About the Contributors

About The Contributors

Issue One
ben ohmart
ben ohmart has had Lots of stories and poems in zines, and he enjoys writing plays no one produces.

Ellen Sung
Ellen Sung studies Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. This Louisiana native is obsessed with figure skating, and hopes to one day have many small children.

Roosevelt Casey
"I've had minor success placing stories and poems in publications like More Dead Trees, In Vivo, Planet Pop and The Insomniac, but that's about it. And I always use the pseudonym "Roosevelt Casey". It's a combination of my father's first name and my mother's maiden name. I think it brings me luck and I know it keeps me honest."

David Sutherland
David Hunter Sutherland is Chief Editor for Recursive Angel has had a number of works published in magazines, books, and anthologies over the years, with his first book of writing "BETWEEN ABSOLUTES" available via Ashland Publishing.

Wm. Michael Owens
I was raised on a farm in south Texas till I was 10 years old. At the age of 4 years old I was adopted by a kindly man Wm. H. Owens and raised by him. Dad treated me as one of his own sons till this day.

Dad worked for the Government in the missile program so he traveled alot all over the World sometimes I would go with him. Slowly, the farmboy gained a greater understanding of how the World was.

The sixties open my eyes to many things! Like most kids of my generation we all experimented with drugs, not knowing the path it led. I lost some friends to drugs and drug related deaths.

My first real job was working for the Women's housing in Germany. I was the only man in Two miles for one hundred women ages 18-45 something. I got a real education then. A young man at seventeen is quite innocent! I worked after school there and I wonder... Living in Europe I traveled by myself mostly and gain as much experience of life as a young man can. I tried everything that I thought a young man needed to know. I'll let your imagination go from there. Some countries have particular interest France, Italy, Austria, Belgium, etc.

I worked as a Disc Jockey for a year while going to college (69). The job seemed to not help my academic rating at all. However, I did gain more education.!

I met soon to me my first wife Patty in college. We came back to the States and married. This marriage ended in divorce in 7 years. Patty travels the World with one of her new husbands. I wish her the best...

I re-married during the disco years and I have one son, Steve and two girls, Christina and Nikki years old. Married With Children.... I've worked jobs that peak my interest like, junk yard mechanic, shoe salesman, electrician, Fuller Brushman, sold real estate, Engineering Co., minister, owned a business, Oil co., ITS, Union Pacific R/R., inspector, varies supervisors in varies jobs, worked for civil service, worked washing dishes, dug ditches. .

I've been writing for a number of years. My first book "Living Stones" was a combination of older writings. It was put together in a year. The interesting thing is I got poems and correspondence from all over the World.

My second book "Looking Thru a Glass Darkly" was similar to the first. I stop writing books and just stopped writing for about 3 years. Included in this bio is a short list of what I did that I kept track of. I sort of stopped paying much attention to this stuff, to me personally it is sort of vain.

However, I include this as proof and as a base for information for the curious. Other wise it is wasted space. I guess since I have made over $1.00 that makes me a professional Poet too...? Well, I let others decide that. I don't write for everybody, just myself .

Mary Jane
Can you hold on a second? -click-

Eric Trondson-Clinger
Eric Trondson-Clinger is a small pitiful boy of 6'3" (or so) who sits around waiting for his one and only mysteriousmasterladygirl. He is one master-mama-metal-chick-magnet. Or so.

Issue Two
Devor M. Barton
Yep, it sounds like you got Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, all right. Join the ranks. Me, I'm getting tennis elbow now, too. Go figure! And if you want to do up a new bio for me, go right on ahead. You know me better than I do, so go right ahead. Or just use this paragraph. Whatever.

ben ohmart
ben ohmart has had Lots of stories and poems in zines, and he enjoys writing plays no one produces.

Drew Feinberg

Issue Three
Michael Hait

Edith Sargon

Jackie Sullivan

Eric Trondson-Clinger
Eric Trondson-Clinger is 23 and has a really weird family tree. He can keep a straight face better than anyone alive, and has met only two people with bigger hands than his. He loves love, pretty much loves all, and is in dire need of love. So send some his way girls, ok?

Issue Four
Ryan Coleman
"I was born on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River (in a hospital), grew up, studied acting for two years, hosted a cable access show, left home in search of adventure, decided that I was always a writer, I've spent the last two years wandering around Canada, making friends, having adventures, getting bummed out from time to time, had a lot of different jobs, including: snow-mobile trail builder, library assistant, renovating a train station, lumberjack, walking trail builder, painter, teacher's assistant, landscaper, birdhouse builder, tree-planter, tent-raiser, dish-washer, night shift grocery-stocker, mover, and currently a drywall sander in Calgary, Alberta. I plan on attending some sort of school as soon as possible to sharpen my skills, and start be a good writer instead of just a writer."

Rachel Garcia
"Well, I'm from Texas. I'm on my school's lit & art mag. I plan to major in journalism. I first started writing poetry on a fluke. It's not something I share with lots of people. I don't think you can judge art."

Daniel Morris
Daniel Morris is a magazine editor in the Bay Area. His fiction has appeared online in Purr, Roar, Cheerleader Overdose and others.

Rachel Poh Yi Jeng
Rachel was born and bred in singapore...a very boring place...she's amazingly survived 17 years of pure restriction, boredom and torture under her parents...she has a great love for music, dancing, writing, dreaming and hockey...she's currently mourning for her lost love and sighing over the unattainable...but oh well.

Edith Sargon

Issue Five
Devor M. Barton
Yep, it sounds like you got Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, all right. Join the ranks. Me, I'm getting tennis elbow now, too. Go figure! And if you want to do up a new bio for me, go right on ahead. You know me better than I do, so go right ahead. Or just use this paragraph. Whatever.

S.H. Bennett
S.H. Bennett is a humble myth residing somewhere near the river flats of St. Paul, Minnesota.

John Erhardt
John is a philosophy major at Potsdam College in upstate NY. He is primarily a poet and essayist, and the stories in Holyboy Road mark his first fiction publication. He is an avid fan of Ben Ohmart, Charles Bukowski, and T.C. Boyle. He enjoys hiking, and hopes to one day climb all 46 high peaks in the Adirondacks.

Bill Rohrbach
Bill Rohrbach is the hero of the seas. he has written several novels on the life of tuna in the pacific. he is currently working on the biography of a starfish named Bubba. for further information on these elightening and creative works direct all inquiries to the BUBBABILL network.

Issue Six
Devor M. Barton
Yep, it sounds like you got Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, all right. Join the ranks. Me, I'm getting tennis elbow now, too. Go figure! And if you want to do up a new bio for me, go right on ahead. You know me better than I do, so go right ahead. Or just use this paragraph. Whatever.

S.H. Bennett
S.H. Bennett is a humble myth residing somewhere near the river flats of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Michael Froimowitz
Michael Froimowitz is a student at UMass Amherst. He has been writing poetry for several years and has published on a number of occasions. He is currently an Assistant Editor at the VOiCE which he urges you to take a look at. Among other things, he's obsessed with computer, neuropharmacology, philosophy, and of course, poetry.

Christa St. Peter
"I'm 22 - I just recently returned to my hometown of International Falls, MN where I've been having vivid nightmares and flashbacks from high school. International Falls is more stimulating than one might think, what with all the snow and hockey and...um......snow. Oh! And the world's largest thermometer! Somebody get me out of here. I'm freezing my ass off."

Issue Seven
Devor M. Barton
Yep, it sounds like you got Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, all right. Join the ranks. Me, I'm getting tennis elbow now, too. Go figure! And if you want to do up a new bio for me, go right on ahead. You know me better than I do, so go right ahead. Or just use this paragraph. Whatever.

Randy Burns

Zarya Chylde

Brittain Dean

James Edlund

Jesper Heed

J.N. Krause

Dustin Powell

Doug Tanoury

Eric Trondson-Clinger
I am twenty-seven years old. French people eat frogs and that terrifies me to no end.