About the Authors
Ahmad Shami: The VisionaryAhmad's passion for history and love of Soviet-era beards made him the perfect candidate for creating a website of such intellectual complexity and nuance. Ahmad is a risk-taker, a learner, and a thinker. He received a quad degree in communications, medieval literature, beard-growing and artisanal basket weaving from Bennington College and strives to apply these skills to every challenge he takes on. Ahmad can be reached by email or carrier pigeon, and resides at an unknown address in Portland, OR, where he brews kambucha and is writing his third memoir, "The Red Beard of Courage: My Fight to Preserve the Facial Hair of the Ages", to be self-published on April 20 of 2016, adding to his collection of previously published and mildly successful memoirs "Tweet, Pray, Love- I was Promised Wifi and Other First World Problems" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Bearded."
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Catherine Carignan: History EnthusiastCatherine Carignan, the new voice of the hood, is a popular flash fiction tagger from the ghettos of East Los Angeles. Her short, short stories, dirty limmericks, haikus and lists of her closest friends can be found on bridges, underpasses, large rocks at all public parks and the occasional idling limo, and are available free to the public. After an extensive session with her Hooked on Phonics tapes, spanning nearly two hours, she has written her first novel. Nearly all of the words are spelled correctly and she even managed to format a page or two with a paragraph break. It's exciting to see a fresh face so full of promise in the literary world. I'm sure you'll be reading many reviews of her first novel, an epic romance titled, Baby Daddy, A Tale of Growing up Ghetto, as soon as someone in the literary world can decipher it's sophisticated and convoluted message. Before setting off on her journey to become an award winning author she experienced a great musical success as a soprano vocalist in a group known as Quarter Black. After scoring twenty-two consecutive number one hits such as "Some Meat That's Lean" and "Green Jingly Instrument", the other members of the band were sadly lost in the Black Friday Sales of '92. Standing over the buckets in which their remains had been poured, Cat vowed never to be a performing musician again.
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