Contributors to SALON Steve Chapple is the author of "Kayaking the Full Moon: A Journey Down the Yellowstone River,"and, with David Brower, "Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run," both published by Harper Collins. He is currently on the Zambezi River in Africa working on a forthcoming book, to be published in 1997 by Andrews & McMeel/Universal Press Syndicate.
Ron Dicker is a new York-based freelance writer whose work has appeared in Newsday, the San Francisco Examiner and elsewhere.
David Fremont's illustration work has appeared in Spin, L.A. Times and Entertainment Weekly. He currently has comix running in Mondo 2000, Juice magazine and Family Fun. E-mail him at spidereggs@aol.com
Tim Green is a former starting defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons. He is the author of two suspense novels, "Ruffian" and "Titans," as well as the forthcoming "Outlaws" (all published by Turner Publishing). Green is a commentator on Fox TV and NPR, as well as an attorney.
John Grimes, growing up a shy but culturally confused goy in a sea of Jewish/Catholic tract homes in the Maryland burbs, was confused by the significance of fish as religious icon. He overcame that to become the author of "Reality Check," a collection of cartoons, and illustrate numerous books, including "The Little PC Book." His cartoons have appeared in such magazines as the Utne Reader, NewMedia, and Ms. He can be reached at luddites@aol.com.
Jordin Isip is an illustrator. Although he is 28 years old, he looks 17 and is known to behave like he's 12. He ran away from Queens, N.Y. to study art at RISD in Providence, R.I. A New Yorker right through to the rotten core, he now calls Brooklyn home.
Language expert Richard Lederer's latest book is "The Write Way: A Guide to Real-life Writing." He is also the author of such best-selling books as "Anguished English," "Crazy English," "The Miracle of Language" and "Literary Trivia." Richard comments on language for National Public Radio and other radio stations and is the Grammar Grappler for Writer's Digest. In his spare time, Richard makes approximately 200 speaking appearances a year, addressing fundraisers, corporations, academic groups and library associations. He can be reached at rlederer@tiac.net.
Jerry McDonald is a San Francisco-based illustrator. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Forbes and the Washington Post. He has done book covers for Viking, New American Library and Peachpit Press, and music package covers for CBS, Elektra/Asylum and Fantasy Records.
Milo Miles, a Cambridge, Mass.-based freelancer, wrote about trip-hop music in the first issue of SALON. His reviews of world music can be heard on NPR's "Fresh Air."
Val B. Mina is the husband of Risa and the father of Andrea. On the side, he is an illustrator for the L.A. Times Orange County Edition. He also likes to think that he is a soccer player. Lastly, an advice to other struggling artists: "...the wise never sleep with eyes closed." He can be reached at zucchinidg@aol.com.
Ian Shoales has been around the block a few times. His commentaries can be heard on public radio. His syndicated column may or may not appear weekly in a newspaper near you. A vast smattering of his pieces from the past 15 years will emerge as a CD and book in early 1996, from 2.13.61, Henry Rollins' publishing house. Please purchase them.
Zach Trenholm was raised in all the appropriate locations as the product of hippies: the Haight-Ashbury, Mendocino County, Mexico and New York City. A caricaturist since childhood, his artistic heroes include Miguel Covarrubias, Paolo Garreto and Ralph Barton -- caricaturists popular during the '20s and '30s who were influenced by Cubism and constructivism. He managed an art gallery in SoHo before running away to Japan, and was a staff illustrator at the San Francisco Examiner before running away from there too.
Joan Walsh is an associate editor of Pacific News Service and a contributing editor of San Francisco's Focus magazine. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Glamour and The Nation.
AmyWallace is the co-author of many books, including "The People's Almanac," and the author of "The Prodigy", a biography and "Desire," a novel. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Eric White is a San Francisco illustrator who specializes in replicating with eerie accuracy the looks and personalities of celebrities. His clients include Time magazine, London/Polygram, Entertainment Weekly, and Nike. He is currently working on a one-man show which will be exhibited at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles in July.
Cintra Wilson was a reigning bitch princess of the San Francisco theatre demimonde for several years, writing and acting in her own plays (XXX Love Act, Arbuckle, Soul Hunt, Bitzy LaFever's Kingdom of Passion Trilogy, Dognite, and Juvee) as well as participating in productions by such unsavory brigades as the alcoholism-and-raw-meat-informed DUDE Theatre, the slightly more legit MAGIC Theatre and the frighteningly corporate Berkeley Rep. Cintra, whose trendy, semi-nude magazine spreads convinced a new world of people of her serious theatrical talent, was proud to be asked to direct deviant and sexually explicit plays by popular female perverts, such as Bayla Travis' The Dyke and the Porn Stars and the indomitable Danielle Willis' hit one-woman show Breakfast in the Flesh District. Her animated series "Winter Steele," for which she received meager pay, has been in re-runs on MTV's "Liquid Television" for the last six years, and her advice column in the San Francisco Examiner, CINTRA WILSON FEELS YOUR PAIN, is a minor cult phenomenon. Since January, she has been residing in Los Angeles, where she more closely observes the affections of Satan, and lives in sin with her rock-star boyfriend and their little black dog.
