Andrew Lam
Andrew Lam is an associate editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and and a regular commentator on NPR. Lam was born in Saigon, Vietnam and came to the U.S. when he was eleven years old.
His awards include the Society of Professional Journalist Outstanding Young Journalist Award (1993), The Media Alliance Meritorious Awards, The World Affairs Council's Excellence in International Journalism Award (1992), the Rockefeller Fellowship in UCLA (1992), and the Asian American Journalist Association National Award (1993; 1995). He was honored and profiled on KQED television in May, 1996 during Asian American heritage month.
Email: Andrew Lam
Paul LimaPaul Lima has been writing for the last twenty years. He has had hundreds of articles published in The Toronto Star, Canada Computes, Computer Dealer News and dozens of other newspapers and magazines. He has had short stories published in the Toronto Star and several literary magazines and has had poetry read on CBC Radio and published in a number of poetry journals. For the last five years, he has earned his living as a full-time freelance writer and teaches two online writing courses. More information about the courses can be found on his web page,
Paul Lima Communications.
RoseMarie London
RoseMarie London is a 2000 Fellow of the Ucross Foundation in Clearmont, Wyoming. Originally from New York City, RoseMarie lives in Wyoming where she is working on a novel. An excerpt of her book, What Jim Recommends, was anthologized in "Dry Ground: Writing the Desert Southwest", edited by Annette Chaudet. ISBN 097147253X
Email: RoseMarie London
"I am good at filling in the blanks, at seeing meaning where there may have been none at all. In this way I get very close to the truth. Or closer still to illusion."
—Demetria Martinez, "Mother Tongue"
Dennis Must
Dennis Must's plays have been performed Off Off Broadway, and he has published work in Red Hen Press' Blue Cathedral, Short Fiction for the New Millennium anthology, Rosebud, Writer's Forum, Salt Hill Journal, Sun Dog-The Southeast Review, Southern Indiana Review, RE:AL, Red Cedar Review, Sou'wester, Blue Moon Review, CrossConnect, Southern Ocean Review, Big Bridge, Exquisite Corpse, and many other print and online journals. He was awarded First Place in The Alsop Review's 1999, Taproot Literary Journal's 1998, and The Oval's 1996 fiction contests.
A collection of his short stories, BANJO GREASE, was recently published by Creative Arts Book Company, Berkeley, CA. He resides in Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.
His fiction appears elsewhere on the Alsop Review in the September issue of Octavo ("Cloth") and his story "Say Hello to Stanley" was the winner of The Alsop Review's fiction contest.
Email: Dennis Must
D. NavarroD. Navarro has a first name. It is Darrin. He remembers that there were good reasons why he chose to publish under only his first initial, but he doesn't remember what they were. He lives in the L.A. area with his lovely wife and their two children. He has a job and he writes when he can. Email: D. Navarro
Kristy Nielsen
Kristy Nielsen has been published in Mid American Review, Asylum, Poet & Critic, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Illinois Review, The Prose Poem, Kalliope, and Bakunin.
She also been anthologized in the New Rivers Press Anthology of American Prose Poems, and Sarejevo: An Anthology for Bosnian Relief.
She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has won both the Amelia Prose Poem Award and the AWP INTRO Award.
These are the opening chapters of a work in progress, A Year in the Whorehouse of My Dreams. The book covers 12 months, January through December, and each month is from a different year of the protagonist's life:
Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park writes poetry for both adults and young people. Her work has been published in several journals, both print and online. She also writes fiction (see The Writers ); her third book A Single Shard was awarded the 2002 John Newbery Medal.
Her website is www.lindasuepark.com.
See also: An Interview with Linda Sue Park
Robert Riche
Robert Riche has published two novels, What Are We Doing in Latin America? (A Novel About Connecticut) and The Vision Thing, the latter a picaresque adventure tale and satire on the Bush dynasty. His short stories have appeared in Commentary and a number of literary magazines. His plays have been performed off-off Broadway in New York, and in regional theaters in Berkeley, Washington, Atlanta, and in Bristol, England. He has co-authored one self-help book entitled The Ten Most Troublesome Teen-Age Problems (And How to Solve Them), and he has had numerous comedy television assignments. He writes periodically on food, wine and travel subjects. Six chapters of his newest novel, My Hotshot Career in Television, which he describes as “a comic novel with serious intent”, are reproduced here.
He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Connecticut Foundation for the Arts grant, Advanced Drama Research grant; he is a winner of the prestigious Stanley Drama Award, and he has been a Breadloaf Writers Conference scholar. His second novel, The Vision Thing, will be published by Publish America in 2004.
The Vision Thing
Published by PublishAmerica
June 1, 2004
Short Stories
What Are We Doing in Latin America? (A Novel About Connecticut) Published by Permanent Press.
My Hotshot Career in Television
Paul J. Sampson
Paul J. Sampson has been a professional writer and editor for more than 30 years. His longest stretch was nearly eight years with the Journal of the American Medical Association. His freelance work includes pieces on baseball, motorcycle touring, the inner life of underground comic book artists, and how to get the salt out of seawater. Two of his poems appear in the Winter 1997 edition of a 2River View , and two of his essays were published recently in Image: A Journal of The Arts & Religion. The latter pieces have been selected for the inaugural issue of the anthology Best Texas Writing, published by Rancho Loco Press. Another essay is scheduled for publication in The Sulphur River Literary Review. He lives with his wife, the artist Marti Fellhauer-Sampson, near Terrell, Texas.
Email: Paul J. Sampson
Ernest SlymanErnest Slyman was born in Appalachia - Elizabethton, Tennessee, and attended East Tennessee State University. His work has been published in The Laurel Review, The Lyric, Light: A Quarterly of Light Verse (Chicago), The NY Times, Reader's Digest and The Bedford Introduction to Literature, St Martins Press, edited by Michael Meyer, and Poetry: An Introduction, St Martins Press, edited by Michael Meyer as well as numerous literary sites on the World Wide Web. Mr. Slyman's poetry can be found in The Poets section.
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N. W. Tasane
N.W. Tasane lives in London. He has published verse in Poetry Merseyside, Vertical Images and Writers' Bloc.
Plays include "The Shell" (with K. M. Payne) and "Transvestite".
He describes himself as "a full-time father and part-time freelance dogsbody".
Email: N.W. Tasane
William TrapmanWilliam Trapman is the pseudonym of Brian Byrne, a journalist and broadcaster from County Kildare, Ireland. Marching With The Saints is from the book Mariseo's House & Other Stories. A novel, The Mariseo Legacy has now been published, and he is currently working on a sequel.
Brenda Webster
Brenda Webster is a freelance writer, critic and translator.
She has written two critical books, Yeats: A Psychoanalytical Study (Stanford 1972) and Blake's Prophetic Psychology (MacMillan 1983).
Her novel Sins of the Mothers, was published in 1993 with Baskerville. Her latest book, The Beheading Game, was published in 2005 by Wings Press.
Kirby Wright
Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego.
He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, where he studied under the tutelage of Frances Mayes(Under the Tuscan Sun).
Kirby has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. Before the City, Kirby’s first book of poetry, has just been published by Lemon Shark Press.
Email: Kirby Wright
