David Barker was born in Chicago and grew up in California. He fell in with a group of poets, who wrote and lived under the influence of Charles Bukowski, while attending CSULB from 1966 to 1973. David received a M.A. Degree in English, then moved to Oregon with his wife. He has written steadily since high school, and has had hundreds of poems and stories published via the small press. His chapbook Faded Bungalows (1981) won The Wormwood Review Award for the "most overlooked book of worth for a calendar year."
Lisa Birman is the author of for that return passage – A Valentine for the United States of America (Hollowdeck Press), and co-editor of Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action (Coffee House Press). Recent work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, thuggery & grace, Bombay Gin, and not enough night. Lisa is the Director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetic’s Summer Writing Program, where she also teaches for the MFA in Creative Writing.
Dave Donovan is a poet and musician living in Chicago. His work has appeared in various indie magazines and anthologies including Cesium (Oct 2006), Cause & Effect (Jan 2008), GPP Reader (Guerilla Poetics Project, 2007), and A Common Thread (Chance Press, 2009). More of his work can be seen at http://sugarskullparade.blogspot.com/.
Dan Fante was born and raised in Los Angeles. At twenty, he quit school and hit the road, eventually ending up as a New York City resident for twelve years. Fante has worked at dozens of crummy jobs including: door to door salesman, taxi driver, window washer, telemarketer, private investigator, night hotel manager, chauffeur, mailroom clerk, deck hand, dishwasher, carnival barker, envelope stuffer, dating service counselor, furniture salesman, and parking attendant. Fante is married and has a young son named Michaelangelo Giovanni Fante. He hopes eventually to learn to play the harmonica. His website is www.danfante.net.
Nathan Graziano lives in Manchester, New Hampshire with his wife and two children. A high school English teacher, he recently completed his MFA at The University of New Hampshire. He is the author of Teaching Metaphors (sunnyoutside, 2007), Not So Profound (Green Bean Press, 2004), Frostbite (GBP, 2002) and seven chapbooks of poetry and fiction. His work has appeared in Rattle, Night Train, Freight Stories, The Coe Review, The Owen Wister Review, and others. Graziano’s third book of poetry, After the Honeymoon, was published in Fall 2009 by sunnyoutside press. For more information, visit his website: www.nathangraziano.com.
Andrew Hilbert lives and works in Orange County, California. He, along with three others, founded and edits Beggars & Cheeseburgers magazine.
Stephen Hines is a writer living in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. His website is www.stephenhines.net.
Jordan Hurder lives in El Cerrito, CA. He is the co-publisher (along with his wife Justine) of Chance Press, as well as a fairly non-prolific writer. He is also a vegan, which explains his frustration that his request to change the title of this journal to "Soy Milk" was declined. He has been published in various magazines and anthologies, and his essays about books and book collecting appear on his blog, at chancepress.wordpress.com.
Justin Hyde lives in Iowa. More of his work can be found here: http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/justinhyde
Linda Lerner is the author of thirteen poetry collections including Something Is Burning In Brooklyn (Iniquity Press / Vendetta Books, 2009), Living In Dangerous Times (Presa Press, 2007) & City Woman, (March Street Press, 2006). The last two collections were Small Press Reviews’ Pick of the Month. In 1995, Linda and Andrew Gettler founded POETS on the line, the first poetry anthology available on the internet. For Nos. 6 & 7 (1997/98), the Vietnam Veterans / Poets, issue she received a 1997 Puffin Foundations Grant & Ludwig Vogelstein Grant. POETS on the line will remain archived on the internet, though it ceased publication with the Millennium issue, (9 & 10) Her poems have recently appeared in The New York Quarterly, Louisiana Review, Paterson Literary Review, Onthebus, Home Planet News, BigCityLit, Ragged Lion Anthology and Big Hammer.
Richard Krech was born in the middle class and after a lifetime of trying to escape it now lives in a garden tended by Mary. She is his muse.
Lyn Lifshin has written more than 125 books and edited 4 anthologies of women writers. Her poems have appeared in most poetry and literary magazines in the U.S.A, and her work has been included in virtually every major anthology of recent writing by women. For her absolute dedication to the small presses which first published her, and for managing to survive on her own apart from any major publishing house or academic institution, Lifshin has earned the distinction "Queen of the Small Press." She has been praised by Robert Frost, Ken Kesey and Richard Eberhart, and Ed Sanders has seen her as "a modern Emily Dickinson." Her website is www.lynlifshin.com
Ellaraine Lockie lives and writes poetry, nonfiction books and essays in the San Francisco area with a husband, eleven rabbits and a cat. But she spends as much time as possible in Montana in a cabin on a horse ranch that used to be her family's homestead, where she has a horse and a new colt. More about her writing can be found at http://literati.net/ellaraine-lockie. Not posted yet there is the announcement that she just won the 2010 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Chapbook Contest.
Gerald Locklin taught English at California State University, Long Beach from 1965 until his retirement in 2007. He has authored more than 125 books and chapbooks of poetry, fiction, and criticism, with over 3000 poems, stories, articles, reviews, and interviews published in periodicals. His writings are archived and indexed by the Special Collections of the CSULB library. His website can be found at www.geraldlocklin.com.
Hosho McCreesh is currently writing & painting in the gypsum & caliche badlands of New Mexico. Work appearing in both English and in translation, in print, audio and online, including Chiron Review, Quercus Review, Lilliput Review, Bottle 5 and Nouveaux Delits (France). He is the author of Marching Unabashed Into The Weeping, Searing Sun… from Bottle of Smoke Press and co-author (with Christopher Cunningham) of Sunlight at Midnight, Darkness at Noon from Orange Alert Press.
Brian McGettrick lives in the north of Ireland. His work has previously appeared in The Lummox Journal, Lunatic Chameleon, Remark, My Favorite Bullet, Thunder Sandwich, Mystery Island Magazine, Free Verse and The Stinging Fly. His first collection is soon to be published by Sunnyoutside.
Brown Miller has been writing poems since the sixties, first getting into print in Len Fulton's dust, then in many obscure mags but some of lasting importance, such as Doug Blazek's Olé , A.D. Winans' Second Coming, D.R. Wagner's Runcible Spoon, Richard Krech's Avalanche, Gene Bloom's Entrails, and Marvin Malone's Wormwood Review, plus various publications from Pam and Charles Plymell's Cherry Valley Editions. Over 200 poems in magazines and journals, and several chapbooks, probably most important being Hiroshima Flows Through Us (Cherry Valley Editions, 1976). Over the decades, Brown Miller has remained at City College of San Francisco, where he tries to undermine western "civilization" as we know it by urging students to write from the gut and heart.
Jack Moxie is a thirty year old poet. After traveling the world extensively, he has now settled in (and rarely leaves) Los Angeles. Moxie lived in Europe for nearly five years, and is a veteran of the Iraq war. He enjoys the poetry of Charles Bukowski, the music of Townes Van Zandt, and the taste of Jameson whiskey. He lives by the Pacific Ocean with his girlfriend and their labrador retriever. His website is jackmoxie.wordpress.com.
Michael Phillips lives in Los Angeles. You can find more of his work at mjpbooks.com.
Charles Plymell was born April 26, 1935 in Holcomb, Kansas during one of the blackest dust storms of that period. He has been published widely, has collaborated with and published many poets, writers, and artists. He had a profound impact on underground comix by printing the first issue of Zap Comix. Later he and his wife, Pam, traveled to Cherry Valley, NY to visit Allen Ginsberg's farm and moved into the village where they founded Cherry Valley Editions to print a series of books by William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, Robert Peters, Dick McBride and others, including his own, that are now out of print and rare. Plymell underwent triple heart bypass surgery at the end of January 2009.
M.P. Powers was born in Chicago & lives in the Miami area. He has poems published or forthcoming in Rosebud, The New York Quarterly, Slipstream, Pig in a Poke, Rusty Truck, The Smoking Poet and many others. More info here: http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/mppowers
William Taylor, Jr. lives in San Francisco. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in such publications as Poesy, The Chiron Review and The New York Quarterly. He is the author of numerous books, including Words For Songs Never Written: New and Collected Poems, published by Centennial Press in 2007. His latest collection, The Hunger Season, was released by Sunnyoutside in 2009.
A.D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet and writer. His poetry, prose, book reviews, and essays have appeared in over 1500 literary magazines and anthologies, including City Lights Journal, Margie, Rattle, Poetry Australia, the New York Quarterly, the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, and the Beatitude 50th Anniversary Anthology. He is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry and prose. In 2002 a song poem of his was performed at New York’s Alice Tully Hall. In 2006 he was awarded a PEN National Josephine Miles award for excellence in literature. In 2007 Presa Press published This Land Is Not My Land, a book of his selected poems. In 2009 he was given a PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award. His website is at www.adwinans.mysite.com.
