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CONTRIBUTOR'S NOTES PIET den Blanken piet@denblanken.com
ANDREW BRYAN CARSON lives, works, loves and
creates in Chicago IL. He can be reached at invisiblemoses@aol.com
NANCY CHASE lives in beautiful rural central
Virginia in a house that, despite appearances, is not haunted.
She loves nature, mythology, and learning old-time skills such as
spinning, weaving, and growing medicinal herbs. She believes in
the holiness of the body and the eroticism of the spirit. She is
self-employed as an editor and writing coach at NovelMentor.com.
Her email is: nchase@aol.com FRED & LARA ELLIS are photographers living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Their photography is available for sale from galleries throughout Virginia. They also does portraits on request. They can be contacted at: mindseye@shentel.net
The
Reverend SARAH NASH-LEE eschews
the Ministry of the New Age and proves it daily by pointing often to
her certificate of Ordination and carries her propaganda religiously.
(That's a pun.)
She channels ascended Masters and dead surfers while doing laundry and
dishes, meditates obsessively compulsively and expects to achieve
enlightenment via mass quantities of Chocolate.
She is a graduate of a four year seminary and Theological Institute of
Great Renown In a Popular Cult, a disciple of Robert Anton Wilson and
is an occasional Buddhist with Sufi leanings. She is in possession of
a minor associate degree of Philosophy from Antelope Valley College
and she won't tell anyone how she got it.
In between writing the next great trashy novel, editing poetry, composing essays on the virtues of virtue, planning short stories, erotica and reading, she is chasing her teenagers on the Central Coast of California while she smokes too much tobacco and tells everyone else not to.
Her email is: nashlee@charter.net
Emmy-winner DUSTIN D. MORROW is a digital
filmmaker, photographer, and writer. He was born and raised in a rural Illinois community,
where he In
2000, Morrow returned to the Midwest to earn his MFA in the
Morrow currently works as a Visiting Assistant Professor of film and His works have screened internationally in a
variety of forums, PRANOTO & KERRY PENDERGRAST are visual artists who live in Ubud, Bali. Their innovative work has fostered many artists both in Indonesia and overseas. Together, they run Pranoto's Gallery and host live model sessions. Their email is: heart_art2@hotmail.com
LAUREN RAINE, MFA, has been a performance
artist, visual artist, and mask maker for 25 years. She has
studied traditions of Temple mask and dance in Bali, with Ida Bagus
Anom and others. In 1999 she created 20 multi-cultural Masks of
The Goddess for THE 20TH SPIRAL DANCE in San Francisco with Starhawk
and Reclaiming, as well as choreographing fire dances for
the Spiral Dance and the Goddess 2000 Project. In 2000 she
collaborated on the production of TRAGOS, a film by Antero Alli, and
was the Director of Rites of Passage Gallery, a Center for
Transformative Arts, in Berkeley, California. She has directed
and performed in many ritual theatre events, including the Masque of
the Goddess at the Willits Community Center (2001) , The Masque of the
Goddess at the Sebastopol Community Center (2001), the First Annual
Spiral Dance of Tucson (2000), Woman With a Thousand Faces (at
the Black Box Theatre in Oakland (2002). She has taught
workshops in maskmaking in California, Arizona, and New York, and was
a featured speaker at the Matrilineage Symposium at Syracuse
University, Napa Community College, and many others. She is
currently working with groups who wish to create events with her Masks
of the Goddess series, and is working on a book about masks and
community ritual theatre.
LAUREN RAINE TERESA NOELLE ROBERTS is just a typical
bellydancing bisexual pagan poet and erotica writer. She lives in southeastern Massachusetts with her true
love, Her email is: safirasilv@comcast.net
CHRIS TOLIAN is one of those people
constantly searching for things that he His email is: christopher_2031@hotmail.com Ojibway writer MARK TURCOTTE lives and works in Sister Bay, Wisconsin
DONNA YATES lives in northwestern
Pennsylvania. She is a dog trainer, women's counselor and personal
coach. She is a storyteller in the Native American tradition, and a
writer.
Her email address is ophelia814@yahoo.com
JOHN YATES lives as far back in the woods as he can at the edge of the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania. He also has lived in very remote areas of Montana, Ontario and Alaska. His writing often is based on the power of nature to heal and transform people, and of eros as the symbol and expression of transformation and a healthy and vibrant sense of self and life. "Who I am sexually, is who I am," he said. His favorite writers include Walt Whitman, Henry Miller, Linda Hogan, Terry Tempest Williams and Lenore Kandel. He trains dogs for a living, likes to get his hands in the dirt, often is off the wall, and values intimacy and sharing in human relationships. "If you are going to be alive," he says, "do it to excess. Live, love, celebrate life and be overwhelmed by the beauty around you." He can be reached at standingrock814@hotmail.com |