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| Hugo Santander |
Hugo Santander was born in Bucaramanga, Colombia in 1968. In 1990 he graduated in Social Communication from the Universidad Javeriana where he also started a Ph.D. in Philosophy.
Hugo has written several entries for the Hodder Education Encyclopedia Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics (London: 2006.) He is also the author of The Crisis of Atheism, published in The Philosopher, the Journal of the Philosophical Society of England, and a novel sold in both Colombia and Spain: Nuevas Tardes en Manhattan (Manhattan New Soirées). |
Sonnets to Coralie
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| Kelly Bailey |
Kelly Bailey is a beautiful blind woman who lives in California and has drawn her inspiration from the Black Is Beautiful / Black Power movement and created her own "Blind is Beautiful" movement. She fully embraced her bisexuality in 2003, and hasn't looked back since. |
Pity for a Sighted Woman
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| Maggie
Shurtleff |
Maggie
Shurtleff lives quietly in Connecticut with her
three young children. Her recent work can be found
in Edifice Wrecked, Zygote in my Coffee, Unlikely
Stories, Poems Neinderngasse, AVQ, thieves jargon,
thunder sandwich, underground voices, open wide
magazine, and other fine zines. Her work
is scheduled to appear in Cthulhu Sex Magazine,
and Blast Magazine in upcoming issues. |
Queer ramblings
It started
at the Market |
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| Jan Steckel |
Jan Steckel, a former physician, is the author of The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press, 2006). Her stories, poems and essays have appeared in Anything That Moves, Scholastic Magazine, Yale Medicine, and elsewhere. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice, once for creative nonfiction and once for poetry. More of her work can be found at jansteckel.com |
Tiresias |
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| Sapphron
L. |
Sapphron
L. recently consummated her lifelong affection
for words by earning a graduate degree in Creative
Writing. She believes in a spectrum of sexual
orientation and seeks to increase awareness and
understanding of that perspective through her
art. In addition to being a poet, she nourishes
an unhealthy fascination with music and performing.
She is easily amused by tall black boots and
simple carbohydrates. |
| Voyeurism
She Said,
“Pleasure’s Mine”
Rifts
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| Leatha
Jones |
Leatha
Jones has been published in Sinister Wisdom and
Inside/Out. She lives in California with her life
partner, editor, and friend, Donnaye. Leatha is
currently writing a novel. |
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Interstice |
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| Arlene
Ang |
Arlene
Ang lives in Venice, Italy where she edits the Italian
Niederngasse.
Her poetry has recently been published in Moria,
Tattoo Highway, Smiths Knoll (UK), Tryst,
Eclectica and Poet's Canvas. An e-chapbook
of her poetry, "Dirt Therapy" is being
hosted by Slow
Trains. |
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Purr
One Room
and a Woman |
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| Ann Tweedy |
Ann
Tweedy’s poetry has been published in Harrington
Lesbian Fiction Quarterly, PUSH! Magazine,
Berkeley Poetry Review, Clackamas Literary
Review, and Bisexuality and Transgenderism:
InterSEXions of the Others. Her work is forthcoming
in QP: queer poetry and The Awakenings
Review. Ann currently lives north of Seattle,
along the Skagit River, where she works as a public
interest lawyer and tries to give expression to
all of her complicated desires. |
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life without
descartes
word games |
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| Jayne
Pupek |
Jayne
Pupek holds an MA in Psychology and lives near Richmond,
VA. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in several
online and print publications. "Primitive,"
her chapbook of poetry, is forthcoming from Pudding
House Press. |
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Culled Space
Remembering |
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| Beth
Firestein |
Beth
Firestein is a vibrant, creative bisexual woman
whose artistic endeavors range from the ridiculous
to the sublime. She loves the written word, music
from a variety of world cultures, traditional and
contemporary visual art, and the feeling of clay
between her fingers. Her creative pursuits include
poetry, photography (both 35mm and digital), random
visual art, and dance. Her work as a licensed psychologist
in private practice allows Beth to see and facilitate
the art and transformation of other people's lives,
with a special focus on supporting the journeys
of LesBiGay, transgender, and queer folks and their
partners and families. Dr. Beth is the editor of
the book, Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics
of an Invisible Minority. She lives in Loveland,
Colorado with her cat, Beau, and her horse, P.J. |
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Bluebonnets |
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| Amy Bleu |
Amy
Bleu is a bisexual writer, painter, and folk-singer
from the Northwest. All of her work shares a common
theme: it is dark but hopeful. She speaks from the
darkest and brightest spots of the human heart.
She has recently relocated to Denver, CO, where
she is currently working on new stories and musical
compositions. Her work has been described as raw
and honest. |
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Trying to
Decipher the Beauty on an Endless Overture |
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Lyn
Lifshin
Sleeping with
Lorca |
Lyn
Lifshin's most recent prizewinning book, (Paterson
poetry award) BEFORE IT'S LIGHT, was published
winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following
their publication of COLD COMFORT in 1997. ANOTHER
WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE ME will be published by Black
Sparrow books published by David Godine in November,
2003. (ORDER@GODINE.) Also, just published is
A NEW FILM BY A WOMAN IN LOVE WITH THE DEAD, March
Street Press.
She has published more than 100 books of poetry,
including MARILYN MONROE, BLUE TATTOO, won awards
for her non-fiction and edited 4 anthologies of
women's writing including TANGLED VINES, ARIADNE'S
THREAD, and LIPS UNSEALED. Her poems have appeared
in most literary and poetrymagazines and she is
the subject of an award winning documentary film,
LYN LIFSHIN: NOT MADE OF GLASS, available from
Women Make Movies. Her poem, "No More Apologizing,"
has been called "among the most impressive
documents of the women's poetry movement."
An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical
series, "On The Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue
Sheets" was published Spring 2003.
She is working on a collection of poems about
the famous, short lived beautiful race horse Ruffian,
new chapbooks including GIRLS AND WOMEN and MAD
GIRLS and a new collection called PERSEPHONE to
be published by RED HEN PRESS.
For interviews, photographs, more bio material,
reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and
more, her web site is lynlifshin.com |
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| Will
Hochman |
Poems
by Hochman have recently appeared in The North
American Review, The International Journal of
Sexuality and Gender Studies, and The Connecticut
Review. |
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Underwear |
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