Authors
Adam Perry
Adam was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lived the double life of preschool teacher and rock drummer in San Francisco from 2002-2008. Adam studies writing and literature at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and writes about music for Westword and Boulder Weekly. Check out his blog by clicking here: Beautiful Buzz
Brandon Arthur
Brandon is a poet and graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He currently resides in Denver, Colorado.
Diane Klammer
Diane is a native of California now living in Boulder, Colorado. She is married with two children. Diane taught biology before becoming a counseling psychologist who worked with the mentally ill, individuals on probation, the developmentally disabled, and the elderly. She currently works as a naturalist for Boulder County Open Space and is a musical therapist for seniors in adult care.
Get in the car, Helen
Get in the car, Helen began writing shortly after discovering Helen, the woman he loved more than anything, had been secretly fucking a guy named Craig. Since being dumped by Helen, he has published a book of poetry, Avenge Me. (Baobob Tree Press), and is a frequent contributor to Illiterate Magazine.
Jack Collom
Jack was born in Chicago in 1931 and grew up in nearby Western Springs, where he spent much of his boyhood walking in the woods and bird watching. After graduating from the Forestry School at Colorado A&M College, Collom joined the US Air Force and wrote his first poems in Tripoli, Libya. He lived in Germany a Zeitlang, then returned stateside and worked in factories for twenty years. He is adjunct professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and has worked extensively with schoolchildren for thirty-five years. Collom is the author of twenty-four books and chapbooks as well as editor (with commentaries) of three books of writings by children. Collom has twice been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, in part for his experimental nature writings. He has four grown children and is married to the writer Jennifer Heath.
Jonathan Montgomery
Jonathan is the author of The MeTOO Poems Volumes I & II (Baobob Tree Press, 2008). He was born in 1980 and raised in Akron, Ohio. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Naropa University and lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Mark is the author of ten or twelve books, including Season of the Gar, CHODE!, Age of the Demon Tools, The Pigs Drink from Infinity, Chum, Bottom Feeder, Riding the Unit, From Absinthe to Abyssinia, The Collected Poems of Georges Bataille, Divine Filth, The Church, After the Orange Glow, and Writer in Residence. He has published hundreds of essays, poems, stories, literary translations, etc., and has cultivated a semi-cult following as an editor of the legendary lit journal Exquisite Corpse. After earning three degrees in Creative Writing (a BA from the U of MN, an MA from CU, and an MFA from LSU) he taught Creative Writing and Literature for five years at Truman State University in Missouri. He is now a professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas, where he lives on the shores of Lake Conway and checks his droplines daily for mongo one-eyed catfish, fugly prehistoric gars, and garbage-fish like largemouth bass. He is now Managing Editor of The Exquisite Corpse Annual, and is married to the zombie writer Robin Becker.
Nancy is a writer and professor living in Denver, Colorado. Her first book, Live from Palestine, was nominated for a Colorado Book Award in 2004. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Searching for Suzi is her first novel.
Nicholas B. Morris
Nicholas was born and raised in southwest Arkansas, splitting his childhood between small towns and farms. He was educated at Arkansas Tech University and Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He lives in Denver, Colorado with his partner Alyssa Piccinni.
Travis Cebula
Travis currently resides in Golden, Colorado with his lovely wife, Shannon. He is an MFA student at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, a program last seen hovering somewhere above and slightly to the right of Naropa University. His poems, photographs, and stories have appeared in The Talking River Review, Apothecary, In Stereo Magazine, Bombay Gin, and The Strip, as well as recent editions of The Bathroom and Whrrds. Last spring he was honored to be named a finalist for the 2008 Third Coast Poetry Prize.