Tyler Carey - Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, and Contributor - Tyler Carey is a native New Yorker who was educated at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. He has a background in the dot.com industry, worked briefly in the music industry, is the author of Graduation Day, has been published in small 'zines, and play-tested role playing games for an award winning game publisher. Currently, he works for a New York based software developer. He is also the 'resident geek' at Splendid E-Zine, reviewing comic books and other treats for the pocket-protector set. Despite his nerdly hobbies and hippie trappings, Mr. Carey is a dashing Irishman who can be seen running from bar to bar in the Bowery saying such things as, "Ah HA! I told you it was so! Now let me tell you more of the famous poets who died here..." He's also gotten a little hairier since this photo was taken. And married. The two are not related. Drop Tyler an email!

Joe Bakanauskas - Contributor - A Massachusetts-born, occasional NYC street urchin, Joe Bakanauskas divides his time between creative writing and bread-and-butter assignments around Boston. His travels over the past few years have kept him in touch with labor rebels, self publishers, masons, conspiracy theorists, borderlines, strippers, wiccans, open-source software enthusiasts, latex and balloon fetishists, and a slew of eccentrics who dig anime. All are his kin. Mr. Bakanauskas has just picked up a Masters Degree from UMass Amherst after two-and-a-half years there. The horror. The unspeakable horror. Mr. Bakanauskas is also a founding partner of Earthborn Films. EARTHBORN was founded on a gamble that once he and his partners mustered the support and solidarity of creative folks, film lovers could build a movie production and distribution network starting with nothing. Ten months after the initial proposal, they have a website, library, and a soon-to-be-launched Free Film School in central Connecticut. Over the next six months, they'll be helping raise funds for small projects and sister organizations in cooperation with them. In another year or two they'll have a major feature under their belts, or perhaps a bowling league. Please spread the word among screenwriters, media studies and labor studies experts, as well as anyone else who wants to send work or cash our way. The URL is www.earthbornfilms.com and you can reach them at info@earthbornfilms.com! Joe says, "See you online and underground!"

Micah Baldwin - Computer Guru & Contributor - Micah Baldwin lives in Colorado. He is a new media veteran who writes and plays music.

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Christine Bayeux - Contributor - Christine Bayeux is a poet from Northern New Jersey whose work is influenced by Colette, Sylvia Plath, contemporary American poets, greek mythology, and her extreme sensitivity to the world and her experiences trudging through its trenches. She is a recent graduate of Rutgers University where she earned a B.A. in English and is currently seeking her teaching certification through fieldwork at a charter school in New Jersey.

Christian B. Carey PhD - Contributor & Voice of Wisdom - Christian B. Carey is a composer, performer, and writer. He received a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, an M.M. from Boston University, and a B.Mus. from the Juilliard School. His articles have been published in Musicworks, Signal to Noise, Copper Press, All About Jazz, Junkmedia.org, Tinymixtapes.com, Greathoboes.com, and Splendidmagazine.com. His music has been performed by the Atlantic Chamber Orchestra, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Cassatt String Quartet, Helix, Ionisation, and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. His work Mourning Madrid, for orchestra and live locomotive, won the Music Festival of the Hamptons Composition Competition and was commissioned for their 2004 season; it was performed by the Atlantic Chamber Orchestra and the Long Island Railroad, conducted by Michael Guttman. He is a managing editor and columnist at Spendid, serves as Artistic Advisor to the Ionisation Ensemble, and teaches composition and music theory at Westminster Choir College.

Jacob Chabot - Contributor & Illustrator - According to Mr. Chabot, "Jacob Chabot was born somewhere...probably. These days, I guess he's doing something. I mean, he can't be just sitting around the house doing nothing, right? I'm sure he's not doing anything super fantastic cool, but I'm sure he's keeping busy." Ahem... Mr. Chabot also happens to work at Marvel Comics and is the Founder of Beetlebug Comics.

Jayadeva Das - Contributor - Jayadeva is a talented artist whose main influences are Salvador Dali and Robert Rauschenberg and who works primarily in paint and collage. Jayadeva says of his work, 'I want to create images that not only make people question the nature of their own existence, but that raise consciousness to a transcendent level." You can see more of his work at Jayadeva.com.

Maurice Downes - Contributor Name: Maurice Downes (or Mo, never Moe) Age: 24 Sign: I'm a Pisces, y'all From: Brooklyn

Gareth Edel - Contributor & Guy Who Tells Us We've Had Enough To Drink - Gareth attended a Quaker High school in Manhattan and then Hampshire College. He charecterizes both places as being for those people who are socially flawed. Lacking any direction he did his thesis on the history and Philosophy of science and medicine, and is still wondering what to do with it. He has enjoyed stage managing at a summer Stock Theater, and performed in drag at the cabaret of the Weston Playhouse. He hated doing Data entry, but was good at it. He has taught Aikido and Origami to little kids, and studied Zen archery. He wants to Bartend, but can never remember the drink recipes, and he kayaked around manhattan. He still has a crush on every girl he ever kissed, and he is more comfortable talking to the homeless than to pretty women. He is currently seeking full time employment, after coming to the realization that writing for an online magazine (for no money) doesn't count. He apologizes too much and goes through life with sweaty palms and a trembling voice. He is given to using mixed metaphors and has been been acused of bad grammer. He is glad if people laugh at his bio, and hopes that he wasn't supposed to have written it in the first person.

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Stephan Edel - Contributor & International Correspondent Bio forthcoming

Jymm Gifford - Queen of Brooklyn - During the day she is mild mannered receptionist Jennifer Ann, but at night she transforms into creative genius Jymm Gifford. With charcoal and pencil in hand, she seeks to create art by any means possible. Sometimes, this means making a spider web on her ceiling with Christmas lights, sometimes it means writing essays for this site. She spent some time posing as a stoner at Hampshire College, in order to gain further insight on the creative process. She hopes to return to school in the fall to earn a degree in Architecture, at which point she will conquer the world.

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Del Goldfarb - Folk Rock Legend - Delmark Goldfarb was born with wheels for feet. He is a writer, photographer, songster and a known practitioner of modern skiffle music. Elements of the jug band-esque string band style can be found among his compositions on his CD Up To My Neck, recorded in Woodstock, Memphis and Portland, Oregon. Del is also putting together a website that chronicles the fascinating careers of him and his fellow travellers (who appear to be pretty much a who's who of folk history) at: delgoldfarb.com.

Mark Hugo - Contributor, Mixologist, Politico - The monster reincarnation of a human prototype not meant for mass production. Drop Mark an email!

Julio - Contributor & Cultural Consultant - Grew up in Queens, Brooklyn and finally Long Island Currently residing in: Astoria, Queens Drop Julio an email!

Darius Jager - Contributor, Expert on all things Musical - A hobo fixated on the underground streams of the music pipeline, Darius Jager digs deep into the subcultures of America to unearth the budding prodigies and future juggernauts of our time. Read on and let yourself be embedded among the fabric of this musical evolution.

Karina Kacala - Literary Critic and Musical Expert - Karina Kacala resides in South Philly, PA, armed with a B.A. in English from Swarthmore College and a M.M. in Voice Performance from Westminster Choir College. As a singer, she has performed with various opera and musical theater companies and is currently Assistant Directing Das Rheingold at the Academy of Vocal Arts. She doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up, but thinks she could make a decent living as a goat herder. Till then, she seeks out as many creative opportunities as possible.

Felix Roy Mariposa - Contributor, Resident Misanthrope - Felix Roy Mariposa is a bum. If you don't give him some spare change, he'll shout obscenities at you. If you do give him spare change, he'll just mumble obscenities to no one in particular. He has Irritable Bowel Syndrome and a degree in English Literature. He is working to uncover a vast right-wing government conspiracy, masterminded by Al Davis, to drive him insane; that's why he wears tinfoil on his head. The tinfoil on his wang is a whole other issue that I don't want to get into.

Karl Moore - Running Mate - Technically a Hampshire alum (though not a graduate), Karl Moore continues to pursue his education in the wooded depths of the Pioneer Valley. Only obliquely related to New York (his mother baby-sat for one of the Rockefellers and his great uncle taught at NYU), he nevertheless likes the city more and more with each increasingly frequent visit. He has submitted many crudely assembled photo collages, cartoons, and articles for Hampshire College's Omen, one of which an anonymous student described as "pathetic" and "infantile" in a personal e-mail. He is currently studying theater, and his rhetorical talents have of late caught the eye of one Mark Hugo, who saw in him a distinctly Vice-Presidential bulk and brashness. Taken under Mark's thin yet steely wing and taught the ways of drunken statecraft, he has decided to run for Vice-President alongside Mr. Hugo on the Great Hobo ticket. Drop Karl an email!

Brad Noble - Contributor & Beantown Bureau Chief - A Boston-based poet, artist and designer, influenced by Ammons, Bob Frost and Cormac McCarthy.

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Arthur Perez - Contributor & Texas Bureau Chief - A Texas-based comic, writer and genius, Arthur is a long-time friend of Hoboes Tyler Carey and Felix Mariposa. He's good people.

Justin Philpot - Contributor & Heir to the Throne - Armed with a B.A. from Hampshire College, Justin raced into the world and promptly got a job putting yarn into boxes. Actually, it took two months of looking and an inside connection to get that yarn packing gig. Torn between the best job he could get and the great unknown, Justin chose the unknown and has been dutifully eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, leftovers, and slices of pizza weighing as much as a newborn baby ever since. He has been practicing guitar more often lately and so the fingernails on his right hand are longer than those on his left. Justin introduced Southern Comfort and orange Fanta as a Spring cocktail to his group of friends, and has been derided justly. (You’re more cutting the SoCo than spiking the Fanta). Grilling season is coming soon and he can’t wait to bust out what he thinks will be a killer mint julep recipe to go with some equally killer chicken. Justin is eagerly awaiting the decision of Brown’s American Civilization department.

Benni Pierce - Contributor & Wrestling Expert - Benni is a talented filmmaker, writer, and expert of the absurd.

Charles Shaffer - Contributor & Featured Artist - Charles Shaffer is an at home, unknown illustrator/painter and has just begun to show his artwork. He grew up on "cartoons, comics, toys and moms home cooking". How long has he been doing art? Ever since he can remember. Finding his previous surfaces quite limiting and too small (i.e., scrap paper, napkins and sketchbooks), Charles has expanded his horizons to cardboard, wood, metal and "whatever else I can get for next to nothing." His influences/inspirations range from old school grafitti, cartoons and punk rock album covers, to the late greats Howard Finster and Norman Rockwell.

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(Chris) "Stain" - Contributor & Featured Artist - A legendary graffitti artist.

Wade Stuckwisch - Contributor & Columnist - Wade Stuckwisch began his writing career in high school as a co-founder and publisher of the Buffalo punk fanzine Not In My Backyard. Continuing his education at Amherst, MA's Hampshire College, he celebrated his pugnacious side as an editor and regular contributor to Hampshire's open forum magazine The Omen, also somehow procuring a film degree in the process. He currently lives in New York, where he works as a temp and occasional gaffer, drinks beer of dubious quality, and kills time watching pro wrestling and the Mets until he gets discovered by Hollywood or accepted to grad school. Wade is also an occasional contributor to Invisible Strand. And yes, he is in dire need of both a girlfriend and an agent. Drop Wade an email!

Sarah Lynn Sullivan - Photo Artist - Sarah Lynn Sullivan is a photographer/object maker/model. She has worked with several bands, performance artists and a magic show. She is currently working on prints of people covered in honey. Sarah, always critical of her art, describes it as "I see something...I want to turn it into something...I want people to see what I see."

Rebecca Blake Schwartz - Contributor and Poet Laureate - Rebecca Schwartz entered Hampshire College in the Fall of 1995, and miraculously graduated just four years later. She continued on to Washington University of St. Louis where she completed her two years towards her MA and suffered significant culture shock. She lives in Massachusetts with husband Adam Schwartz (also Hamshire College F95), and their one-year old daughter Ilana. She spends her days at home, trying to write while Ilana takes her requisite one nap of the day.

Ken Ueno - Contributor & International Traveller - Ken Ueno is a composer who actively involves himself in a wide range of activities in order to evangelize for modern music. Informed by his experience as an electric guitarist and overtone singer, his music fuses the culture of Japanese underground electronic music with an awareness of European modernism. As DJ Moderne, he hosts and produces a weekly live half-hour public access television show devoted to introducing new music and new music composers and performers to the public at large. A former ski patrol and West Point cadet, Ken holds degrees from Berklee College of Music, Boston University, and the Yale School of Music. Currently, he is a PhD. candidate (ABD) at Harvard University. He is a co-founder/co-director of the Minimum Security Composers Collective.

Rosie Valdez - Contributor & Hobo Poetess - Rosie is a brilliant poetess who has lived all over these United States. Here's what the Hoboes are saying! Wade: Rosie has pretty hair. Rosie lives in California. Jacob: Rosie can be as manly or as girly as she wants to be. Rosie gets things done! Rosie is a fun intelligent individual who speaks her mind and likes to be spun around. I totally consider you a friend. I wouldn't spin a stranger around on my back now, would I? Gareth: Rosie wears short skirts for me, aside from acerbic wit and sultry good nature, she’s won my heart by challenging a bald alcoholic to a drinking contest, who could ask for more from their writer besides this and immense intelligence. Benni: Rosalina is a woman destined for greatness because she understands that not only can one person alone conquer an empire, but also be a mother, a daughter, or a sister. She sees all of this and tends to forget it because she doesn't need to remember what she already knows in her heart. Rosie exists to be a part of life, not to watch life go on around her.

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The Unknown Hobo - Contributor & Voice of Reason - From our Publisher: Jesus, he was a handsome man. The last time I saw him, he wa s wearing a chocolate brown pin stripe suit, climbing Big Sur, rock by rock, his graying pony tail blowing in the wind. I asked him why, and he asked, "Why not?" I guess he figured Ginsberg's ghost had to be up there somewhere. Into the forest he went to learn to live deliberately, and sightings of him have been few and far between. When The Bear came back from India, he said that he'd seen him in the markets of Calcutta, preaching to the blind. All that we have of his presence now are the occasional packages, wrapped in brown paper, tied with string, and with numerous stickers identifying forwarding addresses that somehow end up at our offices. His brilliant poems are always inside - perhaps sent by him, perhaps not. Since they're topical, we know that he's out there, somewhere, rage raging against the dying of the light.

Gwynne Watkins - Contributor - Gwynne Watkins went to Hampshire College, where they allowed her to have three majors. She has written humorous features for Nerve, editorials for The Omen, plays for the Five College New Play Festival, song lyrics for personal amusement, and musicals for fun and profit. If you're a composer, she wants to collaborate with you, which is not a euphemism for sex. You can find more of her writing at Misplacedplanet.com. Please send hatemail and/or publishing contracts to Gwynne_at_sushiesque.com.

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Marc Wiener - Contributor & 'Zine Veteran - Marc Wiener lives in Staten Island (don't make fun) with his wife Jennifer. And he genuinely likes it there (okay, now you can make fun). With a background in media and video, he's currently at a publishing company (Don't ask). His wife is forced to tolerate his insanely compulsive love of alternative (is it really still alternative?) and heavy music. She also must tolerate his insane addiction to horror and genre films, especially foreign ones. (Wondering how bad this obsession can really be? Go here: http://www.dvdprofiler.com/mycollection.asp?alias=marcx.)