BLISTER PACKS: THE AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES

van Bushmill is the nom de plume of this total jerk that has recently been Honorably Discharged.  His writing has been published in Punk Planet.

Anne Butera runs My Giant Strawberry website.

Daisy played drums in a San Francisco punk band, and is now a writer and artist, based nowhere in particular. Her first novel THE DEAD BEAT will be published any day now by Love Bunni Press. Email.

Jon Fleming was born to Vancouver in 1980. He holds a BA in English from the University of Victoria. He can be contacted through Love Bunni Press.

Ben Frazier’s formal graphic design education consists of one class, taught to him by a guy who used the word “catawampus” as an integral part of his professional vocabulary. Prior to this book, his writing was previously seen in Star Wars #63 (September 1982), in which his letter to the editor was mistakenly attributed to Ben Thayer. It was this formative event that most probably made him the curmudgeonly-beyond-his-years jerk that he is today. He lives in Rochester, New York with his wife, her son, their Australian Cattle Dog and two little fish. He can get emails if you send them here.

Paul Gauthier lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Jason Gonzales needed to have his bio written for him by another contributor of Blister Packs. He is an artist who has literally sold the shirt off his back and pretty much likes girls (who sometimes like him back).

Ben Gulyas lives mostly in a dreamstate. When not wandering and picking up objects off the street, he can be found wandering and picking up objects elsewhere. He is a goat, an ass at the town well, a cod fin, a wisp of smoke in a bucket.

Evan Johnston has contributed fiction to Little Engines, Punk Planet, and The Brooklyn Rail. He is currently working on his first book.

Aaron Joseph Jonig better known as A Double, Integrity fighter, who causes dismay to weak beret/barrette wearing nerds in the emo scene. Tough guy fake New Yorker, who will baptize all sinners in their own blood. He currently can be seen ruining lives and hurting fruits’ feelings with his new bands Brainwashed Youths and Wolfdowners.

Noel Kalenian's grandad was an apple farmer, his grandma a homemaker, his other grandad a worker for a carpet weaver and janitor, and his grandma a janitor and painter. He's the first and only one in his family to finish college. His ancestors come from three or four different continents. He comes from Grand Junction, Colorado, where there are more pickup trucks and tractors than ski bums. He has had fiction published in zaum and Fourteen Hills, poetry published in The Scribbler, and poetry-prose published in Laundry Pen, a new journal of experimental fiction. He was recently nominated for the 2004 addition of Best New American Voices by Chicago-born writer Maxine Chernoff (he didn't get in). In February 2004, he was awarded Second Place in the Prose Poem category of the 2003 Soul-Making Literary Competition, an international literary competition and extended community arts outreach program of the National League of American Pen Women, Nob Hill, San Francisco Bay Area Branch (alotta words to say he won somethin'). noelkalenian@hotmail.com

Ty Mahany lives in Texas with his son. They enjoy sword fighting and Black Sabbath.

Dru McQ is a chaotic neutrual Ranger of the 43rd level most remembered for his destruction of the entire species of hermaphroditic lizard people that inhabited Northern Kelmar in the late 1970s. He is an accomplished writer and lover with multiple titles to his credit including having read all but the latest Harry Potter books. He resides in a small insulated tuber somewhere under a rainbow.

christopher r. is a long-time enthusiast and collector of t-shirts with clever phrases, such as "i'm with stupid" and "jamaica me crazy!!". at last count, he was the proud owner of almost 900 silk-screened clever phrases made up by other people. for a complete list, you can contact him at marginwalker76@yahoo.com

Jen Thomas is a writer, printmaker, and book artist who lives and works in Chicago. She earned her B.F.A. in Communication Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University; studied printmaking at Plymouth University, Exeter, England; and completed her M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. When she’s not constructing three-dimensional board games about shitty apartment living and painful weddings, she’s making artist’s books and editioning etchings of under her own imprint Veronica Press. Jen’s artist’s books, which combine handmade paper, various printing methods, her own writing, and feats of engineering, have been exhibited nationally and have won several awards. Her writing has appeared in Punk Planet, Afterimage, and Blister Packs anthology.

David Todd’s fiction has appeared in Crowd and The Brooklyn Rail, and his plays in cities including New York City, Chicago, and Portland. He can be contacted through Love Bunni Press.

R. John Xerxes started Love Bunni Press in 1988.