively. He also tells stories at The Moth, a storytelling group that sponsors monthly shows at The Nuyorecan Poets Cafe. He makes his living writing scripts for, among others, the angel who trained a thousand pharmaceutical sales reps how to keep heart failure patients from prematurely going to Heaven.

Matthew Wascovich, Unlocked Doors, She is Bikini: Matthew Wascovich is a Cleveland-based poet and musician.  His chapbooks have been published by Slow Toe Publications and his writing can by found in Nexus, In My Head, Nuts, 3 AM Magazine and Hootpage.com.

John Mangarella, Havana Nights: John is a Writers Boot Camp alumnus who has been writing commercially for nearly three decades. He's penned ad copy, ketchup labels, tombstones, television ads, radio ad copy and puff pieces. He's researched and written position papers for both the Democratic and Republican Parties. When he's not spending time playing Pin The Dollar On The Adjective, he writes fiction. His most recent novel A PRESENCE OF ANGELS is currently under consideration at a major publishing house. John lives in New Jersey and is working on his next novel, THE DOOMSDAY KISS.

Rose Gleisberg, Keepsakes: Rose Gleisberg graduated in 1980 from the College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska, with a degree in Early Childhood Education. After a few years, she left full time teaching to travel with her husband during his military career.  She currently substitute teaches and writes poetry in her spare time while raising her children.  Rose is working on a certificate in Creative Writing through Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.  She resides in Bellevue, Nebraska with her husband, Bob, and three children, Diana, Katie, and Joshua. Rose's poem, "Holland's the Place for Me", was most recently published in BENDING LIGHT and THE NEBRASKA ENGLISH JOURNAL.

Joseph M. Faria, Autumn, Hamlet's Ophleia, After the Dark, Death has Sound: Joseph was born on the island of Sao Miguel, in the Azores. He was brought to the United States when he was nine months old, by his mother, in 1950. He studied Creative Writing at Roger Williams University. He published his first poem when he was twenty-three: "The Black Crow Symphony: 4th Movement", Ishmael, Spring 1973. His short story "Threshold" won 2nd Prize in the 1997 CWA National Writing Competition. His first book of short stories, "FROM A DISTANCE", was published in the Azores in June 1998 by Nova Grafica Press. He has a story appearing in "Vestal Review", and forthcoming in "Snow Monkey", and "Literary Potpourri", and poetry in "Thundersandwich #16". He is the Assistant Editor of the web quarterly, Linnaeanstreet.com. He lives in Bristol, RI. Joseph was also a contributor to Small Spiral Notebook's December 2001 edition! Mr. Faria would like to express his gratitude to "Azores Express", for their continued support of his artistic endeavors.

Richard Fein, A Division of Labor: Richard Fein had been published in numerous print and web journals. A further sampling of his work can be found at http://expage.com/page/richardspoems. Richard has a site for his photography, which consists mostly of nature photos. The site can be accessed at http://www.pbase.com/bardofbyte

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