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Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal was born in Mexico. He lives
and works in Los Angeles County (California). His first book
of poetry,
Raw Materials, was published by
Pygmy Forest
Press. His latest chapbook,
Overcome, is available from
Kendra Steiner Editions.
Mel Brake is a Philadelphia-based poet. His work has been
published in Fox Chase Review, Philadelphia Poets, Word
Riot, Mad Poets Review and elsewhere.
Melanie Browne lives in Texas. Her poems can be seen at
various places, including Houston Literary Review, Word
Riot, Mad Swirl and Outsider Writers (the "Not Your Bitch"
poetry series). She is a co-editor at Leaf Garden Press.
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Steve Calamars lives in San Antonio, TX. He has a B.A. in
Philosophy and works in a grocery store. His writing can
be found (or will be) in
Bottle Rockets, Chiron Review,
Harpur Palate, The Blue Jew Yorker, Zygote in My Coffee,
Ghoti, and other places he won’t bore you with. He blogs
at
http://dirtywordsoncleanliving.blogspot.com
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Kane X. Faucher is the author of 8 books and more than
500 articles, poems, short fiction, and reviews. His most
recent book, a gonzo travelogue entitled
Tales Pinned on
a Complete Ass: Journey to Romania, earned him inter-
national ignominy. You can find the book at 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.
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Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University
of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 12 poetry chap-
books. He has been nominated four times for a Pushcart
Prize and five times for the Best of the Net anthology. His
first full-length book of poetry,
Lovesick, was released
in 2009 by
Press Americana.
Mat Gould barges in on the sunset, asks for a drink, and
takes what he can get. He is currently skinning the hero.
It Will Be The Lion is his most recent chapbook.
Mat Gould
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Joseph Hargraves is a hermit who lives in the Pine Barrens
of New Jersey. He has taught poetry to inmates, and also to
people hospitalized and diagnosed as "chronically mentally
ill substance abusers." He loves a captive audience.
His poems have been in The Guardian UK, South African
Times, New York Quarterly, Zygote in My Coffee and Right
Hand Pointing, and are upcoming in Calliope Nerve and a
print issue of Durable Goods.
T. Andrew Huddleston is a native of Indianapolis, IN and
has lived recently in Philadelphia, PA and Atlanta, GA. This
appearance in Gutter Eloquence Magazine is his first pub-
lication. Another of his poems will be in the forthcoming
issue of Penny-Ante-Feud.
Jason Huskey is a writer of poetry and fiction. His work
has appeared in a few journals, such as Thieves Jargon,
Keyhole Magazine, Word Riot and Zygote In My Coffee.
Links to his work can be found on his blog, located at
http://jasonlhuskey.wordpress.com. He 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). His writing has been published in various
journals, magazines and what-nots worldwide; and he's
had some work rejected worldwide. Ain't no thing.
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Peycho Kanev loves to listen to sad music while he
slowly drinks his beer. His work has been published
in
Welter, Off Beat Pulp, Nerve Cowboy, The Houston
Literary Review, Gloom Cupboard, Outsider Writers,
Tonopah Review, Mad Swirl, Southern Ocean Review
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 currently lives in Chicago.
Mr. Kanev's recent poetry collection--a collaboration with
poet Felino Soriano (with photography by Duane Locke
and Edward Wells II)--can be found at
Amazon.com.
Peycho Kanev
Karl Koweski is a nationally renowned machinist and
bitterly obscure writer. A native of Chicago, he now lives
on a mountaintop in Alabama. His recent chapbooks in-
clude Diminishing Returns, (from
SunnyOutside Press)
and Industrial Strip (published by Covert Press).
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David McLean is Welsh but has lived in Sweden since '87.
He lives on an island in a big lake near Stockholm, with a
boat, a woman, five strange cats and a large, affectionate
dog. He earned a BA in History from Oxford, and an MA in
philosophy (much later), from Stockholm.
Up-to-date details of McLean's available books and chap-
books are at
http://www.epicrites.org/65501/166212.html,
or at his blog at
http://mourningabortion.blogspot.com. A
new chapbook, hellbound, is on sale at Epic Rites Press,
and his third full-length book, laughing at funerals, will be
coming from them soon. He's also an editor for Epic Rites,
but isn't sophisticated enough for your average gutter.
Adam Moorad lives in Brooklyn and works in the field of
publishing. His writing has recently appeared in 3 A.M.
Magazine, Abjective, Storyglossia and Thieves Jargon.
For more info, you can visit Adam where he blogs, at:
http://adamadamadamadamadam.blogspot.com.
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Angela S. Patane lives in Orlando, FL with three cats--
Joni, Elliott and Hunter--and a freckled, blonde hell-of-
a-man. She teaches game design at Full Sail University,
and attends Goddard College. She wishes that she had
more time to knit.
Puma Perl is a poet and fiction writer with a strong be-
lief in the transformative power of the creative arts. Her
writing has been published in over 100 print and online
journals and anthologies. Her first chapbook, Belinda
and Her Friends was awarded the Erbacce Press 2009
Poetry Award; a full length collection, knuckle tattoos,
will be published early in 2010.
Puma performs her work in many venues, in and out of
New York City. She lives on the Lower East Side and
has facilitated writing workshops in community-based
agencies and at Riker’s Island, a NYC prison. She is a
member of Harmattan Theater, an environmental per-
formance group and has also served as editor of lines
written with a razor, a publication of Epic Rrites Press.
Puma Perl
M.P. Powers was born in Chicago but now lives in Miami.
He has poems published or forthcoming in The Chiron
Review, New York Quarterly, Slipstream, Main Street Rag,
Zygote in My Coffee and many other zines.
Gillian Prew lives in Scotland. She has a philosophy de-
gree and a series of low-paying, menial jobs to her credit.
Some of her poems can be found online and in print, and
she has also authored three collections of poems. Gillian
likes coffee and crows.
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Shannon Quinn lives in Toronto. Some publications
where her work has appeared include: Existere, sub-
TERRAIN, Maisonneuve and The Legendary.
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Annie Rink has been writing poetry for a few years. She
is devoted to an untidy writerly life, which includes chain-
smoking, heaps of paper drowning the laptop, minimum
furniture and maximum books, and verses scrawled on
bedroom walls.
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, read it or stole it. For more info,
see
http://www.tappingmyownphone.com/books.html.
John Rocco
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Korliss Sewer enjoys writing about off-beat topics while
watching off-beat people doing off-beat things. Her pub-
lishing credits include:
BlazeVOX, Orange Room Review
and SubtleTea, amongst a few others.
Gerald So is a co-editor of The Lineup: Poems on Crime
chapbook series. He has also served as fiction editor for
The Thrilling Detective website since 2001. Visit his blog
at
http://geraldso.blogspot.com.
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Sayu Tera is a former Zen Buddhist monk currently living
in Kauai, Hawaii.
Douglas I. Thompson is a psychology major at Hill College
and once served as a machinegunner in an infantry com-
pany. He writes fiction and poetry in his spare time, and
his work has appeared in print and online in publications
such as Remark, Cause & Effect, The Scruffy Dog Review,
Tabard Inn: Tales of Questionable Taste, and Parasitic.
Douglas currently resides in Cleburne, Texas, where he
hopes to win the love of a very special girl.
Douglas I. Thompson
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Joanna M. Weston has had her poetry, reviews, and short
stories published in anthologies and journals for twenty-five
years. Her middle-reader,
Those Blue Shoes, was published
by Clarity House Press; and a book of her poems,
A Summer
Father, was published by Frontenac House of Calgary. For
more info, see:
http://www3.telus.net/public/west34/.
Zachary Whalen lives in a small room in the vast Canadian
wilderness. Some of his poems have appeared in places
such as Word Riot, the Maynard and decomP. A bunch of
other poems are just chillin' at his blog, and you can find
it at:
zacharywhalen.blogspot.com.
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xTx writes both poetry and short fiction. Her poetry can be
found in
Zygote In My Coffee, Black-Listed Magazine, Pan-
gur Ban Party and
Cherry Bleeds. Her fiction can be found
in
Pank, Dogzplot, Thieves Jargon and elsewhere.
xTx also maintains a blog at
http://www.notimetosayit.com,
where she is usually NSFW.
