alltopia antholozine

Editor

Lara Messersmith-Glavin is an educator, linguist, organizer, and indie publisher based in Portland, Oregon.  She loves martial arts, community arts, language arts, loud music, sciences, and bicycles.  Her writing appears in a number of blogs, including one she wrote during a year in China, which won an international award for Best Travel Writing in 2008.  She grew up on boats in Kodiak, Alaska, and has lived on four continents and in a zillion apartments.  She gets tired of moving her books around.

Spring, 2009

Sugata Bhattacharya, Digging for a Home,  currently works in the semi-conductor industry after studying electrical engineering in college.  He would love to travel the world and explore other cultures.  He loves reading books, particularly anthropology, and enjoys riding his bicycle whenever he can.

Linda Fielder, Down Home, spent her early years in the chewy center of the Midwest, before she was inspired – by a photo of the Oregon coast on a complimentary calendar – to move to the Pacific Northwest.  She works at the Oregon Humane Society and shares her home with a dog, a cat, and two chickens.

Rachel Ford, Getting Clean, is a NYC-based writer, arts enthusiast, and believer in the creativity of day-to-day living.  She edits and publishes a quarterly ‘zine, Maven.  Her work was last published in Art Journal.  You can visit her site here.

Dot – yes-it’s-short-for-Dorothy -Hearn, Spanish Rice and Party Mix, is a writer and sign language interpreter.  Her work has appeared in publications such as Six Sentences, Prism, Courier 4, and her radio play was produced by Sudden Radio Project on KBOO.  She is also a volunteer facilitator for Write Around Portland workshops.

Mimi LaValley, No Place for a Lady, is a musician and insomniac living in New York City.  She finds that these three characteristics go well together like bread, wine, and cheese.  Her music can be found here.

Gabi Lewton-Leopold, All Evidence to the Contrary Notwithstanding, is a fifth generation Oregonian.  She graduated from Eugene Lang College / The New School in New York City in 2007.  This is her first published piece.

Lorette C. Luzajic, Buried Alive, is a Toronto freelancer who can be found here.  She writes a column for Gremolata.com called The Spice Girl.  She has a blog called Fascinating People: gossip for smart people, and three spin offs, including Fascinating Writers at Bookslut.com, Fascinating Queeers at Outimpact.com, and Fascinating Canadian Women at Coahoots-magazine.ca.

Brian K. Lynch, Homeless, has worked as a gardener, environmental impact report writer, non-emergency ambulance driver, telephone company repair clerk, and mainframe worker, before committing to a career as an English as a Second Language teacher and professor of applied linguistics.  He currently pretends to be retired on Shaw Island, where he is learning to grow vegetables, discovering a new sense of community, and writing poetry.

Emily May, SFO, was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus twenty-three years ago.  She is currently running red lights in Portland, Oregon.

When not alternating between revolutionary fervor and existential despair, Ian McBian, Working for the Plastic Pharoahs, hustles in the construction trade, and plays at photography.  He is learning to speak of himself in the third person, and with some regard.

Cathi McLain, Our Dream Victorian, is a marketing and management consultant and freelance writer based in Lake Oswego, Oregon.  After focusing on business writing for over thirty years, she’s having a blast tripping down memory lane and turning her past into stories.

Matt Moore, Traveling the Diagonal, is a writer, musician, and former journalist.  He graduate from the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications in 1993 and wrote shortly thereafter for two newspaper dailies before resigning.  His music is featured prominently in the PBS television series, Roadtrip Nation.  He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

guia nocon, [oscillate], is trying.

Darwin Rose Riviere, Instability, is an 18-year-old queer youth currently living in Portland, Oregon, with her wife.  She enjoys writing and performing slam poetry and drag numbers, and she writes scripts for Portland’s local queer youth radio show, The Other Team.

Alida Rol, Oma’s House, retired in 2008 from a career as an OBGYN physician for nearly three decades, to spend time writing.  She has lived in Portland since 1980 with her husband and two daughters, her proudest accomplishment.

Bethany Rowland, featured artist, spent her formative years in a wooded suburb of Seattle with an alpine goat named Toby.  Primarily a figurative painter, she is currently captivated by ruminants as subject matter.

Tim Stapleton, Finishing the Quilt, is a professional, award-winning scenic designer.  He has taught Theatre courses for Willamette University, Central Washington University, Lewis and Clark College, and Slippery Rock University.  Tim exhibited his paintings throughout the U.S. and Japan, and is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow.