Gutter Eloquence Magazine:
Issue #1 Contributor Bios

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George Anderson lives in North Wollongong, Australia. Erbacce
Press released a chapbook of his poems, Dancing On Thin Ice in
July 2008. Available direct from www.erbacce-press.com.

His blog can be found at: http://georgedanderson.blogspot.com.

RD "Raindog" Armstrong was born in the obscurity of 1950's
America. He's spent most of his life in and around Los Angeles,
working on his PHD (Post Hole Digger), making a modest living
in the home repair ouvre. Armed with limited education, a hunger
for experience and a thirst for knowledge, RD has become some-
thing of a poetry maven over the last few years. Calling himself a
"Road" scholar, the intrepid Raindog has gone to places that few
ever dream of (unless you count nightmares).

RD is also the publisher and editor of The Lummox Journal.

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Scurvy Bastard is a writer, actor, roadie and general inconvenience
to society and himself. He is currently a castaway on an island off
the coast of Brooklyn. You can find his writing online in Zygote in
My Coffee, Beat the Dust, and elsewhere.

David Blaine is a practicing poet who lives with his family in rural
Michigan. A member of The Guild of Outsider Writers, David is avail-
able for readings, workshops, or drinks.

David Blaine

Melanie Browne lives in Texas and eats too much sugar. Her work
has appeared in Mad Swirl, The Commonline Project and Poetry
Superhighway, and she has work forthcoming in Cause & Effect
and Word Riot.

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William Doreski teaches writing and literature at Keene State College
in New Hampshire. His most recent collection of poetry is Another
Ice Age (AA Publications). He has published three critical studies,
including Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, and
reviews have appeared in many journals, including Notre Dame
Review, The Battered Suitcase, Harvard Review, Antioch Review,
Clockwise Cat, Gloom Cupboard, The Alembic and Natural Bridge.

John Dorsey currently resides in Toledo, OH. He is the author of
Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel with S.A. Griffin and
Scott Wannberg.

You can reach him at: archerevans AT yahoo.com.

Photo of John Dorsey © by Steve Edson

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John C.Erianne is Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Asterius Press,
which produces the print zine Devil Blossoms and two e-zines:
The 13th Warrior Review and Gnome. His own writing has been
published in a number of places, including Zygote in My Coffee,
Yellow Mama, The Plastic Tower, Children Churches & Daddies
and Furry Chiclets.

He's also an avid blogger with three active blogs--most notably,
Diary of a Mad Editor.

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Jéanpaul Ferro is a writer from Providence, Rhode Island. His
work has appeared in Contemporary American Voices, Columbia
Review, Barrelhouse Magazine, The Providence Journal, Long
Island Quarterly, Cortland Review and others. His work has been
featured on NPR’s This I Believe series and WBAR radio (NYC).

His collection of poetry, Becoming X, was published by Blaze-
Vox Books. He's also the author of All the Good Promises, a
book of short fiction (Plowman Press). For more info, send
email to: jeanpaulferro AT netzero.net

Matt Finney is a writer from Millbrook, Alabama.

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Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of
New York at New Paltz, is the author of five poetry chapbooks,
including the e-book Police and Questions (Right Hand Pointing)
available free at http://www.righthandpointing.com/howiegood/.

His latest collection, Tomorrowland, is available from Dogzplot
(Achilles chapbook series).

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Justin Hyde lives in Iowa, where he works as a correctional officer.
For more info, see: http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/justinhyde.

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Daniel S. Irwin is an artist/writer/illiterate finger painter. He works
with the criminally insane at a maximum security prison, for fun
and profit. He has been published in some places (Zygote in My
Coffee, Cherry Bleeds) and rejected by others (banned for life by
Letter X Magazine...go figure). His poetry has frequently been
burned by religious fanatics.

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Colin James works in Energy Conservation. He is a member of
the Brothers Of The Endemic and the Curzon Park Enigmas. His
poetry has been published in Juked, Right Hand Pointing, Neon-
beam, Origami Condom, The and elsewhere.

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Peycho Kanev is 27 years old. His work has been published in
Word Riot, Poetry Cemetery, The Guild of Outsider Writers and
many others. He lives in Chicago. Alone.

Karen Kelsay grew up near the Pacific, and loves writing poetry
about the sea. She lives with her husband and cat, just a short
distance from the beach, where she still looks for writing sub-
jects and inspirations.

Her poetry has been published in many online and print maga-
zines, including Mad Swirl, Hudson View Poetry Digest, and
Willow's Wept Review. A book of her collected poems has
been published, and a chapbook, A Fist of Roots will be pub-
lished in 2009 by Puddinghouse Press.

Karen Kelsay

Karl Koweski is a nationally renowned machinist and bitterly ob-
scure writer living on top of a mountain in Alabama. His latest
chapbook, Industrial Strip, is available from Covert Press.

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David LaBounty lives in suburban Detroit. His poems and stories
have appeared in several journals, including Unlikely 2.0, Night
Train, Pemmican and others. He is also the author of two novels:
The Perfect Revolution and The Trinity, with a third book under
consideration.

P.A. Levy hides in the heart of Suffolk countryside (UK) learning
the lost art of hedge mumbling. He has been published in several
magazines, although these days he spends far too much time on
controlling his characters at the Clueless Collective website.

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Wayne Mason is a writer and factory worker from central Florida.
His work has been published throughout the small press. He has
authored four chapbooks; the most recent, Waiting For Magic, is
now available from http://www.covertpress.com.

Michele McDannold is not quite sure why she's living in Jack-
sonville, Illinois. Something about insanity runs in the family.
Michele is a poet and also serves as editor for both Red Fez
and Rural Messengers Press.

Michele McDannold

David McLean is Welsh but has lived in Sweden since 1987. He
lives there in a cottage on a hill with a woman and five selfish
cats. He's had two full-length books published: one available
from Erbacce Press and another, entitled Cadaver's Dance,
available at Alibris or Amazon.com. His self-published book of
poems, Eating Your Night, can be found at Lulu.com.

More publication info at: http://mourningabortion.blogspot.com.

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J. D. Nelson (b. 1971) experiments with words and sound in his
subterranean laboratory. His bizarre poems and experimental
texts have appeared in many small press and underground pub-
lications around the world. Visit www.MadVerse.com for more
info and links to his published work.

His audio experiments (recorded under the name OWL BRAIN
ATLAS) are online at www.OwlNoise.com. OWL NOISE 0, his
first album of experimental spoken word, is available online at
www.mediafire.com/owlnoise (FREE download).

J. D. lives two blocks south of the 40th parallel north in Colorado.

J. D. Nelson's hand

Mathias Nelson is rumored to be a resident of La Crosse, Wis-
consin. He writes both poetry and fiction, and has publications
forthcoming in 13th Warrior Review, The New York Quarterly,
and LauraHird.com.

For more info, see http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/mathiasnelson.

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David E. Oprava writes, because he has to. He is terrified of what
will happen otherwise. It makes him prolific. He has been in over
forty journals online and in print, and his first full-length book of
poems, VS., was released in October 2008 (Erbacce Press). When
not writing, he is battling against his taciturn sobriety and trying
to live up to the high moral expectations of husbandhood, father-
hood and humanhood. Not necessarily in that order and also not
necessarily succeeding.

David E. Oprava

Radames Ortiz works as a writer-in-residence with Writers in the
Schools, a non-profit organization that engages at-risk children
in the pleasure and power of reading and writing. He was the
2006-2008 Naomi Shihab Nye Scholar, and was a featured poet
in the "Poetry at Roundtop" festival.

Radames' work has appeared in numerous journals including:
Gulf Coast, Texas Observer, Exquisite Corpse, Hayden's Ferry
Review, and Open City. His work has also been collected in
various anthologies which include: US Latino Literature Today,
Regeneration: Telling Stories from Our Twenties, and Is This
Forever, Or What?: Poems and Paintings from Texas.

Radames Ortiz graphic © by Kabuki Katze

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Puma Perl is a poet and fiction writer who believes strongly in the
transformative power of the creative arts. Her work has been pub-
lished in Cause & Effect, Mad Swirl, Red Fez, Gloom Cupboard, The
Oak Bend Review, Trespass, and many other publications (in print
and online). Her first chapbook, Belinda and Her Friends, was re-
cently published by Erbacce Press.

Puma Perl

Rob Plath has published a shitload of poems in the small press.
He hates university presses because their magazines are nothing
but colostomy bags. Rob tries to stay out of trouble by staying at
home with his wife and cats--but then again, there could be trouble
there, as well.

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Misti Rainwater-Lites is addicted to eBay. She collects Hello Kitty
and Easter PEZ dispensers and enjoys lathering up with patchouli
goat's milk soap. In addition to writing like a maniac, Misti takes pic-
tures like a maniac. Check her shit out at the Ebullience Press blog.

Misti Rainwater-Lites

Paula Ray is an emerging writer from North Carolina where she
teaches music, composes, gigs around town with her saxophone
and feeds her addiction to poetry, reading and writing like a fiend.
Her poems and stories have been published or are forthcoming in
Word Riot, Up the Staircase, Pequin, Mad Swirl, and MicroHorror.

John Rocco is a writer from Queens, New York. He is the author
of a novel called FUR (Published in Heaven Press, 2005). Nobody
bought it or read it or stole it. Please steal it! For more info, see
http://www.tappingmyownphone.com/books.html.

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Craig Sernotti is a sometimes writer. He has appeared in print
and online, in Instant Pussy, Clockwise Cat, Peep, Dogzplot
and Skidrow Penthouse, among others. He edits the zine THE.

R. Jay Slais has poems published or forthcoming at Barnwood,
Bird’s Eye reView, Every Day Poets, Flutter Poetry Journal, Sub
Lit, MiPOesias and tinfoildresses. A single father raising his two
children, he makes a living as an engineer/inventor in Detroit.

R. Jay Slais

Ray Succre currently lives on the southern Oregon coast with his
wife and baby son. He has been published in Aesthetica, BlazeVox,
and Pank, and numerous others across as many countries. His
novel Tatterdemalion (Cauliay) was recently released in print and
is available most places. He tries hard.

For more info, see http://raysuccre.blogspot.com.

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Douglas I. Thompson is a psychology major at Hill College and
once served as a machinegunner in an infantry company. He
writes fiction and poetry in his spare time, and his work has
appeared in print and online in such publications as remark,
Cause & Effect, the Scruffy Dog Review, Tabard Inn: Tales of
Questionable Taste, and Parasitic.

He currently lives in Cleburne, Texas with his wife and daughter.

Douglas I. Thompson

Cheryl A. Townsend is a poet, photographer and past editor of
Impetus Magazine. She’s now the Poetry & Visual Arts Editor for
epitome magazine and writes book & art reviews for Oranges &
Sardines, WomenWriters.net and Mad Hatters. She played Jesus
in the indie film Jesus & Her Gospel of Yes with Mike Basinski as
God, and John M. Bennett as Satan. Her poetry has been pub-
lished and translated in many magazines, e-zines & anthologies.

Cheryl A. Townsend

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Ross Vassilev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1976 and now lives
in small-town Ohio. He never played football in high school, but
he did spend a lot of time in I.S.P. (in-school suspension). Ross
is 6-foot-1, hairy and not too bright. He's also the editor of the
Opium Poetry Blogzine.

Joseph Veronneau runs Scintillating Publications, a source of
chapbooks and the literary zine AGUA. His own poems have
been published widely throughout the small press, including
The Guild of Outsider Writers, Chantarelle's Notebook and
Cause & Effect.

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Christian Ward is a 28 year old London-based poet who recently
graduated from Roehampton University with a degree in English
Lit and Creative Writing. His next chapbook, Bone Transmissions,
will be released in March 2009, courtesy of Maverick Duck Press.

Richard Wink is a writer based in Norwich, England. He currently
edits the enigmatic litzine Gloom Cupboard.