hobart=(now in alphabetical order!)

us:(the people running this place into the ground)

Aaron Burch, Editor~ 1 email

Sadly, while looking over the bios, Aaron realized he is not a home brewer, he has never lived in Paris (much less ever been to Europe), and his body is far from proportionate. He also has no advice, but believes Wes is on to something.

Mike McGowan, Associate Editor ~ 2 email

Once he became sober enough to realize he was unhappy with his life, Mike decided to begin drinking with Aaron. He is Irish, and is generally regarded as the judge of all things cool. He is a substitute teacher who once told a student to stop making an ass of himself. He was later cited for verbal abuse.

them:(the contributors that make hobart worthwhile)

Jennifer Bowers

I am a technical writer by trade, which is the "other" thing you can do with a degree in English if you decide not to teach the youth of our nation. I prefer creative writing, but alas, it doesn't pay the bills...and I just can't be a starving artist no matter how noble it is. I reside in Kennesaw, GA, a small town north of Atlanta. My friends would probably describe me as a pagan hippie chick, but not a grungy one--I do shave, after all. I also make hemp jewelry, eat a vegetarian diet, practice yoga and meditation, and I should probably live on the West coast instead of the deep South where cholesterol-laden food and fundamentalism go hand in hand. I'm 27, single, and so far, I'm happy with that arrangement. I like scruffy guys with goatees who can shoot pool and talk philosophy in smoky bars. I can't stand prissy women with shoe sizes to match their IQs, power-hungry corporate assholes, tobacco-chewing rednecks, fakers, whiners, and anyone who is unable to carry on a meaningful conversation over coffee. I like to write about things that make people uncomfortable...those moments in life where you hope the floor will swallow you whole. I like to make my readers cringe and remember when a similar situation happened to them. I have enough twentysomething angst to fill volumes.

Adam Clay

Adam Clay lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas and is working on an MFA in creative writing. His poems have appeared in Mississippi Review, Yemassee, and Slipstream. Much of his time his spent talking to his dog and wishing he was in a rock band. He likes bees from a scrupulous distance.

John Colt

John Colt's various projects, be they writing or other, have been turned down by: the Alaska Quarterly Review, Pindeldyboz, various anthologies, most graduate programs, the Loyalsock Twp School Board, ABC News, NPR, the Boy Scouts of America, the IOC, the UAW, his parents, former teachers, and most of his loved ones.

Joel Elrod ~ (pic) joelelrod.com

Joel Elrod has been painting since age 2 and in 1993 received his bachelor of fine arts degree with an emphasis in illustrtation from Northern Arizona University.

Joel moved to San Francisco in 1995. In 1996, he began creating concert posters for Bill Graham Presents, including Train, Bob Dylan, Phish, Creed, Tricky, The Waterboys, Widespread Panic, Sonvolt, Tommy Castro, and the Horde Festival. His BGP posters for Korn, Weezer, Jane's Addiction, Willie Nelson, David Byrne, and Ryan Adams were accepted into Print's Regional Design annuals, and his Korn, David Byrne, Willie Nelson, and Ryan Adams posters were printed in the American Illustration annuals.

He also does editorial illustration for magazines and newspapers such as Men's Journal, Smart Money, the Dallas Morning News, the (SF Bay) Guardian, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and Bike.

In the midst of the dot-com insanity that was so prevalent in the late-'90s Bay Area, Joel began to learn more about corporate structures and politics. At this time politics, environmentalism, social satire, and spirituality became strong influences on Joel's painting.

Working as a rock poster artist has allowed Joel the freedom of expression on many issues that other commercial art would not allow him. In his paintings, he hides messages such as "NAFTA kills" and "corportations kill democracy" in the hope that people will find them, grow curious, and try to find out more about these issues.

Joel also plays drums in the band Sandfly which is a down tempo rock reggae project based in San Francisco. Influences include Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, radiohead and femi kuti and many others.

Brad Epperson ~ 3 email

Brad is both pissed and thankful that hobart has simplified his entire existence into "stuff he likes v. stuff he doesn't." He has a degree in Communications which is kind of like God's golden ticket to go anywhere he wants in life; nothing is out of reach. He likes Vegas, roulette, Coors Light... actually he agrees with all of our (dis)likes. Except for Ashley Judd. He likes her. We don't. He is wrong. Although granted, she is nowhere near as bad as Tara Reid.

Michelle Garren Flye

Michelle Garren Flye is a full-time writer, wife and mother who currently lives in Maryland. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her short stories have appeared in Thirteen Stories, BleedingSky.com, TheMurderHole.com and HorrorLibrary.net. Her story “Moonlight Lady” will appear in the upcoming Be Mine anthology.

Aaron Gwyn

Born in 1972, Aaron Gwyn grew up on a farm in central Oklahoma. He reviews novels and short story collections for The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and has stories appearing or forthcoming in 'New Stories from the South: The Year's Best (2002),' 'Louisiana Literature,' 'The Chiron Review,' 'Appalachian Heritage,' 'Sojourn,' and other journals, anthologies, and websites. He is currently finishing his PhD at the University of Denver where he teaches composition, literature, and creative writing, and has just completed a short story collection, 'Dog on the Cross,' for which he is seeking a publisher.

Jonah Hall

Jonah Hall is a flunky of Wesleyan University who is an aspiring writer/musician. To pass the time among the common people, and to continue living under a roof and with food in his belly, he waits tables.

Darby Larson

Darby Larson would like to have the salmon. Baked potatoe w'everything. What's your house Merlot? That's fine. And... uh... do you have clam chowder tonight? Sure. Great thanks. http://www.geocities.com/pseudoflux

Jonny Lieberman ~ 6 email

Jonny Lieberman is a lifetime member of the John Birch Society.
At his current weight of 220 lbs, Jonny is hoping to bulk up for summer. As he says, "I have always wanted to weigh 260-270 pounds, I figure now is the time." In addition, Jonny will be stripping at his best friend's fiancée's bachelorette party to the wicked sounds of his close friend and collaborator DJ Wonder.
In addition to writing fiction, Jonny is a very active home brewer. Stop by his home in Echo Park anytime to enjoy a delicious brew. Next up, Honey Porter!

Bethany Mattone

I am a 3rd year law student at brooklyn law school by day. A singer and writer by night. Originally from Long Island, I've been living in Brooklyn for 2 years. I really enjoy eating avacados.

Brian McDonald sillydilly.com

My paintings are saturated in bitter disappointment. They represent the disparity between idealism and realism; a collision between fantasy and reality. My characters are most often nonobjective self-portraits. They express the way I see myself and others in a society that is both overly stimulating and overly demanding. My cartoon-like figures never quite live up to societal ideals and, as a result, are filled with anger, frustration, emptiness, and desire. The crude distortions of the figure highlight the awkwardness of self-concious awareness and a universal vulnerability to social pressures and expectations. I use collaged scraps of paper to speak of a former life, of nostalgia, and of memory. These discarded consumer items are collected and recycled much in the same way as one's experiences are collected and recycled to form identity. Fragmented, reassembled, then painted over, the collaged pieces become an autobiographical search for a greater sense of identity and wholeness in contemporary society.

Weston Sewall ~ 8 email

Age: 22
Birthday: August 23rd
Marital Status: Not married, no kids
Career Ambition: Pilot
Favorite beer(s): Kokanee, Fat Tire, Miller Highlife, Alaskan Amber.
Favorite Liquor: A somewhat expensive bottle of Whiskey.
Favorite most recent quote: "My penis is bright orange cause I like to eat cheetos and watch porn!"
Favorite bands: Pink Willy, Smashing Pumpkins, Botch, Nirvana, Harkonen, Foo Fighters, Weezer, Stella Brass, Cave In, Minus the Bear, Modest Mouse, The Shins, Medeski Martin and Wood, Britney Spears.
Favorite past times/hobbies: build miniature replicas of vintage WWII aircraft, classic cars like Ford Woodies, movie cars such as the Delorean from Back to the Future. Music composition and recording, playing drums, playing guitar, playing ball(basket and base), running, chilling in my basement, chilling with my homies, and drinking with my homies.
Special Talents: I have a vacuum for a butthole.
Little quirk: I have an obsessive compulsive disorder to be very neat and clean and tidy and orderly. We're talking everything at right angles to each other.
A life goal: Put out my own cd. Be part of a collaborative effort amongst my best buds to create something amazing.
A fantasy: I have always had a fantasy that one day I would be at a Botch show, a favorite band of mine, and the drummer would all of a sudden not be able to play. So the lead singer just points to me and says,"Hey, you, yeah you, get up here and play the drums for us." Now I would never be as good as their drummer but for some weird reason once I sit down I would possess all his magical drumming powers. The show would go on and I would be a hero, getting high-fives by all the other band members and finally getting accepted into their circle of friends.
Advice: Experiment with yourself sexually.

Logan Ryan Smith ~ (pic) email

Logan Ryan Smith has had work in 2River View, Stirring, The Rose & Thorn, blah blah blah. He has a heart the size of his fist. His arm span measures his height exactly. And, his forearms are the same length as his feet. He considers himself very proportionate. He publishes a literary print

magazine called Small Town.

Wayne H.W Wolfson ~ 7

Wayne H.W Wolfson is a California based author. Internationally published his works have appeared in many literary journals including 3 A. M. Magazine, Happy and Poems Neiderngasse. In 1998 he was nominated for a Push Cart Prize. Currently he is working on full length CD with Boston based composer/producer Grenadier. Updates and more info can be found at www.waynewolfson.com.
His pic is the grave of Gulliaume Apollinaire which he saw last time in Paris.

Rik Livingston ~ 4

I work in a variety of mediums: Sculpture, Painting, Cartooning, and various computer programs. I have been creating art professionally since 1987, with an emphasis on imaginative subject matter.
My work has been exhibited in around 20 galleries, but I also do graphics under the name, "Z.A.P! ZONO Art Productions!" and have taught art at the Art Institute, the Academy of Art, Whitney Young and more. I've had quite a few cartoons published in various magazines, comics, newspapers, and web sites.
I have a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute. My work has shown in the Cartoon Art Museum. I have received a few scholarships and awards here and there, there and here, once and a while...if you have an award you'd like to give me, I'd be happy to show up at the ceremony!

Andrew Feuk ~ 5

Andrew Feuk recently graduated from the California College of Arts and Crafts with an Individualized Bachelor of Arts. If you want to know what that means, it means he is dope. Originally from Tacoma, WA, Andy is "good people."

Galen Wade ~ (pic)

Galen Wade lives and writes in the Berkshires, MA. He is co-founder of the Brooklyn based multimedia company El Flex, Inc.

elflex.com

galenwade.com.

Shya Scanlon ~ (pic)

shya scanlon's fiction and non-fiction has been published in several web and print journals, including taint magazine, pindeldyboz, and 3am magazine. please contact him here: shya@nterrobang.com, and he will write a story about you meeting a famous person you admire, who then will fall in love with you. he promises.

Mark Walling

I have published fiction in recent issues of Louisiana Literature, River Styx, The Chariton Review, South Dakota Review, Blood & Aphorisms, and RE:AL. I am completing my first novel. I live in Ada, Oklahoma with a dalmatian named Disco.

Avital Gad-Cykman ~ (pic) email

Avital Gad-Cykman can be found in Brazil and also in Salon, Pindeldyboz, Pig Iron Malt and Vestal Review. And she has also appeared or will do so in Glimmer Train, Happy, Raven Chronicles, AIM, Imago, BigNews, Zoetrope All-Story extra, Yellow Bat review, Snow Monkey, and Nemonymous. Her novel and story collection are out there now, circulating.

Eric Spitznagel ~ (pic)

Eric Spitznagel has written for a lot of magazines over the past 10 years. Here are some that you may have heard of: Playboy, Spy, Harper's, Might, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Monkeybicycle, and Salon.com. He's also written four humor books, a few of which are still in print. He's pretty sure that A Guy's Guide To Dating (Doubleday, 1998) is still available at Amazon.com, and he's seen The Junk Food Companion (Plume, 1999) in the occasional used bookstore. This picture was taken when he was still a teenager and, for reasons that continue to elude him, he was appearing in a dinner-theater production starring Steve Landesberg (of "Barney Miller" fame). He realizes that this has little or nothing to do with his contributions to Hobart. But still, hey look, there's Steve Landesberg!

Donnie Boman

Donnie Boman lives in Mississippi and he likes chinese food. http://chinesefood.blogspot.com

Amy Day Wilkinson

Amy Day Wilkinson lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi with her dog, Birdy, but her hermit crabs, Frog and Toad, never saw this pine-heavy state.

Yael Ziman

Yael Ziman is a freelance writer and painter living in Los Angeles.

Claire Zulkey

Claire Zulkey lives in perpetual fear of being beaned by a foul ball or a broken bat. Find out more about her at www.zulkey.com. Play ball!

Jnana Hodson

Jnana says his name is usually pronounced "Ja-NAN-ah" or even "JA-nah" -- it's a nickname he picked up back in the early '70s, living on a Yoga ashram in Pennsylvania. Contrary to what some editors assume in their bio notes, it's one of those Sanskrit guys' names -- like Krishna, Shiva, Rama, Ganesha, etc. Go figure. His experience of foreign travel remains Canada. The day he submitted this bio, he and his family bottled batches of Boch and Pilsner (you guessed it) homebrew.

Sherrie Gulmahamad

Sherrie Gulmahamad is a struggling screenwriter, movie snob and Simpsons scholar. When not talking or writing about herself in the third person, she spends her time fuming about the war and editing Citizenrobot.com. Ms. Gulmahamad currently lives in Los Angeles with her red Siamese fighting fish, Momo.

Christopher Monks ~ (pic)

Christopher Monks has had stories published in Eyeshot, Haypenny, Pindeldyboz, and other webzines. He lives with his wife and two sons in Massachusetts. He's considered revealing just where in Massachusetts he lives, but then he worries about being stalked by some wacko Monks junkie. While a part of him secretly thinks that it would be cool to be stalked by a wacko Monks junkie, Christopher feels it best not to take the risk. Man, would that be sweet, though, or what? Stalk... er, read him at www.utterwonder.com

Whitney Pastorek

Whitney Pastorek is the editor of Pindeldyboz (www.pindeldyboz.com).

Find out more at www.whittlz.com.

Tod Goldberg ~ pic

Tod Goldberg is the author of the novels Fake Liar Cheat (Pocket Books) and Living Dead Girl (Soho Press), currently a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, and the editor of Hungry? Thirsty? Las Vegas (Glove Box Guides). His award winning weekly column appears each Thursday in the Las Vegas Mercury and his short fiction has been widely featured in several magazines and journals, including The Sun, Other Voices and the Santa Monica Review. Find him at todgoldberg.com

J.D. Finch

J.D. Finch has worked for northern New Jersey newspapers as a columnist, reporter and photographer. He's written on film for publications like Cinefantastique and Fangoria and on collectibles for Scott's Monthly, among others. Currently he writes a column for The Journal Of Antiques and Collectibles, published in Sturbridge Mass. His fiction has appeared on the Internet at nealpollack.com and pindeldyboz.com and in print in national magazines. Finch lives in Brattleboro, Vermont.

David Erlewine ~ (pic)

David Erlewine has short stories also appearing or forthcoming in the blue Review, C/Oasis, The Circle Magazine (web), EWGPresents, Fiction Funhouse, The Fiction Warehouse, Foliate Oak, Identity Theory, In Posse Review, Ohio Wesleyan Literary Magazine, Outsider Ink, Parting Gifts, Paumanok Review, PBW, Perfectland, Pindeldyboz (web), SNReview, Surgery of Modern Warfare, taint magazine, The 13th Warrior Review, Thought Magazine, 24, The Unknown Writer and Word Riot. He recently completed a 306-page literary novel titled, "Furiously Ordinary" and would lose an arm for an agent. Many of his stories can be read at http://www.daviderlewine.com

C Nolan Deweese

c nolan deweese is firmly planted in the anti-sarcasm camp. He graduated from Oberlin College in 2001 with degrees in Piratology and Viking Studies. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington. He published a book of poetry called Cowboy Atlas (open road press) in 2000. He is currently trying to get his new poetry manuscript, I Am Five People, published. His novel, Travel Kit For The Shipwrecked, will not be finished for some time. Same thing with his book of non-fiction short stories, The Second Most Romantic Redneck In The World. He dislikes both Johnathan Safran Foer AND Neal Pollack, so where does that leave him?

Nicole Schoentag ~ pic

Nicole Schoentag lives in Santa Barbara, California where she attends UCSB. Already majoring in Literature at the College of Creative Studies, Nicole considered being an over achiever and double majoring in Art Studio aswell, until her conceited bastard of an painting teacher called her shadows urine stains. Despite her broken spirit, Nicole's stories have been published in several campus journals. Her favorite things include eating too many carbohydrates, tripping down stairs, and tormenting her roommate with countless hours of depressing music.

Catherine Kasper

Catherine Kasper is currently an assistant professor at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Her work has been published in McSweeney's, Quarter After Eight, Third Bed and in other journals.

James Sutter ~ (pic)

James Sutter was yanked from the womb on March 1, 1984 by a nurse with a plunger, which explains a great deal more than he would care to admit. Raised in Sammamish, WA, he participated in the Running Start program and graduated from Skyline High School and Bellevue Community College simultaneously in 2002. He is currently a Creative Writing major at the University of Washington.

James' non-fiction has appeared in the KCLS Omnibus, the Redmond-based Eastscene, the BCC Jibsheet, and the UW Daily, where he works as a staff rock writer. He also serves as the music/calendar intern for Seattle's The Stranger, and was recently named the runner-up for the 2003 Charlotte Paul Reese Prize for Fiction on the merit of "Wings" and another piece.

In addition to writing, James sings and plays rhythm guitar for the rock band slamDaddy, and sincerely hopes that you will check them out at www.slamdaddy.net.

Joseph Young

Joseph lives in Baltimore. His work has appeared in Hobart #2, Pindeldyboz, the-phone-book, Mississippi Review, Blue Moon Review, Word Riot and elsewhere. Reach him at youngjoseph21@hotmail.com.

Susan Henderson

Susan's work has appeared in Oakland Review's 25th Anniversary Anthology, Zoetrope: All-Story Extra (December 2000 and September 2001), Today's Parent, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Eyeshot, Alsop Review, Happy, Painted Moon Review, Opium, Carve Magazine, Monkeybicycle, as well as in a number of pamphlets and training manuals used at Pittsburgh Action Against Rape, and is upcoming in the Spring 2003 issue of The MacGuffin, the June 2003 issue of Zacatecas: A Review of Contemporary Word and the July 2003 issue of PigIron Malt.

She is a recipient of an Academy of American Poets award and won an Honorable Mention in the Green Hills Literary Lantern 2003 Fiction Contest as judged by DeWitt Henry.

Pia Ehrhardt

Pia lives in New Orleans with her husband and son. She likes to eat while she drives - hamburgers! - with the music loud, and the windows down so the wind scrambles her hair.

Her work can be found in these print journals: Mississippi Review, Gingko Tree Review, Bridge Magazine, Eleven Bulls, Literary Potpourri, Word Riot, and Monkey Bicycle. Or online at www.piaze.com

Claudia Smith

Claudia Smith lives in Austin, Texas. She has stories forthcoming online in The Salt River Review, Pindeldyboz, Pig Iron Malt, and Word Riot.

Brian Ames

Brian Ames writes from St. Charles County, Missouri. His work appears in Glimmer Train Stories, The Massachusetts Review, Night Train and Snow Monkey. Pocol Press of Virginia published his story collection, “Smoke Follows Beauty,” last year. “The Brick Men” is from his second book, “Head Full of Traffic,” which Pocol Press will release this autumn.

Kim Chinquee

Kim Chinquee was nominated for a Pushcart, and was awarded a Henfield Prize. Her fiction recently appeared in Denver Quarterly, Noon, Pindeldyboz, The South Carolina Review, The Arkansas Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Confrontation, and other journals. She lives in Illinois.

Matthew Flaming
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Always an unstable lad, Matthew Flaming studied philosophy at Hampshire College in Massachusetts and at the St. John's Center for Behavioral Health in Santa Monica, California. He now lives in the Pacific Northwest where he enjoys long walks on the beach, insomnia, and gazing unto the vast horizon. His short stories and critical essays can be found online and in

print: among other places, in 3AM Magazine, Literary Potpourri, Timber Creek Review, and Word Riot. His home on the web is www.matthewflaming.com.

Karen Ashburner
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Karen Ashburner is the poetry editor of Dicey Brown. She teaches English in an odd smelling building at a community college in Birmingham, Alabama but is hoping to one day teach English in an odd smelling building at a community college in New York. You can find more of her work in various places if you google her name.

Pasha Malla (pic w/ lego hat)

Here is a list of things Pasha Malla is terrible at, no matter how hard he tries: jumping rope, darts, pool (as in billiards, but also, come to mention it, swimming), diving, skiing, singing "Happy Birthday" in tune with other people (but not singing anything else, for some reason -- he otherwise has the voice of an angel), baking, vodka, trampolining, shaving, horseback riding, volleyball, smalltalk, the telephone, dressing weather-appropriate, turning off the stove, not breaking things, remembering people's names and birthdays, sleeping, photography, the drums, going to the dentist, not taking the joke too far, sailing, soul-shakes and the French language. He lives in Montreal.

Mike Standaert

Michael Standaert is a journalist and writer living in Iowa. While working in Europe in 2002 he helped establish the freelance organization www.euro-correspondent.com . Poems, short stories and essays have recently appeared in Monkey Bicycle, Left Curve, Exquisite Corpse, Buffalo Carp, Identity Theory and others. Currently he is working on a third novel, The Adventures of the Pisco Kid.

Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon lives in Vail Colorado where he is currently running for town council much to the chagrin of the powers that be. His work can be found on eyeshot.net and soon to be on diceybrown.com. He was absent the day his english teacher explained the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

Ali Fahmy

Ali Fahmy's fiction has appeared online in Identity Theory and is forthcoming in Pindeldyboz and Exquisite Corpse. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife. Ali wants a wetsuit for Christmas.