KEROUAC

Richard Lerro was born in Brooklyn, New York to a working class Italian – American family, and has spent the remainder of his childhood and teens in Richmond Hill, where he learned to consistently work to support his goals. He studied English literature and creative writing at New School University in New York City, and achieved his proofreading certification at Manhattan Proofreaders School. He relocated to Seattle, WA in 2009 and spent three years of travelling through the West Coast and working on projects with Inter Culture. Richard has had a lifelong passion for Film, Science Fiction, Arts and Literature and has marveled the power of imagination and the creative process. His literary inspiration stems from the lineage of authors such as Jack Kerouac & The Beats, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Chuck Palahniuk amongst others. He is currently residing in San Diego/Imperial Beach, CA with his partner where he is running his independent/freelance proofreading and editing business, and is outlining material for a novel and writing a volume of experimental poetry.

My name is Tim S. Fasth (born 1992/09/17) raised, born and live in Sweden. I have always been deeply disturbed by todays injustice, power abuse and misstreatment from politicans, police, corporations and the higher powers of the industrial world... And no im neither anarchist or communist, I simply observe and write about subjects I belive to be relevant and important today. I read alot of work from writers like Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

Artist, writer, traveler, outdoorsman and ex-rake. Currently dwells in the Bay Area, though the past few years have also been spotted my family home in Lalitpur, Nepal, sister city to Kathmandu. Over educated and under-employed, with a taste for the absurd, my interests and vagaries will be better explained below. Have lived in London, Paris, Kathmandu, SF, NY, LA, Santa Cruz, and other locales less mentionable. I once waited on Paloma Picasso, acted with Christopher Plummer, did a photo shoot with Linda Fiorentina, though none of them would remember me. I've seen the Dalai Lama a few times, climbed a 20,000 foot peak in Bolivia, trekked in the Himalayas, slept in Jack Kerouac's bed, eaten yak's liver and upset many dinner parties. The best thing I have ever done is marrying my wife and having a son - the rest is just so much window dressing.

My name is Michael Hans. I'm 29 years old andturned so on July 22, 2011. My beatiful wife and I have been together now, for a bit over six years and where just recently married on May 21, 2011. I was atending New River Community and Technical College, though I'm taking this semester off. I have yet to determine a major, so I am working on the general cedits. One idea would be within the field of writing. I believe that it would be something I would enjoy, only I haven't a clue for which direction to go with it. Philosophy is an interest of mine (Nietzsche is among my favorites to read on in this subject and favorite area of sudy within this subject would be existentialism). I enjoy the writings that where influenced by the beat generation, such as William S. Burroughs and my personal favorite author, Jack Kerouac. I use to read up on a bit of poetry and wrie twice as much. Though I never really got into the proper structure of the different types of poetry that there are. I would like to, but in the past I just wrote and wrote and wrote. I've had alot of life crammed into my short stay so far on this earth and in the past had to get it out in is own way, and that was it. One way atleast. I love to read as a favorite past-time, though I'm just starting to pick it back up as one, again. My wife and I do watch a fair amount of television. Shows such as Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, The Soprano's, and a few reality shows. Music video's are on alot while in the midst of doing such things as clening the house and so forth. Music is something I enjoy in my everyday life. Cooking out, in my car to and from whereever, when I'm working out, ect. I probably listen to mostly rap (thats what I grew up on), but my favorite genre is the Blues (like Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, BB King, Albert King, Chris Thomas King, Eric Clapton, and so many more). My musical interests are fr from limited to these just mentioned. I enj

I graduated from Westminster College in May of 2011 with a BA in English and a minor in Secondary Education. In my four years at Westminster, I completed College Honors in English (which culminated with my honor's thesis, "A Journey to Absurdity: An Existentialist Reading of Jack Kerouac's On The Road" and graduated Magna Cum Laude. I am both an avid reader and writer with excellent proofreading and revision skills. As an avid music fan, I wrote reviews of new albums for Westminster's newspaper and have a great interest in music and music writing.

Favorite Quote: Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. ~Jack Kerouac

Nate Barlow is a film actor, writer and director living in Los Angeles, CA. He recently sold a romantic-comedy to Imagination Pictures and has been adapting a children's fantasy novel for Kerouac Films. He also is currently the VP of New Media at Automatic Pictures. On the web, Nate is editor-in-chief of DeepIntoSports.com and periodically contributes to other sites as well.

I am a cowpunk, an iPod toting ranch hand. You'll find me in front of my computer monitor playing Black Ops after a day of fixing fence. Got connections all over the USA, sort of a tumbleweed. My friends refer to me as "Jack-0-Wack"... a cross between Jack Kerouac and Jack London. A female version, that is.

I have been a traveler, a street kid, a musician, a hippy, and a geek. I worked at Guitar Center in Pro Audio for a year and received the rush training on more sound equipment than you could name. I have played in punk rock bands from all ages venues to Warped Tour. I have traveled coast to coast more like Woody Guthrie, or Jack Kerouac than your standard Deadhead. I've jumped freight from my hometown, Ogden, Utah (A major railroad town, now lost in urbanization) to destinations in every direction. I am also a horrid geek and avid reader. I repair computers as a side business hardware and software. I stay up on open-source software and all sorts of new devices. I play acoustic punk/reggae/folk. Or electric Rock 'n' Roll.

j.a.kazimer has numerous works published in various literary magazines including Twenty3, The Heroin Times, Thug Works, Back Alley, Big Pulp, and The Savage Kick Literary Magazine. Her novels have placed in the Paul Gillette Awards (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010), and the Colorado Gold Award (2009) for book-length fiction. Recently, her short story, Excuse Me, But There's a Kidney in My Soup is nominated for a 2009 Derringer Award. She holds a master's degree in forensic psychology, and at one time or another, has worked as a private investigator, and a bartender. She is currently employed at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

Mostly a free-form writer. Jack Kerouac is one of my mentors. im currently on a poetic prose "kick".

Avid freelance writer. I read everything i can get my hands on. I look up to and attempt to model myself after my favorite writer of all time. Jack Kerouac.

Bil Brown is a media activist, poet, writer, and artist living in Louisville, Kentucky. Co-founder of Prazka Skola Poetiky (Prague School of Poetics) and a graduate of Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. He has been a editor, publisher, art direct

I cannot stay still long enough for anything good to come along. I've moved around quite a bit in my life, and just as Jack Kerouac proved in "On the Road", the grass is always greener.

I am one who enjoys everything outdoors with my boyfriend. I attended Indiana University, graduating with degrees in English, History, and Comparative Literature with a concentration in Medieval Studies. Favorite authors: Hemingway and Kerouac.

28 years old, living in Northampton, MA. Recently graduated from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics with an M.F.A in prose

I have written for Geek Magazine, Timex Inc, Mind and Media, & a plethora of web-based clients. I recent;y took a year off from freelance writing in order to serve a tenure as writer-in-residence at the Kerouac House and Montana Artist's Refuge.

Nate is the founder and editor-in-chief of Monkey Puzzle Press (monkeypuzzlepress.com). He holds a BA in English from California State University and an MFA in Writing & Poetics from the Jack Kerouac School of Naropa University. His work appears in various publications.

Freelance writer and university instructor with a master's degree in professional writing and a PhD in creative writing, as well as 14 years of experience writing in a variety of mediums.

Lifelong writer, Blogger for breezespeaks.wordpress.com. Self taught. Married, wife Kathy, ten-year-old twins, Will and Cait.

I have worn many hats in my professional career from an Olympic Triathlon Coach to an Investment banker. I'm currently a Ph.D Student and Graduate Part Time Instructor.

I am a mass of contradictions some of which include a true Existentialist persona mixed with Buddhist thought. I have to find out how they can co-exist and intermingle with each other. Remember this: "Amor Fati" ~Love Thy Fate.

Author, fine artist, photographer, videographer

- On a search for truth to share with all

Simply put, I have a varied background that I feel has made me a more cultured, well rounded person. I have finally come to terms that my passion does not need to be my profession (hence I am a data analyst instead of a full-time poet).