Contributors
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Alana I. Capria (born 1985) has an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She worked as a newspaper reporter for three years before getting tired of spending long nights at township meetings. Capria enjoys vegetarianism, abandoned structures, ghost stories, science, and strange histories/mythologies. She lives in Northern New Jersey with her fiancé and rabbits. Her website is http://alanaicapria.com.
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Zack Kopp is a freelance writer who blends social and political themes with raw, wild soul from the bottom of the can. He currently reviews books and conducts interviews of authors for The Examiner in Denver and has long served as the editor of an irregular journal of quantum thought called The Gut. Kopp, who holds a masters of fine arts in writing from Vermont College, is writing his fantastic biography as it occurs. |
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Makes Meatballs without Meat, Love without the Leaning, Magick without the Madness, Verse without the Versus or Adversity, Posey with the Pockets Full, and Idolatry without Golden Calves.
He holds a BA in History and Philosophy (minor in Creative Writing) from the University of Southern Maine, an MAR in Religion and Literature from Yale Divinity, and an MFA in Creative NonFiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Giordano's NonFiction and Poetry has appeared in The Cafe Review, Palimpsest, Words and Images, the Gut, and the Maine Scholar among other places. He received an Honorable Mention for "Emerging Writer" from Our Stories in 2009, an emerging writer award, and was nominated for a PushCart prize in 2010. He lives in Portland, Maine, with his two tuxedo cats and an intense state of mutual intrigue. His interests include: Ashtanga Yoga, Veganism, Italian Cooking, Contemplative Spirituality, and Consciousness studies. |
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Raoul Vehill can't stand cars and cellphones, digs frankenbikes, and talking to freaks face to face. He has always been a compulsive proponent of Do It Yourself culture.
After growing up in Denver, he's been an infamous punk singer in Honolulu, an award winning z grade filmmaker in Chicago, and since returning to Denver has written fiction and edited his uncle's autobiography.
More of Vehill's work at;
http://www.enlightened-pyramid.com/
http://disinfortainment.blogspot.com/
John Gallegos was a safecracker, stick up artist, check forger, dope dealer and professional criminal of the old school. Most of his carrer he did in Denver. He spent a significant percentage of his life in prison, like most pros.
His straight jobs included working for an auto service, paving crew, foundary and he fought forest fires in California. He had two daughters.
John studied philosophy by thinkers like Kant, Hegel, Shopenhauer and Nietzche. He lived what poet Eric Hoffer called, "a passionate state of mind".
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Su Red is a photographer/writer living in the Boston area. She has read poetry at open mics in the New England area and exhibited photography. She designed and maintains www.wellredcreations.com which showcases her photography as well as poetry and short stories. While her specialty is portraits and live events, Red works in a variety of fields and with several different cameras. A passion for retro and vintage styles combined with desire to capture unstaged moments makes her work truly unique. She has published a chapbook of poetry and a short story titled "May December" and is working on a CD of spoken word with musical background. |
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Gabrielle started her professional career as a journalist on The Star in Johannesburg (South Africa's largest daily newspaper) then travelled to the U.S. on vacation and ended up staying more than 20 years. She founded and published The Ultimate Dining Guide of San Diego then worked at Business Wire, a U.S based global newswire service, both in San Francisco and Virginia, in addition to opening their first international office in London.
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Aleathia Drehmer is singing Billie Holiday most nights at 2 a.m. She has her fingers in many projects, namely the print microzine Durable Goods and the flash fiction website, In Between Altered States. She just flew home to Full of Crow as the poetry editor after a good long vacation from the nest. Her work has most recently appeared/or will appear in: Riverbabble, Nibble, Red Fez, Instant Pussy, Blink Ink and Gutter Eloquence. Aleathia’s shared poetry collection “A Quiet Learning Curve” from Rank Stranger Press is available by contacting her and her poetry collection “You Find Me Everywhere” can be had at Propaganda Press. She stares out the window most days in upstate NY where she lives with her overly dramatic 9 year old and her impossible cat, Carrot. |
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Katie Gallanti is writer, metaphysician and jack of all trades, who has travelled many paths, from science research to alternative healing, while living extensively in three different countries. She has an MS in Physics, an MA in Psychology, and has often worn an academic hat, but finds herself most at home writing about spirituality, current affairs, personal growth, and anti-matrix matters, as well as playing with poetry and fiddling with digital photography. She is the author of over fourty articles published in print alongside two blogs, has an active facebook profile and has appeared often on various radio shows to talk about the world and the transformation of the collective field. Here at Might Mercury, expressing free form, with whatever feels appropriate in the moment. |
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Lauren Tivey has given up the rat race to travel the world teaching English as a second language, and she is currently terrorizing the small city of Jiangyin, China. She holds a MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and her work has appeared in Red River Review, Snakeskin, The Sierra Nevada College Review, Medicinal Purposes, and a bunch of others. She has been a forklift operator, museum attendant, pizza delivery driver, real estate agent, landscaper, and paralegal, among other things. She gets a kick out of exploring old Buddhist temples, graveyards, obscure literary sites, and other such places that cause her friends and family to label her as "a little weird." Though she thinks she is kick-ass, she still misses her kitty cat in the U.S.
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Wallace Gunn is a young British writer living in California. Wallace grew up on a dairy farm in rural south west England, before moving to Oxford to study Anthropology at Brookes University. Wallace now resides in San Francisco, where he works as a writer and scientist.
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TwighLight Uprisings is a group of artists whose style of story-telling emphasizes in telling stories where choice is a recurrent theme in almost every storyline. With stories that are enhanced through unique stylized art as well as highlighting unique and well-developed characters, TwighLight Uprising’s strategy is to take storytelling in a new direction.
Find us on Facebook or myspace just search "Twighlight Uprisings"
(and we do not endorse or are affiliated in any way with Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" Vampire series) |
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Just your average neurotic with some things to say about stuff sometimes loosely veiled in allusion or something
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Shane Roeschlein is a writer. He spent a dozen years as a music journalist, interviewing bands, listening to musicians talk about themselves, eventually aging himself out of relevance. He spends the majority of his time writing and playing music while doing online content management to supplement his income. He resides in San Diego, CA
Essays, interviews are available on http://www.acoatofredpaintinhell.com
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Tony Adame graduated from Southern Oregon University with a BA in English (2001) and is the author of a play, "Jolly Jack Tar," that was performed at several Oregon universities in 2004 and 2005 and was one of the winners of Eastern Oregon University's New Playwright Contest in 2004. He's won awards for sports writing in Oregon, California and Kansas. He lives in Wichita, Kansas, where he is a sports writer and copy editor. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/t_adame |
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Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Matthew Revert is the washed up flotsam of the absurdist writing world. Acknowledged by few and enjoyed by less, his fiction has been described as "definitely written to some extent". His first book, 'A Million Versions of Right' was released in July 2009 by LegumeMan Books. The overwhelming majority of people who have read this book have admitted to doing so
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Shawnsey Narcensio Rudolph hopes to some day live up to the grandeur of his name. Until then he will take the knowledge he acquired while earning his MFA at Georgia College & State University and continue to pursue a life of literary citizenship through teaching, writing, reading, and hoping for balance.
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Steve Calamars lives in San Antonio, TX. He has a B.A. in Philosophy and works in a grocery store. The stuff he writes can be found (or will be found) in bottle rockets, Chiron Review, Harpur Palate, Gutter Eloquence, Zygote in My Coffee and other places he won’t bore you with. His first poetry chapbook, American Violence, will be released April 2010 from New Polish Beat. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee. He blogs at http://dirtywordsoncleanliving.blogspot.com/ |
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Mark Thomas Wickham holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives in Salt Lake City.
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Brandon S. Roy is the editor of The Panulaan Review.His work has appeared in numerous reviews and journals, including the LitSnack,Breadcrumb Scabs and Ghoti Magazine.
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