Cutting Scenes - The Fine Line

Ruben Monakhov was born in 1970 in Leningrad (USSR). He
graduated from Serov Art School (at present time Roerikh Art
School) in 1991. He is a member of St. Petersburg section of
Russian Federation Artists Union since 1999. His works can be
found in public and private collections in Russia, Belgium,
Germany, USA, UK.
From Donegal in Ireland, Annemarie Ni Churreáin has a BA in
Communication Studies and an M.Phil in Creative Writing. She is
a writer, editor and arts promoter. Her poetry has been
published widely in Ireland and abroad. Her creative interests
include folklore, the Irish Language and children's writing.
Ilya Prints is from St. Petersburg, Russia and lives in Boston
for about 10 years. A few of his other works, poems and flash
fictions, were published in other literary journals.
Francis Raven’s books include Architectonic Conjectures
(Silenced Press, 2010), Provisions (Interbirth, 2009), 5-Haifun:
Of Being Divisible (Blue Lion Books, 2008), Shifting the
Question More Complicated (Otoliths, 2007), Taste: Gastronomic
Poems (Blazevox 2005) and the novel, Inverted Curvatures
(Spuyten Duyvil, 2005). Francis lives in Washington DC; you can
check out more of his work at his website:
http://www.ravensaesthetica.com/
Raj Sharma is a retired professor of English, who has worked at
universities in India, Iraq and U.S.
When Amy Tolbert became interested in photography, her only
camera was the very low resolution one on her cell phone. She
downloaded some free photo-editing software to disguise the poor
quality of her photographs. She soon grew bored with "good"
photography, ditching it for what she calls "extreme
photomanipulation."
William Watkin’s art has appeared in The Maguffin (cover),
Flashquake, Song of the Siren, Able Muse, EOTU, and The Pedestal
and has illustrated two of his books, Suburban Wilderness, and
The Psychic Experiment Book. When not drawing, he races
dirtbikes with his son, Chad.
Michael T. Young prefers a glass of Dalwhinnie to a slice of red
velvet cake. He lived in the East Village in his 20s with a
novelist and a filmmaker. He once sat in front of Picasso’s Les
Saltimbanques and read Rilke’s 5th Duino Elegy. He still follows
Joseph Brodsky’s advice to “be obstinate.”
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