Gutter Eloquence Magazine:
Contributor Bios

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Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal was born in Mexico. He now lives in
California and works in the mental health field. His new chapbook,
Still Human, was published by Kendra Steiner Editions.

Jim Benz lives in Minneapolis with his wife, two cats, and a dog.

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James G. Carlson was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1977. He has
always been very involved in the Arts--from drawing and painting
as child, to taking up writing as a teenager. When he was sixteen,
his parents kicked him out of their home in Allentown. Returning
to Philadelphia, he lived in abandoned buildings (or squat houses)
around the city, surviving by shoplifting, dumpster-diving and tak-
ing advantage of what few programs the city had for the homeless.

During that time, he also played in a few punk bands that did well
on the East Coast. Also, throughout one of the brief periods that
he was able to get his shit together, he attended college, studying
Poetics and Classic Literature, but dropped out before he could
earn a degree.

After serving a four year sentence in the Pennsylvania State Pen,
James moved back to Philadelphia, where he became somewhat
of a recluse, at least for the few years it took him to write his first
full-length manuscript, The Book of February. Since then, he has
authored three other manuscripts: Valhalla for Anti-Heroes, Sam-
sara Highways, and The Mother of Exiles. He has also penned a
book of poems titled The Juliet Autopsy.

He is currently doing a Webzine dedicated to the Arts, the Urban
Artist Group, which has become heavily focused on independent
music as of late.

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James H. Duncan is a New York native, a part-time Taoist, and a
connoisseur of dirt-cheap wine. Although a graduate of Southern
Vermont College, he considers himself a lifelong student of the
road, picking up non-credit courses in dive bars, all-night cafes,
and used book stores.

Plainsongs, Red Fez, Reed Magazine, and The Homestead Re-
view, among others, have welcomed his poetry. For more info,
go to www.jhdwriting.com

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Joseph Goosey recently lost his girlfriend because of some poems
he wrote about an all-girl Canadian band. Also, he has a chapbook
available via Poptritus Press. He thanks you for reading.

Joseph Goosey

Mat Gould is currently the "Poet in Residence" at his own home on
a gravel road half-way up the mountain and stashed away in west-
ern North Carolina.

He is fully equipped with a leatherman tool and a somewhat sharp
spear and a Smith-Corona typewriter. Blood...Fume...Lantern is
his forthcoming chapbook. There's another one that he doesn't
know much about, but it has been sent off, and he's been told that
it's in the works.

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Melissa Hansen lives in San Francisco, where she writes poetry and
stories, and works at a lot of libraries. She is the author of two collec-
tions of poetry, little beasts and hungry girls. She has published
and forthcoming work in various places. You can visit her online at www.melissahansen.net and www.myspace.com/quicksecret.

Antony Hitchin is a sometimes heretical purveyor of poetry and
prose. Poetry is one of his more respectable vices and he has
beenpublished in numerous small press/independent journals,
including 3AM, Zygote in my Coffee, Underground Voices, Ditch
and The Guild of Outsider Writers.

Antony is interested in violating both poetic and social 'norms'
and is currently working on chapbooks of cut-up poetry and his
first full-length poetry collection. He is particularly passionate
about trying to transcend dualities and binaries in his work. You
can catch his newly updated experiments at the following sites:

myspace.com/antonyhitchin

http://antonyhitchin.blogspot.com/

Antony Hitchin

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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R. Jones is a student of Art History at the University of New Hamp-
shire, a bartender, and a writer of poetry on beverage napkins.

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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 McLean is Welsh but has lived in Sweden since 1987. He
lives there in a cottage on a hill with a woman, five selfish cats,
and a stupid puppy. Info about his available full-length books,
chapbooks, and poems published or forthcoming at over 300
places online or in print over the last couple of years, are at his
blog: mourningabortion.blogspot.com. He was recently nom-
inated for a Pushcart Prize, whatever that is.

David would very much like you to buy his books so he can
drink more. A chapbook, of dead snakes is being released by
Rain Over Bouville this winter, and one from Poptritus Press
is due out this summer.

Katie Moore has birthed some babies and been to school, but
her favorite learning experience is still mescaline.

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Sergio Ortiz grew up in Chicago, then studied English literature
at Inter-American University in San German, Puerto Rico, and philo-
sophy at World University. He has been an ESL teacher most of his
life, but has also worked with the elderly blind population as a Daily
Living Skills Instructor for the El Paso Lighthouse for the Blind,
and at the Texas Lions Camp. After studying culinary art at The
Restaurant School in Philadelphia, Sergio became a chef.

His work has been published, or is pending publication, in Origami
Condom, Kritya, Poets Ink Review, POUI The Cave, Flutter, Silenced
Press, Cause & Effect, The Cherry Blossom Review, Ink Sweat and
Tears, Ascent Aspirations, The Battered Suitcase, Yellow Medicine,
and other journals, magazines and anthologies.

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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.

D.C. Porder is 20 years old and has one gray hair. He works close-
ly with dead animals. He consumes energy drinks all day, and he
never sleeps. He currently studies poetry and short fiction at The
New School. Spy on him here: www.dcporder.blogspot.com.

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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

Erin Reardon is a poet. She has been published at Silenced Press,
Neo-Lampshadian Outpost, Zygote in My Coffee, Hecale, Parasitic,
Spoonful Quarterly, and Epic Rites. She currently resides in Somer-
ville, MA, where she is often spotted drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon,
pointing and laughing. Erin's book The Tightrope is available from
Covert Press. You can contact her at: tigerlilymoon AT gmail.com
or http://myspace.com/eatkraftdinner.

Erin Reardon

Justin Reynolds, 24, reports the news for a small town in south-
westernern Connecticut, at least for the time being. His writing
has appeared in Xanadu. Justin is in the preliminary stages of
putting a chapbook together, most likely. He graduated from
the University of Vermont with a degree in English, still owes
tens of thousands of dollars, and lives in Redding, CT.

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.

John Rocco

Jason Ryberg is the author of seven books of poetry, six screen-
plays, a few short stories, a box of papers that could one day be
loosely construed to be a novel and a couple of angry letters to
various editors. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he owns
and attempts to operate a modest used record store called Little
Red Rooster Vinyl and CD's.

Feel free to drop Jason a line at http://myspace.com/whoisjryberg.

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Willie Smith is deeply ashamed of being human. His work cele-
brates this horror. His novel OEDIPUS CADET is available at
amazon.com and Black Heron Press. His earlier story collec-
tions Solid Gas, Go Ahead Spit on Me, Execution Style and
Stories from the Microwave are collector's items.

Willie Smith

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Andrew Taylor is a Liverpool poet and co-editor of erbacce and
erbacce-press. His latest collection of poems is available from
Sunnyoutside. Recently, he has gained a PhD in poetry and
poetics and appeared in Gloom Cupboard, Eviscerator Heaven
and The Journal of Heroin Love Songs.

Andrew supports Everton Football Club.

Nathan Tyree is a scruffy-looking primate who lives in Kansas
(and isn't ashamed of it, though he likely should be). He resides
with his wife, four dogs, ten cats and a lifetime supply of single
malt Scotch. Some of his fiction and poetry has popped up in
Word Riot, Edifice Wrecked, Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), decomP,
The Beat, Flesh and Blood and other interesting places. Recent-
ly his story "Morning in Alphabet City" was featured in 3:AM
London, New York, Paris (Social Disease Press), an anthology
from 3AM Magazine. He has never mastered the oboe, nor
would he want to.

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Ross Vassilev was born in Bulgaria in 1976 and now lives in
Ohio. He is the editor of Opium Poetry 2.0, an online magazine.
He can be reached through his blog, where you can read some
of his work. You can also send him nude photos of yourself,
provided you're female and at least 18 years of age.

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In another life, Scot Young used to be a construction worker but
for the last 19 years he has been paid to hang out with kids. He
started writing poems again after a 30 year absence and has pub-
lished one or two. He may be the only school principal in America
to own all of Christopher Robin's books. He occasionally teaches
a poetry class to the "Breakfast Club," as well. He once sang with
Kenny Loggins and wrestler Dirty Dick Murdoch, but mainly, Scot
just puts bread on the table. His publishing notes can be found at:
http://scotyoung.wordpress.com.

Scot is also the editor of The Rusty Truck.