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Joy Green is the editor and webmaster of ExtraVerse magazine. A British ex-pat, living in New Zealand with her husband and daughter, she's a professional writer, tutors in creative writing at Massey University, runs a second-hand bookshop, and a web and document design business. She has no spare time to do anything else in.
Mark Melnick lives in Pasadena, California. By profession he's a film editor, with additional writing and directing credits. He's a regular contributor to ExtraVerse and is in the process of writing a novel, based on his experiences in Vietnam. The father of two boys, he enjoys flying, sailing, flamenco music - all the usual dilletante stuff, he says.
dannye is another of our regular contributors, who has appeared in almost every edition of the 'zine. He's a lifelong American Southerner with an MA in English. He's married and the father of one daughter, and he makes a living selling life insurance.
Lena Williams is making her second appearance in the 'zine this edition. She lives in Oxfordshire and has recently begun part-time study toward her degree at Oxford University, funding this study through a career in arcane geekery.
Charlotta Tuovinen lives in Helsinki, Finland and supposedly works as a researcher at a university, though she can mostly found doing more useful things there. She's the herder of three cats and an Englishman and an occasional amateur photographer. This is the first edition in which her work appears.
Tania Brady is an Australian who lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her husband and two young daughters. She has had poetry accepted for publication in the Listener, Southern Ocean Review 28 & 30, Hot Ink 2 (an anthology of student writing from Massey University's 2002 creative writing paper), Bravado and Spin, and short fiction accepted for Turbine 2002, Takahe, and Hot Ink 2. She is making her first (but we hope not her last) appearance in Extraverse
Shirley Henwood is another first-time contributor. She is retired and lives on the Whangaparoa Peninsular, north of Auckland, New Zealand with husband, Tom, and cat, Tammy. An avid reader and writer since childhood, she has recently completed a number of extramural English papers with Massey University, which she says has empowered her to return to writing. she is currently writing memoirs of her childhood in Australia, and The Christmas Goose is an episode from these.
Heather Talbott is this month's third newcomer. She has just finished the Creative Writing paper through Massey University, as part the BA. she is completing extramurally. She lives in Timaru with her husband and four children.
Andy Armitage is our last debutante contributor this month. He is 31 years old and moved to Auckland from West Yorkshire in 2000 after achieving First Class Honours in English at Leeds. This year he completed an MA in Auckland and is now 'funding his writing' by working as a probation officer. He was unpublished until recently; but has started to see success with poems accepted for publication by The Listener, Spin, and Poetry NZ, as well as Extraverse.
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