CONTRIBUTOR
BIOS:
Robin Blackburn has been writing poetry for about 10 years.
She graduated from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, in 1995
with a bachelor's degree in English writing. Robin now lives in San
Marcos, Texas, with several stray cats and a stray poet, and pays her bills
by working as a graphic artist and freelance journalist/editor. Robin's
poetry has been published in "Aesthetic Voice" and at Poetry.com. She
has two satirical essays about Led Zeppelin and Robert Plant online at
http://www.beadsoftime.com, where
she also won first place in the 2002 poetry contest. Her work as a
journalist earned her a Texas Associated Press Managing Editor's honorable
mention (2000) and several other awards. She is a regular reader at
the Austin Poetry Slam at Ego's on South Congress in Austin, and she has
a 50+ page chapbook available. For more information, visit Robin's
website at
http://www.geocities.com/tweeked_cat.
Kealan-Patrick Burke was born in Ireland
but now lives in Ohio. He is a prolific writer. His short stories
have been published in a variety of zines:
Alternate Realities,
Alternate Species,
Dark Moon Rising,
Deviant Minds, Quantum
Muse, Rogue Worlds,
The Place of Reason,
Wicked Hollow, and many others. He
also had stories published in various anthologies:
Brimstone Turnpike,
Fangoria's Frightful Fiction,
Fresh Blood, Midnight
Rose, Quietly Now,
Scatter, Taverns of
the Dead, The Book of Final
Flesh, The Fear Within,
The Night Has Teeth,
Vicious Shivers, etc. Burke has a
short collection, Ravenous Ghosts, recently
published. He has served as editor of
Sinisteria and edited the
Hour of Pain anthology.
Shadowland --
http://groups.msn.com/Shadowland
Jason Brannon is another prolific writer. His
stories have been published in Black Petals,
Bloody Muse, Dark
Realms, Electric Wine,
The Edge: Tales of Suspense,
The Witching Hour,
Twilight Showcase, and many more. His
stories have been included in the anthology Space Stations
and Graveyards. Five Days on the Banks of
the Acheron and Puzzles in
Flesh are Brannon's short story collections and
Rusty Nails is his first novel. He also
edits The Haunted (online).
Brannon lives in Mississippi.
The Official Website of Jason Brannon --
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/puzzles/
Corey Mesler has prose and/or poetry published in a huge variety
of publications. Included among them are:
Yellow Silk,
Small Press Review,
Orchid, Green
Egg, Potomac Review,
Poetry Super Highway,
Slant, Parnassus Literary
Review, Aurorean,
Fish Drum, The Pegasus
Review, Red Rock Review, and
many others. He has a chapbook of poems,
Piecework, from the Wing and a Wheel Press.
He also has work included in various anthologies such as
Full Court: A Literary Anthology of
Basketball (Breakaway Books), My Hearts
First Steps (Adams), and Smashing
Icons (Curious Rooms). One of Mesler's short stories was
selected for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the
South: The Years Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel. He
has a novel-in-dialogue, Talk, recently
published by Livingston Press (advance raves from Lee Smith, Debra Spark,
Steve Stern, John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, and Frederick Barthelme).
Mosler has been a book reviewer (The Commercial
Appeal, BookPage,
The Memphis Flyer,
Brightleaf), a fiction editor (Ion
Books/raccoon), university press sales rep, and grant committee judge for
The Oregon Arts Council. With his wife they own Burkes Book Store,
one of the countrys oldest (127 years) bookstores (as well as independent).
They live in Memphis.
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