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Magdalena
Ball runs The Compulsive Reader ( http://www.compulsivereader.com/html).
She is a regular contributor to The audience
Review. Her stories, poetry, reviews
and articles have appeared in many printed
anthologies and journals, and have won several
awards. She is the author of The Art of
Assessment, and Quark Soup. Her
debut novel, Sleep Before Evening ( http://tinyurl.com/3crnk5)
is being released by BeWrite Books on the
24th of July. |
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Sergey Cherepakhin (http://www.sergeycherep.com/index.html), one of the original founders of World Audience, Inc., was born in St. Petersburg in the old Soviet Union. Sergey began drawing at five after meningitis isolated him from his peers. By eight, he was studying art and attending art school. At 16, he was on his own, painting and selling his landscapes, cityscapes and portraits on the streets of St. Petersburg. Later, he attended one of the most prestigious art schools in Europe, the Serovo Art Institute, studying all of the classic forms of art. There, he was encouraged to paint a broad range of subjects, but he excelled at landscapes. After a fellow artist came to America, Sergey later followed at his invitation. His first job in America was working for the Internal Revenue Service. "My first show was in the cafeteria of the IRS." These paintings sold in the States sold for about $100. Now they sell for thousands. Sergey's dramatic oil paintings reflect his great passion for French Impressionism and his continual love for colors, textures and light. His imagination is fueled by a lifetime of wanderlust. Today, he has studios in Atlanta and Las Vegas, and he is planning a studio in Birmingham, England, and possibly another in Madrid. In addition to American galleries, his work has been exhibited in Europe, in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and Australia. Despite this growing notoriety, it is the act of painting that makes Sergey thrive. "If I don't paint for a couple of days, I feel off balance....something is missing." Sergey regularly paints for eight to ten hours per day. Because he paints in layers, he has between one and two dozen paintings drying on racks all the time. He revisits them each week, adding additional layers.
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Leonore
H. Dvorkin was born in Chicago in
1946, grew up in eight different states plus
Germany, and attended Indiana University in
the 1960s. She and her writer husband, David
Dvorkin, have lived in Denver, Colorado, since
1971. Leonore works as a tutor of Spanish,
German, and English (formerly French as well),
and has done extensive German to English translating.
She has been teaching weight training classes
since 1976. For the Denver magazine COMMUNITY
NEWS, she's written numerous articles on weight
training, the basics of Spanish, and the benefits
of various foods and beverages. Her two published
books are the literary novel APART FROM YOU
(Wildside Press, 2000) and an autobiographical
book, WHY I'M GLAD I HAD BREAST CANCER (Wildside
Press, 2005). Some of her haiku poetry and
an interview with her regarding her novel appear
in AUDIENCE NO. 4 (January 2007). Quote: "I've
been most fortunate to be able to turn my passions
in life languages, writing, and fitness into
my life's work." E-mail: leonore@csd.net;
http://www.dvorkin.com/. |
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| Hugh
Fox is a board member of World Audience, Inc. He is a widely published writer.
He was born in Chicago, 1932, B.S. (Hum.)
and M.A. from Loyola U. in Chicago, Ph.D.
from the U. of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).
He was prof. of American Literature, Loyola
University (L.A.), 1958-1968; Professor in
the Department of American Thought and Language,
Michigan State University (1968-1999). Now
retired, Professor Emeritus. He was
a Fulbright Professor of American Studies/Literature,
U. of Hermosillo, Mexico, 1961, U. Católica
and Institúto Pedagógico, Caracas,
1964-1966, U. of Florianópolis,
Brazil, 1978-1980. 1 yr. studying Lt. Am.
culture at Mendoza Foundation (Caracas) with
Mariano Picon-Salas. Organization of American
States Grant to study Latin American Studies/Argentinean
Literature, U. of Buenos Aires, 1971. John
Carter Brown Library Fellowship, Brown U.,
1968 (Studies in sixteenth and seventeenth
century Spanish economics and avant-garde
literature). OAS grant as archaeologist,
Atacama Desert, Chile, 1986. Lectures in
Spain and Portugal 1975-76. Founder
and Board of Directors member of COSMEP,
the International Organization of Independent
Publishers, from 1968 until its death in
1996. Editor of Ghost Dance: The International
Quarterly of Experimental Poetry, 1968-1995.
Latin American editor of Western World
Review & North American Review, during
60’s. Former contributing reviewer
on Smith/ Pulpsmith, Choice etc.
He is currently contributing reviewer to
SPR and SMR. In Who’s Who,
The Two Thousand Most Important Writers in
the Last Millennium, Dictionary
of Middlewestern Writers, The International
Who’s Who, etc. |
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| Ken Gaertner has had six New York City productions of plays, 1978-2006, working with The Open Eye Theatre, Actor's Institute, Vital Theatre, Mystic Theatre, and productions in Ann Arbor, Michigan and the Midwest. Breath Of The Spirit, Seven dramatic poems performed by actor and actress with organ and flute, New York City 2004, Paris, France, 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005, Prague 2005, Ann Arbor, MI 2006. Koan Bread, book of poems, published 1989. Published poetry and/or plays and short stories in Commonweal, America, The Christian Century, In The West Of Ireland, Poem, Poet Lore, St. Austin's Review, Moonset, Four Quarters, Emery's Journal, The Midwest Quarterly, Audience, and many other magazines. |
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Raymond
Hammond is the editor of New York
Quarterly
http://www.nyquarterly.com/ and a senior editor for audience. He created
our wiki database. Please use it to interact with other writers! |
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| Noelle Kalipetis, an associate editor for World Audience, is a student of English who never wanted to learn to read. Thanks to persistent parents, Noelle entered the world of literature and writing at a young age and has been adventuring in it ever since. In May 2009 she graduated from Sussex County Community College with Highest Honors in English and is now attending William Paterson University, intent on honing her writing skills even further. During her time at Sussex, Noelle was a common contributor to “The College Hill” online newspaper, and was featured for her poetry in the literary magazine, “Idiom and Image.” She founded and was president of the first creative writing club on her campus, Authors, Ink., and, in 2008, received the Carnevale Poetry Award for her unique verse. In the spring of 2009, Noelle’s poetry was published in the anthology, “Voices from Here,” a collection put out by the Paulinskill Poetry Project. She has completed three novels, Ring of Fire, Song of Wind, and most recently Heart of Ice, all of which are available through the online publisher www.lulu.com (Heart of Ice is due to be added before the end of 2009).
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Hareendran
Kallinkeel is a senior editor of audience literary
journal. He resides in Taliparamba (Kerala)
with his family. He owns a farm of rubber,
coconut, pepper, and areca nuts. He helps U.S.
college students online, improving their writing
skills. He owns a company:
http://www.kallinkeelconsultancy.com/.
He is published in literary print journals, and in numerous online ezines. audience literary
journal is the brainchild of Harendran Kallinkeel and M. Stefan Strozier. |
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Abdul
Karim Khan (pen name: Ernest
Dempsey). His new book is Two Candles! He was born
in Hangu, a small town in Pakistan. As a child,
he enjoyed two things: The joyful company of
his brother and Khan’s best friend, Shais;
and, making airy castles with lots of characters
in his mind. These two things pervaded through
his spirit so much that he has given up valuable
scholarships to pursue them. At twelve, he
began his career by writing detective stories,
horror, thrillers, and whatnot). However, a
career in writing held no bright prospects
in his society. So he studied geology. But
his literary spirit demanded more attention
and he started studying classics, alongside
writing. The Internet reached his hometown
in 2003, whereupon he began submitting his
work to literary ezines. In just the last year,
he has seen publication of his poems, essays,
short stories, and literary reviews. He has
been published in Audience literary journal,
and other literary journals, as well as other
magazines. His reviews appear in The audience
Review, and other places.
Email: dempsey87@yahoo.com. |
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| Peter Nyman is a graduate of Bergen Community College in 2008, and is currently attending William Paterson University where he is pursuing his B.A. in English. He lives in Northern New Jersey, and his hobbies include watching baseball, spending time with his family and friends, writing, and thinking. He is an associate editor at World Audience, Inc.
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| Domingo Rodriguez has been a costume and set designer since 1950, and has worked on Broadway theatre, opera, ballet, television, and movies. He has served on the New York Mayor�s Advisory Council of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting, the NEA Opera Grant Panel, the Special Arts Council for NYSCA, the Board of American Museum of Motion Pictures, as treasurer of Council of Motion Pictures and Television Unions and NYS Association of Painters and Allied Trades, and the Tony Award Advisory Committee. He has seved as president and in various capcities in US Artists Local 829 for over 40 years. During that time he also taught for different institutions of higher learning, notably a special program he developed as an adjunct professor for Williams Wood University. Mr. Rodriguez won an Emmy Award for his design work on Sesame Street, and has been Associate Costume Designer on seven Tony Award winning musicals, for costume design. He is also a computer animator, and has taught this skill and developed Figure Drawing With The Computer. He founded and was chairman of the Custume Collection Advisory Committee that oversees the Irene Shariff Award for excellence. |
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| Anthony Rubino, Jr. was born in New Jersey, a first-generation, Italian-American, Roman-Catholic. Needless to say he developed a sense of humor at an early age � and then felt guilty about it. Combining, confusion, art, humor and TV he found his calling in the careful study of drivel. Never a stickler for math, Tony wrote, "Life Lessons from Your Dog" as the fifth installment of his Life-Lessons book trilogy, which includes "Life Lessons from Your Cat," "Life Lessons from Elvis," "Life Lessons from the Bradys," and "Life Lessons from Melrose Place." Before that he displayed his steely work ethic by penning, "1001 Reasons to Procrastinate." And his fear of discomfort through eternal damnation is reflected in his recent tome, "The Get Into Heaven Deck: Or Your Money Back." Along the way Tony has contributed his articles and cartoons to publications such as: MAD Magazine, Cracked, National Lampoon, the Chicago Tribune, and Opium Magazine. He is currently under contract with Creators Syndicate where he is developing a daily cartoon strip. His other cartoon syndication credits include national distribution by King Features and Tribune Media Services. Tony's designs, comics and words can also be found on greeting cards and other product lines such as calendars, posters, and apparel sold in stores and catalogs worldwide. When not working on his writing and art in New York City he spends his time not working on his writing and art in New York City. Email: RubinoCreative@aol.com. |
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| Besamil Suero is an undergraduate at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ. She is majoring in English and is a Philosophy minor with a concentration in writing. Although still young, her goals are big; she aspires to be an editor, a teacher, and a movement within the literary society. She is working towards those goals and has become a part of World Audience in order to, along with others of her kind, �help the fight against literary deprivation." Besamil is the President of World Audience, Inc. and an Associate Editor. |
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| Lee Stringer is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of World Audience, Inc. He lived on the streets from the early eighties until the mid�nineties. He is a former editor and columnist of Street News. His essays and articles have appeared in a variety of other publications, including The Nation, The New York Times, and Newsday. He lives in Mamaroneck, New York. He is the author of Sleepaway School, Like Shaking Hands with God (with Kurt Vonnegut), and Grand Central Winter. |
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| M. Stefan Strozier lives in New York City. He is the founder and artistic director of La Muse Venale Acting Troupe. His plays, Guns, Shackles & Winter Coats, The Whales, The Tragedy of Abraham Lincoln, and The Green Game, were performed in lengthy runs, off-off and Off-Broadway, and in the Midtown International Theatre Festival and other festivals and locations. Additionally, he has written Belzac December Night (a one-act play; the first of 8 plays about America), and La Revolucion (the first of 4 5-act plays about Mexican history; he is working on the first play in the series now, called The New World). He has directed seven plays and two staged reading of a musical, and produced twenty-one plays. His novels, short stories, poems, essays, plays, etceteras, are on his Web site: www.mstefanstrozier.org (please visit his blog: www.blog.mstefanstrozier.org). He has been published in literary journals (online and in print), magazines, and newspapers. He is the founder, CEO, board member, and publisher of World Audience Publishers, and the editor-in-chief of audience Magazine. |
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| Christopher
Taylor is from Liverpool, England.
After completing a degree in Industrial Design
from the University of Central Lancashire,
he set up a design consultancy where he is
co-director. Chris also works as a freelance
designer / illustrator and creates digital
artwork for a local gallery. He has designed
multiple book covers (and the spines and back
covers) for World Audience. |
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| Kyle
Torke is the editor-in-chief and vice-president of World
Audience Publishers, and the executive editor
of audience. He is a writer of the most
eclectic variety, publishing poetry, fiction,
and nonfiction essays while winning awards
for his screenplays. He lives in Colorado Springs
with his two young sons, Conrad and Coover,
where they spend a great deal of their time
hiking the canyons, climbing rocks in the Garden
of The Gods, skiing, walking along cottonwood
creek with their two dogs, and jumping
on the trampoline. Kyle currently teaches at The Colket Fellow in Reading and Rhetoric at Colorado College where he is also a visiting Associate Professor in the English Department. Previously,
he taught for seven years and directed the
creative writing program at Elon University
in North Carolina. Kyle graduated from Grinnell
College, IA, with a BA in Anthropology before
earning his graduate degrees at the University
of Denver. Kyle plays pick up basketball, lifts
weights, swims, and, generally, finds motivation
for the spiritual richness of the world in
the physical elasticity of an active engagement
with sweat, dirt, and living things. |
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| Matthew
Ward is the managing editor of audience and
he lives in Newcastle, Australia. He started
writing seriously in 1993. In 1994, he had
poetry published in OPUS (Newcastle University's
magazine), Newcastle Herald, Writer's World,
and JIGs (Journal of Interdisciplinary & Gender
Studies). He has written serious articles for
literary newsletters and satirical ones, and
the now defunct www.theLiberals.org. His short
stories have appeared in OPUS. In 2004, his
story 'Jake With A Snarly Smile On His Chops'
was published as a novella by Independence
Jones (Australia). In 2006, he wrote two IT-related
e-books. It was also in 2006 that his book
of short stories, 'Her
Mouth Looked Like a Cat's Bum', was published
by World Audience. Matt is also the founder,
editor and publisher of Skive Magazine (www.skivemagazine.com). |
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