doesn't have much of a bio anymore, but you can go to his website.
Rusty Barnes is a writer and editor living in Revere, Massachusetts. He co-founded the literary journal Night Train.
A.E. Baxter is a film producer and freelance editor living in Austin, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas in 2004 with a degree in multimedia journalism. She blogs about tea for Tea and Tech. A.E. shares her home in Austin with her partner and her two mutts, Maggie and Molly.
Benjamin Buchholz is a US Army officer currently serving in Iraq. His short fiction and poetry have appeared widely over the last two years at places like Identity Theory, Tarpaulin Sky, Tryst, 5trope, GoodFoot, The Wisconsin Academy Review, The 2River View, and others. For a full bibliography and other oddities please see www.benjaminbuchholz.com
Tom Doughty seems to attract crazy people; it must be pheromones. As he cowls in his own abode he entertains himself writing non fiction and fiction. He claims the plains of Oklahoma as his home.
Errid Farland lives in Southern California and writes at a cluttered table where a candle burns to create an aura of serenity. Sometimes she accidentally catches things on fire which turns the aura into angry yellows and reds and sort of wrecks the whole serenity thing. Her stories have appeared in Underground Voices, storySouth, Pindledyboz, Quantum Muse, and other places.
Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and educated in Portland, Oregon (BFA, painting, Pacific Northwest College of Art), Robyn M. Flatley eventually found her home in the most wonderful town in the USA: Brattleboro, Vermont. Her art work has been shown in Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, The River Gallery School, Mindspring Gallery and resides in private collections. Her experimental film Dreams in Esperansa, 1981, is owned by the Northwest Film Center. Her writing can be found in The Adoption Reader and she has a reputation for poignant and moving letters in the local paper, Brattleboro Reformer. She enjoys engaging people and wearing blue.
Timothy Gager is the author of Short Street and Twenty-Six Pack, both collections of short fiction and the e-book, The Damned Middle. His first book of poetry, The same corner of the Bar, is available through Ibbetson Street Press and his most recent, We Needed A Night Out, was released in 2006. He hosts the Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts every month and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival. Timothy is the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review and has edited the book, Out of the Blue Writers Unite: A Book of Poetry and Prose from the Out of the Blue Art Gallery. A graduate of the University of Delaware, Timothy lives in Dedham, Massachusetts and is employed as a social worker.
Adria Abbott Glass writes short fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Story Garden, Chick Flicks, local newspapers and Story House coffee labels. She is a native Ohioan raising a couple of fine young humans with her husband of 23 years.
New Orleanian by birth and a Katrina survivor, Tara lives on a roller coaster. A mutt and two cats keep her company in an uptown apartment while they wait for a newly purchased once flooded home to be renovated. Oh, the joys of contractors and designers. Tara writes between business trips and in lonely hotel rooms. She is working on a collection of short stories, many of which are now being written about Katrina and its woes. She also has the first of a mid-age children's book series completed and would love to find a publisher for anything. Contact her at tguillot4@cox.net.
Beverly Jackson is a poet/writer living in No. Carolina. Her print and online credits include Absinthe Review, Melic Review, Zoetrope All Story Extra, Shimmer, Night Train, and many others. She was nominated for a BASS in 2005 by Vestal Review. Visit her blog at www.beverlyajackson.com.
Michael Lee is an Australian born freelance writer who enjoys writing inspirational non-fiction, based on life experiences. He is also a pilot, a father of five, and a yogi who spends winters in Massachusetts with his family and summers at his lakeside camp in northern Maine. Michael is the author of two published books, Turn Stress into Bliss and Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy—Bridge from Body to Soul, and a contributing author to the APA published Beyond Talk Therapy. He has also had several essays published in magazines including Yoga Journal and AOPA Pilot.
Richard Merrill has seven years cable television experience and has spent the last 10 years in the trucking industry. He is looking into becoming a driving instructor. "I dabble in poetry while I'm on the road. Sometimes I get my colors right."
Glenn Osborn is a freelance writer-designer-photographer who lives in Perrysburg, Ohio. He is a founder of Scrawl: The Writer's Asylum. His short stories have appeared in Melic Review, Writer Online, The Story Garden, Toledo City Paper, InkPot Review and other journals. Glenn operates a website design firm, HandsOnWebsites.com. His two latest ventures are a novel he has recently completed and FlowerScarf.com, which sells silk scarves that incorporate some of his 3000-plus images of flowers (such as those which are included in this issue of The Story Garden).
Brent Powers is reported to exist by those who don't like him. His friends can't find him at all.
Terry Proffer lives in the piney woods of east Texas with five children and a dog named Mindy. She makes soup and thinks about writing a lot.
Roy Scarbrough has the usual college degrees, and some of the usual lit magazine credits. He served his writer's apprenticeship in newspaper journalism, and then started making stuff up. He lives in southern Oregon where he labors in a packing house.
F. John Sharp lives and works in the Cleveland area. His work has appeared in Pindeldybox, Paumanok Review, Salt River Review, Lunarosity, Prose Ax, and Quantum Muse, among others. He has edited the journals, Story Garden, Right Hand Pointing, and Night Train.
Tomi Shaw scrawls on paper, in a word processor and across the internets. Sometimes she has to leave words to play among themselves and she scrawls her visions in photographic media. And by-da-by, she's not overly fond of illeism. So: I see things, I hear things; I take them in and give them food, water, a temporary roof over their head then I kick 'em in the ass and send 'em back into the weather, hopefully a little bit more artistically inclined that when we first met. Links to my published work can be found at www.tomishaw.com.
Kristen Tsetsi earned her MFA and has since worked as a hotel front-desk clerk and a cab driver. Her stories can be found here and there online and in print. She lives in upstate NY with three cats, two ecosphere shrimp, and the man she wooed with secret admirer notes when they were both seventeen.