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Contact Bookslut's Writers
Sharon Adarlo
Sharon B. Adarlo spends most of her time reading the AP news wire and
talking to cops all day. She likes to write book reviews for free books.
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Gena Anderson
Ms. Anderson is a corporate whore by day (she enjoys paying her bills on time),
and an avid reader every minute she is not making rich people richer. She currently
resides in Chicago, but grew up in Minnesota. Her hobbies include napping and
painting her nails.
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Stephanie
Anderson
Stephanie Anderson lives in New York City, where she misses Chicago porches.
While she lived in Chicago, she missed mountains.
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Iris
Benaroia
Iris Benaroia divides her time equally between accosting hardcovers in bookstores
and banging out stories as a Toronto-based journalist. She regularly wakes up
with The New Yorker stuck to her rump.
Raymond
L Bianchi
Raymond Bianchi is a native of Suburban Chicago the child of Italian immigrants.
Ray was educated at the University of Iowa and he worked and lived in Bolivia
and Brazil for 6 years first working as a volunteer in a men's prison and then
in international business publishing. He is married to the Brazilian artist
Waltraud Haas. His poetry has appeared in The Economist, Antennae,
Near South, Moria, Tin Lustre Mobile, Red River
Review and many other magazines; his book Circular Descent was
published in 2004 by Blaze Vox press and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
He is editor of Chicagopostmodernpoetry.com.
Blake Butler
Blake Butler lives in Atlanta. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Caketrain, 3:AM, etc. He sporadically edits the online journal Lamination Colony
Susan
Chenelle
Susan Chenelle is a writer and editor based in New Jersey. She also
produces the website www.letsdoitontheroad.com,
an online community and resource for women spoken-word artists. She frequently
writes about books and politics for numerous publications; see more of her recent
work at www.srcnyc.com.
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Olivia
Cronk
Olivia Cronk teaches and writes in Chicago, Illinois. Her creative work has
appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Shampoo, Can We Have
Our Ball Back? and at local galleries.
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Beth
Dugan
Beth Dugan is a graduate student at Columbia College in Chicago in
the fiction writing MFA program. A Chicagoland native, she is working as a freelance
writer. Along with Bookslut, her work has appeared in Time Out
Chicago, Newcity, and The Banana King and will appear
in the Fall 2005 issue of The South Loop Review. Her favorite book
of all time, this month, is Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Sumana
Harihareswara
Sumana Harihareswara finds taxes, religion, Russia, India, and stand-up comedy
fascinating and collects children's books by Gordon Korman. She writes a weekly
column under the nonsecretive pseudonym "MC Masala" and lives
in San Francisco after an involuntary lifelong migration westward across North
America.
Elizabeth
Kiem
Elizabeth Kiem reads and writes in Brooklyn.
Andrée
Kirk
Andrée Kirk is a fiction writer and reviewer in Oakland, CA. She has
an MA in English and American Literature and is currently working on a collection
of short stories.
Matthew
Kirkpatrick
Matthew Kirkpatrick lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and edits Potion
magazine. His fiction has appeared in Barrelhouse, Gargoyle,
The Duck & Herring Co.'s Pocket Field Guide, and elsewhere.
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Karin
L. Kross
Comicbookslut
Karin L. Kross argues about comics and writes stuff in the People's Republic
of Austin, TX.
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Jennifer
Leblanc
Jennifer Leblanc is a 24-year-old freelance writer from Rhode Island who idolizes
Susan Orlean. Until The New Yorker calls, she can be found online (currently
#2 on Google!) and at Waldenbooks.
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Adrienne
Martini
Specific Floozy
Adrienne Martini has been a theatre technician, apprentice massage therapist,
bookstore bookkeeper and pizza joint waitress. Eventually, someone started paying
her for her words and an editorial mercenary was born. She has written theatre
reviews and features for the Austin Chronicle, blurbs about tofurkey
and bottled water for Cooking Light and a piece about knitting summer
camp for Interweave Knits. She is a former editor for Knoxville, Tennessee's
Metro Pulse and recently picked up an AAN award for feature writing.
During the day, she crams knowledge into the heads of college students in Upstate
New York. In Summer 2006, her first book, Hillbilly Gothic, will be
published by The Free Press.
Laura
Lee Mattingly
Laura Lee Mattingly lives and works in New York City.
email
Liz
Miller
Hollywood Madam
Liz Miller is a mild-mannered freelancer living in Los Angeles, writing blog
entries, plays, comic books, essays, short stories, and screenplays for
fun and profit. She also runs the television-obsessed SMRT-TV.com,
knits her own iPod cozies, and enjoys a good game of basketball. By night, she
fights crime!
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Colleen
Mondor
Colleen Mondor also writes for Eclectica Magazine
and Baseball DIY. She grew up in Florida but
spent ten years living in Alaska before recently settling in the Pacific Northwest.
She still thinks the East Coast is the only true beach. She just finished writing
a book about Alaska aviation and is now researching Arctic explorers. Her favorite
writer is Ray Bradbury and she could listen to Louis Armstrong all day long
and thinks everyone else should too. It might just make the world a better place.
Clayton
Moore
Mystery
Strumpet
Clayton Moore is a freelance writer based in Denver, Colorado. His many publications
include the Rocky Mountain News, Atomic Magazine, Dirty
Linen and About.com.
Kris
Rothstein
Kris Rothstein is a writer and editor in Vancouver, Canada. She reviews
books for Bitch, Geist, Broken Pencil, Herizons,
Matrix, Drowned in Sound and Bookslut. She operates
Smart Cookie, a small press publishing
limited edition handmade books.
email
Joey
Rubin
Joey Rubin was raised on The O.C. and got the hell away as soon as
he could. Educated at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, he is now working as
a freelance writer and editor in Brooklyn, New York. He also writes for Flakmag.com
and popmatters.com.
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Lizzie Skurnick
Lizzie Skurnick is the proprietrix of Old
Hag and a reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, The
Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, and the Baltimore City
Paper. Her chapbook of poetry, Check-In, is available from Caketrain.
Sarah
Statz
Sarah Statz is a library assistant for the Madison, Wisconsin, public library,
where she spends most of her time trying to get patrons to read books by William
Langewiesche. Her new and stunningly low-tech web site can be found at www.storiesthataretrue.com,
where she provides nonfiction reading lists and reviews.
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Adam
Travis
Adam Travis lives and works in Chicago.
email
Sarah
Vance
Sarah Vance received an MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern
California. She has worked in development for Lightstorm entertainment, The
Ladd Company and Baltimore/Spring Creek. Prior to film school, she wrote and
produced radio and television commercials. In third grade she won a citywide
contest for the most books read over the summer. She continues to be an avid
reader today.
Hans
Weyandt
Hans Weyandt is a co-owner of Micawber's Books in St. Paul, MN. He wishes E.B.
White, William Maxwell and Joseph Mitchell were still alive so he could play
go fish with them. He also likes writers who aren't dead, and white men who
wrote for The New Yorker.
