Luke Buckham
Luke Buckham lives in Keene, NH and works at a pizza restaurant. He puts out a monthly mag called THE INAPPROPRIATE, based on the idea that the best and most honest things that can happen within our comically crumbling society are "inappropriate" according to widely accepted standards of etiquette. His girlfriend and living muse is a bee-keeper who possesses such a calm, gentle temperment that the bees crawl all over her forearms without stinging her. He has a book of poems forthcoming, titled "Woke up in Flames" from James Quinton's Feel Free Press.
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Read 'The Straining Shore'

Dana Michelle Burnett
Dana Michelle Burnett lives in Jeffersonville Indiana with her husband and daughters. She was the youngest guest columnist of her local newspaper in 1990. She completed her novel, The Hiding Place, this past fall.
Read 'Not That Bad'

Michael Davidson
Michael Davidson, a graduate of the University of Chicago, has had stories published in Literary Potpourri, Whistling Shade, and Snow Monkey. Born in 1979 in Miami, he now lives in Houston, where he teaches math and edits the online journal, The Open End.
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Read 'Sunset Cliffs'

Jim Donadio
Jim Donadio is a graduate of SUNY Albany's English program. During his tenure there, he had the privilegeof studying under acclaimed author Lydia Davis, andworking with Pulitzer Prize winner William Kennedy at the New York State Writer's Institute. Born and raised in Woodstock, NY, Jim has now returned there to attend to family matters and concentrate on his work. Jim is in the process of writing both his first collection of short stories, and his first novel. His work has appeared previously in Velvet Mafia and The Fiction Warehouse.
Read 'Smoke'

Valerie R Feingold
Valerie R Feingold is an actor, writer, and bartender. She currently lives in NYC’s east village. She especially enjoys the genre of fiction know as “the short bio,” in which otherwise perfectly sensible people construct small stories, in which it is painfully obvious that the content is self-referential, and yet, somehow it is a universally agreed upon convention of the genre that it is to be constructed only in third person. She believes this is because otherwise sensible people would rather completely disengage themselves from themselves, adopting instead the voice of an all-knowing-all-seeing god-like-sentience, or dogged-loving-ever-present-best-friend-sentience, or even the clinician/agent-career-recording-promotional-sentience, than openly pen a first person account of how funny, smart, acerbic, established, ironic, driven, dry-witted, and diverse they are. She believes that by identifying this “short bio” genre as her most-fav-of-all-time-ever you might think she is funny, smart, acerbic, established, ironic, driven, dry-witted, and diverse…or something. She would also like you to know that if you wish to find employment as the sole author of any and all forthcoming Valerie R Feingold “short bios” she feels there will be positions opening up shortly. Valerie hopes that you will/have enjoy(ed) reading her work.
Read 'Princess'

Jéanpaul Ferro
Jéanpaul Ferro is a freelance writer, novelist, and poet. His short fiction and poetry has been published in over two hundred magazines and journals around the world, including Portland Monthly, Hawaii Review, Newport Review, The Rose & Thorn Literary Journal, The Plaza, and Biblioteka Alexandria. His work has also been included in The Plaza's masterpiece series and published in Votobia's anthology of America's writers. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1967. He graduated from the New England Institute of Technology in 1987. He currently resides in the northwest hills of Rhode Island.
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C.J. Marabetta
C.J. Marabetta is currently resident in Seattle, where it is an optimum climate for her webbed feet. She has never been published before, and wonders what 'Riding Horse' says about her psyche, but all in all is quite comfortable with her current alter ego. She blames living in the UK for two years on why she is only able to write an Irish character, and blames her online support group for encouraging her to take the step to getting published, as it's loads easier to say that you're an author when you've never gotten a rejection slip because you never tried.
Read 'Riding Horse'

Bryan Meckley
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Read 'The Comeback'

Jessica Treat
Jessica Treat’s collection of short-short stories, A Robber in the House (Coffee House Press) is in its second printing. She is also the author of Not a Chance, stories and novella (FC2, 2000), and the recipient of an Artist Fellowship Award in Fiction from the CT Commission on the Arts. Her work has appeared in Ms., Epoch, Double Room, Quarterly West, Web del Sol, Terra Incognita, 3rd Bed, and others. She is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern CT Community College and lives with her son in rural CT.
Read 'Little Bitches'

X-8
X-8 began creating abstract paintings with mud and hair in 1982. In 1992 a transition was made with the creation of exorcistic works, utilizing macabre and internal imagery based on life experiences. His work is cathartic and ultimately therapeutic.

He currently paints large scale works based on horror, decay and transition. He lives in Los Angeles.
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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.
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