EDITORS

Tod Davies, founding editor and publisher, spends her time following a faint but distinct path through the trees, yelling at everyone behind her that the coast is clear…even when it isn’t.

Mike Madrid, popular culture editor, is a San Francisco based refugee from the world of advertising.  His personal goal is to take all of the trivial information that he has collected in his brain for the last 40+ years and produce something that will inform and entertain the other citizens of planet Earth.  He never leaves the house without a handkerchief, appreciates a good margarita, and dreams of a world free of Julia Roberts movies. Like Joan Jett, he loves rock n’ roll. 

Harvey Lillywhite, poetry editor, lives in Baltimore, MD, where he teaches at Towson University. He is currently very busy making a great effort to simplify his life and pay attention to things as they are.

Bob Irwin, photography editor, lives in San Francisco, where he takes a lot of pictures.

Linda Sandoval,  consulting literary editor, has haunted the outrageous, superficial, poetic, sun blasted, earthquaked, celebrity soaked, streets of Los Angeles for the past twenty years.  She is looking forward to sharing her observations with the readers of Exterminating Angel Press.

WEBMASTER

Randy Lockhart, webmaster, can be found at hosteazy.com .  He says there’s no job too large or too small for him, and EAP has good reason to know that’s true.

WRITERS AND ARTISTS

BJ Beauchamp announced to her parents at the age of seven that she was going to be a writer, then promptly put her sister in her first play, which was a production put on in her parent’s kitchen. She has been torturing family, friends and everyone else coming into her orbit with having to read her pilot scripts and screenplays ever since. BJ has earned a living over the years in the industries of oil/gas & mining (treasury), television (contract administration) and currently is licensed in the state of California in the areas of real estate and insurance (fire/casualty naturally). BJ also holds the self-appointed title of “queen of miscellaneous and useless information.”  Dogs and children like her, but adults are more so-so.

Dick Bentley is English. He once worked as an engineer on a project to build a Zeppelin, which is the only interesting thing he has done in his entire life. He collects mechanical adding machines and dictionaries.

David Bergman is a professor of English at Towson State University, the author of Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Representation in American Literature, and the editor of Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality. Bergman has published poetry in The Paris Review, The New Criterion, and The New Republic. He has edited a collection of Edmund White’s essays entitled The Burning Library. His latest book is The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture (Columbia University Press, 2004). He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

David Budbill’s newest book of poems is, While We’ve Still Got Feet (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) and a pamphlet, Nine Taoist Poems (Longhouse Publishers, 2007). He performs regularly in New York City with bassist/multi-instrumentalist, William Parker, and drummer, Hamid Drake.

Mat Capper is one of the UK’s leading procrastinators. After studying Law in university Mathew went to work for the Legal Services Commission and discovered the true meaning of boredom only since felt when watching the Terry Gilliam film ‘brazil’. Since leaving the legal profession Mathew has, in his mind, become a successful Writer, Actor and Director. In reality he has written some scripts, appeared in some films and directed a couple of shorts.  Mathew continues to write and now works in the treatment of drug and alcohol dependency. 

Jack Carneal lives in Baltimore. He teaches writing at Towson University. When not teaching or writing he runs Yaala Yaala Records, a small label specialising in Malian folk music.

Alex Cox, house illustrator for EAP, is otherwise an extremely independent filmmaker and revolutionary.  You can find him in those guises at www.alexcox.com.

Sue Cullen is 32 years old in body but mentally forever 22, the mother of two beautiful sons, Nathan 3 and Sammy 2.  She loves theatre, reading, writing, dance, and acoustic music.  She lives in Liverpool but regularly travels to Bristol for treatment and to catch up with her wonderful friends.  She loves Italian food, chocolate, the occasional cigarette and glass of red, also spending Saturdays at Everton F.C. with her brother, eating chips and watching the game.  She hates ironing and dog muck on pavements!  Her annoying habits are an inability to sit quietly through a film (much to her husband’s annoyance), and tidying up and forgetting where she puts things.

Katie Daniels is 13 years old and lives outside of Washington D.C. She has been told many times by her mother to go to sleep and stop reading late into the night. Ssshhh, she is still reading.

Wendy Darling, EAP advice columnist, still lives in the brick semi she flew out of as a child.  But she’s learned her lesson since those days of cleaning Peter’s house for a piece of his fairy dust, and she’s going to share her hard won wisdom with the world — like it or not.

Kim De Vries was a bookworm almost from birth.  Teachers never liked her writing. They though her words were finicky, her ideas tangled, her transitions invisible, and since she clearly had read and understood, they thought she was lazy.   So she decided to be come a writing teacher herself.   After just about 30 years of school she is finally teaching writing at Cal. State University Stanislaus and is a staff writer at sequentialtart.com.  In her spare time, she drinks too much coffee, reads books and comics, gardens, hangs out with two toddlers and one husband, and writes about anything that strikes her fancy. 

location: California’s glorious Central Valley
website: www.csustan.edu/English/DeVries/
email: cuuixsilver@gmailcom

Helen Dixon  is a “brita-cana-nica”.  Of british origin, she lived in Canada and since 1988 in the north of Nicaragua.  She works with women´s organizations as well as being a writer and translator.Chris Floyd is an American writer from Tennessee. He is the author of the book, Empire Burlesque: High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Regime, and also writes and edits a blog of political dissent by that name, in partnership with Rich Kastelein.

Deborah Gordon, M.D. is a conventionally trained physician who remembered why she went to medical school and pursued additional training in Classical Homeopathy. At Madrona Homeopathy, Ashland, Oregon, she wears the hats of homeopath, nutritionist and hormone balancer, and at most other waking hours she is either rowing, reading, or relishing life’s other delights and mysteries.

Chloe Hansen is loving life in Portland, Oregon.

Clarinda Harriss teaches poetry and editing at Towson University, near Baltimore, a city in whose warm heart she has lived most of her life.   Off campus, she edits and directs Maryland’s oldest literary press, BrickHouse Books, Inc.  Her latest poetry collection, DIRTY BLUE VOICE, came out from Half Moon Editions (Atlanta) in August 2007.  She has worked with prison writers for decades.  Her children and grandchildren, along with her work, bring her joy and adventure.

David Harrison recently graduated from USC in English and now works for the hard-hitting journalism powerhouse known as MTV News. His adventures can be read at theassistocrat.blogspot.com.

Harvey E Harrison is a spiritual expeditionary of the unaffiliated hermit variety. Harvey’s current mission is to say more and talk less. He can be contacted and further examined at www.catalystagency.com.

Rebecca Harrison is in the process of exploring who she is despite daily survival challenges of full-time enrollment in high school and being a teenager generally.

David D. Horowitz founded and manages Rose Alley Press. In 2007 he edited and published Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range, an anthology of contemporary poetry of the Pacific Northwest. His own most recent poetry collections, all from Rose Alley Press, are Wildfire, Candleflame; Resin from the Rain; and Streetlamp, Treetop, Star. 

Michael James spent years chained a desk in Liverpool, but recently broke free and relocated to south east Asia in search of the perfect beach upon which to contemplate his navel. Enjoys real ale, Cornish pasties, writing screenplays and b movies. Last seen in Phnom Penh.

Leo the Dog, naturalist, explorer, extreme sports enthusiast, aesthete, Leo the Dog considers himself the voice of his generation. 

Walter Lomax has written several books, with two currently being edited for publication.  A writer/consultant/motivational speaker, he is also the director of a youth program designed to promote the importance of setting goals:  immediate, short term, and long range.

As a caveat, he always tells people that he was recently released from prison after having served 39 years for a crime he had absolutely nothing to do with.  An organization called Centurion Ministries, which works to free innocent people, secured his release in December, 2006.

Vitomir Marjanovic was born in a small town in Serbia, on 28 September 1987.  He feels a great passion for writing.  When he’s lonely and sad, then he has only one friend (that’s writing).  The first poem he wrote was when his friend Johan died.  He works with his parents.  They work with flowers.  He found Exterminating Angel Press on the Internet (on Google).  He thinks it’s a good place for his poems.  EAP thinks so  too.

Paul Mavrides  would do much better if he only lived up to everyone else’s expectations. Too bad for them.

Hannah Mermelstein is an American Jew born and raised on the east coast of the United States. Her passion for social justice led her to a degree in International and Intercultural Studies, Women’s Studies, and Peace Studies.

Hannah turned her energies to the Middle East as the second intifada intensified and she could not ignore the injustices happening in her name as a Jew and with her money as an American. After a year in Boston working as a community organizer in public housing, facilitating anti-oppression classes with White People Challenging Racism, and participating in local Palestine solidarity work, Hannah began working in human rights and education in Palestine in September 2003. Recently Hannah completed a quilt and CD project called Needle in the Groove to raise money for a Palestinian girls’ group.

John Merryman thinks hard about the stuff that matters and is somewhat bemused by the stuff that doesn’t.

Carolyn Myers became a writer as a natural outgrowth of childhood lying. She wrote her first play in 3rd grade: the book to a projected opera called “Three Pirates came to London Town,” in the hopes that the music teacher would then relent, ignore her voice, and let her join the choir. Since 3rd grade, not much has changed; she still yearns to be able to sing, and she has devoted her life to putting on her own plays and those of her friends. At some point, when even personal community theater was not enough, she turned to Buddhist meditation. Today, for sheer pleasure, she is a member of the Hamazons, Warrior Princesses of Comedy, an improvisation troupe.

Alice Nutter is a playwright, anarchist, musician, and mom.

Hugh O’Conor is an Irish actor, writer, and director who has recently become more serious about photography, even if it hasn’t become any more serious about him.

Dan Osterman started early thinking about his relationship to the State even before he turned 18 in 1970. Always important for draft-bait. He has been a Catholic Worker style social worker- which means food, shelter, clothing and a little agitation against the military/industrial/congressional complex on the side.

C.B. Parrish  is, and always has been, a complete nonentity, currently residing on the extreme north coast of California.  Nearly expired of remorse for her misspent youth, she now wastes no time lolling around the house in her pajamas.  Her addictions include coffee, unfiltered cigarettes and tree planting.  A dairy nazi, she is rude to anyone engaging in the sale or praise of reduced fat milk, insisting it is for their own good.Her hobby is swinging from the earlobes of capitalists and public servants, guilting them into disingenuous displays of good citizenship and scaring them to such witlessness they do not notice the accidental performance of their jobs.  She can’t help it.

Hunt N. Peck is the world’s only Consulting General Specialist. He is believed to have been born Hunter Nasruddin Pek in Tehran in the late ‘forties. His Hungarian father was a noted trombone engineer and swindler, his Anglo-Iranian mother an exotic dancer and contortionist. His parents’ fortunes fluctuated in his early years as the family travelled widely. He was educated at Mullah Ali’s Wee Folks Madrassa in Qom, Eton (where he befriended Emir Krum, heir to the khanate of Bulgaria), the Bela Kun Gymnasium in Budapest and Her Majesty’s Approved School for Young Offenders (Chipping Sodbury). Hunt N. Peck has a doctorate in philosophy from the Harvard Centre for Bible Studies, Flat Plain, Nebraska. He claims to have once been a public-relations officer for the Illuminati, and to have invented the Italian word qualunquismo, which means ‘whateverism’. Hunt N. Peck lives in Dick Bentley’s attic, in much the same way that Eisenring lived in Biedermann’s.

Chuck Poling developed an interest in country music as a teenager in the 1970s, convinced that when Frampton came alive, rock ‘n ‘roll had just died. He was born, raised and stubbornly continues to live in San Francisco, where he and his wife perform in Jeanie & Chuck’s Country Roundup, a popular local bluegrass and country band.  He can be found at:

http://www.countryroundupsf.com/

and http://www.myspace.com/jeanieandchuckscountryroundup

Pseudo Thucydides like the real Thucydides, who sat out most of the Peloponnesian War in exile somewhere in Thrace, Ps. Thuc. is currently on indefinite vacation from the imperial democracy, and gets his daily dose of bad news from reputable ex-pat sources (in his case, The International Herald Tribune).He spends the rest of his time teaching undergraduate Classics somewhere in England.

Floyd Webster Rudmin is professor of social and community psychology at the University of Tromsø in Norway, where he also teaches in the Master’s Program in Peace and Conflict Transformation. He is a board member of Science for Peace. He can be contacted at frudmin@psyk.uit.no

Olivia Sandoval got fed up and sarcastic with 18 years of life in Los Angeles.  Now she’s exhausted in New York.  She’s a theatre student.  Go ahead, sigh.  You know you want to.

Alison Shaffer‘s work has appeared in Stirring, 21 Stars Review, Not Just Air, The God Particle, and other small ‘zines here and there. Her chapbook, The Rosary Poems, is available through 2River Press (2river.org). When she remembers to, she blogs (at http://meadowsweet-myrrh.blogspot.com/) on the spiritual, the practical, the paradoxical and the odd.

Stephanie Sides is currently in the process of coming out of a closet littered with shoes, horse tack, power suits, and old television sets.

Devinder Sivia is a Sikh physicist living and working in Oxford, England.

Max Vernon is a young recovering cynic, artfully constipated, inactive green activist, singer songwriter extra(b)ordinaire. Some people call him a space cowboy, some call him the gangster of love. something something pompitous of love.

Sean Watkin is a young writer born in Liverpool, England in 1985.  Writing for EAP is the first time he has done this kind of writing, as he usually writes poetry, scripts or lyrics.  If you would like more information about Sean, or would like to discuss any pieces with him, you can e-mail him freely on seanii_@hotmail.com.

Dan Wool  is a composer, musician, cafe haunter, and all round good guy.  (he didn’t write this bio himself.)

Rudy Wurlitzer has published five novels, including, Nog, Quake and Slow Fade as well as The Drop Edge of Yonder to be published in the spring of 2007. Among his dozen produced screenplays are Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Two Lane Blacktop, Walker, Candy Mountain, which he co-directed, Voyager and Little Buddha.He is also the author of two plays, Waiting Hexagram and Double Dribble as well as numerous short stories and articles.  He is also an all round good guy, and he didn’t write that last bit himself, either.

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