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Mike Foldes, editor/publisher. Mike has published poetry chapbooks, alternative newspapers, and has worked as columnist, editor and contributor to newspapers and magazines since the late 1960s. The name ragazine came to light in the mid-'70s in Columbus, as the title of an alternative newspaper/magazine put together by a group of friends. It was revived in 2004 as ragazine.cc, the on-line magazine of arts, information and entertainment. (e-mail: editor@ragazine.cc)

Phyllis Mass, contributing editor. Phyllis has taught college and secondary school, and is an Amherst-certified workshop leader.  She lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She is co-facilitator of a multi-genre writing group at Kelly Writers House
at the University of Pennsylvania and teaches Write Now! Right Brain Creativity Workshops privately and at Temple University. (e-mail: p.mass@verizon.net)

Jim Palombo, politics editor. Jim's efforts are focused on justice concerns on national and international levels. His latest book, "Criminal to Critic, Reflections Amid the American Experiment" (Rowman & Littlefield), chronicles his experiences from drug dealer and convict to social worker, professor, world traveler and writer, while raising issues relative to social, political and economic conditions in America. He is a native and resident of Endicott, N.Y. (e-mail: jmspalombo@yahoo.com)

Joe Weil, poetry editor.  Joe worked as a tool maker and labor activist for over twenty years, then became a university poetry instructor in 2006. He has played piano professionally, and read with such poets as Allen Ginsberg, Gerald Stern, Patricia Smith, Jan Beatty, and, most recently  with the Pulitzer Prize winner, Stephen Dunn. Weil's next book, The Plumber's Apprentice, is forthcoming from New York Quarterly press. Joe moderates a popular poetry show on Facebook. (e-mail: pigsnout2@yahoo.com)

Metta Sama, fiction editor.  Metta lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Plainfield, VT. She is a poet, visual artist, story maker and scholar, and is the current blogger for Zora via Torch: poetry, prose and short stories by African American women. (e-mail: m_sama@mac.com)

Contributing Photographers

Valerie Brown studied photography at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel; Ohio State University; Parsons New School and School of Visual Arts in New York City. She gained additional skills working as an assistant to notable artists, including Ernst Haas, Salvador Dali, Igor Bacht, Philippe Halsman, W. Eugene Smith, and Helene Gaillet. Since 1977, Valerie has worked as a feelance photographer. Her client list  includes Women’s Wear Daily, Washington Dossier, Interview Magazine, People Magazine, Time Magazine, Smithsonian Books, and the Kennedy Center. She presently lives and works in Washington, D.C.

Ginger Liu's broad-based work experience includes music media, film and television, print journalism, new media, blog and website development. She was involved with the film and media industry in the UK, started a Hollywood company in film project development, and has lived and worked in Berlin, London, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Her personal work, avant garde and reportage focusing on the underground art/alternative scenes, has been published in the US & the UK. She has traveled extensively in Europe, China, the USA, and Australasia. In addition to freelance work, Ginger contributes to a number of entertainment magazines in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of the University of Westminster in London.

LYNDA BARRETO

What's tragic is when there is no good story to be told". Lynda Barreto's thoughts

on her own "Litchfields" stories and day to day life in general.

Her own life so far reads somewhat like a 'Forrest Gump' rough draft: Born a mid-

westerner, but the daughter of an eccentric Brasilian. Raised in Florida. Educated

Florida, North Carolina, Seattle, Barcelona and Interstate 40 near Gallup, New Mexico.

(back in '83). Track star, cowgirl, sailor, record holder in two trans-American ultra-distance

running expeditions('81 and '83), waitress, business owner, tennis pro., artist. "Litchfields" is nothing more than what you see. And for those who open their eyes, it's so much more than what you see. Lynda co-owns a family run international/local cafe' in Old Naples, Florida where good stories are told spontaneously by the hour. Stop in the next time you're there. Tell her you saw her work in ragazine.cc. 

The ragazine.cc gallery is affiliated gallery with oovu.com. Goal is to allows visual artists and photographers to promote and offer work for sale on-line. Contributors upload jpgs to the site for viewing; buyers can purchase original works, giclees, posters and postcards rendered from the originals. Scanning and printing of two dimensional work are done at Lizza Fine Art in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, by Bob Lizza. 

Lizza, an artist with extensive experience in printing and printing techniques, scans and prints all work himself using a state-of-the-art Cruse scanner (one of about six in the United States), and wide-body nine-color Epson printers. The moveable bed scanner is capable of scanning a 5'x8' work in a single pass. Lizza Fine Art has done commissioned work for the Vatican and the Pentagon, as well as for scores of artists and photographers around the world.

You won't make a lot of money (guaranteed),
but you might meet some people you didn't know before (priceless).

Been doing this since late 2003, but ragazine name goes back to mid-'70s in Columbus, Ohio, when a bunch of guys got together with the idea of doing a multi-dimensional magazine of arts, information, entertainment -- an alternative to mainstream press offered there at the time. Revived with the rise of electronic alternative media as weekend hobby....