Michael K. Gause
Michael K. Gause lives in Minnesota, USA. His writing can be found in print, on the Web. He has created, hosted, and participated in reading events in the Twin Cities. Currently he is editing Pimping Grace, his first full-length collection of writing.

His first self-published chapbook is The Tequila Chronicles (www.tequilachronicles.com).

resides: St. Paul Minnesota USA
website: www.thedayonfire.com
contact: michael@thedayonfire.com

Eve Hall
Eve Hall is a full-time author & poet, living in, Atlanta, Ga.
She has published four books and have written over a dozen children’s books.
Her work has appeared in several magazines, including, WeeOnes, Saplings, Nick Jr., and Skyline Publications.
She has won several writing contests, winning 1st-5th places
One of her goals is to have all of her books published. She is blessed to be a part of this wonderful ebook project.

resides: Mableton Georgia USA
website: www.bradymagazine.com/gallery/evehall
contact: cagedbird2u@excite.com

Rachel Langley
Rachel Langley has written nearly twenty short screenplays, half of which have been successfully produced. Her stage works include the one act “Meeting Zelda Zonk”, the sketch comedy show “Birdcage” and the Off-Off Broadway production of her latest play “The Life Adventures of Freda M. Gleason”. Award winning film scripts include the short “Meeting Nightshade” and the horror thriller “Inside David Cane” which won First Runner Up in the Midnight Madness Screenplay Competition (1st Round) and placed in the top 23 out of 320 scripts. Rachel is currently re-working her first feature screenplay “Break Night Club”, as well as workshopping the short play “Twinkle, Twinkle” based on Marilyn Monroe’s last interview. “Sprire Wire” is Rachel’s first published work of poetry.

resides: New York USA
website: www.rachelwrites.net
contact: filmstarco@yahoo.com

Charles Lidgard
Charles Lidgard has self-published two novellas - A Forming Destruction (1999 – Interim Books) and The Subversion of Richard (2002 - Trouser Books – ebook available at PulpBits.com). His work has also appeared in American Feed Magazine, Babel Magazine, Double Dare Press, Melange Magazine, The Australian Reader, and The Surface Literary Magazine. He’s currently at work on a full-length novel and lives in Melbourne, Australia.

resides: Melbourne Vic Australia
website: http://thekinghit.blogspot.com/
contact: kinghit@warpmail.net

Karinya Louttit
Karinya Louttit is a public relations and journalism student, also working as a marketing officer in Brisbane. She grew up visiting the beach every weekend with her family which has had a significant influence upon her outlook on life and creative perspective. Karinya still listens to shells to hear the sea and hopes to continue writing in some capacity for the rest of her life.

resides: Brisbane Qld Australia
contact: loutt@hotmail.com

Sol Lucas
Sol Lucas is a photo - artist/poet, living in Australia. His work embraces mind, body and spirit. He has self-published two collections of photos/prose which proved to be popular. His photo-art & poetry have been featured in Australian & international exhibitions & publications.

Through his art & poetry, Sol aims to inspire & delight, whereby it is hoped one gains a deeper insight into their own person & purpose.

resides: Coffs Harbour NSW Australia
website: www.sollucas.twogreencircles.com
contact: sol@soullucas.twogreencircles.com

Scott Malby
It’s not wise to crow about yourself. In every directionsounds are amplified. But to sing about your time with you in it, is a calling.Bringing you in from the cold.

resides: Coos Bay Oregon USA
contact: beowolf2@harborside.com

Twiggy Munford
Graduated from Pan American Business School, attended Va. Commonwealth Univ. and Univ. of Richmond; retired from Admin. Asst. position with U.S. District Judge, EDVA, (Richmond, VA) 1998; have published in “Pleasant Living” magazine; enjoy taking poetry classes, reading, travel.

resides: Richmond Virginia USA
contact: bbmunford@comcast.net

Jacqueline Patterson
Jacqueline Smith Patterson is a mother, model, writer, activist, artist, and social scientist in Raytown, Missouri. Life Catachresis is dedicated to her late husband whose stupidity is eclipsed only by his unwavering love for her. There are things in this world that transcend life and death and Ms. Smith feels not only very fortunate to learn these lessons but grateful to be gifted with the ability to write about them.

resides: Grandview Missouri USA
contact: medicalmaryjane@hotmail.com

Karen Pierce Gonzalez
Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s fiction has been published in Zahir Tales, By Moonlight, Vega, Third Eye, Pinehurst Journal, and other publications and has earned awards from National League of American Pen Women, California Writer’s Association, Writer’s Digest, Sebastopol Literary Arts Center and more. Her non-fiction has appeared in San Francisco Magazine, Marin Independent Journal, and other publications. She facilitates writing workshops and is a regular contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle and North Bay Biz Journal.

resides: Rohnert Park California USA
website: www.karenpiercegonzalez.org
contact: karen@karenpiercegonzalez.org

Cynthia Physentzou
Hi, my name is Cynthia Physentzou. I live in Toronto, Canada. I have been writing for about 10 years, and consider writing to be one of my top creative outlets. I am also a makeup artist, photographer. Being born under the sun sign Pisces, I have a vivid and creative imagination. I love passion, desire, fantasy and emotion, you can see this through my writing.They say eyes are the windows to the soul, but I think writing is another window to our soul that people overlook. There is a certain satisfaction of knowing you have just written something that people can relate to, or, understand and appreciate. There’s nothing better.

resides: Toronto Ontario Canada
contact: cynthia@ontariostaging.com

Peter Ravenscroft
Peter Ravenscroft is a geologist, antiwar activist and enviromentalist. He describes himself as a ‘student of the bunyip’ and has written Hunting the Bunyip, God and the Devil. A search on the world wide web will source many of his articles and commentaries on global political and environmental issues.

resides: Brisbane QLD Australia
contact: psraven@bigpond.net.au

Julie Anne Shapiro
Julie Ann Shapiro is a freelance writer. Short stories and essays have appeared in Sacred Waters: Stories of Healing, Cleansing, and Renewal (Adams Media 2005), San Diego Union Tribune, Millennium Shift, Story South, Science Fiction and Fantasy World, Word Riot, Green Tricycle, All Things Girl, Ultimate Hallucination, The Glut, Uber, Moon Dance, The Quarterly Staple, Opium Magazine, Journal of Modern Post, Rumble, Long Story Short, Cellar Door Magazine, Edifice Wrecked, and Espresso Fiction.

resides: San Diego California USA
contact: julie@gotdot.com

Andrew Slattery
Andrew Slattery is a communications graduate from Newcastle University.His poems have appeared in literary journals, magazines and anthologies, including The Weekend Australian Review, Opus, Circle, Meanjin, Quadrant, Poetry Salzburg Review, Urchin, Southern Ocean Review, Hutt, Moonwort Review and Black Ink’s Best Australian Poems of 2004. In 2004 Andrew was awarded the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry. Andrew lives in Lake Macquarie, Australia.

resides: Lake Macquarie NSW Australia
contact: shortfilm@hotmail.com

John Stevens
I live in Pemberton BC Canada. I recently stepped off the employment express to pursue my writing. I prefer brief forms—short stories on down to aphorisms and epigrams. Sometimes I rejoice in single words

resides: Pemberton BC Canada
contact: elsay@direct.ca

Skye Taylor
Skye Taylor is a freelance writer of poetry and short stories. Currently working on first book; seeking publisher.

resides: Sydney NSW Australia
website: www.skyetaylor.twogreencircles.com
contact: skye@skyetaylor.twogreencircles.com

Peggy Twining
I have always loved to write, from my first poem in Jr. High to short stories in Senior English Class. I grew up on a farm in perrysville, OH, USA, I graduated from Loudonville High School and lived in Germany for a year and a half due to my husbands Army tour. Some of my work has been published in several Anthologies. Ihave four grown children and seven Grandchildren. I enjoy writing, reading and camping. I an very pleased and honored to be included in this e-book publication of beautiful Art work.

resides: Lodi Ohio USA
contact: plt818@peoplepc.com

Andrew Weber
Currently attending: Indiana University at Bloomington Indiana majoring in history
Events behind Fortress: An ex-girlfriend lived in a dorm called Forest, the
building was so secure and difficult to get into if you didn’t live there I came
to know it as the “Forest Fortress.”

resides: Mishawaka Indiana USA
contact: anmweber@indiana.edu

Amber Yoo
My name is Amber Yoo. I am twenty-nine and grew up in Oakland, Oregon. For the last decade I lived in the Hawaiian Islands with my husband. During that time I worked as an assistant designer in the skydiving suit industry, a seamstress, and a bookkeeper. I also did a great deal of writing and reflecting about life growing up in Oregon. Currently, I am back in the northwest and work as a file room manager at a bank. In my spare time, I enjoy writing poetry, painting, and raising chuiauiau terriers.

resides: Roseburg Oregon USA
contact: yooroseburg@aol.com