Linda Boroff
I grew up in Minneapolis, came to California as a teenager, went haywire, went to UC Berkeley, graduated in English Lit. My short stories have appeared in Epoch, Cimarron Review, Prism International, Artisan, In Posse Review, Pulse, Starry Night Review, Stirring, The Pedestal Magazine, Cyber Oasis, FictionWarehouse, Zacatecas Review, Eyeshot, Pig Iron Malt, The ShadowShow, upcoming in The Summerset Review. I write advertising to pay the rent. Sometimes I can't pay the rent. My novel is emerging at the rate of an average continent. Yes, I am scared.
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Rebecca "Ruji" Chapnik
Ruji wrote Blind Girl when she was a high school student in Southern California. Today she holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz and has a longer work of fiction in progress. (Her necessary entrance into the grownup world has led her to give up on controversial, potentially incriminating author biographies in favor of the succinct and unrevealing.)
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Anastasia Clark
Anastasia Clark has been writing poetry for over 30 years. She is currently serving as poetry editor/columnsit for Epiphany Magazine. She is marketing several freelance articles, poetry manuscripts and children’s manuscripts.
Visit her online at: www.geocities.com/goldenrush59/ann.html
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David Erlewine
David Erlewine is an attorney who is working on a novel and short stories in Austin, Texas.
Visit him online at: www.daviderlewine.com
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Herbert Foster Kaufman
Herbert Foster Kaufman has published short fiction and poetry in Wasted Space, Errata, The Underwood Review, Sugar Mule, Cherry Bleeds, Thought Magazine and Caveat Lector. His play Montgomery Clift Can't Save You was performed at the Sushi Gallery in San Diego. He has written restaurant reviews for local papers and ad copy for Playboy. His novel A Testament to Grace was released in 2000. His second book, a collection of short stories called Trouble and Poison will be published by Hanover Press in 2003.
Visit him online at: www.monkeybrains.com/~herb
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Mary Lynch
Mary Lynch, Manhattan.
Website: http://www.posturtle.net
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Colin Pink
Colin Pink writes plays and prose fiction. He lives in London. His stories have appear in various small press magazines and on the internet. His plays have been performed in Brighton, New York City, San Diego and Malibu. His most recent play 'Minotaur' was premiered in NYC in April. In June his play 'Touch' will be performed at the Golden Hills Dramatic Arts Festival in San Diego.
For an interview with Colin about 'Minotaur' go to:
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/v_pink.htm
And to see a review of 'Minotaur' go to:
http://www.oobr.com/top/volNine/thirtyone/Minotaur.htm
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Martin Rutley
Martin Rutley has been writing short fiction for severl years, influenced lrgely by writers such Greg Hollingshead and William Burroughs. His work has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Pedestal Magazine, Locus Novus, The Fortean Bureau and The Cafe Irreal.
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Kelly Spitzer
Kelly Spitzer, a native to the mountain desert of southwest Colorado, now lives in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a degree in political economy from the Evergreen State College and is currently working on a series of political mystery novels featuring P.I. CJ Maroon. Kelly's writings have appeared, or will be appearing, in Retrozine, Word Riot, Orchard Press Mysteries and Muse Apprentice Guild.
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Steve Young
Steve Young has been a reporter and editor for the past fifteen years. He’s been a correspondent for Reuters International and NPR and has also filed for the BBC, CBC, and the Boston Globe. He’s won numerous journalism awards including, in 1997, a national Clarion Award for his investigative reporting. Young has an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College and has published several short stories, including “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” which appeared in last September’s Carve Magazine (and the 2002 Best of Carve). That story has been nominated for this year’s O.Henry, Pushcart and BASS prizes. He also has a story in the current Mindprints and the upcoming EWG Presents. Young grew up in Vermont. He currently lives and writes on Cape Cod.
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Sean Meriwether - Editor
Sean's fiction has been defined as dark realism, his subjects rooted in the peculiar nature of everyday life. His work has or will be published in Love Under Foot and Best Gay Erotica 2002, and appeared online in Lodestar Quarterly and 3AM Magazine. He is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel. In addition to writing, he has the pleasure of editing Outsider Ink and Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction. Sean lives in New York with his partner, photographer Jack Slomovits, and their two dogs. Together they form Blowsquish.com, an internet design company.
Visit his website at: seanmeriwether.com
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