Daniela Draghia-Bullas (signs her works as Daniela) was born in 1969
in Deva, Romania. Holds a degree in archaeology and museology. Following her marriage, she lives in the U.K. since 2001. She started writing poetry and prose in her teens. Her short stories won her the "Scanteia tineretului"Award (1988). Her editorial debut was the "Umbra Libelulei" (Dragonfly's Shadow) anthology (Edit.
SRH, Bucharest, 1993). Between 2003 and 2005 she was a member of the editorial staff of two
Romanian magazines "Ardealul literar" and "Calauza noastra". Since 2005 she is a member of the Hunedoara County (Romania)
Writers'Association. Books published: -Dictionarul verbelor neregulate din limba engleza/Dictionary of
English Irregular Verbs(together with Cristian Mocanu)(Edit.Ianua, Deva, 1994)
-- (C)opyright sign (poetry)(2002, Calauza vb; 2004, Calauza vb, 2006.
Lulu – bilingual editions: Romanian-English) http://www.lulu.com/content/172177
- Scufita Albastra [Little Blue Riding Hood](children's prose) (2005,
Calauza vb, inRomanian). - Little Blue Riding Hood (2006, Lulu, in English)
Website Writer’s English Website: http://danielabullas.tripod.com/daniela1/
John Daleiden lives in Oskaloosa, Iowa, a rural community south-east of Des Moines. He has retired after teaching 43 yeas as a high school Language Arts teacher. After retirement he returned to writing
poetry. His work has appeared in Amaze # 9, World Haiku Review: The Poetrybridge, Lynx, May Dazed, The Scorched Earth, Full Moon, Temps Libres - Free Times, and other
e-zines.
Cristian Mocanu
was born on August 8-th, 1968 in Deva, Romania, where
he still lives and works as a freelance translator/interpreter. He holds a B.A. in English and Romanian litterature from the Bucharest
University (1993). He started writing poetry (Western and Eastern style, in several languages) as a teenager. His poetry was included in several Romanian antologies. He received numerous awards, among which:
A) In Romania: "Ion Minulescu"Poetry Contest& Festival (1995):1-st prize,"Porni Luceafarul" Poetry Contest&Festival(1996):3-rd prize,The "Lumina Crestinului" Religious Poetry Award for the year 1998. B) Outside Romania: The “Pesme na jastuku” Contest (ex-Yugoslavia)
3-rd prize (1990), 2-nd prize (1991), the “Benvenuta Europa”
Contest&Festival (Rome, Italy), prize for the Poetry section; the
Suruga Baika Litterary Festival, Japan, Honourable Mention (2004). At present he is a contributor to various poetry webzines, including:LYNX, suflete.ro, “Haiku Harvest”, “World Haiku Review”, “Karolina Rijecka”. He is the editor of the Romanian Saijiki for the World Haiku Club. His first books of poetry (in Romanian and English) are due in the
near future.
Helen Ruggieri lives in Olean, NY. A book of haibun, The Character for Kokoro (Spirit), will be out soon from foothillspublishing.com Recent essays have appeared in anthologies: Illuminations: Expressions of the Personal Spiritual (Celestial Arts Press) and in In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing (Impassio Press).
Vaughn Seward (aka Masago) is from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and became interested in Haiku in 2005. He has since written numerous haiku, senyru, and tanka. He participates in several Yahoo haiku news groups and in Februrary, 2006 started a haiku blog (http://masago-no-haiku.blogspot.com/). In April, 2006, after being involved in several Renku projects he discovered the idea of 3x3 interlocking renku. Later this came to be known as Rubricku (http://haikuworkshop.pbwiki.com/RubricKu). Vaughn joined TheOutlawPoets in September, 2006.
Trish Shields studied Fine Arts and creative writing at Algonquin College in Ottawa. Her first book of poetry, Soul Speak, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2001. Her poetry and short stories are published internationally. Trish’s first novel, Inferno, was on The Open Book’s best seller’s list for 2004. The Canadian Poetry Association, The League of Canadian Poets and the Canadian-Cuba Literary Alliance are a few of the literary associations she belongs to. She lives on Vancouver Island.
Brian Strand lives in Buckinghamshie,England (where he was born) and is now retired. Some of Brian's writings (and some artwork) have been published in a variety of small press magazines including
Amaze, and a number of internet poetry magazines. Brian has edited two isbn
booklets, Shorthand of the Heart (on short poetic form) and Flowers of Life (American cinquains of William Soutar).
Craig Tigerman was born and raised in Chicago and has lived in Illinois for over 50 years with an eye on south Florida. He has published two volumes of poetry, "Indigo Avenue" and "Tigertale," selections from over 30 years of writing. Craig is most comfortable writing structured lyrical poetry, having also composed many dozens of original songs. "Rhythm and rhyme are key to making a poem memorable," he states. Craig is married, has four children and two grandsons. By day he is a software support specialist for a well-known computer company. He fervently prays daily for a massive outbreak of peace and love throughout the world.
Linda Willets has been in Photography for about five years. I shoot with Nikon cameras. My passion is floral
photography. I love to get close up to my subjects. I love to take photos of flowers from the back , a view most miss but there is much
beauty. The plant is Jimpson Weed. I'm in Arizona, USA. I live in Southwest part of the state. The photo was taken at the Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden.
A.D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet, writer and photographer.
Graduate of San Francisco State University. Former editor and publisher of Second Coming. Widely published.
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