Gutter Eloquence Magazine:
Contributor Bios

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George Anderson was born in Montreal and lives in North Wollon-
gong, Australia. His latest work has appeared in Social Alternatives,
Unlikely Stories, Counterexample Poetics and Lit Chaos Magazine.

To find out more about his world, check out George's blog:
http://georgedanderson.blogspot.com

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Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal works in the mental health field in
Los Angeles, CA. He was born in Mexico. His first book of poetry,
Raw Materials, was published by Pygmy Forest Press. His newest
chapbook, Before And Well After Midnight, has been released by
D/e/a/d/b/e/a/t Press, and is also available at lulu.com

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Yvon Cormier's work is rooted in drawing life pictures where words
owe a greater debt to what they represent than the reverse. Some of
his poetry can be found in Great Bear, Eviscerator Heaven, The Beat-
nik, and more. His first collection of prose and poetry, Life Sketches
in Blue (Select Edition), was published by D/e/a/d/b/e/a/t/ Press.

Yvon Cormier

David S. Cross grew up in Galt, Ontario and as a young man worked
diligently for the industrial complex selling auto parts and dangerous
chemical concoctions. He lived in El Paso, Texas and also worked in
Chihuahua, Mexico for three years in the mid 90s . Now he lives in a
mystic village with a shapeshifter, a witch and a large black dog. He
works very little and not too hard, practices poetry and wonders why
he didn't do this sooner.

David has managed to trick the editors of numerous journals into pub-
lishing his work in Canada, USA and the UK. He also has two books of
collected poems to his credit: Colour of Days (2007) and Saigon, Hanoi,
or Da Nang (2009). For more info, see www.colourofdays.ca

David S. Cross

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Cassandra Dallett lives in Oakland, CA. She is currently unemployed,
a sometime student, and a full-time mama. She writes poetry and short
stories of memoir. Cassandra's writing has been published in Cherry
Bleeds, Street Spirit, The Mylvia Street Journal, and The Beat Museum
of San Francisco.

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Poet/writer R.M. Engelhardt has written a number of poems and has
published several chapbooks over the last decade, including Nod,
Logos, Alchemy, Sacred Days and Hearse. His current book of new
and collected poetry & prose is entitled VERSUS (2009).

A performance artist as well as a poet, Engelhardt has helped create
a large amount of the Albany, NY spoken word scene and is the host
of Albany's well-known poetry open mic called "Vox". His work has
also been published by many journals, including Retort, Verve, Sure!,
Industrial Nation, Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Copious Amounts,
Thunder Sandwich, The Angry Poet, Zygote in My Coffee and others.

R.M. currently lives in Albany, New York.

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Matt Finney is a writer from Millbrook, Alabama.

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Joseph Goosey is currently being driven loony by an actress with
a tattoo of a Klimt on her side. He has one chapbook available from
Poptritus Press and one forthcoming from Shadow Archer Press.
He thanks you for reading.

Joseph Goosey

Mat Gould has just released Sucking On The Fat of Life and has
a second chap Lantern In The Half Night Sky damn near finished
up. He lives on the other side of the mountain (in North Carolina)
and raises jackals.

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Jason "Juice" Hardung's work has been published or is forth-
coming in The New York Quarterly, Zygote In My Coffee, Epic Rites,
Underground Voices, decomP, Lit Up, Polarity, Thrasher, Denver
Syntax, Heroin Love Songs, Lummox Journal and countless other
small presses. He has a chapbook, Breaking The Hearts Of Robots,
out on Covert Press, and another one in the works with Epic Rites,
titled The Broken and the Damned. He is also co-editor of the Front
Range Review and Matter Journal. Writing, for him, is something
that soothes the savage beast. He is on probation for the next two
years and hopes to have a novel done by then.

Jason lives in Ft. Collins, CO and loves it there, but doesn't like the
Subarus with kayaks strapped to the roofs, the earth-tone sweaters,
Teva sandals, or white kids in Reggae bands. He is also part of the
poetry 'gang,' the Beards.

Paul Hellweg recently broke his ankle while drunk. He thinks this is
pretty cool--it's about time that he showed a little life. And now that
he can't get around too well, he has a lot more time for reading and
writing poetry. And drinking.

Jason Huskey writes poetry and fiction. His work has appeared in
a few journals, including Keyhole Magazine, Zygote in My Coffee,
Word Riot and Thieves Jargon, and has been nominated for the
Pushcart Prize. Links to his writings can be found on his blog, at
http://jasonhuskey.blogspot.com. Mr. Huskey lives in Virginia.

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Daniel S. Irwin is an artist and writer (both a matter of opinion). He
presently works with the criminally insane in a maximum security
prison (and some of the inmates are nutz, too). He's had writing
published in various journals, magazines and what-nots world-
wide; and he's had some work rejected worldwide. Ain't no thing.

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Roberta Lawson lives on the South Coast of England. Sometimes
she blogs at Atmospheres Of Perfect Silence, and splurges pseudo-
poetic nonsense at Piffle. Some of her recent and forthcoming publi-
cation credits include Thirteen Myna Birds, Mung Being, Clockwise
Cat, and Prick Of The Spindle.

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Wayne Mason is a writer and factory worker from central Florida.
His work has been published throughout the small press and he is
the author of four chapbooks, the most recent, Waiting For Magic,
is now available from Covert Press.

RC Miller was born (1974) in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and current-
ly lives in NYC. You can find him at visionblues.blogspot.com/.

Zachary Moll lives in Ohio with his son, where he pursues his dreams
at the speed of sit. The 22-year-old has been featured in several online
and print journals for his poetry and photographic art. For more on his
previously published work, see myspace.com/zacharymollpoetry.

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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, Trespass, Red Fez, Toronto
Quarterly, Gloom Cupboard, Oak Bend Review, and many other
print and on-line publications. Her writings have been published
in several anthologies, including The Mom Egg and In Love. Her
first chapbook, entitled Belinda and Her Friends, is available from
the publisher, Erbacce Press.

Puma performs her work in many venues, in and out of New York
City. Her current career choice is Unemployed, Unpaid, Non-Union,
Broke-Ass Artist.

Puma Perl

David S. Pointer lives in Murfreesboro, TN with his two daughters.
Recent poems have appeared in Nibble, Poiesis#2 and elsewhere.

D.C. Porder is 20 yrs old. His skills include sleeping on the floor,
downloading drone music, smoking copious weed, purchasing
Chinese incense and experiencing glorious indifference. He sup-
ports ice cream cake and blogs at dcporder.blogspot.com. Email
him at dcporderATyahoo.com if you're in need of paid assistance.

Dan Provost's poetry has been published throughout the small
press. He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Lindsey Rankin is currently a disgruntled airline employee living in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. In December 2008, after years of random
college coursework, she finally graduated from the University of New
Mexico with a dubious BA in 'university studies.' Although heavily
concentrated in Spanish language and Latin American studies, she
would be lucky to get a job teaching ESL in Korea. She often refers
to herself as 'Pantifesto's Porntastic Phunhouse.'

Lindsey Rankin

Courtney Ray is 38 on the verge of 39 in November if all goes well.
She is amazed by the structure of time. Ray never thought that she
would make it past 21 or write herself in the third person. She has
two poems in the current issue of The Poetry Warrior e-zine. She
thinks that joy is underrated.

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.

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Erek Smith is a writer/student/hotel desk clerk in a small town in
Alabama. He likes to read, write, play music, drink massive amounts
of coffee, watch movies, make fun of rednecks, and avoid the Nascar
track 15 miles away at any cost. He has previously been published in
Poetry Warrior and is pending publication in The Exuberant Ashtray.

Willie Smith is a nano-poet hanging by the skin of his teeth to the
belief that suicide is not a viable option. His novel OEDIPUS CADET
is available at amazon.com and Black Heron Press. His earlier story
collections Solid Gas, Go Ahead Spit on Me, Execution Style and
Stories from the Microwave are collector's items.

Willie Smith

Paul Christian Stevens lives in Australia, where he teaches litera-
ture. He has published poems and prose in print and pixel, recently
or imminently in Mannequin Envy, Shakespeare's Monkey Revue,
CounterPunch, The Literary Bohemian, The HyperTexts, London
Poetry Review, New Verse News, Umbrella, Angelic Dynamo, Ouro-
bouros, and Snakeskin. He founded and edits The Chimaera and
The Shit Creek Review. You can find links to his more recent pub-
lications here: www.myspace.com/redgryphon.

Paul C. Stevens

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Joseph Veronneau runs Scintillating Publications, which publishes
chapbooks and the literary zine Agua. JV's own writings have ap-
peared throughout the small press.

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George Wallace is editor of Polarity, Poetrybay, Poetryvlog and
author of eighteen chapbooks and two CDS, including Summer
of Love, Summer of Love (Shivastan Press, Woodstock, 2008). A
frequent peformer on the NYC scene, he also tours nationally and
internationally, appearing recently at the Beat Museum, Woody
Guthrie Festival, Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, Tres Verse Festival,
Insomniacathon, Howlfest, Shakespeare & Co and at the Dylan
Thomas Center. He hosts poetry readings at the Bowery Poetry
Club and Cornelia Street Cafe in Manhattan.