Mick Choder
Mick Choder is a performing singer-songwriter from the Philadelphia area. His lyrics comprise many letters of the alphabet in different combinations, usually in groups of two or more, although the letter "i" often stands alone. For more information, visit www.mickchoder.com.
Poem: Short Works of Spontaneous and Recurring Fiction

Keltic Corman
Keltic Corman, designer of the Wild Violet logo for Issues 1 and 2, was born in 1991 in the rolling green hills of downtown Baltimore. After wandering in and out of many a school in the county, he packed his bags and headed west....about five miles whereupon he was never heard from again. That is unless you're on the Internet. That being his only contact with the outside universe, he created a world just like any other and rocked the masses with this knowledge of cheap places to eat around his place. To this day you can still find him on the net skulking around web pages and creating stories that will never see the light of day...or night.

Amanda Cornwell
Wild Violet webmaster Amanda Cornwell is a highly suffanciacated multimedia artist and computer junkie--coexisting with her computer and art supplies somewhere in Maryland... for more exploration of her cranium visit www.geocities.com/suffanciacator.
Poetry: Earth

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Joris de Monchy
Ancient booze master, mister shiddy fighting the powers of straightlacedness in humble Amsterdam to keep the world a place we all find worth waking up to.
Artwork: Frozen Karma graphic , Self-Portrait

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Rich Furman
Rich Furman, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Work at Colorado State University, his poetry has been published in Pearl, Hawai'i Review, Black Bear Review, The Journal of Poetry Therapy, Poetry Motel, Penn Review, and many other literary journals. His scholarly writing is concerned with managed care and privatization, international social work, friendship, and social work practice. He teaches group and practice courses in the BSW and MSW programs. He is married to a wonderful women who has more freckles than there are craters on the moon, has two children, loves to mountain bike, and is slightly obsessed with his two wonderful American Bull dogs. He welcomes feedback, comments and dialogue about his work.
Poem: Trolls

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Becca Henry
Born in 1970, the youngest of four girls, Becca Henry draws her poetry from traumatic childhood events (sexual abuse and rape) and from the life-threatening illness she's been fighting since
age 18. The illness is now considered chronic, no longer
life-threatening, but she still has her “days”. All in all, though, life has been pretty good to Becca, a veteran of many things and a tough survivor!!
Poem: What It Means to Me to Have a Brain Tumor

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Linda Oatman High
Linda Oatman High is the original anti-Martha Stewart. She lives to write, eat chocolate, drink coffee, and play in a basement band on Sunday afternoons. She’s never stolen dentures, visited the L.A. Coroner’s Office, or channeled a Barbie doll. She did, however, chop all of the hair from her doll baby’s hair in 1964. Linda (a 12-year-old in a 43-year-old body) is an author of 14 books for children, many of which have gotten really good reviews and won awards. She recently completed a collection of adult short stories titled “Tightrope Rainbow”, in which “Channeling Barbie” is included. Linda ’s goal is to make lots of money and be on the Oprah show. Her website is www.lindaoatmanhigh.com; Linda’s author information may also be viewed at www.boydsmillspress.com.
Fiction: Channeling Barbie

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Erik Kestler
Erik Kestler is from New York City's Washington Heights and Naperville, Illinois, now living in Baltimore. He writes for a living. He says send mail: ekestler@concentric.net.
Cutting: There Went the Sun

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Dee-Ann Latona LeBlanc
Dee-Ann is one of those people who's never happy doing just one kind of thing. As Dee-Ann LeBlanc she writes technical books such as Linux Routing, and Linux for Dummies 3rd Edition, as well as does technical training and other related Linux things. On the other hand, as Dee-Ann Latona she's working hard at becoming a published fiction writer in the medieval fantasy and historical fiction areas.
Essay: We Have the Power

Kent Mackey
Kent Mackey is a 46 yr. old photographer and poet who grew up, and presently resides, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Formerly a freak, pizza car driver, blue collar worker, business executive, biker, mystic and all around wondrous individual, he now spends time creating/editing unique images and trying to change the world from his computer. Kent can be reached at KentMackey@37.com
Photograph: Final Reflections

Chris Martinez
Fluent in over 14.2 languages, versed in more than 34 international ethnic dances, and holding Ph.D.'s in microbiology, quantum physics, and hermaphrodite studies, Chris Martinez is a typical Pennsylvania man.
Fiction: The Dweller
Humor: Meet the Clydesworths

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Mary Matus
Mary is an aspiring Dave Barry/aspiring Stephen King (and will acknowledge the weirdness of that combination) who has lived all her life in rural PA (otherwise known as the Land of Cows and Corn.) When not writing, she works as a typesetter in the composing departments of three newspapers (leading to the occasional confusion.) She was once a reporter for Standard-Journal Newspapers and still occasionally writes for the Luminary, a weekly newspaper in Muncy, PA. She is a 1999 graduate of Susquehanna University, where she received a bachelor of arts in English literature and journalism and was active in The Crusader student newspaper. She has recently been published in the online magazine Wilmington Blues. In her free time, she is an avid bookworm, reading anything ranging from Toni Morrison to Dean Koontz.
Humor: Adventures in Hair Dying
Reviews: “A Portrait in Sepia” by Isabel Allende, "Together in One Place" by Jane Kirkpatrick

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C.C. Parker
C.C. Parker lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter. As for publishing, he's appeared in the following. Ezines: Deviant Minds, Alternate Realities, Planet Magazine, Suspect Thoughts, Apocalypse Fiction, October Moon, Dark Muse, Demensions, The Murder Hole, Fuzzclog, Tantalus Fire, No Boundaries, Fantastic Metropolis, Iniquity Nine, The Shadowshow, Tenthousandmonkeys, New Graffiti, and SHZine. Hardcopy journals (upcoming): Flesh and Blood. He's been writing for as along as he can remember, and he doesn't intend to stop.
Fiction: When Gardens Become Cemetaries

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Wes E. Prussing
Heeding the advice of various editors, Wes E. Prussing has not quit his day job - He's a sales and marketing rep in the construction industry. Oh yes; he's married, has two children and lives in south Florida. He's currently completing a post graduate degree at University of Phoenix Online. Having never been in any real sense a despondent, alcoholic, drug addicted, suicidal, self-loathing, antisocial, type he's been obliged to question his somewhat protean writing ability. Still - a third grade teacher once pegged him as a slow learner. So there's still hope. He's been published in a number of e-zines and in one or two small press magazines. Comments, suggestions, criticism or compliments of any sort can be sent to: weprussing@rinker.com
Fiction: Will Work

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Becky Rankin
Becky Rankin is a student of music at Washington State University and an electronics assembler/tester for Schweitzer Engineering Labs. In her spare time she writes poetry and edits Poet's Corner, a small-press quarterly poetry 'zine. Her work can be found in such publications as Mocha Memoirs, Fantasy, Folklore and Fairytales, Rogue Worlds, Alternate Realities, and Aphelion.
Poetry: Voyager IV

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Wayne Scheer
After teaching writing and literature in college for the past twenty-five years, Wayne Scheer recently retired to follow his own advice and write. His stories have been selected for publication in Kafenio, LoveWords, NovelAdvice, Inscriptions, Prose Ax, When Falls the Coliseum, Sugar Mule and Dead Mule (no relation). He lives in Atlanta with his wife and computer.
Humor: In Search of Famous Naked People

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Chuck Shandry
Chuck Shandry, former Navy Photographer and rabid anime fan, fondly remembers the days of Speed Racer and Kimba, the White Lion. Currently, he attends and helps out at Katsucon, since '96, and Otakon since '95, two anime conventions held on the East Coast of the U.S. (in Baltimore, Maryland). He lives in York, Pennsylvania, and tries to blend reality (a job) and fantasy (anime) as much as possible. Getting too old to admit his true age, he nonetheless tries to spread the word of Japanese animation at every opportoon-ity.
Interview: Tiffany Grant

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Jules St.John
Jules St.John grew up with a hippie-biker dad and a horse-crazy mom who never cussed. Currently living in DeKalb, Illinois, St.John has spent 2 years on the road, living in a van, on the streets, traveling hobo-Kerouack-style from town to town writing poetry all across the country. Swapping poems for spare change, a bite to eat, a place to sleep, named The Poet of Santa Cruz, honorary poet laureate of Pasadena, California, and owning, editing and operating "The Liberal", a poetry mag, has all made for gleanings on writings and expression. Favourite colour: blue.
Poetry: Steel Reserve
Fiction: That Train
Cutting: All Things Must Pass

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Sam Vaknin
Sam Vaknin is the author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" and "After the Rain - How the West Lost the East". He is a columnist in "Central Europe Review", United Press International (UPI) and ebookweb.org and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory, Suite101 and searcheurope.com. Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia. His web site: http://samvak.tripod.com
Poetry: When You Wake the Morning, The Miracle of the Kisses

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Alyce Wilson
The editor of Wild Violet, Alyce Wilson, beats the bad weather blues by taking long walks with her favorite dog-friend.

When she was in second grade, she looked like this:

Poetry: To All My Professors of Poetry
Interview: Poptart Monkeys
Reviews: Just Like Me by Poptart Monkeys