Dawn Colclasure is an author, freelance writer, poet and book reviewer  Her books include the horror novel, November's Child, as well as two poetry chapbooks, Take My Hand and Topiary Dreams. Much of her work on the Internet under the pen name Dana Mitchells. Her website is at Dawn Colclasure.

John Keil Alexander  had a few stories published in the mid 1990's but allowed his my alter ego to steer things the next several years into the realm of music journalism. Recently John has taken back the reins into speculative fiction, and is loving it. John currently has work on-line in The Cliched Cliche, and the Raging Horrormones erotic horror anthology. 

Ann K. Schwader's first collection of dark fiction, Strange Stars & Alien Shadows, was published in December 2003 by Lindisfarne Press.  Her 2003 poetry chapbook, Architectures of Night, is still available from Dark Regions Press.  Check out her web site at Ann K. Schwader.

Marge Ballif Simon teaches art in Florida and free lances as a writer-poet-illustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as Nebula Awards 32, Strange Horizons,  Extremes, The Urbanite, Tomorrow Magazine of Speculative Fiction, Space & Time, Dreams & Nightmares,  Dark Regions, Fantasy Magazine, Speculon, EOTU, Tales of the Unanticipated, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, and the anthologies, High Fantastic and Nebula Anthology 32. She is former president of the SF Poetry Association, edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, "Blood & Spades: Poets of the Dark Side," is HWA Membership Chairman. 
     Marge will be listed in the Marquis Who's Who 2003. Her newest collection, "Artist of Antithesis" is to be published  2003. Her poetry collections include "Eonian Variations", Dark Regions Press, 1995  "Night Smoke", Miniature Sun Press, 2002 and "Artist of Antithesis", Miniature Sun Press, 2003. View more of her works or contact her for assignments at Margaret Ballif Simon.. She is the illustrator for the Bram Stoker winning EXTREMES 2 CD-ROM collection:  and illustrated this year's Best Poetry Collection, "Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes" by Linda Addison. In addition to her solo work, Marge also collaborates with her husband, writer-poet Bruce Boston.  Their poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Dark Regions, Talebones, Dreams & Nightmares, Star*Line, and Fantasy Commentator. 

Bruce Boston is the author of 30 books and chapbooks, including the novel "Stained Glass Rain" and "best of" fiction collection "Masque of Dreams " (Wildside, 2001). His stories and poems have appeared in hundreds of publications, including Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, The Twilight Zone, Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, and five Nebula Awards anthologies. His fiction has received a Pushcart Prize and won the Best of Soft Sf Award. His poetry has received many awards, including the  Asimov  Readers Award, the Aboriginal SF Boomerang Award, and a record seven Rhysling Awards. In 1999 the Science Fiction Poetry Association honored him with the only Grand Master Award in its 22-year history. Some of his fiction is available at Fictionwise. His webpage is at Bruce Boston.

Robert Walton  has taught at San Lorenzo Middle School for thirty-four years.  He and his wife Phyllis have been married for thirty-two years. They have two sons ( Jeremy, 26, and Jon, 21) and make their home in King City, California.  Robert is a life-long rock-climber and mountaineer.  He’s made numerous ascents in the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite.  His writing about climbing has been published in the Sierra Club's Ascent, in "High" magazine, and in "The Climbing Art".  Three of his books for children have been published.
Joel In Tananar, from Padre Productions,The Dragon and the Lemon Tree from  Pisces Press, and Flower Tumbles from  Bear Flag Books.

Kenny Klein is a poet, musician, and photographer/graphics artist. He can play at your renaissance festival, design your website, and write something catchy to say about your choice of fashion. His site is Kenny Klein Design.

Kelley White    "After time in my home state, New Hampshire I am making the difficult to return to inner city Philadelphia where I have spent nearly 25 years practicing pediatrics with urban poor families.  During those years I have become a Quaker and the single mother of  three remarkable mixed-race children (my former
in-laws were from Shanghai).  I write to survive and have met with surprising  success in my attempts at publication, most recently winning The Cynic Prize from the local Cynic Press for my chapbook manuscript Rule of Thumb which deals largely with domestic violence. I  have just received the proofs for Late, my second collection from The People’s Press in Baltimore.  I have also learned that my chapbook manuscript Against Medical Advice will be published by Pudding House Publications. I received  a Pushcart nomination in 2000, my first year of submission, and again in 2002 and 2003.  I’m amazed by all this (and must thank my postal carrier for all the mail she carries to and from my box.)."

Ken Rehill    "After twenty-five years in counseling in Kingman, Arizona, I jumped at a chance to serve here, in Alaska's northern interior.  As program administrator for the Council of the Athabascan Tribal Government's Yukon Flats Care Center, I am responsible for providing behavioral health services to ten remote villages, reachable only by air.  I hadn't previously written for publication, but I can't NOT write about what I'm experiencing here.  I began submitting at the end of April and, so far, 30 poems have been accepted by Mobius, Poetic Voices, Poetry Motel, Soul Fountain and other publications."

Claudio Parentela

Phlip Arima  is a Toronto-based performance poet. His poetry videos have been aired national on television and some radio stations will occasionally play some of his CD -- The Inside Edge. He is currently working on his third book of poetry. Samples from his previous books are available at Phlip Arima.

Julie Shiel has had work appear in various magazines and anthologies including Brutarian, Flesh & Blood, Aoife's Kiss,
Champagne Shivers and many others. Her first poetry
collection, Disturbed, is available through
Project Pulp or through Shocklines. 

Jerry Williams

Fariel Shafee is a PhD candidate at the physics department of Princeton University. She was born in a family of mixed cultural heritage and spent her childhood at places as diverse as South Asia and Europe. Through this experience Fariel was able to appreciate how people with differences in their opinions and ideologies can create uniquely beautiful cultures, yet remain tied with the basic values of humanity. For more of her work visit Charmquark's Art World.

The short stories of Louisa Howerow have appeared in print and on-line journals, such as: Cafe Irreal, E2K, The Danforth, Review, the Drexel Online Journal, Room of One's Own and The Antigonish Review.

The work of Sandy Deluca is scattered throughout the universe. It has appeared  in a variety of places, including on-line and in print.  Her e-book, "Paths of Destiny" is  coming out from Double Dragon Publishing sometime over the summer. It's a poetry and short story collection. Also, her novel "Settling In Nazareth", with her own cover art, will be released through December Girl Press shortly.  Her poetry chapbook, "A BURIAL PLOT IN SAGITTARIUS" is available from THIEVIN  KITTY PUBLICATIONS and  received several recommendations for the BRAM STOKER FOR POETRY AWARD. Other than that Sandy says she's  been painting up a storm and working on another novel. More of Sandy's work can be seen at Sandy DeLuca.

Gregory Adams lives and writes in Boston, Massachusetts. He goes forth from his tomb only when night has fallen over the city like a shroud.

Teri Santitoro, aka 7ARS, is an artist/writer living in NE Pennsylvania, and has been published both online and in print. 7ARS is co-editor of Sam's Dot Publishing's poetry magazine, Scifaikuest.

Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy as a freelance translator and web designer. She also edits the Italian Niederngasse.  Her poetry has recently appeared in VLQ, Dark Moon Rising, Tattoo Highway, Adirondack Review, Cordite and 2River View.
 

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