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Instead of the usual five questions from one contributor, we're putting one answer from each of the five contributors. Just because. Bios follow.
SM: What made you decide to become a writer?
Christopher Woods: I became a writer during
the Vietnam war era. My only brother was a
Green Beret in Vietnam, and I marched against the war in stateside demonstrations.
I began writing poetry, most of it terrible, at that time. I realize now
that my writing was an attempt, perhaps subconscously, to make sense of
a senseless situation. I've never stopped writing since. Vietnam was the
trigger. I assume most writers had one trigger or another.
SM: What/who is your biggest influence outside the literary world?
Cameron Pierce: The films of Ingmar Bergman have a tremendous influence on what I create, or at least attempt to create. However, there are many directors, artists, and even musicians whose work impacts my own. Beyond artistic works of any form, a recent influence has been professional swimmer Martin Strel, who swam the entire Amazon River earlier this year.
SM: If an illness or disorder were named after for you, what would it be called? What are its symptoms?
Maureen Wilkinson: If an illness or disorder were named for me, it could be called Irreverentitus. And the symptoms would probably be, an inability to take anything too seriously and finding some humour even in the worst tragedy.
SM: What story or novel do you with you'd written and why?
Bryon D. Howell: I wish I had been the author of the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Seriously! It's the ultimate classic.
If you could say anything to the entire world, what would it be?
Luke Boyd: Don't take yourself so seriously, it's tragically unbecoming.
| Luke Boyd is an inner city high school
teacher from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is an avid reader and movie
critic. Some of his published work has appeared on Silverthought, and in the Kutztown University Journal, Shoofly. |
| Bryon D. Howell is a poet currently residing in New Haven, Connecticut. He has been writing poetry for a great number of years. Recently, his poetry has appeared in poeticdiversity, Red River Review, The Quirk, The Cerebral Catalyst, The Lost Beat, and Censored Poets. Mr. Howell's poetry is soon-to-be published in Cosmopsis Quarterly and The Externalist. Bryon D. Howell is also launching his own poetry e-zine in April called The Persistent Mirage. |
| Cameron Pierce’s fiction can be found it over thirty publications, including The Dream People, Lullaby Hearse, Bare Bone, Chimeraworld 4, Sein und Werden, The Horror Library Vol. II, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens, Atomjack, and many others. He currently lives on the California coast. |
| Maureen Wilkinson is a British Author with a warped sense of humour. Her interests range from travel to antiques. It is when walking her German shepherd her mind travels its own strange paths. |
| Christopher Woods is the author of a prose collection, Under a Riverbed Sky, and a collection of stage monologues, Heart Speak. He lives in Houston and Chappell Hill, Texas. |
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