Contributors
Gary David Johnson
Marcus used to be a doorman, a
service elevator operator, a
mover, a process server, a set
decorator, a terrible gambler, and
a failed gold prospector. In his
most recent trick, he's been
working on TV shows.
Marcus Brown
Susan Marque
While Susan Marque was working as a
professional actress in Hollywood, she
spent most of her time investigating
alternative methods of healing, and
eventually healed herself. That led to her
fellow actors launching her into a food
coaching business, which led her to
writing and photography. Susan left L.A.
for New York where she became a full
time student in January 2010, graduating
with honors, and getting both her B.A.
and M.F.A. in creative writing, journalism,
and screenwriting by 2014 (with self study
in photography). She currently lives in
Manhattan.
Gary David Johnson is a nine-time
Emmy Award-winning writer-
producer and an award-winning
poet. He spent over a decade as
Supervising Producer and Head
Writer of Jeopardy! and has written
for The Hollywood Squares, Nova,
Scrabble, and many others. His
book Head Trauma:Sonnets and
Other Poems won the Independent
Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal
for Poetry and was featured in the
anthology Best New Writing of
2008.
Ted Varani grew up in Minnesota and Florida, and has subsequently resided at no less
than eighteen different addresses in Japan, China, France and the USA. Known to don
corporate neckties as well as skateboard t-shirts, Ted is hopelessly caught in between a
love for everything the modern world has to offer, and a romantic longing to lead the life
of a nineteenth century gentleman adventurer. Believing life's greatest joy is in seeing
what lies just beyond that next bend, if he could do it all over again he would get a
masters in computer science and then go live in the Congo. Ted found his greatest
adventure in being a father, and when not absorbed in that passion dabbles in business,
Ted Varani
languages, obsessing about current events, guitar playing and even writing. He is
currently living in Shanghai, China.
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