Traffic Life : Passionate Tales and Exit Strategies
Edited by Stephan Wehner
An Anthology
 
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248 About the Authors PTLEFT Artists nity poetry workshops in South Carolina. 'Gridlock','Pavement' and 'Main Street at Eighty' are from 'Asphalt', a series of poems about the road. Rick Millikan. Has long enjoyed cycling as a practical 'trans- sport' and life sport. A retired educator, he is now dedicated to sharing his enthusiasm for cycling in a monthly cycling column in Backpackers News, a British Columbia-Alberta publication. More- over, Rick and his wife Chris encourage others to discover soft pedal adventures through their travel articles, especially in the beautiful bicycle friendly Northwest of British Columbia. Their travel stories have appeared in various newspapers as well as popular online magazines such as travel-wise.com, travellady.com and gonomad.com. Scott Munn. A writer and photographer living in rural East Sussex, England. He is often faced with a traffic jam of several hundred sheep in his front yard. Aaron Naparstek. A writer, interactive media producer and transportation activist in Brooklyn, New York. The never-ending assault of horn-blasting beneath his apartment window compelled him to begin writing honku-haiku poetry about honking, traffic and American automotive insanity. He began taping honku to neighborhood lampposts and soon a local traffic calming and po- etry movement was born. Visit his web site, www.honku.org, and add your own honku to the virtual 'Lamppost.' His book, 'Honku: The Zen Antidote to Road Rage' was published by Villard, June 2003. Sara Ross. (a.k.a. RedSara) A locally engaged media producer in Vancouver, Canada. The focus of her work is creativity, commu- nity, and bicycles. A proclaimed cycling celebrationist and com- munity artist, she brings art and shared creativity into our ev- eryday experience of the city through projects such as the Demo- cratic Poster Project, Community Public Art on bike routes, Criti- cal Mass, Bikes Not Bombs Vancouver, and the Pedaling Zoo. She is currently working for PEDAL (Pedal Energy Development Al- ternatives) to promote bicycle culture, and to build community through bicycle creativity and bicycle art. Sara's professional art practice includes urban landscape painting, installations, graffiti, and performance art (online at www.SaraRoss.com). Her art edu- cation is ongoing, life-long, and mostly non-institutional.
  
About the Authors PTRIGHT Artists 249 Stephanie Scarborough. A pisces, vegan and wishes she could play the accordion. She writes a monthly zine called The Cheap Vegan and runs an online distro dedicated solely to food zines (http://diystore.cjb.net). Her work has appeared in Whistling Shade, Haz Mat Review, Bovine Free Wyoming, Paperplates, Planet Relish, Tenderfoot and elsewhere. Andrea Schmidt. Lives in Vancouver, Canada with cat Bruce and roommate Lili. Currently works at the University of British Columbia designing books, posters, forms etc. Spends spare time biking aimlessly through the streets taking digital photographs. URL: www.a-schmidt.com. Gene Seibel. A Kansas farm boy who left the country for the lights of the big city. After a few years in television broadcasting, he got back in touch with the great outdoors and wide open sky as a private pilot. Over the next twenty years, his love of flying took him, his family, and his flying machine into countless situ- ations of adventure and intrigue all over this land of ours. Gene has always considered his opportunities to fly and travel a special blessing. He has shared them in any way he could, from giving airplane rides to children of all ages to writing about his experi- ences and observations. He is the author of the true adventure book Confessions of a Pilot. Andy Singer. A car-free cartoonist and illustrator, currently living in St. Paul, Minnesota. His panel cartoons appear regu- larly in 17 publications, including The Utne Reader, The Funny Times, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Ventura County Reporter, San Diego CityBeat, Boston's Weekly Dig and Z Magazine. He has also published cartoons in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Progressive, Discover and dozens of other magazines, newspapers and books around the world. He is the author of a book of essays and car- toons about automobiles entitled 'CARtoons' and his work has appeared in two major cartoon compilations - 'Attitude', edited by Ted Rall, and 'The Best of the Best American Humor', edited by Raymond Lesser and Susan Wolpert of The Funny Times. You can see more of Andy's work at www.andysinger.com. Contact him at andy@andysinger.com Neal Skorpen. Lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Mar- cie and two cats. He is the creator of two comic strips Cyclotoon

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