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Mike Nelson
Travel essay: A Brief Encounter
with the Mexican Army
Biography:
“Mexico” Mike Nelson has been driving Mexico since 1968 and has not
gotten smarter with age. He’s written dozens of books about Mexico. His
web site,
www.mexicomike.com (born 1996) actually has useful and factual
information to keep you from ending up in stupid situations like this.
Maybe he should read it. He specializes in driving, unusual
destinations, spas, hot springs and living in Mexico info. Seldom read,
but worthwhile is a section of literary nonfiction or maybe fiction like
this.
“Estamos perdido,” I shouted at the two young soldiers
approaching the car.
Meeta Gajjar
Parker
Travel: Journey to the Dreamy
Maldives, Yellowstone National
Park,Traversing Mystical India,
The Animals of India,
The Canadian Rockies,
Experiencing, The Big Island,
Flowers of Alaska,
Cancun-Fun in the Yucatan
Biography:
Meeta is the author of the
Children's book entitled "Cookie the Clown," she owns a payphone company with
her husband Frank Parker, teaches yoga and has been a professional
vocalist for the last 20 years with 4 CD's to her name. She enjoys
traveling the world with her husband and is an avid photographer.
Julie Pelc
Essays: Leaving
Los Angeles, A
Rabbi and a Priest Walk into a Casino
Biography: Julie is the recipient of a Wexner Graduate Fellowship
and she published a book, Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women
Write Their Lives. Julie survived a ruptured brain aneurysm in
2003 and has found deep personal and spiritual meaning in creative
non-fiction writing classes, called "Writing the Healing
Story" through UCLA Extension, and in writing and researching her
Rabbinic Thesis on the Book of Job: "Talk to Me: (Or, When More Bad
Things Happen to Good People)".
Maria Gabriela
Pereira
Essay: Don't Say I Didn't Warn
You
Biography:
Julia Pierce
Fiction: Friday
Biography:
Julia is a mid-level manager for a large financial institution in a
small western city. She has been happily married for many years and has
two grown sons. Julia has both undergraduate and graduate degrees in
business and finance, but her passions are reading, writing,
storytelling and any activity that allows her to show off occasionally.
Randall W. Pretzer
Fiction: It Only Happens in the
Movies, Hero
Biography:
My name is Randall W. Pretzer. I recently got back into short story
writing in 2006 and I have primarily just been a short story writer from
then on. My favorite authors are my father, my brother, Knut Hamsun,
John Fante, Charles Bukowski, Anne Bronte, Ray Bradbury and Richard
Matheson.
Lina E. Rehal
Essay:
Don't Play Ball in the House,
The
Last Turkey
Fiction: Johnny Danger
Travel: My Vegas Vacation
Biography: Lina is an
Executive Secretary and freelance writer. Married, with two grown
children, she lives in Massachusetts with her husband. Her feature
stories and travel articles have been published in the Lynn Daily Item.
Hal Reichardt
Essays: The Country Singer
Biography: Hal Reichardt is a freelance humor writer whose
work appears frequently in The Oregonian ("the largest newspaper in the Pacific Northwest"}. Born in Glen Cove on the
north shore of New York's Long Island, Hal graduated from the SUNY at Stony Brook with a B.A. in English. He currently
writes from Beaverton, Oregon, where he lives with his wife Shannon, daughter Lindsay, and son
Conor.
Zaphra Reskakis
Essays: The
Intruder,
Baby, the poodle with a past,
The Circus
Biography: I am a Greek American semi retired clinical pharmacist, I worked as
the Director of Pharmacy of a hospital for seventeen years but now do consultant
work. I am a mother of two and a grandmother of five. Since retiring, I have been taking workshops and have a work in progress,
my memoirs, tentative titled," Daughter of Zeus and Hera". I read a piece
this year at the Equal Opportunity office for Women's History month. I am also involved in storytelling and have presented memoir pieces at Cornelia
Street Cafe and the Storytelling Center. Other than pharmacy publications, I
have been published in Reminisce magazine.
Barbara Riccio
Essay: Unexpected Visitor
Biography: I am a native of
Watertown,
New York, 48 year’s old, married and have two adult sons.
Four years ago I began my college education, and graduated in
2003 from Skidmore College with a bachelor’s in Business
Administration. During the course
of my studies, I discovered that my interests were quite varied.
I took courses in art, literature, anthropology, history,
environmental science and more. Various professors, local artists and
family members have encouraged me to continue working in these fields.
To date, I have one ink drawing that has been published, and this
is my first piece of writing to be published.
In addition to my interests in art and writing, I enjoy reading,
listening to music, gardening, traveling and nature.
Edward M.
Richstone
Travel Essay: Kansas: land of the
cockeyed optimists
Biography: Writers, like other artists, are blessed
with the predisposition to notice, ponder, appreciate, and re-live what
really matters. I enjoy writing about my most meaningful experiences
with people and places. My writing is one of many aspects of my life
that have been enriched by my having resided in seven states and abroad.
These influences have motivated and informed my leisure writing for
organizational newsletters and a city newspaper. It has been a
pleasurable respite from the more tedious technical writing that I have
done professionally as an educational program evaluator, clinical social
worker, and school psychologist.
Monique Rider
Essay: The
Desert in Winter, Like to Eat?, Hiking
the Camelbacks of Tempe, Arizona, Aruba,
one happy island, I Love New York City,
Danger on the Trail: hiking Nevada's
Mt. Charleston
Biography: Monique is the owner of Trinity Coaching
Services, a business that offers fitness training and personal
development services to clients worldwide. Monique's
mission is to use her life experiences to help others grow.
To learn more about Monique visit her website
or
monique_rider@msn.com
J. D. Riso
Pet Pages: Bunny Business
Biography: J. D. Riso is the author of Blue
(Murphy's Law Press). Her short fiction and travel writing have
appeared in Neonbeam, Atomjack, ken*again, Prick
of the Spindle, and many other diverse publications. She leads a
nomadic life and was last seen traveling through Eastern Europe with a
Frenchman and the March Hare.
Rebecca Rochat
Travel essays: Aphroisias, Turkey
and the Goddess of Love, Off-Road
Trekking on Bora Bora,
Bali Hai May Call You
Biography: Rebecca is a frequent contributor to Clever
Magazine.
Craig Rondinone
Poem: Platonic
Biography:
Craig is a syndicated columnist who writes weekly columns on
fantasy baseball and football for SportsTicker that can be seen on the
Internet. He also has a collection of short stories that will be
published by Publish America in May 2004.
John Rosenberg
Travel: The "New" Mauna Kea
Beach Hotel
Essay: A Year
on the Grand Jury
Biography: John is a third generation
Californian. He was born in
Oakland, grew up in Piedmont, and went to the Univ. of California, where
he received his AB degree in economics and his JD degree from that
university’s Boalt Hall School of Law.
After practicing law with his father for six years in Oakland, he
relocated to Marin County where, for almost 40 years, he practiced
construction law, had a government contracts practice, and represented a
number of local municipalities. He
is now retired from private practice and is devoting himself to the
field of Alternate Dispute Resolution as a mediator, arbitrator and
special master on a part-time basis.
He is married to Susie Rosenberg, a long-time Marin resident, and has
two adult children, three step children and a recently-born grand
daughter.
Heather Ross
Humorous Essay: Travel Tips,
Hazards of Travel
Biography: Heather Ross is a homeschooling mom in Everett, WA. When she’s not
assigning math homework or writing her stories, she designs websites.
Her stories have appeared on sanitycentral.net and on her very own
website, life-is-funny.com, and in the Seattle Times. (well,
once.) Every November she participates in NaNoWriMo and consequently has
three very bad 50,000 word novels cluttering up her hard drive. Someday
soon she will spend less time correcting geometry and more time writing.
Terry Sanville
Essay: Motel Camping
Biography: Terry lives in San
Luis Obispo, California with his artist-poet wife, Marguerite Costigan
(his in-house editor), and two cats (his in-house critics). He is also
an accomplished jazz and blues guitarist. Since 2000, Terry’s stories
have been accepted for publication by GRIT Magazine, BEGINNINGS, R-kv-ry
Journal, The Circle Magazine, Falling Star Magazine, Pipes &
Timbrels Journal, Distant Echoes Journal, Wanderings, The Red Dirt
Review, Foliate Oak, Tales From the Corner Anthology, a Kearney Street
Books Anthology, Storyteller, The Arabesques Review, The War Journal,
The Catnip Chronicles, The Noo Journal, The Scruffy Dog Review, and by
the About Alzheimer’s Association.
Cynthia Saracco
Essay: The Gift, Finding
that Special Place
Biography: Cynthia's previous
publications include two text books as well as more 30 non-fiction
articles on ceramic arts, business, and technology topics. She also
writes a regular column for an art guild newsletter.
Patti
Schaffer
Columnist: DearClever ~
beginning Spring 2005
Biography: A
native New Yorker and long time California transplant, Patti is a brand
new collage artist. She is owner of Tabor Sarah Books, publishing her
own works and those of her siblings.
Eric
Shackle
Essay: Aussie
Artist Chris McClelland
Biography: Eric Shackle is a retired Australian journalist
whose hobby is searching the Internet and writing about it. His work has
been published by the New York Times (U.S.), Globe and Mail (Canada),
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) and Straits Times (Singapore). He is
copy editor of Anu Garg's Ohio-based A Word A Day free newsletter, which
is e-mailed five days a week to more than half a million wordlovers in 210
countries. He has written a free e-book, LIFE
BEGINS AT 80 ... on the Internet. See also UNSHACKLED
BY COMPUTER
Tom Sheehan
Fiction: Boy with the Crooked Mouth
Biography:
Tom lives in Saugus,
MA, retired for 18 years, served in Korea 19951-52. His Epic
Cures, won 2006 IPPY Award. A Collection of Friends,
nominated for Albrend Memoir Award. He has nominations for nine Pushcart
Prizes, three Million Writers, and a Noted Story of 2007, and received
the Georges Simenon Award for Fiction. Has published 12 books. Coming
are Brief Cases, Short Spans (from Press 53, shortly) and From
the Quickening, (from Pocol Press, spring of 2009). He meets again
soon for a lunch/gab session with pals, the ROMEOs, Retired Old Men
Eating Out, (93/80/79/78). They’ve co-edited two books on their hometown
of Saugus, MA, sold 3500 to date of 4500 printed and he can hardly wait
to see them. They’ll each have one martini, he’ll have 3 beers, and the
waitress will shine on them.
Angela Sirico
Essay:
Misty
Biography: Angela is the mother of four children and has four
grandchildren. At the present time she is also “mom” to a yellow lab
retriever named Leo. According to Angela: As an adult, I have had the
joy of raising two puppies -- the challenge of Misty, and the trials and
tribulations of opening our home to a rambunctious three year old lab
named Leo. The story of “Misty” was born out of a deep sorrow I
experienced after her passing. I always regretted not being able to
giver her more than three and a half years of a loving environment –
that unfortunately she had never known.
Andrea
Shumovsky
Poetry:
Familiar
Spring
Biography:
Although
a Canadian, I did live in the United
States where I attended Glassboro State College before returning to
Canada to complete my education. I do miss the
oceans along the east coast, the big
cities, Philadelphia and New York, but the vast and ever changing
Canadian landscape calls me home and inspires
me. I have been writing for many years,
and only recently found the courage to share my work with others
thanks to my loving family.
Jonathan Skurnik
Travel Essay: Riding the LA Bus
Biography: Jonathan has produced, directed and shot
numerous award-winning documentaries and has recently completed his
first two fiction films as writer/director. His three most recent
documentaries include: “The Elevator Operator,” a documentary about
a Ukrainian immigrant who runs a manual elevator in Manhattan. It has
screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, won Best Documentary
at the Urban TV film festival in Madrid and had its broadcast premiere
on PBS and Ukrainian TV this year; the award-winning “Spit It Out”
which is in the middle of an extensive festival run in the U.S. and
abroad and is being broadcast on PBS this Spring and Summer; and “A
Day’s Work, A Day’s Pay” which won the prestigious Harry Chapin
award for films about hunger and poverty and was broadcast on PBS and in
Europe in 2002. Jonathan is currently directing American Shaman about
two ill women who use shamanic practices to heal. He is also a frequent
contributor to several on line and print magazines. Read more about his
work at www.jskurnik.com.
Molly Smith
Fiction: The Treatment
Biography:
Molly resides in rural Indiana with her
husband, two teen daughters. She has always had a passion for writing,
but never had the time to pursue it full time until recently. She home
schooled her two children for eight years before reluctantly allowing
them to sign up for public school last fall. Her other hobbies include
gardening, cross stitching, and reading. Her short stories have also
been published by Bewildering Stories and Barfing Frog
Press.
Jane Starbird
Travel essay:
The Peru Papers, Parts I and II,
Bear Country
The Peru Papers, Parts I and II
Biography: Jane K. Starbird is a mom with three grown sons, one
of whom is a marine biologist. She has always been fascinated with animals. She volunteers
time each month to lead bird walks for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The rest of her
time she spends being a pet for her dogs.
Erica Stux
Art Page: Primitive Expressionism,
an art project,
The Care and Feeding of Dishwashers
Biography: I started
writing when my children were young - first poems for kids, then light
verse and prose pieces for adults. Much later I tried doing book-length
stuff. My third biography for children will be published later this
year. But my more than a dozen picture book texts are still looking for
publishers. I write mostly about animals and the environment.
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