Amy Lauren Chozick
Amy Lauren Chozick is a transplanted South Texas weed with wiry hair that is graying before its time. She studied poetry and Latin American Studies before moving to New York two years ago with an oversized red suitcase that is now being used as storage in her tiny East Village apartment. She has lived in Mexico City, Santiago, Chile and Barcelona, Spain and is the 2001 recipient of the Academy of American Poets Annual College Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Pollen Magazine, Summer Shade: A Collection of Modern Poetry and she is a featured poet of La Lutta New Media Collective.
Nancy Davidson
Nancy Davidson is a fiction writer whose non-fiction writing has appeared in the New York Post, the New York Sun, and Health magazine.
Carol Emshwiller
Carol Emshwiller has just published two new books, her eighth and ninth, THE MOUNT and REPORT TO THE MEN'S CLUB AND OTHER STORIES. She grew up in France and Michigan and lives in the Sierras in a small mobile home in the summer. She has received two New York State Arts Grants and one National Endowment grant, and she has been teaching at NYU for twenty years.
Shelley Ettinger
Shelley Ettinger's work has been in BLITHE HOUSE QUARTERLY, LODESTAR QUARTERLY, PINDELDYBOZ, TATTOO HIGHWAY, SNOW MONKEY, MUDLARK and other journals. "The Essex Street Effect" is excerpted from her novel in progress, VERA'S WILL, for which she was awarded a research grant by the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.
Ardian Gill
Ardian Gill is a writer and photographer who lives in New York. His novel, THE RIVER IS MINE, was published in September 2002.
Richard James Havis
Richard James Havis is a film critic and journalist. His reviews and criticism have been published in the UK, USA and Hong Kong. Last year Mr. Havis brought his screenplay “Malice” to NYU’s “Rewriting a Screenplay in Ten Weeks” (taught by Marilyn Horowitz) and the “Master Class in Screenwriting II” (taught by Michael Zam and Marilyn Horowitz).
Sandy Jimenez
Sandy Jimenez graduated from Columbia University in 2000. She is currently an Educational Counselor at Goddard Riverside Community Center and lives in Jackson Heights. Sandy hopes to begin study toward a Masters degree in 2004.
Nancy Konipol
Nancy Konipol took her first black & white photography classes in February 2001 with Lawrence Wheatman. Group Exhibits include “The September 11 Photo Project” a traveling exhibit and book; “Point of View” Westbeth Gallery, NYC, 2002; and “Frozen In Time”, thru Feb.15, 2003, Photo District Gallery, NYC. She is currently a member of PWP, Professional Women Photographers
Edmond H. Lee
Edmond H. Lee was born in Brooklyn and raised in Staten Island where he currently resides. He received his BA in English from Cornell University. He spends his time working for a music studio, reading, writing and looking for bugs for his "bug collection".
Kostas Kolintzas
Kostas Kolintzas was born in Greece but was raised in the Mid-West.
Nancy Konipol
Nancy Konipol took her first black & white photography classes in February 2001 with Lawrence Wheatman. Group Exhibits include "The September 11 Photo Project" a traveling exhibit and book; "Point of View" Westbeth Gallery, NYC, 2002; and "Frozen In Time", thru Feb.15, 2003, Photo District Gallery, NYC. She is currently a member of PWP, Professional Women Photographers
Denise Mann
A fiction writer at heart, Denise Mann is a freelance health writer living and working in New York City. Her first book was written in conjunction with HEALTHY LIVING magazine on alternative ways to prevent and treat heart disease. Her second and third books are written with NBC's Today Show fitness consultant Kathy Kaehler and should be published in 2004. Her articles regularly appear on WEBMD, WOMAN'S WORLD magazine, MEDIZINE and various other print publications. Her fiction has been published in several on-line and print publications including the journal, SPECIAL SAUCE.
Jennifer Morton
Jennifer Morton lives in Manhattan with her Springer Spaniel Annabel. After spending many years abroad, she recently returned to New York, and is taking writing classes at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Barbara Fleck-Paladino
Barbara Fleck-Paladino, mother of Louie, Bela and Sascha, lives with her husband Joe on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Her work has appeared in THE BRIDGE, MCGUFFIN, NEBO, RAG MAG, THE SMALL POND, and TREASURE HOUSE. Other credits include the NEW YORK TIMES CITY SECTION, JAMA, LILITH, and PARENTS MAGAZINE.
Caroline Rabinovitch lives and writes
in Brooklyn.
Bob Ricca
Bob Ricca is currently enjoying the
benefits of retirement from his full time job as teacher
of literature. This has permitted him to spend more
time writing and reading. This past year he attended
a week long workshop at Omega Institute from which
he derived much pleasure and an abundant source of
ideas which he has applied to his poetry.
He is working diligently on his first chapbook(untitled
so far)that he expects to present sometime this spring.
He plans on it being fully illustrated with artwork
of his own and, perhaps, that of others.
Jeffrey Stanley
Jeffrey Stanley's play Tesla's Letters
received its world premiere to rave reviews in New
York at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, its UK premiere
at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and numerous other
productions. The script has been published by Samuel
French. He was commissioned by the Mill Mountain Theatre
to write the play Medicine, Man which world premiered
to rave reviews in January 2003. He was a Copeland
Fellow in Playwriting at Amherst College where he
completed his full length play UFOs Over Brooklyn
which will premiere at Urban Stages in New York this
fall.
In addition to teaching at NYU (SCPS and Tisch School
of the Arts) he has lectured on screenwriting at Gotham
Writers' Workshop, The Imaginary Academy summer film
workshop in Croatia, and at Amherst College. Stanley
has also appeared as a guest writer in the New York
Times and in Time Out New York magazine. He holds
an MFA from the Dramatic Writing Program at New York
University's Tisch School of the Arts where he received
his BFA in Film & Television Production with a
minor in cultural anthropology.
T. Lawrence Wheatman
T. Lawrence Wheatman was
born and raised in Washington Heights, Manhattan,
NYC and attended public schools. He is a self-taught
photographer who began learning the craft from his
father at an early age. He teaches black and white
photography at SCPS at NYU as well as exhibiting his
work in fine art photo galleries and working as a
commercial photographer in a wide range of fields
such as magazine covers and fashion.
Marc Weissman
Marc Weissman lives in New York City.
He is currently the Project Manager of Travel Channel
Radio and writes poetry and paints.
T. Lawrence Wheatman
T. Lawrence Wheatman was born and
raised in Washington Heights, Manhattan, NYC and attended
public schools. He is a self-taught photographer who
began learning the craft from his father at an early
age. He teaches black and white photography at SCPS
at NYU as well as exhibiting his work in fine art
photo galleries and working as a commercial photographer
in a wide range of fields such as magazine covers
and fashion.
Carmen R. Wong
Carmen R. Wong is currently the special projects editor
at Money magazine and a contributing writer for Harris
Publications. With a background in art history and
psychology, Carmen has a Masters degree in applied
psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Amy Zarkos
Amy Zarkos graduated with Honors
from Pace University, earning a B.A. in English Literature.
Her work has been published in anthologies such as
Across the Universe and Best Poems of 2001. Her work
has also been featured in Apples and Oranges Poetry
Magazine and WallPaper Magazine. Ms. Zarkos is currently
the Production Editor with Fairchild Books.