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Kitty Armistead

Kitty Armistead is an ambitious young woman. She not only takes original-fine-art-type photographs (which she does not doctor), she is also a rockstar in the making. She's been writing and playing her own music and lyrics since she was a child, and since she hit her teen years, the music she produces is actually requested at parties. She is hoping to be successful at both.

John Beaton

John Beaton is a Scottish-born actuary who lives on Vancouver Island with his wife and five children. He recites at Burns Suppers and performs his own humorous poetry at musical concerts, Celtic festivals, and other revelries. His poems have popped up in places such as Light Quarterly, The New Formalist, The Buckeye, Forgotten Ground Regained, and AbleMuse's Tipsy Muse contest.

Edmund Conti

Edmund Conti comes from a long line of poets but finds the line is getting longer as more poets push in front of him. This is especially true here in New Jersey where every other poet has won a Pulitzer Prize.

Sally Cook

Sally Cook is both artist and poet. Her poems have been published in many journals, and her paintings have been widely represented nationally. She keeps a sharp eye out for the psychological portrait in both her poems and in her paintings.

Cook’s writing and painting deal with mutually interchangeable ideas. She has written many poems about completed paintings, and painted ideas which her poems inspired. For instance, a grant to explore the work of Emily Dickinson and T. S. Eliot led to a series of portraits of Emily Dickinson, which in turn inspired poems about Eliot and Dickinson. Her thoughts on the development of these paintings have been explored in The International Emily Dickinson Journal and in the book Double Vision – Contemporary Artists Look at the Poetry of Emily Dickinson.

Gregory Di Prinzio

Gregory Di Prinzio is a 42-year-old poet from Salinas, California. He has been writing for five years. (Editor's Note: This lame bio doesn't do justice to the poet. I've read some of his poems online and in print, and he's very good. Keep a lookout for him. --CS)

Jim Hayes

Jim Hayes lives in Kilkenny, Ireland. He was the featured poet in the Summer 2005 issue of Light Quarterly. His work has also appeared in Iambs & Trochees, The Alsop Review Anthology One, and many other venues.—CS

Janet Kenny

Janet Kenny blundered from being a painter in New Zealand to being an opera and concert singer based in London, England and foreign parts, then an anti-nuclear agitator and publisher's researcher and writer in Sydney, Australia, and is now about to wander northwards to watch whales and pelicans in Queensland, Australia where she may have to get a bit of a grip on herself.

Ralph C. La Rosa

Ralph C. La Rosa's poems have appeared in various journals and magazines, including Light Quarterly, The Lyric, Pivot, Italian Americana, Aethlon, Voices in Italian Americana, and First Things.

Fred Longworth

Fred Longworth's poems have appeared in numerous hardcopy journals including California Quarterly, Pearl, Rattapallax and Spillway; and on-line in Melic Review, miller's pond, poetic voices and poetryfish. He makes his living restoring vintage audio components. He lives and writes in San Diego.

Betty McBitch

Betty McBitch has never had a poem published before. She is convinced this is due to discrimination against female poets who aren't cute. Thankfully, the editors of Folly don't discriminate on that basis, but will print anything if you pay them enough.

Chris O'Carroll

Chris O'Carroll is a writer, actor, and stand-up comedian. His work has appeared in Iambs & Trochees, The Melic Review, Thunder Sandwich, and other journals. Frequently confused about the distinction between light verse and serious poetry, he does what he can to confuse others.

Joseph S. Salemi

Joseph S. Salemi has published poems, translations, and scholarly articles in over eighty journals in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. His first two books, Formal Complaints and Nonsense Couplets, were issued by Somers Rocks Press. His latest collection of poems is Masquerade, published this year by Pivot Press. He is a regular essayist and critic for the Expansive Poetry and Music website, and the Associate Editor of Iambs and Trochees. He teaches in the Department of Classics at Hunter College, C.U.N.Y.

Monica Ellen Smith

Monica Ellen Smith resides in West Liberty, Ohio and her work is regularly published in print/online magazines (Voices; ESC!; High Horse; MAG (Muse Apprentice Guild); The Fairfield Review; The Sidewalk's End, etc.). She also has had her photography published online at Voices; The Circle; cyberwit.net (India) anthology, Harvests of New Millennium, et al.

A letter to her (deceased) father was purchased for a collection entitled CeLebrations—Notes to My Father in 2003, to be re-released in December 2005, an event of The Dawkins Project created to help children. The collection can be purchased through the Dawkins website.

Monica's book of poetry, Days of Fine Gray Ash, has been endorsed by poet Nikki Giovanni, and can be purchased at monica@purplequill.com.

Washington Snow

Washington Snow is a furniture craftsman from Rome, Georgia.

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor is an Australian poet and has published prose and poetry in various journals including triplopia, newversenews, thylazine and flashquake. Her diverse poetry is at http://batsword.tripod.com.

Peter Waring

Peter Waring is retired and lives in Islandmagee in Northern Ireland. He has had a few poems published in Irish literary magazines and a second small collection of his work: Alfabet, in spring 2005 by Lapwing Publications, Belfast.