Staff - P.A.W. Print - Philadelphia Arts Writers

Editors
Mike DelVecchia, Editor-in-Chief Sara Hoover, Associate Editor		Monica Pace, Managing Editor Maria DelVecchia, Online Editor
Staff
Jeffrey W. Ackler, Writer Hal Cohen, Writer Sahm Contractor, Writer Amber Fairweather, Writer Sherella Gibbs, Writer Aihccev Alled Leachim, Writer John Lloyd, Writer Tasneem Paghdiwala, Writer		Tracy Parker, Writer Seth Pauley, Writer Jinal Shah, Writer Jess Shaefer, Writer David Thomas, Writer Frank Walsh, Writer Jennifer Williamson, Writer Audrey Wilz, Writer
Contributing Writers
Scott Gleeson Blue Stephanie Durann Jody Hamilton Joy Manning		James Schneider Greg Trout Niama Williams Rachel Winters

Mike DelVecchia, Editor-in-Chief
mike.delvecchia@philadelphiawriters.com

Mike DelVecchia is the author of over thirty plays, ten of which have been produced live between 1989 and 1998. He attained a BA in Art in 1993 and an MFA in Creative Writing in 1997 from Brooklyn College. He studied writing under authors Jack Gelber and David Kiremidjian. He worked as a features writer for New York Newsday in 1994. He was the Press Agent and President of the MFA Playwrights Workshop, which he founded in the City University of New York in 1995, was the On-Site Art Director and Junior Press Agent of the Lundy's Outdoor Mural Museum 1993 and is currently the Editor-in-Chief, Founder and Press Agent of "PAW Print," which is published by his company, Philadelphia Writers. He has been the writer, producer, director, stage manager or actor of twenty three plays produced in New York City. He had retired from writing in 1998 but has returned to his vocation in 2003 in order to found "PAW Print" and Philadelphia Writers, which, respectively are a magazine and group devoted to providing publishing credits for authors promoting the arts and culture of Philadelphia through the writing of features articles, columns, opinion pieces and reviews. As an artist, Mr. DelVecchia has won the Charles Shaw Award for painting, placing first in 1988 and third in 1989. He has exhibited in the Michael Ingbar Architectural Gallery and Schulman Galleries of New York City. He was also an arts counselor at an agency working with the developmentally disabled during the 1990's. He currently lives with his wife Maria in Glenside, PA.

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Restaurant Review: Valley Green Inn

Monica Pace, Theatre & Poetry Managing Editor
monica.pace@philadelphiawriters.com

Monica Pace is Managing Editor of Theatre and Poetry for www.philadelphiawriters.com (Philadelphia Arts Writers--PAW Print). She studied voice, art, and literature at Chestnut Hill College, attended seminars at Albright College in Reading, and participated in a literary tour of Ireland. She has read at various venues including The A-Space, the Community Education Center, the Sketch Club, the Wilma Theatre, and Robin's Bookstore as a part of the Women's Spoken Word and Poetry Series. Look for her poetry in the next issue of HiNgE online (www.hingeonline.com), and for her traffic light painting at Zonk Arts Gallery at 5th & Bainbridge during the month of October.

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mercator projection

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Padded Leprechaun: A Bloomsday Tale

Sara Hoover, Associate Editor
sara.hoover@philadelphiawriters.com

While earning her BA in English from Temple University, Ms. Hoover was an editor for the Institute for the Study of Literature, Literacy, and Culture and served on a selection committee for a 'Family Reunion' Writing Contest. A grant writer for several nonprofit organizations, Ms. Hoover is now the Director of Corporate Sponsorships and Events for the Arthritis Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania. Published in PAW, Star Publications' Art Museum Home News and Girard Home News, Ms. Hoover, a PAW Fellow, continues her own creative fiction and non-fiction writing.

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Maria DelVecchia, Online Editor
maria.delvecchia@philadelphiawriters.com

PAW Print's Online Editor Maria DelVecchia is a native Pennsylvanian and Surrealist currently residing in Glenside. She studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Bryn Mawr College. During the day she toils away as a software engineer, creating user interfaces for digital cable applications. In her free time, she enjoys writing poetry and creating photomontage. Maria will be featured as part of the Women's Writing and Spoken Word Series on January 3, 2005 at Robin's Bookstore.

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It Goes To Your Feet: Alô Brasil July Performance at North By Northwest

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Taxidermy Becomes You

Frank Walsh, Writer
frank.walsh@philadelphiawriters.com

Sprung from the anthracite wastes of Northeast PA, Frank Walsh, came to be involved in the publishing, promotion, and social/ political underground resistance, as regards art and poetry, especially, on the Philly scene since 1974: poetry- arts magazines, HYBRIS, POETRY NEWSLETTER, RED SPADE, DADAZEN, OZONE, TOUCH OF LATEX, PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENT, HINGEONLINE, THE SCHUYLKILL LITERARY JOURNAL, among others. Complicity pure and simple if not conspiracy: bi- monthly literary column for the UNIVERSITY CITY PRESS, active ULA member (occasionally appearing as the "Masked Perfesser"), co- independent editor, poetry, for DEADDRUNKDUBLIN.COM, currently facilitating creative writing and public performance workshops at the KAILO- MANTUA ART CENTER in the West Philly hood, etc. Instigating and nurturing spoken word series all over the City for the past three decades besides crashing others, most recently: 5SPOT, ASPACE, PHILADELPHIA FREE LIBRARY, ROBBINS, FESTIVALE CUBANO, THE VERVE POETRY FESTIVAL at the Rotunda. Off and on participation in the underground arts exhibitionist circus, especially KILLTIME, as well. Live street action and performance with such local Jazz luminaries such as Bill Lewis, Elliot Levine, and Ahmad Rashid. "I’ll try to do my best for PAW PRINT, I believe in their mission, though I’m a person without beliefs."

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Arts Sorcery on Leverington Avenue - Roxborough-Manayunk's Spellbinding Artist, Kate Moran

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Jeff Ackler, Writer
jeff.ackler@philadelphiawriters.com

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Hal Cohen, Writer
hal.cohen@philadelphiawriters.com

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Lost Film Festival: You Don't Have to be a Punk to Enjoy It

Sahm Contractor, Writer
sahm.contractor@philadelphiawriters.com

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Amber Fairweather, Writer
amber.fairweather@philadelphiawriters.com

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Art for Others' Sake... Textile Designer Christina Roberts Uses Her Art to Help Others

Sherella Gibbs, Writer
sherella.gibbs@philadelphiawriters.com

South Philly native, Sherella Gibbs, is a writer, researcher and editor's assistant at the American College of Physicians. Her current projects include developing the workshop series, "Successful Living for Young America," composing a quarterly newsletter for Neighborhood Bike Works and writing for PAW Print. She is also the new host for the Women's Writing and Spoken Word Series at Robin's Bookstore in Center City Philadelphia.

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Aihccev Alled Leachim, Writer

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Ghost of Fuddruckers

John Lloyd, Writer
john.lloyd@philadelphiawriters.com

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Not Your Routine Zine Scene: Awesome Fest at Rotunda, Fire and CODE Zined-Up July

Tasneem Paghdiwala, Writer
tasneem.paghdiwala@philadelphiawriters.com

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Tracy Parker, Writer
tracy.parker@philadelphiawriters.com

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Seth Pauley, Writer
seth.pauley@philadelphiawriters.com

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In Glass by Themselves: Philadelphia Glass Works

James Schneider, Contributing Writer
james.schneider@philadelphiawriters.com

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Jay Schwartz has a Secret: Cinema That is

Jess Shaefer, Writer
jess.shaefer@philadelphiawriters.com

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Jinal Shah, Writer
jinal.shah@philadelphiawriters.com

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David Thomas, Writer
david.thomas@philadelphiawriters.com

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Jennifer Williamson, Writer
jennifer.williamson@philadelphiawriters.com

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Audrey Wilz, Writer
audrey.wilz@philadelphiawriters.com

Audrey Wilz, a senior English and Creative Writing student at Rowan University, has lived in the Philadelphia area all her life. Her witty opinion pieces and slice of life stories have appeared several times in The Philadelphia Inquirer. While working on poems, short stories, and novels for enjoyment, she sends out her clips in the effort to establish herself. She enjoys her affiliation with PAW Print, and looks forward to helping spread the appreciation of the arts through Philadelphia.

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