Leigh Hughes - Editor-in-Chief/Publisher
Leigh is a talentless hack who is really good at starting things but not finishing them. She enjoys writing with many cliches, adverbs, rambling run-on sentences, haphazard POV switching, and way, way, too, many, commas. She does, however, occasionally strike a peculiar favor from the gods and has had several pieces published in very highly regarded places. Seriously, if they were mentioned - you would undoubtedly be impressed. Mostly creative non-fiction, short fiction and poetry. She also has three beautiful children and a husband who loves her so much he brings tears to her eyes on a daily basis. She also lives with a cranky cat, a dog with really bad gas, and an aquarium full of fish that stinks up her son's room. Yep, she's a really lucky girl.
Wait... maybe too lucky. Therefore, this bio will self-destruct so as not to alert said gods' attention to the aforementioned perfection of her life, in five...four...three...two...
For more dirt on Leigh, visit her website at www.leighhughes.com.
Judy Wolf - Non-Fiction & Art Editor
Judy has written and published journalistic stuff and once interviewed a one-legged bike racer dude when she was the assistant editor of a sports magazine. Then there was that summer, a couple of years ago, she spent interviewing homeless people on their lives past and present. (It's the philanthropist in her... see, she was trying to bring them together with this one guy, whom she also interviewed, who was starting a city garden for homeless people to work in and get paid and then he eventually opened his HOME to these people and his wife had cancer, oh - and he used to live in a mental hospital. Aren't people so interesting?) This article was published in a local newspaper. She has several these articles cut out and on her wall or in a file somewhere. Literarily, she just writes like a fiend and collects her rejection letters like medals. Sometimes she deletes them immediately, but other times she sends them to friends to prove how mean and cruel the world can be.
She has two brilliant kids, a dog that is very similar to Odie, a ferret, a hamster and a fish. She's learned that when you don't feed things they die. There used to be two hamsters and two fish. She keeps a close eye on the two kids for this reason.
Michelle Garren Flye - Fiction & Poetry Editor
A writer, wife, mother and now Associate Editor, Michelle Garren Flye long ago ran out of fingers and toes to count her blessings on. Upon graduating from the University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Michelle tried valiantly to make a living out of her writing. However, when it became obvious that she wasn’t nosy enough to be a crime reporter, tough enough to be a political reporter and she didn’t know enough about football to be a sports reporter, Michelle gave up journalism and returned to her first love. She obtained a Master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences and became a children’s librarian. Scarcely a year later, Michelle found a greater love with the birth of her first child. She’s given up on making a living at anything now and concentrates instead on loving her two fantastic sons, her wonderful husband and her writing. Two cats, six fish and a frog are peripheral.
More information about Michelle’s writing may be found at www.geocities.com/mgflye.
Mark Lipowicz - Associate Editor, Poetry
Mark Lipowicz is into poetry because it's a window into the
world of
beauty and emotion. When he's not looking out the window, he's
working in
business publishing in New York City. Or home with his wife and
son and
daughter. Or riding his bike composing poems in his head. He
has poems
upcoming in Rattle, Tryst, and an anthology of poems about
Medusa from
Hilltop Press (U.K.)
Dan McNeil - Associate Editor, Fiction
Dan McNeil lives in the UK.
His fiction has appeared in Redsine, Fantastic Metropolis, Antipodean SF,
Whispers of Wickedness, The Quarterly Staple, Laura Hird's Showcase and Zygote In
My Coffee. Some previously published McNeil fiction should be appearing in
Issue 3 of The Beat.
You could learn more about the reclusive McNeil by going to The McNeil
Variations and Laura Hird's Showcase, but why bother?
Andrew Tibbetts - Associate Editor, Fiction
Andrew Tibbetts lives in Canada.
His "day job" is as a therapist with people diagnosed with mood and personality disorders. His therapeutic interests include mindfulness, "virtue", and the impact of genetics.
Mr. Tibbetts is an award winning author and musician. His artistic interests include complex social phenomena, the inner life of the marginalized, and combinations of literature and music that are not opera.
As a gay father of three, his personal interests include activism, alternative family structures, and excellence in education.
For more background on Andrew (and some damn good reading), check out: 100 Posts About My Sex Life
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