Ruth Daigon
She was born in Canada of immigrant parents. She
spent most of her life in the extreme climates of Winnipeg, Toronto,
New York and Connecticut. She was a professional singer for many
years, first in Canada, then in New York as a Columbia Recording
Artist, a guest artist on CBS's Camera Three, a soloist with the New
York Pro Musica, and in concert and recital appearances. In the late
seventies, she made the transition from concert soprano to full time
poet, editor, performance artist. She began the publication Poets On:
a theme-oriented poetry journal, and was its editor for its twenty
year life. She has frequently appeared in Internet
publications, hard copy magazines and anthologies. Her book
Between One Future And The Next, Papier- Mache Press, was published
in 1995. Her new hard copy collection of poems .The Moon Inside.
(Gravity/Newton's Baby Press) is scheduled to appear on December 1st,
1999. Orders accepted at www.newtonsbaby.com/mooninside.html.
Charles Adés Fishman
He served as director of the SUNY
Farmingdale Visiting Writers Program for 18 years and was the
originator of the Paumanok Poetry Award. His books include Mortal
Companions (1977), The Firewalkers (1996), Blood to
Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (1991), and The
Death Mazurka (Texas Tech, 1989), which was listed by Choice
as one of the outstanding books of the year. Fishman currently serves
as poetry editor for Gaia (www.whistle.org)
and Cistercian Studies Quarterly, and he is a poetry
consultant for the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
His many awards include a New York State Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship (1995), the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize of the Southern
California Anthology (1996), and the Eve of St. Agnes Award from
Negative Capability (1999).
(fishman@SNYFARVA.CC.FARMINGDALE.EDU)
Dr. Michael Fuhrman
He is a chiropractor who has recently
discovered his bent for writing poetry. Through the course of
his life, he has been a chemist and a mountain climber, a healer and
a poet. He enjoys independent films and anything having to do
with Nepal. You can find out more about his work at
www.energyclinic.com
Jo Jo Jensen
She is a novice at writing poetry and loves every
second of it. Jo Jo is a non-fiction writer and screenwriter trying
to find a home for her non-fiction works. Jo Jo is also an actor
specializing in voice over. (jojo@energyclinic.com)
Kara L.C. Jones
She lives in Seattle where she and her husband
perform their music and poetry as Night & Lady Hawk. Her poems
have been published in journals such as American Tanka, PoetsWest,
and Pandora.s Hope Project; anthologies such as Start With Leaves,
Old Growth, and Dreamscape; and online at New Works Review, Gaia, and
A Father.s Grief. Her book, Che-wa, was published
by CJ Ink in January 1999. She and her husband have recently
started KotaPress in memory of their son and have released several
titles through this press. (ladyh@kotapress.com)
NightHawk Jones
He has been singer, composer, and song writer
since Hector was a pup. You can often find him in various
Seattle venues performing his music live with his poet wife. He
also enjoys his day job of creating web sites.if you like what you
see here, then you like his work. He and his wife started KotaPress in memory of their son Dakota. (hawk@kotapress.com)
Claudia Mauro
She is, among other things, a first generation
New York Italian Amazon leather Buddhist butch in recovery. She holds
Federal Aviation Administration commercial pilot certificate number
131407693, and certainly knows how to stall, and how to recover. Her
goal is to embody the sacred, the profane and the moment they ride in
on.
Claudia has been employed as an Alaskan bush pilot,
merchant mariner, street junkie, fisheries science technician,
hypnotist and computer programmer.
Her first collection of
poems, Stealing Fire, was nominated for the 1997 Lambda Book Award.
Her second book, Reading the River, was released in October 1998 and
has also been nominated for the Lambda Book Award. She was awarded a
Hedgebook fellowship in 1997. She is the founder and managing editor
of Whiteaker Press.
She currently writes and teaches in
Seattle, Washington and occasionally moonlights as a pilot in
Southeast and Western Alaska. (no email)
Susan Mello
"I have been taking pictures for quite some
time, but I really got passionate about it 8 years ago. I especially
enjoy capturing people's natural relaxed selves in black & white
portraiture, and capturing nature in all it's glorious displays."
(spmello@hotmail.com)
Joan O.Reilly
She has been writing poetry since her children
were small. She has also put a lot of creative energy into her
sewing as she was often making clothes for herself and her six
children. She now enjoys sewing for her grandchildren as
Halloween and other occasions require. When it comes to poetry,
she writes what she feels and can be inspired by anything from a
piece of music to a piece of jewelry. (no e-mail)
Marjorie Power
She has approximately two hundred and fifty
poems published in magazines and journals such as The Atlanta
Review, Mississippi Mud, The Seattle Review, The Spoon River
Poetry Review, Puerto Del Sol, Southern Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn,
and more poems are forthcoming in Sing Heavenly Muse! and Poet
Lore. Her books include Cave Poems from Lone Willow
Press (1998), Tishku, After She Created Men from Lone Willow
Press (1996), and Living With It from Wampeter Press (1983).
She lives with her husband in Olympia, Washington. (no e-mail)
Seana Sperling
She is the Seattle dwelling, love child of
Alfred E. Newman and Ladybird Johnson. She is and has been an ESL
Instructor, Peace Corps Volunteer, Writing Major, butcher, baker, and
film freak. (sean@drizzle.com)