CONTRIBUTORS

		Originally from Toronto, but currently living in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Bienenstock Thee Zeitschrift is the heart, soul, and face of Beehive Magazine. Professionally, he is thee Beehive public relations officer. Zeitschrift spends his free time seeking out his grandfather's lost Eye of Agamoto. Editor-In-Chief of Beehive Magazine, Schuman was born and raised in Baltimore, MD, where he formed the underground subversive doo-wop group the Schumettes. He currently resides on Space Moon X in the Kree Galaxy, where he spends his time space-wandering, space-sleeping, space-editing, and space-writing. Đặng Thân is a well-known bilingual poet, fiction writer and essayist in alternative and postmodernist style in Vietnam. Born in North Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam War, 1964, he has taught American and English literature at several universities in Hanoi since 1990. Currently, he is the Training Director at the IVN Institute, as well as being in charge of Futurology Studies at the I-Ching Research & Development Center in Hanoi. He also writes and publishes in English. His recently published works of "Ma Net" (a short story collection, Dec 2008) and "Avant-garde Alliteration" (poetry, Jan 2009) were greeted by Vietnamese reviewers and readers with rapturous applause.   Zac Odin's childhood home was a sub arctic ghost town. He now lives in a forgotten mountain valley ,engaged in reality reclamation and restoration, noospheric negentropy, pattern creation resulting from vague pattern recognition, and other.   Grand D. Alliston is a pile of snakeskin waiting to be shed off and left in the dirt. Stuck constantly in thought, he has lost his ability to think about anything. He strives to break out of his entrapped space which has grown so small he can no longer get rid of the hiccups. Grand thinks very highly of himself and knows that he is nothing.   Dean Lawson is living in Japan. He has stories published or forthcoming in In the Silence of your Room, Clockwise Cat, Long Story Short, Willows Wept Review and others. Another hobby of his is the recording of music. Two songs from his album Ballet of the Media were used in the film Day of the Carp, a New York International Independent Short Film Festival winner. He is an editor at Grey Sparrow Journal.   Andrew Hird lives in Liverpool. He spends his nights at work in a psychiatric hospital, and by day either sleeps, drinks or reads.   Kyle Hemmings lives and works in New Jersey where he dreams of playing surf guitar like Dick Dale and singing like Brian Wilson. Luke Csehak is a questioning pagan with great hair. He has a nasty habit of eating gold. In his off time he likes to unfurl a set of long black lines that he keeps wrapped up behind his eyeballs. He is the recipient of numerous poetry awards, fellowships, grants etc., and will perfom at birthday parties and weddings. Drop him a line at lukecsehak@yahoo.com! Sometimes when people meet Ms. Sunshine they think she is a hyper-intellectual or brooding philosophical type, but she's just shy. In reality, she enjoys potty humour and Pokemon RPGs, just like everyone else! This summer she plans to start a noisy, fuzz-garage-rock band where she can turn the volume up half-way on her amp, stomp on a lil' muff pedal, and strum sloppy powerchords on a red baby-electric guitar till she has to take her dog out for a walk (probably to do a #2). Her first song will be titled "You're a Dick." Back in the year 1940 in Baltimore, a very pleasant, laid back Irishman made love to a not so pleasant or laid back Sicilian. The Sicilian, whose brothers had "connections," ended up getting pregnant. Due to getting pregnant outside of marriage being a mortal sin that will forever leave ones soul floating about the river Styx (not to mention being a major "fuck-up," haha) the poor Irishman was forced to marry, or else suffer the consequences. The offspring ended up being a stern, but hysterical man, whose German spouse later gave birth to this writer, Stacey Anonymous Moral of this story: the Mafia brings families together. Needless to say, this author of some of the most ridiculous shit you will ever see, never lived what one would call a 'sane' existence. Some of her pastimes and hobbies include playing with large rodents at the Ottobar, sharp objects, being a trained assassin (ninjutsu), enjoying a game of curling, and juggling hens. Her biggest pastime, however, is seeing how many times she can get her husband to say, "What the fuck?!" in a given day. May I also add that this goofball has a domestic cat/bobcat mix as a pet? What the hell... Zoë Hays lives and thrives in Boulder, CO. She likes cheese but doesn't eat it. Can't function without music and serves people food and booze on a regular basis around town. She studies at Naropa University and can be seen in the smoking section wearing big sunglasses and glaring. Zoë is extremely tall and will probably make fun of you if you meet her. Zoë's father is a writer and has inspired her poems since she was little. Other influences: Patricia A Mckillip, Jaime Sabines, Gluten-free food and horror movies. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\   Gabe Stoll says: Will make sure Naropa is first against the wall. Michelle Puckett is an outstanding masseuse and would like you all to know that the sea is defined as: the expanse of saltwater that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its landmasses. She was born in Dallas, and currently lives in Oakland where she is pursuing her MFA at Mills College. She dedicates these poems to Vivian Holmes and Priscilla Inkpen.   On October 30, 1952, his parents were born in separate cities, twelve hours apart. Mine was on the 23rd, WSB's #. EzPo in 1887, me in 1981 (94 years). The SI supported the barricades as long as they could, hands like miniature infidels, 1968 (13 years). Tumbled out in the middle of the night, without any breath in the lungs. Policy Wonk degree from WMU (2004), the rest from JKDP (2008). Chicago, the wild leek is home-base, is the cavern's retreat. Manorexic Nervosity available from Con/Crescent Press. Published poems in Fact-Simile, Bombay Gin, In Stereo Press and other(s). Co-Editor with J Townsend for Con/Crescent Press. My poem of some length caught in the graveyard, a tarantula on the right shoulder, inking venom into a tattoo: 'ante mortem no scortum' That's latin for 'before death no prostitute' You can print it, but it's up to you.   Poetry like shivvers, Gradnmaster of poetry, M.C. NIGHTGAME was born in Hyphy, Montana, to two parents, assumably.   Lisa J. Cihlar has work published in Word Riot, Wicked Alice, and Qarrtsilani, and other places. She was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her home in rural South-central Wisconsin is becoming overrun by cats. She assumes she will be one of "those" types when she gets old. Maybe she already is and just won't admit it..   Alamo de Rais was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, where he currently lives with his pet lobster, Aurelia. His two major heroes are Corto Maltese and L'Abbe Boullan.   Merrill Shane Jones is a Texan who lives in Boulder, Colorado where he writes fiction and poetry. Jones is a recent graduate of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He also writes hillbilly rock with his imaginary friends, Murphis and Tucker Jim.   Marcus Slease became a [ ] Buddhist after leaving his native Portadown (somewhere near the Ogden river in the year 1999). He met Mr. Whiskers on a rickety porch swing in North Carolina and joined the Lucifer Poetics Group. He travels in circles but currently takes shelter in the wild woods of London. His is part of the alien nation. Bill Collopy works, writes and teaches in Melbourne, Australia. 31 of his stories have been published in fiction anthologies, literary periodicals and on-line magazines. His first novel, House of Given, was published in 2006. Theresa Stefaniak is a seamlessly sewn Frankenstein of a thing, washed up to shores back in '88 with a mouth filled with crayfish. Something lurks sinisterly behind that bespectacled face, but it isn't something you'll have to worry about . . . for now. This creature doesn't sleep, but functions instead on smoke and scissors. So far, she has acquired this, and much else along the way is to be uncovered. It is quite possible Alexandra Ran is half girl, half blade of grass. But really, Alexandra is just a girl. With a pen. She writes her poems with a cold feet and a cold hands and a hot head, with her mind in the gutter of backyards and sidewalks that wither and whence anywhere but here. She is trying to return to grassroots writings that come out in outcome covered in a muddy immediate. She was born in Oxford, and grew up inhaling America through the backseat of a car window. She was fed on a diet on chocolate milk, corndogs and abstract expressionism until fat with nostalgia and dada. Alexandra now exists. Truly, madly, deeply, she exists. For her next life, she would like to come back a sweet potato. Or the color Duke blue. She enjoys music, colors and squirty cream. Dr. Cornelius is a chimpanzee archaeologist and historian. He and his simian cohorts were planning a coup d'etat to take over the nation and send G.W. Boosh back to La Planete des Singes until Barack Obama foiled their plans. But they're still planning to kidnap Boosh from his posh Dallas retirement home and shuttle him to the outer reaches of the Andromeda Galaxy. Proffesor PT Alacrum received his PhD in Advance Spritism in 1987 from CU Colorado Springs. An adept pole vaulter since birth, Alacrum received first National Prize in the United States Pole Vaulting Championship in 1969. In his later years Alacrum has combined his two passions, and teaches a seminar in Spiritual Pole Vaulting at the Moose Institute of Tap-Dancing in Frostbite Falls, MI. Son of Latin America, Daniel Chavarria was born in 1986 and grew up in El Salvador and Ecuador. His first novel Guayaquil Crunk City + Cuento County received the National Poetry prize of Ecuador in 2009; which established him as the next Gabriel Garcia Marquez of the free world. He currently lives in Marrakech with his wife and their dog, Pepito. Born in 1986, Estrada has been writing since the early age of 14. He killed a man at age seventeen with a sledgehammer and is exiled in Peru (Son of diplomats.) He lives in Cuzco , smoking gum and drinking coca tea. He has two cats, a dog and a third leg and he is happy. Alexandra Lukens resides in Harlem, and is a Creative Writing student at Columbia University in the city of New York. Other work can be found in the latest and forthcoming issues of Monkey Puzzle Magazine. Formerly of the Kerouac School in Boulder, Colorado, Alexandra is exploring experimental writing and putting together an all-arts publication to be called Flaneur Foundry with the support of the poetry community and the university. Stay tuned, damn it.   Grand-nephews of the lost pilot Amelia Earhart, Ezekiel and Ezra or “The Twins” moved around the world with their father, a famed archeologist. They moved every six months. They attended Ivy-league prep schools in the Northeast before setlling in Connecticut on their 18th birthday. They never went to college even though they were accepted into the best schools. Ezekiel developed a drug problem in his early twenties and started his own record label. Ezra got married at age 20. They live ten minutes away from each other and collaborate every chance they get. WASP and NEW WASP are their latest poems. Matt Alioto has an intense faith in the regular, ordinary people that make up humanity - a faith which is routinely tested. He drove a 1993 Lincoln Mark VIII in Light Mocha. He's a cadet at West Point right now. Which means he more or less lives in New York, not Ohio. Following four years of highly educational hell, he will be joining the Army on active duty for at least 5 years. Born in Manabi, Ecuador in 1956 Policarpio or “Trini” as he is known to his close friends travelled the country extensively with his father, a prominent politico during the early sixties and late seventies. He learned English at age 23 and began writing letters to lovers and friends overseas. He began writing six word memoirs after reading Hemingway’s six-word story. They were never published and these are the only ones that survived the horrible fire that swept his plantation. He died in the Andes in early 2001 on an expedition searching the famed city of El Dorado. His body was never found.