About the Staff

Angela McDermott: Angela write a monthly column for Bosworth. She was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio as a reluctant Baptist. She was active duty Air Force for a decade before accepting a position with the Department of Defense only to realize she is a conscientious objector at heart. She is currently fulfilling internship requirements for a masters degree in counseling at a fancy smancy private school in Logan, Utah. She does not play softball, has yet to buy a Subaru, and has never received an honorary toaster oven, but she proudly shares all of this with her partner of ten years Maure and their two four-legged children Daisy Carol and Sidney Raymond. 

Archibald Bosworth: Born somewhere between Tintagel, UK and Hoboken, NJ, Bosworth is the figurehead of Bosworth Magazine. When asked to characterize his relationship with the rest of the staff, he responded with a half-minute of stone cold silence.

"There was once a little boy," he finally said, "who was walking home from school, when he noticed a small leak in one of the dikes that kept the town's roads and houses and shops protected from the coastal waters. The little boy didn't know what to do, and finding no one to help him and nothing to plug the hole, he stuck his finger in it. A few hours passed, when I happened to walk by this little boy. I immediately offered to help by plugging the dike while he went for help. About three minutes later, I remembered that my Bosworth Magazine coworkers were all asleep in a hotel not very far away. So I took my finger our of the dike, loosened a few stones around the hole, and bought a canoe."

Dagonet: The self-proclaimed "once and and future king of show biz," Dagonet (pronounced Dah-Goh-Net) grew up in a small Minnesota town. He moved to Hollywood at age 19 and worked his way up the corporate ladder, working as a senior staffer for one the largest film studios in the world. He was saddened to discover, however, that the president of the studio he worked for was engaging in lascivious sexual acts with office interns on almost a daily basis. When Dagonet confronted his boss, the aging executive issued a total denial. A few days later, citing professional and moral problems with the situation, Dagonet tendered his resignation.

“The acts themselves were not the largest cause of concern,” Dagonet later explained to a Congressional committee investigation his choice to leave the studio. “It was they way he lied about it.”

Six months later, Dagonet released a tell-all book about his experiences, but sadly, due to several charges of libel and defamation of character, Dagonet was forced to direct his publishers to destroy every extant copy of the memoir, which was titled “Without a Dagonet.” The ex-Hollywood mogul then migrated to a position in the public media, where he was snatched up by Bosworth Magazine to write an entertainment column.

“I promise to tell it to you like it is,” Dagonet boasts. “The American people deserve that much."

Matt Lavin: Born in Springfield, MA and raised in Vermont, Matt is currently working toward a PhD in English at the University of Iowa. He is the creator/editor of Bosworth. He writes monthly features for the ezine and maintains a blog on "Bosworth's Bloggers" at http://blogs.bosworthmagazine.com/matt.htm.

S.R. Lavin, aka Sholom: Lavin is an internationally published poet and author, a college professor, and Bosworth Magazine's newest columinst.  He has led  a long, arduous life, confronting countless foes in his efforts to spread justice wherever he wanders. Time after time, Lavin has looked vanity, selfishness, and greed in the eye and refused to back down. Unharried by  failure, Lavin presses forward resolutely. Some men in his place  would have quit, gone home, or spent time learning better fighting skills. Not Lavin. Nothing can distract him from his mission. No failure discourages him. No matter how humiliating his defeat, Lavin remains undaunted. He is literally the Bob Eucker of fighting injustice, but he presses on, like a boat against the current. The current wins, yes, on every occassion. But Lavin will not surrender. 

"The most profound disagreements among human beings stem from the most fundemental truths," Lavin says. "Religion, politics, and the arts ... causing divisiveness and deep disagreements, whether moral or philosophical or social attitudes. By design, we are on our own to sort out what's so from what isn't." 

Moriarty Magoo: Because he has been living "off the grid" for as long as anyone can tell, information about Magoo is hard to find. He first contacted "Bosworth Magazine" via e-mail in May 2007, accusing the ezine of being an elaborate front for a single graduate student in Iowa. The theory was preposterious buit gave Bosworth editors an idea for an occassional column. Moriarty Magoo at first resisted the idea of a recurring "conspiracy theory" submission, but, eventually, his innate sens eof paranoia was subsumed by his desire to share his paranoia with others. He submits each column through a hotmail account and does not share personal details with anyone at Bosworth. Rumors that Magoo is in fact a Jedi Knight have not been confirmed.

Virginia Perkins Plath: Some time in the early 1970s, a young woman named Dolly Plath had an epiphany. Bearing the last name Plath, she had the unique opportunity to name her soon-to-be-born daughter after three infamous literary suicides. Virginia Woolf killed herself in 1941 by loading her dress with rocks and walking into a river. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, suffering from terminal cancer, overdosed on chloroform in 1935. Sylvia Plath, perhaps the most widely known literary suicide, put her head in a gas oven in 1963. Virginia Perkins Plath was in trouble from the start. Growing up, she often got the impression that her mother didn't like her very much. Dolly did little to dispel this impression. For example, she once tried to sell Virginia to a circus. Later, she hd a sordid and highly public affair with Virginia's high school sweetheart, Mike Wells. Her Last Will and Testament reads, "Having no children, I leave all my assets and property the Mike Wells. Thanks for the wildest night of my life."

Plath earned a degre in middle school education but had her career cut short when she was brought up on charges in the mid-nineties for an "inappropriate bond" between herself and a male student. Under duress, she took an extended vacation from the United States.

Today, Plath lives in Europe. She writes an advice column for Bosworth Magazine and spends her free time lobbying various political figures to keep European extradition treaties as unaccommodating to the United States as possible. She is also an aspiring filmmaker. 

Melanie Jenkins: Melanie Jenkins turns twelve this  fall. Her parents are well-to-do New York socialites, and, as a result, she has grown up privileged and socially conscious. As a Virgo, she is sometimes criticized for being self-absorbed, but she always keeps herself in check by reading "The New York Times" and the complete short stories of Ernest Hemingway. Her favorite color is pink.

Ned the Goat: Ned the Goat is quite literally a goat. His nickname is not a metaphor. It does not in any way indicate a quirky, loveable personality trait. He has four legs. Fur. Hooves. Horns. A goat beard. He bleats. Ned grew up on a small farm outside of Saratoga Springs, NY but was adopted by a liberal, Bohemian family at age two. Harry and Melissa Stevens were newlyweds at the time and have now been together for two years. Their first child, a sweet little girl named Juliet, is now seven months old. Despite have an infant and a goat to care for, the Stevens family often takes vacations. Sometimes they leave Juliet behind, but they always include Ned. His quick wit, lively personality, and love of travel make him a true joy to be around. 

Russ Beck: Russ is a monthly contributor for Bosworth, usually writing under the guise of psudonym pregnant with Freudian implications. He is a creative nonfiction writer and a lecturer at Utah State University. Warning: do look too hard for his gentle touch; you may get hurt. But be certain that he is here.

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