Hecale rouses from winter hibernation this month to find change is in the air. Most obviously the spangly new banners and logos decorating the site in 2008, courtesy of the good folk over at
2Faced Design. We're very pleased with them! The astute will also notice alteration to and multiplication of emails, editor@hecale.com, poetry@hecale.com and so on. The old email address whilst still operational will be phased out, so do update your books. Over the past months, the directory listings have continued to swell, so with little more ado, here's the latest biographies of featured authors, culled from the
Words Directory.
Sascha Akhtar was born and educated in Pakistan. She is a poet, journalist, dancer, photographer and filmmaker, a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of a chapbook Golum and The Grimoire of Grimalkin available from SALT publishing. An exhibition of her works is upcoming at The Commune in Karachi. She is the co-producer of the La Langoustine Est Morte reading series in London.
George Anderson grew up in Montreal and now lives in Wollongong, Australia. He has published widely in mainstream and alternative magazines over the last five years. In early 2008 you will find more of his stuff on My Favorite Bullet, Lit Chaos, Yellow Mama, Red Fez, Literary Tonic, Lost Beat Poetry, Bolts of Silk and many others. He edits the student poetry journal Ephemeral now in its fifth print edition.
Aya Ibrahim Bassiouny has been writing poetry and short stories for almost half her life. Her work has been published or forthcoming in Word Riot, Istanbul Literature Review, Foliate Oak, the Binnacle and other literary publications. She lives in Cairo and is currently doing an M.A. in Middle Eastern History.
Sandy Benitez's poetry has appeared in over sixty print and electronic journals. She was nominated for Best of the Net, 2006. Her first book of poetry, Ever Violet, was released in April 2007 and is available for purchase at DN Publishing. She goes by the pen name, Sandy Hiss.
Having completed 2 of the standard 4 years on the post-secondary highway to success, Judy Blank snuck out a keyhole and spends her time working, writing, and doing everything she didn't get to do in the classroom. Filling her space in Northeast Ohio with traintracks, teahouses, baking and words, she tempers her wanderlust with travel plans, some of which actually materialize.
Sean C. Bowen sometimes writes under the pen name "yesk". He started submitting for the first time in mid-november 2007 and since then has had poems published in/by Senseless Offerings Zine, Gloom Cupboard, Madswirl, Yellow Mama Press, Inaugural Issue of AGUA Magazine - Scintillating Publications & more.
Mercedes Dawson is a 26 year old who lives and breathes in Manchester, working hard to play hard. She spends her free time painting, performing with her Sax, writing and making sure she takes full advantage of all that Manchester has to offer. Mercedes wants randomness and spontaneity in her life, travelling the world when she can and meeting as many people as possible. Her future is a blurry scene. She is very close to her family and surrounds herself with diverse friends as often as she can.
An Australian born poet, playwright, musician, John Grey's latest book, “What Else Is There” is available from Main Street Rag. Recent work has appeared in The English Journal, The Pedestal, Pearl and the Journal Of The American Medical Association.
John Greiner is a poet and playwright living in New York City. His poetry has most recently appeared in Sein und Werden, nthposition, Audience, Zygote in my Coffee, The Beat, Tryst, Psychopoetica, The Blue House, All Rights Reserved, The Argotist Online, Moria, Ascent Aspirations, The Green Muse and Inscribed. His theatrical pieces have enjoyed successful runs in New York, Chicago and in Massachusetts.
Matthew Hinton calls North-Eastern PA his stompin' ground, though he now lives in Greenville, South Carolina. There, he is the manager of one most unique record stores in all of the rebel states: Horizon Records. When not fighting local marauders, he writes plays, poetry, and sing-a-longs about VD. He is currently a student of the Wilkes University MA Program in Creative Writing. He dreams in analog.
More than six hundred poems and stories by Kristine Ong Muslim have been published or are forthcoming in over two hundred journals and magazines worldwide. Her work has appeared in Noneuclidean Café, Otoliths, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Midwest, PoetryRepairShop, Right Hand Pointing, Slow Trains, Slurve Magazine, Thieves Jargon, Turnrow, and Void Magazine.
Elo-Mall Toomet was born and is currently living and raising her child in the beautiful old town of Tartu, Estonia. Influenced by landscapes, seasonal changes and close human relations, she is dedicated to exploration of the inner worlds, finding ways in dark places and creating maps to be able to return. Her main fields of expression are illustrating fairy-tale books and writing poetry, some of which has been published in Estonian.
Nicolette Westfall wrote poetry while living on an isolated Northern Canadian First Nation Rez. She's been published in 63 Channels and Word Riot. Her poetry is in the upcoming Just Like A Girl: A Manifesta! anthology.
Stories and Micro-Fiction'Ash' is Ashley Callender, who hails from Launceston, Tasmania. Ash has a weakness for highbrow literature and lowbrow film noir. One day he hopes to write a novel. You can find a collection of his very short stories entitled 'Short Man Syndrome' at Lulu.
Alan Orr is a young fictionist with a BA in Creative Writing from the Colorado College. His stories have appeared in "The Leviathan," a college literary magazine. He plans on making it big, kicking @$$ and taking names. Currently he is depressed and anxious in his new home city, Portland, Oreg
Paul Corman-Roberts has enjoyed a successful career of running opium dens for speed addicts and blackmailing shuttered up business fronts. His first collection of fiction and poems "Coming WorldGone World" is available from Howling Dog Press at Amazon or at PCR's own website. He also edits poetry for Cherry Bleeds.
Sean Ruane is a shuffle footed basket of slurs. He likes coffee, beer, and Boolean algebra. He lives in Baltimore. He has a masters degree in experimental psychology and is working on masters degrees in computer science and creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. He has been published or has work forthcoming (mostly forthcoming) in Juked, Word Riot, Edifice Wrecked, Thieves Jargon, Monkeybicycle, Sein und Werden, 3AM Magazine, the Flask Review, Clockwise Cat and more.
Alex Stephens is an aspiring writer and photographer currently residing in Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended the University of Utah where he studied film and creative writing. He is currently compiling short stories for a collection and is always looking to pursue other avenues of artistic express
Keith Wood successfully escaped from Philadelphia, lived in Austin, Texas for a while, but now is back home in Mississippi. He has been published in a few little magazines and wrote for Woopsy magazine for a while. He sends most of his stories and poems to Underground Voices and Cherry Bleeds, and hopes that his mom isn’t reading any of them.
Phew! Plenty there to keep the most voracious amongst you occupied. Resource links and news updates to come!
