Issue 9 - Gold Dust magazine

Contributors [cont’d]
Andrea Tallarita
Andrea Tallarita was born in Rome, 4 May 1985. He later lived in Spain (Madrid and Barcelona) between 1995 and 2000
due to the movements of his family, and again in Rome for his last three years in high school. He is presently completing
his fourth and final year at the University of East Anglia, where he is studying Comparative Literature.
Book Reviewers
Fionna Doney Simmonds
Fionna Doney Simmonds is the Poetry Editor for the feminist literary ezine Moondance.org. She reviews regularly for
Moondance, Galatea Resurrects, New Hope International and the print journal Readers' Reviews. Passionately committed
to the written word, Fionna hopes to one day see poetry as popular as fiction.
David Gardiner
Ageing hippy, former teacher, now psychiatric care worker, living in London with partner Jean, adopted daughter Cherelle
and Charlotte the Chameleon. Two published works, SIRAT (a science fiction novel) and The Rainbow Man and Other
Stories (short story collection). Interested in science, philosophy, psychology, scuba diving, alternative lifestyles and communal
living, travel, wildlife, cooking and IT. Large, rambling home page at www.davidgardiner.net.
Features writers
Rupert Haigh
Rupert Haigh, escaped English lawyer, has lived in Helsinki since 2000, and now works as a freelance legal English
teacher, proofreader, and editor. He is the author of several published works on legal English and business, and started
writing fiction in the summer of 2004. His short stories have appeared in Spin and Outercast magazines, as well as in
Gold Dust. He is currently working on a novel, Throwing it all Away.
Gail Richards
Gail Richards is the Founder of http://AuthorSmart.com, a clearinghouse of information, education and resources for
authors seeking navigational assistance on their publishing journey. As a life long writer, she is passionate about helping
authors share their wisdom and intellectual capital with the world by helping them find a path from idea to successfully
published book. For over 20 years she has created marketing messages and visual concepts that demand and capture
attention for hundreds of companies. She now focuses her energy on authors. She is a graduate of Dartmouth
College, mother of two teen-age sons, Red Sox fan and aspiring seamstress.
Interviewers
Alexander James
For more than thirty years, Alexander James was a journalist working internationally for the biggest newspapers and
magazines in the world until turning exclusively to books ten years ago. He has written, ghosted, contributed to and
edited more than 100 titles, 90% of them novels. He lives on the French Riviera. He and his partner share four children
in their thirties (each of whom lives in a different European country) and four grandchildren.
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