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Writer and Artist Biographies
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P. Dellova: His childhood was spent alternately
in Brooklyn and at a house on Long Island. Ultimately,
his family settled at the country house in 1963 after a
false start several years earlier. He graduated high school
there in 1967 and, after giving college a try, entered
the Air Force in September of 1969.
His interest in writing became obsessive during the 70s
and he wrote several novels and at least twenty
short stories while kicking around between New York and
Florida. In 1982 he began studying with the Manhattan fiction
writer Rosemarie Santini. She filled him with encouragement,
saying she was the Gertrude Stein to his Ernest Hemingway.
He remembers those two years with love. Rosemarie taught
him
how to step back and not be an admirer of his own writing.
She said if he wanted to write like Hemingway he had to
be as choosey as Hemingway was in cutting the fat; 6/7ths
of the rough has to go. By 1984, he had ended his studies
with Ms Santini to set up a cleaning operation with two
friends.
The business ate up
any time he might have had for writing. He began writing
again
in 1991. He met his wife Marion during the summer
of 1994 and were married in January of 1995. She
has been extremely supportive. Laura Hogg: Laura is a writer and a musician, and is currently trying to become published. Laura has written flash fiction to full-length historical novels. Brien Kroeger: Brien Kroeger was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, August 10, 1951, and raised in Asbury Park New Jersey. He graduated from Neptune High School in June of 1969 later attending Windham College from September 1969 to May 1971. He graduated from Rutgers University, Newark College of Arts & Sciences and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in American History in 1977. He has published editorials in the local newspaper and currently resides in Brooklyn, Connecticut with his wife of 26 years. He has two grown children and has been a small business owner since 1991. Brien is also the transportation broker of machinery and steel up to 100, 000 lbs, and a member of Zoning Board of Appeals, Brooklyn, Connecticut. http://www.standard-transportation.com E-Mail: brien@99main.com Wade Ogletree: Wade lives in Fairhope, Alabama, with his wife and daughter. When he is not writing, he is a Real Estate agent and the associate pastor for Calvary Chapel Fairhope. Wade also runs a fiction-writing forum and workshop at betterfiction.com, and he thanks the participants there for their help in polishing this story. Look for his short story, "Shape Shifters in Love", which will appear in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (deadmule.com) this October. Robyn Singer Rose: Robyn Singer Rose is an Australian writer and psychologist. She has published short stories internationally and won and placed in competitions. The most notable of her wins is The Hal Porter short story prize where her win and bio were featured in the local newspaper. She has written non fiction but prefers fiction writing. Cuff Linked Memories is her first novel and it has been favorably appraised by other Australian authors. The first chapter was short listed in the Marion Eldridge Award. While the manuscript, Cuff Linked Memories is in the market place, she is working on a psychological thriller, titled, Salted Pineapple. Essays Christopher Woods: Woods is the author of Under a Riverbed Sky (Panther Creek Press) and a book of stage monologues, Heart Speak (Stone River Press). His play, Moonbirds, received its New York City premiere in Fall, 2003 at Personal Space Theatrics (personalspacetheatrics.org). Moonbirds is about doomed census takers at work in a Third World desert country. The play is like a meeting between Indiana Jones and Jean Paul Sartre. A production is now planned for Moonbirdsin Ghent, Belgium by KATTENKWAAD THEATREPRODUCTIES (kattenkwaad.com). Art and Photography Steven Watson: Steven is currently seeking his BA in English. He loves American literature, and hopes to teach it in the future. Traveling when he can, Steven takes compelling photos, and writes poetry. Michelle Williams: Michelle is currently seeking her BA in English from the University of Florida and is married to the love of her life, Paul. Michelle writes poetry, short stories, paints, sketches, and takes photographs when she can. She has been published in four literary magazines to date and hopes to continue publishing her work in the future. Her design work and editing work have won top honors in the State of Florida Competition of Community College Publications. Ivan D. Young: Ivan is an assistant instructor for fourth block at the Dave School, a digital animation and visual effects institution in Orlando Florida, assisting William “Proton” Vaughn. He has assisted on several animation projects through the school that can be seen at http://www.daveschool.com, and has studied the arts for many years. Poetry Trevor Abes: Trevor was born in Scarborough, Ontario on May 13, 1988 and lived there for five years before his family moved to Colombia, South America, where he learned Spanish and currently resides. In between Canada and Colombia, he also lived in Tennessee for about fifteen months. Trevor enjoys reading; one of the last books that he has read was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. The University of Toronto is probably where he will study next. Golf and tennis are two of his favorite sports to watch on TV. His favorite subject in school is literature, and he hopes to be a published author one of these days. Lark Beltran: Originally from California, Lark now resides in Peru where she has lived for thirty years with her Peruvian husband. She is an English teacher, and so far, her poems have appeared in Coelacanth, Scrivener's Pen, Ken*Again, Ygdrasil, Niederngasse, Ancient Paths, Subtle Tea and Prose Toad. Diana Busse: Diana Busse is a poet and painter who holds an M.F.A. from Academy of Art College in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in the anthology Diamond in the Rough and elsewhere. Her paintings have been exhibited in more than forty galleries, and she is currently a member of the Blackhawk Art Gallery in Danville, CA. Janet Butler: A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Janet Butler is a TOEFL Instructor, translator and watercolor painter who has recently relocated to California, the Bay area, after 21 years teaching EFL in central Italy. She collaborated with Dr. Romeo Giuli in the translation of his poetry from 1997 to 2003 and a selection of these poems has been published by Solveig Publishing, Siena, Italy. After this collaboration, she dedicated herself to her own creative writing. Her poetry has been published in Scrivener's Pen, FrontStreet Review, Ken*again, which also published four of her watercolors, Pedestal Magazine: The Political Anthology, Tilt (UK), Underground Window, ForPoetry, Subtle Tea, The Surface, JMWW, Prose Toad, Underground Voices, and in forthcoming issues of Black Heart, Arts and Letters, Scrivener's Pen and Carnelian. Charmaine Clark: “It’s been a long hard road. Maybe you don’t know me, but if I had my book of poetry published and purchased by yourself, you would understand me a lot more. I have a severe physical disability, which has created a very interesting life. However, this life has been more than a bit challenging, particularly over the last few years, as the nature of my disability is progressive. My poetry writing has been growing since I was fourteen years old; it has gone through different stages of development. But I feel the underlying feelings of nature and mans exploitation of our surrounding and created environments has not changed. I’m 55 years old and I am convinced that I will be around for a lot longer, if I had more people who believed in me and the world would stop being so greedy. I would like a lot of things to happen, not just for me, but for the human race in general, but I think on the whole ‘the give has gone’.” SuzAnne C. Cole: A community college English instructor for many years, SuzAnne C. Cole now concentrates on writing. Her poems have been published in many anthologies and magazines and won a Writer's Digest Personal Poetry contest and a haiku festival in Japan. She was a juried poet at the 2003 Houston Poetry Fest and a featured poet at the 2004 event. She's also published a book, To Our Heart's Content: Meditations for Women Turning 50 (Contemporary) and had essays, short fiction and plays published in a variety of anthologies, journals and newspapers including Newsweek, the Houston Chronicle, the San Antonio Express-News, the Baltimore Sun, and Troika. Martin Durkin: Martin is a freelance writer from Oakville Ontario. To date he has one self published book and his first professionally publisher book. His first book was on the Christmas Wish list episode on Rex Murphy's CBC radio program. He has been published in several magazines. Andrew Donaldson: Andrew has never won any awards for his thoughts on paper but has been said to have a great vocabulary. He has been writing poetry for many years but until recently never shared it with anyone. Andrew has dreams of becoming a web designer and is currently working in communications to pay the bills. Jesse Ferguson: Jesse Ferguson, a fourth year English Literature major at the University of Ottawa, was raised in Cornwall, Ontario, and has been writing poetry and songs for roughly five years. He is currently studying creative writing under the poet Seymour Mayne, and his work has appeared in the University of Ottawa’s magazines Nexus, Innuendo and Yawp (he is now on the editorial board of the latter). Some of his poems also appear in such Canadian, American and UK publications as: Yalla, Redfez.com, Ygdrasil, Stridemagazine, High Altitude Poetry, The Big Tex[t], Magazineshiver, Word Riot and are slated to appear in Carillon Magazine and the January edition of Saucyvox. Jesse also reviews for the Ottawa literary journal Bywords. Eve Hall: Eve Hall, is an author & poet, living in Atlanta, Ga. Her work has been featured in several magazines, including, Purpose, Skyline Publications, and Mature Living. She has published four books and have written over a dozen children's books. One of her goals is to publish all of her children's books. Eve welcomes feedback on her work. Email her at Lilpoet2u@aol.com http://www.penmanpublishing.com/Hall Tom Hamill: Tom Hamill (b. 1959) is a writer and musician living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, most recently in Shampoo, an internet poetry site. John Lavan: John is a businessman and father, aged 50, living in Yorkshire, England. His passion for poetry has recently re-awakened and he is reading and writing voraciously. Current passions are Yates, MacNeice, and Auden! He trains NLP in England and works directly with a Toltec teacher. He finds the best poetry an expression of the deeper Self and an exploration of the puzzle of man’s subjective place in, and connection to, a marvelous world. Jewel Martin: Jewel is a poet, and a painter. Her life is lived in the sunny state of Florida where the wind dances and plays in her hair. Sunsets are her favorite. She feels they are the truest connection to the divine one can have, and attempts to recreate them in her paintings. Her writing is the salve for her soul. The poem, "Beware Kindness," is dedicated to C—the one who helped to polish her prose. Corey Mesler: Corey is the owner of Burke’s Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the country’s oldest (1875) independent bookstores. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Pindeldyboz, Orchid, Thema, Mars Hill Review, Poet Lore and others. He has also been a book reviewer for The Memphis Commercial Appeal and The Memphis Flyer. 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. His first novel, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue appeared in 2002. His second novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon will appear in 2005. He also has 2 poetry chapbooks available. Most importantly, he is Toby and Chloe’s dad and Cheryl’s husband. Elisaveta Mitrokhin: Elisaveta is a graduating student of fine art and creative writing, a painter, a children's book writer and illustrator, and a lover of poetry. Junie Moon: "I write because I must use my mind now that my body has rejected my lifestyle. Writing is a way to release a lot of tension, pain, and old wounds." Junie became disabled 10 years ago due to degenerative disc disease, and the pain severely restricts her ability to be mobile. She has a great imagination and has always been a writer but just in spurts. As a type A person her disability, at first, was hard to take but she has overcome many things including eight back surgeries. Her laptop computer is her constant companion. She has been printed on the internet in VoicesNet.com anthologies #8,9,10,11,12, and has work in The Persistent Mirage and the Poetry for Today. She has recently won a contest with one of her pieces. Nano Boye Nagle: Nano Boye Nagle is a first generation immigrant from England, who is the child of a first generation immigrant from Ireland. Her working class and peasant roots inspired a passion for challenging the dominant paradigm from an early age with performance poetry and becoming a professional queer. Now, in middle age, her rebellion takes on a less tiring form, she is a Dianic Sufi Interfaith Minister, with an MLA in Creativity and Spirituality. Her work has been published in a number of anthologies and she writes a regular "Queer Spirituality" column in the feminist e-zine Matrifocus http://www.matrifocus.com/IMB05/queer.htm. Marianne Vincent: Marianne LaValle-Vincent is a native of Syracuse, New York, and has been writing for many years. She has won numerous literary contests and has achieved publication in such magazines as Italiana Americana, The Birmingham Review, Poetry Motel, Falling Star, 3 Cup Morning and other special publications through SUNY. Her credits and awards also infiltrate the Internet on such web sites as Real Eight View, Ascent, and Underground Window, Dance With Words, and Writers on Line . Her first collection of poetry entitled American Lie is available in bookstores throughout the country. Coverings (a chapbook) is now available through Foothills Publishing. Marianne’s second full-length poetry collection 313’s Child will be available in spring, 2005. Besides poetry, many of her short stories have been published—most recently “Understanding Dad” in Chicken Soup For the Soul—Fathers and Daughters edition. Marianne has recently been awarded a grant through Hill House Writers in Nashville, TN., and is invited frequently to lecture at local universities and libraries. A first generation Italian-American, Marianne is an administrative RN who focuses on Marketing for a large medical imaging corporation. She still lives in Syracuse with her husband Tim, and 13 year-old daughter, Jess. Her greatest pleasure, after writing, is cooking for family and friends. Sheri Watson: Sheri Watson has had an article, poetry, and a short story published in the Llewellyn Journal, SageWoman, and Underground Voices, respectively. She will have a chapbook of 19 poems to the goddess published this year by FootHills Publishing. She is working on a Season Series (4) of short stories based on her adventures in life, the first one of which, Summer's End, has been published, and poems of the local marshlands. She is planning on attending her former college for their MFA in Poetics in fall 2005. |