biographies

Jackson Wheeler was born and raised in Andrews, NC in the mountains of western North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and graduate school in California where he has lived since 1975. He is the author of two collections: Swimming Past Iceland (Mille Grazie Press, 1993) and A Near Country: Poems of Loss (Solo Press, 1999) with Glenna Luschei, and David Oliveira. He co-edited SOLO: A Journal of Poetry for 10 years and has been published in numerous literary journals..

franEyE was a singular character affectionately called the Bearded Witch of Ocean Park. She had lived in the Ocean Park neighborhood of Santa Monica for decades.FrancEyE was published in many poetry journals and gathered in the collections "Snaggletooth in Ocean Park" (Sacred Beverage Press, 1996), "Amber Spider" (Pearl, 2004), "Grandma Stories" (Conflux Press, 2008) and “Call” (Rose of Sharon Press, 2008).

francEyE passed on June 2 ,2009.

Suzanne Lummis is editor of the extremely eclectic literary web magazine, speechlessthemagazine.org, a founding member of the language-driven, humorous, experimental performance troupe, Nearly Fatal Women, founding director of the arts organization The Los Angeles Poetry Festival, which produced eight city-wide festivals between 1989 - 2003, and now produces individual events, and literary coordinator for Northeast LA's. Poetry in the Windows contest, a project of The Arroyo Arts Collective. Her poems have appeared in major literary magazines in the U.S. and U.K., including The Antioch Review, The Hudson Review, Pool, and Agenda. Lummis' collection of poetry In Danger was published by Heyday Books as part of the California Poetry Series. Her new completed manuscript is called Open 24 Hours.

Friday Lubina has been published in ARTLIFE Limited Editions, Caffeine and Dance of the Iguana. Her poetry has also guest-appeared in Goodbye Gianna, Goodbye, a book of poetry by Yiu Hung Li. Friday has sold out of her first chapbook of poetry, Tears and Snot Travel Hand in Hand and is painstakingly working toward her second.

Phil Taggart's publishing credits include: Solo Café’s “8 Central Coast Poets Look at The World”, Brick” & “Bear Flag Republic, Prose Poems & Poetics.” Phil’s book of poems, Opium Wars, was published by Mille Grazie Press.

Marsha de la O’s first book of poetry, Black Hope, won the New Issues Press Poetry Prize and a Small Press Editor’s Choice Award. She won the dA Poetry Award. She has published in journals such as Barrow Street, Passages North, Solo, and Third Coast.

ASKEW Editors:
Marsha de la O
Phil Taggart
Assistant Editor:
Friday Lubina

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