T H E    S T O R Y  
G A R D E N

ISSUE NO. 3

C  O  N  T  R  I  B  U  T  O  R  S

AUTHORS

Rusty Barnes 

Rusty Barnes lives and works in East Boston, MA, where he edits the magazine Night Train. Rusty's favorite quote: "All stories are true"--John Edgar Wideman.

Pat Beckerman

Creating, for me, is part of being truly alive. Participating in the forums at Scrawl has fanned the flames of my writing passion and boosted my confidence. In the last two years, I've had several poems published locally (Long Island, NY) and have won first prize in two web-based poetry contests. This is my second poem to appear in The Story Garden. I can be reached at: fuzzrose@yahoo.com

David Bulley 

Dave Bulley promises never to teach creative writing, anywhere, ever. He is a prize winning fiction writer with many publishing credits. He is the kind of guy who will shamelessly take any opportunity to tell people about his novel, sample chapters of which are available on his website: http://www.davidbulley.com

GiGi Dane 

GiGi Dane is a happy mother and grandmother who lives in Phoenix with her extended family, which includes a comic-book writing honey. She shamelessly promotes his website, Toonopedia, because she is proud of him and his work.

Her writing interests include horror and humor and mainstream stories about people who are as ordinary as she is. And as twisted.

Emily Deans

I'm spending most of my time learning psychiatry in Boston. Something interesting to do with the M.D. I'm the treasurer of SCRAWL, too. Haven't done too much writing recently, but I can feel the bug coming back again. Catch my work at Awe-struck.net (very young work). I've also had a poem published at Rose and Thorn. Vital stats—28, brown hair and eyes, 3rd generation Texan. My great great great great great great great great uncle is Daniel Boone. I'm interested in travel, brains, and the interface between suffering, insanity, fear, and wisdom. Wish me luck.

Leslie Irish Evans

Leslie Irish Evans plays bingo, drinks cosmopolitans, raises her kids and overcaffeinates near Seattle, WA. Her writing has appeared in The Blue Review,  Teemings, Flush Fiction and HotRead.com, and is slated to appear in Snow Monkey. She is currently at work on her first novel. No, really, she is. She also co-stars with Smacky the Mouse at The Leslie Show.

Steve Frederick

Steve Frederick is a persistent contributor to The Story Garden. He's a Nebraska guy who fishes and writes when he's not working for a living. He's pleased to admit that he ain't writing his first novel, or any other damn novel.

Mare Freed

Mare Freed's short fiction has appeared in The Antioch Review, The Wisconsin Review, Zoetrope All-Story Extra, The Absinthe Literary Review, and 
elsewhere. She is a writer whose self-discipline deficit borders on the tragic. Ten to twelve cumulative fiction writing hours inside a calendar year represents a productive and typical literary anum for her. With the 
exception of some satirical verse and humor composed for small e-audiences, "Goodwill" is her sum yield in the new millenium. It's not that she doesn't like writing stories. She just tends to live them instead. Learn more about her on her website.

Brendan McKennedy

Brendan McKennedy is a twenty-something student of the recording industry, and a pizza boy. His stories have appeared in McSweeney's online edition and Tower of Babel, and he will appear in the August 2002 issue of Cafe Irreal. He lives in Nashville, TN.

Ray Norsworthy

A. Ray Norsworthy lives on the dusty plains of Oklahoma close to Geronimo's grave. His new interwoven story collection, Indiahoma will soon be available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com. 
He can be reached at araynorsworthy@cox.net

Glenn Osborn

Glenn Osborn is a freelance writer, designer and photographer living in Perrysburg, Ohio. He is a founder of Scrawl: The Writers Asylum, and has been managing editor and designer of  The Story Garden. He operates HandsOnWebsites.com, a site design firm and recently has developed a successful photography business selling prints of his digital photographs of flowers. He can be reached via email at: gosborn@accesstoledo.com. 

John Ravenscroft

John Ravenscroft was born in Birmingham, England and has been a teacher, a musician, a van-driver and a maker of plastic inscription-plates for coffins. These days he spends much of his time staring into space and trying to write fiction.

His short stories have won prizes in various competitions and been published in magazines such as BuzzWords, Lexikon, The Mail on Sunday, Night and Day, Cadenza, Peninsular - and yes, he admits it, Woman's Weekly. His work has also been broadcast on the BBC and on Commonwealth radio stations.

He lives in Lincolnshire with his wife Astra and a garden full of dead dogs and cats.

Michelle Salts

Michelle Salts is a professional juggler living in North Central Texas. At present, she's juggling the demands of a spastic border collie, two pre-teen children, and her own higher education, while her husband commutes to an out-of-state job site. In her spare time (ha!) she reads, writes, and dreams of running away to join a real circus.

Jim Whalen

Jim Whalen is a theology student and writer living in Virginia. In 2001 he began to write poetry, essays and fiction after a long hiatus. "Burying Sunshine" is his first published poem in nearly twenty years.

Angela Baccari is a writer from the Western PA area. Her short fiction has appeared in New Beginnings e-zine and SLUG Fest and Liquid Ohio magazines, as well as other publications. "Sunflowers," originally a flash fiction story that had been workshopped at an earlier incarnation of Scrawl, was optioned as a screenplay for a short silent film for Hi-Def Motion Pictures in 2001.

Tomi Danaher is Mama of two, hunter of job, teller of stories...owner of tin rectangle, hybrid auto and lotsa mutilated paper. It is a life...I need a refund. 

Caitlin James is a self-educated poet and freelance copyeditor, whose literary credentials at this point consist of a poem in TSG #1 and having also been on the Editorial Board of TSG Issue #2. She (still) lives in Texas with her husband, son, and other domestic animals, and hopes to have something new and relevant to say if ever again asked to write a bio for The Story Garden.

Kathleen McCall is a freelance writer of nonfiction and poetry. Here work may be found in Skirt! Magazine, Tourist2000, The Story Garden and Buzzwords. You can also find her irregular columns on irregular subjects at Occasional Muse.

Patricia  'Tigger' McFarland is a former journalist who lives in a strange world of her own creation. She's a  mild-mannered accountant by day, but devotes nights and weekends to exposing the dark, light, and  humorous secrets of the heart... be it human or  otherwise. Recent publications include an SF story,
Dead End Baby Blues, in ZEndZine and two flash fiction pieces in Synapse, the annual print journal of the University of Kansas Medical Center.

F. John Sharp has had fiction published in The Paumanok Review, Snow Monkey and Flush Fiction among others; poetry in Pulse and In Posse Review; and non-fiction published locally. He lives and works in Northern Ohio and this is his first editing gig.

Glenn Osborn provided the design and art work for this issue of The Story Garden. The illustrations were produced with Adobe Photoshop Elements.

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