Jan Steckel is a retired physician, a bisexual and disability rights activist, and a poet and writer. Her Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press, 2009) won the Gertrude Press fiction chapbook award. Her chapbook The Underwater Hospital(Zeitgeist Press, 2006) won a Rainbow Award for lesbian and bisexual poetry. Her writing has appeared in Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her first full-length poetry collection, The Horizontal Poet, is forthcoming from Zeitgeist Press. Find out more at www.jansteckel.com.
Emeniano Acain Somoza, Jr. works as a Communications Officer at a steel manufacturing multinational in the Middle East. He considers himself the official spiritual advisor of his roommates, Gordot and Dwight — the first a goldfish, the other a Turkish Van cat. His works have been published in Triggerfish Critical Review, Troubadors 21, Gloom Cupboard, TAYO, Haggard & Halloo, and elsewhere. His first book, A Fistful of Moonbeams, was published by Kilmog Press in April 2010.
Thomas Hoad resides in Ontario, Canada. He has had his work in two Brock student anthologies, the late Inscribed ~ A Magazine for Writers, Ditch Poetry, and he has donated a poem to Little Episodes. He has self-published one chapbook in 2010 titled “I Wasn’t Listening,” and is currently working on several projects.
Stacey Madden is a reclusive writer from Toronto, Canada. His writing has appeared in numerous literary journals, as well as The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper. He is primarily a fiction writer, but will dabble in poetry when he’s depressed or insane.
Joseph M. Gant is a scientific glassblower by trade and education His work has appeared modestly in small press and academic journals. Joseph is Poetry Editor for S A M Publishing, and he recently authored a full-length collection of poetry, Zero Division, which is published through Rebel Satori Press He maintains a sad excuse for a blog here: http://josephmgant.blogspot.com/
Marc Vincenz was born in Hong Kong to Swiss-British parents during the height of the Cultural Revolution. He currently lives in Iceland where he works as a freelance journalist, poet, translator and literary critic. He is Poetry and Non-Fiction Editor for the international webzine Mad Hatters’ Review, Managing Editor of MadHat Press, and is a member of the editorial board of Open Letters Monthly.
Recent poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Spillway, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poets & Artists, Nth Position, FRiGG, MiPOesias, elimae and Inertia. A chapbook, Upholding Half the Sky, was published by GOSS183: Casa Menendez (2010), USA. A new e-chap, The Propaganda Factory, is forthcoming from Argotist ebooks later this year.
Mbizo Chirasha born in Zvishavane district [1978] ,is an internationally acclaimed performance poet, writer, and creative projects facilitator and live literature producer. He was the poet-in-residence: from 2001-2004 for the Iranian embassy/UN dialogue
among civilizations project; the United Nations Information Center – 2001-2008; In 2003 Mbizo was the New Generation Poetry Delegate at The Gothenburg International Book Fair, Nordic African Institute Writers Seminar, Swedish Writers Union reading night in Sweden. He was an artist in resident in the Atelier Alexandra Art School in Egypt 2006.
He was the Convener/Event Consultant THIS IS AFRICA POETRY NIGHT 2004
– 2006; official performance poet Zimbabwe International Travel Expo in 2007, He is a regular guest performing poet at the Zimbabwe international Book Fair, Harare International festival of the Arts, Zimbabwe German Society various programs.
