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Carol Delockroy
Travel essay: Costa Rica Journal, The Kingdom of Thailand
Biography: Carol is a semi-retired educator, as well as a wife and mother of two grown sons, a bridge player, and avid traveler.

Robert Demaree
Travel essay: Seeing the Southwest, Southwest, Part II, Part III
Biography: I retired from school administration in 2001 and keep up a long-standing interest in writing. My essays and poems have appeared in approximately 80 academic and literary publications.

Robert Regis Dvorák
Art Exhibits: Yosemite: a virtual art class
Essay: Teacher, Artist, Traveler
Biography: Robert is a painter who presents workshops on drawing and watercolor painting.  He teaches watercolor and drawing workshops in Yosemite and classes at the Art Activities Center there.  He has authored four books on drawing including: Drawing Without Fear, Experiential Drawing, The Magic of Drawing, and The Pocket Drawing Book.  His paintings and films are in major corporate, museum and private collections. 

Barbara Eaves
Essay: Diary of a Dogsled Owner
Biography: In addition to being Clipper's sidekick, Barbara Elliott Eaves is also a wife, mother, and community volunteer. When she wears her professional hat, Barbara is at the helm of Sum People Agency, a bureau of outstanding professional speakers and guest experts.

Julie Eller
Fiction, short story: A Typical Thursday
Biography: I work as a medical transcriptionist in a trauma center in Seattle. I've been writing seriously for three years, have one full-length novel being reviewed by a major publisher at this time, and another manuscript nearly completed.

Jerry G. Erwin
Fiction: Raccoon Murders
Biography: Born and raised in rural Kentucky, I was an active, creative child, suppressed by public education and repressed by Southern Baptist values, resulting in borderline alienation and the desire--the passionate need--to write.  I loved baseball, rock n’ roll, and wet the bed until I was twelve.  An ex-girlfriend/psychologist told me I was probably a better person for it--the baseball, that is.  I attended some colleges and visited several countries for various and all but forgotten reasons (amazing how 95% of our lives are vaporous images of someone who may have been us).  Despite that particular horror, and being the eternal (verging on exhausted) optimist that I am, I’ve managed to complete six novels, a virtual trove of short fiction, and earned some money writing film scripts that never got made for people I’d only feel creatively involved with if I had strangled them to death in their sleep.  But, enough about me. 

Joyce Faulkner
Fiction: Fattie Mattie, The Beast Within, and
Humor columnist essays
Biography: Joyce is a a freelance writer and novelist working out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  She focuses on fiction, essays, humor, features and travel. (Editor's note: Be sure to visit Joyce's website katieseyes and read some of her work. Very entertaining!)

John Fern
Travel essay: The Queen Mine Tour
Biography: My wife, Peggy and I reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am a machine operator for a small electronics factory and she works as a computer clerk. I love music, playing guitar and writing stories -- mostly non-fiction, and almost always with a bit of a humorous twist. Sometimes it works, and sometimes I have to keep asking the reader, "Well, don't ya get it? C'mon! It's a joke! Laugh! You're not laughing! It's funny! Trust me, it's funny! Laugh, Damn it!"

Jack Fox
Poetry: Life's Furrow
Biography: Family member.

Nancy Fox
Photo-essay: Chinese Embroidery Factory
Biography: Nancy is one of Clever's photographers. She and her husband, Jack, travel extensively, so she has great subject matter for her camera.

Rachel Friedman
Travel essay: Bolivia: the great salt flats
Biography: Rachel has been on a travel whirlwind since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. Her goal is to one day become a professional travel writer.

Bonnie Furlong
Essay: Grill Cheese
Biography: Bonnie Furlong lives and writes in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.  Her lighthearted essays have appeared in The Northern Virginia Daily, The Winchester Star, and GreenPrints: The Weeder's Digest.

Phillip Ghee
Travel: The Arizona Bicycle Adventure, The Guatemala Volcano Adventure
Biography: Phillip is a self-described gypsy and sometimes Pharmacy Technician. He usually calls Venice Beach home but has been known to live in many cities throughout the country. What make his stories uncommon are their humorous, sometimes mystical, and sometimes there aspect of self-discovery in the face of real or imagined conflict.

Pete Geary
Essay:  A Nearly Perfect Novel Query Letter
Biography: Life-long Memphis, Tennessee resident, married with three grown children, I am a middle-aged middle manager in a mid-sized medical center in the Mid-South. Favorite things to do include travel and crossword puzzles. I enjoy writing essays and hope to continue to do so.

Danielle Ginsburg
Essay: Hypochondria: what if?
Biography: I am graduating with a bachelors degree in literature and communications, with a focus on journalism and I hope to secure a job in the field of journalism, specifically entertainment media.  In addition to writing, I love to cook, so I plan to go to culinary school in the near future and possible work for a culinary magazine afterwards.

Brant Goble
Fiction: Eagle Eye
Biography: Brant Goble is a technician, didgeridoo player, perpetual (graduate) student, and editor (of Gander Press Review). His works have been published by 55 Words, Prick of the Spindle, Cynic Online Magazine, and Words-Myth. He prefers biographies that are precisely fifty words long, not a word more, not a word less.

Gogue
Cover art: see Clever's coverart pages
Art Exhibit: Gogue!, Gogue's latest cartoon, Gogue in Portugal
Other: Tribute to John Lennon
Biography: Gogue was born and still lives in O Grove in the northwest part of Galicia, Spain. He currently works for the Faro de Vigo Newspaper. Also, his work has appeared in The Bush Blade (Alaska), The Earth Times (New York), the Grenwich Village Gazette (New York), and Internetclan (San Francisco). He's the creator of the Galician characters: Floreano, Monchiña and Epifanio. Gogue regularly takes part in cartoon and caricature festivals and competitions all over the world and has won a number prizes and honorable mentions. He recently won a first prize and an honorable mention in The Homer Davenport Cartoon Contest in Silverton-Portland, Oregon. He has published several books of his own artwork and has contributed as illustrator to others. For a full biography, please go to Gogue's website.

Jeremy Gorman
Poetry: Nightmare nursery rhyme
Biography: Jeremy's other funny rhyming stories include Pussycat Pussycat, his contribution to the Dig Your Roots: Spoken Word CD compilation and website and Pass the Glove, a short play written for the 2006 Notable Acts Theatre Festival 

Antonio Graceffo
Essay: Adventure Writer Looks at Forty,  No Such Thing as Bad Publicity, On Learning Khmer, Road to Siem Reap, Becoming a Travel Writer, Language Learning, Muslim Fishermen of Phang Nga, Thailand,Trees for the Philippines, Bernie Madoff: the New King of Ponzi, Activating Your Foreign Language
Biography: Antonio is an American travel author and adventurer, living in Asia. He immerses himself in the culture of the countries and people he writes about. Antonio speaks Chinese, Khmer, Spanish, Italian, German, French, and some Thai. Now he is learning Korean. He spends his time living with tribes, learning martial arts, fighting, making movies, climbing mountains, learning languages and doing adventure sports. He is also a frequent guest on radio and TV talk shows. 

As a professional speaker, in 2006, Antonio reached the semi-finals of the World Championships of Public Speaking. Antonio’s writing has appeared in hundreds of magazines and websites around the world. He has four books available on amazon.com. Find out more about Antonio, listen to radio interview or speeches at his website. 

Contact him antonio@speakingadventure.com. Currently, Antonio is seeking an agent and new publisher for his Cambodian adventure book, “Discovering the Khmers.” Find out more about Antonio on wikipedia! 

Thomas Grantland
Essay: Always Read the Label
Biography: Thomas is a retired police officer from Branford Ct. He has been writing for about a year, and uses his observations as the basis for most of his work. He's now trying to find his niche in the writing world.

Chet Gray
Chet contributes the humor for nearly every issue of Clever Magazine. Atta Boy!
Biography: Husband of Thelma and all-around good-guy.

Thelma Gray
Travel essay: An Elderhostel trip to Santa Fe: Cheap Adventures for those over 55
Biography: Thelma does research work for the government and lives in McLean, Virginia. She is married with three grown children, and hopes to spend more time traveling in the future. A native Oregonian, she has been in the Washington, DC, area since President Eisenhower’s era, and that’s a long time.

Martin Green
Fiction: Cast of Characters, New England Crime Boss Encounter, Global Warming, The Traditional Terrorist, The Rational Man, The Innocent Man, A Friend for Life, The Untouchable Politician
Essay: Convergence
Travel: Discovery of Monument Valley, Observing Maui, Observations of Ireland
Biography: Martin is a retiree/free-lance writer living in Roseville, CA. He stopped counting journalistic pieces in local & senior papers at 400 & has just had his 200th story published online.  He has one wife (of almost 44 years), three sons, four grandchildren & two cats.

Lynn Groves
Fiction: The Mail
Biography: After retiring from banking after 25 years of service, I worked as an office manager for a private investigation firm for another 7 years until I finally retired completely. During that time, I wrote many short stories, several of which were published in various e-magazines, such as Sonata Magazine for the Arts and EWG, as well as Late Harvest books published by the SeniorNet Writers Group. I am currently working on a mystery novel I hope to complete in the near future.