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J.B. Rabin lives in Oregon where she writes lying down in her cowboy pajamas. |
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T. Cole Rachel, an Oklahoma native, lives in New York City. His first volume of poetry, Surviving the Moment of Impact was published recently by Soft Skull Press. |
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Fabrizio Rainone is an Italian-born fashion photographer with a degree in filmmaking. His photographs have appeared internationally in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan, among others. |
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Amudha Rajendran is a South Indian writer of prose and poetry. She lives in New York City. She holds an M.F.A. from NYU, where she studied with Philip Levine. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Western Humanities Review, Kenyon Review, Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, Lit, FEED and elsewhere. She is currently working on a book of poems. |
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D.R. Rajneesh is the occasional nom de plume of a freelance journalist. |
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Katherine Ramsland has written numerous books, articles and short stories. After publishing two books on psychology, Engaging the Immediate and The Art of Learning, she wrote Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice, The Vampire Companion: The Official Guide to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, The Anne Rice Reader and Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography. She has also written for The New York Times Book Review, The Writer, The Horror Show and Publishers Weekly. She has been a professor at Rutgers University and a therapist. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. |
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John Rawlings (1912 - 1970) was one of the most prolific photographers of the twentieth century, with more than 200 Vogue and Glamour covers to his credit as well as an extensive roster of commercial ad campaigns. He began his career as an assistant to Horst P. Horst and George Platt Lynes, both of whom were great influences on Rawlings' work. |
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Ray, Jr. is a pop-culture dilettante who writes short fiction and criticism, usually involving his two most compelling interests film and sex. |
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Karyn Raz was born in Los Angeles to an Uruguayan-Israeli urologist and his sculptress wife. While studying Art-Semiotics at Brown she made the video Food Chain, which screened at the 1998 Bell Gallery Annual Juried Exhibit. Her short film braided was selected for the 1997 Brown/RISD Jewish Film Festival. Scumsucker was first screened at the Millenium Film Workshop's Invisible Film Festival in the East Village in July 2000. Since its conception, Raz has worked in production and as a script supervisor, and is currently writing a feature-length screenplay. |
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Victoria Redel is the author of Loverboy, Where the Road Bottoms Out and a collection of poems, Already the World. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the M.F.A. program in writing at Vermont College. She lives in New York City. |
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Louise Redd received her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with John Barth, and an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Her first novel, Playing the Bones, was published in 1996 and released in paperback in 1997. Redd's second novel, Hangover Soup, was published in August of 2000. |
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Jessica Reed is a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in hooksexup.com and Time Out New York Guides, among other publications. She is currently working on a novel. |
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Andreas Rentsch was born in Freiburg, Switzerland. His photographs have been featured in many journals including Aperture, Photo Metro, Viewfinder and Fotophile. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. |
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Nelly Reifler is the author of See Through (Simon & Schuster), a collection of stories. Her work has been published in journals and magazines in the U.S., Great Britain, Italy, and Japan. She received a Henfield Prize for her fiction and a Rotunda Gallery Visiting Curator grant to mount an exhibition based on her writing. |
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Dan Reines is a nice Jewish boy living in Los Angeles. His writing on all manner of pop-culture fluff has appeared in Hermenaut, Smug.com and New Times LA, among others. |
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Paisley Rekdal is the author of the memoir, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee and a book of poetry entitled A Crash of Rhinos. She lives in Laramie, Wyoming. |
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Laura Resnick has won the John W. Campbell Award (Best New Science Fiction/Fantasy Writer), the online UTC Award for Best Travel Book of 1997 (for her memoir A Blond in Africa) and both the Best New Series Writer and Best Silhouette Desire awards for her romance novels (written under the pseudonym Laura Leone). |
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Bettina Rheims has exhibited her work at major museums and galleries in Paris, New York, Boston, Tokyo, Berlin, Munich, London and Milan. Among her numerous books are Female Trouble, Modern Lovers, Les Espionnes, Animal and INRI, and her work has been published widely in magazines such as Vogue, Paris Match and Details. In 1994, she won the Grand Prix de la Photographie de la Ville de Paris. |
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Martha Rhodes is the author of At the Gate, a poetry collection published by Provincetown Arts Press. She is a founding editor of Four Way Books and director of the CCS Reading Series in New York City. |
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After spending a year writing Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future with Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards has serious worries that she and Jennifer are becoming the same person minus an eight-inch height difference. To make matters worse, after reading I'm Wild Again, Amy has even joined Jennifer as a Helen Gurley Brown junkie, and discovered that her own online advice column Ask Amy seems to have been indirectly inspired by Brown's instinct toward offering advice. |
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Peter Richards was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1967 and is the author of Oubliette (Verse Press). His honors include an Iowa Arts Fellowship, The John Logan Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Poetry. His poems have appeared or are appearing in The Denver Quarterly, Fence, Ploughshares and other journals. He teaches at Tufts University and lives in Somerville, MA. |
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Terry Richardson was born in New York City in the middle of the swinging '60s. After an epiphany in Tompkins Square Park in the early '80s, he tossed aside his rock 'n roll dreams and began his photo documentation of the East Village underground scene. Since then, his fashion photographs and celebrity portraits have appeared in W, Harper's Bazaar, British Vogue, Spin, The Face and Allure, among many others. |
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Stacey Richter is the author of the collection My Date With Satan. Her stories have been widely anthologized and have won many prizes, including three Pushcart prizes and the National Magazine Award. |
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Keith Ridgway was born in Dublin. His first novel, The Long Falling, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Standard Time, from which "Sick as a Dog, Sad as an Angel" was taken, will be published by St. Martin's Press in Winter 2005. |
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James Ridgeway is Washington correspondent for The Village Voice. He has authored fifteen books, including, most recently, The Haiti Files: Decoding the Crisis and Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of a New White Culture. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New Republic, The Nation, The Economist, Ramparts, The New York Times Magazine, Details and Parade, among others worldwide. In 1996, he and photographer Sylvia Plachy came out with the book, Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry, excerpted here in Hooksexup. |
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Jennifer Robbins is an unapologetic sensualist and a photographer who has contributed to Detour, Maxim, Vibe, Amica, Self, Sky, Us and Glamour. |
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Isabella Robertson grew up on a farm in the snowy hinterlands of Canada. She received a B.A. from McGill University before giving up free healthcare and cheap rent to live in NYC. |
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Dwayne Rodgers is the recipient of a NJSCA grant for his unpublished novel Genius of the Sea. But lately he has concentrated on photography with a special emphasis on reportage. His work has been featured in a number of solo and group shows, most recently "Black Photographers of the Twentieth Century" at the Schomburg Cultural Institute in Harlem. In 2000 he was in South Africa working on his first book project about life after Apartheid. |
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Abraham Rodriguez's first collection of stories, The Boy Without A Flag: Tales of the South Bronx, was published in 1992 and was named to The New York Times Notable Books of 1993 list. His first novel, Spidertown, was published in 1993 and was a 1995 American Book Award winner and a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Award for 1993. His second novel, The Buddha Book, is scheduled for publication in the spring of 2002. |
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Adam Rogers is a reporter for Newsweek magazine, where he covers science, technology and medicine. He has also written about science fiction, animation, comic books and various other topics on the geek beat. |
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Matthew Ros is a filmmaker and the managing editor of Filmmaker Magazine. |
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Bruce Holland Rogers lives in Eugene, Oregon, where tie-dye wars with black attire for the city's soul. He and his wife, Holly Arrow, live near the Willamette River with their three-legged cat, Osha. His fiction has appeared in The North American Review, The Quarterly, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and a wide variety of anthologies. He is also the author of two novels: Flaming Arrows and Wind Over Heaven: And Other Dark Tales. |
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Matthew Rohrer grew up in Oklahoma and attended college at the University of Michigan, the University College Dublin and received his M.F.A. from The Iowa Writers Workshop. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas, was selected by Mary Oliver for the 1994 National Poetry Series. His poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies, as have his translations of Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun's poetry. Currently, he lives in Brooklyn and is a poetry editor for the new literary journal, Fence. "Gliding Toward the Lamps" appeared in The New Young American Poets, Southern Illinois University Press, in March 2000. |
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Martin Roper is a recipient of a Fulbright grant and currently runs the International Writing Program's summer semester in Dublin, where he lives and writes. This piece is part of a just-completed novel, The Unraveling. |
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Liz Rosenberg is the author of two books of poems, The Fire Music and Children of Paradise. She's also published a novel and numerous books and anthologies for young readers. She teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Binghamton, where she lives with her husband, son and two dogs. |
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Hillary Rosner has written for New York, Wired, The Village Voice and others. |
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Alison M. Rosen is a New York based writer whose work has appeared in OC Weekly, Rolling Stone, Spin, Village Voice, People, Seventeen and the Los Angeles Times, among others. She graduated from Pomona College and appreciates jokes that begin with "What is the difference between?" She's currently at work on her first book. |
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Rodney Rothman is a former head writer for the Late Show with David Letterman. His work has appeared in the The New York Times, The New Yorker, and McSweeney's. He lives in Los Angeles. |
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Photographer Jeffrey Rothstein focuses on different elements within nature for his subject matter, ranging from flowers and plants to desert sands as well as the ocean and erotica. He has shown extensively in the U.S and Europe. He has a number of private collectors and is currently working on a book of his work. |
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Mark Rozzo lives in Brooklyn and is a contributing writer for The Los Angeles Times Book Review. His work also appears frequently in The New Yorker, The Oxford American and Elle.
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Douglas Rushkoff is an author, social theorist, journalist and software developer. His books include Ecstasy Club, Cyberia, Media Virus, Children of Chaos (Playing the Future), The GenX Reader, Stoned Free and Coercion: Why We Listen to What 'They' Say. Rushkoff also writes a fortnightly column about technology and culture for The Guardian of London and The Age, and has written for Paper, Time Digital, Esquire and other magazines. Rushkoff lectures on technology and culture and teaches regularly at the Esalen Institute. |
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Thaddeus Rutkowski's work has appeared in numerous publications, including Artful Dodge, Columbia Review, Cut Bank, Global City Review, The Laurel Review and The New York Times. He is a winner of the Poetry Slam at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. His novel, Roughhouse, was published in 1999. He lives in New York. |
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Tony Ryan's Tony Ryan lives and works in Tasmania, where he was born. He has exhibited his work in Australia and the United States, published a book of his work entitled Beuty/Reality and is a regular contributor to the Norwegian magazine Cupido. |
