Robert Annis is an observer that writes because he's afraid of doing anything else. He writes to tell people things they already know in a new way, a grimier and a prettier way. Robert is currently completing his first poetry collection and applying for MFA programs around the country.

At CyberCraft Robots, our Orbiting Laboratory enjoys a semisynchronous orbit, which allows us to examine your entire planet daily. We take advantage of this passage to scrutinize every estate sale (poor buggers), trash heap, bar mitzvah, and bingo parlor for Secret Robot Parts.

All around you are objects that appear to be the ordinary detritus of daily life. Yet a small percentage of these objects are actually bits of unassembled Robot! Our mission at CyberCraft Robots is to covertly collect these seemingly mundane items, and reassemble them into the marvelous Robots they were intended to be.

There are two ways to recognize a genuine CyberCraft Robot. First, each is identified with a metal nameplate exhibiting the CyberCraft Logo. Second, and most importantly, each CyberCraft Robot bears a Mysterious Symbol, passed down by Robotkind for millennia. In some cases the symbol is prominently displayed. Others will require a bit of searching, but the Symbol is always there.

The Orbiting Laboratory cannot comment on recent rumors that our Primary Robot Creator is named Sarah Thee Campagna.

For more for images visit http://CyberCraftRobots.com or contact us at info@CyberCraftRobots.com

Born the 30th of January, 1954 at Saint-Omer, a small village in the north of France, Francis Denis is a self taught painter.

After having established himself during many years with writing and poetry (he created among others the poetic review “Lieux-D’etre with the poet Régis Louchaert), all in devotion to the illustration of reviews and poetic collections and in animating an association of artists and poets in the region, Francis Denis decided to concentrate himself exclusively to painting, parallel to his profession as a teacher.

After a fantastic, classic, and abstract period, he liberated himself from that line of work in order to tackle oil painting.

He likes to work by theme: bathers, the painter and his model, motherhood, the passion of Christ…and also on different mediums such as canvas, paper, cardboard, or even wood.

He regularly displays in France (Paris and province) and abroad (Republic of Macedonia, Belgium, Spain, Austria, Italy…).

Articles are regularly devoted to him in specialized reviews such as “Arts Actualités Magazine,” “Art et Décoration,” and others on the web.

Francis Denis participates as well in the artistic life in the region of the audomaroise since he is co-organizer of the “Festival d’Art Sacré Contemporain: The Seekers of Light,” which has taken place each year in the cathedral of Saint-Omer since June of 2008. He is equally responsible, with Alain Lesnard, for the artistic expositions which are held all year at the Cabaret, always in Saint-Omer.

Recently, he has reunited with his first loves and gives himself anew to writing.

Born in Tampa, FL, Jon Didier has been making artwork since his early childhood. Raised with a Montessori education and graduating high school with an I.B. Diploma, Jon perpetuated his fine art career, earning a B.F.A. degree in Drawing/Printmaking from the University of Central Florida. He currently works as a printer for Flying Horse Editions in Downtown Orlando. Jon’s work has been displayed at the Orlando Museum of Art, Gallery twelve21, the Skatepark of Tampa, and numerous other venues across the Central Florida area. His undergraduate thesis, Art, Avoidism, and Automation, and artist book, Cocaine for the American Ambition, are published and available at the main University of Central Florida Library.

Jon’s body of work is based primarily in copper etching and mixed media drawing. Employing self-invented symbolic narrative, his work tackles complex subject matter ranging from labor, the struggle for success and purpose, ethics and integrity. Jon’s artistic retrospective is an ongoing, evolutionary response to environmental instability, levels of social awareness, and his own beliefs and perceptions. When not making art, Jon is a devout practitioner and supporter of the underground hip-hop scene in Tampa/Orlando, collaborating with bands like The Crazy Carls and Variety Workshop, and as rapper/frontman for his own group, project: SAVE c.a. hircus.

Brian Patrick Eha, a student at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is a freelance writer and poet and the operations director of Avant Creative, a strategic communications and branding firm. His poetry is forthcoming in Modern Age.

You can follow him on Twitter @brianeha.

Meg Godbout was born in the usual fashion in Clearwater, FL in 1987. She works for the political consulting firm Luntz Global, LLC by day and writes fantasy novels by night. Formerly a member of the St. Petersburg Times X-Team, she is currently finishing a Bachelor’s in history at the University of South Florida. She is also working on a novel about Old English mythology. Her greatest literary influences are Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Harry Harrison.

For more information, please visit her website at www.meggodbout.com.

Shawn Goldberg lives in Florida. He has a website, BestFriendAllStars.com, where you can read more of his stories.

Email him at kayheye@gmail.com and tell him what you think.

Joseph Gordon is a poet and comic book script writer living in Tampa, Florida and is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in English at the University of South Florida.  He is currently working on a book of poems and several graphic novel scripts.  He may be contacted at JosephPatrick.Gordon@gmail.com

Melika Hadziomerovic prefers to be called Millie by strangers and close friends. She enjoys Northern climates, ripe peaches, and Nikolai Gogol. She admits she works diligently at a little online magazine aptly titled Ubernothing. You can find her films in the rotting basement of a friend, as they’re on a dying analogue format, but her articles and reviews can be found anytime on TheDropp.com. She hopes she hasn’t discouraged anyone from visiting the Eastern Shore.

Inspired by imagery and memories from childhood, I attempt to capture the variety of feelings experienced as a child in suburban America.  From bored anticipation to excitement,Suburban Wasteland series focuses on the dreaminess and imagination that accompanies waiting to grow up.

More of her work can be found at
throughwindows.blogspot.com and etsy.com/shop/WhimWam.

She may be reached at hamiltonlaurenj@gmail.com.

Paige Lewis currently lives in Tampa, Florida. She attends the University of South Florida where she studies creative writing, astronomy, and art history. She mainly writes about her encounters with people who are no longer living. When she is not writing, Paige enjoys reading Science Fiction and quoting The Simpsons.

She may be reached at Plewis@mail.usf.edu

Currently product copywriter with cloud commerce company.
MFA in English 2004 University Mass-Amherst. 
Interned at The Massachusetts Review.
Taught 4 years undergraduate & 4 years middle school English.
Toured U.S. with Poetry Alive, Inc.
TESOL license 2008.
Believes Valery "poetry is a language inside a language."
Performed with Dadaist group in Holyoke, MA.
Performed with noise band "Satan's Answering Machine"
Poetry appears in Bateau, Oklahoma Review, ReDactions & Mass Review.
Advanced PADI scuba diver & urban spelunker.
Expensive red wine---the xylophone---airports.

Katie Mansfield holds a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston; as well as an MFA from the University of Connecticut.

Wayne Mason is a writer, sound artist and factory worker from Central Florida. His words have appeared across the small press in magazines both in print and online. He is also the author of five chapbooks, the most recent Poet Laureate Of A Dirty Garage  which is still available from Erbacce Press.
Mason was the poetry editor for the now defunct publications Side of Grits and Tampa Bay Muse. From 2006 to 2008 he founded and headed up Wordcore, a local collective aimed at bringing a better awareness of poetry through broadsides and live poetry events.
Mason also records ambient, experimental and noise sounds under the name of Zilbread, and is also a founding member of the experimental/noise/drum&bass project Stickfigure.

For more of his work, go to:

brokenzen.wordpress.com

He may be reached at brokenzen333@gmail.com

Stephanie Mesler is a poet, storyteller, playwright, eroticist, preacher, teacher, and mom.  She currently lives and writes in central Florida.  Her book, Soul Hill Lullabies, will be released just before Thanksgiving 2O11.  Ms. Mesler has been previously published in Columbus Monthly, The Short North Gaztte, Senior Times, Skysong, Pillowtalk, Ubernothing, and several others.  Her play, Mothers' Days was nominated for a Columbus Theater Guild Award.  She was recently awarded The Deck award for poetry in Second Life, where her avatar name is Freda Frostbite, though even in Second Life, Ms. Mesler puts her own name on her written works.  Mesler's recent writings reflect her experiences as a reclaimed Floridian, as a poet in love with a rocket scientist, and as the long-distance mother of a teenage daughter.  Life is rich fodder for fiction. 

Kym O'Donnell lives in Tampa, FL. More of her work is available at kymodonnell.com.

She may be reached at kym@kymodonnell.com

Leah Pecoraro has never been one to go with the grain, her questions regarding humanity live in her art and are frequent. Her message conveyed is simple in wordage yet complex in scope. Leah's art asks that we explore our own labyrinths in the cerebral realm, that we dissect common ideals of self purpose. Her questions are universal and encapsulate religion, politics, sex, and emotion, all the while exploring foundations of childhood that have sculpted the human personality. She reveals little windows into each and shows that they are all strung together in one hectic strand. Leah is a self taught artist; her personal schools of thought revolve around the observational realizations of interaction and reaction. She is increasingly interested and inspired by the human psyche and its never ending frustrations and achievements. She states that her artistic impulses are based on intuitive instincts and desires, projecting her personal findings of self in an attempt to  each common ground with the viewer. “While I work I subconsciously ask myself questions, I'm always amazed to find the answers when I step away from a piece. It tends to lead me more than I lead it.” Leah strives to communicate the intricacies of thought patterns which force mundane realities into a new light. Her thick layering and busy aesthetic suggests that the mind is never silent but always flashing tiny pictorial fragments of memory and personal perception in an attempt to comprehend one another. “My work conveys the cerebral as never lying stagnant but always striving to understand and evolve.“ She continually explores her relationship with new avenues of self expression, experimentation, and personal growth/ understanding.

Joseph Reich is a social worker and displaced New Yorker who really misses dis-place and lives and works out in the state of Massachusetts; he has a handsome little 6-year-old with a nice mop of dirty-blonde hair, and a wife eleven years his junior, who must have the patience of a saint as is raising two boys. Being displaced and from New York, he misses most of all Shanghai Joe's in Chinatown, all those wonderful Polish diners of the Lower East Side and Dominick's in Little Italy, the Little Italy uptown on Arthur Avenue in The Bronx: he hopes one day to return to play and pray and contemplate with his wife and child in all the wonderfulparks most of all along the river on The Westside Highway.

Joseph has been published in a wide variety of eclectic literary journals both here and abroad, been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and his most recent books include, "A Different Sort Of Distance" (Skive Magazine Press), "If I Told You To Jump Off The Brooklyn Bridge" (Flutter Press), "Pain Diary: Working Methadone & The Life & Times Of The Man Sawed In Half" (Brick Road Poetry Press), "Drugstore Sushi" (Thunderclap Press),  “Four Books Of Philosophy” (Rolling Thunder Press), "The Derivation Of Cowboys & Indians" (Fomite Press), "All My Born Days" (Corrupt Press), and "Escaping Shangrila" (Punkin House Press).

My name is Vincent Ricottilli and I'm a student at USF in Tampa. I make my art out of duct tape. Depending on the picture it takes me about 7-10 hours per piece but I rarely do it all in one sitting. In high school I had made a few things out of duct tape: a belt, a messenger bag, and a few other things--however I refused to make a wallet. Well at one point I was looking at a silhouette and thought that I could recreate it in duct tape. The rest, they say, is history. It's not something that I devote a lot of time to, although I wish I would. 

Brooke Rosen live in New York, NY. For more information, visit her website at:

brookerosen.com

Jeffrey James Skatzka lives with his family. You can find more of his multimedia poems here.

If you so wish, he can be contacted at jjamesskatzka@gmail.com

Bee Sroe, among other things, is an iPhoneography artist. You can see her work here.

Bradley Paul Valentine enjoys exploring the unusual details of our everyday lives. He dissects how individuals present themselves to the world and interpret the stories appearances are meant to tell. A filmmaker at heart, his visual work bares many of the hallmarks of cinematic narrative techniques.
Born with Muscular Dystrophy, Valentine’s habit for imagination has long been a tool in an on-going negotiation with a life that too often reveals limitations. Each piece Valentine completes illustrates an idea contributing to a greater narrative all of his work ultimately will tell together. A versatile photographer and illustrator, his first commercial job came working on the highly publicized Family Values Portrait Project at Tampa's Covivant Gallery, documenting dozens of families and couples that emphasized diversity in the Bay area. His art has appeared at the St. Petersburg Arts Center, Gala Corina, the Tampa Museum of Art, Booty Contemporary Art Expo and Art Pool, among other venues. 
In 2005, Valentine was awarded a gallery sponsored solo show from a juried exhibition headed by painter, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas. Valentine printed his first photographic novel based on the narrative he wrote for this show, called The Kindness Of Strangers.
Valentine hopes to continue contributing to Florida’s growing cultural scene as his visual and written work gains an audience.

See more of his work at bpvalentine.com

Harold Valentine is a former reporter from The Tampa Tribune, and he is enjoying getting back to creative writing. He will soon launch a site that will cast a critical eye on local, national and international cultural events and entities.