Detail from Judith II (1909), Gustav Klimt
Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy, where she edits the Italian edition of Niederngasse. Her poetry has been published in Envoi, The Pedestal, Rattle, Smiths Knoll, and 2River View. Her first full collection of poetry, The Desecration of Doves, may be purchased legally through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. She blogs (arleneang.blogspot.com) because, like sex, everyone else does it.
Gary Britson is an attorney in Des Moines, Iowa, and a graduate of the University of Iowa and Drake Law School. He has been receiving rejection slips from America’s most prestigious literary publications for more than thirty years.
Daphne Buter lives and works and makes the best of it in the Netherlands. She’s a writer of fiction and her books are published by the publishing house De Bezige Bij in Amsterdam. She also writes stories in English because she’s a bit insane. Go here to see what we mean: buter.blogspot.com. As a graphic designer she worked for Elsevier Science Publisher in Amsterdam. She worked for eight years as a creative assistant at Joop Geesink’s Dollywood animation film studio, in the Netherlands. She worked as an editor and illustrator for two small newspapers for annoying smart children in Holland. She is a painter who doesn’t paint anymore since she’s a writer. Not so long ago she figured she also likes to shoot pictures, maybe because her father was a professional photographer who died and now he can no longer dislike her shooting pictures also. The Internet makes it possible for Daphne to work with FRiGG.
Carl Miller Daniels just turned fifty-three. He currently lives in ruggedly masculine Homerun, Virginia. Over the years, his poems have appeared in lots of nice places: Cedar Hill Review, Chiron Review, a couple of Future Tense Books anthologies, FUCK!, Nerve Cowboy, Pearl, Slipstream, Wormwood Review, and 5AM, to name a few. Daniels has had two chapbooks published in the past dozen years or so: Shy Boys at Home (published by Chiron Review Press), and Museum Quality Orgasm (published by Future Tense Books). This comment by the poet Antler appears on the cover of Shy Boys at Home: “Carl Miller Daniels’ poems incarnate youthful gay sexuality with gentleness, passion and delight. Shy Boys at Home is a unique contribution to the renaissance of gay poetry in America at the beginning of the New Millennium.” On three separate occasions, Daniels has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He and his lover, Jon (aka “the sweetest man in the world”), have lived together for more than twenty-five years.
Lucille Lang Day’s poetry collections are Infinities, Wild One, Fire in the Garden, and Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, which was selected by Robert Pinsky for the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She also has a chapbook in the Greatest Hits series from Pudding House, and Chain Letter, her first children’s book, was published by Heyday Books in 2005. Her poetry has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Hudson Review, The Threepenny Review, California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University and Heyday Books), and Mother Songs (Norton). She received her M.A. and M.F.A in creative writing at San Francisco State University, and her M.A. in zoology and Ph.D. in science and mathematics education at the University of California at Berkeley. The founder and director of Scarlet Tanager Books (www.ScarletTanager.com), she is also the director of the Hall of Health, an interactive children’s museum in Berkeley.
Craig English is the co-author (with James Rapson) of the self-help book Anxious to Please: 7 Revolutionary Practices to Overcome Chronic Niceness, which will be released by Sourcebooks, Inc., in April 2006. He is currently working on a fantasy novel, The Orb. His short story “Tribes” is currently appearing in Aeon Speculative Fiction, and another story, “Knots,” appeared in the Winter edition of Talebones Magazine. In 1996 Craig founded the much-published and award-winning Commoners writing group. Members’ accomplishments include: Broken for You, a novel selected for The Today Show Book Club; the founding of the literary webzine FRiGG; a Jack Straw Literary prize winner; and a Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat recipient.
Heather Fowler received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from Hollins University in May 1997 and has recently relocated to her hometown, San Diego, California. Her stories have appeared or will appear in the following journals: the muse apprentice guild; artisan, a journal of craft; Literary Potpourri; Exquisite Corpse; The Barcelona Review; Quercus Review; Penumbra; B & A New Fiction; Barbaric Yawp; Zoetrope All-Story Extra; Mindkites; and Better Non-Sequitur (See You Next Tuesday anthology, forthcoming). She worked as a Guest Editor for Zoetrope All-Story Extra in March and April 2000. Her story “Slut” won third prize in the 2000 California Writer’s Conference in Monterey. Her poetry has been published in various venues including The Map of Austin Poetry, The Coast Highway Review, Driftwood Highway 1999 Anthology, Joe’s Journal, Best of the Beach 1998, The Publication, and the Cityworks Literary Anthology, Volume 6. Contact her at fowlerhm@hotmail.com.
Daniel Gallik’s first novel, A Story of Dumb Fate, is available at publishamerica.com. Local Border’s bookstores are carrying it, also. The author is a bit nuts. Is adjusting to a cerebral aneurysm he had years
ago. Gallik has had poetry and short stories published by Hawaii Review,
A.I.M.(America’s Intercultural Magazine), Parabola, Nimrod, Limestone (University of Kentucky), The Hiram Poetry Review, Aura (University of Alabama), and Whiskey Island (Cleveland State University).
Matt Getty, the self-proclaimed world’s best writer ever, lives in Maryland with his wife and two daughters. His award-winning novella, You Will Behave, is available from SuckerPunch Press. He loves when people read his stories and feel curious enough about him to visit his self-promotional Web site, www.mattgetty.com, or drop him a line at mgetty@gmail.com.
Meridith Gresher trained as a classical dancer at The Atlanta School of Ballet and apprenticed with International Ballet Rotaru. Ultimately, she traded point shoes for pen and legal pad before the days of her laptop. She writes poetry,
flash fiction, short stories, and screenplays. She runs a journal called Talking to Grief, has been published in The Journal of Modern Post, 2River, and BLAST. Reach her at meridithgresher@yahoo.com.
John Grey is an Australian-born poet, playwright, and musician. His latest book is What Else Is There from Main Street Rag. His work has recently in Hubbub,
South Carolina Review, and Journal of the American Medical
Association.
Paul Kavanagh has three unpublished novels, twenty-six short stories, and one haiku to his name. Born in England on Sunday, 5 September 1971, he shares the same birthday as Caspar David Friedrich, Jesse James, and John Cage. He is married, his wife is happy, together they are happy.
Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz is a fiction writer and poet. Visit her blog at gwennotes.blogspot.com.
Dave Morrison is a writer of novels, short stories, poetry, and many notes on scraps of paper; a chronicler of strange dreams, blurry memories, momentary visions. Born near Boston he is the spiritual love-child of Janis Joplin and Carl Yastrzemski. After years of playing guitar in rock and roll bars in Boston and NYC, he currently resides in coastal Maine. You can e-visit at www.dave--morrison.com
Emily Waples lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.