MICHAEL CERAOLO is the 50-year-old author of one full-length book, Euclid Creek, and several shorter-length books.
JOHN GREY is an Australian born poet, playwright, and musician. His latest book is What Else Is There from Main Street Rag. He has been published most recently in Cape Rock, Weber Studies, Writer�s Bloc and the Connecticut Review.
KAREN DOMINICK is a business owner of a greeting card company called Huemanity, Inc. She resides in Boynton Beach, Florida. After many years in the banking and property management fields, she has begun to explore the creative pursuits of poetry and painting. www.myspace.com/kdominick
LEWIS A. HARVEY was born in a small town in Virginia and now lives in New York City. A former rock-n-roll disc jockey, Mr. Harvey has produced and directed one of his plays off-off-Broadway in New York. His short stories have appeared in The Piedmont Literary Review, The Edge, Tales of Suspense, First Class, Blood Moon Rising, and Alien Worlds.
SANDRA HEDIN has been writing poems since she was about fourteen. She writes in a lyrical style and is also a singer/songwriter. Visit her MySpace page to hear some of her tracks.www.myspace.com/sandrahedin
KRISTEN HOWE has been published in several journals including Fullosia Press, The Funny Paper, Pink Chameleon Online, Poetic Hours, Languageandculture.net, The Shepherd, and Westward Quarterly. While she devotes her time to poetry (both reading and writing), she is looking for FT office work-which inspires more poetry than one might imagine.
BRYON D. HOWELL is a poet currently residing in New Haven, Connecticut. He has been writing poetry for a great number of years. Recently, his poetry has appeared in poeticdiversity, Red River Review, The Quirk, The Cerebral Catalyst, The Greasy Spoon Saloon, and The Lost Beat. Bryon is also the Editor-in-Chief of three online poetry 'zines: The Persistent Mirage, Bringing Sonnets Back, and The Brave Little Poem Daily. He also writes, submits and is published under an array of cute pen-names.
DAVID E. HOWERTON is a part time programmer and lives in the American River Canyon outside of Auburn California. He has done landscaping, sign painting, cooking and made jewelry to pay the bills. He lives a rather quiet life with his wife and two bossy cats. He has three adult daughters and one granddaughter. His hobbies include type design, soapstone carving, walks in the woods, collecting dragons, and a growing library of Science Fiction.
BERT JOHNSON creator of �The Illogical Muse� hails from Milford, Pennsylvania.
CHAD NEWBILL writes from Townsend, Georgia.
PETER LAYTON writes from Lakewood, California.
MICHAEL T. O'BRIEN has been writing poetry for about 20 years. He also writes plays and is currently working on a screenplay. He has no formal training in writing; preferring to be original and uninfluenced by anyone. He spent several years working as a janitor and correctional officer, putting himself through graduate school and college. He has a BA in Political Science and a Masters of Teaching in Special Education and is currently employed as a fourth grade special education teacher.
JULIA PILOWSKY has been writing poetry since age six. Her favorite poets include Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Dylan Thomas. Her father is from South America and she writes poetry in both English and Spanish.
TONY R. RODRIGUEZ was born in Fremont, California on August 22, 1977. A graduate of San Francisco State University, Tony earned his BA in Liberal Studies with an emphasis in English-Literature. He is currently teaching Theology at Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward, CA. Tony spends his days bashing political pundits on the Left and Right and loving his wife and unborn child. He's authored three books, which include The Disappearance and the Slow Awakening, Rapid Eye Metaphors, and the most recent Simplicity Regurgitated: Poems and Shorts. Imaginatively, Tony still lives in San Francisco, California. He is currently at work on his fourth novel, a heartfelt canticle addressing the buoyant reality of both religion and politics in today's America. You can catch his blog at: http://tony-r-rodriguez.blogspot.com
RANDALL ROGERS was born in 1961, the second of two brothers. He grew into a small but strong young lad, and excelled at swimming. At eleven years of age he won four gold medals in the regional junior Olympics. But at twelve he could not compete with the size of the fourteen year olds and lost interest in swimming and turned instead to writing and books. He is the editor of The Beatnik Cowboy.
AMBER ROTHROCK is the editor of Illogical Muse. She is a lover of animals and enjoys many outdoor activities such as gardening, hiking and fishing. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming from The Pegasus Review, The Beatnik Cowboy, CC&D, Abbey, Ceremony, Left Behind and Diamond Dust. www.freewebs.com/amberrothrock
NATHANIEL ROUNDS is the unfortunate owner of a flaming pink Nova Scotian farmhouse and travels around with a doppelganger that looks as he undoubtedly will in 25 years. His poetry has appeared in Arsenic Lobster, Scrivener, Deep Cleveland Junkmail Oracle and other fine publications.
RONALD M. ROWE attended Carleton College & Ohio University. A former school teacher he is now employed in the French antique business. In 1972, he received holy initiation from a great spiritual master (Sant Kirpal Singh Ji) from Delhi, India. This entails a vegetarian diet and 2.5 hours of daily meditation. His many influences include Kabir, Rumi, Neruda, and Stevens. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and he has a book published titled Your Nirvanic Light.
KATIE SANDERS writes from Lee's Summit, Missouri.
G. DAVID SCHWARTZ is the former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. He is also the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz continues to write. His new book, Midrash And Working Out Of The Book is now in stores.
PETER SCHWARTZ is a painter, poet and writer. He's also an associate art editor for Mad Hatters' Review. His artwork can be seen all over the Internet but specifically at: www.sitrahahra.com. He's had hundreds of paintings, poems, and stories published both online and in print and is constantly submitting new work as if his very life depended on it. His last exhibition was through Aesthetica Magazine and featured a projection of his digital painting 'Terminal 4' on a busy street in York, UK.
DAVID SOLOMON is a TEFL Trainer from Thailand where he is Assistant Editor of The Beatnik Cowboy. David has worked as a teacher and in the aviation industries and has a Masters Degree in Education. David has had poems published in The Beatnik Cowboy.
FLORAMAE TESKEY writes from Hereford, Arizona.
CHRISTOPHER WAHL was vague on details and this author has gleaned nothing from Google.
GERALD ZIPPER is the author of several plays that appeared in New York and several other states, including �A Little Madness� produced at New York City�s Provincetown playhouse and �Secrets� produced at the St. Luke�s Playhouse on 46th St. in Manhattan. His recent novel, Inside Out, published in 2006, received an enthusiastic review from Midwest Review of Books. His poetry appears annually in several hundred literary, university presses and poetry magazines in the US, Canada, Europe and India.
SPRING 2008