Issue Five – Author Biographies

 

Aleksey Dayen

"A.D. – poet-laureate, novelist-laureate, author of 10 books (poetry,
novels and poetry translations from English into the Russian). Co-editor
of Cross-Cultural Communications publishing house as well as other
publishing houses in Europe and the US."

 

Abha Iyengar

"...lives in Delhi, India from where she reads, writes, travels and dreams. She has contributed to The Simple Touch of Fate, Knit Lit Too, Chicken Soup for the Healthy Soul, Passing and other print anthologies. She is a Kota Press Poetry Anthology Contest winner. Her work has appeared in Moondance, Raven Chronicles, Gowanus Books, Tattoo Highway, riverbabble, M.A.G., and Writers against War, among others.

Her e-mail address is abhaiyengar@rediffmail.com

Webpage:
www.thewritersclub.org/indian-writers/delhi/abha_iyengar.htm"

 

Jonathan Guilford

"A seventeen-year-old student currently living in York, but preparing to move on to a gap year and then university to study an English Literature degree.  Aside from occasionally busking with my yellow ukulele around York, I rarely do anything I consider "work".  Stephen King and David Mitchell have been my guiding influences in writing my first novel, still yet to see completion. "

 

Andrew Morris

"...pretty much lives at his wonderful girlfriend's house. He builds cabinets and things. He's also in an amazing band called No Diving."

 

Danny Bernardi

"...was born and still lives in Birmingham.  He studied drama at Bretton Hall University College where he developed his interest in writing.

He has worked variously as a speech and drama tutor, a salesman and an HR and Training Officer.

His orphan leaf has been ripped, kicking and screaming, from his debut novel 'Under the Rotunda' which will be published by Exposure Press later this year.

Danny's website is: www.dannybernardi.zoomshare.com"

 

David Cromby

"Bio: My name is David Cromby.
On Mondays I sleep
On Tuesdays I eat
Wednesdays I scuttle around lost
On Thursdays I listen to Skip James
Friday is fish
Saturday is for remembering
On Sundays I often hear the sound of broken
glass being chewed in Church.  Followed by the swallows of
bleeding guilt."

 

Rob Blaney

"...was born in Nantwich, Cheshire in 1952. His poems have
appeared in Iota, Envoi, Raw Edge, The New Writer, Agenda, and as
accompanying poems to books of short stories. He has undertaken readings in Australia and in the north west of England. He is Chair of a writer's group and is keen to promote the work of young writers. By profession he works for a housing association."

 

Janis Butler Holm

"...teaches at Ohio University, where she has served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal. Currently, she is at work on a series of "plagiarisms", poems and stories made of words and phrases from other texts."

 

Susan Frome

"...lives in Litchfield, Connecticut. She writes interviews, features, and movie reviews for The Country and Abroad magazine, and philosophical essays for other publications.

 

Jennifer Mueller

"As a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya a few years back I travelled quite a bit and now I just wish I was. A lot of the places I've written about I've been to, a lot of them I haven't. Rafting on the Nile in Uganda, living in a Montana ghost town, African safaris, European youth hostels, the Black Hills of South Dakota all fill my scrapbooks. Now a daughter takes up most of those pages, but I still travel in my head every time I write."

 

Tania Hershman

"...is a science journalist living with her partner and two cats in Jerusalem, Israel. She is working on a collection of science-inspired short stories, two of which have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She is passionate about short fiction, the shorter the better, and wishes that the Great British Publishing Industry realised that novels are passé and short story collections are where the money should be.

www.taniahershman.com"

Unity Flow

"...is a former games designer and scientist who lost faith in video games, stopped playing with science and started to create odd pictures to fill the void left behind. For more information and some more of the Flowfield Unity visit www.freewebs/flowfieldunity."

 

Janice Butler Holm

"...teaches at Ohio University, where she has served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal. Currently, she is at work on a series of "plagiarisms," poems and stories made of words and phrases from other texts."