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Forrest Aguirre
Forrest Aguirre writes because it's cheaper than heroin, though no less
addicting or devastating. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife
and four children, where he is inventory manager of the largest canoe
and kayak shop in the world. This has nothing more to do with his Master's
Degree in African History than this biography, but it does allow him to
commute by canoe. Forrest is managing editor of Ministry of Whimsy Press,
which, ironically, publishes almost no humor. He can be reached by email,
though he questions your wisdom in doing so.
Humor: Loose Change
Anne Babson
Anne Babson's poetry appears in four chapbooks: Counterterrorist Poems,
Dictation, Uppity Poems and Commute Poems. She won the
2000 Working People's Poetry Prize, and her verse has appeared in such
journals as The Atlanta Review, The Grasslands Review, California Quarterly,
Plainsongs, Taproot Literary Review, and The Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal,
which nominated her for the 2001 Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has been featured
on both regional and national radio programs. She sits on the board of
Women's Studio Center and on the Literary Committee of the National Arts
Club, and she runs a poetry reading series called the Holy Trinity Poetry
Forum.
Poetry: Heather Lewis in September, 1985
Tantra Bensko
Tantra is a full time photographic artist and illustrator. Many things
in her life have brought her to this point. She has been a guru, a model,
a university teacher, an art gallery owner, a poet, a healer, and a Tantra
instructor. She believes this reality is totally mind-controlled deception,
and that it is important to see through it. She makes a lot of art for
that purpose. Her site is: www.tantragarden.com.
Artwork: House Mystica
Rick Carroll
Born in Ottawa, Rick worked as a technician for 20 years. Married once,
divorced eons ago, with no kids, he moved to Perth in 1998 and turned
his focus to photography. His photographs
are available for websites promoting Canada.
Photograph: Untitled.html
Keltic
Corman
Keltic Corman,
designer of the continually morphing Wild Violet issue logos, was born
in 1991 in the rolling green hills of downtown Baltimore. After wandering
in and out of many a school in the county, he packed his bags and headed
west....about five miles, whereupon he was never heard from again. That
is unless you're on the Internet. That being his only contact with the
outside universe, he created a world
just like any other and rocked the masses with this knowledge of cheap
places to eat around his place. To this day you can still find him
on the net skulking around web pages and creating stories that will
never see the light of day...or night.
Amanda Cornwell
Wild Violet
webmaster and art editor Amanda Cornwell is a highly suffanciacated multimedia
artist and computer junkie -- coexisting with her computer and art supplies
somewhere in Maryland... for more exploration of her cranium visit www.geocities.com/suffanciacator.
Review: Yoshiba Battles the Pink Robots
by The Flaming Lips
Jim DeWitt
Editor of Eschew Obfuscation Review, Free Fall Express, and Soc Et Tuum,
Jim DeWitt is the author of 34 published books, as well as a language
researcher and originator of innovative vocabulary and figurative language
systems. He is the managing editor of a 24-year-old publishing house,
PEN-DEC PRESS, past president of the Michigan Council of Teachers of English
and was nominated for the 1997 Pushcart Award. Over the years, his poems
and flash fiction have appeared in 1,889 different literary magazines
and publications.
Poetry: First Triumph, It
Just Wasn't Fair
Rada Djurica
Radmila
Djurica
is a Serbian freelance journalist who has done correspondence work for
the Tiker Press Agency and has had articles published in British Sunday
and daily newspapers, including the Scottish newspaper, Sunday Post; in
Woman Abroad magazine; and at Storyhouse.org.
She has served as assistant editor, reading manuscripts for the Reading
Writers Service; has published articles with the SCN
Television Network in California; is a freelance columnist for the
British monthly magazine Code Uncut; and wrote about Serbia's International
Bitef Festival of contemporary theatre for Zowie Wowie Magazine, an American
e-zine.
Probe: Kerry Fox
Reviews: Femme Fatale, The
Affair of the Neclace
Jack
Goodstein
Jack Goodstein was a Professor of English for over thirty years. After retiring
he turned to acting and is currently seeking stardom, which is seemingly
just beyond his grasp. He has written plays (e.g. productions at the Pulse
Ensemble Theatre in New York and Northern Lights Theatre in Edmunton, Alberta),
fiction (e.g. The Maine Review, The Jewish Digest, Eclectica), and non-fiction
(e.g. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, College English). He has also been reviewing
books for The
Compulsive Reader, including a review of Tim
O'Brien's July, July. Recent fiction by Jack Goodstein has appeared
in The Coffee Press Journal, In
Posse Review, and Ken*again. He recently published essays in the Dakota
House Review, Senior Citizen's Magazine, and Rites of Passage. Plays at
Collaboraction in Chicago in June and the Pulse Ensemble Theatre in July.
Fiction: Princess and the Frog
John Grey
Australian born poet, playwright, musician, John Grey was recently
published in Confluence, Nebo and Blue Collar Review, with work upcoming
in Abbey, South Carolina Review and Ship Of Fools.
Poetry: The Job to Do
Joëlle E. Hübner-McLean
Joëlle E. Hübner-McLean was born in Nancy, France and landed
as an immigrant with her parents at Pier 21 Nova Scotia, Canada in the
50's. Married with two sons, she hold her life with her family dear to
her heart. Joëlle is a graduate from Trent University, Peterborough,
Ontario in Cultural/Native Studies. She loves music, gardening, animals,
walking in the woods and canoeing. Her passion is writing plays and historical
stories. Presently, Joëlle is completing her Bachelor of Education
with York University, Toronto, Ontario and is applying for her MA at Trent
University, in Canadian and Native Studies.
Essay: Innuit Culture and The Geneology of
Peter Leon
Frank Izzo
Frank Izzo's undergraduate degree is in psychology, from Holy Cross
College, received in the early 70's. From there he determined he wasn't
cut out to be a shrink, but wanted to write instead. He then headed to
the wonderful city of Philadelphia, where he spent two years working on
a master's in communications/journalism at Temple. There he met his wife,
Cheryl, and also discovered he was not much of a journalist, but more
a fiction writer at heart (He covered a story for the Legal Intelligencer
about Law School Deans, and he took photographs of all of them on an old
camera in which the film wasn't properly threaded, resulting in no pictures!)
So he sold out to Madison Avenue, leaving academia before he could finish
his thesis, and heading off to New York to write ads for everything from
the Playtex disposable Nurser to Pinch Scotch (which he often nursed on!)
Probably his most notable success was that one of his radio commercials
was "banned in Boston," because it featured a nun in Confession
admitting her love of frozen seafood on Fridays. On the literary front,
desperately trying to free himself from the mind-numbing silliness of
the ad biz, he wrote a science fiction short story, "Tank,"
which was first published internationally in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction
Magazine, and subsequently printed in several anthologies. Later he appeared
on the PBS TV series Fast Forward to recount the story during a segment
on artifical intelligence. For the past two years he has written the promo
bumper for the Film Fest New Haven, and he says it's a kick to see your
work on the BIG screen. His recent interest in poetry was sparked by his
son, who is studying poetry and history, and insisted Frank read one of
his favorites, Yeats. Frank returned the favor by exposing his son to
Billy Collins, who they heard speak at Frank's alma mater's commencement
this year. He spends most of his spare time keeping his wife amused and
confused, playing his accordion (think Boz Scaggs, not Lawrence Welk)
tending to his two wild and wooly cats, and trying to get his terminally
lazy English bulldog to get off the damn couch and go for a walk.
Poetry: Selling Bad Poetry By The Sea
Marcy Jarvis
Marcy Jarvis is full, I mean sick, I mean in and of herself.
Humor: Sportku
G Kumar
G Kumar is a writer, astrologer and programmer who has 25 years research
experience in the esoteric arts. He has a scientific and philosophic background
and he set up an Astrology website in 1999 to provide astrological service
to mankind. He has written more than 50 e-articles on New Age subjects
and has compiled six e-books as well as software in Astro Science. He
invites e-mail.
Essay: Vedic Astrology (Lessons 7-9)
Mary Matus
Mary is an aspiring Dave Barry/aspiring Stephen King (and will acknowledge
the weirdness of that combination) who has lived all her life in rural PA
(otherwise known as the Land of Cows and Corn.) When not writing, she works
as a typesetter in the composing departments of three newspapers (leading
to the occasional confusion.) She was once a reporter for Standard-Journal
Newspapers and still occasionally writes for the Luminary, a weekly newspaper
in Muncy, PA. She is a 1999 graduate of Susquehanna
University, where she received a bachelor of arts in English literature
and journalism and was active in The
Crusader student newspaper. She has recently been published in the online
magazine Wilmington
Blues. In her free time, she is an avid bookworm, reading anything ranging
from Toni Morrison to Dean Koontz.
Humor: Flirting with Baseball, Attack
of the Undead German Laser Printers from Hell
Review: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Christopher Mulrooney
Christopher Mulrooney is the author of notebook
and sheaves.
Poetry: Princeling
D.G. Opperwall
D. G. Opperwall is currently a freshman at Oberlin College, where he studies
philosophy and dreams of one day filling the streets of Paris with the
sounds of his scribbling and the smoke from his pipe. Fortunately, he
already looks really good in a pair of half-eyes. He makes his permanent
home in Detroit, Michigan, where he enjoys brewing beer and, of course,
writing poetry.
Poetry: Poems from the Cafe Series
Jessie Paesel
Jesse Paesel is a freshman majoring in English Lit at the University of
Illinois at Chicago. She spends her free time reading, writing, doing
schoolwork, and feeding her newfound love for buying comic books. Her
favorite book is The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and her favorite
author is Chuck Palahniuk. She hopes to start writing for her campus newspaper,
The Flame, in the near future. She welcomes e-mailed
comments.
Poetry: Out of Here
C.C. Parker
C. C. Parker lives in Arcata, California with his wife and daughter. He
works in a cave beneath his home and sometimes he just doesn't come out;
mostly, he doesn't want to. As for publishing, he's appeared in 40+ e-zines
(Dark Muse, Alternate Realities, Fuzzclog, etc . . .) and some in print:
Flesh and Blood (upcoming) the anthology, Decadence 2, and Peer Amid.
Fiction: Chaos, Disorder, Et Al
Stephanie
Scarborough
Stephanie Scarborough is a confused English major who doesn't know what
she wants to be when she grows up. Her last name is pronounced scarborough,
she is a vegetarian, a pisces, and wants to rule the world, or at least
a corner of her bathroom. She also has her own excuse for a
website.
Humor: Doughnut Sonnet No. 49
Wayne Scheer
After teaching writing and literature in college for twenty-five years,
Wayne Scheer retired to follow his own advice and write. His most recent
stories have appeared in Muse Apprentice Guild, LoveWords, Blue Magnolia,
Literary Potpourri and The Phone Book. He lives in Atlanta with his wife
and his computer. Wayne can be reached via email.
Fiction: Nothing is Real
Chuck Shandry
Chuck Shandry, former Navy Photographer and rabid anime fan, fondly remembers
the days of "Speed Racer" and "Kimba, the White Lion."
Currently, he attends and helps out at Katsucon, since '96, and Otakon
since '95, two anime conventions held on the East Coast of the U.S. (in
Baltimore, Maryland). He lives in York, Pennsylvania, and tries to blend
reality (a job) and fantasy (anime) as much as possible. Getting too old
to admit his true age, he nonetheless tries to spread the word of Japanese
animation at every opportoon-ity.
Probe: Jan Scott Frazier
Sam Vaknin
Sam
Vaknin is
the author of Malignant
Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After
the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He is a columnist for Central
Europe Review, United Press International (UPI) and eBookWeb
and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories
in The Open
Directory, Suite101
and searcheurope.com. Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor
to the Government of Macedonia. Visit Sam's Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com.
Essays:
Mind of a Narcissist (Skopje - Where Time Stood Still;
Portrait of the Narcissist as a Young Man;
I Cannot Forgive).
Alyce Wilson
Wild Violet editor Alyce Wilson is a closet geisha and freelance writer
who identifies with the John Lennon song "Watching the Wheels."
She's the
author of a self-syndicated column, "Dream
Machine: Meditations on Pop Culture." To check out another of
her (long neglected) projects, visit Otaku
Research and share your thoughts about Japanese anime fandom.
Review: Walk in the Light by Leo Tolstoy
Probe: MPE Band
Photograph: Pulsar
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