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Michael Jarrette-Kenny is a social worker and graduate student at Rutgers University. He has had fiction featured in Duct Tape Press, Savoy Magazine, Aphelion, The Inditer and PBW and is at this very moment working on his third (unpublished) novel. He has no plans of ever working in retail again. Amy Jarrell is a 20-year-old photographer and self-proclaimed digital distortion artist AND scanning princess from Philadelphia who enjoys defacing plastic dolls with sharpies and using them as her models in her art work (the dolls, not the sharpies.) She scans everything from body parts to bathrobes, and is deathly afraid of radiation. As the founder of Unhappy Medium Productions & Unhappy Medium Design, she spends her days wondering if anyone is listening. Her illustrations will appear accompanying an article in the next issue of the online zine SIGNUM (www.slm.net/signum). For praise and profanity please e-mail her at mangogal. Her new website (still under construction) can be viewed here. Janet Buck lives in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a Ph.D. in English and teaches composition and literature at the university level. Her latest collection of poetry entitled Bookmarks in a Hurricane was just released by Mighty Words, a division of fatbrain.com. Many of the poems are new and unavailable elsewhere on the internet. Bookmarks in a Hurricane is in PDF format, 53 pages long, and sells for $4.95. The thematic range includes love, family, grief, alcoholism, disability, social consciousness, and catharsis. It can be ordered online here In December 1999 she had her first print collection published by Newton's Baby Press - an 80 page book entitled Calamity's Quilt. In 1998 and 1999, she has received numerous creative writing awards and been a featured poet for Seeker Magazine, Poetry Today Online, Vortex, Conspire, Poetry Cafe, Dead Letters, the storyteller, Poetry Heaven, Athens City Times, Poetik License, 3:00 AM e-zine, Poetry Superhighway, Carved in Sand, and Avalon. Her poetry, poetics, and humor have appeared in Perihelion, The Astrophysicist’s Tango Partner Speaks, Sapphire Magazine, Gravity, A Writer’s Choice, Mind Fire, Southern Ocean Review, Free Cuisinart, The Writer’s Quill, Pyrowords, Spokenwar, Illya’s Honey, Savoy, The Boa, Ygdrasil, Beaded Strand, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, 2River View, Kimera, Niederngasse, San Francisco Salvo, Apples & Oranges, Ceteris Paribus, In Motion, Pogonip, Peshekee Review, Thunder Sandwich, The Suisun Valley Review, The Red Booth Review, The Poetry Kit, Miserere, Tintern Abbey, The Rose & Thorn, The Arm’s Extent, Apollo, The Part-time Post-modernist, GreenCross, Moonshade, Waterloo Review, Pif, Word Salad, Recursive Angel, The Melic Review, A Country Rag, The Ethical Spectacle, The Inditer, and hundreds of journals world-wide. Funky Dog Publishing recently released an online chapbook of Janet’s poetry entitled Strawberry Nipples, which focuses primarily on the role of writing in coping with a disability. Barbara Benepe, editor and publisher of The Horsethief’s Journal and The Green Tricycle, comments on the poet’s work in a recent review: "Buck's strength is her perseverance and focused analysis of human suffering--from the inside looking out. Everyone faces a demon or two in the course of a life--but not everyone has the skill to write about it in such an evocative way. Buck draws the reader into her very soul and we experience her suffering as if it were our own. Janet Buck's outstanding talent succeeds where others stumble. She runs headlong into her personal cauldron, screaming LIFE! and we're there, with her--every step of the way." Daniel Pop is a Library and Information Science Expert , a Chemical Engineer , Research Scientist and Artist interested in all fields of human endeavour. He can be contacted at the following address: Str. Iuliu Maniu , Bloc I , Et 6,A telephone message can be left for the Author at: 004-092-843444 Vasilis Afxentiou is an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher. He has been teaching English full-time for the last fourteen years. Prior to that he worked as a Technical Specifications Writer for seven years and as an Engineer for five years. Vasilis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, went to university in the United States where he received his degrees. Vasilis' writing credits include published fiction and non-fiction appearing both in Greece and in the USA. Stateside publications he has written for are Greek Accent, National Herald (Proini), and Crosscurrents. In Greece he's been published in 30-Days, Key Travel News, Greece's Weekly, Athena Magazine and had a weekend travel column in The Athens Star newspaper. Some e-zines that have puplished Vasilis' stories are TAF#10, The Domain, Ibn Quirtaiba, Cosmic Visions, ThinkB, Aphelion, Dark Planet, Basket Case, BORNmagazine, Aspiring Writer, ThinkB, Appalachians, Newwords, Zine in Time. Paul Laurendeau is an associate professor in linguistics at the department of French Studies, York University. Influenced by the thought of Spinoza, Diderot, and Marx, he is currently working on a book titled MATERIALISM AND RATIONALITY (PHILOSOPHY FOR THE SOCIAL ACTIVIST). Describing himself as a materialist rationalist atheist, Laurendeau formulates the religious debate in philosophical terms in the tradition of the progressive struggle against the mystical and irrationalist tendencies of philosophical idealism. His previous contributions to TAF include: Part one of the Sidekick's series;He recently cut all his hair off. His "brand-new-in-construction-wild-wife-web-mastered web page" can be viewed here. return to taf main page |