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 Heart’s 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 Year’s 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 Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (127 years) bookstores (as well as independent).  They live in Memphis.

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