Keltic
Corman
Keltic
Corman, designer of the Wild Violet logo for Issues 1-4, 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.
Poem: I want to become these words
Essay:
Make-up is Not FOE
Artwork:
Proxmordial
Soup
Rich Furman
Rich Furman, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of
Social Work at Colorado State University. His poetry has been
published in, or is soon to be published in, Red Rock Review,
Colere, Pearl, Hawai'i Review, Black Bear Review, The Journal
of Poetry Therapy, Poetry Motel, Penn Review, and well over
100 poems in nearly 100 literary journals. His work has been
described as neither street nor beat nor meat nor academic,
but an emotionally evocative mix of styles that can be brutally
imagistic or powerfully terse. His scholarly writing is concerned
with social work ethics, international social work, friendship,
social work theory and social work practice. He teaches group
and practice courses in the BSW and MSW programs. He is married
to a wonderful women who has more freckles than there are craters
on the moon, has two children, loves to mountain bike, and is
slightly obsessed with his two spectacular, drooling American
Bull dogs. He loves Vietnamese beef noodle soup, Pho, and would
gratefully accept any express mailed shipments of it from regions
afar. You can't find it in the plains of northern Colorado.
Mostly, he just likes to live as fully as possibly. He welcomes
feedback, comments
and dialogue about his work. His first chapbook of poetry, of
only average intent, was printed by Snorting Dog Press in 2002.
He is currently seeking a publisher for his first full-length
book, The Trotting Race of Time, 72 pages of poems which
subtly deal with the social conditions in Latin America, alienation,
and triumph.
Poetry: Anchor of Doom
Avram
Leib ben Gordon
Avram enjoys several mental illnesses. He proudly proclaims
himself to be a marijuana addict in need of treatment (of what
sort he won't say). A.G. is the author of, among other things,
the first nationally published review of Redfield's The Celestine
Prophecy (New Frontier Magazine, 9/1993), a series of drug policy
articles for underground newspapers in PA (1990-1997), and a
peer-reviewed technical paper purporting marijuana to be an
ancient mammalian defense adaptation against a class of illnesses
caused by environmental pollutants (1996). Currently, A.G. is
an electrical apprentice and nightclub bouncer in Athens, Georgia,
and is working on his autobiographical science fiction thriller
which details his past adolescent dabblings with time machines,
UFOs, clairvoyance, er, um, psychedelics, and well, you get
the picture.
Humor: Old Things
Vince Hom
I would like to think my purpose in life is to play golf and
travel. In between the two, I squeeze in a career as a network
administrator, although I have an economics and finance degree.
I too have a little personal spot in cyberspace: http://www.geocities.com/vincetravel.
Artwork: Roman Baths
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
4-6)
Wendy
Lestina
Like her great-grandmother, Anna Amanda Eda Albertine Schmidt
Folendorf Atherton, Wendy Robertson Detlefsen Reid Crisp Zavin
Lestina has seven names. She has lived in five states: California,
Washington, New York, Oregon, and Minnesota, and she has five
grandchildren. This is her fourth published short story. She
is 58 and wears a size 12.
Fiction: That Time You Were Gone
Kelly Ann Malone
A 38-year-old mother of three boys, Kelly works as a project
analyst in a cancer research department in the health care industry.
She lives in Southern California and has been published in York
University's School of Women's Studies Journal, Cappers Magazine,
Chrysalis Web-Zine, The Wesleyan Advocate Magazine, Aalst Magazine,
Literati Magazine, New Authors Journal, The Twilight Times Publication,
Hawkwindcreations.com, The Street Corner, Shadow Poetry, Tamafyhr
Mountain Poetry, Wordsalad.net, Stickyourneckout.com, Poems
Niederngasse.com and Pulsar Ligden Poetry Society. She is a
regular poetry contributor to the Catholic News Daily and is
currently writing a children's novel. She has recently had work
accepted at Exitart.org,
Witnesstowar.org,
September 11,2001 Documentary Project (The library of Congress),
Virtual Union Square, Documentnewyork.com,
and http://911intransit.org.
Humor: The Radio Active Outlet
Chris
Martinez
Fluent in over 14.2 languages, versed in more than 34 international
ethnic dances, and holding Ph.D.'s in microbiology, quantum
physics, and hermaphrodite studies, Chris Martinez is a typical
Pennsylvania man.
Fiction:
Let Me Drive
Poetry: Shards, Not
U.S.
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: Cartoons Have it Easy
Essay: The Ex-Files
Andrew
Penland
Andrew Penland lives in the mountains of North Carolina. He
writes, produces music, paints, raps, draws, makes collages,
and assembles zines. You can obtains his zines through Spy
Kids Distro and Fortune
Cookie Distro or view his artwork at The
Oddity Factory or creativegoals.com.
Poetry: ones and zeros
Andrija Popovic
Andrija Popovic exists. A resident of Stafford, Virginia,
he has published short stories in several zines.
Poetry: Two Tanka
Mary
Robinson
Mary's
interest in writing was fueled after taking a class on the Beat
Generation. She has read her works at the Jack Kerouac Festival
and as a featured Poet of the Month at Barnes & Noble. Mary's
poems and stories have been published in Alpha Beat Press, Circle
Magazine and Rosebud. She once skydived out of a Cessna at 13,000
feet so that she could write about it. Mary's philosophy is
that in order to write you have to place yourself in situations
that showcase life.
Fiction:
Baklava
Carl Schonbeck
Carl Schonbeck is a 37-year old freelance writer and musician
who has resided in Milan, Italy since 1990. He is originally
from Marlborough, Massachusetts. He has written for various
magazines and newspapers on a number of subjects, including
music, travel and history. His great passions in life are writing
songs, following the Boston Red Sox and reading History books;
pretty exciting, huh? He welcomes feedback.
carlsch@iol.it
Essay: First Place
Berlin
St. Croix
She can be found in graveyards and aqueducts. She can be spied
in dark corners and gothic passageways. She knew your mother
before she was born. Berlin St. Croix is cooler than you.
Cuttings: Cool Chick, Band
Names
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.
Essay:
The Mind of a Narcissist, Part 1
