Traffic Life : Passionate Tales and Exit Strategies
Edited by Stephan Wehner
An Anthology
 
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246 About the Authors PTLEFT Artists anthology Bicycle Love (2004). With Neal Skorpen, he's working on other projects. Email: petergelman@yahoo.com. Robert Gregory. Has combined rich academic backgrounds at Cornell, Syracuse, and Duke Universities with a wide range of work experiences: vocational counseling, mental health research and practice, social science think tank membership, substance abuse program direction, anthropology in Vanuatu and elsewhere, and teaching and research about all aspects of rehabilitation and disability. His current passion is almost daily indulgence in tree planting on a 30 acre life-style block of land. Dr. Gregory teaches community psychology at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and writes and publishes as much as possible about the many crucial matters influencing or about to change our little and lovely Planet Earth. Matthew Frederick Davis Hemming. An animator, writer and amateur automotive ethologist based in the stinky megalopo- lis of Toronto, Canada. He has four cats, two dogs, one fish, one daughter and one wife. He has a shiny bicycle, and his favourite colour is Prussian Blue. Matthew can be contacted via e-mail at mfdh@mfdh.ca. Lee Henderson. Vancouver's Fossilosopher; writes songs for community celebrations such as Bike Month, and The Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels Anarchist Street Theatre Collective. Matt Hern. Lives in East Vancouver with his partner and daugh- ters. He directs the Purple Thistle Centre, edits Crank Magazine and is on faculty at the Institute for Social Ecology. His new book is Field Day: Getting Society out of School. Jim Hoehnle. A Vancouver based artist whose varied prac- tice is focused on social change. Jim works in several different media including ceramics, painting, graffiti, and mixed media ki- netic sculpture. One of Jim's most recent projects was presented at Vancouver's 2003 Parade of Lost Souls Festival. There, with the help of Pedal Works and local chopper bicycle enthusiasts, a chopper drama was performed, climaxing with the burning of an SUV in effigy. Children spontaneously cried out, 'Burn the SUV', which was sweet music to the artists' ear. Alex Lang. Poet, lyricist and television writer/producer; living in LA. He received his MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many periodicals, including Caffeine,
  
About the Authors PTRIGHT Artists 247 Recursive Angel, and The Prospect (U.K.), as well as in the antholo- gies The Brink: Postmodern Poetry 1965 To The Present, and The Road to Recovery: A Tribute to 9-11 and Other Poems ( as 'Shuggie Love'). His lyrics are featured on the Monkey Bars' album Food- Eating Food (also as 'Shuggie Love'). Janice Levy. Author of numerous children's books: 'The Spirit of Tio Fernando,' 'Totally Uncool,' 'Abuelito Eats With His Fin- gers,' 'The Man Who Lived In A Hat,' 'Finding The Right Spot,' and 'Alley Oops!' She has won the Writer's Digest Magazine Com- petition for best literary short story three times. Jeff Mann. A former 'back-to-the-lander' who has seen the error of this approach despite best intentions. He lives with his wife and two sons in a solar and wind powered, wood heated, compost toileted etc. house near the coast of Maine. He finds living there great, but regrets this life style is hopelessly dependent on the car. Aside from sculpture, he works as a substitute teacher and is a mediator for the Maine courts. Scott Massey. A photo-based artist currently living in Vancou- ver. He recently completed a BFA (Photography) at Emily Carr Institute of Art+Design and has a background in furniture mak- ing and design. His work deals mainly with aspects of landscape that display evidence of the reciprocal relationship between nature and culture. Recently, he has been creating temporary, outdoor sculptural installations related to this theme. Keith McKellar. Worked at sixty-five different jobs in several fields, before becoming the professional artist Laughing Hand. His travels have taken him on many urban vagabond walking journeys in North America and overseas. He has worked as a street artist for twenty-one years doing stints in California, Japan and Taiwan. His recent 'Neon Eulogy; Vancouver Caf´e and Street' is a collec- tion of line-drawings and stories of Vancouver vintage cafes and cinema theatres that chronicles the rise and fall of neon in histori- cal Vancouver and details an entertainment history of its cafes and theatres. He has published writings and drawings in a number of magazines and newspapers. See more at www.laughinghand.com Ray McManus. Received his MFA in poetry from the University of South Carolina in May 2000. His poetry has appeared in Crazy Horse, Nimrod, Oakland Review, Illuminations, Natural Bridge, and other journals. He teaches poetry and composition at the Univer- sity of South Carolina. Ray also coordinates and teaches commu-

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