Currently living in Antibes, on the French Riviera, Thierry Brunet began to write some scripts for short-films when he was working in Paris as an assistant director. He wrote interviews of writers and rock musicians for Spike, musical reviews in Chronic'art. His poems and illustrated texts appear in well-known French journals La page blanche, La revue x, T.A.P.I.N� In January 2007 he created Nova Cookie and Frozen Hell, an experimental journal editing only very short stories in 6 words, in any language.

Chris Allen Clark lives in Morton, Mississippi, where he writes poetry and short stories. His story here is all true: Clark had ancestors at the Bloody Angle, but he despises ketchup. He has a passion for Classical and Jazz music, especially Brubeck's "Take Five," and is also a history and art fanatic. What is life all about? Only the art of Edward Hopper can tell.�

There is not a single thing that v.e. either is or is not.

Jacob Eichert attends school, writes, asks questions, and does laundry in Oakland, CA.

Vernon Frazer is the author of IMPROVISATIONS. His collections of poetry include A Slick Set Of Wheels, Demon Dance, Sing Me One Song Of Evolution, Free Fall, Demolition Fedora and Amplitudes, IMPROVISATIONS (I-XXIV), IMPROVISATIONS (XXV-L) and IMPROVISATIONS (BOOK 3). Frazer recently completed editing an anthology of Post-Beat Generation Poetry that will be published in the People's Republic of China in May 2007.

Jay Mohr is a very funny comedian and frequent guest on The Opie and Anthony Show and The Ron and Fez Show, both on XM Satellite Radio. Michael Frissore is a very sad man whose other MySpace-obsessed writings can be found on Antithesis Common and the current issue of The WRIToracle, where he is a staff writer. He lives in Massachusetts.

Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a sculptor, painter, book dealer and teacher who occasionally writes poetry and movie reviews. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in USA and Europe and he has had 9 one-man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in collections of New York University, the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. His paintings, drawings and collages have been published in many online magazines including Rock Heals, Otoliths, Winamop, Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks, and others. Over the years he has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Pollock-Krasner grants and, most recently, in 2004, received the Adolph Gottleib Foundation grant. Currently, he teaches art at the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Program in Brooklyn.

David Harrison Horton is author of Pete Hoffman Days (Pinball). His work has recently appeared in Five Fingers, Femme Toupee, Alice Blue, and Red Hawk Review. He lives and writes in Oakland, California. He can be reached at [email protected].

paul kavanagh was born in england 1971. he is happy. his wife is happy. together they are happy.

Teresa K. Miller received her MFA from Mills College and has taught English in the Peralta Community College District and at Columbia College Chicago. Her work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Columbia Poetry Review , MiPOesias, Shampoo, and others. As of May 13th, she is a full-time Seattleite.

Amy Papaelias is an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. Her Master's thesis project, www.TypeTalkFonts.com, garnered attention from Communication Arts, Print, www.thinkingwithtype.com, as well as Microsoft and Adobe. She received her Master of Fine Arts from State University of New York at New Paltz and Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies from McGill University in Montreal.

Jaanika Peerna's work resides at the crossroads of digital and traditional media, often dealing with themes of emergence, silence and simplicity. She has worked for the education program at Dia Beacon and the Visual Thinking Strategies project of the Soros Foundation. Peerna has had solo shows in New York and in Tallinn, Estonia, her native country. Learn more about Peerna at www.jaanikapeerna.net.

Benjamin L. Perez's poems have appeared in various print and on-line publications, including Watchword, Sacramento News and Review (SN&R), and Ishmael Reed's Konch. In 2005 Spuyten Duyvil published his experimental and transgressive novel, The Evil Queen: A Pornolexicology (making Dennis Cooper's top 10 list for that year). His main literary influences are the Oulipo movement and his dyslexia, which is quite severe.

Stephen Ratcliffe's most recent book is REAL (Avenue B, 2007). Previous books include Portraits & Repetition (The Post-Apollo Press, 2002) and SOUND/(system) (Green Integer, 2002). Listening to Reading, a collection of essays on contemporary experimental poetry, was published by SUNY Press in 2000. He lives in Bolinas, California and teaches at Mills College in Oakland.

Sheheryar Badar Sheikh is finishing an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. His thesis at ND, titled Far in Lunar Glow, was a set of inter-referential short stories based on the love triangle. "-struck Life" is one of those stories. Sheheryar's work is forthcoming or has appeared in Black Warrior Review, The New Orphic Review, 5_Trope, Bewildering Stories and The Potomac. He is also staff critic for NewPages.com and Pakistan�s features haven, The Friday Times, for which he has worked the last three years.

Chris Stroffolino is the author of Stealer's Wheel, Light as a Fetter (Situations, 97), Cusps (Aerial/Edge, 95), Oops (Pavement Saw, 1994), and Incidents (Iniquity/Vendetta, 1991). Most recently, Pieces of a Sequence became available on Faux Press (www.fauxpress.com/e/stroffolino).

Dillon Westbrook is another concerned citizen of Oakland, California.

Sara Wintz is the editor of the Pretty Panicks Press. More poems are available at www.shampoopoetry.com and www.canwehaveourballback.com. She lives in Oakland, California.

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Cricket Online Review Vol. III, No. I May 2007

Editors���� Chad Lietz & J.D. Mitchell-Lumsden
Prose Editor���� Corey Johnson

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