David Marion Wilkinson wrote two novels for Boaz Publishing: Not Between Brothers and the Empty Quarter. He teaches creative writing at Sul Ross State Univeristy. To learn more about David, visit his web site: www.dmarionwilkinson.com

Jim Krusoe, author of Blood Lake and Other Stories, lives in the Los Angeles area and teaches creative writing and Santa Monica College.

In the tradition of roustabout writers such as Twain, Kerouac, and London, Jim Krusoe admits proudly to having knocked around a bit. “I think there’s a virtue to staying hungry,” he says. “And if what you’re doing is slightly scary, whether it’s in poetry or whatever creative field you’ve chosen, it adds a kind of backbone and excitement to the fact that you have chosen to make your way in the arts.”

Jim chose to go to college in California “to get as far away from Cleveland as I possibly could.” He taught, wrote poetry, and traveled and finally began teaching full-time at SMC about four years ago. “And it’s really just the best, teaching here,” he says. “I’m nothing but proud of my students, especially in the night classes. I get such a great cross section in my writing classes,” he continues, “of people who are absolutely professional. I’m told, in fact, that they’re even better than graduate seminars because my students bring such vast experience in life to their writing efforts.”

Jesse Sublett is very much a part of the Austin, Texas music and writing scene. He is the author of the Rock Critic Murders mystery series, writes for the History Chanel, and plays music from time to time in the clubs around town. Visit Jesse’s web site: www.jessesublett.com

John Timpane is the Commentary Page editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He also writes unsigned editorials and contributes essays to “Currents”, the Inquirer’s Sunday Ideas section. He joined the Inquirer in 1997, after 16 years as a teacher of English at various colleges. He has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California at Irvine and a Ph.D. in English and Humanities from Stanford. Throughout his undergraduate, graduate, and scholarly career, he wrote op-ed and perspective pieces for magazines and newspapers, and he had a flourishing freelance writing career. Among his many awards are the James K. Batten Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism from the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, 2000, and the Association of Opinion Page Editors Award for Best Series, 2004.

David Fuller Cook lives near the Eno River, North Carolina, and his love for the river has led him to preserve its Oral History in stories and songs. As a naturalist and educator David co-founded, in 1989, the bio-regionally based Schoolhouse of Wonder, an environmental education organization with programs for children. He taught for several years in the field of gifted education, recently returning to the Schoolhouse of Wonder as its program director.

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