This Month's
Contributors.
CL Bledsoe
CL Bledsoe is an assistant poetry editor for the Hollins Critic, as well as for Ghoti Magazine.  He has work in The Dead Mule, Margie, Natural Bridge, Story South and Hobart, among other places.

Kristy Bowen
Kristy Bowen's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slipstream, Another Chicago Magazine, and Diagram.  Her latest chapbook, belladonna, is available from her website: www.angelfire.com/poetry/wickedpen.  She lives in Chicago, where she edits the online poetry journal Wicked Alice, and runs Dancing Girl Press.

Jill Burhans

I call myself a middle aged repressed artist who uses for my paintbrush, a Canon G-5. Currently live in Huntsville Alabama with three dogs, one daughter and a husband.  More images can be seen at www.pbase.com/jillburhans

Rob Davies
Rob Davies writes: "I've been taking photographs since the early 70's but really started to take it seriously between '75 - '80.  Mid to late 80's, due to costs, I shelved photography as a serious interest, it was costing me too much and I turned my attentions for a while to video. However, since I purchased a computer around 5-6 years ago, I found a keen interest in manipulating images through programs like - firstly, Corel Photopaint and then Ulead Photoimpact.  This led me to invest in a small digital camera. I replaced that very quickly with a Nikon Coolpix, and now own a Canon G5. I enjoy taking pictures. I enjoy more - taking pictures that I can see something 'more' in. I love to be in & photograph ruins, ancient places, spiritual places, forests and woods. I really enjoy creating 'mood' in my pictures so much of my work is in this area of manipulation.  I also like very much to get out in bad weather conditions with my camera.  On a personal level - I'm nearing my 50th birthday, married and have a son and daughter. I work looking after nightshifts at a hotel. This allows me time to get out and about with my camera with plenty of daylight."
 
Alyson Dayus
Alyson Dayus is a feminist academic by day, and a feminist poet by night.  Previously she was a dancer, but gave up after realising she couldn't see past her false eyelashes.  She has previously been published in Lily, and her poems can also be found in Poems Niederngasse, Rock Salt Plum,  Sein und Werden, Verse Libre Quarterly, and Wicked Alice.  You can visit her on the web at http://www.flinched.net.

Kelli Freda
Kelli Freda is a single mother, living in New Jersey. She has been writing poetry for almost ten years and has been featured in publications such as Lil's Experimental EZine, 3 Cup Morning, Impetus, Lily, Guerilla Poetry, and The Bohemian Rag, as well as having her first chapbook, Vanilla and Coffee, published by Foothills Publishing.

Taylor Graham
Taylor Graham writes: "I'm a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler and also help my husband (a retired wildlife biologist) with his field projects. My poems have appeared in Grand Street, The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, Poetry International, and elsewhere, and I'm included in the new anthology, California Poetry: Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University, 2004)."

Andreas Hering
Andreas Hering writes: "I've made photos for two years.  I try to capture humans in their own life, to look into their souls with respect for their own personality. I live in Germany and I'm not a professional photographer.  I do this just for fun." More of his work can be seen at: http://www.andreas-hering.com.

Steve Klepetar
Steve Klepetar was born in Shanghai, China, the son of Holocaust survivors.  Educated at Binghamton University and the University of Chicago, Klepetar teaches literature and writing in Saint Cloud, Minnesota.

Mitchell Miller
Mitchell Miller has been a photographer since 1989.  More of his work can be viewed at: http://www.pixiport.com/Gallery-E75.htm and http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/12439.html.

Graham Nunn
Graham Nunn is a Brisbane based writer, current Director of the Queensland Poetry Festival 2004: spoken in one strange word (www.queenslandpoetryfestival.net) and founding member of local performance group SpeedPoets (www.speedpoets.zap.to/). His first collection, A Zen Firecracker - selected haiku, published by Impressed Publishing, was released in November, 2003. Share the Tragedy (a collection of poems) will be published by Impressed in October 2004. Both can be ordered through www.booksurge.com.

Donnali Peters

Donnali Peters is a homemaker who has devoted her whole life to family and church. Her three kids are now grown. In the midst of a mid life crisis a few years back, needing something to fill her time, she bought her first digital camera - a Sony Mavic FD88 - and took a little trip to Hawaii. That was her first experience with a camera, and since that time, she's gotten another Sony - the FD95. She is now waiting for the Sony 828, which has 8 megapixels. After all these years, she has found her passion, and it's photography. She loves to find the story in every picture. More of her photos can be viewed at http://community.webshots.com/user/donnali127

Octavio Quintanilla
Octavio Quintanilla is from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas.  His poetry has appeared in Slant:  A Journal of Poetry, BorderSenses, Out of Line, Buckle &, and other journals. It has been anthologized in Coloring Book:  An Eclectic Anthology of Poetry and Fiction by Multicultural Writers (Rattlecat Press).

Tracy Rogers
Tracy M. Rogers, Editor and Creative Architect for The Aurora Review: An Eclectic Literary and Cultural Magazine, is a photographer, writer, and web designer.  She grew up in Fayetteville, a college town in northwestern Arkansas. She holds a history degree from the University of Arkansas and dropped out of graduate school due to “creative differences” with her faculty advisors. Her poetry can be found in Poetry Kit Magazine and the current issue of Prism Quarterly.  When she is not masterminding The Aurora Review, Tracy is either busy writing her first novel or working on her ongoing “Clouds” photo project.

John Sweet
John Sweet writes: "been writing & publishing since the 80s.  new chapbook, FAMINE, available from www.leafpress.ca, and a new e-chap, IN THE KNOWN WORLD, can be found at www.slowtrains.com.  living here in the wastelands of endicott, new york, about 11 inches of snow on the ground right now from 4 days of on and off snowfall, temp is just above 0, which is actually a heat wave, gotta get out and shovel some more.  am 36, married, a father, a big believer in poetry as catharsis."

 
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