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. Bobs 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, shes 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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