Gadfly Contributors
A professional writer based in Las Vegas, Nev., Richard Abowitz is the Features Editor for Las Vegas Weekly and Las Vegas Life, and is an occasional contributor to Rolling Stone. His writing can be found at Lasvegasweekly.com.

Neal Alpert graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in May 2000 with a degree in journalism. He has written, mainly about music, for a number of small publications. He is currently a writer for Boston Soundcheck magazine, and is an aspiring musician in the Boston area.

Joan Altabe is an award-winner art and architecture critic based in Sarasota, Florida. Formerly a staff writer for the New York Times' Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Altabe currently writes a weekly architecture column for Knight Ridder's Bradenton Herald.


Cary Anderson is a screenwriter and freelance writer/producer for film coming attractions and TV spots. He was recently hired to write the script adaptation of the underground comic book, Mel Cool: Mall Cop. He is also developing two series ideas for MTV Animation and working on an original script. Cary can be reached at anderson_cary@hotmail.com


A specialist in all things Italian, Christina Ball teaches Italian language and culture at the University of Virginia and spends her summers writing from Tuscany. Christina is also the head writer for the Virginia Film Festival and an aspiring actor.

Coy Barefoot is an author and freelance journalist based in upstate New York. His most recent book is The Corner, A History of Student Life at the University of Virginia (Howell Press). His next book, Thomas Jefferson on Leadership, will be released by Penguin Putnam in the Spring of 2002.

Ryan Bartelmay has taught high school home economics and English in Boston. He has sheared Xmas trees in Illinois, slung pizzas in Iowa and worked at a lesbian coffee house in Texas. He lives and goes to school in New York City.

Alan Bisbort is a writer and editor who has worked for the Library of Congress for more than twenty years. He has written about cultural, and countercultural, matters since the early 1970s, and is author of The White Rabbit and Other Delights, Charles Bragg: The Works!, and Famous Last Words (to be published in October). He is co-author, with Parke Puterbaugh, of Rhino's Psychedelic Trip and five travel books about America's beaches. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times and Rolling Stone, and he is a regular contributor to Hit List and the Advocate newspapers.

Tom Bradley's essays and stories appear in Exquisite Corpse, Salon.com, McSweeney's, FrontPage, Richmond Review, Big Bridge, and elsewhere. His novels have been nominated for The Editor's Book Award, The New York University Bobst Prize, and The AWP Award Series in the Novel. Excerpts and reviews, links to Tom's online publications, plus a couple hours of recorded readings, are posted at his website—http://www.tombradley.org.

Peter Stone Brown is a freelance writer, singer-songwriter and recording artist living in Philadelphia. Once a d.j. for WXPN, he was also music editor of Philadelphia's largest weekly newspaper. A contributor to several music websites, his writings on Bob Dylan have been published in England and Germany. He is, however, happiest when playing music and has performed in seedy bars and major venues from Nashville to Boston, as well as in England. His Americana-charting album, Up Against It, can be found in better record stores and on the Internet.

Randy Burns had six albums released, three on ESP Disk, three more on Mercury and Polydor Records. "Once I played all the best clubs in the country, came right to the very edge of success, then the longest slide back down that any performer ever had," Burns says. "I quit the Music Industry, and went back out as a bag over my shoulder, guitar in my hand folksinger again. I did this for another fourteen years after the release of my last recorded album. From town to town, couch to couch, I never stayed anywhere but one step away from becoming a hobo. I sang in many great places, and in some ways it was more enjoyable than seeing your name in Rolling Stone and The New York Times. Across Ireland I sang, twice for the memories; it changed me on the inside. Made me think about things I'd been ignoring, and I did––in the most beautiful place in the world."

Kevin Canfield is a staff writer for The Hartford Courant newspaper, where he writes about books and the media. He has been chided by Chuck D, corrected by Walter Cronkite and rebuffed by a host of lesser lights. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, New York Press, Philadelphia Weekly, Baltimore City Paper, The American Journal of Print and other publications. He can be reached at kcanfield@courant.com.

Judy Chicago is an artist, feminist, and writer whose career spans nearly four decades. As an artist she has been highly influential, exploring a varity of media and addressing issues of gender, ethnicity, and power. Her best known work, The Dinner Party, has been exhibited across the world. In addition to her artistic achievements, she was also responsible for pioneering feminist art education, setting up study programs at Fresno State University, the California Institute of the Arts, and the Los Angeles Women's Building. She has published seven books, including two autobiographical texts, Through the Flower and Beyond the Flower. She lives in Belen, New Mexico, with her husband, Donald Woodman, and their seven cats. For more info, visit www.judychicago.com.

Jim Curtis received his Ph. D. from Columbia University, and taught at the University of Missouri for over thirty years. He is the author of three books and dozens of articles. He is now a scriptwriter, and educational and business consultant based in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania—the most beautiful village in America.

David Dalton is the author of some fifteen books including James Dean: the Mutant King, Faithfull (with Marianne Faithfull) and Rock 100 (with Lenny Kaye). His most recent book, Been Here and Gone: A Memoir of the Blues, is his first novel. A founding contributor to Rolling Stone, Dalton has written for Mojo, Penthouse, Paris Match and Fishwrap. He lives in upstate New York with his wife, Coco, his son, Toby, and 78 other critters.

Darrin Daniel has published his own writings in magazines around the U.S, including Rain Taxi, Art Access, For Immediate Release, and Poetry Project Newsletter. His most recent work, Harry Smith: Fragments of a Northwest Life, was published by Seattle’s Elbow Press. Other Smith related work includes his own small press release of Think of the Self Speaking: Harry Smith—Selected Interviews [Elbow/Cityful Press, 1999]. He currently runs Cityful Press, which has published poetry and non-fiction titles since 1991. He is also working on a full-length biography of Harry Smith.

Dan Epstein lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. He is a contributor to such websites as 3ammagazine.com, Hybridmagazine.com, Slushfactory.com, Ifanboy.com and Davidfincher.net. He has interviewed such luminaries as Mike Patton, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Coupland, Paul Auster and The Damned. He loves referring to himself in the third person. Email him at danepstein75@hotmail.com.

Laure Feton is a photographer and civil engineer, soon to receive her Master's degree in architecture at the Ecole d'Architecture de Paris Malaquais. In her spare time she designs clothes and develops her own photos in her kitchen darkroom.

Dante Garland is a contributing writer for Soundcheck magazine. He has written extensively on film, literature, and music for a variety of publications. He is also an aspiring poet and hopes to publish a collection within the year.

Bruce Gatenby is an expat American writer. In the last 4 years he has lived in Switzerland, France, Germany and Italy. A former college professor, he gave up the glamorous world of literary criticism to play for the other team. He has since written 3 unpublished novels,10 unproduced screenplays and several articles for Richmond Review, Deeply Shallow, FrontPage magazine and Heterodoxy. He can be reached at gatenby@hotmail.com.

Arin Greenwood is a lawyer and writer who writes about all sorts of things but particularly likes writing travel stories. Usually living in New York City, Arin is now working at the Supreme Court in tropical Saipan, where she has taken up SCUBA diving to replace all those New York hours at the movies. You can e-mail her at aringreenwood@hotmail.com.

Katie Haegele studied linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She wrote about female graffiti artists for Gadfly's July/August 2000 issue, has written for Bitch and Adbusters, and is a regular contributor to Philadelphia Weekly. She and her little black cat live in Philly.

When Lou Harry, a Temple University Film School graduate, writes about arts and culture, he usually doesn't tell editors and readers that his books include the toy tome It's Slinky and the best-selling humor book The Office Voodoo Kit. He spent 10 years as a professional stand-up comic, founded a children's theater company, wrote a book on Philadelphia history and has been published in magazines ranging from Art & Antiques to Men's Health to Children's Digest.


Doug Hornig has been writing seriously for 20 years. He has published seven novels, along with numerous short stories, poems and articles, and is an award-winning, if unproduced screenwriter. He lives in the mountains of Nelson County, Virginia.

Robert Hudson is senior editor for Zondervan, a division of HarperCollins. He has been a Dylan fan for more than 30 years, with Dylan articles having appeared in Look Back and Da Boot, among others. He also issues an occasional Dylan e-newsletter, called The Dylan Group. His other credits include articles in Christianity Today, Lamppost, The Banner, and other magazines, and poetry in Mars Hill Review, Good Foot, Studies in Contemporary Satire, and other journals. He is the editor of WorkingPOET, an e-zine for struggling poets (aren't they all?). Find it at www.workingpoet.com.

Ian Jeffers is a playwright in New York, author of The Dead Sea, Rabbit's Foot, and Oh, England. His play A Crack In The Ground is appearing at the Common Basis Theater in New York next season, directed by Marcia Haufrecht of the Actors Studio. His fiction appears in McSweeney's.

Aaron Jentzen is a writer and musician, currently in the English PhD program at the University of California, Davis. Originally from Michigan, he wrote on the local underground music scene for Ann Arbor Current. His writing has appeared in several journals, city papers, and zines, including Kerouac Connection and the Detroit Metro Times.


Keith Jones is currently toughing it out in downtown Baltimore. Most days revolve around freelance writing, an out-of-tune acoustic guitar and endless cups of black coffee. His work has appeared in the A&E sections of several newspapers throughout Maryland.


For three days, Jonathan Kiefer was a graduate student at Columbia University. He has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Harper’s, but none of those magazines have published him. Now he lives in Berkeley, CA, where he’s had better luck with the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, San Francisco magazine, Bostonia, Spike Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, and, happily, Gadfly Online. Contact him at jekiefer@hotmail.com.

Daniel Kraus recently wrapped on his second feature film, Ball of Wax (www.ballofwaxmovie.com), a dark drama about a sociopathic professional baseball player. Kraus' first film, Jefftowne was an international film festival favorite, and will be distributed by Troma Films later this fall. In addition to Gadfly, Kraus writes for Salon.com and Maxim magazine.

In addition to his work for Gadfly, James Lindbloom has contributed to Muckraker, Opprobrium, One Final Note, and Perfect Sound Forever. His record label, Roaratorio, has released albums by such artists as Steve Lacy and the Vibracathedral Orchestra. Originally from Poughkeepsie, New York, he now lives in Minneapolis.

Nick Mamatas' work on politics, cyberculture and digital art has appeared in The Village Voice, In These Times, Silicon Alley Reporter, Artbyte, Disinfo.com, Maximum Rock-n-Roll and other fine and not so fine magazines and websites. His short fiction has been published by Talebones, Strange Horizons and Speculon and his first novella, Northern Gothic will be published by Soft Skull Press (www.softskull.com) late this year. He lives in Jersey City and actually enjoys it. You can visit his stupid website here: www.kynn.com/wwnkd

Andrew Loog Oldham is best known as the manager of the Rolling Stones during the 1960s. His memoir of London in the 1960s, Stoned, was published in February. He currently lives in Bogotá, Colombia.

An investigative journalist for several years, Kathleen Phalen covered the hate movement at the time of the Oklahoma City Bombing and wrote several exposes on Aryan Nations leaders. These days, she’s writing about pop culture, the arts, public health and social justice issues as well as health issues for The Washington Post. Her work has also appeared in Gadfly, USA Weekend, Chicago Tribune, and AM News. She has published two non-fiction books and is currently writing her first novel.

Jennie Rose is a San Francisco based freelance writer with a penchant for fiddle playing, college radio and documentary film. She has contributed to Request magazine, Rolling Stone Online, Speak magazine, The SF Weekly, and Wired.

Grant Rosenberg, a writer from Chicago, is currently based in Paris filing dispatches for Gadfly Online. He is also an editor of the upcoming literary screenwriting journal, Sanctuary Quarterly (www.sanctuaryquarterly.com), a print publication which will feature the best in current screenwriting from around the world.Go to www.kolmaravenue.com for more on his writing.
Contact him at grant@kolmaravenue.com


Andrew L. Robles is a writer and musician in the Los Angeles area. He has contributed articles to various magazines including Strobe, Mean Street, Casting Call, Game Night, and Hockey Digest.


Stefene Russell is a freelance writer living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her work has appeared in pifmagazine.com, thecommonspace.org, and Wiring Dept. She is also the co-editor of prinsesstarta.net, an online literary journal.

Neal Shaffer writes from Baltimore, MD, where he lives amidst wood paneling and tobacco smoke. His work has appeared in Restaurant Fuel, the Baltimore City Paper, and online at Sunspot.net.

Having worked as an editor at Lingua Franca magazine and a literary agent at Vigliano Associates, Jason Sholl is now a happily unemployed writer living in New York. His essays, book and film reviews have appeared in The American Prospect, In These Times, The National Post, The Weekly Standard, Reason, Paper, Gastronomica, Western Outdoor News, and Lingua Franca. Starting this Fall, he’ll be pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arizona. You can reach him at jsholl@earthlink.net.

Nile Southern is the co-editor of NOW DIG THIS: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern, 1950-1995, a new anthology of previously uncollected and unpublished writings published by Grove Press. He is the literary executor of the Terry Southern Estate and maintains the Terry Southern website:www.TerrySouthern.com. His next book is The Candymen about the creation of the first "erotic" bestseller, Candy, written for Arcade (Little Brown). Terry’s spoken-word album, Give Me Your Hump!, produced by Hal Willner and Nelson Lyon, with readings by Marianne Faithfull, Allen Ginsberg, Taylor Meade, Jonathan Winters, Michael O’Donoghue and Terry Southern, will be released later this year. Nile Southern is also the author of a screen-based cyber-narrative: The Anarchivists of Eco-Dub, available for free download at: www.altx.com/ebooks.

Having written and photographed his way across the country, Nick Sokoloff now makes his home in Salt Lake City. The former editor-in-chief of CitySearch, his work can be viewed at www.nicksokoloff.com.

Charles Spano is a writer, filmmaker, and rock and roll anthropologist. He has contributed to Copper Press, Rockpile, Mean, the All Music Guide, Resonance and Visual Anthropology. He is currently editing his documentary on a female demolition derby driver. He referenced Mr. T in his thesis. He'll keep on rocking and rolling if you do.

Silja J.A. Talvi is a Seattle-based freelance journalist/essayist with numerous credits in publications nationwide and in the UK. From music to prison issues, her pieces have appeared in such publications as High Times, Salon.com, In These Times, Prison Legal News and the Christian Science Monitor. She is also a contributing editor to LiP Magazine (http://www.lipmagazine.org)

Kelly Wittmann lives in Milwaukee, WI, where she writes both fiction and nonfiction. Two childrens' history books she wrote will be published in January 2002. She has just completed a novel, and is is currently working on a screenplay based on her Gadfly article on Edith Piaf.


Nick A. Zaino III writes the Comedy Notes column for the Boston Globe, and covers comedy and music as a freelance writer. He has been covering comedy on the local and national scene for five years, and hopes to discover soon the reason why some people still insist that Gallagher is funny.

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