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Travis Blair lives a mile down the road from University
of Texas in Arlington, where he earned a BA in English
Lit. For 30 years, he eked out a living in the movie and
theatre biz before turning to poetry writing. He is the
author of
Train to Chihuahua (Old Seventy Creek Press)
a collection of poems about his adventures in Mexico.
His work has appeared in
Red Fez, Yellow Mama, Red
River Review, the Texas Poetry Calendar, and elsewhere.
His life-long weaknesses are esalen massages and wild,
decadent women who speak with an accent. Travis likes
Mimosas in the morning and beaches all day long.
Travis Blair
April Michelle Bratten is a writer currently living in North
Dakota. Some of her recent work has been published
in The Orange Room Review, Counterexample Poetics
and Red Fez. April co-edits the online literary journal
Up the Staircase.
Melanie Browne lives and writes in Texas. Her poems
can be seen at various places, including Mad Swirl,
Word Riot, Houston Literary Review and Outsider
Writers (the "Not Your Bitch" poetry series). She is
also a co-editor at Leaf Garden Press.
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Adrienne Christian is an American poet currently living
in Indiana. When not writing poems or trying to get pub-
lished, she's usually trying to learn Spanish, traveling to
some exotic locale, or listening to Luther Vandross. Her
poems have been published in Miller's Pond, Big Lucks,
and lots of others publications.
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Lena Judith Drake is the editor-in-chief of
Breadcrumb
Scabs magazine. For more information (previous pub-
lications, etc.), please visit
her personal website.
James H. Duncan is a New York native, part-time Taoist,
and the editor of Hobo Camp Review. Being a lifelong
student of the road, you'll find him picking up non-credit
courses in dive bars, all-night cafes, and on train station
platforms, minding his own damn business. Heroin Love
Songs, Red Fez, Eviscerator Heaven and The Battered
Suitcase, among others, have welcomed his work. More
at http://jameshduncan.blogspot.com.
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Cheryl Gilbert is an Amsterdam-based poet and writer
who grew up in upstate New York. She's been writing
poetry for a long time, but some of her recent work can
be found in
Eudaimonia Poetry Review.
Nathan Graziano lives in Manchester, New Hampshire
with his wife and children. A high school English teach-
er, he recently completed his MFA at The University of
New Hampshire. He is the author of Teaching Meta-
phors (Sunnyoutside Press, 2007), Not So Profound
(Green Bean Press, 2004), Frostbite (GBP, 2002), and
seven chapbooks of poetry and fiction. His work has
appeared in Rattle, Night Train, Freight Stories, The
Coe Review and other magazines.
Graziano's third book of poetry, After the Honeymoon,
was published in Fall 2009 (Sunnyoutside Press). For
more info, visit his website: www.nathangraziano.com.
John Grey is an Australian-born poet and a US resident
since the late 1970's. He works as a financial systems
analyst. John's writing has recently been published in
Slant, Briar Cliff Review and Albatross, and has work
forthcoming in Poetry East, Cape Rock and REAL.
John Grochalski is a poet and writer whose poetry has
appeared in The Smoking Poet, Thieves Jargon, Tattoo
Highway, Modern Drunkard, Underground Voices, My
Favorite Bullet, Eclectica, American Dissident, Cherry
Bleeds, Main Street Rag, Clockwise Cat, Zygote in My
Coffee and Gloom Cupboard.
His short fiction has appeared in Fictionville, Bartleby
Snopes, The Legendary, The Battered Suitcase and Big
Stupid Review, and is forthcoming in the anthology
Living Room Handjob.
A book of John's poems, The Noose Doesn't Get Any
Looser After You Punch Out is now available from
Six
Gallery Press.
Mr. Grochalski currently resides in Brooklyn, New York,
where most of his librarian's salary goes to Rene Juot
wine and Inverhouse Scotch.
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Sonia Hendy-Isaac recently graduated with an MA in
Creative and Critical Writing; she is now completing
her PhD. Her poetry has been widely published in
journals, and her most recent work can be found in
Snakeskin, Shit Creek Review, Qarrtsiluni, Equinox
and
Neon. She is also an editor for
Iota.
John Oliver Hodges lives in Mississippi. His poetry
has appeared in Zygote In My Coffee, The Chiron
Review, Frigg Magazine and Rattle.
John Oliver Hodges
Jason Huskey lives in Virginia, where he writes poetry
and fiction. His work has appeared in a few journals, in-
cluding Keyhole, Word Riot, Thieves Jargon and Zygote
In My Coffee. Links to his writing can be found on his
blog, at jasonlhuskey.wordpress.com.
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Michele Kim Jenkins is a third generation Korean-
American from California. In addition to writing poetry,
she also currently studies Mathematics and German
at California Polytechnic State University.
R.G. Johnson was born in 1976 (only a few people no-
ticed), learned to read and write (several people were
offended), graduated from high school and college (a
complete waste of time) and now lives in Texas, where
he crews workboats (just for the money) and wrestles
with stage IV Lymphoma (not as scary as it sounds).
R.G. writes often (to stay sane), has been published
many times (online and in print), and likes to eat Ritz
Crackers washed down with fresh-squeezed orange
juice. His most recent publications have been in Para-
digm Journal, Opium Poetry 2.0, Asphodel Madness,
Poetry Monthly International and Black-Listed Maga-
zine. He also has a piece forthcoming in Clockwise
Cat. He has just finished his first poetry manuscript
(entitled Crawler in the Swarm), and is shopping for
a publisher. He is happy.
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Neil Kelly lives in Denver, Co. He likes to pan for gold,
cheer Chicago’s sports teams (except the White Sox),
drink, write, read, take photos, paint and hang out with
his animals. His work has appeared in
MARGIE, Gutter
Eloquence Magazine, Black Book Press and elsewhere.
You can find some of his other works on his blog, which
is located at
http://turdslinger.blogspot.com. Or he can
be contacted at
theturdslingerATgmail.com.
KJ likes to make poems a lot.
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Ally Malinenko’s first book of poems, entitled The
Wanting Bone, was recently published by Six Gallery
Press. You can read some of her other poetry online
at
shipwreckedpoetry.blogspot.com and her fiction
at
gypsycampfire.blogspot.com.
She has previously been published by Alembic, Blind
Man's Review, Small Brushes, Whiskey Island Maga-
zine, The Unknown Writer, Mad Poets Society, Jack
Magazine, Posey, Words-Myth, Pens on Fire, Sugar
Mule, The New Yinzer, Zygote in My Coffee, Delirio,
Orange Room Review, Why Vandalism?, Mad Swirl,
Unlikely Stories and Deuce Coupe. She's also a con-
tributing poet to Reading Ground blogzine (hosted
by Breedingground.com).
Ally is currently working on a children's novel and lives
in the part of Brooklyn that tour buses don’t come to.
Thomas Michael McDade lives in Monroe, CT with his
wife, no pets and no kids. He's a computer programmer
who works on software designed for wholesale / retail
plumbing houses. He also did two hitches in the Navy
His writing has recently been published in Centaur and
Angelic Dynamo.
Shawn Misener lives and writes in Michigan. His first full-
length book of poetry, God Sheds His Gravy On Thee, is
slated for publication in 2010. A staff writer for Haggard
& Halloo, he also edits the surreal Americana blogzine
Clutching At Straws.
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Shannon Peil regularly writes in the third person. He
also runs a literary blogzine at
http://amphibi.us for
no reason--literally--as it costs money but does not
make any. He failed economics.
David S. Pointer is an authentic bottom dog of the
American underground. His father was a bank rob-
ber. David lived many years in the Camelot federal
housing project, but currently lives in Murfreesboro,
TN with his two daughters. He has a new chapbook
at alt-current.com and a forthcoming chapbook from
New Polish Beat (newpolishbeat.wordpress.com).
M.P. Powers used to be an organ grinder, but now he
functions chiefly as a towel rack. His poetry has been
published or is forthcoming in Rosebud, Slipstream
New York Quarterly, A Cappella Zoo, Third Wednes-
day and others.
Vivian Faith Prescott was born and raised on Wrangell
Island. She was recently awarded Honorable Mention
in Boulevard's Poetry Contest for Emerging Writers,
and has been published in Permafrost and Cutthroat.
Vivian is also co-director of a non-profit organization
called Raven's Blanket, based in Wrangell, Alaska.
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A. Razor was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1963, but was
brought to California at the age of 1. He was raised with
a desire to read and write, but an even greater desire to
survive, which has aided his experience and longevity,
so far. He began writing and publishing around 1980 in
various underground zines and publications, first in the
Los Angeles area, then ever expanding outward from
there as he was discovered by Drew Blood Press in
1984. He read his work at many readings and spoken
word events.
Razor has fought hard to live and express his art for
many years, in many ways. Recently he became a
member of the Hollywood Institute of Poetics in Los
Angeles (2009). His writing has always explored the
world that he has sought to be a part of and to rebel
against at the same time. He has traveled extensive-
ly, experiencing everything from homelessness and
imprisonment to serenity and peace.
Frank Reardon was born in 1974 in Boston, MA. He's
lived all over the United States and currently lives in
North Dakota. Frank has authored poetry collections
such as Cancer Face, Exorcism Of The Con-Artist,
Rival Tongues and his latest, a full-length collection
entitled Interstate Chokehold.
Frank has been published in such magazines and
webzines as New York Quarterly, AGNI, Quillbillies,
Black-Listed Magazine, Epic Rites, Denver Syntax,
Up The Staircase, Kill Poet and many more. He is
currently locked away in the Badlands, working on
his first novel.
Kevin Reid lives and works as a librarian in Angus,
Scotland. He has lived in various polemic commu-
nities in Northeast Scotland, and has also lived in
a tipi community in the Spanish mountains.
When not buying or reading books Kevin writes,
paints and enjoys the creative magnificence of
digital technology. His writing has appeared in
The Plebian Rag, Heroin Love Songs, Heavy
Bear and Carcinogenic Poetry, among others.
He also has just completed a collection for his
first chapbook.
Rebecca Anne Renner is a student in the Sullivan
Creative Writing Program at Stetson University,
where she is studying poetry and fiction writing.
While pursuing a future as a teacher of creative
writing, she enjoys writing for the sheer exhila-
ration of putting words on the page and for the
emotions she can bring to her readers. She has
a book of poetry available for purchase, entitled
Sex with Neptune, and her work has appeared
in several magazines and anthologies.
Rebecca was also founder and president of the
Creative Writing Club at the University of Florida.
After graduating from Stetson University, she in-
tends to get an MFA to further her study of the
literary arts.
Justin Reynolds, 25, wards off jackals in south-
western Connecticut. He works in the newspaper
biz, enjoys live music, plays bass in a promising
worldwide touring act & brings bottles of wine on
hikes with his good ole golden retriever. His first
chapbook, Skinning the Hero, was published by
Dog On A Chain Press--with special thanks to
Beasley Barrenton and Stanton Luxman--and is
available through lulu.com.
Janet Richards is a poet and journalist living in On-
tario, Canada. Her first book of poetry, Glass Skin,
was published by Hidden Brook Press in 2008. Her
work is also included in the anthologies Eyes of the
Poet and Brother, My Cup.
Daniel Romo lives in Long Beach, CA. His poetry
has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Praxilla, Con-
notation Press and Underground Voices. Daniel
is an MFA candidate in poetry at Antioch Univer-
sity, and will be featured in a 2010 anthology from
Moon Tide Press, titled Pop Art: An Anthology of
Orange County Poetry. More of his writing can be
found at Peyote Soliloquies.
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Michael Sarnowski lives in Rochester, New York. He
earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Vanderbilt
University, where he was a recipient of an Academy
of American Poets Prize. His poetry has recently ap-
peared in The Adirondack Review, Foundling Review,
Honey Land Review and a Write Bloody Publishing
anthology.
