Haley Allen (featured on the cover of this issue) stormed into the world of photography just under a year ago. Often referred to as "the foretold one", her use of natural settings, photo manipulation skills, and sixth sense for lighting demonstrate much promise. Currently residing in Huntsville, AL, she has lived in Oregon and Colorado, drawing much inspiration from the landscape that surrounded her as well as the struggles she and her husband faced in the last two years (such as living out of a tent in a state park). Follow Haley's journey at www.haleyallenphoto.com or flickr.com/haphotography
Bolandrotor (Touched by Fire) brought up between Russia and Germany, in Middle Eastern Europe, with passion realizing dreamy visions with camera and computer. Hungry for inspirations, lively and open for any ideas always ready to take up interesting tasks. Ordung mus zein plus vodka let us live has met in one body universe and they are at war. No leaders in that battle. See more of Bolandror's work at www.flickr.com/photos/79649916@N00/
Simona Cipriani (The Job Interview)
Pleads the fith.
Dan DeChiaro (Producing an Independent Film)
Pleads the fith.
Maria Kaffa (Ode to Virtues)
Pleads the fith.
Jennifer König (Emote, The Space Between Exhaling and Tripping the Light Fantastic) is a photographer and writer based in Cold Spring, NY. After studying literature at Binghamton University, she lived in Munich, Germany for several years; the city's grace and grandeur sparked her interest in photography. As she pursued a career in New York, developing web content for publishing houses and agencies, she never strayed far from photography, building up a body of work spanning thousands of images over several years. Finally, in the Spring of 2008, she decided to pursue photography full-time. Her work has been shown in local establishments, as well as the Garrison Arts Center. www.flickr.com/photos/jkonig/ or www.jenniferkonig.com
Shanie Matthews (Fresh Tracks) is a freelance wordsmith and photographer living in Bariloche, Argentina. Her passion for snow has taken her around the world, producing a love for the unknown in the process. She and her husband share their daily craziness of living abroad in their blog, www.LivingInPatagonia.com, www.shaniematthews.com
Jessica Maybury (The Space Between Exhaling) lives in Galway, Ireland with her boyfriend. She is a recent graduate of the MA in Writing from NUIG, and likes eating and sleeping.
Talissa Mehringer (Feathers) My work springs from a desire to create timeless representations of subconscious imagery and dreams. Art is my process of bringing to life, mind and soul processed experiences by capturing the cycle of rebirth and alchemical rejuvenation through depictions of decay and the beauty of altruistic suffering. It is driven by a blissful, passionate sadness that reaches beyond the surface routine of everyday life and its contemporary comings and goings. It is rooted deeply in the visceral emotions associated with life, death, and the human search for happiness. For me, the act of creating becomes an almost metaphysical tool which channels external negativity into something pure--a raw expression of human emotion leaving behind a feeling of contentment. What if this personal process served as a filter on a grander scheme by channeling and transforming universal bad...into universal good.... My drawings utilize classic cross-hatching techniques with textured layers of collage, paint, and grime to tap into the phantasmagoric realm of the subconscious while my music seeks to provide an auditory equivalent of the personal imagery--evoking nature of the visual arts. My film and video work is a culmination of these artistic intentions by striving to become direct visual interpretations of sound and music through the use of stop motion animation and non-dialog driven narrative elements. www.talissamehringer.com
Aaron Nace (Tripping the Light Fantastic) www.nacedesign.com
Fabricio Obljubek (Tripping the Light Fantastic)
Pleads the fifth.
Ryan O'Connor (Feathers) is a recovering misanthrope.
Caleb Opp (DO NOT READ THIS) The life I lead, as a photographer is only the images I see at any given moment. I want to capture the way I absorb the world. When looking at the world we can only see what is straight in front of our brain, pieces, and us together with the rest. www.calebopp.com
Lisa Peterson (Maman Page 1 and 2) Make believe and stories to tell. Every doll has a soul. www.flickr.com/photos/petitewanderlings/
David Henry Sterry (Tripping the Light Fantastic) is a best-selling author, award winning actor/comic, book doctor, and a man who has not worn matching socks in thirty years. He has been featured in (among others): The New York Times, The London Times, The Sunday Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Details Magazine, BBC Radio, and NPR's Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and Talk of the Nation. www.davidhenrysterry.com
He's worked as a chicken, a chicken fryer, a soda jerk, a cherry picker, a poet, a building inspector, a limo driver, a barker, and a marriage counselor. He graduated from Reed College, and loves his wife, his cat, his girl, and any sport involving a ball.
Other stories by Sterry featured in nthWORD include:
I Was a Poster Boy for Sex Addicts
Issue No.2 Spring/Summer 2009
Melting Down at Ikea
Issue No. 1 Winter 2009
Emily Thomas
Pleads the fifth.
Katie Vagnino (Ode to Virtues) is a 2nd year poetry student in the Creative Writing M.F.A. program at Emerson College in Boston. She has written theater, art, and food reviews for publications including Time Out New York, Smithsonian's The Torch, and New York Magazine. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in nibble and The Raintown Review. In the blogosphere, she writes a bi-weekly column for The Sex Appeal and posts regularly on her own blog, The Vagnino Monologues.
Artist Stacey Wexler (TOC and Growing Season) makes drawings that touch on the psychology of communication. In her creations both large paper paintings and intimate, small-scale videos she examines fear, mental acuity, and death. A hallmark of her work is the combination of mixed media and the tactile qualities inherit in the mediums. In works that exhibit a strong sensibility, she is able to simultaneously explore the visceral and the spiritual.
Wexler’s work has been exhibited at venues throughout the United States and internationally, in Italy, Germany and Russia. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Art and Architecture at Los Angeles Community College, Los Angeles CA. Wexler holds an MFA from Claremont Graduate University and a BFA from The University of the Arts. She also attended Art Center College of Design with a specialization in computer graphics. She is presently represented by IAO Projects Gallery in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Daisy White (Maman) is happy to be included in the anthology HOS, HOOKERS, CALL GIRLS AND RENTBOYS published in July 2009. In 2004 April Daisy White wrote and performed SUGAR a one-woman show about her life. SUGAR explores Miss. White’s entire life; born in France to American parents, leading us up through her journey and healing from her time as an international call girl. SUGAR was produced in L.A. at Edgemar center for the arts under the direction of Larry Moss. Having been an actor for many years internationally in film, television, and theatre, most recently co-starring in Henry Jaglom’s QUEEN OF THE LOT, Daisy is also an acting coach and has worked with actors on numerous productions. She is co-founder of RADIANT PRODUCTIONS, which focuses on producing and directing projects promoting social advocacy for minority groups, focusing on the homeless community and Bosnia rape camps. Daisy also worked on a documentary about sex-workers, which explores the human side of prostitution, THE OTHER SIDE OF NIGHT. Miss. White holds a B.A in Theatre/Literature from Bennington College. Currently she is writing her memoir LOVE FOR SALE. Daisy works as a private Life Coach while also teaching a writing class, ‘Right Your Life by Writing Your Life’ facilitating other artists to tell their true-life stories by providing them the coaching and support they need.
Special Thanks To: Alethea Root, Kim Waltrip, Peter Biello, Eliza Kane, Jeff Ferron, Mary Rickles, Democracy for America, the Bathurst Public Library, Auberge de la Vallée, Katrine Turcotte, Chelsea Murphy, Teri Amanda Ross and Kayla Blanchard.