Averil Bones is 27 years old. She has studied journalism and bushland regeneration. She currently resides in Sydney, Australia, works in IT publishing and maintains an active interest in environmental matters. Her greatest influence is the ocean.

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Email Averil Bones at: averilbones@hotmail.com

Art can neither be good or bad, only interesting or boring, says Eddie Breen, the leading practitioner of piggyback art. He takes paintings that he considers boring or incomplete, and inserts nuns, flying jesuses, flame people, or demons, changing the meaning of the compostion in ways to suit his visions, to coopt the elements and create his own worlds.

Eddie generally refrained from expressing himself artistically, being rather intimidated by talented individuals around him. Years passed, but then Eddie stumbled across a horrible painting of a church at a fleamarket. Gazing upon the church he had a vision of lions eating Christians while Jesus wept. He scooped up the painting for a dollar, picked up some acrylics and a couple of cheap brushes. About an hour later 'Piggyback Art' was born.

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Visit Eddie Breen's Gallery at: www.eddiebreen.com
Email Eddie Breen at: eddie@eddiebreen.com

Sacha Calagopi is a writer, child psychologist, and preschool teacher in the Philippines. She is currently working on a novel called "The Meeting" and several children's books, which she uses as an excuse to distract her from her manuscript.

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Email Sacha Calagopi at: sacha_wc@yahoo.com

Sarah has written theatre plays about Dino and unrequited love, radio plays about monkeys that fetch paintbrushes and golf carts that make Chappaquiddick leaps of faith, thirty minute pieces on booze and eight minute pieces on God. She graduated from school with a journalism degree and all she has ever wanted to write is made-up stories. "It's all been groundwork."

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Email Sarah Eddenden at: aberardi@interlog.com

Dan is thirty-three years old. He was a labor and employment lawyer for three years and a criminal defense lawyer for a few months. For the last several years he have been an analyst developing air traffic simulations. He is married with one child and two dogs.

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Email Dan Greenbaum at: dpg@mitre.org

Jason Gurley's fiction has appeared in over 30 literary publications worldwide, including, most recently, Palimpsest Magazine, The Paumanok Review, The Bay Review, VOiCE Magazine, and The Adirondack Review. His spare time is divided between writing his third novel and editing/publishing Deeply Shallow (www.deeplyshallow.cjb.net), an electronic literary journal that has published Pulitzer Prize nominee Harvey Stanbrough and Pushcart Prize nominee Ace Boggess, among other fine writers. Jason lives in Nevada with his wife, Lori, and an irritable cat named Oscar.

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email Jason Gurley at: jagurley@nvbell.net

Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance Literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Poet in Residence at University of Tampa for over twenty years, he has had over 2,000 of his own poems published in over 500 print magazines such as American Poetry Review, Nation, Literary Quarterly, Black Moon, and Bitter Oleander, is author of 14 books of poems, his latest being Watching Wisteria.

He lives estranged and as an alien, not understanding the customs, the costumes, the language, some form of postmodern English, of his surroundings. The egregious ugliness of his neighborhood has been mitigated by the esthetic efforts of the police who put up bright orange and yellow posters on each post to advertise the location is a shopping mall for drugs. His recreational activities are drinking wine, listening to old operas, and reading postmodern philosophy.

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email Duane Locke at: duanelocke@netzero.net

In addition to being editor of Outsider Ink, he has been publishing his own short fiction on the internet and literary magazines. His short story, "A Date With John," will be appearing in Best Gay Erotica 2001 available in December, and will be online in Excess Compassion and Suspect Thoughts.

Sean is currently working on several projects including a novel about a young gay man growing up in rural Pennsylvania, a sample of which is on Outsider Ink, and a collection of unflinching short stories entitled "Invisible Children."

He can also be found working with his partner, Jack Slomovits, on BlowSquish.com, an internet design company.

Visit his gallery at: seanmeriwether.com
email Sean Meriwether