NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ANDREW ABBOTT was born to itinerant amber carvers. He regrets daily his missed opportunities for ………….allabbott.com CLAIRE BURGESS studies Art History at UC Berkeley. This is her first published short story. JACKIE CRAVEN is the architecture writer for About.com and has also written for House & Garden, Old-House Journal, and other magazines. Her books are The Healthy Home and The Stress-Free Home (Rockport Publishers). Her fiction appears in literary journals such as The Fourth River, Verdad, and Zahir. Visit her at www.JackieCraven.com. JOSH DOWNEY has been artistically photographing for about six years. He has grown to love the art of photographing the inanimate and invoking feelings, emotions, and ‘human’ reactions to subjects that inherently have no life, no thought, and no feeling. Downey finds his works to be on the more macabre end of the artistic spectrum. His upbringing in the suburbs of Chicago in a close, largely Irish-Italian Catholic family, meant that he spent a good part of his childhood at wakes and funerals. The dark subject matter that he portrays in much of his works now may result from those events and represent his way of coping with the darkness in life. ALEKSANDRA DUBOV is a singer, performer, visual artist and a native New Yorker who suddenly felt the loving pull of Berkeley calling out to her across the coast. She is currently creating music and taking pictures of her Notes on Contributors
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