GINA ABELKOP lives in San Francisco, where she co-edits the semi-quarterly feminist literary and arts journal Finery and swoons over the Pacific. CHRISTINA BLACK RYAN BREWER KIRKLAND CICCONE writes for many websites and fanzines and is currently recording his album and EP which will be released later this year. To become friends with Kirkland you can either A) come and see him live in Scotland (because the chances of him coming to see you in America isn't likely!) or B) visit him at him at the following online hiding places: www.kirklandciccone.co.uk and www.myspace.com/kirklandciccone. BROOKLYN COPELAND was born in Indianapolis in 1984. She co-edits a print-based poetry journal called Taiga, the first issue of which will be available for purchase in Summer '08. She hopes to see Greenland, Johnny Depp, and a real ghost for herself before she dies. ROBERT PERRY IVEY's work has appeared magically in the GSU Review, The Country Mouse and Lumina. He was awarded the 2007 John B. Santoianni prize for poetry by the Academy of American Poets and has obtained a MA in English Literature and a MFA in Creative Writing. CORTNEY PHILIP recently received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, but her cats still don't give her any respect. She aspires to make a living as a cribbage hustler and fairy tale writer. She has also appeared in Feathertale. Ripped up socks, stains on her shirt, weared off lipstick, broken nails, skates with missing wheels, hair cut-off, color gone, she's come home like that after hard nights of poeting. Otherwise, RENA PRIEST simply aspires to glory -- as the world's most famous housewife. JESSY RANDALLJessy Randall's poetry fame began in third grade when two words from her poem about salt, "crystal news," were used as the title of the elementary school literary magazine that year. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Asimov's, Many Mountains Moving, McSweeney's and Rattle, and her website is located here. PETER SCHWARTZ is an abstract painter who has dedicated his life to perfecting his art. In addition to having his work featured on over 80 websites, his paintings have appeared in such print journals as Existere, Orange Coast Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Reed and International Poetry Review. His most recent exhibition was at the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in NYC. He is an art editor for both Mad Hatters' Review and Dogzplot. His work can be seen directly here. At the age of three, MIKE STUTZMAN kicked Nobel Laureate and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger squarely in the behind. In middle school, Mike appeared on the last episode of a gameshow that was later satirized in the film Magnolia, spending his winnings on a pair of purple Reebok Pump high-tops. He grows a moustache, smokes a pipe, and lives in New York, all in order to comply with the Poet Stereotypes Act of 1912. Mike is always glad to do the female role for the classic Positive K talkback song, "I Got a Man," when it comes on the car radio. |