Shane Allison is the author of six books of poetry. Ceiling of Mirrors (Cynic Press), I Want to Fuck a Redneck (Scintillating Publications), Cock and Balls (Feel Free Press), Black Fag (Future Tense Books), I Want to Eat Chinese Food Off Your Ass and Eros in a Tearoom both from (Propaganda Press). His poems have been published in the New York Quarterly, Mississippi Review, New Delta Review, Velvet Mafia, I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage, This New Breed:Gents, Badboys and Barbarians 2, Coloring Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Multicultural Writers, and many others. He is the editor of Hot Cops: Gay Erotic Stories, Backdraft: Hot Fireman Erotica and College Boys: Gay Erotic Stories. His erotic poetry collection Slut Machine is forthcoming from Queer Mojo.

Stephen Beachy is the author of two novels, The Whistling Song and Distortion and the twin novellas Some Phantom/No Time Flat. His fiction has appeared in BOMB, The Chicago Review, Blithe House Quarterly, and anthologies such as Best American Gay Fiction, High Risk 2, and Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism. His essays have appeared in New York Magazine, the New York Times Magazine and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He lives in California. His novel Distortion will be reissued by Queer Mojo in 2009. (Photo: Greg Wharton)

Skadi meic Beorh is the author of the story collection Always After Thieves Watch and the dictionary Pirate Lingo. His true home is Emhain Macha, the inspiration for this collection. He presently makes his home in Friendship, a Victorian borough in the East End of Pittsburgh. His collection of poetry Emhain Macha Dark Rain will be released in 2009.

Tristram Burden’s short stories, poetry and articles on contemporary occultism and self-transformation have appeared internationally in a variety of journals and anthologies. This is his debut novel, a finalist in the 2006 Project: Queerlit contest. He currently resides in Bath, England where he's recording his first album and writing a TV series in-between working on his second novel. Check out his novel My Hero: A Wild Boy's Tale.

Farrell R. Davisson (1919-1993) worked for years as a staff writer, critic and editor for daily Variety in Chicago. Davisson taught journalism at Penn State University. His journalism, criticism and poetry have appeared in Variety, Avante Garde, The American Fisherman and The Maine Times. Davisson's work appears in Ashé Journal #1, Ashé Journal #5.1 and Ashé Journal #7.1. His novel Trial of the Innocent will be published by Rebel Satori in 2010.

Sven Davisson is the founding editor of Ashé! Journal of Experimental Spirituality. A rebel-publishing pioneer, Davisson edited the small, yet groundbreaking, zine mektoub from 1989-1995. During that time, he also received a degree in Queer Theory from Hampshire College and studied photography with Jerome Leibling of the New York Photo League. In addition to Ashé, his work has appeared in Abrasax: Journal of Magick & Decadence, sneerzine, The New Aeon, mektoub, Lambda Book Report and Velvet Mafia as well as the collection I Do/I Don’t: Queers On Marriage. Davisson's work appears in Ashé Journal #1, Ashé Journal #2.2, Ashé Journal #2.3, Ashé Journal #3.1, Ashé Journal #4.1, Ashé Journal #5.4 and Ashé Journal #7.2. <Author Website> (Photo: Nathaniel Bamford)

Bryan Dini is a latter-day practicioner of dandysme in the Baudelairean sense, who knows how to capture modernity in its fleeting moments, post-it, and saunter flaneur-style into the nostalgic twilight. Dini subscribes to the UNIBROW philosophy: high-brow, low-brow, uni-brow. The dandy without the asceticism, the "doctrine of elegance," who knows of what base metal is made our gold. In that order. Old-school faggetry, queercore style. Aesthete-as-athelete. Dini's work appears in Ashé Journal #3.3.

Peter Dubé is the author of the chapbook Vortex Faction Manifesto, the novel Hovering World and At the Bottom of the Sky, a collection of linked short fiction. He is also the editor of the Rebel Satorianthology Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism. In addition to writing fiction, he is a widely published cultural critic with essays on books and the visual arts appearing in journals such as CV Photo, ESSE and Spirale, and in exhibition publications for various galleries, among them SKOL, Mercer Union and the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery of Concordia University. Peter lives and works in Montreal. His work also appears in Ashé Journal #7.1.

Gopakumara das lives in California. B.V. Tripurari Swami is his guru and Sridhara Maharaja is his param guru. His article "The Private Life of Divinity" appears in Ashé Journal #3.2.

j/j hastain is currently living and writing in Colorado, USA. j/j is the author of the full-length book asymptotic lover // thermodynamic vents (BlazeVox 2008) and chapbooks how nerve-yen became the new yew tree (erbacce-press 2009), .compilate. (Livestock Editions 2008), this is what cadence is for (Dusie Press 2009), hemolytic notebook (Scantily Clad Press 2009) and the let me letters (soon to come out with Pudding House Publications). j/j’s writing has appeared in numerous journals including MiPoesias, Eleven Eleven queer poetry magazine (SF, USA), featured essays in Sextures (E-journal for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics) and the hotmetalpress Poetry prize of 2008. j/j received a BA in poetry, music, gender and cultural studies, and an MFA in contemporary poetics. j/j’s book our bodies are beauty inducers is forthcoming from Queer Mojo.

Trebor Healey is a gifted poet, whose collection Sweet Son of Pan was recently released by Suspect Thoughts Press. He received The Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction for his 2003 novel Through It Came Bright Colors. In addition to Ashé, his work has appeared in Velvet Mafia, Blithe House Review, Lodestar Quarterly and numerous anthologies including Queer Dharma, Law of Desire, Out of Control , Bend Don't Shatter among others. Healey's work appears in Ashé Journal #1, Ashé Journal #2.1, Ashé Journal #2.3, Ashé Journal #3.2, Ashé Journal #4.2 and Ashé Journal #5.2. Read an interview in Ashé Journal #2.3. Trebor's short story collection The Perfect Scar will be released by Rebel's Queer Mojo imprint this spring. (Photo: Martin Cox)

Jason Kraley is Ashé Journal's Art Editor. His work was featured in issue #6.1. Jason is a native Cleveland artist, musician, web/graphic designer and filmmaker who continually seeks ways to create physical records of his own existence. Whether it’s through painting, drawing, music or film, his creations serve to document and convey his experiences, his emotions and his life. He has lived in Philadelphia since 2005. Visit his website at www.jasonkraley.com

Lupercus is a 34 year-old gay pagan who has chosen to remain out of the spotlight. Among other things, he is a writer, photographer, and witch. Lupercus means ‘He Who Wards Off The Wolf’, which is thought to be another name for the Roman god Faunus. His poetry and photography appears in Ashé Jouurnal #7.2. Lupercus can be reached at lupercuspagani [at] yahoo.com

Cynthea Masson is a professor in the English Department at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, Canada. Her academic research and publication areas comprise medieval visionary literature, medieval alchemical poetry, and the contemporary works of Joss Whedon, including Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. Her first novel The Elijah Tree is now available from Rebel Satori.

Jay Michaelson is chief editor of Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture (www.zeek.net). Founded in 2002, Zeek features innovative writers, artists and critics whose work speaks to questions of Jewish culture, society and spirit. Zeek is available both online (www.zeek.net) and in an expanded content print edition. Jay guest-edited Ashé Journal #5.4 and his story "Erotic Mikvah" appeared in issue #5.1.

Ruth Moore was born in 1903 on a small island off the Maine coast. During her long and successful carreer, Moore published 14 novels, three collections of poetry and many short short stories. Her books included the New York Times bestseller Spoonhandle that was made into the film Deep Waters by 20th Century Fox. In 2004, a collection of her short fiction, When Foley Craddock Tore Off My Grandfather's Thumb (edited by Sven Davisson) was released postuhmously by Blackberry Books. Moore's work appears in Ashé Journal #1, Ashé Journal #2.3 and Ashé Journal #3.2. (Photo: Eleanor Mayo)

Anurag Shantam began his inner journey in earnest in 1981 when he became a disciple of the master Osho. Powerfully drawn to working with the archetypes, or what are known in western psychology as the sub-personalities, he found it to be the perfect structure through which to explore the inner world. First with the use of hypnotherapy, and then with a technique he developed using toys, he explored deeper and deeeper layers of consciousness until he discovered the centers of light, the three parts of self, animating the whole drama. From this emerged his teaching of how to awaken the centers of consciousness, to restore unity, and to uncover the enlightenment already hidden within. Anurag currently lives and teaches in Saco, Maine. His book Awakening will be released in Summer 2009.

Mark Thompson is a native son of California’s scenic Monterey Peninsula. In the early 1970s he moved to San Francisco to attend college and study journalism. Soon caught up in the dramatic struggles of the early gay rights movement, Thompson lost no time in putting to work his talent in telling a good story. Today, he is the author of several books on gay culture and history, including the internationally acclaimed Gay Spirit. A photographer as well, a collection of Thompson’s images, “Fellow Travelers,” has been exhibited nationally. He lives in Los Angeles with his life partner of many years, Episcopal priest and author Malcolm Boyd. His new book Advocate Days & Other Stories will be released this fall by Queer Mojo Imprint. (photo: Crawford Barton)

J. Warren holds a Masters degree in Literature from University of South Alabama. He is currently working on a doctorate in English Studies at Illinois State, concentrating on literature for adolescents, graphic novels and gender theory. Check out his novel: Stealing Ganymede

Emanuel Xavier took the New York City spoken word scene by storm in 1996, quickly becoming one of the most significant voices to emerge from the neo-Nuyorican poetry movement. Following in the tradition of writers/performers like Miguel Piñero, Xavier captivated audiences with a fresh and poignant brand of art that celebrated sexuality, Latino heritage, and the often brutal streets of New York. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Pier Queen and Americano, and a novel Christ-Like. Read an interview in Ashé Journal #4.2. Xavier's work appears in Ashé Journal #3.3. The tenth anniversary edition of Christ-Like will be released by Rebel's imprint Queer Mojo this spring. (Photo: Leo Toro)