Gutter Eloquence Magazine:
Contributor Bios

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George Anderson was born in Montreal and now lives in North
Wollongong, Australia. To find out more about his world check
out his blog, at: http://georgedanderson.blogspot.com.

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Scurvy Bastard is a poet/writer, actor and aging hooligan cur-
rently crashing on floors in England but will probably be living
(incarcerated?) somewhere else by the time you read this.

Scurvy Bastard!

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Born in 1984 during the miner's strike, Owen Calvert has been
writing on and off since the age of 15 or 16. He's inspired by the
English/French Romantic poets such as Percy Bysshe Shelley
and American writers of the 1950's/1960's, notably: D.A. Levy
and Charles Bukowski. Owen currently resides in London.

Wolfgang Carstens lives in Canada with his wife, five children
and two cats. His poetry and prose are printed on the backs of
unpaid bills.

Benjamin Chew is a writer working in the retail industry in Sing-
apore. Apart from his full-time job, he revels in the madness of
poetry and gets drunk on the magic vomit of words. He lives
with his equally quirky wife and two vivacious children.

Benjamin Chew

C.L. Curtiss lives in Illinois with his wife. They are presently
in the fourth year of raising their pit bull Eileen, who just lost
her first tooth.

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John Dorsey currently resides in Toledo, OH. His poems that
are featured in this issue are examples of work to be released
late summer 2009 in a travel book, SHOTGUN, which will also
include Jacob Johanson and others. The book will be avail-
able from Tainted Coffee Press.

You can reach Mr. Dorsey at: archerevans AT yahoo.com.

Photo of John Dorsey © by Steve Edson

Doug Draime emerged as a presence in the 'underground' lit-
erary movement in Los Angeles in the late 1960's. His most
recent chapbooks include: Knox County (Kendra Steiner
Editions), Los Angeles Terminal: Poems 1971-1980 (Covert
Press), and Spiders And Madmen (Scintillating Publications).
Forthcoming are two large collections: Transmissions From
The Underground (d/e/a/d/b/e/a/t press) and Farrago Soup
(Coatlism Press). Also due in 2009: a new chapbook, titled
Boulevards of Oblivion, from Tainted Coffee Press.

Draime lives in the wild and wooly foothills of Oregon.

Aleathia Drehmer is waiting for the local pool to open and for
the sun to stay out for more than one hour a day. She is the
poetry editor for Full of Crow and co-editor of special editions
for Zygote in My Coffee. She lives in rural Painted Post in up-
state New York with her darling daughter and one crazy cat.

She has been lucky enough to be published in many online
and print journals in the small press over the last few years.
She is even luckier to have amazing friends. Her forthcoming
chapbook, Circles, is available from Kendra Steiner Editions
(June 2009) and she will share a flipbook from Tainted Coffee
Press called Empty Spaces/A Quiet Learning Curve with Dan
Provost. Aleathia's previously published work can be viewed
here: www.myabdication.blogspot.com.

Aleathia Drehmer

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Kane X. Faucher is the author of 8 books and over 500 articles,
poems, short fiction, and reviews. His recent book, a gonzo
travelogue entitled Tales Pinned on a Complete Ass: Journey
to Romania, won him international ignominy. The book can be
obtained through Amazon.com.

Faucher is also the co-editor for The Raging Face, The Drill
Press and Sorrowland Press, and is the interview editor for
Ditch Poetry. He lives and teaches in the other London, in
Ontario, Canada.

Matt Finney is a writer from Millbrook, Alabama.

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John Grochalski is a poet/writer whose poetry has appeared in
The Smoking Poet, Thieves Jargon, Tattoo Highway, Eclectica,
Modern Drunkard, American Dissident, Underground Voices,
Cherry Bleeds, My Favorite Bullet, Main Street Rag, Clockwise
Cat, Zygote In My Coffee and Gloom Cupboard.

His short fiction has appeared in Fictionville, Bartleby Snopes,
Retort, The Battered Suitcase, Big Stupid Review and Pequin,
and is forthcoming in the anthology Living Room Handjob.

His column, The Lost Yinzer, is featured quarterly in The New
Yinzer (www.newyinzer.com). His book of poems, The Noose
Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out is available from
Six Gallery Press; his chapbook, Meditations On Misery With
Women, is due out from Zygote in My Coffee in the fall of 2009.

John currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Paul Hellweg has felt his whole life as if he didn’t fit in. Then a
few months ago, he discovered kindred spirits in the poetry
universe, both online and at readings throughout the LA area.
He's thrilled to have finally found a place where he fits in just
fine, sober or otherwise.

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Peycho Kanev is 28 years old. He loves to listen to sad music
while he slowly drinks his beer. His work has been published
in Chiron Review, Gloom Cupboard, Poetry Cemetery, Nerve
Cowboy, Outsider Writers, Mad Swirl, Side of Grits, Southern
Ocean Review, Welter and others. He loves to put the word
down and avoids talking on the phone for days. He has been
nominated for a Pushcart Award. He lives in Chicago. Alone.

Mr. Kanev's new poetry collection--a collaboration with poet
Felino Soriano and editor Edward Wells--is out now, and can
be found at Amazon.com.

Neil Kelly lives in Denver, Co. He likes to pan for gold, cheer
Chicago’s sports teams, drink, write, read, take photos, paint
and hang out with his animals. His writing has appeared in
Black Book Press, Margie and elsewhere. You can contact
Neil at: theturdslinger AT gmail.com

Karl Koweski is a nationally renowned machinist and bitterly
obscure writer living on a mountaintop in Alabama. His recent
chapbook, Industrial Strip, is available from Covert Press.

Becky Baxley Kring lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where she
enjoys the local sinkholes and watering holes and digging
holes. She is the mother of a 15 year-old BMX superstar.

Grey Book Press's Momoware Spring 2009 featured several
of Becky's poems, with her asemic writing piece as cover art.

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David LaBounty lives in suburban Detroit. His poetry and
fiction have appeared in Unlikely 2.0, Night Train, Pemmican
and elsewhere. He is the author of two published novels, The
Perfect Revolution and The Trinity. His third novel, Affluenza,
will be released in late 2009. Affluenza is a story about debt,
pornogrpahy, consumerism, vanity, pyromania and patricide
told through the financial rise and fall of an insurance exec-
utive who lives beyond his means.

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Peter Magliocco writes from Las Vegas, Nevada, and has
forthcoming poetry in The Smoking Poet, Hudson View
Poetry Digest and Zygote in My Coffee. He received a
Pushcart nomination for poetry in 2008. His novel, The
Burgher of Virtual Eden, is available from from Publish
America (www.publishamerica.com).

David McLean has a blog at http://mourningabortion.com
where he gives details of several books and chapbooks, as
well as two forthcoming chapbooks, a forthcoming novella
and a 300-page anthology laughing at funerals due out in
2010 from Epic Rites Press. He edits a couple of zines and
the chapbooks at Epic Rites.

Anne McMillen is the author of When Red Blood Cells Leak,
available through Unlikely Books. Her first full-length book
of poems, Monolith, will be released by them in mid-2010.
As of right now, she is working on an article about indie
wrestling for Pink Eye Magazine, a true gonzo journal of
the bizarre. She has spent most of her life on the move,
and is currently squatting in a foreclosed house in Cleve-
land, Ohio. If you would like to contact Annie, please feel
free to do so at either www.myspace.com/oxyannie or
anniemcmz AT hotmail.com

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Burgess S. Needle has been a school librarian in Tucson,
Arizona for thirty years. His writing has appeared in The Hiss,
Origami Condom, Free Verse, Concho River Review, Raving
Dove, Autumn Sky and Iodine. He was a co-editor of Prickly
Pear/Tucson, a quarterly poetry magazine, and has also been
a co-director of the summer program of the Southern Arizona
Writing Project. He is, at present, editing a journal he kept as
a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand. Back in the day, Burgess
made a name for himself in Tucson middle school libraries as
a somewhat scary Edgar Allan Poe impersonator. He promises
to respond to any e-mail sent his way: bbneedle AT cox.net

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Jack Ohms started writing something like poetry a couple
of years ago, when all else seemed to fail. Discovered by
Audio Scribblers and Gloom Cupboard in 2009, this native
of England now lives and writes in Finland.

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M.P. Powers has work published or forthcoming in The
New York Quarterly, Ghoti, Main Street Rag, Underground
Voices, Slipstream and many others. Powers was born in
Chicago, but has lived in Florida since 1985. He graduated
from FSU with a business degree, which he subsequently
set on fire. He has worked as a worm-dung technician, a
mechanic, a dragger-of-tree-limbs-to-the-wood-chipper
(no official job title), and a shark-suit tester. He is anxiously
looking forward to his retirement (in about thirty years), and
in his spare time, he erects origami boulders by crumpling
up his failed poems.

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John Rocco is a writer from Queens, New York. He is the
author of the novel FUR (Published in Heaven Press, 2005).
No one bought it, read it or stole it. Please steal it! For more
info, see http://www.tappingmyownphone.com/books.html.

John Rocco

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Mather Schneider lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he writes
poetry and drives a cab (not necessarily at the same time).

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. Erek has previously had writing published in
The Poetry Warrior and The Exuberant Ashtray.

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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 webzine, and
the hair he's losing from his head is being rapidly replaced
by new growth on his back. Ross can be reached through
his blog, where you can read some of his work.

Anthony Venutolo is a writer by trade and by passion. He's
dabbled in the screenplay form, has authored short stories
and is presently trying to get a comic book off the ground.
He's had the most luck, however, in journalism, being paid
for his words in various national magazines and his work
as an editor at a Pulitzer Prize-winning daily newspaper.

He has two blogs: a pop culture, entertainment-related site
called Notes from Hemingway's Lounge and another, more
creative blog, named Bukowski's Basement (really meant
for boozy scribes).

Ajay Vishwanathan, a virologist by profession, lives and
works in Atlanta. He began writing at the age of seven, and
his work has appeared or will be appearing in The Times of
India, Bartleby Snopes, The Houston Literary Review, Mid-
Day, Counterexample Poetics, Six Sentences, Bewildering
Stories, Static Movement, Cantaraville, The Short Humour
Site, Khabar and Little India.

 All poems © by their respective authors.   Otherwise, site content © 2008, 2009 by Jack T. Marlowe