Rudolf Abbe was born in East Berlin in the late nineteen-forties
and raised as an orphan in various German and East European
institutions. The majority of his life was spent in military
detention and manual labor. He committed suicide in 1989.
Larry Belle is a Professor Emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he taught and served as dean of the College of Continuing Education. He currently teaches courses in history, ethics, and comparative health systems at RIT and at Roberts Wesleyan College.
His travel writing has appeared elsewhere in Unreal City, and he is currently at work on his memoirs. His blog, Belles Lettres, is online at www.bellelett.blogspot.com. He may be reached at lwbcad@rit.edu.
Michelangelo Buonarotti is a deceased Italian ceiling
painter who liked to whittle.
Erica Caldwell has had work appear in War, Literature
& The Arts and is currently working as a technical
writer in Rochester NY. She may be reached at erica_caldwell@hotmail.com.
Dan Cottone is a writer whose stories have won awards from Writers Digest Magazine, from the College of Liberal Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and who has been a featured reader at the State University of New York at Brockport’s Writers Forum workshops. His stories have been published in Inside Joke and the RIT campus awards journal. He quit fiction writing for several years to try his hand at writing in the public relations field, but found the fiction in real fiction writing more interesting.
Dan Cottone may be contacted at D_Cottone@hotmail.com. Between the Wars is his first novel.
Matthew Dagostino is a short story writer with a background
in advertising. He may be contacted at mtdago@yahoo.com
Tom Davidson is a professor of computer science who
teaches Advanced Perl to students in computer science in the
Syracuse area. He is currently completing his second book,
The Agony Of Lisp.
Tomoko Davidson is his wife. She teaches Photoshop
at graphics design workshops in Syracuse and throughout Upstate
New York.
Maria Antonia Falconetti is a former University of
Rochester graduate student and photography major.
Hugh Edmund Follet is "a disgustingly
self-satisfied bachelor uncle in his late fifties who smokes
like a fireplace, eats like a hippopotamus, drinks Bully Hill
wine like a fish, and simply loves it."
Anne Freaks has 'Absolut Gothic' tatooed in jet black
somewhere upon her very smooth very pale Asiatic skin.
Svetlana Gagarin first learned English in Komsomol
classes in her native city of Leninogorsk and later taught
it at the University of Minsk. She emigrated to Canada with
her mother in 1993 and currently works in Internet-related
aspects of the import-export trade. She is a member of Amnesty
International, and lives in Toronto.
Erika Ganz lives in Pittsford, New York. She is a
mother of two.
Winston Ganzfeld became a practicing Freudian
psychoanalyst in both New York and Europe despite having been
blind from the age of six as the result of a car accident.
In his thirties, he is now a noted Orwell scholar who resides
in London, England.
Sue Garbin is a happily married
poet and short story writer currently at work on her first
novel. She may be reached at michaelandsue@frontiernet.net
Bly Gardener is a graduate of St. John Fisher College and a member of St. Louis Parish.
Serika Iwakura is a native of Hokkaido and a former resident of California who currently works in the Rochester area in advertising and web page design.
Rebecca Jaffarian works for the American Diabetes Association, and was a fashion model in Britain during the 1980's. Breath/Wind/Spirit is her first novel.
Catherine Lee is a professional graphic designer, as well as a writer who has written on fashion and gender, and who has also written fiction in collaboration with author Lianne Sentar. Her web site and portfolio may be seen online at www.catlee.net.
Gary Lehmann has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
His essays, poetry and short stories are widely published and his works include The Span I will Cross (Process Press, 2004) and Public Lives and Private Secrets (Foothills Publishing, 2005). His most recent book is American Sponsored Torture (FootHills Publishing, 2007).
More of Mr. Lehmann's thoughtful and insightful poetry and commentart may be viewed at his website at www.garylehmann.blogspot.com.
Rudi Matic guards his privacy zealously.
David Pascal is a marketing consultant and copywriter
whose business page is online at www.davidpascal.com.
He may be reached at david@davidpascal.com.
Charles Platt is the author of more than
forty books, including The Silicon Man, The
Dream Makers, Protektor, and his
most recent work of criticism, Loose Canon.
A journalist and computer programmer, he was at various times
editor at three different New York publishing houses, and
both designed and edited the ground-breaking British magazine
New Worlds.
For several years a senior writer at Wired
magazine, Mr. Platt taught at The New School for Social Research
in New York City before moving to Arizona in 1998. Charles
Platt's fiction and nonfiction works are available at Amazon.com,
and readers may visit his newly remodeled web site as well.
Rachel
Rabinovitch lives in New York City.
T.S. Ratzinger, a former Jesuit, currently resides in Niagara-On-The-Lake and is involved with the Shaw Festival.
Jonathan Tasker Rich is professor of English at St. John Fisher College, and CEO of The Galen Group and Academia Consulting. He may be reached at mishuge@aol.com.
Guy Rossi is a retired law enforcement officer and the author of over two hundred published non-fiction articles. He is presently writing a serial killer thriller that takes place in his Rochester, New York during the women's suffrage movement. He may be reached at grossi@rochester.rr.com.
Thomas Ruskin is a self-described 'Army brat' and son of former assistant NATO staff coordinator Major Milton C. Ruskin. Raised in Europe during the Fifties and Sixties, Mr. Ruskin divides his time between teaching English in Germany and Italy and visiting relatives in the Upstate New York area.
Peter Simon is an advertising executive.
Camy Sorbello is an author, teacher, and journalist
with essays, short stories, and articles published in regional
and national publications, including Western Digest and Italian-Americano.
She also writes feature articles for the Palmyra-Courier Journal.
Readers may also want to visit the Camy
Sorbello Web Page.
Deanna Tiefenthal is by day a technical
writer, by night an writer of haiku.
Gunnar Trakk wishes he were an anguished
defrocked priest in a black-and-white Ingmar Bergman movie
from the Fifties. Regrettably, he lives in Hoboken, New Jersey,
has four kids, and works for Microsoft. Because of this he is too ashamed
to give his email.
Laura Turner is a journalist, author, and
aspiring novelist. She is a graduate of the Nazareth College
English program. Her work has appeared in many regional and
national magazines including: Adirondack Life, American
Fitness, Eve, and Life in the Finger Lakes.
She is currently at work on her first novel. She may be reached
at LTurner597@aol.com or
through her website at www.lauramturner.com
Xiao Feng Wen is an existential pizza delivery
boy in Boston who pretends to be obsessed with vampire cinema featuring j-pop idol Gackt, but who actually loves his puppy, Fang, best of all.
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