Credits
Editor
Mary (Sands) Woodbury has been a web designer for Big Bridge, and
worked with Ira Cohen and Robert La Vigne on large art cyber-spectives. She has degrees in English and anthropology from Purdue University and has been a writer and editor for the past few years. Mary left California and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with her husband and their cat "Kitty". She has taken several road trips across the United States, one road trip across Canada with her husband, and plans to travel to Spain on her next big adventure.
Contributing Editor and Feature Writer
Michael Rothenberg has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 30 years. His books of poems include The Paris Journals (Fish Drum), Monk Daddy (Blue Press) and Unhurried Vision (La Alameda Press). Rothenberg is editor and publisher of Big Bridge. He is also editor of Overtime, Selected Poems by Philip Whalen (Penguin), As Ever, Selected Poems by Joanne Kyger (Penguin) and David's Copy, Selected Poems by David Meltzer. He is presently working on Way More Out, Selected Poems of Edward Dorn (Penguin, 2007) and Collected Poems of Philip Whalen (Wesleyan University Press, 2007).
Artists
Joanna Barnum is the featured artist, her work illustrating each section. Her website is http://www.joannabarnum.com/. She is a freelance illustrator living in the Baltimore, Maryland area. She grew up in White Plains, New York and graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) with a BFA degree in illustration and art history. When not illustrating, Joanna enjoys reading, crocheting, doll making, and costuming. Other interests include unicorns, teapots, corsetry, and the color green.
Joanna's areas of specialization are fantasy, children's, portrait, food, wildlife, and travel illustration. She also does privately commissioned portraiture of people and animals as well as fine art landscape and still life painting. Her primary method of working combines watercolor with mixed media.
Ira Cohen is an "electronic multimedia shaman" who has traveled with those in the Beat Generation, but who remains a less talked-about, universal visionary and soldier--across time, space, dimension, and light. His sashays into other cultures have brought us great and sometimes shocking photographs from the "other side". His works with mylar photography brought the word home. He has photographed Jimi Hendrix, Herbert Huncke, and myriad of others in strange twisting colors. He has published people like Gregory Corso and Angus MacLise in his rice-paper presses.
A complete artistic accomplishment, bibliography, and biography of Ira--as well as articles and artwork--is at Big Bridge.
Marco Antonio Govea was born in 1975 in Iowa City, and he currently resides in Texas. He has never studied art, just independently. He is of a Lipan Apache decent that dates back almost 200 years. He has been drawing since the early age of eight and has been painting for about two years. His inspiration is drawn by the world around him, but most of his inspiration comes from human figures. He depicts the style from internal and external shapes, and accepts the accident. His spiritual expression tries newer ways to break-on-through to different aspects of his work. In his work, he tries to create a justifiable balance by using cutoffs, unusual angels, and off-centered subjects.
Fiction/Non-Fiction
Francis Allenby was born in Taranto, in 1960, from a very poor and difficult family. He got the certificate of schoolteacher, but never practised teaching; on the contrary, he left Italy, as soon as he could, earning his living with all sorts of jobs: scullery-boy in Paris, street-portraitist, waiter, cleaner, labourer, hall porter as well as interpreter in the Steelworks and Document Controller for a renowned International Oil Company based in Holland. He is also a painter and a playwright. Francis can be reached at frankgiungato@virgilio.it.
Jann Burner has sold pieces to markets as varied as The San Francisco Chronicle, California Living, Sea Kayaker Magazine, Rolling Stone, Spirit Seeker, Path Finder, The Healing Path, and Dag Od Tid ( a leading newspaper in Oslo, Norway). He has a CD book available on Amazon.com about a shape-shifting dolphin who dreams he is human, called The Last Wooden House. He has lead an extremely eclectic life. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a B. A. in Radio-Television & Film. He has played drums in a rock and roll band. He's been an FAA certified Air Traffic Controller. He's had his own radio show. He's been a film editor at a major network TV station, and he's been a taxi driver as well as an independent film maker and stock day trader. He has lived in a mansion in San Francisco as well as a sailboat in Sausalito. Jann is currently living in a log house, in a park-like setting in rural Southwest Missouri's Ozark Mountains. He has articles on the Internet featured in sites as varied as Identity Theory, The Exquisite Corpse, and American Chronicles. He is also a hypnotherapist who specializes in Past Life Regression as well as Remote Spirit Clearing. His web site is www.centerpointmanagement.com. Articles: www.identitytheory.com/nonfiction/burner_perimeter.php, http://www.identitytheory.com/nonfiction/burner_hit.php, http://www.corpse.org/issue_11/critiques/burner.html, and http://www.corpse.org/issue_9/foreign_desk/burner.htm.
Deanne Dolhon is a creative writing student at Kwantlen University College. She says that she's been pretending to write for years. She was recently published in Surrey Art Gallery’s collection and in Kwantlen’s own anthology poetry, which seems to be her niche, but delving into short stories is just too much fun. She drew pictures before she could write. Her first story was about a unicorn and a witch, and since then she has never stopped writing. The human condition is just too much fun to explore, and writing allows her to do just that.
Ron Klosterman was born in obscurity and grew up listing to 80's hard rock. He is now a Chicago-based writer with degrees in fiction and English. His stories have appeared online at Thuglit, Dyingwriters and ken*again. He also has several travel essays published in fictionary. Though still very obscure, he is not above torturing his neighbors with a little Iron Maiden.
Martin Kovan is an Australian novel and short-fiction writer, based in Paris. M.A. English with Gary Sndyer at UC Davis. Contemporary spiritual discourse, the ethics of displacement, global disorder, cultural collisions, sexual and religious extremes all inform his fiction. Currently writing PhD. on Western Buddhist movements, and their collisions with the ethics of economic rationalism.
Lucas Lanthier: is a writer and musician living in Montreal. His articles and short fiction have appeared in StarVox, Anorexic Press, Sound Advice, and others. He often incorporates his fiction into music projects, which have been released on various albums through Trisol, a German record label.
Scott Malby: I don't believe in brief bios, and neither should you. They are either too cute or exceptionally boring. I've written over a hundred with only a mere handful resulting in what people seem to care most about, i.e., money or sexual gratification.
Margaret Pearce started life in the dark ages as a copywriter and kept on
writing. She lives in the Dandenongs.
Julio Peralta-Paulino is a writer and is currently at work on several projects. Some of his publishing credits include Chronogram, Write Between The Lines, The Cerebral Catalyst, and Smokebox. He is beyond thrilled to have his writing included once more in the wondrous and jazzy magic that is Jack Magazine, inebriated with joy - to be precise!
AE Reiff, Andy Reiff, met Marley the Himalayan seal point abandoned at Canyon de Chelly. The next night by the fire, deep in the Mogollon of Leonard Canyon, she got up on his lap, one of many adoptions. He lives on the floor of Silver Canyon. Cliffs there resemble aluminum outcrops, which, if they had people on them like the giant birds, rents would rocket. These birds take the updrafts where sand is silver, host prospectors like elimae that has exhibited some ore. At the beginning of that life he wrote a calendar of poems, Encouragements for such as Shall Have Intention To Be Undertakers in the Planting.
Ross Robinson was born in Smithers, BC (just about the edge of the Yukon) in 1979 and has been steadily moving south his
whole life. Possessed of a great predilection towards science/piracy from an early age, he has generally been considered something of an oddity. He received a general science degree (very few institutions are currently offering programs in the piratical arts) in 2002 and promptly went on to make no use of it whatsoever. He recently went back to school and is specializing in biology.
Gerard Sarnat splits time between his Northern California forest home and Southern California's beaches, where he and his wife care for their first grandson. Gerry is a father of three, seeker and Jewbu, physician to the disenfranchised, past CEO and Stanford professor, and virginal writer 'til the recent tender age of sixty. He has been published or is forthcoming in EZAAPP, The Hiss Quarterly, Pens on Fire, Poets Against War, Thieves Jargon, Underground Voices, and Flutter. "Just Like the Jones'," about his experience caring for Jonestown survivors, was solicited by The Jonestown Annual Report and will appear later this year. Gerry is currently working on an epic prose poem, "The Homeless Chronicles." He has been accepted into a four person writers' cooperative by The California Institute of Arts and Letters; Pessoa Press plans to publish his first book within one or two years.
Julie Ann Shapiro is a freelance writer. She has over twenty short stories published and has completed two novels. Awards: Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2004, “Bio Clock and Nutty Photos", Story nominated by Word Riot. Second Place Winner in Writer Online's My First Crush Contest, April 2004. Published Short Stories/Creative Non-Fiction: San Diego Union Tribune, North County Times, Sacred Waters: Sacred Fire (Adams Media 2005), Story South, Los Angeles Journal, Word Riot, Millennium Shift, Mega Era Magazine, Insolent Rudder, Alternate Species, Science Fiction and Fantasy World, Green Tricycle, All Things Girl, Ultimate Hallucination, The Glut, Somewhat, Dovetail Journal, Uber, Moon Dance, The Quarterly Staple, Opium Magazine, Journal of Modern Post, Rumble, Long Story Short, Cellar Door Magazine (Spring and Summer Issues 2005), Edifice Wrecked, Espresso Fiction, Flash Fiction – Coffee Cup Series, Mad Hatters Review, Writers Post Journal, Void, Salome, Skive, Catharsis Journal, and Elimae.
John Moore Williams is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, and has had
poetry published in Shampoo #30, KillPoet #1, and at
venerealkittens.blogspot.com. He also moonlights as a book and music
reviewer for blackheartmagazine.com.
Morgan Woodbury currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, which, contrary to popular opinion, is not named so because it is the intersection point if one were to draw a line east from British Isles and north from Columbia. He enjoys computers, games, and many other nerd-related activities; trained as a computer programmer, he fills his days living in unfulfilled potential and loving it.
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Daniel Ari lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, exploring many aspects of creativity. Lately, he’s written his second novel, What It Means to Be “Lucky” Ned, in conjunction with National Novel Writing Month; self-published Dandelions, a collection of poetry; and toured the Pacific Northwest singing and playing on the “Monsters of Accordion” tour. In the works are a children’s book, Go, Octopus, Go! illustrated by his wife Lauren Ari, and his second CD, "Brainstorm", with his band, Bass Line Dada. Daniel has written and published poetry, fiction, film reviews, restaurant reviews, humorous non-fiction, interviews, and songs. He works as a copywriter.
John Ellingsworth lives in London, England.
Brian Oliu is currently receiving his MFA in Creative Non-Fiction at the University of Alabama. He is originally from New Jersey. There are times he thinks he is a computer, and therefore, writes as such. He is okay with this.
Wayne Toews (aka Bones McMahon) is a good speech-giver at weddings, loves zombie movies, and dreams of writing and directing a disturbing horror flick someday. He works as a PA in movies filmed in British Columbia, such as various sequels of Fantastic Four and X-Men. He may be the only person in the world to have a Gandalf staff signed by Sir Ian McClellan.
Poetry/Prose
Charles Clifford Brooks III is a poet and freelance writer living in Jasper,
Georgia. Clifford's poetry has been published in AEGIS, Poor Mojo's Almanac, Act Two, Awen, HA! Magazine (2006 Honorable Mention Award), Jimston Journal, Writer Within Magazine, Clean Sheets Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Poetry Motel, Star Magazine (winner of the 2006 Rhyming Poetry Competition(UK)) , Foliate Oak (2005 and 2006), Earth Love (UK), Nuvein Magazine, ChiZine, Gold Dust Magazine (UK), Aoife's Kiss, Secret Attic Magazine (2005 and 2006 UK), Red Hawk Review ,Twisted Tongue Magazine(UK), Den Writer's Group, Confused in a Deeper Way, resume, Wet Ink (winner of Wet Ink's 2005 Poetry Contest), The Chimes, Taste: An Anthology (UK), Pulsar Magazine (UK), Literary Magic (winner of First Honorary Mention 2006, which earned him a spot as Staff Writer on Literary Magic), Timbuktu, and GreenInk. Currently Clifford is represented by Mark Straley of the Writers in the Sky Literary Agency. Together they have completed his first book of verse, Whirling Metaphysics.
Annie Christain is a third year English PhD student at the University of South Dakota. She has been published in Poetry Bay, Arabesques Review, The American Drivel Review, and Beeswax Magazine. She is the two year recipient of the University of South Dakota’s Gladys Hasse Poetry Award and received the 2007 Jerry Bradley Award for Creative Writing at the Southwest Texas Popular Culture Conference in Albuquerque, NM. In 2005 and 2007, she attended the Naropa Summer Writing Program, taking workshops from Anne Waldman, Michael Rothenberg, and Sherwin Bitsui.
Anne Germanacos' poetry, stories, and essays have appeared recently or are forthcoming in DMQ Review, Salamander, Black Warrior Review, Florida Review, Chattahoochee Review, The Diagram, Pindeldyboz, Santa Monica Review, Harpur Palate, Wind Magazine, Agni (online), Mudlark, and others. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A story published in Fourteen Hills recently received the Holmes Award for emerging writers.
Daniel McNulty currently resides in N.J., where he is working on his first novel. His poems have appeared in CityBelt, and a short story will appear in the forthcoming Raconteur Reader. He holds a B.S. in Anthropology from Rutgers University.
John Joynt is the web editor of Drunkenboat.com, and recent graduate of Saint Mary's college at Moraga, CA.
After spending almost a decade working as a freelance photographer in Europe Maurice Oliver returned to America in 1990. Then in 1995 he made a lifelong dream reality by traveling around the world for eight months, recording his experiences in a journal instead of taking pictures. And so began his desire to be a poet. His poetry has appeared in The Potomac Journal, Circle Magazine, The MAG, Tryst3 Journal, Eye-Shot, Pebble Lake Review, Megaera, The Surface, Wicked Alice, Word Riot, Taj Mahal Review (India), Stride Magazine (UK), Dandelion Magazine (Canada), Retort Magazine (Australia), and online at unlikelystories.org, girlswithinsurance.com, subtletea.com, interpoetry.com (UK), kritya.in (India), and blueprintreview.de (Germany). He currently lives in Portland, Oregon where he is a private tutor. His poetry blogsite can be visited at: www.bloxster.net/mauriceoliver.
Nanette Rayman Rivera is a writer and actress living in New York City. She
has published in The Berkeley Fiction Review, The Worcester Review, Dragonfire (for memoir), MiPOesias, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Carousel, Wicked Alice, The Pebble Lake Review, Sein Und Werden, andwerve, Barnwood, The Centrifugal Eye, Words and Pictures, Her Circle, Poesia, Arsenic Lobster, Stirring, including Stirring’s Steamiest 6, Flashquake, A Little Poetry, Pedestal, DMQ Review, Velvet Avalanche Anthology, Verse Libre, Erosha, Three Candles, Snow Monkey, Small Spiral Notebook, Carve Magazine, 5 Trope, Mindfire Renewed, Wanderings, Concrete Wolf, Rogue’s Scholars, remark, eye-rhyme, Central Avenue, Red River Review, Mannequin Envy, Underground Window, and many more. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize this year for poetry by Arsenic Lobster and for non-fiction by Dragonfire.
Alida Santandrea was born in Providence, RI in 1979 and currently resides in the small town of Blackstone, MA. Her poetry has appeared in The Verse Marauder and Cherry Bleeds. In addition to writing, her interests include reiki, tropical fish, rock music, and Chinese food.
Sam Silva has published well over 150 poems in print magazines including, but not limited to Samisdat, The ECU Rebel, Sow's Ear, The American Muse, St. Andrews Review, Dog River Review, Third Lung Review, Main St. Rag, Charlotte Poetry Review, Parnasus...most (but not all) of these magazines are now defunct. For the Past four years his magazine portfolio has grown by and large on line including Rio Del Arts, Megaera, Big Bridge, Views unplugged, Comrade Magazine, Ken Again, and at least thirty others. Over the years four small presses have published a total of nine chapbooks by Sam Silva ...these, being Third Lung Press, M.A.F. Press, Alpha Beat Press, Trouth Creek Press. Brown and Yale Universities solicited many of these chapbooks for their libraries. These chapbooks were well received in newspaper reviews by Shelby Stephenson, Ron Bayes, Steve Smith, and the late poet laureate of North Carolina Sam Ragan. Silva has ebooks available without cost at Physikgarden.com , and Independantbook.com , and at two dollars a piece at readsamsilva.com and well over 300 poems archived in online magazines. He was nominated a total of seven times by three small presses and has a full length collection of poetry called Eating and Drinking based on a royalties contract signed with Bright Spark Creative available for order at any online bookstore and has signed a second contract with Bright Spark's former senior partner, Mickey Hager, for a second full length book to be published soon. Three spoken word CDs of Sam Silva's have been marketed through CDBaby.
Jayne Lyn Stahl is a widely published poet, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter. Her work has appeared in such notable little magazines as Exquisite Corpse, Poetry Magazine, (online), Pulpsmith, The New York Quarterly, and City Lights Review as well as in major anthologies. She is a member of PEN American Center, PEN USA, and the Academy of American Poets.
Fred Zackel teaches literature and the humanities at Bowling Green State University. His 1978 novel Cocaine & Blue Eyes was recently reprinted by Point Blank Press.
Reviews
Sam Focak lives near Vancouver, BC, is a new father and husband, loves movies, and works as a field application specialist. He is a huge hockey fan.
Barbara Kowal: No bio given.
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