Bart Becker |
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Bart Becker is from Nebraska, way back in the country where the nighthawks fuck the chickens. Home of Willa Cather, Marlon Brando, Zager & Evans. Now he lives in Seattle and is writing connected pieces, Last Set at the Pressure Drop. Read Last Set at the Pressure Drop |
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Lytton Bell
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Lytton Bell is a well-known lush and respected hoochie mama in and around the city of Sacramento, CA. During her more lucid moments, she works as a conference coordinator and volunteer literacy tutor. Besides poetry, her other hobbies include necrophilia, telekinesis and spending time with her two godchildren: Cassidy, 3, and Jonathan, 11. Read 'How to be a an Alcholic-Poet-Slut' and Poetry |
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Thaddeus Bower |
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Thaddeus hails from Baltimore but has lived in Wisconsin, Florida, India, Mexico, Greece, and currently resides in Brooklyn. He has mild obsessions with reggae, fast cars, and ripe fruit. He prefers Baldwin in the summer and Carver in the winter. His stories, poetry, music interviews, and film reviews have appeared in numerous newspapers and journals. He is at work on his debut novel. Read Why Not Take It All |
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Sacha Calagopi |
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Sacha hails from the land of the Philippines where
the weather is as hot as its politics. She has currently finished her
exams for her MA in Psych (and hopefully passed), gotten a much needed
promotion at work, and mailed her manuscript for her first novel where
the short stories might see the light of day in this site. Two of her
children's books will be coming out this July and her latest fancy involves
paintings and photographs.
Read Tornado of Pictures |
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Ryan Dillman |
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Ryan Dillman holds a BA in English from Indiana University and is currently a freelance technical writer, comic book shop manager, and web editor. While his current seven-day work week doesn't leave much time for creative pursuits, he hopes to get back to writing soon. For now he occupies what little free time he has by working on his turn-of-the-century home and catering to the many whims of his wife, Laura. Read A Tidy Little Story |
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Jimsecor |
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Jimsecor has always been a rebel, even as a small child when he was, at best, the bane of his parents' existence--which, of course, he paid for. He retains the non-traditional, no matter what genre or style he writes in. He has a PhD in theatre, specializing in Japanese theatre. This has affeced his writing, directing, acting as well as non-theatrical writing. The people who are important to him are Euripides, commedia, The Absurdists, Beckett, Brautigan, Anne Sexton, Yosano Akiko. "Only by throwing off the yoke of traditional thinking can you hope to gain any insight, for, after all, you can only pour dirty water from a dirty vessel." Read Esprit De Corps |
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Daniel
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Daniel A. Olivas is the author of The Courtship of María Rivera Peña: A Novella (Silver Lake Publishing, 2000). His fiction and poetry have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, THEMA, The Pacific Review, RiverSedge, Red River Review, Web del Sol, among many others. The author's work is featured in several anthologies including Fantasmas: Supernatural Stories by Mexican-American Writers, edited Rob Johnson with an introduction from Kathleen Alcalá (Bilingual Press, summer 2001), and Love to Mamá: A Tribute to Mothers, edited by Pat Mora and illustrated by Paula Barragán (Lee & Low Books, 2001). Read Driving To Ventura |
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Claudio Parentela |
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"Hello my friends, Claudio Parentela here. I should like to draw for you and show you my artwork on your site." Claudio is an illustrator and cartoonist who is very active in the underground scene. He collaborates around the world with zines, artwork magazines and comics including: Stripburger, Lavirint, You & Me, The Lummox Journal, The Cherotic Revolutionary, The Brown Bottle, Art Life, Mani Art, Pintalo De Verde, Crystal Drum, Chance, Untergrundblatte, Unwound, Moon Magazine, Lucid Moon, Stampa Alternativa, Emozioni, BGA Comix, Innovation Studio, Kerosene, Lo Sciacallo Elettronico, Krimson Leer, Phony Lid Pubblications, The Benway Institute, Kastello, Cabezabajo, Que Suerte, Fagorgo, Entmoot, Pssst zine, zzz zine , Helter Skelter. He has also illustrated poems, collaborated with punk, industrial and metal bands. He sends love and friendship to all. View his Illustrations |
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Jenn Rubi |
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Jenn Rubi is a 27 year old starving artist and a Californian born Latin American girl that grew up in the paradox of another affluent north Jersey suburb 50 minutes from the Lincoln Tunnel. Ironically enough, she now hustles for her living in a predominantly male occupation as a "NY style" pizza cook in the twilight zone that is metro Atlanta. She writes, paints, & photographs what she know. Though previously unpublished, she is not unloved. Read her 'surviving' and other poems |
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Doug Tanoury |
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Doug Tanoury is exclusively a poet of the internet with the vast majority of his work being published online and never leaving electronic form. His verse can be read at electronic magazines and journals across the world. Doug cites his 7th grade poetry anthology used in Sister Debra's English class as exerting the greatest influence on his work. He still keeps a copy of Reflections On A Gift Of Watermelon Pickle And Other Modern Verse (Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith, (c)1966 by Scott Foresman & Company) at his writing desk. Read his 'With Oranges' and other poems |
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Nora
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Nora Winslow lives in Maryland with her husband, two children and two cats. She works for a professional management/sales training company as a writer of training manuals and brochures. Recently chosen to be published in the upcoming Marquis Who's Who In America, Nora is an uprising professional author of true-to-life and bittersweet romance short stories. Her unique style of heartache and relationship turmoil stories has opened eyes and made people gasp and ponder. She has also completed several articles, such as "In The Minds Of Men" and "I Was A Phone Sex Queen". Her stories have been published on StoriesMania, LadyFire and Shadow Voices just to name a few. Read 69 South and Vine |
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Sean Meriwether - Editor |
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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," was anthologized in Best Gay Erotica 2001. He has appeared in print in Excess Compassion and is online in 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 is developing a website for gay fiction. He can also be found working with his partner, Jack Slomovits, on BlowSquish.com, an internet design company. Visit his gallery at: seanmeriwether.com |
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