Contributors
Bessie Bazile is a naturalized American citizen of Haitian descent. She has a BA in political science from Brooklyn College and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School. She has published a fiction piece at an internet site sponsored by the New York Law Review. Currently, she is writing a memoir that takes a fresh look at such issues as sexual harassment, rape, mental illness, and AIDS. St Jude! Protect My Pot of Gold is from her memoir.
Michael Bryan is an accomplished writer, screenwriting consultant, actor and producer with over 15 years of experience in the motion picture, television and theater industries. Michael wrote "Black Angel" while completed his degree under the inspired guidance of Michael Zam and his staff of instructors at the Writing and Speech program in New York University's SCPS School. Prior to NYU, Michael had three plays produced off-Broadway as well as numerous staged readings of his work at Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Naked Angels, Circle in the Square Theater and Ensemble Studio Theater.
"Black Angel" won the reading competition
at the Lake Placid Film Festival, placed in the Nicholl
Fellowship, attracted the attention of producers in
NY and LA and is currently in development to be filmed
in Spring 2004.
Leanne E. Ellis never thought that a career as a school librarian would allow her to live in such fantastic places as New York, Japan, and now Argentina. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Syracuse, she is working on completing A Disappearance and some short stories in beautiful Buenos Aires before moving back to New York City.
Sean Healy is a long time NYC resident, who, despite no formal education in English or Literature has decided that his greatest love is writing and one day may even take it seriously.
Dave Kerksieck lis currently getting his undergraduate degree at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls in English literature and creative writing. He is the singer for the band lunamoth, sells used books and vintage clothes, and interns at "The North American Review." He just published his first chapbook of poetry, the paper lion's origami roar (symbios press, 2003), last August.
Shanta Mali received her BA in dramatic literature from NYU's College of Arts and Sciences in 1999. She currently works in theatrical marketing. This is her first published piece.
Karol Nielsen has published memoir and poetry, or her work will soon come out, in North Dakota Quarterly, Permafrost, RiverSedge, Old Red Kimono, and elsewhere. "Litmus Test"—a chapter of her memoir that appeared in the 2004 premiere print edition of Epiphany—was named as a Notable Essay in the Best American Essays 2005. Her poetry collection was a finalist for the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry. She has contributed to Jane’s magazines, New York Newsday, the New York Times as a stringer, the Buenos Aires Herald, the Advocate, of Stamford, Connecticut, and others. She has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. from the Columbia School of Journalism. She teaches writing at New York University, and has taught memoir and non-fiction writing at the Gotham Writers' Workshop. She lives in New York City.
Paul Owen is an Associate Professor of Photography & Imaging and Film and Television. B.F.A., Minneapolis College of Art and Design; M.A., New York University. Represented by the Witkin Gallery, N.Y. Work included in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of the City of New York; National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum,Chicago; N.Y.U. Art Collection; E.M.M. Warburg Collection, New York; Pacific Telesis Collection, California; Astor Collection, England Multi-image presentation at La Mama E.T.C., New York and Apple Corps Theatre, New York. Exhibition at Claire Fontaine Gallery, France;Hamiltons Galleries Ltd. London; 5 Wiener Internationale Biennale; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Arizona; Louis K. Meisel Gallery, N.Y; West Kortright Center, NY. Photographs published in the New York Times, New York Post, New York Daily News, Village Voice, The Polaroid Newsletter For Photographic Education, American Photograper, Dance Magazine, New Jersey Daily Star-Ledger, and Phoenix magazine. Recipient: Group Study Exchangeto India, Rotary International; NYU Senior Faculty Development Grant, 1996.
Rick Rofihe is the author of Father Must, a collection of short stories published by Farrar Straus Giroux. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Grand Street, and Open City. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Spy, The East Hampton Star, and the online publication Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. A recipient of the Whiting Writer’s Award, Rick teaches privately and at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop.
Carole Rosenthal's stories have been published in commercial and literary magazines that range from the experimental (such as Cream City Review and the minnesota review), to the mainstream (Confrontation, Other Voices, Transatlantic Review), to the political (Mother Jones, Ms.). Her new collection, It Doesn’t Have To Be Me (Hamilton Stone Editions) was cited by Booklist for its wry “compelling” humor and its “fascinating glimpse beneath the surface of everyday life at ideas that would otherwise go unexamined.” Frequently anthologized (Powers of Desire, Masterpieces of Modern Mystery), her work has also been dramatized for radio, television, and stage. Ms. Rosenthal is Professor of English and Humanities at Pratt Institute.
Nicole Wells teaches public speaking at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies as well as at ASA, a technical college in Brooklyn. She is the former Director of Retail Operations and Visitor Services at the Museum of Sex. Nicole holds an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Marc Weissman lives in New York City, is Project Manager of Travel Channel Radio, and writes poetry and paints.