WRITERS AND ARTISTS.

BJ Beauchamp announced to her parents at the age of seven that she was going to be a writer, then promptly put her sister in her first play, which was a production put on in her parent’s kitchen. She has been torturing family, friends and everyone else coming into her orbit with having to read her pilot scripts and screenplays ever since. BJ has earned a living over the years in the industries of oil/gas & mining (treasury), television (contract administration) and currently is licensed in the state of California in the areas of real estate and insurance (fire/casualty naturally). BJ also holds the self-appointed title of “queen of miscellaneous and useless information.” Dogs and children like her, but adults are more so-so.

Dick Bentley is English. He once worked as an engineer on a project to build a Zeppelin, which is the only interesting thing he has done in his entire life. He collects mechanical adding machines and dictionaries.

David Budbill’s newest book of poems is, While We've Still Got Feet (Copper Canyon Press, 2005) and a pamphlet, Nine Taoist Poems (Longhouse Publishers, 2007). He performs regularly in New York City with bassist/multi-instrumentalist, William Parker, and drummer, Hamid Drake.

Mat Capper is one of the UK's leading procrastinators. After studying Law in university Mathew went to work for the Legal Services Commission and discovered the true meaning of boredom only since felt when watching the Terry Gilliam film 'brazil'. Since leaving the legal profession Mathew has, in his mind, become a successful Writer, Actor and Director. In reality he has written some scripts, appeared in some films and directed a couple of shorts.  Mathew continues to write and now works in the treatment of drug and alcohol dependency. 

Jack Carneal lives in Baltimore. He teaches writing at Towson University. When not teaching or writing he runs Yaala Yaala Records, a small label specialising in Malian folk music.

Alex Cox, house illustrator for EAP, is otherwise an extremely independent filmmaker and revolutionary.  You can find him in those guises at www.alexcox.com.

Wendy Darling, EAP advice columnist, still lives in the brick semi she flew out of as a child.  But she’s learned her lesson since those days of cleaning Peter’s house for a piece of his fairy dust, and she’s going to share her hard won wisdom with the world -- like it or not.

Ralph Dartford lives in Yorkshire and flaunts about being a theatre producer of sorts. He is widely published as a pretentious poet, short story author and occasional journalist. Ralph only talks about himself in the third person in moments of high stress and is currently completing his first novel.

Chloe Hansen is loving life in Syracuse, New York, with her shy pitbull, Mikey.

David D. Horowitz founded and manages Rose Alley Press. In 2007 he edited and published Limbs of the Pine, Peaks of the Range, an anthology of contemporary poetry of the Pacific Northwest. His own most recent poetry collections, all from Rose Alley Press, are Wildfire, Candleflame; Resin from the Rain; and Streetlamp, Treetop, Star.

Chuck Ivy is a research artist and copywright, a photographer, musician, and, generally speaking, a man of many hats—mostly fedoras.

Hecate Kantharsis lives in NYC, works as an engineer, likes to tinker, plans on finishing all her projects before she dies, thinks Gene Krupa and Max Roach were the best drummers ever even though she listens to a lot of Old School NYCHC, and believes that writing for EAP improves her sex life. 

John Merryman thinks hard about the stuff that matters and is somewhat bemused by the stuff that doesn't.

Danbert Nobacon, born in Burnley, Lancs, is now living in the mountain wilds of Twisp WA. USA with his immediate clan. He was in the band Chumbawamba for 22 years, and now performs and records solo or with any raggle taggle band of gypsies who will have him, and will; celebrate 30 years in showbiz in October 2009. He is lately to be found gardening and branching out into writing fiction, hosting a community radio show and acting.

Alice Nutter is a playwright, anarchist, musician, and mom.

Hugh O'Conor is an Irish actor, writer, and director who has recently become more serious about photography, even if it hasn't become any more serious about him.

C.B. Parrish  is, and always has been, a complete nonentity, currently residing on the extreme north coast of California.  Nearly expired of remorse for her misspent youth, she now wastes no time lolling around the house in her pajamas.  Her addictions include coffee, unfiltered cigarettes and tree planting.  A dairy nazi, she is rude to anyone engaging in the sale or praise of reduced fat milk, insisting it is for their own good.Her hobby is swinging from the earlobes of capitalists and public servants, guilting them into disingenuous displays of good citizenship and scaring them to such witlessness they do not notice the accidental performance of their jobs.  She can't help it.

Hunt N. Peck is the world’s only Consulting General Specialist. He is believed to have been born Hunter Nasruddin Pek in Tehran in the late ‘forties. His Hungarian father was a noted trombone engineer and swindler, his Anglo-Iranian mother an exotic dancer and contortionist. His parents’ fortunes fluctuated in his early years as the family travelled widely. He was educated at Mullah Ali’s Wee Folks Madrassa in Qom, Eton (where he befriended Emir Krum, heir to the khanate of Bulgaria), the Bela Kun Gymnasium in Budapest and Her Majesty’s Approved School for Young Offenders (Chipping Sodbury). Hunt N. Peck has a doctorate in philosophy from the Harvard Centre for Bible Studies, Flat Plain, Nebraska. He claims to have once been a public-relations officer for the Illuminati, and to have invented the Italian word qualunquismo, which means ‘whateverism’. Hunt N. Peck lives in Dick Bentley's attic, in much the same way that Eisenring lived in Biedermann's.

Phyllis Peters hasn’t thought about Paul Simon recently, but she does think these are the days of miracle and wonder. So don’t cry baby, don’t cry. Do get in touch, though - she thinks hearing from readers is swell (swelltering@hotmail.com). 

Stephan Rogers is an aspiring writer, aspiring martial artist, and aspiring physicist from New York City.  His aspirations have been known to aspire to other greater and grander things of their own volition.  They get together and hold meetings and create agendas and such from time to time.  On occasion, they've invited Mr. Rogers to
participate.

Linda (Callahan) Sandoval lives and works in Los Angeles. Her spirit floats from the midwest through New Mexico and back again, always, to Santa Fe.  She sometimes acts, sometimes directs theatre, sometimes teaches, loves her family and is a habitual writer of odd stories, plays and essays.

Devinder Sivia is a Sikh physicist living and working in Oxford, England.

Graeme K Talboys was born in Hammersmith, London. He still blames his parents. In between being a space cadet and teaching in schools and museums, he has written nine works of non-fiction, eight of which have been published. He has also written twelve novels. The first (written when he was seventeen) was lost on a train. The next two, written in his early twenties, he wishes had been. Only one (Wealden Hill) is currently in print, but others will re-appear toward the end of 2010. He is currently working on something new (which will be allowed nowhere near a train).

Sean Watkin is a young writer born in Liverpool, England in 1985.  Writing for EAP is the first time he has done this kind of writing, as he usually writes poetry, scripts or lyrics.

Tanner J. Willbanks is firmly entrenched in flyover country. He is a born and raised Kansan, who has no real plans of changing that anytime soon. He currently splits his time between writing and work(both of the school and paying variety). At 30, he still has no idea what life has in store for him.
 

Dan Wool  is a composer, musician, cafe haunter, and all round good guy.  (he didn’t write this bio himself.)