Bob Band
Texas Artist Lives in Waco Texas. Solo exhibitions include: Artspin Gallery, Yellowstone Art Center, The Art Center Waco, The Cultural Activities Center, The Moody Gallery, McLennan Community College. He has exhibited from 1970 to present in group shows at: Dallas Museum, Museum Of Art Of The American West, The Longview Museum Of Fine Arts, The Patrick Gallery, The Peregrine Gallery, The Graham Gallery, The Spark Gallery, Oklahoma Art Center.

Artist's Statement:
I like to make art. I like to deal with the problems and pleasures that it presents. I believe that it is the job of the artist to push the sensibilities of society by presenting new things for them to view and think about.
View his Artwork

Jennifer Gatewood
Jennifer Gatewood is a twenty-seven-year-old African-American writer living outside of Philadelphia, Pa. By day she writes for a trade publication, by night she writes short stories and flash fiction, many of which have appeared in The Writer's Room Magazine, The Rose & Thorn Literary E-Zine (recognized by Writer's Digest as one of the best e-zines for writers), Muse Apprenticeship Guild, The-Phone-Book.com and in Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine.
Visit Jennifer Gatewood online at: www.geocities.com/jlgwriter
Read 'In Control'

Jim Gladstone
Jim Gladstone is the author of a novel The Big Book of Misunderstanding. His short fiction has appeared in Pindledyboz, American Writing, Bridge, Christopher Street, Kilometer Zero, and other literary magazines. His arts journalism has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Billboard, Spin and and Amsterdam's BUTT magazine, where he is a regular contributor. To celebrate the forthcoming release of his new book, Gladstone's Games-To-Go, he will create a custom puzzle for each of the first fifteen Outsider Ink readers who contact him at .
Visit Jim Gladstone online at: www.jimgladstone.com
Read Perversion

Kim Croatt Kielhofner
Kim is involved in the very small press industry, zines, and comics. She has self-published 13 works, including chapbooks, novellas, and political writings. In addition, her poems have appeared in Maverick Magazine and she does illustration work locally in Montreal.
Read her Poetry

Carlos Martinez
Carlos Martinez is a Los Angeles native whose writings are based and influenced by his native city. He has also been influenced, mostly, by the writings of Bukowski, Camus, Carver, Miller and (Richard) Yates. He appreciates the rawness and hidden meanings in simplistic events. Carlos grew up in the surrounding suburbs of the San Gabriel Valley. He studied theater and playwriting and then got a degree in Film Production from California State University of Long Beach. His first published work was in an independent newspaper BOCA, for which he wrote commentary and reviews on the local music scene. He has been featured in The Independent Mind, Insolent Rudder, ABC Tales, Web-O-Rama and Megaera. He has just finished a collection of shorts titled Visions of an Unsettled City for which he is seeking a publisher for.
Read his poem 'blemished'

Bryan Meckley
I'm new to the party but wanted to say hey, how's everybody doing, you all smell fantastic. Many thanks to the host for having me, the place looks great. Holler at me at if you've got something to say. If not, catch you on the come-back.
Read 'Work Week'

Daniel A. Olivas
Daniel A. Olivas is the author of Assumption and Other Stories (Bilingual Press), which just received a rave review in the Los Angeles Times. He is also the author of The Courtship of Maria Rivera Pena (Silver Lake Publishing, 2000), and his third book, Devil Talk: Stories, is forthcoming from Bilingual Press. His fiction, poetry and essays appear in many publications including The MacGuffin, THEMA, Exquisite Corpse, Red River Review, Pacific Review, Outsider Ink, Paumanok Review, Raven Chronicles, Vestal Review, Los Angeles Times, and Concrete Wolf. His first children's book, Benjamin and the Word, will be published by Arte Publico Press.
Visit Daniel A. Olivas online at: www.danielolivas.com
Assumption appears in Assumption and Other Stories
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Ian Philips
Ian Philips is a voracious carbovore who lives in modest infamy with his favorite source of protein, that dynamo of publishing, editing, and writing, Greg Wharton. His first collection of erotic fiction, See Dick Deconstruct: Literotica for the Satirically Bent (AttaGirl Press), won a Lambda Literary Award. His second collection, Satyriasis: Literotica² (Suspect Thoughts Press), started frightening horses and “patriots” November 2003. If you like the taste of this story, feel free to freely gnaw on other word-laden dishes at www.ianphilips.com.
Visit Ian Philips online at: www.ianphilips.com
Read '7 Just 7 Tales of Lust on a Bed'

Christine Rhyner
Christine Rhyner is a freelance writer. Her essays and articles have appeared in a variety of publications and webzines, including Moody Magazine and Boundless Webzine. She lives in Huntington, New York, on the north shore of Long Island with her husband John, and their three-year-old son, Lucas Benjamyn. Currently she is working on a memoir of hers and her husband's adoption journey to Vietnam in 2001 to get Lucas. She also enjoys writing for a young audience, and plans to soon complete a fictional young adult book on superstitions. She and John are in the process of adopting their second child from China.
Read Remembering Amy

Vanessa Russell
Vanessa Russell is a writer of fiction, poetry and song, all of which she wove into her first novel, Good Woman, newly released. Her first short story, 'Lost Chance', came to her in a vivid dream. 'Natural Blend', her one essay, was recently published in her father's book titled, Voices from Appalachia. Vanessa's other profession is as a technical writer with the United States Air Force.
Read Lost Chance

Ryan Turner
Ryan Turner lives and teaches in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he writes mainly fiction. He has recently completed an MA in English from the University of Toronto.
Read his screenplay 'Her Handsome Neighbour'

 

Andrew Lundwall - Guest Poetry Editor
Along with Star Jewel Smith, Andrew Lundwall is the co-editor and co-founder of Poetic Inhalation.

His work has been featured with (or shall be forthcoming with) numerous literary journals, including: Over the Transom, Lost & Found Times, Eratio, Big Bridge, Shoestring, The Muse Apprentice Guild, Shampoo, Moria, Deep Cleveland, Sidereality, Retort Magazine, Space Breather, Aught, xStream, Ink Magazine, 5_trope, Dream People and others...

His first e-book "The Fugue of Corridors (L'Arcade Mentale)" was published by deepcleveland.com, his second e-book "wouldn't be here if it wasn't" was published by xpressed.org. He has another xPressed e-book forthcoming entitled: "Eye Pharmacy" and will be appearing soon in Deep Cleveland Press' "three-chord poems" anthology.
Visit Andrew Lundwall online at: Poetic Inhalation

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 Sean Meriwether online at: seanmeriwether.com
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