Khadijah Ali-Coleman
Khadijah Ali-Coleman is a freelance writer from the Washington DC area. Her poetry has appeared in several online poetry sites. In 2001 her poem “Seeds of the Middle Passage” was featured in the anthology “Friends I’ve Never Met”, edited by Vanessa Harfield. . Her play “Shades of Black: a thought in progress” opened in Feb. 2008 in Baltimore, MD. Her poetry most recently has begun to revolve around her experiences a mother of an inquisitive pre-schooler.
Nick Allen
Nick is from England and gets cold easily. For the past two years has been writing short stories and entering them into competitions. He has never won, and has no reason to believe this situation will change. He keep trying though…
Jennifer Anthony
Jennifer received her MFA in Writing for Children from Spalding University, and her MA in Psychology from San Jose State University. Her short story series, Tonics, appears in the spring/summer/fall/winter 2007 issues of The First Line, and she was among the top ten winners in Per Contra Magazine’s 2007 short story contest. As a travel writer, she is a frequent contributor to Matador Travel, Pology, TangoDiva and IntraTravel. When not writing or working at a not-for-profit education policy firm, she divides her time between travel, reading, and volunteering for Big Brothers and Big Sisters and Hands On.
Rob Azevedo
Rob Azevedo lives in Manchester, NH and has written for a slew of publications, including The Boston Globe, Details and King magazine. He is also a contributor to a new book about Bruce Springsteen called “For You” and penned the small indie film “Heavy Seven” which begins filming this winter in Boston.
Stefanie Bassos
I’m 24. I graduated with a Magazine Journalism major two years ago from Columbia College. I interned at Paste Magazine in Decatur, Georgia. Last summer i impulsively moved to a Greek Island while running away from my problems. It was there, the island of Sifnos, that i started writing again. This piece is my first fiction piece ever. It was all
true up until, well, the cutting.
Bard
Bard, a photographer and graphic designer whose self-taught techniques seep into all aspects of her artwork, has exhibited work in galleries throughout Southern California. Her collections of pop art and photography showcase her eye for dramatic design and her infatuation with the playful spirit. She experiments with an array of digital and photographic techniques using resources ranging from complex digital processes and computer creations to the deceptively simple toy cameras known as Holgas. Living and traveling nomadically into her 20s, Holbrook’s primary muse these days is the unusual topography and diverse people of her newfound home in Southern California. More of her work can be found online at www.BardsArt.com and for sale on www.SwellThings.com
bard@flaskandpen.com
Jackie Bernardo
Jackie Bernardo is a Journalism major and lives in California.
Lillian L. Biagas
I am a native San Francisco resident. I have been writing poetry since 1999. My poems are in the 4 different coffee table anthology of poetry books, I have 2 adult children a wonderful angel for a mother who now has alzhiemers. Poetry is a gift to be shared with other’s to uplift,attain peace,also to show love.
Miss Binky
I don’t really have a bio, I’m a fictional character myself, (no human in their right mind would do the things I suggest…but I actually have!). I do happen to have a picture of myself. I was doodled in a fugue state one night by an artist named Carol Niotta and from there, I took on a life of my own and joined the Church of the SubGenius, where I post regularly on their news group: alt.slack. I have been called “The Erma Bombeck of the Counterculture” by some clever guy in there who likes to read my stuff.
I have never actually gotten paid for my writing and while I hate breaking a winning streak, I wouldn’t mind if you threw me a couple bucks now and then to keep me in cigarettes and Jack Daniel’s, if you were so inclined.
J. Blanco
Leon Blanda
Leon Blanda is a criminal mastermind born from the sinew of murderers and thieves. No. Wait. Wrong Leon Blanda. Ahem…Leon Blanda was born in New Orleans, Louisiana twenty-seven years ago. For most of his life he was a musician. Tired of playing “indie” rock to adoring crowds (including, but not limited to, bartenders and band-girlfriends), he has since decided to document his misery in literary form. This has not proven to be a fiscally viable option either. But, he continues getting drunk, scribbling thoughts down, and hoping that someone somewhere will find it as amusing now as he does in retrospect. He is not, nor has he ever been, a criminal mastermind.
Evelyn Block
Evelyn Block is a published author and freelance writer. She is a relocated New Yorker who has fallen in love with the city of Los Angeles. In addition to writing she enjoys traveling and reading. She can be reached at Sendblock@aol.com
Diane Boisvert
I can write only poetry, so this little bio of mine
must have meter and rhyme. I developed a
bit of wit as overcompensation for my lack of it.
This morphed in my brain to some sort of
strained poetic ability.
Linda Boroff
Linda Boroff graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a major in English. She has published her short stories in literary journals including Epoch (Cornell University), Prism International (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Cimarron Review, Hobart, Eyeshot, Storyglossia, Ducts, Outsider Ink, Word Riot, The Summerset Review, In Posse Review, Stirring, The Pedestal Magazine, Pulse, Artisan, Riverwalk Journal, Stickman Review, The Linnet’s Wing, and others. Her writing honors include a 2006 fellowship to the St. Petersburg, Russia SLS writing seminar, first prize in The Writers Place Short Fiction Contest and an invitation to the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. She wrote the screenplay for the film, Fashion Victim, set for release in April 2009, and is currently working with producer Barrett Stuart to adapt the book, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, The Barbara Payton Story
Jennifer Boyden
Jennifer Boyden was born and raised in a small New Hampshire town. After graduating from Emerson College with a degree in Writing and Literature, she took various jobs, from driving a steam engine at an amusement park to serving coffee. Currently, she reads, writes, and plays professional woman’s football. Not at the same time.
Teresa Tumminello Brader
Teresa Tumminello Brader was born in New Orleans and lives in the area still. Her stories have appeared online at Hobart, 971 Menu, Bare Root Review and elsewhere, and in print in Six Sentences, Volume 1 and in Families: The Frontline of Pluralism, an anthology from Wising Up Press.
Ty Brenneman
Raised in Norther California, obtained her degree in linguistics from San Francisco State, pursues stunts,dance, singing, and all forms of writing, including screenplays sitcoms, and magazine articles.
Anna Bristow
Anna recently completed her master’s degree in English at Fordham University, with a concentration in poetry. She currently works as an editor at a small publishing company, and spends as much time as she can writing. She’s originally from the Bronx, but now lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend, cat, and a very large collection of books.
Wendy Brown Baez
Wendy Brown-Baez has performed poetry nationally and in Mexico in cafes, bars, bookstores, galleries, cultural centers and private homes, solo and in collaborations. She released a poetry CD Longing for Home and has published poetry and creative non-fiction in literary magazines, such as The Litchfield Review, Borderlands: A Texas Literary Review, Out of Line, Sin Fronteras, THE Magazine, The Chrysalis Reader, Wising Up Press, Lachryma Press, I am a Miracle III, and on-line magazines Lunarosity and Moxie. She is the creator of Writing Circles for Healing, a writing support group to help heal illness, loss, grief and life-altering transitions. www.wendysmuse.blogspot
William Bryant
I’m a 28 years old student at Green River community collage in Auburn WA. It is a great little school.
Craig Butler
Craig Butler’s fiction has appeared in dozens of print and online outlets, including TROIKA, HAPPY, MANY MOUNTAINS MOVING, SATIRE, ECLECTICA, THE DOOR, THE ROCKFORD REVIEW, DISENCHANTED and DARK MOON RISING. His book of original short stories for children, THE COOLEY’S ANEMIA FOUNDATION STORYBOOK, was published in 2007.
D. Canada
D. Canada is a work at home Mom with five children. She is a freelance Photographer and Graphic Designer. She loves writing poetry, taking pictures, designing on the computer and playing with her children.
Sharon L. Cece
Sharon wrote her first story at the tender age of twelve and has been writing short stories, essays, articles and poetry ever since. She has penned several published magazine articles and newspaper essays, is the author of one hopefully-soon-to-be-released children’s book and the editor of a published book of quotes. Sharon writes a weekly feature for Student Voices, which gives advice to current and prospective online scholars. Sharon and her husband now reside in the Raleigh, NC area with their two boys and enjoy such dynamic pursuits as in-shore shark diving, underwater spelunking, aggresive breadmaking and creating art out of coffee beans.
Che
Self proclaimed book addict who finds the greatest joy in spilling her hasty thoughts onto paper.
Amy Corbin
Cameron Cowan
Cameron Cowan is a college student at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. Besides writing he has a very active flute career and is active in politics. He loves to read and just hang out with his friends when he can.
Erin Croy
Erin Croy is working on finishing her BFA in Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She doesn’t know what she would do if she didn’t write and doesn’t want to find out. She has two pit bulls, Fidel and Mary Bell, and they are both a great audience for poetry and great at keeping Erin from going crazy.
Matthew Dexter
Matthew Dexter is an American writer living in Mexico. He writes novels, memoirs, poetry, journalism articles, short stories of literary fiction, and short stories of narrative nonfiction. When Matthew is not writing he enjoys life by the ocean; beautiful beaches, breathtaking views, reading, and being inspired. But never candlelit dinners on the beach. He’s afraid of Pirates.
Ileana Dragutsa
Ileana Dragutsa has been writing for many years, primarily at the grade school level, using lined paper and an F-2.5 pencil. Just recently her good friend talked her into submitting a piece to f & p for consideration. It was a rush typing course, on an old Underwood, and in two days I graduated to computers.
Leslie DuFresne
Leslie is a stay-at-home mom who loves to write screenplays, short stories, and poetry (when she gets the time!) She studied film and theatre during college in Chicago but has ended up living a completely suburban soccer-mom lifestyle. And she wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world!
Milo Duke
Milo Duke is a twenty six year old poet, recently transplanted from Idaho to Portland. A musician at heart, he treats poems as lyrics that haven’t found their tune quite yet.
Sakia Everts
I am 22 years old and live in the East Village of New York City. Currently, I am working various different temp jobs and looking for something more permanent while also working on my poetry manuscript. I graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 2007 and hope to get an MFA in poetry in the next couple years!
Sylvie Morgan Flatow
Sylvie Morgan Flatow’s poetry has been published in numerous publications including: Great Kills Press, Farmhouse Magazine, BiteMagazine, The New York Review, and the Vagrant Literary Quarterly. She works in the film rights department at Curtis Brown Literary Agency. She is 25 years old and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Jennifer Foultz
Jennifer Anne Foultz grew up in San Diego. It is during her teenage years there that she began writing poetry and fell in love with literature. After completing a BA in Literature at San Francisco State University, she moved back to Southern California. She has been teaching English and Creative Writing at a high-need, inner-city school in Los Angeles for six years. She has also completed a MA in Education and her English Credentials. One of her largest sources of inspiration and passion has been creating a literary magazine at her high school. The annual anthology is filled with only student writing and artwork, as well as, produced and edited by students. Also, this year she will be hosting the third annual poetry slam with her high school students and fellow teachers. jenniferf@flaskandpen.com
Rick Fowler
Rick Fowler is currently a veteran High School English teacher in a small Northern Michigan community. His wife is also a teacher and both children, currently in college, have opted for careers in the education field too. Rick has been a freelance writer for the past 19 years.
Bob Frazer
“Bob was born in Scotland but came to the San Francisco Bay area as a young adult nearly 30 years ago. For a long time, he found ways to avoid writing even a letter home, but deep-onset midlife-crisis has caused him to be overcome by the urge to write short pieces about life’s little ironies and idiosyncracies.”
