Contributors to SALON Aingeal Conneely is a schoolteacher in Galway, Ireland.
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.
Kathy Dobie writes about skinheads and sluts, prisoners and runaways. She makes the sign of the cross whenever she reads Stephen King. If she types "Sinday" when she meant to type "Sunday," a little chill goes down her spine. She says she's an "ex-Catholic," but she's not fooling anyone. Her work has appeared in the Village Voice, Vibe and Vogue, among other publications. A contributing editor to Pacific News Service, she lives in Brooklyn.
Michael Greaney knew at a young age that he wanted to be an artist -- he just couldn't imagine any other life. Greaney lives and works in Concord, California and can be reached at crana@netcom.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.
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.
Sam Hurwitt is a Berkeley freelance writer who has published stories in the East Bay Express, the San Francisco Examiner and the Budapest Sun. His fiction appears in the book "Voices of the Xiled." He is light and airy with delicate fruit flavors and goes well with pasta and veal. Hurwitt can be reached at nigel.blackthorn@sfnet.com.
John Kascht is an illustrator and designer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, and Esquire, among other publications. His many awards include six golds and 12 silvers from the Society of Newspaper Design. His work is featured in "The Savage Mirror" and "This face You Got." Kascht's caricature work was the subject of the 1994 public television documentary "In Your Face."
Jon Katz's media criticism has appeared in Wired and the New York Times. He is the author of the mystery novels "Last Housewife" (Doubleday) "Death by Station Wagon" (Bantam) and "The Family Stalker" (Bantam). He can be reached at JDKatz@aol.com.
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.
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.
Chris Morris is an illustrator at the Dallas Morning News, Texas. Before that, he worked for the San Francisco Examiner in California. His extensive client list runs the gamut from the San Francisco Giants, the San Francisco 49ers, the Floria Marlins, the New York Yankees to Pepsi Food Services and the Richards Group in Dallas. He lives in Deep Ellum, Dallas and can be reached at morrisca@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.
Polly Shulman is an editor at Discover magazine and formerly wrote a column about children's literature for the Village Voice. She lives in New York City.
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.
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.
