Author and Artists Bios

Stephen Wright- HIS HOUSE. Stephen Wright is my dad, he is a great poet, and a great humanitarian. He started HIS House in Mansfield Ma., which is an organization that helps the homeless by clothing and feeding them. HIS House is responsible for helping the unfortunate few. I am glad that HIS House is a part of this magazine, I am even happier that he is my dad.
Editor

Rob Martin- One of the finest artists in the Boston scene right now. An original member of the Oddball Crew. Rob has contributed his unique style to Oddball for the past three years. He is attending Mass Art right now, and is blowing up all over Boston.

Doug Holder – Poet and founder of the Ibbetson Street Press, he has numerous amounts of poetry published. He writes for the Somerville News, and started the Bagel Bards movement in Somerville, Ma. He also is a professor at Bunker Hill Community College.

G. David Schwartz- Tthe former president of Seedhouse, the online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz continues to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is now in stores or can be ordered.
The names of people are not real people.
Check out his book on Midrash:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1418489565/104-8454011-6722310?n=28315

Andrew Borne-Hello, Andrew Borne loves you very much. He lives in Salem Massachusetts, which is where Nathaniel Hawthorne used to live too. Andrew’s favorite writer’s (right now anyways) include Hawthorne, Dickenson, Emerson and many other late 19th century American authors. Andrew believes there is a cosmic battle between good and evil being fought in the physical plane as well as the spiritual plane. Internally he knows that his soul is part of the battle, but he’s not sure of who is winning. Andrew loves water and believes that it is a corporeal representation of the oneness that is the universe, whatever that means. Andrew wants to know what you think about Dr. Bronner’s magical soap box? He also believes that many people are secretly bluer than Krishna and that we are all part of the body of Jesus Christ. Mr. Borne agrees, “how strange it is to be anything at all.”

Adrienne Drobnies- Adrienne is a poet and a scientist working at the BC Cancer Agency. Her work has appeared in Canadian literary magazines, including Scrivener, NeWest Review, Waves, Poetry Canada Review, and Poetry Toronto. She was a semi-finalist in the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition (Kingston, Washington, US) in 2007. Her poetry has been included in anthologies, including New Voices (Mosaic Press 1984), From Sinai to the Shtetl and Beyond: Where is Home for the Jewish Writer? (Hamilton Jewish Literary Festival 2009), emerge (Simon Fraser University Writer’s Studio 2009). One of her poems, “Arguing About Israel,” has appeared on the web site for Canadian Poets Against War. She has written a suite of poems, Randonnées, about living in Grenoble, France that was short-listed for the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) literary award for poetry in 2009.

Leanna Balloffet-Leanna is a magical wizard who only comes out every 2000 years to eat barbecue and do laundry. Sometimes she makes paintings too. If you ask
her three questions, she probably will only answer one of them.

Upcoming Bios:

David Krancher
Destiny Kinal
Shahnawaz Achhiwala
Shamaiah Tibet
Susan Major Tingey
Jason Wright

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