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Contributors
Bam-Bam can best be described as a wondrous yet coherent child’s mind, trapped
in the body of a well aged and experienced old grump. Together in their long standing
congenital union, one is always trying to teach the other something pretty special.
Steve Calamars lives in San Antonio, TX. He has a B.A. in Philosophy and works in a grocery store. His first poetry chapbook, American Violence, will be released April 2010 from New Polish Beat. He blogs at http://dirtywordsoncleanliving.blogspot.com/
Jessie Carty’s writing has appeared in publications such as The Main Street Rag, Iodine Poetry Journal and The Houston Literary Review. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks At the A & P Meridiem (Pudding House, 2009) and The Wait of Atom (Folded Word, 2009). You can find her around the web but most often she is blogging about everything from housework to the act of blogging itself at http://jessiecarty.com
John G. Hartness is a recovering theatre geek who likes loud music, fried pickles and cold beer. He’s been published or accepted online in several journals including The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, cc&d, Deuce Coupe and Truckin’. He can be found online at http://www.johnhartness.com and spends too much time on Twitter, especially after a few beers.
Peycho Kanev’s work has been published in Welter, The Catalonian Review, The Arava Review, 322 Review, Nerve Cowboy, Chiron Review, Tonopah Review, Mad Swirl, Southern Ocean Review, The Houston Literary Review and many others. He is nominated for Pushcart Award and lives in Chicago. His new collaborative collection “r“, containing poetry by him and Felino Soriano, as well as photography from Duane Locke and Edward Wells II is now available at Amazon.com
M. LaVigne lives in Nashville. He keeps his M.F.A. in a Crown Royal Box buried at the back of a closet. He doesn’t drink Crown Royal.
Chris O’Neill is a graduate of Winthrop University. As an actor, he has been seen in Corpus Christi (OTTC), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (VicPix). Most recently Chris appeared at the Create Carolina Festival with Daphne Reid and Lee Thompson Young. Chris has directed Lone Star and Ines De Castro at Winthrop University, Playing with Fire and Hamletmachine at The Off Tryon Theatre Company, A Few Things You need to Know Before The World Ends (A Final evening with The Illuminatti) and Kiss of The Spider Woman at C.A.S.T. and Taming of The Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Othello and now Richard III for Shakespeare Carolina. Chris is the Founding Artistic Director of The Opera House Stage Company, Monticello, FL, and was a founding member of The South Carolina Repertory Company and Mad Moon Stage both on Hilton Head Island.
Author of 5 collections of poetry, Scott Owens is editor of Wild Goose Poetry Review, author of “Musings” (a weekly column on poetry), founder of Poetry Hickory, Vice President of the Poetry Council of North Carolina, and a writer of reviews of contemporary poetry. His work has received awards from the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Academy of American Poets, the NC Writers’ Network, the NC Poetry Society, and the Poetry Society of SC. Born in Greenwood, SC, he has lived in NC for the past 25 years and currently teaches at Catawba Valley Community College.
Chesley Oxendine is a 21 year old actor, writer, and director (or so he likes to call himself) living in Huntersville, NC. A Charlotte native, he’s a big fan of writing poetry, plays, and short stories. You can usually find him holed up in his lair or at Jackalope Jack’s on 7th street, attempting to sing karaoke (we place special emphasis on the word “attempt.”) You can find most of his work at rainydaysmile.deviantart.com, or read his personal blog at chez-dispenser.blogspot.com.
Charles Stillman is a physician, decorated combat veteran and all around nice guy. He’s also REALLY bad at poker.
Amy Wilson lives in Shawnee, Oklahoma with three rescue dogs and Charlie (not a dog a human man). She holds a MFA in poetry from Columbia University and in her spare time enjoys watching competitive bass fishing and catfish noodling contests in and around the Pott County, OK area. She earns a living as a professor at a state college in Oklahoma.
Christopher Woods is a writer, photographer and teacher. He lives in Houston and in Chappell Hill, Texas. His work has appeared recently in GLASGOW REVIEW, LITCHFIELD REVIEW and NARRATIVE MAGAZINE. His books include a prose collection, UNDER A RIVERBED SKY, and a book of stage monologues for actors, HEART SPEAK. He shares an online gallery with his wife Linda at MOONBIRD HILL ARTS – www.moonbirdhill.exposuremanager.com/