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Dogger L. Banks
Abandoned at an early age, Dogger Bank’s poetic education began when he was adopted by a compulsive rhymer. Emulating his new mother, trouble ensued at school when he would only give answers questions which he could express in heroic couplets. After expulsion from several schools, Banks found himself out on the street, unable to claim social security benefits because the application forms required straight forward yes/no answers. He made the most of the dire situation by devoting himself to the task of reading the complete works of every known poet since Hesiod, and then eating the book afterwards for nourishment. His favourites include Ovid, Dryden, Pope, Byron and Wilfred Owen, all of which he found quite tasty.
Dogger Banks is 96.
Kendall Bell
Kendall A. Bell is a North Jersey native who transplanted to Burlington County over 4 years ago. His poetry deals with the frustration of everyday life, and the hope of better days. His work has appeared in Rowan College's "Venue" magazine, Splat! Fanzine, Edison Literary Review, the online journals Prose Toad and Baby Clam Press, and in the nine chapbooks he has self-published over the last eight years. He has also recorded two spoken word cd's: "Droning" and "With Sympathy". He is a co-founding member of the Quick And Dirty Poets. They released a compilation of poems called "Fast And Filthy" in 2003 and another in 2004 called "Quick Meals And Dirty Dishes". In March of 2005, the QND's released their first print journal, "Up And Under". A long time curmudgeon, he is now working on codger status.
Christina Bisirri
Christina Bisirri grew up in South Jersey and moved to New York to go to school and work in 1992. While at Marist College, she worked briefly in daytime television and graduated with a Bachelor's in English and Journalism in 1992. In 2004, she graduated from Rutgers University with a Masters in English and Composition; currently she teaches English at Seminole Community College in Sanford, Florida. She has been writing for years, and "The Cheat" is her first attempt at publishing her catalogue.
Scotty Blake
I'm an aviation firefighter in Australia and a divorced father of three
great kids aged 21, 19 and 13. My interest in poetry started in High School and since that time, I have written intermittently over the years; it is only in the last few years that I have been introduced to online workshopping, only to discover just how little I actually knew about poetry in general. I've written a few pieces that I've been told have merit
but I don't expect to see a copy of Scotty's Poetry in a book on anyone's coffee table anytime soon. If I have one wish in life then it would be to be the best father/husband/lover/soulmate/friend to those who need me to be, and as I'm finding out, that requires just as much work as writing good poetry.
Barbara Brackney
Barbara Brackney rose from poor white trash to become a clinical psychologist and a Professor Emerita. She still identifies with the chaotic life of the sad but plucky girl that once was. These poems are intended to keep her alive and to reach out to others whose beginning safety nets were tenuous. she lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with George, her true love for 29 years.
Bradley Buchanan
Bradley Buchanan has published poetry in more than 100 journals worldwide, including Illuminations, The Notre Dame Review, The Portland Review, The Seattle Review, and Whetstone. He is originally from Canada, but has lived in the United States for the past ten years. His work attempts to blend the immediacy, concrete details and intellectual ambition of American poetry with the formalist tendencies of more traditional British-influenced poetry.
Rachel Bunting
Rachel Bunting is a born and bred South Jersey girl who is currently disentangling herself from the Pine Barrens. Her poems can be found in Edison Literary Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Mad Poets Review, and in the ezines Wicked Alice and The Barefoot Muse. She is a dedicated fan of British bands from the 80s and a terrible dancer.
Steve Cartwright
It's well known that an artist becomes more popular by dying, so I'm typing this with one hand while pummeling my head with a frozen mackerel with the other. I've done art for several magazines, newspapers, websites, commercial and governmental clients, books, and scribbled on tavern napkins. I also create art pro bono for several animal rescue groups. I was awarded the 2004 James Award for my cover art for Champagne Shivers. I recently illustrated the Cimarron Review cover.
Michael Ceraolo
Michael is a fortysomething civil servant/poet trying to overcome a middle class upbringing. Author of two books of poetry: 'Euclid Creek: A Journey' from Deedp Cleveland Press and 'Cleveland Haiku' from Green Panda Press.
Kelly Cornett
Born in Washington, DC on December 24, Kelly lives in Elkton, MD. She graduated from Western Maryland College in 1994.
Married with one son, Alec, three dogs and a cat.
Holly Day
Holly Day’s newest books, Music Theory for Dummies and Shakira were published in2007. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have most recently appeared in January, Philadelphia Poets, and California Quarterly. She currently works as a reporter and a writing instructor in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and lives with her two children and husband.
Kate Delany
Kate's previous publication credits include appearances in such magazines and journals as The Advocate, Along the Path, Barrelhouse, Burning Leaf, The Fossil Record, Jabberwock Review, Lilith, 13th Moon, Nomad’s Choir, Samsara, Spire Press and The Writers’ Exchange. In addition to freelance writing (poetry and fiction), she teaches in the English department at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ.
Steve Demoss
Steve is 20 and has been writing poetry for the past four years and has been
published for the last two. When not writing I enjoy music, films, and friends. A brief list of his publications includes:Indiana Bay Press’s January 2007 issue of “Poesia”, The Fall 06’ issue of “Soul Fountain”, Volume 12 of “The Eclectic Muse”, The November 06’ issue of “Idiom 23”, Scar’s Publications 2005 book, Chaos Theory.
Richard Donnelly
Richard publishes poetry and short fiction in a variety of venues including Mad Swirl, Apalachee Review, Miller's Pond, Remark, and others.
Dory Doughty
Dory is a recent graphic design graduate. A few years ago she decided to embark on a major career change that transformed her from the world of a corporate IT cubicle to the vast creative universe of the visual arts. A change she sweetly savors. She has exhibited her paintings, charcoal drawings, 3-dimensional pieces and graphic design work and in 2006 was honored with a Purchase Award and an Honorable Mention for two of her submitted pieces. Dory is currently freelancing for a few small graphic design studios in the Philadelphia area. Someday she'd like to go back to art school to study sculpture and painting. She enjoys music, dabbling on the guitar and trumpet, and enjoyed being a disc jockey at WKDU 91.7FM radio station for over 14 years, with a show titled "Digestible Decibels".
Anna Evans
Anna Evans is a British citizen but permanent resident of NJ, where she is raising two daughters. She has had over 100 poems published in journals including The Formalist, The Evansville Review, Light Quarterly, Measure, and many others. In 2005 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a finalist in the Howard Nemerov sonnet award. She is editor of the formal poetry e-zine The Barefoot Muse and is currently enrolled in the Bennington College MFA Program. Her first chapbook Swimming was published in March 2006 by Powerscore Press. She occasionally dreams in Iambic Pentameter.
Sarah Gallup
Sarah Gallup has been a teacher of English, a paralegal, an investigator for the government, and a participant in may years of community and dinner theater, where, in her spare time she has acted, directed, costumed, designed and built sets. She has in the last five years turned her creative efforts to writing, drawing on her wide experience. Sarah is a native of up-state New York. She met her husband of 33 years while attending Houghton College. Together they have three adult daughters and two grandsons. She and her husband, Bruce, currently reside in Voorhees, NJ.
Ron Cappucino
Ron is the author of the soon to be completed novel, 'A Hard Rock'. He has the distinction of being the first person to have his deposit returned whilst attempting to open an account at the local sperm bank.
Julie Greenbaum
Julie was born and raised in Philadelphia and had an interest in poetry since she
was in high school and had an equal passion for music. She studied English in
college and had an opportunity to study abroad in Australia and study, what
else English where she was exposed to many brilliant Australian writers and had an
opportunity to meet many. The true poet came out during the course of her
stay in Australia. She wrote many poems. Some just about every day life, and
some about the magic of the land and the people of Australia. Coming home
was quite difficult, as the day before, she was spending a summer day on a
beautiful beach in Sydney...thousands of miles later, she found herself in the
back seat of her father's car, driving on I95 in a major snow storm...She
wanted to go back. But coming home was a blessing, as she longed to tell the
story of where she had been, and the personal and spiritual journey that she had taken.
Since then, Julie has earned a degree in English, has a desktop publishing
certificate, has worked in the music industry, and has achieved her dream of
becoming an editor in the publishing industry. She volunteers, travels and
cherishes every free moment she gets.
Tony Gruenewald
Tony Gruenewald's poetry has been published in The New York Times, Slow
Trains, Identity Theory, Adbusters, the Aquarian, Edison Literary
Review, Exit 13, Up and Under, U.S. 1 as well as lots of other places
that no longer exist. He lives in Edison where he grew up being lulled
to sleep in the shade of the Ford plant's water tower by the soothing
sounds of Route 1. After a few moments in broadcast journalism and a
dozen years in advertising he repented and works in the nonprofit world
for Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in the greater Princeton
metropolitan area. And if all else fails, he still has his Teamsters
card.
Jason Hardung
Jason Hardung has been a freelance writer for Thrasher and Drift magazines. His poetry has appeared in Black Book Press and Words Speak Network Anthology 2007. Other work that has been accepted will appear in Thick with Conviction and Language and Culture.net. He is a 33 year old college student that wasted too many years doing the wrong things, and now decided to concentrate on his writing. He wants to be the best writer he can be.
Suzanne Harvey
For almost two decades, Suzanne R. Harvey, Ph.D., lectured in the
English Department at Stanford University. She is now retired. In addition, for a semester she was a visiting lecturer in the English Department at the University of California at Berkeley, and for almost a decade she was also an instructor in the Publishing Program at the University of California at Berkeley Extension.
While at Stanford she and her husband served as resident fellows in an all-freshmen dormitory, about which
they subsequently self-published a book, entitled "Virtual Reality and the College Freshman: All our friends are 18."
Before relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, she was an instructor
at Tufts University where she received her doctorate in Elizabethan poetry, specifically that of Edmund Spenser. Recently, in her retirement Suzanne has been active in teaching at Emeritus College. She has over 40 poems published and has received over 30 awards in contests and competitions.
Michael Henson
Michael Henson is author of Ransack, a novel, and A Small Room with Trouble on My Mind, a book of stories, and The Tao of Longing, a chapbook of poems. Crow Call, an extended elegy for the murdered homeless activist Buddy Gray, was published in 2006 by the West End Press. Henson is a member of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. He lives in Cincinnati. His daughter, Liv Henson, authored his portrait photograph.
Bobbi Dykema Katsanis
Since Bobbi Dykema Katsanis generally has entirely too much time on her hands, she decided to pursue a doctorate in Art and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union. While her colleagues are seeking publication in respected academic theological journals, she avoids homework altogether by seeking publication in such widely ignored print and online literary mags as hotmetalpress.net, The Binnacle, The Litchfield Review, and The Chaffin Journal. Her chapbook, The Magdalene's Notebook, appeared in September 2006 from Finishing Line Press and also managed to distract her from a significant amount of serious work.
Michael Keshigian
I am a performing musician and college educator in Boston . My most recent publication credits include: California Quarterly, Pegasus, Red River Review, Oyez Review, Fairfield Review, and The Aurorean among many other written and online periodicals.
Jack Klett
Jack considers himself a writer, a philosopher, a political pundit - among other things; yet his paycheck claims he is just a college administrator. He lives in downtown Philadelphia with his family – Joe, Edgar (pictured) and Lu-Lu. He dedicates this story to Hero, a member of the family who is greatly missed.
Kathryn Kopple
Kathryn Kopple has published translations of Latin American poets and authors in literary reviews, anthologies, and magazines. Her work appears in Boundary 2 (Spring 1999), Chain 5 (Summer 1998), Prairie Schooner (Winter 1997), The Exact Change Yearbook (1995). In spring 1993, Sonora Review awarded second place to her translation of Mercedes Roffe's poem "#34." In addition, Bard College published her translation of Argentine poet Emeterio Cerrro's "Miss Murkiness" in their Language and Thinking Anthology (2006).
Natalie Lorenzo
Natalie is a 26 year old poet born in Washington, DC, raised in New Jersey and now living in California. Among the scant few who have published her are online journals such as Thick With Conviction and Baker's Dozen Literary Review. She also enjoys music, rollerblading, photography, drawing and hiking. She has an unhealthy attachment to Panera Bread and fears she may be forcibly removed from one of their stores in the future.
Aubrey Makepiece
Aubrey Makepiece is currently undergoing puberty.
Barbette Barbay
Doormat & Whore. Hobbies: Guns & Cookery.
Paul Lench
A not surprisingly unpublished poet living in Philadelphia. Currently in search of his poetic voice, which he once felt he’d found, but lost again when he reached puberty. Paul works for a non-profit human services organization, which makes him rather self-satisfied and smug.
Alex Lavoie
Alexandra Lavoie was raised and worked in the back hills of Vermont. Inspired by many retired hippies that had retreated to the mountains, she attended Johnson College and The Governors Institute of the Arts in her late teens and was taught creative methods by Verandah Porche. Alexandra moved to the Philadelphia area to "make a go of it" but never figured out what "it" was. She slings margaritas at a local bar and enjoys all the interesting people and down time it provides. Her last books purchased William Wordsworth for the poem 'ODE: Intimations of Immortality' and, in tribute to Hunter S. Thompson, 'Kingdom of Fear'.
Joey Nicoletti
I am a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College's MFA program, where I worked
with more great teachers and colleagues than can be counted with
existing technology. My poems and reviews have appeared in Free Lunch,
Italian Americana, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Aethlon, Gulf Stream, Puerto
del Sol, and other journals. When we're not attempting east-meets-west
recipes by Ming Tsai, my wife and I divide our time between Albuquerque,
New Mexico, and Northeast Ohio, where I teach Creative Writing at Kent
State University.
Bruce Niedt
Bruce W. Niedt is a beneficent bureaucrat from South
Jersey whose poetry has been published in a whole bunch of print and online
journals, including Mad Poets Review, Edison Literary Review, Writers'
Journal, The Wolf (UK), Chantarelle's Notebook, Up and Under: the QND
Review, Baby Clam Press, and Schuykill Valley Journal. His awards
include the ByLine Short Fiction and Poetry Award, first and second prize
for poetry at the 2006 Philadelphia Writers Conference, and a Pushcart
Prize nomination. He is humble but likes to brag.
Deborah Olley
Deborah Olley earned a master’s degree in English literature from Fordham University and a master’s degree in library science from Queens College (CUNY). She has worked as a writer, librarian, grant writer, and editor, and is a writer and editor with Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia. An avid reader, Olley has kept a diary since age 10, and now has over 25 journals squirreled away in various drawers and desks around the home in suburban Philadelphia she shares with her husband and their 100-pound German shepherd. Olley currently is seeking representation for her first novel, Memorare.
Maureen Palli
Maureen Palli knows that sometimes when you expect the least, you get the most. A graduate of Rider University with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce. Her article: “Woman At Work: Kristen Hall, Sweet As Sugarland” will be included in an upcoming issue of Relix Magazine. She received “Honorable Mention” for Magazine Writing at The 57th Annual Philadelphia Writers’ Conference in June, 2005. Her writing has been published by Sunken Lines, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Rider University.
She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.
D.R. Patterson Jr.
D R Patterson was born and raised for 21 years in the Philadelphia area before taking his personal quest for the American Dream to the wide open spaces. Currently residing in the most crimson of Red states The Lone Star Republic, he is embedded in the congressional district of the exterminator who would be King, the less than honorable majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives -Tom DeLay. He accepted this move with great risk to personal prestige and honor to engage the infidels on their own turf. Taking advantage of every possible opportunity, he has semi- successfully badgered the entrenched power structure with his version of Prudent, Progressive Populist fervor. D.R. has managed to stay out of prison and maintain a perfect record of never attending a fundamentalist / bible thumping church services under the guise of saving his eternally damned and lapsed Episcopalian/Unitarian/Buddhist soul.
His immediate family, hopelessly brainwashed by sinister ex- Enron Broadband executives and forced to embrace the grand capitalistic illusion, have rejected his humble and charismatic approach to all endeavors large and small. He was last seen living in a double wide mobile home, somewhere east of paradise, raising goats and emus for commercial gain and soon to be fame. His prized animal is a young male pygmy goat named Lucifer born with the entire book of Revelations written in Latin on his belly. Regarding this phenomena, Patterson is currently entertaining a lucrative offer tendered by the Christian Broadcast Network for syndication of his proposed reality show, The Strange and Wonderful Life of the Holy Goat in a Virgin Dairy. In his spare time he runs a consulting firm that specializes in preparing true believers for the Rapture, assisting in arrangements to sell all their worldly possessions to the unwashed Godless masses.
Lisa Pinkowski
Lisa took a personality test recently which said she was still
seeking an identity. Frankly, she feels she has too many already.
She is wife, lover, partner, friend, mom, step-mom and grandmom. To
the cats, she’s the feeder-person. To Atty. H., she is paralegal,
secretary, lunch date, sounding board, whipping boy, and “minister
plenipotentiary,” or so he says. She is a Christian missionary with
more doubt than faith and treasurer of her church. She is a
chairwoman, charwoman, student, teacher, housekeeper, bookkeeper,
chief cook and bottle washer, chauffeur, gopher, and the finder of
lost things. And did we mention she can use power tools. But on
those rare occasions when the work is done and the house is quiet she
is also the wannabe writer of the Great American Novel. And she
seeks out those myriad identities floating around in her head and she
is whoever she wants, living whenever and wherever—but only on paper,
of course.
Tim Poland
Tim Poland grew up in Ohio and now lives and works in the New River Valley near the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwestern Virginia. He is the author of Escapee (America House, 2001), a collection of short fiction. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in various literary journals, such as Beloit Fiction Journal, Literal Latte, Appalachian Heritage, Rattle, Main Street Rag,Sow's Ear Poetry Review, The Furnace Review, and others. He is a professor of English at Radford University in Radford, Virginia.
Ajay Rai
I was left alone very early in life – and I have made the most of it. I was born in the city of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, a confluence of three very important rivers – The Ganges, the Yamuna, and to others the unseen, mythical Saraswati – that have ruled the soul of my country since ever. I have not been to the city of my birth for the last fifty years. But even now when I close my eyes I see the great, still waters in the evening, carrying for miles the music and rhythm of the boatman singing, the waters splashing on the high walls of the city fort. I graduated with honors in commerce and decided to explore life, ultimately finding an occupation I enjoyed hugely – looking after orphans and destitute children.
Larry Rapant
Larry Rapant does not post photos of himself on the web. He considers this to be his contribution to the continuation of Western Civilisation. The inventor of a form of poetry called Lowku, he lives just under the radar in Costa Rica with his four underage wives.
Terry Sanville
Terry Sanville lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet
wife, Marguerite Costigan (his in-house editor) and two cats (his in-house critics). He writes full time, producing short stories, essays, the occasional poem, and novels (that are hiding in his closet, awaiting editing). Since 2005, his short stories have been accepted by more than 50 literary and commercial journals, magazines, and anthologies (both print and online) including Foliate Oak, Storyteller, La Fenetre Magazine, and the Loch Raven Review. Terry is a retired urban planner and an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist – who once played with a symphony orchestra backing up jazz legend George Shearing.
Emily Sharp
Emily Sharp is a recent graduate of Stephens College, in Columbia Missouri, double-majoring in creative writing and art. At the moment, she is fulfilling her degree waiting tables at a Cuban restaurant, back home in Dallas, making literary endeavors by day and mojitos by night and looking for the next adventure to carry her away. Her art and writing are published in Stephen’s literary journal, “Harbinger,” and she received honorable mention for a fiction story at the Sigma Tau Delta international convention in Portland last year.
Tom Sheehan
Tom Sheehan’s Epic Cures, (short stories), from Press 53 won a 2006 IPPY Award from Independent Publishers. A Collection of Friends, (memoirs), 2004 from Pocol Press, was nominated for PEN America Albrend Memoir Award). His fourth poetry book, This Rare Earth & Other Flights, was issued by Lit Pot Press, 2003. Print mysteries are Vigilantes East and Death for the Phantom Receiver. Six novels seek publication. His short story collection, Brief Cases, Short Spans, will be issued in 2008, and The Quickening Source has been completed. He has nominations for nine Pushcart Prizes and two Million Writers Awards, a Silver Rose Award from ART for short story excellence, and many Internet appearances. He is a veteran of the Korean War (31st Infantry Regiment), a Boston College grad after Army service, and has been retired for 17 years.
Suzanne
Suzanne contends that she’s been writing since she emerged from the womb. Ha, not really folks. I won’t pretend; it’s only me here. I’ve been writing poetry since I was a child, though. In my thirties I became a singer/songwriter and have been hacking away at that for lo these many (I’m not saying how many) years. Two years ago I started my blog, www.suzannesdreamjournal.net. and have been faithfully adding a new dream/story every Sunday since. During recovery from foot surgery in January of this year, I began writing a full-length novel that includes Suzanne as a character, along with her dream journals and other wild and wacky rock and rollers. Also some normalish people. That’s it. Can’t say anything more than that, because I tell the truth ‘cept when I lie. When will I finish THE BOOK? Only my hairdresser knows for sure.
Jeanne Dangerous
Ms. Dangerous is a resident of Delaware, bless her.
J. Taus
J.Taus is a Philadelphia native, currently resident in Sydney, Australia
Jon Wesick
Holding a Ph.D. in physics and having studied Buddhism for twenty years, Jon Wesick has enjoyed a front row seat at a collision of worldviews. When he spots a shiny piece of wreckage, he darts into the roadway and retrieves a poem, story, or novel. Jon has published over a hundred poems in small press journals such as Pearl, Pudding, Slipstream, American Tanka, Anthology Magazine, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, Edgz, The Kaleidoscope Review, The Magee Park Anthology, The New Verse News, Poesia, Sacred Journey, San Diego Writer’s Monthly, Tidepools, Vortex of the Macabre, Zillah, and others. He’s published eight chapbooks, including two that have been honorable mentions in the San Diego Book Awards.
Cookie Williams
Cookie Williams has more than 18 years experience working in professional public relations. A former journalist and award-winning writer, she provides innovative strategic thinking, exceptional program development and implementation, and extraordinarily successful media relations - all custom-designed to enhance name recognition, brand identity and corporate image.
Cookie is an active member of the International Association of Business Communicators, the Public Relations Society of America and the Philadelphia Press Club.
Susan Winzelberg
Susan Winzelberg, who is proud to be a carnivore, was raised at the Jersey Shore and began her writing career at 11 years old as the editor of her neighborhood newspaper, The Hill Weekly. President John F. Kennedy was a grateful recipient of one of her issues during his office, and subsequently acknowledged her eloquence by sending for real autographed pictures of he and his family, which Susan treasures to this day, (and refrains from selling on EBay.) Since then, she has advanced her writing career by canceling chemistry classes in college to party with her friends, and later locking her children out of her bedroom to compose articles to her local paper, The Asbury Park Press. Her novel, The Forever Deal, is currently seeking a home with an agency. Susan's also realized modest success with published, nonfiction articles and is quite ecstatic to join the family of contributors of Sunken Lines.
Cynthia Wilson
Cynthia Wilson began her photographic journey at 10 years of age when she got her first camera. She explored movement through long family car rides to upstate NY in her beginning stages. Cynthia took her first photography course at Beaver College (now Arcadia University) and instantly knew that there was no going back. She continues to experiment with different subject matters and types of photographic processes. Her work has been displayed in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Florida. Cynthia’s work has been published in newspapers, literary journals and magazines across the country. She is currently working on a photographic essay called “I am a Librarian!” For more information please about Cynthia’s photography and project please go to www.cynthiawilson.net and www.iamalibrarian.com.
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