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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS FOR No. 13:Carver Adams received a Word Hammer Award through millenniumshift.com for short fiction and has been published in Canopic Jar (#12), Dead Mule, the original Millennium Shift, and the Lake City Reporter. She has written specialty ads and profiles of senior citizens for the Reporter, and frequently contributed a personal column for the newspaper’s Op-Ed page. Having left the quiet woods of North Florida she now resides where concrete and cacophony compete with the trees. Artist Cesar Biojo is a native of Colombia. He is currently residing in Tallahassee, Florida. His work was previously featured in Canopic Jar #10, and his much-acclaimed drawing of the John Ross House is the frontispiece for Canopic Publishing's The View From My Ridge. Tom Bradley is a novelist exiled in Nagasaki, Japan. His work appears in Exquisite Corpse, 3am, Val Stevenson's incomparable nthposition, as well as Salon.com, McSweeney's and lots of other places. His essays are regularly featured in the Webby Award-winning and Arts & Letters Daily. Various of Tom's five published novels have been nominated for The Editor's Book Award and The New York University Bobst Prize, and one was a finalist in The AWP Award Series in the Novel. Reviews of his books, links to his online publications, plus two hours of recorded readings, are at http://tombradley.org. Rosemarie Crisafi lives in Wappingers Falls, New York, USA. She works in White Plains, New York for a non-for-profit agency that serves individuals with disabilities. She is interested in literature and films. She enjoys the process of writing poetry. Currently, she has poems published online at Rock Salt Plum, Astropoetica and Experimental Poetry.com. Other poems have been accepted for future publication in Millers Pond, Tin Lustre Mobile, Ancient Paths, Poems Niederngasse and The Carriage House Review. Michael Fitzgerald has been a freelance writer for Jacksonville's Folio Weekly, The Business Journal, The First Coast Entertainer, Orlando's JAM Magazine, and The Musician's Trade Journal. He was also an editor and writer at Florida Community College's Campus Voice and Jacksonville University¹s Navigator, and is the creator and editor of Cowford magazine. His essay "Jacksonville Blues" appeared in Canopic Jar #12. Alexandra Fox is a Middle-England village dweller, mother of five and grandmother of three. Having worked for many years sub-editing scientific and medical journals, she has recently discovered how much more exciting life can be when she writes short fiction for herself and has work currently in the final at Peninsular, a Commended place at Cadenza, a second prize in the Northern Echo/Orange competition, a winner in the BBC/LBF short story competition, a placed story in Scribble competition as well as publications in various e-zines. She writes with Alex Keegan’s Boot Camp. Vanessa Gebbie is a journalist living and working in the UK. She was shortlisted for the biennial Asham Award for new women writers last year. Her fiction has been accepted for publication in Aesthetica Magazine, Cadenza, Birmingham Words, Buzzwords, Smokelong Quarterly, and many other literary ezines. She studies short story writing with the author Alex Keegan, who runs a tough hard-working web based writing group. For details of his group's extraordinary success rate Alex can be contacted direct: alex.keegan@btclick.com. was born in Lesotho in southern Africa. A multi-lingual poetic citizen of the world, Masilo has lived in South Africa, Kenya, the USA, and currently resides in Paris, France. His poems have appeared in the magazines Orbis (England) and Setsoto (Lesotho) as well as Canopic Jar #1 (print version) and Canopic Jar #11.P. A. Merrill, co-founder of and occasional associate editor for Canopic Jar, lives in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee where he continues to assert that while some folks call it a sling blade, he calls it a kaiser blade. Corey Mesler has published prose and/or poetry in Contrary, Pindeldyboz, Mars Hill Review, Pikeville Review, Arkansas Review, Center, Small Press Review, Jabberwock Review, Rattle, Orchid, Quick Fiction, Timber Creek Review, Green Egg, Poetry Motel, Raintown Review, Potomac Review, Poetry Super Highway, Big Muddy, Slant, Wilmington Blues, Drought, Rockhurst Review, Wavelength, Lilliput Review, Pearl, Aurorean, Lucid Moon, Heeltap, Sunny Outside, Fish Drum, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Mid-American Poetry Review, Independence Boulevard, Midday Moon, Turnrow, Now Here Nowhere, Dust, Cherotic Revolutionary, Cotyledon, Buckle &, Iodine, Snakeskin (England), Flashpoint, Freewheelin’ (England), Pitchfork, Anthology, Poet Lore, Spillway, The Pegasus Review, Reverb, Kimera, Thema, Kumquat Meringue, Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, Both Sides Now, Electric Acorn (Dublin), Razor Wire, Gin Bender, Blue Unicorn, Black Dirt, The Spirit that Moves Us, Wind, Red Rock Review, Art Times, Concrete Wolf, Memphis Magazine, Rhino, Visions International, and others. He has a chapbook of poems, Piecework, from the Wing and a Wheel Press, and work in the anthologies Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball (Breakaway Books), Pocket Parenting Poetry Guide (Pudding Press), Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure (New World Press) and Smashing Icons (Curious Rooms).He recently won the Moonfire Poetry Chapbook Competition and his chapbook, Chin-Chin in Eden, has just been published by Still Waters Press. One of his short stories was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel. His novel-in-dialogue, Talk, was published by Livingston Press in 2002. He’s been a book reviewer (for The Commercial Appeal, BookPage, The Memphis Flyer, Brightleaf), fiction editor (for Ion Books/raccoon), university press sales rep, grant committee judge (for The Oregon Arts Council), father, and son. With his wife he owns Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. J. R. Salling, a mathematician and historian, prefers the traditional glazed donuts if you happen to be going by the Krispy Kreme. Look for additional stories in Facsimilation, The Small Pond, Opium Magazine, BlueMag, The Green Tricycle, The Edward Society, Insolent Rudder and Subterranean Quarterly.
l-r: Tom Bradley, Michael Fitzgerald, Carver Adams, Rethabile Masilo, Corey Mesler
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