wild violet | dream zone

P.F. Allen
Of his YellowMan poems, P.F. Allen says, "YellowMan is a sort of EveryMan/EveryWoman who popped into my head one day when I was working on other things, and I've been writing about him ever since. He allows me to say things I wouldn't ordinarily say, so he has been an inspiring muse."
Poetry: Why YellowMan is Yellow

Tim Applegate
Tim Applegate is a poet and freelance writer in western Oregon. His poetry is published in The Florida Review, The South Dakota Review, Rhino, Talking River Review, and Fireweed, among others. His film retrospectives appear in the online journals Kamera, 24 Frames Per Second, and The Film Journal.
Poetry: The Sandman

David Barber
David Barber is a 45-year-old government worker/poet born on the coastal town of Corpus Christi, Texas. He served his country in the Air Force for sixteen years and retired in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the great southwest. By day, he's a mild-mannered industrial hygienist, but by night, he writes poetry and short stories. He's been published on several Internet literary magazines.
Poetry: Broken

Hillary Bartholomew
A teacher of English as a Second Language in the Miami Dade School System, Hillary Bartholomew has lived and worked as a waitress, counselor for at risk youth, feature writer, columnist, et cetera, in Crete, Frankfurt, London and Santa Fe. Her publications include Afterthoughts: Canada, Bibliophilous, Caprice, Hayden's Fury, Main Street Rag, Opus and Writers Journal. She's divorced with two grown college educated daughters and a dog named Traveller.
Poetry: At the Equinox

Morgan Beard
Morgan Beard is a professional magazine editor, unprofessional writer of science fiction and fantasy, and occasional English-language mercenary. She also teaches Japanese tea ceremony at La Salle University in Philadelphia and acts as webmaster for the school's tea site, PhillyChanoyu.com. She lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia with three cats and a stuffed platypus.
Review: From the Agency with Love by John Drake-Moore

Doug Bolling
Doug Bolling has recently moved to the Chicago area from Jacksonville, Illinois. He has published short fiction and poetry in numerous magazine, Edgz, Mid-America Poetry Review, Good Foot, Rockhurst Review, Blind Man's Rainbow, Tar Wolf Review and elsewhere.
Poetry: Darkridge Mountain, Shapings of Summer

Dean Borok
Dean Borok lives in New York, where he makes his living stress testing women's lingerie under conditions of extreme heat and pressure. On the weekends he drives a garbage truck, picking up fermented dough from industrial bakeries and distributing it to needy pigs throughout New Jersey.
Fiction: Night Fright to Deutschland
Humor: I Ain't Goin' Dancin' Anymore

Anselm Brocki
Anselm Brocki has had poems published in over 590 publications. He taught high school for several years, was a senior editor for Houghton Mifflin, was editorial coordinator for the Los Angeles City Schools, and is currently running his own editing business.
Poetry: Public School

Keltic Corman
Keltic Corman, proofreader extraordinaire, 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

Patsy Covington
Patsy was born in Louisiana just west of Natchez, but she grew up in New Orleans. She now spends her time in the shadow of wheat silos in Kansas. If her Kansas twang doesn't work for you, she's willing to work on recovering either her Redneck twang or her Coonass patois. Patsy says she is willing to be all things to all people if that will just make you happy. Her philosophy is that Diogenes should have dropped his hopeless quest for an honest man and simply tried to find a few happy ones — an equally daunting task but probably worth it in the long run.
Cutting: First You Tell Him You're Pregnant

Alan M. Danzis
Alan M. Danzis is a recent graduate from Loyola College in Maryland and now works as an assistant account executive at Spector and Associates, a P.R. firm in New York City. He has had seven stories featured in over ten e-zines last year, including Writer's Monthly, Word Riot, and Ink Magazine. He's also appeared in print: "New Journey" was published in Scribble, a Baltimore literary magazine, last spring. He always credits his parents, his brother, his dog, and his friends as his various muses. And he thanks them for being easily manipulated into characters for his stories.
Fiction: Claimants

Tom Deiker
Tom Deiker is a clinical psychologist in Cherokee, Iowa. He feeds his family and writing habit by superintending a psychiatric hospital. Publications include dozens of mental health articles, essays, short stories, poetry, plus eight original screenplays and two television series pilots.
Humor: Miracle Baby

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.
Reviews: Code 46, The Bourne Supremacy, Laws of Attraction
Probe: Koya of Disciplin A Kitschme

Gary Every
Gary Every is a writer from Oracle, Arizona.
Poetry: Xerces Butterfly

Emmy Favilla
Emmy Favilla is a 21-year-old Brooklyn native who began writing stories at age seven and currently resides in Ridgewood, New York. An undergraduate senior at New York University, she is pursuing a degree in journalism, with minors in creative writing and Italian studies. As an intern, she has written published work for several magazines — including Grace Woman, CRM Magazine, and POZ Magazine. Her interests include music, traveling, all genres of writing, photography, and animals. She has an irrational fear of buttons and loves wearing legwarmers when weather permits, because they are just so darn cute.
Cutting: Psychedelic Inconsistencies
Artwork: Subconscious Autonomy, Whimsical

Joe Foering
Joe Foering is an alumnus of Penn State University, where in between classes he came out of his shell and learned how to make people laugh. He's been a high school English teacher, an over-qualified retail clerk, and the president and chairman of a wildly successful anime convention called Otakon. Today he helps the less fortunate as a public welfare caseworker. Throughout it all he's maintained his love for theater, role-playing, anime, and music. As you may have guessed, he like to write as well, and his work in Wild Violet represents his first foray into published writing. Be kind.
Essay: I'm a Wrestling Fan, and I'm Proud of It

James E. Gurley
James E. Gurley is a retired professional chef, lately turned writer of science fiction and fantasy. He is a talented musician and a member of the Horror Writers of America and Science Fiction Writers of the World.
Fiction: Memories in Green

Matt Harrison
Born in the suburbs of Chicago, writer Matt Harrison lives in Santa Monica, California. During the day he works as a software engineer, and in his spare hours he is also a musician.
Cutting: Water

Mark Joseph Kiewlak
Mark Joseph Kiewlak's fiction and poetry has been published in The Bitter Oleander, Branches, ByLine, Black Petals, Once Upon a Time and Black Sheep. He has also done scriptwriting for D.C. Comics and is a prolific letter writer, with more than 150 of his letters appearing in various periodicals.
Fiction: Rock Music

Denise Kresge
Denise is an engineer who works in the bio-tech and pharmaceutical industry. She minored in English Lit. This gives her little basis for being able to review anyone, but she loves to read, spends a lot of time on planes reading, and knows what she likes as a reader.
Reviews: Poison at the Pinnacle by Hawk McKinney, The Trapping by Anthony Vela

Wesley L. Leigh
Wesley L. Leigh was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in Los Angeles, California. He attended California State University, Northridge, where he obtained a baccalaureate in psychology and self-published the Minority Premedical Guide (MPG), distributed to multiple California state and community colleges. He went on to obtain an M.D. degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and did residency at Emory University in Atlanta. He now serves as chief of emergency medicine at Southwest Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. His first published work, an exerpt from Murder on Blue Paradise, his first novel, is forthcoming in Things That Go Bump, an anthology by Whitney Scott.
Fiction: The Obituary

Marcia Mascolini
Marcia Mascolini retired from teaching business communications for money to write short fiction for fun and glory. Her stories have appeared in Banyan Review, Laughter Loaf, Naked Humorists, Mindprints, and Smokelong Quarterly.
Cutting: On the Road

Jamie Lyn Mitchell
Jamie Lyn Mitchell is currently pursuing her MFA degree in Visual Art at Mason Gross School of Art - Rutgers University. She holds a BFA in photography from San Francisco Art Institute. Jamie has exhibited her work nationally and will be included this December in a group show at The Chocolate Factory, an art collective in Phoenix, AZ. Her work can be viewed online, JamieLynPhotography.com. Jamie lives in the New York City area.
Artwork: Dublin, PA, Florida #3, Naples

Berwyn Moore
Berwyn Moore's book of poems, Dissolution of Ghosts, is forthcoming from Cherry Grove Collections. She has poetry and nonfiction published in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, Kansas Quarterly, JAMA, Pennsylvania Review, New Virginia Review, Cimarron Review, Mid-American Review and other journals. She is an associate professor of English at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania. She has two children, Aaron, 28, and Emma Grace, 11, the best poems she ever made.
Poetry: Sorghum

Stephanie Nolasco
Stephanie Nolasco is a young writer residing in Washington Heights, attending New School University in the East Village of New York. First published at the age of nine, Nolasco has written numerous pieces under various genres. To learn more about Nolasco's writing, please visit her official site.
Review: The Frogs

John O'Toole
After living most of his life in Chicago, the location of many of his stories, John O'Toole recently moved to Los Angeles, where he currently works as cataloger of rare books and manuscripts at USC, and was recently promoted to a curatorial position. His stories have been published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Pindeldyboz, Eclectica, and Muse Apprentice Guild, where his novel Loftus is currently being serialized. His poetry has appeared in various journals both here and in Ireland.
Fiction: The Waiting Room

A.J. Profeta
A. J. Profeta, when not writing Sci-fi or fantasy is an arborist from Norwalk, Connecticut. "JCK Flash" is his third short story to be published. He also has a completed fantasy novel, for which he is currently seeking representation.
Fiction: JCK FLASH

Mark D. Rogers
Mark D. Rogers is a rocker from Portland, Oregon, with a useless B.S. in political science that he received from the University of Oregon. He is a guitarist, singer, songwriter or a "rock artist," as he chooses to call himself. He tours up and down the West Coast with his two bands, (The Courtesy Clerks and Dazzler), slaying for drink tickets, gas money, and truck stop food. He teaches guitar lessons and writes fiction in his free time. Mark currently resides in Eugene, Oregon, with his rusty bike, "Jenny." Together they are working on a full-length horror novel.
Fiction: The Gambler's Lucky Feather

Mike Ryan
Wild Violet proof reader Mike Ryan has a distressingly common name. He's not the lawyer or pharmaceutical salesman or the pool club owner. He's the information services manager. The one that loves anime and science fiction. No, not the one from New York, the one from Pennsylvania. Yeah, that one.

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: Matt Greenfield

Paul Stansfield
Paul Stansfield was born and raised in New Jersey and works as a field archaeologist. He's had stories published by Bibliophilos, Mausoleum, Mobius, Ragshock, Down in the Dirt, and Morbid Curiosity.
Fiction: Y.A.I.A.W.L.R.

Sam Vaknin
Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love — Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain — How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, and eBookWeb , a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory Bellaonline, and Suite101. Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia. Visit Sam's Web site for more essays.
Essays: The Mind of a Narcissist (The Silver Pieces of the Narcissist, The Losses of the Narcissist, Chronos and Narcissus)

Anastasia Voight
Anastasia Voight is a retired biology teacher who first tried creative writing after taking a class a couple of years ago. Early in life she had been an avid fiction reader but for most of her teaching career she focused on non fiction, especially science periodicals. Retirement has given her time to return to imaginative material, to develop a love of poetry, to dabble in sculpture, drawing and painting, in short to exercise her neglected creative side. She has had a few poems and short stories posted on e-zines.
Humor: Featherbrain

Keith Wigdor
Keith Wigdor is a surrealist who wants to invade your mind and destroy logic. He organized the online event Surrealism 2003, featuring surrealist poets and artists. His work has been featured in Churn Art Magazine, online at the Hammond Gallery, and the online zine, The Dream People. His work appears in the online chapbook, Dead in 13 Flashes, available from The Dream People.
Artwork: Manifestations of the Sleeping Mind

Mary Wilson
Wild Violet proofreader Mary Jarrett Wilson lives in Vermont with her husband, dog and cat. She is expecting her first child, who has been nicknamed "the belly dweller." Her short stories can be read at Hackwriters.com.