Monster Girls

Joe Gottli is the man who made monstergirlmedia.com the gorgeous green machine that it is today. Armed with an Honours BBA in Marketing, a sketchbook library of his own illustration work, and years of e-commerce experience, he can easily take on the role of designer and programmer at the bat of an eyelash. He practically turns scripts into scripture. In his free time, Joe usually impresses everyone with his magnitude of encyclopedia-like knowledge on Canadian History, curling, and Phil Collins.

If you have any questions or comments about the site, are looking for someone to do some design/site work, or just want to share CSS secrets, drop him a line at site@monstergirlmedia.com

Kate Gottli (aka Mini Monster Girl) is the workaholic manageress of Monster Girl Media. When she’s not desperately working on site content, organizing reminders in her calendars, or reading textbooks on book publicity, you can probably find her roaming the streets of Canada with her little pug Oliver. Kate graduated from Brock University in 2007 with an Honours degree in English Literature & Professional Writing and has since worked as a technical writer and researcher. She is also currently pursuing a CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management) credential so she can become even more organized and be able to keep track of the Monster Girl Mainframe in her sleep.

You can keep track of Monster Girl Media through her Mini Monster Girl blog and say hello in the comments, sign up for the email list for Monster Girl Mailings, follow her on twitter @minimonstergirl or email her directly at kate@monstergirlmedia.com

James. Born in Seattle. Grew up in Texas—jumping BMX bikes, riding dirt bikes, driving pickup trucks, playing guitar in a heavy metal garage band, playing football, reading lots of books, and generally having a good time. Except when I wasn’t having a good time, but us former Texan/Viking types are too stoic to go into that sort of thing. Then I spent the 90s in Colorado. Took up rock climbing, snow boarding, and did lots of mountain biking. Got a degree in engineering. Half-heartedly started a career which appears to be pretty much over now. Moved to San Francisco somewhere between the Great Computer Crash of 2000 That Didn’t Happen and 9/11. Now I spend lots of time building bicycles and riding them. Recently started paddling a giant surfboard with a long canoe paddle around in the Bay. And when I’m not doing that sort of thing, I spend lots of time thinking about the Big Picture. (After much analysis, I have reached the conclusion that we are royally screwed).

Jeffrey Hicken, a graphic designer living somewhere between New York and Philadelphia, grew up feral. Bare footed with sunburned shoulders he wandered the beaches of Southern California under the care of northeastern expatriate parents. Despite their urbanity and tasty oatmeal raisin cookies, he left as a teen to find his own way in the world. Uninterested in all things reasonable, he enrolled in art school. Seven years later he was getting to old to work at record stores so he explored the lucrative field of advertising. His passion and zeal made him a star as well as a pariah. The corporate world had to many rules (and no sense of humor), so his feral nature led him to seek the one employer that truly understood his nature, himself.

Although he still occasionally dabbles in the corporate world, he keeps it at an arms length and when the florescent glare becomes too much, he retreats to the woods of New Jersey to listen to the call of the devils and collaborates with insane writers, artists and other freak show denizens.

When not conceptualizing, he tinkers with vintage Volkswagens and tours the country on motorcycles. He’s now married to a lovely Italian woman, who has the patience of a saint, and nurtures his beastly nature.

See Jeffrey's design work at http://www.graphickontent.com. If you like what you see, email him at jeffrey@graphickontent.com and tell him so!

Bianca I. Laureano is a fierce-haried, first generation Puerto Rican sexologist glamazon living in NYC. Raised in the Washington, DC area in an activist environment, Bianca is the daughter of an artist and educator and a product of the public school system. In the field of sexuality for over a decade, Bianca has worked with and taught youth of Color, working class communities, national and international organizations advocating sex-positive social justice agendas. She has presented both locally and internationally on various topics concerning activism, Latino sexual health, feminisms, youth and hip-hop culture, Latinos and race, curriculum development, and teaching.

Bianca is professor at at private Catholic college in the Bronx in the Department of Sociology where she teaches introductory women’s studies and sexuality courses. She’s also a freelance writer and her work can be found at her weekly Media Justice column, VivirLatino.com and Love Isn’t Enough.com (formally Anti-Racist Parent.com) She hosts the website LatinoSexuality.com and identifies as a LatiNegra, media maker, radical woman of Color, activist, sex-positive, pro-choice femme.

Find out more about Bianca by visiting her website at BiancaLaureano.com, emailing her at bianca@monstergirlmedia.com or following her on twitter @BiancaLaureano. 

Erika Lopez wrote books like Flaming Iguanas for Simon & Schuster before she hit the skids and ended up on welfare. Some say it’s because she’s mean. Some say it’s because she’s loud. Some say it’s because she told people to get her books at the library. Regardless, she’s back and taking her rightful place at the head of the rickety kid’s table with the prettiest little brick of a book she’s ever made. Its existence is a metaphor for coming out of hell clutching a handful of flowers. It’s about white knuckling it through a seemingly endless tour of The Abyss, and realizing that whatever doesn’t kill you, will eventually turn you on.

You can read (and see!) more about Erika on her clog at http://clog.erikalopez.com, email her at erika@monstergirlmedia.com, or follow her on twitter @ErikaLopez