The Absinthe Literary Review, writers, poets, and editors
C O N T R I B U T O R S ’   N O T E S
  
Autumn  1999

Bob Arter

Bob Arter is a novice writer living in Southern California and awaiting surgery. A man in NYC still owes him $5000, but that man, Bob is certain, must eventually deal with the Beast. Bob’s training is in computer science; that “D” in Shakespeare was merely a misunderstanding, though ethyl alcohol may have indeed been a factor.

Suzanne Burns

Suzanne Burns is currently working on her first poetry manuscript, “Impolite Flowers,” which will debut from Cadmus Editions of Santa Monica, California in Spring/Summer 2000.

Chara Curtis

Chara Curtis is an award-winning author of picture books, short stories and essays. With a novel in progress, she’s also writing and co-writing screenplays. Her desk overlooks Deception Pass, near Anacortes, Washington.

Vanessa Dodge

Vanessa Dodge has been published in The Blue Moon Review, Glamour, The Atlanta Journal, Styloid Process, and The Shaky Table; and her one-woman plays have been produced in Boulder and Atlanta. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is at work on her first novel “A Companion for the Creatively Blocked.”

Shann Palmer

Shann Palmer teaches writing & music in a private prep school, she has been published on the web and in hard copy zines, she has served as Assistant Editor of poetry at The Melic Review and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of La Petite Zine. Her jazz/poetry combo, VILLANELLE, performs readings at bookstores and clubs.

George Samson

George Samson, currently, is an unknown poet. He is concerned with whether or not we can ever know another person, or whether another person can ever know us. He is a member of the Tampa Group that centers around Duane Locke.

Anthony Neil Smith

Anthony Neil Smith is from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He is a fiction editor with Mississippi Review Web, and editor of the online journal Product. Also, he takes half credit and blame for the internet hardboiled crime writing journal Plots With Guns. Another story is forthcoming from Blue Murder.

Francis Till

Francis Till is an American living in New Zealand, recently married to a Kiwi he met last year on the WWW while he was living on the Pacific coast in Washington state. Graduate of the University of Colorado, with post-graduate work at the Universidad de la Mexico (Vera Cruz - Jalapa) and Notre Dame. Grew up in Europe and on the eastern seaboard, lived almost everywhere else. Website: http://homestead.com/inprogress.

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