Casey Holman is blunt, inappropriate, and almost twenty. Her work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Verdad, MediaVirus, Cannoli Pie, and Rougarou.
Although Ed Tato shares his birthday with blues singer Joanna Carter and radio station KPMC (Bakersfield), he can neither sing nor play a musical instrument. Baseball player Mutt Wilson died that day, a role model to those putting craft above fame, much like Ed’s Uncle Fred, a man never confused with “Uncle Fred” Scott, host of Felix The Cat and Friends, whose last broadcast was that same curious day.
Ed’s been in mourning ever since.
Jason L. Huskey was recently a multitasking office tech from central Virginia. His work has appeared in a few dozen journals, including decomP, Gutter Eloquence Magazine, Keyhole Magazine, and Plain Spoke. His work has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Links to his work can be found @ http://jasonlhuskey.wordpress.com He is currently working on his first chapbook.
Ken Poyner has published during the last forty years perhaps three hundred poems in sixty or so venues, with his latest chapbook being Sciences, Social. He also is doing a bit of short fiction these days. Most recently, he has appeared in Eclectica, Blue Unicorn, Poet Lore, Frigg, Blue Collar Review, Adirondack Review, Medulla Review, Dogzplot and elsewhere. He lives with his world class power lifter wife and a collection of rescue cats in the bottom far right hand stretch of Virginia.
Kit Kennedy co-authored Inconvenience with Susan Gangel (Littoral Press, Berkeley). While Eating Oysters is published by CLWN WR Press, Brooklyn. Poems have appeared in Ambush Review, CLWN WR, hell strung and crooked (Uphook Press), Runes, you say.say (Uphook Press), Van Gogh’s Ear, among other. She lives in San Francisco.
Sweta Srivastava Vikram (www.swetavikram.com) is a Pushcart nominated-poet, novelist, author, essayist, columnist, and blogger whose musings have translated into four chapbooks of poetry, two collaborative collections of poetry, and a fiction novel (upcoming in April 2011). Her scribbles have also appeared in several anthologies, literary journals, and online publications. She was short-listed for Unisun Poetry Prize and offered part scholarship by VONA. A graduate of Columbia University, she lives and writes in New York City and reads her work across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Sweta also teaches creative writing workshops. Follow her: On Twitter (@ssvik) or Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Words.By.Sweta)
Marc Swan lives on Munjoy Hill in Portland Maine. His work has been published in Exquisite Corpse, Rattle, Pearl, Slipstream, and Westerly, among others. Simple Distraction, a collection of his poems from 1989 to 2009, was published in fall 2009 by tall-lighthouse in London England
Clinton Van Inman is a high school teacher in Hillsborough County , Florida . He is 65 and a graduate of San Diego State University . He was born in England . Clinton has had many publications throughout the years. Recent publications are Blackcatpoem.com, Tower Journal, The Hudson View, Winter 2011, Inquisition Poetry, and Munyari.com to name a few. These poems are included in future book called, “The Last Beat,” as he believes we Beatniks are a dying breed.
Philip Tinkler was born in the bucolic north of England. He has been published in places such as the Mad Hatters’ Review, Red Fez, Word Riot, The Dream People, The Southern Comfort Charity Anthology, and ChiZine. He lives in NYC with his words and woman. More of his ramblings can be found at philiptinkler.com
