Andrea Brown is a New York based artist whose work has been exhibited in New York and Boston galleries. Ms. Brown creates multidimensional woven paintings by fusing disparate mediums such as yarn, electrical wire, plastics, and fabric which are then covered with acrylic paint. The paintings are a result of weaving real and dream life images, memory and projection, and the people and events that inform the day-to-day existence of Andrea Brown. The paintings have an emotional quality akin to aboriginal dreamings, Indian mandalas, or Haitian veves. And like these other folk art objects, Ms. Brown's work ultimately defies any specific personal relationship to the artist and floats out of her studio to rest in the heart and psyche of the viewer as conjure and future memory. Andrea Brown's work will be part of "RISD on the Road"(Rhode Island School of Design Alumni show/2000). One of her pieces can be seen on the flyer for the nationally touring exhibit.
Lisa Marie Cole <junglegirl@freepcmail.com> is a practicing poet.
Kay Dinnall is an African-American woman who grew up in New England. Now she teaches at a small prep school in the Boston area. She welcomes email comments at dinnally@aol.com.
Jimmy Gleacher is twenty-nine years old and lives in
Boulder, Colorado. His work has been
published in The Sun magazine, the Lullwater Review,
Damaged Goods, and will appear in an upcoming issue of 2wice
magazine (May 2000). In 1997 he received honorable mention in
the Richard DuPrey Awards for poetry. In 1998 he won the Jack
Kerouac Award for fiction. His first book, Roll Again
is being serialized at Savoy (www.savoymag.net) starting
in March 2000. He is currently working for PeerCare, an Internet
community of support groups for those affected by an illness or
disease. You may visit his web-page: http://carolinanavy.com/navy/creativewriting/clipper/gleacher/index.html
Taylor Graham <piper@innercite.com> is a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler in the Sierra, Nevada. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in America, The Iowa Review, New York Quarterly, Poetry International, 1997 Anthology of Magazine Verse and, online, Aabye's Baby, King Log, Melic Review, Pif, Zuzu's Petals and elsewhere.
Maryann Hazen <Faerhart@yahoo.com> is a Poet, mom, wife and Medical Transcriptionist living in NYS. Poetry is a life-long passion. Her poetry has been published internationally in hundreds of magazines and books, in electronic and hard copy format. She has also received several awards and contests.
Shea Ramone Justice was born on August 28, 1970. After graduating from English High school , he attended Boston University where he got his Bachelors degree in Art Education. Along with teaching all grade levels, he also illustrates professionally for the Boston People's Voice newspaper. Since 1989, Shea has also been a member of The National Conference of Christians and Jews doing volunteer work to help the homeless and disadvantaged youth. He has also exhibited work in Roxbury and other parts of Boston as a continuing member of the Afro American Artist Association. He counts Romare Bearden , Andy Warhol and Paul Goodnight as some of his influences.
Ward Kelley <Ward708@aol.com> is 48 years old and the Asst. Vice President of Logistics for a national hardware wholesaler. He and his wife now live outside of Indianapolis and have adopted four daughters, and currently foster several others. His work has appeared in several journals, including Sunstone, Potpourri, Skylark, Porcupine Literary Magazine; and the Ezines Pif, Ariga Oblique and Offcourse. He has been nominated for the 1999 Pushcart. He was selected as the Featured Poet by the Canadian Ezine Pyrowords.
Jay Liveson <jlivesonmd@pol.net>, a Neurologist, has been writing poetry since 1991. He has published four books of poetry. To Slay the Dragon, To Skim the Smoke, and Hanging On were published by the Mellen Poetry Press. His poems, in both English and Hebrew, have appeared in many poetry and medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Mediphors, Judaism, Atlanta Review, Parnassus Literary Journal, Hollins Critic, Plainsongs, The Lyric, The Pegasus Review, and Riverrun. He specializes in Clinical Neurophysiology, and heads the EMG laboratory at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. The author of several textbooks in the field, he was awarded the first Visiting Professorship in Neurology by Tel Aviv University, where he has been teaching since the Gulf War. He lives in Riverdale with his wife, Jaine, and children, Alana and Jared.
Duane Locke <duanelocke@netzero.net>, Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance Literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Poet-in-Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years, publisher of over 2,000 poems in print magazines such as American Poetry Review, Nation, Literary Quarterly, Black Moon and Bitter Oleander, author of 14 books of poems, the latest being Watching Wisteria (To order see www.vidapublishing.com or call Small Press Distribution, 1-800-869-7553), photographer, listed in PSA's WHO'S WHO as top twenty nature photographers, painter now having one man show of over 30 paintings at Pyramid Gallery in Tampa, now lives alone and isolated in the sunny Tampa slums. He lives, estranged, as an alien, not understanding the customs, the costumes, or the language, some form of postmodern English of his surroundings. His recreational activities are listening to old operas and reading postmodern philosophy.
Luling Osofsky is a practicing poet.
Laurence Overmire <larryover@worldnet.att.net>
is an actor/director/writer who has worked on stage,
film and television. His poetry has been or will be published
in Kimera, The Penwood Review, Nuthouse, Lynx Eye, Emotions,
Angelflesh, Maelstrom, The Laire, Uprising, Office Number One,
Superior Poetry News, Main Street Rag Poetry Journal, Children,
Churches and Daddies, The Gentle Survivalist, Short North Gazette,Nomad's
Choir,Improvijazzation Nation,The Writer's Exchange,Over the Back
Fence Magazine, Niederngasse, Apples and Oranges, Pegasus, Blind
Man's Rainbow, Wings, L'Intrigue, Mobius, Footprints, Vol. No.
Magazine, Some Words, Shadyvale Magazine, Transcendant Visions,
Art Villa, Bonfire, Ygdrasil, Aileron, Barbaric Yawp, Webstatic,
Seeker Magazine, Ixion, Unlikely Stories, Horsethief's Journal
and others.