Karen Dale
Travel essay: A
Yosemite Adventure for Non-Campers, Driving
Mexico,
Puerto
Penasco, Sonora,
Movie reviews: 2010 Movies,
2011 Movies
Biography: Karen Dale, MSW, is a Silicon Valley resident and an
investigative reporter for Clever Magazine. In her spare time she goes to
movies and writes movie reviews for Clever. Thanks, Karen!
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.
Rance Denton
Fiction: Six Dollars
Biography:
Rance lives in Baltimore, Maryland. His usual diet consists of rocks,
porcupines, and human teeth. His work has shown up in
Anobium as well as in various academic journals. When he's not
feeling very courteous, he blogs at
http://www.rddenton.com.
Matthew Dexter
Fiction: Free Admission with Children
Biography:
Matthew
lives in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Like the nomadic Pericú natives
before him, he survives on a hunter-gatherer subsistence diet of shrimp
tacos, smoked marlin, cold beer, and warm sunshine.
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!"
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.
Josh Goller
Film Essays: Josh is Clever's film reviewer
Biography: Josh sprouted on Wisconsin soil but prefers the gloom and
damp of the Pacific Northwest. He currently resides in Oregon where he
writes fiction and is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing.
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, Monchińa 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,
An Ambassador for my country
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.
Joe Greco
Fiction: Guilty Pleasures
Biography:
Joe is
a Northern California lawyer and writer. His short stories have appeared
in 34th Parallel, Emprise Review, Bartleby Snopes, Dog Oil Press, and
FictionDaily.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,
The Avenger,
First Date,
The Last Agenda Item,
Lunches,
The Election,
Home Invasion
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.
Bob Greenspan
Fiction: Dr. Glazer is Needed
Biography:
Bob worked
for the Dept. of Justice for 36 years , and also managed during that
period to appear in many local community theater productions, which kept
him in touch with the imaginative life. He's retired now, living in
Reston, Virginia, writing short stories, and loving it.
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