Francis Wesley Alexander has had haiku chosen for the "Spasms of Light" anthology. Two of his short poems have been nominated for the 2009 Dwarf Stars award.
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Bruce Boston (door art) Bruce Boston grew up in suburban Los Angeles in an era of drop drills, the Space Race, the Cold War, and rock and roll. He now lives in Ocala, Florida with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon. Bruce holds the distinctions of having appeared in more issues of Asimov's SF Magazine than any other writer, and of coining the word "cybertext." He enjoys playing chess, listening to jazz and ambient music, reading all manner of things, and table tennis.
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assu aka David C. Kopaska-Merkel describes rocks for the state of Alabama and enjoys an almost year-round flower garden. A house full of visual artists may or may not help with the poetry but does create an ever-changing vista of piles of stuff interspersed with paintings, sculptures, etc. Kopaska-Merkel grew up in Jeffersonia and now lives in town made famous by Groucho Marx.
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Tony Burfield lives in Boulder, CO and works at the public library. When not working or running wild in the hills, he reads, writes and pounds on his bongos.
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Tom Conally lives in Elon NC, teaches chemistry at Alamance Community College
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Angel Favazza: I am a high school teacher who lives in Michigan with two rescued chinchillas, several fancy goldfish, a few cats and a couple crested geckos. I have been a lifelong sci-fi fan and an avid writer and reader of sci-fi poetry for the past twenty years. I have a forthcoming poetry collection due out this winter from Sam's Dot Publishing.
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Joshua Gage is an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland, OH. His chapbook, Deep Cleveland Lenten Blues, is available from Deep Cleveland Press, and his first full-length collection, breaths, is available from VanZeno Press. He is a graduate of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Naropa University. He has a penchant for Pendleton shirts, rye whiskey and any poem strong enough to yank the breath out of his lungs. He stomps around Cleveland in a purple bathrobe where he hosts the monthly Deep Cleveland Poetry hour and enjoys the beer at Brew Kettle.
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LeRoy Gorman lives in Napanee , Ontario and teaches in Kingston . His poetry, much of it visual, mostly minimalist and haiku or haiku in intent, has appeared in print since 1976 in various presentations worldwide. Over the years, he has also assumed and written under at least 50 pseudonyms Since 1996, he has been editor of Haiku Canada Publications (Haiku Canada Newsletter 1996 - 2006, Haiku Canada Review beginning in 2007, annual anthologies, broadsides). In 1998, he began to publish poetry leaflets and postcards under his pawEpress imprint. He is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada, Haiku Society of America, and life member of Haiku Canada.
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John Hayes: I retired from writing procedure manuals several years ago. Now I act and direct in Community Theater. I was a corpse on Homicide.
I've been published in Flesh and Blood, Scifaikuest Space and Time, BareBone, Modern Haiku, Champaign Shivers, Writers Journal and other magazines. Five of my one-act plays have been produced.
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Carolyn M. Hinderliter lives in Phoenix, Arizona and is a member of the Haiku Society of America. Her poems have appeared in a variety of online and print sources, including Chrysanthemum, Frogpond, Prune Juice, Rattlesnake Review, and The Mainichi Daily News.
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William Landis is a student at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro NC where he studies the agricultural and life sciences when he is not daydreaming or at a party or talking to some young lady and promptly getting turned down or on some pointless quest.
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David S. Pointer is a widely published poet in the American small press. He is new to horror and science fiction. He lives with his two daughters in Murfreesboro, TN.
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WC Roberts lives in a mobile home up on Bixby Hill, on land that was once the county dump. The only window looks out on a ragged scarecrow standing in a field of straw and dressed in WC's own discarded clothes. WC dreams of the desert, of finally getting his first television set, and of ravens. Above all, he writes.
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semi aka Terrie Leigh Relf
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dan smith: dan is a member of the Deep Cleveland tribe of poets and the Cleveland Speculators. He enjoys hanging out with them & the other wonderful writers, artists & musicians he has met along the way.
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Simon Thalmann: I am a professional freelance writer based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. I graduated in December magna cum laude from Western Michigan University with a degree in English and a minor in journalism, and since then I've spent much of my time writing entertainment articles for the Kalamazoo Gazette, the regional daily newspaper here.
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