Contributors to SALON Cheryll Aimée Barron is the author of "Dreamers of the Valley of Plenty" and a former correspondent for The Economist and Business Week.
Marc Bruno, the 1994-9 Sundance Fellow in Independent Producing, is in post-production on a one-hour documentary about the Prohibition-era rum trade in the Bahamas. He lives in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Douglas Cruickshank is the co-founder of the Fessenden Review, a long-dead literary magazine once described by the Village Voice as "a New York Review of Books for the living." His food column, "Notes from the Trough," which appeared in the late Frisko magazine, was the first to review jail cuisine. His articles have appeared in Travel & Leisure and the San Francisco Examiner.
Richard Downs is primarily an editorial illustrator who works for National consumer and trade magazines. Richard recently finished work on his first multimedia CD-ROM project entitled The Dark Eye where he designed all the game icons and a graphic novel interpretation of Edgar Alan Poe's masterpiece "The Masque of the Red Death". He lives in Southern California. To view more work go to his web site at http://www.earthlink.net/~downsart/.
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.
Sharon Henry began her illustration career in second grade when her "Ducky in the rainstorm" received rave reviews after it ran in Sister Mary Mercita's section of the St. Charles Grade School monthly PTA bulletin. She later received a B.S. in journalism and a minor in studio art from Texas Christian University (home of the killer horn frogs). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Detroit Free Press, San Diego Union-Tribune and other fine American papers. Sharon lives in California and works as a newspaper editorial artist and illustrator. She can be reached at snhenry@aol.com.
Sibylla Herbrich is a German-born photographer. She studied photojournalism at S.F. State University and is currently the photo editor at the San Francisco Daily Journal. Her photographs have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Cosmopolitan. Her current project is "Voices of our Century," which features portraits and profiles of centenarians.
Debora Jo Immergut covers new media and the Internet for the Wall Street Journal. She is the author of a collection of short fiction, "Private Property."
Bill Kisliuk has written for the Oakland Tribune, BAM Magazine and Jazz Now. He lives in San Francisco.
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.
Dick Lochte's most recent mystery novels are "Blue Bayou" (Simon & Schuster, hardcover; Ivy, paperback) and "The Neon Smile" (Simon & Schuster). He can be reached at dlock@ix.netcom.com.
Charise Mericle is an illustrator and cartoonist. She lives in Chicago and draws most every day. Her clients include: Ray Gun magazine, Rolling Stone, Details, High Street Records and the Village Voice. She can be reached at wcmericle@aol.com.
Camille Paglia is Professor of Humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is the author of "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson" and "Vamps & Tramps."
Howard Rheingold is the former executive editor of HotWired magazine and the author of "The Virtual Community." An internationally renowned advocate of free, uncensored online communication, Rheingold's home page, Brainstorms (www.well.com:80/user/hlr/index.html), is a virtual fixture on Netscape's What's Cool list. His shoes defy description. Rheingold lives with his wife Judy and daughter Mamie in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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.
Charles Taylor's essays on film, books and pop music have appeared in the Boston Phoenix, the Modern Review and Millennium Pop.
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.
Amy Wallace 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.
Stephanie Zacharek is a Boston-based writer whose work has appeared in the Boston Phoenix, Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly.
