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Archive for December, 2002Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Gene Ryder, a singer-songwriter, was a recording artist for a major label for a time. He has now turned his hand to fiction writing. He lives in Virginia. His two Black Lamb columns are called Massive Coronary and Homestead Journal.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Terry Ross edits, designs, and publishes Black Lamb and The Ultimate Literary Calendar.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Greg Roberts grew up in Hiles, Wisc. (pop. 132) and has held dozens of jobs, been fired from most of them, and is left with fond reminiscenses of being a restaurant violinist, stand-up comic, and consultant to a Guatemalan fly-tying factory. He has worked as a magazine editor and, over the last forty-five years, has contributed to dozens of publications, many of which have disappeared from the face of the earth. Roberts owns and helps operate Equator Coffee Company in Eugene, Ore. He has had a three-toed sloth as a pet, caught billfish on fly tackle, and still subscribes to three philatelic journals. His Black Lamb column is called Blunderbuss Dilettante.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Karla Powell (a k a Evelyn Bartlett) began her writing career in Chicago, where she contributed to The Chicago Reader among other newspapers and magazines. Since those salad days she has written for the American Medical Association Press, Kaplan Books, Graphics Arts Center Publishing, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and American Surveyor magazine, to name a few. Her dalliances into poetry have come more recently. In addition to those published in Black Lamb, she was named a finalist in a Gwendolyn Brooks awards competition sponsored by Chicago’s Guild Complex. She has just written an Easter hymn, her first venture into music.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Dan Peterson is a native of Evanston, Ill., born there seventy-one years ago. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and has a master’s degree from the University of Michigan. He coached the national basketball team in Chile for two years, 1971-73, taking fourth in the South American championships and seventh in the Worlds. He then coached in Italy for fourteen years, winning five Italian titles, two European titles, and three Italy Cups. He was Italian Coach of the Year in 1979 and 1987 and European Coach of the Year in 1987. His Black Lamb column is called Sleepless in Milan.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Jim Patton is the author of two non-fiction books, Il Basket d’Italia: A Season in Italy with Great Food, Good Friends and Some Very Tall Americans and Rookie: When Michael Jordan Came to the Minor Leagues; two much-praised crime novels, The Shake and Dying for Dana; and a story in the 2006 DC Noir collection. He is currently at work on his long-awaited meaning-of-life opus. His Black Lamb column is called A La Recherche.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Rebecca Owen, an actuary, practises her craft in Eugene, Ore. Her Black Lamb column is called Actuary’s Diary.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Toby Tompkins spent thirty-five years as a professional actor, working mostly on the stage. At present he is a writer and freelance editor who divides his time between New York City and Peterborough, N.H. His Black Lamb column is called Commonplaces.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Grant Menzies has published a biography of the film actress Charlotte Greenwood and his biographies of Princess Der Ling of China and the Russian emigé poet Olga Ilyin will be published next year. A trained classical pianist, he has also written a great many music reviews. His Black Lamb column is called Vivo d’Arte.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Rosemary McLeish was born in Glasgow in 1945, moved to Yorkshire as a child, lived in London from the ages of eighteen to forty, and moved back to Glasgow in 1985 and started writing and painting. She has an academic husband and two cats. Most of her immediate family emigrated to Canada in 1969 so she visits the Pacific Northwest frequently. Her Black Lamb column is called Glasgow Kiss.
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