wild violet - melon mirage

Michael Blaine
Michael Blaine's poetry and short stories have recently appeared in Comstock Review, G.W. Review, Baltimore Review, Rivendell, and Chesapeake Bay Magazine. This marks his third year as editor of the Delmarva Review, a forty-eight paged publication, featuring writing from the Eastern Shore. He was born in Oxford, Mississippi in 1968, but grew up on the Delaware Eastern Shore. He returned to Oxford to study English at the University of Mississippi. Blaine is married to the love of his life, Sara. They are expecting a new addition to their family very soon.
Poetry: Viva Voce

Dean Borok
Dean Borok was born in Chicago. After several years of living in Europe, he returned to New York, where he has worked as a fashion designer, standup comedian and freelance magazine writer. He is currently working on a murder mystery/comedy/satire which takes place in 21st century New York.
Humor: Wonderful Radio Havana, Designer Wrestling

Bob Carlton
Bob Carlton lives in Grand Prairie, Texas. The objectively verifiable facts concerning his life are so boring as to make them of no interest to anyone but himself. His poems have been published over the years in numerous places, most of which no longer exist. His most important contribution to the history of American letters is a chapbook, The Laughter of Stones, available from Good Samaritan Press.
Poetry: A Small Brutality

Pedro Castellano
Pedro Castellano is a photographer specializing in documentary photography. He has degrees from both Brooks Institute of Photography and The New England School of Photography. Pedro Castellano currently lives and works in the Canary Islands Spain. To view more of his work please visit his site.
Artwork: Library Building #4

Iantha Cleveland
Raised on a houseboat outside of New Orleans, Iantha wants to be free to do what she wants to do... when she figures out what that is.
Cutting: Famous or Infamous?

Keltic Corman
Keltic Corman, proofreader extraordinaire, 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 web master and art editor 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.

Tony D'Arpino
Tony D'Arpino, originally from the Philadelphia/South Jersey area, spent many years in Hawaii and is now based in San Francisco. He's had poetry published recently in Branches, Runes, and Pavement Saw. He has work forthcoming in The Blue Bottle Project (Smiling Dog Press), in which the poems are published in sealed bottles and set afloat. An excerpt from his novel "St. Bonaventure's Island" is forthcoming in Terra Incognita (Madrid). He recently received a Djerassi Foundation fellowship for the 2003 season.
Poetry: Leafstalk

Sean DeLauder
The history of Sean, an Ohio native and journalist for the Finally Courier, is brief enough that it need not be abridged. But it seems to be off to a decent beginning with publications with Wild Violet and The Circle Magazine early on in the crusade.
Fiction: Everything: An Abridged History

Rada Djurica
Radmila Djurica is a Serbian freelance journalist who has done correspondence work for the Tiker Press Agency and has had articles published in British Sunday and daily newspapers, including the Scottish newspaper, Sunday Post; in Woman Abroad magazine; and at Storyhouse.org. She has served as assistant editor, reading manuscripts for the Reading Writers Service; has published articles with the SCN Television Network in California; is a freelance columnist for the British monthly magazine Code Uncut; and wrote about Serbia's International Bitef Festival of contemporary theatre for Zowie Wowie Magazine, an American e-zine.
Essay: Pula Film Festival: A National Treasure
Reviews: Infection, directed by Krsto Papic, Callas Forever, directed by Franco Zaffirelli

Lindsey Duncan
Lindsey Duncan is an English instructor and Editor of brutal imagination. Her poems have appeared in several magazines including New Plains Review and Moon Reader. She lives in Oklahoma City.
Poetry: Music of Poetry

Carter Jefferson
Carter Jefferson, a former naval officer, journalist, history professor, and psychotherapist, now teaches writing to the senior set at U. Mass./Boston. His stories have appeared in a literary magazine and an e-zine, and he even sold one, hand-bound and illustrated, in an art gallery. He also published a political biography, but that was a while back. His book reviews have appeared in the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. More fascinating details are available at his www.LL28.com.
Humor: Gertie Saves the Day

Sara Beth Jonassen
Sara Beth Jonassen has had the pleasure of working with Laura Marello (winner of the Aniello Lauri Award for Fiction from VIA and recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant). She has studied fiction with the Writer’s Studio and the NYS Writer’s Institute fiction workshop with Doug Bauer. In addition, Sara Beth has been privately dedicated to the practice of fiction writing for well over a decade. Currently, she is in the process of revising several short stories for manuscript compilation, and completing a first draft sci-fi novel with an elderly heroine.
Fiction: The Running Joke

Margaret Karmazin
Margaret Karmzin's stories have appeared in Potato Eyes, North Atlantic Review, Mobius, Virginia Adversaria, Reader's Break, Aim Magazine, Chiron Review, West Wind Review, Weber Studies, and more. Her story in Eureka Literary Magazine was nominated for a Pushcart prize and Piper's Ash Ltd. in England recently published a chapbook of her sci-fi stories. Her fantasy novel, BONES, is available at Amazon.com and other online book sellers. In addition, she is an artist, with illustrations in SageWoman, A Summer's Reading and regional magazines. She lives by a lake in Northeast Pennsylvania with her husband and two cats.
Fiction: Diplomacy

Wendy Kestler
Wendy Kestler is an underwater and nature photographer. She currently lives and works in the Canary Islands Spain. Wendy Kestler is a photographer with Luz Latitud 28, to view more of her work please visit www.LL28.com.
Artwork: Jellyfish

Tony Leuzzi
Tony Leuzzi teaches literature and composition at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York. His poems and prose have been published or are forthcoming in White Pelican Review, Rhino, Poetry Motel, Fox Cry Review, The Harvard Educational Review, Shiny, Tripwire, and many others. He is a two-time recipient of writing-related grants from the New York State Council of the Arts.
Poetry: Driftwood: At Durand Beach, Lake Ontario

Tim Lieder
Tim Lieder currently works customer service at a banking institution. He also has a column entitled Love Apologizes to Virgin at TwoHeadedCat.com.
Fiction: Laughing at Morrissey

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: Whistling Dixie
Essay: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Gone But Not Forgotten
Review: Lost in a Good Book

Karen R. Porter
Karen R. Porter resides in a little wooded home in southern New Jersey where she writes, does conservation work, and tends to a small menagerie. Some of her writing has recently appeared in Phantasmagoria, Faces of the Goddess, Paradox and Harpur Palate. Those who know her consider her a very patient person.
Humor: Patience, Please

Margaret A. Robinson
Margaret A. Robinson grew up in New England, now lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Widener University in the Writing Center and creative writing program. She has two triolets in the spring 2003 issue of Rattle and three poems in the spring 2003 issue of Chiron Review. Abbey just brought out her cheapo chapbook, "Sleeping Outdoors in the Suburbs" - 18 pages, fifty cents a copy - available at Book Source in Swarthmore.
Poetry: Being kissed on the, Blondie, he calls

Mike Ryan
Wild Violet proof reader Mike Ryan has a distressingly common name. He's not the lawyer or pharmaceutical salesman or the pool club owner. He's the information services manager. The one that loves anime and science fiction. No, not the one from New York, the one from Pennsylvania. Yeah, that one.
Cutting: The Cargo Cult of Fame

Berlin St. Croix
Berlin St. Croix is the illegitimate daughter of David Bowie and Elvira. She would never use a tattoo as an excuse to show someone her breast.
Cutting: The Ugly Side of Fame

Susan B. Townsend
Susan B. Townsend is a writer and stay at home mother. Transplanted from the west coast of Canada five years ago, she now makes her home on a 300-acre farm in southeastern Virginia with her husband, five children, and a zoo full of animals. Her work has appeared in Flashquake, Sidewalk's End, Moondance, Pierian Springs, SaucyVox, Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), The Dead Mule, Wired Hearts and Pindeldyboz. She can be reached via e-mail.
Essay: The Puberty Aliens

Elli Wilson
Proof reader Elli Wilson is a certified massage therapist, recently graduated Penn State alumnus and a multi-media artist. She lives in State College with her boyfriend and two adorable pets, Emma and Beaner.

Karen Wood
Karen Wood was born in Long Beach, California, then moved to Big Bear Lake, California. Drawing and Painting have always been her best avenue of expression and escape ever since she was 2 or 3 years old. She has explored art via murals, mail-art, self-published comics, drawings, paintings, entering art shows, having some one-person exhibits, and now she has displays online. "There's a whole untapped universe of creative possibilities out there and within and I'm exploring it."
Artwork: Waterdune Torso, Tree Time