Current Occupation: Obituary Writer Former Occupation(s): Technical Writer for an invention company and many years working at Spencer’s Gifts and at a gas station Contact Information: Adam Matcho is an obituary writer who works and lives just outside of Pittsburgh, …
Current Occupation: Executive Director of VOX PRESS. Former Occupation: Instructor of English. Contact Information: Louis Bourgeois is the Executive Director of VOX PRESS, INC, a 501 (c) 3 avant-garde literary press. His memoir, The Gar Diaries, was nominated for the …
Current Occupation: English, Journalism and Photography Teacher, Newport High School Former Occupation: Caretaker of Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge Contact Information: Matt Love is the author of Gimme Refuge: The Education of a Caretaker and Love & the Green Lady. …
Current Occupation: Divorceé Former Occupation: Child rearer, cat box scooper, landscaper, cook, laundress errand runner, social planner, travel agent and all-around indentured servant of high-powered attorney. Contact Information: Denise Emanuel Clemen became a mother at the age of 16—but it’s …
Current Occupation: chronic writer, professional job hunter, ruling monarch over my loyal minions of two Labradors. Former Occupation: Marketing Director for technology companies (Microsoft, Compaq, Boeing, Tektronix, blah, blah.) fisherman, carpet cleaner, bartender, …. Contact Information: After 22 years as …
Current Occupation: teacher, small business owner, bread baker Former Occupation: rock climbing instructor, trail digger, communications director Contact Information: Becca Deysach balances a need to move her body with her love of brainy pursuits by baking bread, teaching writing and …
Current Occupation: Co-founder & contributing editor, Gobshite Quarterly, co-founder GobQ Books, publisher, GobQ e-books Former Occupations: Co-founder, contributing editor, Gobshite Quarterly Contact Information: I was born and educated in Adelaide and Melbourne. I have an Honours degree in English and …
Current Occupation: English teacher Former Occupation: Film projectionist Contact Information: Jennifer Barton grew up in southwestern Virginia and currently teaches writing in Knoxville, Tennessee. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at The New School in New York City in …
Current Occupation: Teaching Assistant. Chocolate-and-wine pusher at Pix Patisserie. Former Occupation: Dishwasher, busser, host, server, barista, cafe manager, zine curator/librarian, editor, tutor, English teacher . . . in that order. Contact Information: Alissa Nielsen is a fiction writer, editor and …
Current occupation: Circulation Director, Norway Memorial Library, Norway, Maine Previous occupation: Cashier, Big Apple Convenience Store Contact Information: Nancy L. Brown lives in Bethel, Maine, and writes a weekly column for the local newspaper, “The Bethel Citizen.” Previous publications include …
Current Occupation: Retired Former Occupation: Writer/Businessman/Entrepreneur Contact Information: Al Simmons was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is a founder of the infamous Blue Store Readings, Chicago 1971, birthplace of the Spoken Word Movement, the first regular reading series in Chicago …