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Shawn Bowman has been a lover of language over the course of, possibly, many lives. In this life he resides in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife and daughter.Shawn Bowman has also published scifaiku in Fighting Chance Magazine and minimalist poetry in a variety of other journals including Spitball and moonset.
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Lena Judith Drake is an 18-year-old writer majoring in Creative Writing at Grand Valley State University. Her writing can be seen at http://geocities.com/lenajudith , and she is currently writing her first novel.
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David E. Howerton: I'm a part time programmer and live in the American River Canyon outside of Auburn Ca. I’ve done some landscaping sign painting cooking and made jewelry to pay the bills. I live a rather quiet life. My wife and I live with a bossy cat. I have three adult daughters and one granddaughter. My hobbies include type design, soapstone carving, walks in the woods, collecting dragons, and a growing library of Science Fiction.
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Tim Jamieson: I am Canadian, born and raised in the province of Saskatchewan and living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I began writing haiku in 1983 and scifaiku in 2004, and have had more than 300 haiku, senryu and scifaiku published in 9 countries. My interests include reading, public and karaoke singing, foreign languages, and adventure travel.
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David C. Kopaska-Merkel: David Kopaska-Merkel has been kicking around the small press for a coon's age. He's done most of this from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, while researching rocks for the state and writing odd little things for himself. Check out www.dailycabal.com for some recent work.
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Beth Langford likes rainbows, kittens, ecology and astronomy. She lives in Calgary, Canada.
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Aurelio Rico Lopez III is a self-diagnosed scribble junkie from Iloilo City, Philippines. His poetry has been featured in numerous print magazines and online zines such as Mythic Delirium, Dark Animus, Illumen, Black Petals, Goblin Fruit, Kaleidotrope, Sybil’s Garage, Aoife’s Kiss, Brew City Magazine, The Shantytown Anomaly, and The Horror Express. His chapbooks JOLTS and SHOCKS are available from Sam’s Dot Publishing.
You may email him at thirdylopez2001@yahoo.com
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Daniel C. Smith: I have published over one hundred short stories and poems in various publications and anthologies, including Tales of the Talisman, The Leading Edge, Scifaikuest and AlienSkin. Recently I won an honorable mention in the 18th Annual Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror for poetry.
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J.E. Stanley is an accountant and on-again/off-again guitarist from the grayscale suburban wilderness of Northeast Ohio. In addition to previous issues of Scifaikuest, his poetry has appeared in numerous publications including the book Dark Intervals (vanZeno Press), the chapbook Dissonance (deep cleveland press) and the short collection Ink (Gypsy Lips
Press).
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Michael Dylan Welch is editor of Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem and of Press Here haiku and tanka books. He cofounded the Haiku North America conference in 1991 and the American Haiku Archives in 1996. In 2000, he founded the Tanka Society of America, serving as its president through 2004. Michael has also been vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and he's currently a board member of the Washington Poets Association. His poetry has been published in hundreds of journals and anthologies in more than a dozen languages. He lives with his wife and two slightly alien children in Sammamish, Washington.
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N. C. Whitehead is an Alabama-based writer whose work has appeared in or will be featured in Black Ink Horror, AntipodeanSF, Niteblade Magazine of Fantasy and Horror, The Drabbler, and Mytholog. See more at http://freewebs.com/ncwhitehead .
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