Author Biographies

Zygote Abstract Anthology 2008 Poet Biographies

Red Pulp Underground

Sarah Rose was born and raised in Pottstown, PA. She earned a B.A. in
English and Publishing from Pennsylvania State University, she is currently
attending Rosemont College for an M.F.A. in Fiction & Prose.

Gail Gray was born in Lowell , MA in 1951. She now resides in Greenville ,
SC. She is the author of five books of poetry, Varicolored Wheel in a House of
Chaos. Three Leavings, A Book of Shadows, Persimmon Ridge, Night Rockin’
and The Hazard of Waking Up, in addition to two collections of shorts stories,
Dark Voices and Memories and Monsters. The Asheville Poetry Review,
Cokefish, Exquisite Corpse, The Howling and Big Swollen Toe have published
her work. She is the owner of the micro press, Shadow Archer Press and is the
editor of Fissure, a magazine of experimental art and writing.

Chris Sabatelli earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Florida. The
Writer’s Journal, A Gathering of Tribes, Revelry, New Collage, and Time of
Singing have published his poetry.

Paula Obe Thomas was born in Trinidad & Tobago on 15 February 1969.
She’s been a performance poet for 15 years. She combines music and words
to create a sound all her own. She has performed twice at The Women's
Voices Festival, Ottawa, and at events in Barbados, Venezuela, Dominican
Republic, Guyana her home country, Trinidad & Tobago, and New York City.
In 1999, The New Voices of T&T published her first book of poems entitled
“Passages”. Ride the Wind Publishers in Vancouver, Canada published her
second book “Walking a Thin Line” in 2001. Paula has had poems published
in such journals as Fireweed in Canada, Community of Poets and Pulsar in
England and in various anthologies in the USA, Venezuela, and Trinidad and
Tobago. In addition, she has also produced two poetry compact disks entitled
"Afterbirth" and "Not so Soft". She currently lives in Trinidad and Tobago, and
works as a senior copywriter at Inglefield, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising Ltd.

Jae Ming Jue has been published in The Banyan Review and subsequently
at Verse Libre Quarterly followed by Circle Magazine. You may find several of
his other poems published at various poetry websites.

Federica Galetto is an Italian poet. She was born in Turin in 1964. Her work
is well known on the internet where she writes on literary websites and blogs.
Her poetry has been published in anthologies and literary magazines in Italy
such as the Mondadori, Lietocolle, Vitale Edizioni, Arteincontro etc. She is a
partner and a mother and lives in Italy’s northern countryside with her family.

Jason Hardung grew up on the plains of Cheyenne, Wyoming where only the
wind sang. After living in various cities out west he settled in Ft. Collins,
Colorado where everyone rides a fixed gear bike and follows their dog around
with a plastic bag. He likes to walk and has a cat with a bald spot. He has
been published in many literary journals and currently is co-editor of The Front
Range Review and Matter based in Ft. Collins.

Chris West resides in San Francisco, where the cuteness of cats is driving
him mad. He has been published on the websites Common Ties and Red Pulp
Underground and in the journals Kitchen Sink, and Morbid Curiosity. He writes
music reviews online for the Inside Connection, and he has participated in the
nationally publicized Mortified on-stage reading series. A California native,
Chris believes in punk rock, heavy metal, Beat poetry, and the sanctity of Star
Trek.

Jay Halsey is originally from Dayton, Ohio, and now resides in Boulder,
Colorado. He writes poetry and prose reflecting the everyday and not-so-
everyday episodes of simply being human and unapologetically flawed as
such. By drawing from personal experience, stemming from childhood to the
present day, his goal is to write pieces that are not only tangible, but also
universal in meaning and wholly relatable to the reader.

Dante Prestipino was born in 1979, in the New Jersey town of Atco. He later
moved to Pueblo West, Colorado. A great deal of Dante's inspiration stems
from growing up in the rural prairies of Southeastern Colorado. Dante has a
Bachelor of Arts degree and is an alumnus of Fort Lewis College, Durango
Colorado. He resides in St. Louis, Missouri. From the city, to the prairies, to
the mountains, and back to the city, writing poetry and prose has always been
a constant form of expression for Dante. He is currently compiling a body of
work for a book of poetry.

Colin Dardis is from Tyrone in Northern Ireland. He currently resides in
Belfast, where he edits a local poetry journal called Speech Therapy, and runs
a monthly open mic poetry night.

Venetia Ghozlan was born in 1958 Panama and lives in Seattle,
Washington. She is a Homo Sapien, daughter, mother, grandmother, of mixed
cultural heritage, a borderline atheist, humanist, non-tribalist, and apolitical...
she is a program assistant (her day time grunt earn the gruel job) and has
written since she could breathe...well at least could
think, cognitively. She has been published by Hood Press, Howard University's
The Amistad, Flutter Poetry, Jersey Works, Apt Literary Magazine, The
Farmhouse, The Verse Marauder, Language and Culture, Letter X, Remark
Poetry, and Red Pulp Underground.

David McLean was born in Wales. He has lived in Sweden since 1987. He is
a widely published poet. His work has appeared in the Parameter, Zygote in
My Coffee, Red Pulp Underground, Erbacce, Sein und Werden, Venereal
Kittens, Clockwise Cat, Mad Swirl, Lit Circus, Gold Dust, The Smoking Poet,
Haggard and Halloo, Gargoyle, BlazeVOX, Winamop and foam:e among
others.

Leila Holly Arciero is a native Hawaiian. She lives in Wilmington, North
Carolina and is an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington
with a B.A. in English and a minor in creative writing. She wrote briefly as a
freelance feature writer for the Jacksonville Daily News and is awaiting
publication.

Alexzan Marie Burton was born in Springfield, Missouri. A young
entrepreneur she writes to make memories and lasing impressions through the
art of writing.

Hector Lopez is an alumnus of St. Leo University. Raised in New York City,
he is an urban poet. His credits include the Dreamcatcher anthology 2007
published by The Laurel Crown Foundation, City Smells Anthology 2008 to be
published by EditRed, and has recently won the newly established 2007 Terry
Prince Award.

Rachel Blackbirdsong has been writing professionally for many years. Some
of her publishing credits include, UCLA's "American Indian Cultural and
Resource Journal," "Writing for Our Lives," "Thorny Locust," "Gravity Press,"
and "Red River Review." Currently she is writing a poetry collection, and her
third novel, "Crawling Out of Babylon." She is also a fine artist with numerous
shows in various museums and art galleries across the country, and plans to
illustrate a children's book that she has written.

April Michelle Bratten was born in Marrero, Louisiana, in the early 80's. As
a military child, she has lived in many different places, including Charleston,
South Carolina, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Icirlik, Turkey, and Minot, North
Dakota. Ms. Bratten is currently an English major at Minot State University,
North Dakota. She specializes in free form poetry, literary critiques, and
essays. She is looking forward to becoming a freelance writer and publisher.

Rod Stryker resides in Texas and his publishing credits include such
magazines as The Red Palm, Sun Poetic Times, x magazine, The Sunday
Suitor Poetry Review and online on the Odeum Quarterly and Mi Poesia. Rod ’
s book of poetry was published by Pecan Grove Press. The San Antonio
Current awarded his book, “Exploits of a Sun Poet” best book award for 2005
and Barnes and Noble awarded him author of the month for February 2003.

John Miller attended the Long Ridge Writer’s Group where he learned to
write. His writing has appeared in Spirit-Hunter, The World of Myth, Red Pulp
Underground, The Horror Library and Your Bridge to Wellness. John draws
inspiration from his many experiences as a police dispatcher, preacher, store
manager, single father, and son.

Shelly Wiseberg is from Montreal West, Quebec. As a writer and author of
poetry her written work speaks from the heart, and depth of soul of one on the
path of healing spiritually and looking inward for the answers by listening to
one's inner voice and using intuition a guide. Ms. Wiseberg has been
published in a few online journals and magazines.

Karl Koweski was raised in Chicago, Illinois and now lives in Alabama. He co-
edits the popular online magazine Zygote in My Coffee. His latest poetry
chapbook is entitled “Diminishing Returns”.

Lou Goodwin, often known online as Tirzah, is trapped in a small prism in
Kentucky. If you know the secret password to get her released please let her
know. She is happily single, has no children, and has a secret yen for power
tools. She is a writer of short stories, poetry, and one novel (as yet
unnamed).

Kristen O’Steen was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1983. She graduated
from the University of Florida in 2005 and shortly thereafter moved to Europe
where she developed a keen interest in Irish poetry and insatiable, often
contagious, wanderlust. She recently earned a Masters degree from Trinity
College, Dublin and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in English. Kristen O'Steen is
motivated by the abstract but, moreover, by the unknown. She is often
overheard quoting Oscar Wilde and can be commonly found drinking strong,
black coffee. Red Pulp Underground has previously published work by Miss
O'Steen.

Graylen Brown was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He makes his home in
San Antonio Texas. He has been writing poetry for 8 years. He is a
performance poet and his art is an expression of life experiences.

Courtney J. Campbell was born in 1976, is originally from Ortonville,
Michigan. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan-Flint with Bachelor in
Spanish, French and International Studies. Upon completing her
undergraduate studies in 2001, she joined the Peace Corps in the
Paraguayan Chaco as an agroforester volunteer, before moving to Recife,
Pernambuco, Brazil in 2003 where she is currently an English teacher and a
graduate student. She conducts research on the spread of the English
language in Recife after the Second World War at the Universidade Federal
de Pernambuco. The Iodine Poetry Journal, Socialist Women, The Michigan
Socialist, The Uncommon Sense, Poetry Bay, Juice Magazine, Kill Poet, The
Smoking Poet, Empowerment 4 Women, Language and Culture have
published her poetry and/or essays. Another of her essays will be published in
the next issue of The Guide to Ecstatic Living and her poetry will be featured
in the next issue of From East to West.

Darrell Lindsey born in 1964 is a freelance writer in his hometown of
Nacogdoches, Texas. He was a 1982 Honor graduate of Nacogdoches High
School and attended Stephen F. Austin State University, where he majored in
English and Sociology. His publishing credits include Fire Pearls: Short
Masterpieces Of The Human Heart, Sincerely Elvis poetry anthology, To Have
and To Hold anthology (published by Center Street), 2007 Dwarf Stars
anthology, Golden Voices: Past and Present, The Heron’s Nest, Haiku
Harvest, Wisteria, Scifaikuest, Star*Line, The League of Laboring Poets, The
Christian Science Monitor, moonset, and flashquake. His awards include The
Heron’s Nest Award (2005), Tanka Splendor Award (2005, 2006), Basho
360th Anniversary Haiku Contest Award (2004), Genkissu Spirits Up World
Wide Hekinan Haiku Contest prize (2006, 2007), and Pinewood Haiku Contest
First Place Award. In addition, he’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Aine MacAodha was born Ann keys in Omagh in the North of Ireland in 1963.
She now prefers to write under her Irish name of Aine. She left school at an
early age to do nursing and have a family but always carried a passion for
writing Poetry. She attended creative writing classes, studied with the Open
University, and was a founder member of The Busheaneys writing group in
Omagh. Her sense of place, growing up amid the ‘Troubles in the north, and
the beauty surrounding it has inspired her writing and still does. Her
publishing credits include New Belfast Arts Sculpture, Poetry Now, Citizen 32,
Oasis, The Herald, Forward press anthology, New Generation Defining Itself,
Peterloo Poets, Whispers from the Hedgegrows, Argotist Online, Arabesque
Review, La Luciole Press, Malibu Arts Review, Shamrock Haiku Journal, Haiku
Ireland, Red Pulp Underground, Edit Red, and ABC Tales.

Adam Rodenberger is a 28-year-old writer at the University of Missouri -
Kansas City. He is a double major in English (Creative Writing) and
Philosophy. He has been writing for about 14 years, but the last five have
been the most crucial and serious as it's become more of who he is rather
than what he does.

David Wills is the editor of Beatdom Magazine and the author of several self-
published titles. He is professionally qualified in Literature, History and Organic
Farming, and splits his time between the city he loathes, Dundee, and the
mountains and valleys of the state he loves, California.

Sophia Argyis was born in Belguim. She lived for many years in Scotland
and is now living in London, England. She studied devised and physical
theatre but is now concentrating on writing. Her publishing credits include
several print and online magazines, including Inclement, Volume Magazine,
Pyramid (US), Argotist, The Scruffy Dog Review, Red Pulp Underground, The
Beat, and several others.

Jonathan Muggleston is a poet, photographer, student and father. He
supports these vices by moonlighting in foodservice. He hopes he lives to see
the day when poverty is not a crime in this great country.

Mike Freeman writes poetry, short fiction and screenplays. His chapbook
Why Poets Wear Black was published in 2002. His poetry and fiction have
appeared in numerous publications, including Carousel, Contemporary Verse
2, The Hamilton Spectator, Hammered Out, Kairos, Kiss Machine,
Misunderstandings, New Chief Tongue, Other Clutter, Rampike, Red Pulp
Underground, STREET, Toronto Small Press Fair Instant Anthology and
Venue. He has been featured at many different reading series in Toronto and
throughout Southern Ontario. He has appeared on City TV’s Speaker’s
Corner, Bravo! News and TVO’s Imprint, reading his poems, and is the proud
winner of the 2005 Art Bar Poetry Idol. His first full-length book of poems,
Cigarette Salad, was published in the fall of 2006. On December 1st, 2007 his
second volume of poetry, Bones, was launched.

Nadine Sellers, born in Normandy in 1943, raised and wedded in the South
of France. As a spoken word artist and lecturer of French, she has performed
on both sides of the Atlantic. She now lives in rural Missouri. Her publishing
credits include Editions Le Croit Vif, Paris. UNESCO Artistes et Poetes, Salon
Artistique de Cognac, Academie de l'Angoumois, Saintes Revue, Nebo
Literary Journal, Little Rock Free Press, The NESCO Courier, and Red Pulp
Underground.

Pamela Macphail lives in the wilds of northeastern Alberta, Canada
celebrating the wilderness just beyond her back door, through poetry and by
taking her dogs for walks in it. Her publishing include The Red River Review
and Red Pulp Underground.

Susana Hazelden was born in Argentina. She graduated from the University
of Michigan with a bachelor’s in Journalism. She has worked as a
photojournalist and in medical editing and is presently a program analyst for a
major teaching hospital.

Christopher Glazer is a 25 year old, full-time student at a shoddy little state
college. Current interests include, drafting short-
stories/flash/poetry/screenplays, sitting on a stinky couch, and waiting for the
baseball season to commence.

Marcy Jarvis was raised in the Adirondacks. During her twenties, she
worked as a historic building conservator in Manhattan. For the past ten
years, she has lived in the Black Forest where she gives poetic tours of a
medieval walled city. Her memoir about building a log cabin appeared in
Adirondack Life. Her work also appears in Red Pulp Underground.

Rob Plath is a 37-year-old poet from New York. He has published numerous
poems. He has four chapbooks of poetry published and two forthcoming. He
was once a student of Allen Ginsberg at Brooklyn College in the mid 90's.

Mario Zambrano began his professional dance career in contemporary ballet
at the age of sixteen. He was selected as a 1994 Presidential Scholar upon
high school graduation and went on to receive a 1995 Princess Grace Award
the following year for excellence in contemporary dance. He has lived in six
different countries and is currently getting a degree in Literature through the
Open University in England.

Lou Goodwin, often known online as Tirzah, is trapped in a small prism in
Kentucky. If you know the secret password to get her released please let her
know. She is happily single, has no children, and has a secret yen for power
tools. She is a writer of short stories, poetry, and one novel (as yet
unnamed).

Joseph DiFrancesco was born in 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is
a former firefighter and paramedic. A bit of his poetry can be found in a, self-
published chapbook entitled, Right Destination ~ Wrong Road, which tends to
float around mom & pop coffee houses here and there. Magazines, AG (Audio
Gliphix), Emergency Medical Service,s and Kollage, have printed
DiFrancesco's poetry and articles. His more comprehensive works to date are
three published e-novels with Double Dragon Publishers; Unholy Whispers,
Incinerator, and soon to be released, Not Dead Enough. He has also written
optioned screenplays, and his first film, The Mourning After, which he wrote
and directed, won for best featurette in the 2006 Delaware Valley Film
Festival. In addition, you may read his poetry on e-zines, Edit Red and
Whispers of Wickedness.

Joe Bartolotta was born on November 10, 1982. He resides in Staten Island,
NY. He is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and also
attended the Fashion Institute of Technology as an Illustration major. In
addition to his career as a professional actor, Joe is a Visual Artist and writer.
He is a freelance portrait artist, and is currently working on poetry, stage
plays, screenplays and his first novel. Red Pulp Underground has recently
published his work.

John G. Hall has too many credits to list in this small section. His brand of
poetry is gritty, honest, and astute. John is the founding editor of Citizen32
that has published works by Harold Pinter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di
Prima, Adrian Mitchell, Simon Armitage, Jack Hirschman, George Wallace,
John Cooper Clarke, Benjamin Zephaniah, Lemn Sissay, Rosie Lugosi, Chloe
Poems, Todd Swift, Aoife Mannix, Mario Petrucci & many more.

Suzanne Jubenville is a professional singer who has performed and
recorded with many well-known early music ensembles. She holds a
Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California. Music is Suzanne's
vocation, but it's only one of the many arts she practices. Suzanne has made
writing an integral part of all her pursuits. She has published academic
articles, poetry, and essays, and is currently working on a joint project with her
sister, writer Gloria Brown. Suzanne is a native Northern Californian who
resides in New England with her husband and elderly cat.

Christian Ward is a 27 year old London based writer & student, who's
currently finishing the final year of a degree in English Literature & Creative
Writing. He has poetry and book reviews forthcoming in Rattle, Remark, and
The Warwick Review.