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Jim Alter headed a mid-sized industrial equipment distribution company for many years. He was also president of two national trade associations. More recently, he has been a professional speaker, a trade magazine columnist, and an adjunct professor teaching management on the graduate level. Mr. Alter and his wife live in downtown Chicago.
Alter is the author of From Campus to Combat: A College Boy Becomes a WWII Army Flier.
Mykel Board has written dozens of freelance articles and seventeen novels under pseudonyms. Maximum Rock'n'Roll has been printing his column for more than 20 years. I, A Me-ist, a book of those columns, is scheduled for publication in 2005. His essays have appeared in several anthologies including Bisexual Politics, Hayworth Press 1995 and Good Advice for Young People, Last Gasp Press, 2005.
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Ethan Clark was born in Mississippi on Sept. 22, 1980, two months before Reagan was elected president of the United States. During his childhood two films were made about the Klan within a mile of where he grew up. He got the hell out of there at age sixteen, pinball bounced around the country, then lived in New Orleans for about six years. He now spends his time in Asheville, NC. His writing and illustrations have appeared in Maximumrock'n'roll, Bike, Stories Care Forgot, The Zine Yearbook, Chainbreaker the Book (forthcoming), Punk House: Anarchist Interiors by Abby Banks & edited by Thurston Moore (forthcoming). He is the author of Leaning with Intent to Fall (November 2007).
Common Folk started off as the name for a small collective of graffiti artists but soon evolved into a philosophy for everyday life and everyday people. It's an ideology that binds together all people that approach life in creative ways, breeding a common folk atmosphere of inspiration amongst artists, writers, painters, graffiti writers, journalists, photographers, odd thinkers, d.i.y.'ers, doodlers, etc. It's about igniting a thought or sparking a smile on common people, just trying to disrupt the monotony of the all too common daily grind. Common Folk are the creators of Common Folk Illustrated Journal.
Ben Granby gained some notoriety in the late 1990's for managing a troupe of guerilla theater performers and running for county coroner in Madison, Wisconsin. He received 33% of the vote on a platform against zombification. While intermittently working as a banquet waiter in the midwest, he blew his savings on unusual trips overseas, posturing himself as a war journalist with fake credentials. He has traveled through the Balkans, Iraq, Colombia, Lebanon, the Palestinian Occupied Territories and Syria. He has also spent time with Albanian guerillas in Macedonia, American soldiers in Iraq and Palestinian militias. Granby is the author of Welcome to the Bethlehem Star Hotel: An account of life in Palestine with descriptions of people, places and incidents
Mickey Hess lives in Philadelphia and is Assistant Professor of English at Rider University. His books include Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Music, Movement, and Culture, and Is Hip Hop Dead? The Past, Present, and Future of America's Most Wanted Music. His writing has appeared in Ninth Letter, Punk Planet, and Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The McSweeney's Humor Anthology. Hess is the author of the forthcoming Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory (November 2008).
Abram Shalom Himelstein is the co-founder of New Mouth from the Dirty South and author of the underground hit, Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing. In 2003, Himelstein published What the Hell Am I Doing Here? The 100 T-Shirt Project with Garrett County Press. Himelstein is also co-founder of the Neighborhood Story Project, a community documentary program in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Robert Helms has been volunteering the use of his healthy body for medical experiments since 1995. He is a self-taught historian who has worked as a house painter, a factory hand, a helper of mentally retarded adults, and a union organizer. As editor and publisher of the zine Guinea Pig Zero, he has appeared in the national media as a voice for human research subjects. In 1997 he was sued for his criticisms of a research unit near his home in Philadelphia. Helms also writes about the early anarchist movement of that city.
Helms is the editor of
Peter Hernon lives near Chicago with his wife, Janice, and two daughters. An editor for the Chicago Tribune, he has written five books and was co-author of a bestselling look at the Anheuser-Busch dynasty: Under the Influence. He worked as a journalist in New Orleans.
Hernon is the author of Jeff Kelly is a native of the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania and currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin. The editor of Temp Slave! Zine, his freelance work has also appeared in Isthmus, FS, In These Times, Alternative Press Review and various other publications. He is currently employed (maybe temporarily) as a process operator in a dairy ingredients plant. That's all you need to know. Thank you very much. Kelly is the editor of Best of Temp Slave!
Karen Ocker (Art Director, Book Designer, Illustrator, Painter) earned her degree in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts-New York City, where she worked as a freelance graphic designer and artist for 17 years. She has worked on countless promotional, marketing and advertising projects for local businesses, not-for-profits and national corporations. She has designed more than 100 book covers and interiors for publishers including: Random House, Pearson Publishing, Tuttle Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, Garrett County Press and more. This is her first coloring book.
Leah Ryan is fiction editor at Punk Planet magazine and editor of the semi-retired zine Violation Fez. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Through The Kitchen Window, More Monologues By and For Women, and Best of Temp Slave, as well as in several small magazines. Her plays have been performed in theaters across the United States. She is currently at work on a novel tentatively titled Sleep When You're Dead. She got her first dishwashing job at the age of 16. She lives in New York City and teaches creative writing. Ryan is the editor of For Here or To Go: Life in the Service Industry.
Jamie Schweser is the co-author of Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing
Kevin Stone graduated with honors from Pratt Institute in 1994. He has been published in numerous periodicals and books. He lives in the shadow of Sing Sing prison in New York where he toils on his "manifesto" that will some day change the world. Stone is the illustrator of the Pat Robertson & Friends Coloring Book.
Rob Walker was born in Houston, Texas. He has a B.S. in Radio-Television-Film, Critical-Cultural Studies Sequence at the University of Texas -- Austin. He has held miscellaneous reporting jobs in Texas and New York, and worked as an editor for American Lawyer, Money, and The New York Times Magazine. In 1999 he quit all that, moved to New Orleans and became a freelancer. Walker also has written for Slate, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, GQ, Details, The Nation, Fortune, and many others. Since the start of 2004, Walker has been a columnist for The New York Times Magazine. His column, "Consumed," examines products and consumer behavior, which is also the focus of a website he maintains called the Murketing Journal.
Walker is the author of His most recent book is Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are (Random House). C.S Walton was born in London in 1956. She was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School and the London School of Economics. Her occupations have included pavement-painting in Berlin, house-painting in California, selling ice cream in Canada and teaching English in Brazil. She has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and the Americas. After a visit to the USSR in 1979 she learned Russian, which helped her to establish herself in a communal flat in Samara in 1993. She was curious to find out what life had really been like behind the iron curtain. On April 19, 2000, Ms. Walton was presented with a New London Writers Award by the London Arts Board on the basis of Ivan Petrov: Russia through a Shot Glass and 10,000 words of her current work in progress on the siege of Leningrad.
Walton is the author of J. Wood teaches at the University of Virginia. He holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) and teaches at the University of Virginia. Wood is the author of Living Lost: Why We're All Stuck on the Island
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