RICHARD O'CONNELL lives in Hillsboro Beach, Florida. Collections of his poetry include RetroWorlds (1993), Simulations (1993), Voyages (1995), and The Bright Tower (1997, all University of Salzburg Press). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, National Review, The Texas Review, Acumen, The Formalist, Light, etc. His most recent collections are Dawn Crossing (2003) and Waiting for the Terrorists (2006, both Atlantis Editions).
MARY O’DONNELL lives in Co. Kildare, Ireland. Has published four collections of poetry, most recently September Elegies (Lapwing, 2003), three novels, and one collection of stories. She is a member of Aosdána, the multi-disciplinary affiliation of Irish artists which honours creativity and achievement.
ANDREW OLDHAM writes for BBC TV, Stage, Film and Page, publications include Criminally Minded (Route UK, 2003), Dreamcatcher 9/11 (UK), Gargoyle (USA), Black Bear Review (USA), Poetry Greece, Jones Ave (Canada), Comrades (USA), Big City Lit (USA), Retort (Australia), NAWE (UK). He is the editor of Vending Poetry (www.wearpurple.co.uk/vendingpoetry/). He has been nominated for the Jerwood-Arvon 1999 (by Booker prize short-listee, Michele Roberts) and is a prior recipient of a Peggy Ramsay Award for Writers and NWAB Writers Bursary. He was poet-in-residence for North Wales Celebration 2003.
IRAJ OMIDVAR is an assistant professor of English at Southern Polytechnic State University. See entry for Parviz Omidvar.
PARVIZ OMIDVAR has translated into Persian C. G. Jung's On the Nature of the Psyche (Behjat, 1996), Edward De Bono's Practical Thinking (Razi, 1985), and a collection of children’s stories, Tell Me a Story (Andisheh, 2001). In collaboration with his son, Iraj Omidvar, he has published, or has forthcoming, translations of Persian poetry in literary journals such as Tampa Review, Puerto del Sol, Poetry Review, and The Spoon River Poetry Review.
LINCOLN O’NEILL currently works at New Zealand’s Ministry of Social Development. Previously, he lived in India for two years and has travelled to many other countries in Asia such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Laos, all of which have been an influence on his writing.
MARKUS OPPOLZER, born 1972 in Linz, Upper Austria, is research assistant for British Literature and Culture at the University of Salzburg. He is currently involved in a project on body transformations in British Fantastic Literature and preparing a PhD thesis on rites of passage in early Gothic novels.
PETER ORAM, born in Cardiff in 1947, has lived in La Mancha, London and Pembrokeshire, but is now resident in Nuremberg. First class degrees in Mod. Langs. and Music. Publications include two novels, Maddocks (Gomer, 1997) and The Rub, a collection of poems, White (both Starborn, 2001), and The Page and The Fire (Arc, 2007), translations of poems by Russian poets on Russian poets.
THOMAS ORSZÁG-LAND (b. 1938) is a poet and foreign correspondent who writes on Eastern Europe for The Guardian/Observer News Service and The Times Literary Supplement in London. He survived the 1944/45 siege of Budapest as a Jewish child hiding from both the Nazis and the Allied bombers. He participated in the 1956 revolution against Soviet rule as a journalist on the staff of Magyar Függetlenség (The Hungarian Independent). He read philosophy at Acadia University in Canada. He divides his time between Highgate (London) and Ujlipótváros (Budapest). Major works: Tales of Matriarchy & Other Poems (KT Publications, 1998), Berlin Proposal (Envoi Poets Press, 1991), Testimony (poetry translated from the Hungarian of András Mezei; Budapest: City Press, 1994), Free Women (adaptations from the French of Francois Villon and the Hungarian of György Faludy, National Poetry Foundation, 1991), Prince Bluebeard's Castle (the libretto of the opera by Béla Bartók, translated from the Hungarian of Béla Balázs, Tern Press, 1978) and The Witness (poetry translated from the Hungarian of Miklós Radnóti, Tern Press, 1977).
MAGGIE O'SULLIVAN has performed her work and published internationally since the late 1970s. She worked on arts documentary films for BBC TV between 1973 and 1988. Since then, she has been involved in many performance/workshop presentations, courses and held numerous residencies. Poet, artist, editor, publisher, she is the author of 15 books including EXCLA, a collaboration with Bruce Andrews (Writers Forum, 1993). She edited the influential Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK (Reality Street, 1996). Her most recent publications are red shifts (etruscan books, 2001), Palace of Reptiles (The Gig, 2003) and a republication of the long out-of-print In the House of the Shaman (Reality Street, 2003). Waterfalls is forthcoming from her own press, (Magenta, 2004). Murmur is her current work in process and awaits publication.
CATHERINE OWEN from Vancouver, BC has published widely in Canadian periodicals. Her books include Somatic: The Life and Work of Egon Schiele (Exile Ed. TO 98) and The Wrecks of Eden (Wolsak and Wynn TO 02). Cusp/detritus will be published by Beach Holme (BC) in 2005. The piece printed here, inspired by Foucault and time spent in the hospital with a schizophrenic, courses back and forth between a history of the asylum and schizoid consciousness.
WILLIAM OXLEY was born in Manchester. At present he divides his time between London and South Devon.
His most recent books of poetry have been Namaste: Nepal Poems (Hearing Eye, 2004), London Visions (Bluechrome, 2005),
and Poems Antibes (Rockingham, 2006). Poetry Salzburg published The Romantic Imagination: A William Oxley Casebook
in 2005. He is a former member of the General Council of the Poetry Society and consultant editor of Acumen.
The founder of the Long Poem Group, he co-edits its newsletter. He was Millennium Year poet-in-residence for Torbay in Devon.
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