Contributors' Notes
Anglo-French Andrew Gallix is thirtyish. He lives in Paris where he teaches at the Sorbonne University (Paris IV).
David Gardiner is a visiting assistant professor at Millikin University where he teaches Irish writing and poetry. His book on Irish writing from Spenser to the present will be published this spring by Creighton University Press. His poetry has appeared in a number of journals, most recently Sou'wester, River King, and Strong Coffee. In the fall and spring, he will be teaching at Creighton University and assuming his responsibilities teaching in and administering the summer school at Trinity College, Dublin. (No more visiting, thank God.)
James Lineberger is a professional playwright and screenwriter. His poems have been published in Berkeley Poetry Review, The Centennial Review; Coal City Review; Djinni; Exquisite Corpse; Hanging Loose; Hayden’s Ferry Review; Mediphors; New York Quarterly; Ontario Review; Oxford Magazine; Pembroke Magazine; Prairie Schooner; Rag Mag; Snake Nation Review; Sonora Review; Verse; Afternoon; Black Orchid, Bluff Magazine; Disquieting Muses; Duct Tape Press; Gangway; King Log; Mirata (Wyrd); The Morpo Review; Poetry Now; Poetry Super Highway; RealPoetik; Snakeskin; The 2River View; Unlikely Stories; and Wired Art from Wired Hearts.
Lawrence Mallory lives and works in Manhattan, where he spends a lot of time trying to stay out of trouble. He is the author of two collections of poetry: Ned the Monster Poems (1977) and Some City of Their Desire (forthcoming), both published by Linear Arts. His poetry has been published in New York Quarterly, The Potomac Review, Salonika, Medicinal Purposes, The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner, Skid Row Penthouse, and Riding the Meridian. He is also quest editor of the Spring 2000 issue of Salonika.
Drew Mayer lives in Connecticut and is a creative director for an advertising agency in NYC. He finds inspiration and delight in life's odd little details.
David Payne's influences include: the cities he's lived in (New York, New Orleans, Seattle, Mexico, San Francisco), the women he's met, the resonance of tragedy, Franz Kafka, Rimbaud, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, the effects of wine, and among other things, the hope of evening and the despair of morning. He currently resides in France.
Tom Waltz lives in San Diego, California, a long way away from his childhood home of Clinton, Michigan. During the the day he is a mild mannered computer geek working for The Man, but at night he is an aspiring (or is that perspiring?) writer with a grand literary dream and sore typing fingers. His work has appeared in a number of places (mostly on his own copy of MSWord), and can be currently found at Hotread.Com, 3 A.M. Publishing.Com, the Harrow, and The Wayfarer Online.
When Joy Yourcenar’s children were younger, she put a sign on her door when she was writing that read: “Before you knock, ask yourself: `Am I on fire? Am I bleeding?’ If the answer to both of these question is 'no,' don’t knock.” It was very effective for making the mental space she needed to write, just as an open door gave her things to write about. Interestingly enough, both her son and daughter are writers now. Her first poetry collection, Nattering on the Sublime, will be published by Newton's Baby in December, 2000. Mythologies: http://ebb.ns.ca/myth Iconography: http://ebb.ns.ca/icon
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