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bad.habits

bad.habits writes on a dirty mac laptop by the name of pidagurpidagle. She does not live anywhere in particular; she is kind of a nomad.
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Len Bains

Len Bains is, in no particular order, a rocket scientist, a father of four, the carer for a severely handicapped child, a writer of fiction, and a brewer of beer.

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Ed Baker

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Jason Baker

Jason Baker graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in English. He lives in Toronto, Ontario where he works as a business writer. Jason enjoys writing stories in the area of dark fiction.

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Kim M. Baker

Kim M. Baker is the writing coach at Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, RI. Also an advocate to end violence against women, Kim has performed in the Until the Violence Stops Festival Providence: 2008 and 2009. She has been published in Ascent Aspirations, Nimble Spirit, The Writers' Circle Anthology 2008, Canadian Federation of Poets, River Poets’ Journal, New England Writers Network, The Poetry Loft, and forthcoming in Tribute to Orpheus2. In November 2008, Kim won an honorable mention in the Poetry Society of New Hampshire National Contest, and her essay “Truth” was broadcast in January 2009 on National Public Radio of Rhode Island. Email: Kim M. Baker

Joe Balaz

Joe Balaz lives in northeast Ohio. He is the author of Domino Buzz, a cd of music-poetry Web Site
He is also co-author of JOMA—online, an online gallery of concrete poetry and photography with photo-artist Mary Ellen Derwis Joma
His recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Icon, Oregon Literary Review, AdmitTwo, Eleventh Transmission, Right Hand Pointing, The Cerebral Catalyst, Clockwise Cat, Neon Literary Magazine, Zygote in my Coffee, Otoliths and Subtle Tea.
Email: Joe Balaz

Charlene Baldridge

Charlene Baldridge: Freelance Writer and member of San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Regularly writes for: Riverside Press- Enterprise, La Jolla Village News, Performances, Senior Life.

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Richard Ballon

Richard Ballon lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has had poetry appear in The Haight Ashbury Review, Social Anarchism, Lilliput Review, the Saint Anthony Messenger, Oinionhead, Changing Men and Anything that Moves.

Donna Bamford

Donna Bamford is a part time free lance journalist, EFL teacher, struggling creative writer, world traveler, and would be actress. She resides currently in London, Ontario though she has also lived in London, England, Paris, Athens and India and has travelled in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nepal as well as most of the countries in Europe. Despite the travel she still calls Toronto home. She has written three children’s books which she is trying to get published as well as a novella called My Villa in Tuscany and lots of poetry. Her interests include anything to do with the arts and travel. She has an Honours BA in English from the University of Toronto and speaks French fluently as well as passable Italian and German. Her poetry and essays have been published in a number of online magazines and a few print magazines such as Qwerty, Bywords, Ascent, Ygdrasil, Great Works, Scriberazone, 7:24, The Mag, Another Toronto Quarterly, Scrivener’s Pen, Tryst, and The Globe and Mail.

Annie Banks

Annie Banks is currently a freshman at Mount St. Mary's College. She plans to pursue a degree in English and become a professor. In addition to her studies, reading the classics and writing for the college newspaper occupies most of her time. On campus, she is in the process of organizing a poetry society for aficionados of verse. Several of her other interests include painting and theatrical arts. This is her first experience submitting literature for publication.

Suzanna Banwell

Suzanna Banwell has been a Human Rights Lawyer for the better part of the last 20 years. She is now home full time with her two sons and loving every minute of it. Or almost every minute.

Michael Barber
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Daniel Barbiero

Daniel Barbiero lives and works in the Washington DC area. His recent work appears or is forthcoming in Tamafhyr Mountain Irregular, Turbula, Ekphrasis, Listening to Water: The Susquehanna Watershed Anthology, Words-Myth, Ygdrasil and elsewhere. He is also active on the local improvised music scene as a double bassist.

Email: Daniel Barbiero

Beebe Barksdale-Bruner
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Jennifer Christina Barnes

Jennifer Christina Barnes graduated from the University of Maryland with an English degree and a concentration in Poetry/Creative Writing. She has had numerous poems and articles published both in print and online, most recently appearing in A Little Poetry. Jennifer is co-author of the e-book Skin for the Bloodless as well as Assistant Editor of the online literary magazine The Dream People, (www.dreampeople.org). She is also editor of the chapbook anthology The Best of The Dream People Poets.

Christopher Barnes

Christopher Barnes in 1998 won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 200 he read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology Titles Are Bitches. Christmas 2001 he debuted at Newcastle's famous Morden Tower doing a reading of his poems. Each year he read for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and he participated in workshops. 2005 saw the publication of his collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh. On Saturday 16th August 2003 he read at the Edinburgh Festival as a Per Verse poet at LGBT Centre, Broughton St.

He also has a BBC webpage BBC and Video Nation
(if first site does not work click on SECTION 28 on second site.

Christmas 2001 The Northern Cultural Skills Partnership sponsored him to be mentored by Andy Croft in conjunction with New Writing North. He made a radio programme for Web FM community radio about his writing group. October-November 2005, he entered a poem/visual image into the art exhibition The Art Cafe Project, his piece Post-Mark was shown in Betty's Newcastle. This event was sponsored by Pride On The Tyne. He made a digital film with artists Kate Sweeney and Julie Ballands at a film making workshop called Out Of The Picture which was shown at the festival party for Proudwords. The film is going into an archive at The Discovery Museum in Newcastle and contains his poem "The Old Heave-Ho". He worked on a collaborative art and literature project called How Gay Are Your Genes, facilitated by Lisa Mathews (poet) which exhibited at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University before touring the country and it is expected to go abroad, funded by The Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute, Bioscience Centre at Newcastle's Centre for Life. He was involved in the Five Arts Cities poetry postcard event which exhibited at The Seven Stories children's literature building. In May 2006 he had a solo art/poetry exhibition at The People's Theatre. Take a look at their website Gilbenkian

The South Bank Centre in London recorded his poem "The Holiday I Never Had", and he can be heard reading it on Poetry Magazines

Email: Christopher Barnes

Thomas Robert Barnes

Thomas Robert Barnes has been published widely in the small press. He is currently doing readings and a seminar "Ritual of Success" in California and abroad. He is an avid telemark skier, rower and a flyfisher.

John Barta

John Barta was born in 1941, Hungarian emigrant at fifteen, University of Toronto at nineteen, high-school teacher(English, history, drama) starting at twenty-three, marriage at twenty-four, first child at thirty-two, retired at fifty-six, CAA member since 1997, published in The Saving Bannis-er, Ten Stories High, The New Quarterly, Event, Hammered Out, at certain-uncertain points since 1997, date of death as yet a guess.

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Helen Bar-Lev

Helen Bar-Lev was born in New York City in 1942. She has lived in Israel for 36 years. She holds a degree in Anthropology from California State University, Northridge, 1972. Since 1976 Helen has devoted herself to art: painting, teaching and writing poetry. From 1989 until 2001 she was a member of the Safad Artists' Colony in the Upper Galilee where she had her own gallery. In January 2007 she and Johnmichael Simon moved to Metulla, the northernmost town in Israel.

To date Bar-Lev has participated in 80 exhibitions, including 30 one-person shows. She was the curator of the widely acclaimed Homage to Yosef Hirsch exhibitions (appearing in 3 venues) in 2002 and 2003 in which 53 of Hirsch's former students participated. Her poems and paintings have appeared in many online journals such as The Other Voices International Project; The Coffee Press Journal; Boheme Magazine; The Poetry Bridge; Sketchbook; River Bones Press; The Hypertexts; Palabras-Press; Poetry Super Highway, Gostinaia, etc., and also print anthologies including Meeting of the Minds Journal;, Voices Israel Anthologies; Manifold Magazine of New Poetry (U.K.); Lucidity Poetry Journal, and Across The Long Bridge and Sailing in the Mist of Time, both anthologies of Award-Winning Poetry; Harvest International; Poesy first international issue; For Loving Precious Beast, An Anthology of Poetry edited by Yolanda Coulaz; Ibbetson Street 21; The Rogue Scholars, June 2007, Magnapoets; Eden Waters Press, Windsor ReView.

A book entitled CYCLAMENS AND SWORDS with poems of Israel by Helen and Johnmichael Simon has been published by Ibbetson Press of Boston, Mass. and may be ordered from the authors hbarlev@netvision.net.il. It is also available via Lulu. Her watercolour paintings and sketches are featured throughout the book.

Helen is a member of Voices Israel English Poetry Society and The Israel Artists' and Sculptors' Association, of the Canadian Federation of Poets and Canadian Poetry Association. She is the global correspondent in Israel for the Poetry Bridge and Editor-in-Chief of the Voices Israel Annual Anthology.

Bradley Bates

Bradley Bates studied creative writing at the University of Missouri, BA, (Advisor Lynn McMahon), Northern Arizona University, MA, (the Late Jim Simmerman), and Pacific University, MFA, (Madeline DeFrees, Joe Millar, Sharon Bryan, Marvin Bell). Email: Bradley Bates

Judy Shepps Battle

Judy Shepps Battle has been writing poems long before she became a psychotherapist and sociology professor at Rutgers University. Widely published both in the USA and abroad during the Sixties and Seventies, she deferred publishing to concentrate on career and family. Fortunately her muse was tenacious and she continued to write during the next three decades filling a file cabinet with scrawled and typewritten poems that are now being organized into chapbooks and individual submissions. The material submitted for publication represents her return to active participation in the writing community. She can't think of a better way to spend her retirement. Email: Judy Shepps Battle

Gary Beck

Gary Beck's recent fiction has appeared in 3AM Magazine, EWG Presents, Nuvein Magazine, Babel, Vincent Brothers Review, L'Intrigue Magazine, The Journal, Short Stories Bimonthly and Bibliophilos. His poetry has appeared in dozens of literary magazines. His plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes, and Sophocles have been produced Off-Broadway. He is a writer/director of award-winning social issue video documentaries. Email: Gary Beck

June Beck

June Beck, a published poet, teaches English on the Central Coast of California. She is currently polishing her first novel, The Possibility of Justine, a story of a girl facing her senior year in 1968 in the Central Valley. Blog

Calvin Becker

Calvin Becker lives in Calgary, Alberta. He is interested in exploring the ideals and themes in a highly metaphorical and minimalistic style. Email

Paul Beckman

Paul Beckman is a real estate salesman, a writer, snorkeler, traveler and photographer. He specializes in the short story, the short-short story, post-card , flash fiction and micro stories. Some publishing credits: The Connecticut Review, The New Haven Review, Onthebus, Short Story Library, The Writer's Voice, Playboy, 5 Trope, Other Voices, Dogmatika, Northeast Magazine, The Scruffy Dog Review, Parting Gifts, Fiction Warehouse, Web Del Sol, Jewish Currents, Long Story Short, Tight, Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette, Riverbabble, Exquisite Corpse, Collectedstories.Com, Opium, Clean Sheets, Thug Lit And Sugar Mule. Email: Paul Beckman

Ellen Behrens'

Ellen Behrens' life has followed a tourist route, taking her through several states and careers, including stints in amusement parks and apartment communities which she discovered were pretty much the same thing. With her husband, Robert Craig, she's rafted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, climbed mountains, and plans to do a lot more of the same. Her first novel, None but the Dead and Dying, was published in 1996 by Baskerville Publishers. Email: Ellen Behrens

Everette Bell

Everette Bell is a fiction writer who enjoys all genres. His stories have been published in various magazines and webzines throughout the small press. Look for his forthcoming chapbook from Yard Dog Press. Email

Steve Bell

Steve has been writing for several years in India. He has spent several years living there. He has written in the UK as a journalist and spent much time researching on the dark side of life in London's King Cross. Email

Michelle Bellerose

Michelle Bellerose is difficult to biographize. For even less information visit Blog Email: Michelle Bellerose

Tim Bellows

Tim Bellows is a poet, writer, and teacher – devoted to wildland, the simplicity of inward travel, and Mozart’s notion about “Love, love, love” as “the soul of genius." Living in Northern California, Tim has taught college writing for over eighteen years. He graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has seen publication of poems in many journals – and in A Racing Up the Sky (Eclectic Press), Wild Stars (Starry Puddle Press), and Desert Wood (University of Nevada Press). If you’d like Tim’s free Lightship E-Newsletter of tips for creative writers on the journey of “divine things more beautiful than words can tell” (Walt Whitman), contact him at star999@sbcglobal.net and put "Yes!" in the subject line. (Put "Unsubscribe” to be taken off the list.) *** Visit timbellows.com where his books and selected poems are available, toll free.

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Livia Belmont

Lark Beltran

Lark Beltran lives in Peru, where for over 30 years he has worked as an ESL teacher. A number of his poems have been published in e-zines.

Orna Ben-Shoshan

Orna Ben-Shoshan conceives the images she paints through channeling. All of her paintings are completed in her mind before she transfers them onto the canvas.

Her metaphysical work infuses deep spiritual experience with subtle humor.

Orna Ben-Shoshan has been an auto dedact artist for the past 30 years. Her artwork was exhibited in numerous locations in the USA, Europe and Israel. Her Major motivation as a visual artist is to share her visions with others to expand their consciousness and inspire new ways of thinking.

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Orna’s life-long interest in metaphysics and mysticism has led her to study the Kabalah and alternative philosophies. She shares her wide and diverse knowledge in articles and short essays that were published in magazines worldwide alongside her paintings. Email Orna Ben-Shoshan

Luis Benítez

Luis Benítez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1956). Member of the Latin-American Academy of Poetry, the International Society of Writers, the World Poets Society, the Argentinean Society of Writers and the Argentinean Foundation for the Poetry. He has received the tittle of Compagnon de la Poésie, from La Porte des Poétes Association, France. His 9 books of poetry, 2 essays and 2 novels were published in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, USA and Venezuela. Between another local and international awards, he has received: La Porte des Poétes International Award (Paris, 1991); Biennial Award of the Argentinean Poetry (Buenos Aires, 1991); Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Foundation Award of Poetry (Buenos Aires, 1996); International Award of Fiction (Uruguay, 1996); Primo Premio Tusculorum di Poesia (Italy, 1996) and 10me. Concours International de Poésie, accesit (Paris, 2003).

Since the ´90s, several reviews publish his poems in translation: Upstairs at Duroc and La Porte des Poétes (from Paris, France); The Boston Literary Review, Barnwood, And Then, Tamarind, Szrine, Green Mountains, Luz Bilingual and La Nuez (from USA); Inclement Poetry, Cauldrom, Littoral, Awe, Manifold and Poetry Monthly (from United Kingdom); Poetry Salzburg Review (from Austria); L´Ortica and Isola Nigra (from Italy), The Instanbul Literary Review (from Turkey) and others.

Poetry books by the author:

Poems from the Earth and the Memory (Buenos Aires, 1980), Mythologies/The Ballad of the Lost Woman (Buenos Aires, 1983), Behering and Other Poems (1st edition, Buenos Aires, 1985; 2nd edition Mexico DF, 1995), Wars, Epitaphs and Conversations (Buenos Aires, 1989), Fractal (Buenos Aires, 1991), The Past and the Eves (Venezuela, 1995), Selected Poems (USA, 1996), The Mare of the Night (Chile, 2001), The Venenero and other poems (Buenos Aires, 2005)

Email: Luis Benítez

Rachel Bennett

Rachel Bennett was born in Rock Island, Illinois, in 1979, and moved to New York City in 2001, after participating in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Irish Writing Program in Dublin, working in a nursing home in Ecuador, and earning a B.A. in English from Grinnell College. Her poems have won two Whitcomb Prizes judged by Gerald Stern and James Galvin, respectively, and appeared in Buffalo Carp, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Rhapsoidia, elimae, Alba, The Big Toe Review, zafusy, Adagio Quarterly Review, Laika Poetry Review, and Blood Lotus; two poems included in Rhapsoidia were 2006 Pushcart Prize nominees. In July 2007, Miss Bennett was invited back to Dublin to give a reading and talk to current students in the Irish Writing Program. She currently lives in Brooklyn, develops programs for the Medicare Rights Center, and teaches poetry in New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Email

Richard N. Bentley

Richard N. Bentley is a graduate of Yale and the Vermont College Writing Program. His recent book of poems and short stories, Post-Freudian Dreaming and A General Theory of Desire are available from amazon.com. He was a winner of the Paris Review/Paris Writers Workshop International Fiction Award in 1994. He can be contacted at rbentley@valinet.com or www.dickbenley.com. for comments, suggestions, advice or for no reason at all. He teaches at Holyoke College. Email: Richard N. Bentley

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal has poems published in Prose Toad, Cerebral Catalyst, Wilmington Blues, Zimmerzine, and Open Wide Magazine, Thunder Sandwich, Nth Position, and Spitfire Poetics. He works in the mental health field and was born in Mexico. Email

Robert James Berry
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Simon Bestwick

Simon Bestwick, born 1974. lives and works in the Manchester area in the UK. About thirty or forty short stories have been punished in various small press magazines including NASTY PIECE OF WORK, SACKCLOTH AND ASHES and ENIGMATIC TALES. He has had one story nominated for the British Fantasy Award, another is being adapted into a comic strip, and he has had two honourable mentions in the 1998 YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR and four in the 1999 edition. More fiction is forthcoming in the anthologies BENEATH THE GROUND (edited by Joel Lane), DARKNESS RISING (edited by Len Maynard and Mick Sims) and in John Pelan's William Hope Hodgson tribute anthology, and in the magazine ALL HALLOWS. Various novels are making the rounds with agents/publisherrs. Email

Sharon Maria Bidwell

Sharon Maria Bidwell is a writer from the UK and her work - poems, articles, short stories and novels - have appeared in print and online publications.

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Brett Biebel

Brett Biebel will be graduating from the University of Minnesota with a Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies in May or 2010. He’s lived in the Midwest his whole life, spending time in both Minnesota and Wisconsin. He loves all things athletic, especially Major League Baseball and small college basketball. Favorite authors include Thomas Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut. This is his first formal publication. Email: Brett Biebel

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Russell Bittner

Russell Bittner lives in Brooklyn, New York. His poems have been published on paper by: The American Dissident; The Blind Man's Rainbow; The Lyric; The Barbaric Yawp; The International Journal of Erotica; Wicked Hollow; Æsthetica; CRITJournal; andThe Raintown Review - which nominated one of his poems for a Pushcart Prize in 2007. An additional poem will be published once again in The Lyric in late December, '08.
On-line, his poetry can be found at: Quintessence; ken*again; SpillwayReview; Erotica Readers and Writers; EdificeWrecked; GirlsWithInsurance; ThievesJargon; SalomeMagazine; LauraHird; MadHattersReview; 3A.M.; Dogmatika; Mindfire; ALongStoryShort; OpiumMagazine; SouthernHum; JustusRoux; DifferentVoices; VoidMagazine; PWReview; Zygote in my Coffee; ALittlePoetry; PlumBiscuit (a journal of the New York Writers Guild); TheCentrifugalEye; SlipTongue; 3rdActs; and The Linnet's Wings. In late December, '08, two poems will appear at Per Contra/"Currents. In 2009, one will appear at AscentAspirations (February) and three will appear at The Ranfurly Review (March).
On paper, he has published stories with The Edgar Literary Magazine; The International Journal of Erotica; Beyond Centauri; SwillMagazine; The Angler; and Sein und Werden. One of his stories was published by St. Martin's Press in May, '07 in an anthology titled Next Stop Hollywood: Short Stories Bound for the Screen.
In the dot.com world, his prose can be found at: Pindeldyboz; DeadMule; writeThis; Per Contra; VerbSap ; GirlsWithInsurance; SkiveMagazine; ThievesJargon; Quintessence; MannequinEnvy; UndergroundVoices; Hackwriters; 10,000 Monkeys; DeadDrunkDublin; ALongStoryShort; SouthernHum; SuffolkPunch; VoidMagazine; the Canadian Writers Collective; SlipTongue; The Angler; 3A.M.; and the uncommon Yankeepotroast.org. The story in Per Contra earned him a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2006. An additional piece will appear at RedPeter in Jan., '09.
His photography can be seen at a number of sites on the 'Net.
Russell completed a novel, Trompe-l'oeil, in 2004, the first chapter of which appeared on paper in Snow Monkey in Feb., '07. (The same first chapter will appear at The Rose & Thorn.com in Dec., '08.) He then completed a novella-length memoir, Girl from Baku/, in June, '05, the first six chapters of which currently reside at DeadDrunkDublin.com. The entire memoir was also serialized at Dogmatika.com (9/06 - 2/07). He is presently at work on two additional novels, Gigolo, Gigolina and My Cradle, My Crucible, as well as on a collection of short stories, The Dead Don't Bitch.
Email: Russell Bittner

Karen M. Black

Karen grew up in Collingwood, Ontario, fascinated by tales of the supernatural. She has a degree in Biology and English from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management. In the corporate world, she has been ghost writing benefits and pension communications since 1991. Personally, she enjoys writing sensuous tales with emotional impact and vicious little twists. When she’s not writing, you’ll find Karen having dim sum in Toronto’s Chinatown, cooking for friends, watching eclectic live music, or spending time at the cottage. She’s also completing a karmic astrology internship program with Creative Choices in Baltimore. Karen currently lives a walk away from corporate life, in downtown Toronto.

John Blackwood

John Blackwood, is a, British, ex-Civil Servant, ex-Architectural Draughtsman, Interior Designer, Graphic Designer and Furniture Maker, currently resident in South East Italy, as far down on the right hand side as you can go. Look for Lecce on the map. He moved back here in '98 after spells back in the UK, Czech Republic and Turkey. Prior to that there had been 11 years here in the 80s and early 90s and, back in the 70s, 6 years in Franco's Spain. How come? English Language teaching is the day job. Now. So from writing role plays, simulations, comprehensions texts and stories for classroom use, a bit of creative writing isn't a huge leap. Other short fiction is in the pipeline. The big one - a 500 page noir set in Southern Italy - is two chapters short of completion. Other interests include the obvious British ballsports - Football, Rugby and Cricket - Architecture and Heraldry. Eating out and travel are not interests; they are the sine qua non of life.

Via San Francesco d'Assisi, 40 I-73047

Monteroni di Lecce, Italy

C. L. Bledsoe

C. L. Bledsoe was born and raised on a catfish farm in eastern Arkansas, in the Mississippi River delta near the middle of the USA. He has poems, essays, articles and short stories published or forthcoming in over forty literary journals both online and in print, including Nimrod, Story South, DMQ Review, The Dead Mule, Hobart Pulp, Eyeshot, Euphony, Eratio, Cedar Hill Review, and My Favorite Bullet. He is entering the MFA creative writing program at Hollins University in Virginia this fall.

William “Bill” Blick

William “Bill” Blick, when he isn’t thwarting humanity’s demise, tries to be a writer from the mean streets of Bellerose, New York. He has an M.A in English Literature from Queens College and is pursuing a master’s degree in Library Science. He has published stories and essays in Everyday Weirdness, Mysterical-e, Inscribed: A Magazine for Writers, Clockwise Cat, The Pulp Pusher, Underground Voices, Revisions: A Queens College Zine on Writing, Scribal Tales, Alien Skin, Thrillers, Chillers, N’ Killers, Soul Fountain, Seven Seas Magazine, Straitjackets Magazine, and Bewildering Stories. He also writes film criticism and has published work in >Senses of Cinema. He has been invited to present academic papers on film at the Midwestern Conference for Popular Culture and the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Georgia on international film and film noir. Email: William Blick

Beth L. Block

Beth L. Block: In addition to Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Beth's work has appeared in Cautionarytale, Red Booth Review, Pemmican Press, Identity Theory (Editor's Choice), The Dogwood Journal, Doorknobs & Bodypaint, Long Story Short, Simply Haiku, Amarillo Bay, River Walk Journal, and is forthcoming in PEARL Magazine. Many of Beth's haikus are published in the anthology, Across The Long Bridge.

Jon Boilard

Jon Boilard's fiction has appeared in literary journals in the United States, Canada and Europe, and his story entitled "Before Dying" was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize as one of the best of 2002. Several of the others have won individual small press awards. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in The Baltimore Review, Barbaric Yawp, Beloit Fiction Journal, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Black Mountain Review, CrossConnect, The Dalhousie Review, Dirty Dishes, Event, First Class, Front & Centre, Hindsight, Ink, The Laurel Review, The MacGuffin, Parting Gifts, Puerto del Sol, Rattapallax, RE:AL, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The San Francisco State University Review, The Sulphur River Literary Review, Thought Magazine, Transfer, Whiskey Island Magazine and The Xavier Review.

Averil Bones

Dean Borok

Gerald Bosacker

Gerald Bosacker, Poet and tale teller lives in Arkansas, retired from the corporate world where he was miscast as Vice President of a large chemical company. He now does penance for his sins against the environment with his anti-war activism and poetry.
Bosacker Books
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Louis E. Bourgeois

John Bernard Bourne

Kristy Bowen

Kristy Bowen's work has appeared most recently in Moon Journal, Poetry Midwest, and Prairie Poetry. Her work is forthcoming in Mentress Moon, Half Drunk Muse, and Eclectica. After studying English and Theatre Arts at Rockford College, where she won the College Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets, she received an M.A. in English Literature from DePaul University in 1999. Her latest project is launching the on-line literary zine Wicked Alice. She also serves as contributing editor for "20th Century Women Authors" at Suite101.com. She currently lives in Chicago.

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Atomic Boy

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J. Boyer

Creative Writing Program,Department of English,Arizona State University,Tempe, Arizona 85287-0302,USA

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Melissa M. Bradley

Melissa M. Bradley will be 40 years old later this year. She heard the calling to work with older persons early on in her life and she answered that call. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Social Work with some graduate work in gerontology, art, and spirituality. She worked as a Medical Social Worker specializing in Gerontology for several years.

Becoming disabled five years ago due to multiple rare illnesses, she has had much time to reflect on many of her experiences and many unpleasant and unwanted circumstances. But, life, be that as it may, has rewarded her with some understanding, many truths and untruths, love and hate, and a bit of compassion. She tries to pass some of her wisdom on, as she was not offered these artifacts to keep them selfishly stowed away. Email: Melissa M. Bradley

Karen Bramblett

Karen Bramblett has written poetry for over 30 years and is eager to share it. She lives in California with her husband and three cats.

Erin K. Brandel

Erin K. Brandel has published in The Freehand Press, The Grinnell Review, and in Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine. In the summer of 2004, she received a fellowship to Norcroft, A Writing Retreat for Women.

Linda Breneman

Julie Briese:

Julie Briese: Poetry Wrapped In A Melody is a Celebration Of Arriving and Continuing to arrive as the Buddhists might say, the seeds of which have been planted and nurtured both consciously and unconsciously over time. Several years ago, while attending a Woman & Words Workshop in Nelson, B.C. , Jule was inspired by a young woman from one of the Gulf Islands who performed with an unique combination of poetry and guitar. Since that time, she has written songs for her workshops and poems that become songs when she chooses to celebrate life's gifts or to work through challenges life tosses her way.
Jule Briese, who now resides in Qualicum Beach, welcomes the challenge of performing, finding inspiration in the following quote from Marianne Williamson, "We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just some of us; it's everyone. And as we let our own light shine through, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Email: Julie Briese

David Bright

David Bright has published short stories in The Iconoclast, Artisan, Synapse, The Pegasus Review, The Rose & Thorn Literary E-Zine and others.

He has worked in journalism contributing to a variety of publications ranging from Computerworld to Woman's World. He lives in Onset, an old fashioned village near Cape Cod. He is the editor of Gemini, a fiction and poetry magazine to be introduced in September 2006.

Jeremy Brink

Jeremy Brink received his BFA in creative writing from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, in 1999. From there he served four years in the Navy as a cryptologist, collecting intelligence on a cruiser home-ported in Japan; worked briefly as an insurance adjuster in Santa Fe, New Mexico; got his teacher certification and substituted in three different states; then finally returned to school himself back in Ohio. He completed his BSN last May at Capital University, Ohio, and has returned to the Navy. He currently serves those who serve as a nurse on Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in California.

His superhero tale "Dreams of Flying" appeared in Tales of the Talisman in November of 2007, and his horror story "Lonely" was recently accepted by Cemetery Moon magazine. Email: Jeremy Brink

Arndt Britschgi

Arndt Britschgi: Born and raised in Finland, Arndt Britschgi spent the best part of his life in Madrid, Spain, and in 2006 completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Zürich, Switzerland - his book on Newcomb's Paradox/Free Will is available in English from Philosophia Verlag in Germany. Besides in Ascent Aspirations, writings of his have appeared in Literary Fragments, Kulttuurivihkot (Finnish), Southern Cross Review, the EOTU E-Zine, milk magazine, Slow Trains Literary Journal, The Modern Review, and Feathertale. Email: Arndt Britschgi

Alan Britt

Alan Britt teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University. His recent books are Vermilion (2006), Infinite Days (2003), Amnesia Tango (1998) and Bodies of Lightning (1995). Essays recently in Clay Palm Review and Arson. Interviews and poetry (selected) recently featured in Steaua (Romania), Latino Stuff Review and Poet’s Market 2000. Other poems (selected) in Agni, The Bitter Oleander, Christian Science Monitor, Cider Press Review, Cold Mountain Review, Confrontation, English Journal, Epoch, Fire (UK), Flint Hills Review, Fox Cry Review, Gradiva (Italy), Kansas Quarterly, The Kerf, Magyar Naplo (Hungary), Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Midwest Quarterly, New Letters, Pacific Review, Pedrada Zurda (Ecuador), Puerto del Sol, Queen’s Quarterly (Canada), Revista Solar (Mexico), Rosebud, Second Aeon (Wales), Sou’wester, Square Lake, Writers’ Journal, plus the anthologies, Fathers: Poems About Fathers (St. Martin’s Press: 1998), Weavings 2000: The Maryland Millennial Anthology (Forest Woods Media Productions, Inc., St. Mary’s College, MD), and La Adelfa Amarga: Seis Poetas Norteamericanos de Hoy (Ediciones El Santo Oficio, Peru, 2003). Recent readings: SUNY at Albany, NY, 2006; Hendrick Hudson Free Library, Montrose, NY, 2006; Towson University, Towson, MD, 2006; PCA/ACA Conference, Boston, 2007.

Alan received his Masters Degree from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He performs poetry workshops for the Maryland State Arts Council and occasionally publishes the international literary journal, Black Moon, from Reisterstown, Maryland, where he lives with his wife, daughter, two Bouviers des Flandres, and two formerly feral cats. Email: Alan Britt

Lisa Marie Brodsky

Lisa Marie Brodsky is an MFA Poetry student at University of Wisconsin-Madison and an intern at The University of Wisocnsin Press. She teaches undergraduate creative writing as well as children's creative writing. She has been published in "The North American Review," "Poetry Motel," "Atlanta Review," "Cadence," "Premiere Generation Ink," among others.

Charles Brooks III

Charles Brooks III is a poet and freelance writer living in Georgia USA. He was inducted i nto the National Creative Society his senior year at Shorter College where he also obtained a BS in History\Political Science with a minor in English Literature. Along with his creative endeavors, he also contributes articles to three magazines and a newspaper. His poetry has been published in over 40 magazines, 3 anthologies, and printed in five foreign countries. Charles Clifford is currently Poetry Editor for Literary Magic Magazine. Ghost Shadow Press picked up his first book of poetry Whirling Metaphysics to publish in 2009. Email: Charles Brooks III

George A Brooks

George A Brooks is a retired elementary school teacher. After retiring he and his wife Susan moved from the Niagara area of Ontario to northern Ontario where they have a four season home on Ahmic Lake. They enjoy the outdoors and are very involved in community in which they live. They are both elders at the local Presbyterian Church where George is often called on to read the scripture lessons and write plays for the Sunday school children to perform. George writes children’s stories, memoir and fictional stories. George and Susan have two adult children and two grand children .Travel, hiking and outdoor activities round out their lives.

In March of 2009 George placed first in a writing contest sponsored by the Arts Council of Muskoka called "Writing Out Loud". If you Google George Brooks and scan to Almaguin News "George Brooks Brings Tusker Alive" you will learn more about the author.One of his memoir stories is being published in January 2010 by Spiral Press in a collection called "Stories of Prayers and Faith". Email: George A Brooks

Susan Brooks

Susan Brooks is a retired nurse and lives with her writer husband on a beautiful water system in Ontario Canada. She edits her husband's writing and is an out going person socially and in the community. She is an avid sailor and dotes on her family especially the grandchildren. Email: Susan Brooks

Kenneth Brown

Kenneth Brown is 37 year old active duty soldier from Byron, GA, currently serving in Iraq. Email: Kenneth Brown

Randall Brown

Randall Brown teaches writing at Saint Joseph's University. He is a Pushcart nominee and holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College and a BA from Tufts University. His stories, poems, and essays have been published widely, with recent work appearing or forthcoming in Hunger Mountain, Connecticut Review, The Saint Ann's Review, Dalhousie Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Vestal Review, Cairn, King's English, and others. He has recently finished a collection of (very) short fiction, Mad To Live.

He has also had the pleasure of working closely with some amazing writers, including Douglas Glover, Abby Frucht, Nance Van Winckel, Terri-Brown Davidson, Ellen Lesser, and Pamela Painter. And he's a supporter of a number of literary journals, including Night Train, London Magazine, Zoetrope All-Story, Crazyhorse, and others. Email: Randall Brown

Randy Brown

Randy Brown: Twenty or so of his works have appeared or are forthcoming in several print and online journals, including Timber Creek Review, The Iconoclast, Word Riot, FRiGG, Hobart, and Ink Pot. Also, his writing has recently gained him admittance into Vermont College's Masters of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing program. Also he continues to work with seven-time Pushcart-nominated Terri Brown-Davidson.

Michael H. Brownstein

Michael H. Brownstein has been widely published throughout the small and literary presses. His work has appeared in The Cafe Review, Kings River Press, Skidrow Penthouse, Ariel, Oyez Review, River King Poetry, and others. He has been featured in a number of on-line journals including chicagepoetry.com, Milk, poetrysuperhighway.com, and Muse Apprentice Guild. In addition he has won a number of awards including the Ommation Press Best Chapbook Award and Triton College's International Poetry Prize. He published The Paper Bag and WYMBS Broadside, wrote for the Chicago Reader and other Chicago area newspapers, and has an educational column in the South Street Journal. In addition, he has a number of chapbooks published from 1988 through to 2004.

Murray Brozinsky

Murray Brozinsky's fiction and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals. Most recently he has published pieces in 3711 Atlantic, Aesthetica (forthcoming), Brink, Laughter Loaf, Opium Magazine, and Prose Toad. He has also written non-fiction for Wired Magazine and Business 2.0.

Patricia Brozinsky

Patricia Brozinsky ,Ph.D. a keen observer of human behavior has been a psychotherapist for seventeen years with a full-time private practice in East Patchogue, NY. She co-authored along with James A. Gibson, "Eat or Be Eaten: The Truth About Our Species, the Marriage of Darwin and Machiavelli," a book about human behavior. She taught psychology at the undergraduate level and co-lead workshops for Suffolk County Department of Mental Health, NY. The hyperlink to her website is Inventing Yourself The above article had its debut publication at: EzineArticles Email: Patricia Brozinsky

Shelton Bryant

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Scott Bryson

Scott Bryson is currently living and writing in Toronto, Canada.

Deborah Brown-Volkman

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Anne Brudevold

Anne Brudevold has taught at UMass Amnerst, SUNY Stony Brook and Westfield State College. She currently runs Eden Waters Press and is widely published. She lives in the Boston/Cambridge area.
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Rebecca Buchanan

Janet Buck

Janet Buck, Ph.D. is the author of four collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in CrossConnect, Zang Spur Review, Pif Magazine, The Dakota House Journal, The Melic Review, Stirring, Countless Horizons, Ascent, Tapestry, The Rose & Thorn, Avatar Review, pith, Perihelion, In Motion, OffCourse, and hundreds of journals world-wide. In the year 2000, Janet was of ten U.S. poets to be featured at the "One Heart, One World" Exhibit at the United Nations Exhibit Hall in New York City. Her poem "Acrylic Thighs" was translated into five languages and paired with original artwork. The tour traveled to France, Australia, Vietnam, Brazil, and Japan. In 2001-2002, Buck's poetry is scheduled to appear in PoetryBay, The Montserrat Review, Runes, The Pedestal Magazine, Concrete Wolf, The Carriage House Review, Swagazine, PoetryRepairShop, Slow Trains, Verse Libre Quarterly, Wicked Alice, Facets, Southern Ocean Review, Artemis, The American Muse, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly. Recent awards include The H.G. Wells Award for Literary Excellence, First Place in Kimera's Poetry Contest 2001, Editor's Choice Award for Sol Magazine, and the 2001 Kota Press Anthology Prize. In 2001, Janet's poem "The Teapoy" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Pedestal Magazine. Janet Buck is a three-time Pushcart Nominee and the author of four collections of poetry. Her work has recently appeared in Three Candles, Red River, Pierian Springs, Stirring, PoetryBay, Offcourse, Ascent, The American Muse, and hundreds of journals world-wide. In 2002-2003 Buck's poetry is scheduled to appear in Zuzu's Petals Quarterly, Mississippi Review, Gin Bender, Artemis, The Montserrat Review, Recursive Angel, The Foliate Oak, Southern Ocean Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Coelacanth, Cordite, CrossConnect, and The Oklahoma Review.

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April Bulmer

April Bulmer's latest books are Black Blooms and The Goddess Psalms (Serengeti Press.) She also released a chapbook called Life Lines in January (Poetry and Good Cheer Press). April's education is in the area of creative writing and women and religion. She writes about spiritual issues. She lives in Cambridge, Ontario.
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J. Alan Burdick

J. Alan Burdick was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on Oct 24, 1934. He received his BA from James Millikin University(chemistry and math), MA from Brooklyn College (psychology), and his Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba (psychology). He is married to Elaine Louise, and has two sons: Dakin, and Mathew. He has published over 50 articles in refereed journals, mostly in the field of psychophysiology. Burdick was drafted and served as a PFC (Cryptology). He has received grants from the U. S. Public Health Service, and the Medical Research Council of Canada. Jim has lived in the US, Turkey, Canada, England, and Saudi Arabia, and traveled extensively. Presently he is retired and lives with his wife in a log cabin on a lake in rural Kentucky. Dr. Burdick is listed in: Who's Who in the Midwest (1981), Who's Who in the East (1982) , Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology (1983), Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals (1985), Who's Who in the Behavioral Sciences(1985), and has been and still is a reviewer for Psychiatric Services (Hospital and Community Psychiatry ,(American Psychiatric Assoc.). He has been licensed as a psychologist, social worker, and NCADC, and is a Fellow and Diplomat of the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists.

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