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Elissa Wald studied writing at Columbia University. She has worked in the circus, on Indian reservations, as a phone sex operator, as a stripper and as an outreach counselor to prostitutes. She is the author of Meeting the Master, a collection of short stories, and her novel, Holding Fire, is forthcoming in the Fall of 2000. |
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Leila Walker's writing creds have won her the Rubin Award for poetry, the ARTS award for expository writing, and a scholarship to Space Camp. She currently runs the webzine sugarwater. Her fondest childhood memory involves reading The Hite Report out loud while watching the Mariners kick some Texas ass. |
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Born in Lexington, KY R. Michael Walker took his first picture on April Fools Day, 1966. He's been shooting nudes ever since. His work has been exhibited in the US and Japan and he's taught at colleges and universities across America. Visit his website, and if you're in California, let him know if you'd like to pose. |
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Rob Walker, a journalist, writes the "Moneybox" column for Slate. He lives in New Orleans, and has a website. |
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Margaret Wappler regularly contributes to Nylon, Rollingstone.com, LA Weekly, Venus and The Believer, among other publications, and is at work on her first novel. She lives in Los Angeles with a nice man and two fuzzy animals.
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Tony Ward received his M.F.A. from the Rochester Institute of Technology before working as a staff photographer for a pharmaceutical house and eventually giving up corporate photography to pursue portraiture and photo-eroticism. His work has been exhibited around the world and published in Life, Penthouse, American Photo and other magazines. More of Tony's work can be seen at tonyward.com. |
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Born in Houston, Texas, and originally planning on becoming a musician, Richard Warren moved to New York in 1979 where he began assisting photographers including Dennis Piel, Bill King and Robert Mapplethorphe. He currently shoots fashion for such publications as Vogue, Italian Vogue, Italian Bazaar, Australian Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Glamour and others. He also personally maintains a one-hundred-fiftyfoot border in Westchester County including nine hundred varieties of rare perennials and tropicals, many grown from seed. More photography can be seen at richardwarrenphotos.com. |
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Gwynne Watkins is a consulting editor of Hooksexup and editor of the urban parenting website Babble. She's also a playwright and lyricist. Her most recently produced plays were about Wonderwoman and space pirates, respectively. |
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Beth Wawerna was the assistant editor of Spin.com, where she listened to records, met cool bands, and wrote about both. It was a creatively fulfilling life, until she got laid off. This was followed by several months of heavy drinking and self-imposed exile. Now she works at VH1, freelances for Magnet, Texas Music Magazine and Spin. Beth loves small land mammals. |
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Ben Weber is an actor and writer who has appeared in Twister, The Mirror Has Two Faces, HBO's Sex and the City and the soon-to-be-released Gunshy, starring Liam Neeson. He is currently working on a screenplay, Long Distance Romance, about the lengths people go to stay in love. |
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Derek Webster lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where he is senior editor at Boulevard magazine, as well as assistant director of the Writing Program at Washington University. His poems have been published in Agni, The Fiddlehead, Antigonish Review and Pleiades. |
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Nicholas Weinstock is the author of The Secret Love of Sons and As Long as She Needs Me as well as articles and essays for National Public Radio, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Vogue, Us and other publications. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter, but lives for fellow contributor Amanda Beesley. |
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David Weisberg has published in Libido, Nepantla and Milton Studies (very hot). His book, Chronicles of Disorder, unravels Samuel Beckett's view of male genitalia, among other things. His translation (with Regina Gelb) of Stanislaw Witkiewicz's The Shoemakers had its world premiere at the Wesleyan University Theater in April 2000. His novel, Water, is scheduled for publication in 2002. |
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Joseph Weisberg is the author of the novel 10th Grade. A Chicago native, he now lives in New York City. |
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Benjamin Weissman is the author of Dear Dead Person. He has written for various art and ski magazines, including Artforum, Freeze, Frieze, Parkett and Powder. A professor at Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art, Weissman lives in Los Angeles. |
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Joe Wenderoth grew up near Baltimore. Wesleyan University Press has published his first two books of poems: Disfortune (1995) and It Is If I Speak (2000). Shortline Editions published a chapbook, The Endearment (1999), and his new book, Letters To Wendy's, was published in the winter of 2000 from Verse Press. Some of the letters also appear on the 1999 compact disc Sweet and Vicious, where they are read by James Urbaniak. Wenderoth is Assistant Professor of English at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota. |
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Paul West is the author of twenty novels and some dozen works of nonfiction. He is currently working on a novel about Doc Holliday, as well as The Secret Life of Words: A Fanatic's Album, from which the selections for "De Vulgari Eloquentia" were chosen. He has received the award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was recently appointed Chevalier of Arts and Letters by the French government. |
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Scott Westerfeld is the author of Polymorph and Fine Prey. His most recent novel, Evolution's Darling, which was published in May of 2000, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and short-listed for the Philip K. Dick Award. He has also contributed essays to Book Forum and the scientific journal Nature. He was born in Texas and lives on New York's Lower East Side. |
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Kim Weston started taking pictures at age six. He learned the craft from his father, Cole Weston, son of Edward Weston. Kim has exhibited his work in Europe and the United States. He lives in Carmel, California. |
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Robert Whitman's photography resume includes travel, fashion, editorial, as well as advertising for clients including Coca-Cola, Marlboro, and Clinique. He lives and works in New York and is currently developing two books. His website is https://www.robertwhitman.com |
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Ben Widdicombe is a senior editor of hintmag.com |
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Alex Williams is a feature writer on staff at New York magazine, where he chronicled the transformation of that city's culture by the Wall Street and Internet boom of the late nineties. A California native, he now lives in Brooklyn. |
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Bett Williams is the author of Girl Walking Backwards. Her writing has appeared in Out and extensively on LesbiaNation.com. |
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Michael Williams is a New York-based fashion photographer who has also shot for Arena, Sleaze, Surface and Nylon. |
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Erin Cressida Wilson won an Independent Spirit Award for her screenplay, Secretary, starring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Her musical, Wilder, will open at Playwrights Horizons in New York City in October of 2003. She is executive producing and creating a new television series for HBO and her first novel will be published in 2004 by Simon & Schuster. She co-authored The Erotica Project with Lillian Ann Slugocki. She has been collaborating with Sean San Jose since 1986. Ms. Wilson is a Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at Brown University.
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National Public Radio commentator Marion Winik is the author of Telling, First Comes Love and The Lunch-Box Chronicles. She lives in Austin, Texas. |
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Jessica Winter frequently writes about film for The Village Voice. |
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S. L. Wisenberg's work in various genres has appeared in many places, including The New Yorker, Miami Herald, Ploughshares, Tikkun and the 1997 Pushcart Prize Collection. She also appears in the anthology Neurotica (1999). |
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Naomi Wolf, author, feminist and social critic, has written numerous essays featured in The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Ms., Esquire, The Washington Post and The New York Times, among others. Since 1997, she has written a monthly column for George magazine on social and political trends. Her books include The Beauty Myth (1992), Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century (1993) and Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood (1997), which has recently been released in paperback. Wolf recently became the President of the Board of Directors of The Woodhull Institute dedicated to fostering ethical leadership for the 21st century with a special focus on the professional development of young women. |
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Phillip Wong's photography has periodically appeared in Italian Vogue, German Playboy and American Penthouse. |
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Henry Wren is a writer living in New York. He is currently at work on his first novel. |
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Antonia Wright goes by another name, but writes and lives in New York. |
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Chris Wright is a Boston-based journalist, poet and beer-guzzler. Contact him at . |
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Mark Wunderlich is the author of The Anchorage, which received the 1999 Lambda Literary Award. He has new work forthcoming in Paris Review, Fence, Chicago Review, Western Humanities Review and Boston Review. He is currently a second-year poetry fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and teaches at Barnard College. |
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Elizabeth Wurtzel is Hooksexup's film critic. She is the author of the books Prozac Nation, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, More Now Again: A Memoir of Addiction, and Radical Sanity. |
