Deborah Batterman
Deborah Batterman is the author of SHOES HAIR NAILS, a short story collection published by Uccelli Press. Her work has appeared in anthologies and literary journals, including Many Mountains Moving, Sistersong, Stray Dog, The MacGuffin, Dunes Review, and Surviving Ophelia (Perseus Publishing). Online journals featuring her stories include three candles, Standards: The International Journal of Multicultural Studies, prosetoad and The Potomac. As a member of the Westchester Arts Council’s Artist Roster and the Silvermine Guild Arts Center, she conducts writing workshops and collaborates with visual artists.
email: Deborah Batterman
Helen Benedict
Helen Benedict, the daughter of anthropologists, was born and brought up in England and on various islands in the Indian Ocean.
She is the author of two previous novels, Bad Angel (Dutton) and A World Like This (E.P. Dutton), and four works of nonfiction, including Portraits In Print (Columbia University Press) and Virgin Or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes (Oxford University Press).
The Sailor's Wife (Zoland Books), is her third novel and seventh book. Benedict has had stories published most recently in The Antioch Review and The Ontario Review, and essays and book reviews in The Nation, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Women’s Review of Books and US Weekly.
She teaches writing at Columbia University and lives in New York City and Albany County.
Bruce Bentzman
Bruce Bentzman's stories and poems have appeared in The Free Cuisenart, Gruene Street, In Vivo Magazine, The Morpo Review, Snakeskin, Southern Ocean Review, and Zuzu's Petals Quarterly.
He is married with two children and supports his writing by working as a Communications Technician for AT&T.
He describes himself as "a practising Peripatetic Minister of Secular Humanism."
Bill CameronBill Cameron lives in Portland. He is currently at work on a number of short pieces and a novel set on the windswept Oregon coast. More of his work can be found at his home page: Corpus Metter
Patricia Eddy
Patricia Eddy has written two other books, Who Tampered With the Bible and Rescuing Jesus from the Gospels, both published by James C. Winston. She is a retired intelligence analyst who spent most of her career during the Cold War facing a nuclear Armageddon on a daily basis. She has an MA in Theology from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology and is a member of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research.
These selections from The Making of the Millennium, available on-line at First Books, represents the summation of her seminary inquiries with her work in ancient and modern mythology.
Email: Patricia Eddy
Gary Eikenberry
Gary Eikenberry works as a freelance information systems and communications consultant and teaches HupKwonDo, a modern, non-competitive martial art.
He's been writing fiction as well as other forms for more than twenty years. He says " Writing is important to me not just as communication, but for its role in keeping my imagination and my perceptions sharp much like martial arts help keep my body sharp -- and rooted in the real world on all its levels." His work has been published in a wide variety of hard copy publications as well as electronic media. A bibliography can be found at: http://www.geconsult.com/biblio.html
Claudia Grinnell
Claudia Grinnell was born in Germany. She now lives in Monroe, Louisiana, where she teaches English at Northeast Louisiana University. In her spare time, she writes poetry, reads a lot, surfs the net, eats sushi, and stays out of trouble.
Her poems have appeared in various journals and magazines, such as Hayden's Ferry Review, New Orleans Review, Bottomfish, and The Alembic.
Email: Claudia Grinnell
Reed HearneReed Hearne say he makes it up as he goes along, imagining himself inside the lives of those around him. His essays have appeared in numerous San Francisco magazines and journals, his stories in The South Carolina Review and The Blue Moon Review. A novel is currently under construction out in the middle of the blue Pacific, atop Haleakala, where he now resides. He can be reached at rhearne@prodigy.net
Kyle Jarrard
Kyle Jarrard is an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris, where he has lived and worked since 1981.
His first novel, Over There, was published by Baskerville in 1997, and his second, Rolling The Bones will be published by Steerforth Press in 2001.
His short stories and poems have appeared in numerous magazines and online publications, including the North American Review, Mississippi Review, Frank, Oyster Boy, Eclectica, Rain City Review, Pharos, Descant, New Orleans Review and American Way.
Email: Kyle Jarrard
J. Scott Jordan
J. Scott Jordan was born in Aurora, Illinois and has a Ph.D from the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience at Northern Illinois University. His post-doctoral studies in Germany were funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foudation, a German foundation that supports the research endeavors of foreign scholars in Germany. He is presently a professor of psychology at Illinois State University. He says "I write what some refer to as fiction because I believe there to be truth in the dynamics of the human condition that are, as yet, not assessable via the scientific methodology of classical physics. The sciences and the arts are not as different as some might suspect. While those involved in the former focus on the order inherent in the human condition and thus, inherently converge, those focused on the latter direct their efforts toward the production of iterations on that ordered theme, and thus, diverge. No matter the focus, however, both are caught up in the same endeavor; the description of the human condition. It is to this end that my efforts are directed, be it in the realm of science or the realm of fiction". Additional information regarding Dr. Jordan's work can be found at the Consciousness Symposium
Alex Keegan
Crime and Mystery writer Alex Keegan is the author of five novels and numerous prize-winning short stories.
He lives in England with his wife, Debbie and two children.
Email: Alex Keegan
Eric KraftEric Kraft is the author of the continuing serial novel The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy, which includes, so far, seven volumes: Little Follies, Herb 'n' Lorna, Reservations Recommended, Where Do You Stop?, What a Piece of Work I Am, At Home with the Glynns, and Leaving Small's Hotel. He grew up in Babylon, New York, graduated from Harvard College, and holds a master's degree in teaching from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has taught school and written textbooks and was for a time part-owner and co-captain of a clam boat, which sank. He is the father of two sons. He has been the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He lives with his wife, Madeline, in New York City. On the Web, Peter Leroy's adventures can be found at Peter Leroy.
