Chris Walker was born on February 4th, 1985 in Upper Hayford, England. Despite this fact he is and will always be seventeen years old. His hobbies include reading, writing, listening to music, watching movies, sleep deprivation and malnutrition. He is currently in his sophmore year at George Mason University (because it beats having a job), where he majors in Theatre and Sociology. He was introduced to H and H by his good friend Shannon Baker, to whom he is consistently eternally grateful. If you have not already stopped reading this bio then you probably should right……now.

El Guero lives, works, and loves somewhere among the Seven Cities of Cibola. Presently at work on his master’s degree, he enjoys teaching
writing (and writing about teaching), listening to Weezer on road trips, and climbing lonely windblown mesas in the desert with his wife and best friend.

Dirk Michener is from Colleyville, TX and is the co-founder of Business Deal Entertainment, a thriving arts collective in Austin, TX. His first chapbook of poetry, FAKE BLOOD: Architect Exclusively in the Field of Labyrinth was released by Haggard and Halloo in 2003. Dirk (aka Cavedweller) released his latest album ‘The Best Version of Gloria Ever There Was’ on Business Deal Records and currently lives in Austin, TX.

DIY-Danna was born on a little island to an Afro-Bohemian mother and sensitive American Indian artist father, and raised in town called Beaumont, TX (which she affectionately refers to as Boremont). Also known as Danna Marrón Williams, diy-danna currently resides in a small suburb of Austin, TX working as a permanent temporary employee, freelance music journalist, blogger and publicist. She relishes the idea of being a struggling fiction writer and poet, and enjoys satirizing the American Dream and other obsessions involving sexuality, class, and race - in poetry, short fiction, plays - and possibly one novel before her death from unnatural causes. Her humorously surreal style could be described as loquaciously whimsical or ridiculously wordy, depending on the reader’s mood.

Guest Writers is the special section for the the talented and brave individuals passing through Haggard and Halloo. This section is for (and of) hundreds of different artists who’ve submitted writing to H and H over the years. Over time, this has become a mainstay for Haggard and Halloo and many of our House Writers and good friends have started here. This is a very important and vast section for H and H.

Jim Benz is a husband, father and United Steelworker. Doesn’t care for biographies. Likes to write.

J. D. Nelson experiments with text and sound in his subterranean Colorado laboratory. His work has appeared in many online and print publications, including ‘The Best of The Dream People Poets’ chapbook. Visit J. D.’s website for more information: http://www.MadVerse.com

Josiah McLuv lives in Austin, TX with his cat “Black Male” and dog “Ouia”. He is a co-founder of the now defunct, stream of conciousness zine Walking Mountain Range. He has appeared in the magazines In Style and US either as a fashion “don’t” or an acclaimed hair colourist.

Matt Miller was born and raised in the New Orleans area. He is 30 years old, unmarried, and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Languages. He will begin graduate school soon in Classical Studies. He has been writing for 25 years, was a professional theologian for seven years, and a professionally-trained French chef for three years in New York City. He has been published multiple times in two international theological journals, ‘Guardian of Truth’ and ‘Preceptor;’ and multiple times in local newspapers. Matt currently works as a professional business writer and his ultimate goal in life is to be the first human to decipher Linear A, a project that he has now been working on for three years.

Misti Rainwater-Lites is a native Texan currently residing in New Mexico with her husband. She has published three novels and several collections of poetry at lulu.com. Misti is also the editor and publisher of Instant Pussy, a print poetry zine that features tits and ass and the occasional cock.

Oscar Smiles lives in Dallas, TX in an old art church hidden from corruption. He descends from a line of crazy musicians and spends lots of time on the highway. He works as the private driver for a wealthy stranger.

Pat A. Physics lives in Austin, TX and plays in the band The Old Timerz. He plays guitar and sings for The Zom Zoms, who recently retired their polka dots. Pat’s solo project, Pat A Physics, involves Pat and a guitar. He also plays children’s music with The Telephone Company. Pat likes to go swimming a lot.

Reed Posey is a painter, musician and cyclist. He lives in Austin, TX where he has abandoned cars in every part of town. He has as increasing collection of scars from bike and art show incidents. He recently started a band called, Light by Fire and they are rock and roll. His art work is featured in galleries all around, quite frequently.

St. Nowhere has lived in seven major cities, and liked all of them, but loved none. Her geographic shifts are thinly-disguised attempts to avoid her lunatic family. This has proven difficult over the years, as they become more nomadic and numerous. Sadly, they are also possessed with her stubborn aversion to expiration. To compensate she has adopted several gypsies, and taught them to seek truth and beauty—concepts which, she is fully aware, do not exist.

Sallow Tallett, AKA Sophie T. Mishap, lives in Texas again. So far so good. Her stories are short, her poems are shorter, and that’s how it’s going to stay.

Senataur Ferguss lives in Austin, TX and knows a great deal about the natural plants that grow there. A drummer since childhood, he’s been in too many bands to mention. The co-founder of Walking Mountain Range and Haggard and Halloo. Senataur is a photographer, film editor and is currently working on a book of short stories based on travels and trips. He is working on a film he co-wrote with Shon Toney, The Strangest Bird Ever Heard and various other film projects.

Shannon Baker is between Portland, Oregon and Sterling, Virgina writing a novel, making songs and walking in the woods. Her first chapbook of poetry will be released by Haggard and Halloo in 2007.

Shawn Misener lives in a declining urban center in Michigan. His real jobs have included teaching high school, caretaking for the severely disabled, selling liquor to alchoholics and college students, and cleaning out old apartments that others have abused. He’s just about thirty and writes poetry and short fiction. Writing a novel is just too much for him at the moment. You can visit him at his blog: http://misener.wordpress.com

Shon Toney lives in Pahoa, Hawaii and releases music under the name ‘Hard Rock Zombie’. His first album, LA PAZ, was released by Business Deal Entertainment for which he is now a financial consultant. He is one of the founders of Haggard and Halloo and focuses his time on writing movie scripts and paving his driveway with smokestack hashes.

Softserve lives in kansas and works in child welfare. Is a mennonite. Thinks poetry is a formless, senseless, mutated escape from the cold world around us. Cares deeply about people, morals, and the family unit. Used to be into philosophy, but discovered that it gets too distorted, abstracted, at a certain point, and becomes worthless. Softserve read somewhere that there are tiny caterpillar-like organisms that live on people’s eyelashes.

Displaced and irate Canadian, Tara Przybille Bradley has been writing since she could use a crayon. Her first book, at the age of 4, was a 50 page spiral notebook (later titled “Compilation in Repetition”), using loops which resembled cursive ‘L’s or ‘O’s or ‘e’s and sometimes ‘i’s, but were actually cryptic and profound writings from within her burgeoning, complex mind. In self-inflicted exile for the past six years she has recently taken refuge in the obscure-yet-charming town of Walla Walla, WA. Her husband, Brandon, and two confused kids harbor her knowingly. Her career path in the USofA in corrections and detention has been seemingly dichotomous with her other life as a poet gardener. This does not disturb her.

Travis Catsull does many different things and travels often. He sings and plays guitar for The Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band and has two chapbooks of poetry published. He currently lives in Austin, TX and devotes a great deal of time to Business Deal Entertainment, Bundyhill Recording Studios, Haggard and Halloo Publications, The Poet’s Encyclopedia, Austin Music Magazine and a host of other projects.

Former Writers:

Anna Eyre grew up playing in the crumbling adobes of commune Reality. Her first chapbook Metaplasmic was released by Effing Press in Austin TX. She currently lives in Taos, New Mexico.

Anthony Liccione has been writing poetry for 13 years and recently started writing magazine articles. His poems have appeared in My Favorite Bullet, Nuvein, The Flow Magazine, ESC! Magazine and Underground Voices. In 2005 he was nominated for a Pushcart and released his first chapbook Heaven’s Shadow with Foothills Publishing.

Cheyenne Gallion is from Texas and has lived in many of its cities working as a graphic designer. He is a co-founder of Mad Swirl and currently lives in Austin, TX. He is a founder of americanxanthos.com

Dan Odell was born in Texas and has been a long time resident of Long Beach, CA. He paints, writes, plays music and creates beautiful sculptures that he refuses to sell.

David Meiklejohn co-produces The Awesome Triannual Review of Art and Literature. His first book of poetry, PLOTS was released by Effing Press in 2004. While reading a hundred books this year (www.onehundredbooks.blogspot.com) he lives in NY, NY and is frequently on the road with FOUND Magazine.

Ellhan is the person in the crowd and the crowd holding a baby easter goose with no one in particular. A group of wry smiles with access to the same account posting anonymous collections of absurd ideas brought about by too many late nights of talking on couches and kerbs.

Eric Sterling lives in Austin, TX. He records country music under the name The City Hall Gambler and plays live with the band, Eric Sterling and the Brown Sugar Band.

E.T. Leverson was born in Louisiana and grew up in East Texas. He currently lives in Bellingham, WA where he works as a head chef at an upscale joint. He plays professional darts and every instrument known to man. You can find him on his skateboard around the Waterfront Tavern or at the bar in his house.

Gene Defcon lives in Austin, TX. As a long time Business Deal associate he’s released albums with K Records, Look Out Records, Business Deal and his newest album Throw Up and Die was released by Retard Disco Records in 2006. He currently plays in the band, The Old Timerz and The Carrots.

Hummingirl, AKA Gie Gie, lives in Houston, TX where she is active in numerous plays, cabarets and the band, The Mathletes. She is a long time Business Deal Entertainment associate.

Jenn Frank sings in the band, Citizens on Patrol. In 2004 Jenn said: Sometimes these ideas strike me as funny in my dumb poo brain, and I have to say them fast as possible, without taking the time to moderate, modify, or articulate properly, and as soon as I say them this horrible black void settles on whoever I’m with, and they just look at me like ‘What did you say?’ and I spend four days feeling this awful weird guilt, like I accidentally murdered someone, and all because, in the great end, I’m simply not very funny. Tentacle porn: Hot or Not? Last Tuesday my TA asked me if I knew what diaspora was. I said it sounded like a pharmaceutical. Visit Jenn at www.manufacturingmystique.com

John Penn was born and raised in Kinder, Louisiana. He is 35 yrs old, unmarried and has a high school diploma in diplomacy. He is unabashedly elitist in his literary tastes (Frost, Eliot, Yeats, Hemingway, Joyce, Pound), loves what was being done in progressive music between 67 and 73 (Soft Machine, King Crimson, Can…), is a sucker for Chic flicks and can cook a mean Ped Nang(thai food), and is a personal friend and fan of Matt Miller.

Justin K. Mansion lives in Katy, Texas where he keeps his guns and truck locked up.

Justin Ulmer lives and works in East Texas. He says, ‘I have tempermental parts. I struggle with impulsiveness. I’m honest to the point of insult. I have never watched ‘The Chapelle Show’. And, once I destroyed something old and beautiful when I was just a boy and still, I feel very, very bad about it’.

Leon Hohandel: I was born in one of the former Soviet Republics. Was then adopted by a Southern American family. I have a great affinity for uniforms. I write poetry. I write prose. I tune pianos for money. We heard he lives in Seattle, WA now.

Michelle Greenblatt lives in Plantation, Florida. She is a Writing Rhetoric Student and has published over 50 poems, two Pushcart Prize nominations, two chapbooks published, one more on the way from Jukka-Pekka Kervenin’s X-press(ed), a book being printed thru Thomas Lowe Taylor’s anabasis. You can find her work in AUGHT, Frank’s Home, X-stream and numerous other places. She enjoys making fun of people who sacrifice kittens. Two-sided shoe Two-sided shoe Two-sided shoe.

Preston Dukes lives in Austin, TX and drives a truck with nails in the window. Preston plays guitar for Count Dracula’s Weed Smuggling Jam Engine, guitar for Maya Bond, sings and plays guitar for The Wyndyms and has recently started another band. He reads tons of books and saw the monkey cages in Athens, TX.

Scott Pierce is the editor of Effing Magazine and Effing Press. In a few short years he’s produced chapbooks by Dale Smith, Doug Warriner, Joseph Massey, Hoa Nguyen, Clayton Couch and many others. Effing Press is based in Austin, TX (www.effingpress.com)

Smokey Farris lives in Austin, TX where he owns and operates, The Screen Prince, a screen printing company. One of the original founders of Business Deal Entertainment he’s written and recorded more songs, chants, poems and mantras than a double-headed siren. He is currently singing for Count Dracula’s Weed Smuggling Jam Engine because he owns way too many cars.

Ron lives in Austin, TX and says, ‘I never tried trying to learn how to blast words from my eyes, and now really am into all the stuff in the back of my mind I stashed away for the time when dirt and sidewalk and silence and rhythym and laughter would stir not me not the outside but would just sit there, waiting for the end-of-days-within to break thru, for all that is repressed to speak, to converse with the strands of Is-ness in these moments. This be that time.

T.W. Bond was born to a runaway from a Cherokee reservation and a small time hustler (deceased) from New Orleans. Also: 1. Founder of short-lived, organized crime front-business, Bayside Austin Recording Studios. 2. Alledgedly smoked from Vincent Price’s personal opium stash. 3. Scored the Italian film Il Circo Cinese 4. Member or former member of: The Wyndyms, Count Dracula’s Weed Smuggling Jam Engine, Business Deal SoupOrGroup, Barrington Garwood’s Herbvendors, Tyrone Azzam Quartet, The Stomps, The Traditions, The Great Upheavals, The Good Feelings, Communist Kato and the Soviet All-Stars, Voila, Peter Mountain, The Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band, Daisuke Yamamoto Band, Barry Micron, Gimmie Golo-Worm (the Amazing Cadaver), Tim and Claudia, and other music groups less memorable. 5. Father of performance artist Maya Bond. He currently lives in an undisclosed city in Texas.

We met Zarah on the set of the indie basketball movie ‘Hi-5′ in Austin, TX. She wrote for H and H for a little while and we haven’t heard from her since.