contributors

Christopher Morris has been, among other things, a DJ, a security guard, a calculus tutor, a bartender, an editor, and a record store clerk. He lives with his wife and son in Indianapolis, Indiana.

V. Sarada Holt is the editor of a community newspaper in New Jersey, an artist with a fixation on Halloween themes, and a member of the bands Stone Breath, Breathe Stone and the Spectral Light and Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree. She helped to start a poetry magazine at her college, Drew University, in the 1990s and has been writing for newspapers for most of the past 10 years with a secret longing to return to decadent-style prose or to at least write something without a dateline on it, occasionally.

John Brewer is a 39 year old male photographer living in Bristol. He is particularly interested in early photographic processes, Dada and Surrealism (not Avida Dollars though!). His work mostly involves restoring damaged photographs although photographic commissions occasionally crop up.

L. Ward Abel is a life long poet, composer of music and spoken-word performer. He has written and recorded music for Abel & Rawls (now Abel, Rawls & Hayes), as Max Abel (his former alter-ego) and with spoken-word pioneers Scapeweavel. His poems have been published widely in the U.S. and Europe, in print and on-line, including White Pelican Review, VLQ, erbacce (UK), Versal Two (Netherlands), Ink Pot, Texas Poetry Journal, Poems Niederngasse (Switzerland), Dead Drunk Dublin (Ireland), Poetry Super Highway, The Pedestal, Perigee, many others. His chapbook, Peach Box and Verge, has just been published by Little Poem Press. He now lives in rural Georgia, USA, cultivating his latifundia, and working on his next book of poems entitled Lungscommon.

John Thomas Allen is 21 years old, from Albany NY. He is currently a college student/tutor majoring in philosophy. He has been writing poetry from the age of 13. His work as he sees it is a combination of his experiences growing up in an urban area and literary inspirations like Andre Breton, Vladimir Nabokov, Jim Carroll and Arthur Rimbaud.

Michael Chmielecki, 28, was born in New Hampshire and lives and writes in Los Angeles. He wonders what's next.

J.D. Nelson lives, writes and wrangles in Colorful Colorado. His bizarre poems have appeared in many online and print publications, including 'The best of the Dream People Poets' chapbook. J.D.'s experimental novella 'kHz' was a finalist in the 2003 Eraserhead Press First Book Contest. For more information, visit his website: http://MadVerse.com.

Chano Gonzalez was originally a native of Detroit, MI. Themes of memory and desire sing together in his imagistic experimental prose. Inspirations include Frank Lima, Ezra Pound, Leslie Scalipino, William Carlos Williams and Chris Tysh.

Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke's Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the country's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Rattle, Pindeldyboz, Quick Fiction, Cranky, Thema, Mars Hill Review, Poet Lore and others. He has also been a book reviewer for the Memphis Commercial Appeal. A short story of his was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, published by Algonquin Books. Talk, his first novel, appeared in 2002. Nice blurbs from Lee Smith, John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, Frederick Barthelme, and others. He has a new novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon, due out in 2005 from Livingston. His latest three poetry chapbooks are Chin-Chin in Eden (2003) and Dark on Purpose (2004) and The Heart is Open (2005). He also claims to have written "It's my Party". Most importantly, he is Toby and Chloe's dad and Cheryl's husband. He can be found at www.burkesbooks.com

Joe London lives in London (England).

Born and raised in Philadelphia, JANE is now a Chicago based spoken word poet whose work has been critically acclaimed by listeners and readers as "provocative", "altering", "intense" and "sexy". She has graced the microphones of such famous venues as The Green Mill (Chicago) and Nuyorican Poet's Cafe (New York) and will be featured this year at the Estrojam Festival in Chicago. She is proud to have shared her ideas with both the underground artist community as well as the above ground mainstream punks. She maintains a repertoire of material that covers all aspects of life as influenced by her own diverse personal experience. Her goal is to force the reader/listener to criticially evaluate rituals and habits, to examine life from more than one angle and to challenge current themes.

JANE is currently appearingly monthly at Trace (Chicago) with the Polyrhthmics group and is also hosting her own open mic at LEILA JANE's. To learn where and when JANE will be performing next and to stay abreast of upcoming projects, please visit her website at www.xanga.com/bookjane

Tracy M. Rogers, Editor and Creative Architect for The Aurora Review: An Eclectic Literary and Cultural Magazine, is a photographer, writer, and web designer. She grew up in Fayetteville, a college town in northwestern Arkansas and dropped out of graduate school due to "creative differences" with her faculty advisors. Her poetry can be found in Poetry Kit Magazine and the current issue of Prism Quarterly. When she is not masterminding The Aurora Review, Tracy is either busy writing her first novel or working on her ongoing "Clouds" photo project.