...Contributor Info... Karin L. Becker "Mom.me": Karin has received her BA from the University of North Dakota and she is currently working on her MA from Eastern Michigan University. Her short stories have appeared in Recursive Angel, Wired Hearts, Stirring and Cellar Roots. As soon as she finishes her Creative Writing program, she will leave the wintry North for good and travel as a professional photographer to the Southwest and then Tuscany. Ramin Ganeshram "Elixir of St. James": Ramin is a New York born and raised freelance writer of Trinidadian and Iranian descent. She has written for the New York Times, Poets & Writers, and others. Ramin is a regular contributor to Newsday's food pages and has held senior level editorial positions at several magazines. She currently lives in Long Island. "The Elixir of St. James" is part of an a novel in progress. Kimberly Nichols "Like Making Love to Lava": Kimberly is a freelance writer/artist/burgundy spaghetti strapped Raggedy Anne in fishnets, living in the California desert. She attributes lust, hedonism, the electromagnetic field and white light as pure motivation in her drive towards omniscience. When she isn't glued to her computer screen she can be found dancing barefoot at drum circles, skinny dipping in the ocean, scouring the desert for cactus skeletons to pose people upon or gathering a good blistering drunk with fine friends and sangria. Her psychological non-fiction appears frequently in the alternative rag Desert Post Weekly and her monthly column Diary of a Californicator calls www.3ammagazine.com home. She has been published in Alternative Arts and Literature and Feminista and is currently at work on a series of collage called Girls of the hundred Proof Bordello Define Desire. Let her write on your back with thorns, wine or iodine and she'll paste you on a rusty nail in one of her paintings. She can be reached at kcooperblue@earthlink.net. Shisa Poet, Drinking with The Boys, Don't Walk: Shisa Poet is from Norway and has been writing poetry for two years. She posts in various Workshop Forums on the Web, and has been published by 2 other ezines, Stirring and Carnelian. She doesn't have a cat :) Shisa can be reached at andsheknowsit@hotmail.com :)Derek Tellier "Me and Marxie," : is a second year grad student in the creative writing program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. His poetry has appeared in The Bulkhead, Foundation, and The Minnesota River Review. Derek plays bass in a progressive rock band, and has the same birthday as Jack Kerouac. Derek can be reached at: djtellier@hotmail.com Krista McGruder "Dirty Laundry": Krista has published pieces on CollectedStories.com, ReadingDivas.com, WritersWrite.com and The Writers Collective. She has a short work of fiction titled "Forbidden Planet" forthcoming in the Spring 2002 edition of The North American Review. Krista has lived in Greenwich Village for five years and is the proud owner of two English bulldogs. Krista can be reached at kmcgrude@yahoo.com Benjamin Vogt "Crazy Cattle", "Grocery Store Cashier":is pursuing his MFA at The Ohio State University-Columbus where he also teaches writing and literature. He has been published most recently in the Allegheny Review, The Evansville Review, Front Range Review, and the Comstock Review. Benjamin can be reached at vogt.39@osu.edu Alayna Tagariello, “Girl Jazz”,: Alayna is a total and utter hypocrite. She throws large monthly socials, where she facilitates networking and romantic like encounters, yet, she can’t manage to push her own writing out the door even though she has been putting pen to paper for nearly 15 years. Having had her writing critiqued at age 19 by Robert Bly (who told her that her selection of words were ‘arcane’!), Alayna is actually a very private person sometimes, and her foray into small spiral notebook took some prodding on behalf of her extremely supportive and loving live-in boyfriend, Sean. Mostly Alayna limits her creative outlets to ranting about feminist causes to whomever will listen to her and some times offers nuggets of philosophy in her own newsletter. She furthers her own hypocrisy by simultaneously subscribing to Martha Stewart Living and Ms. Magazine. She’s also privy to yoga and discount outlet/warehouse shopping. Alayna can be reached at alaynany@hotmail.com |