William Hageman

William Hageman began working on "Living in the O" in the mid-1990s, but put it aside to work on the political newsletter "Scum at the Top" (under the pseudonym Harold Hark), which became a website in 1999. SCATT and its successor "Bilegrip" became a full time effort, concluding with the 2007 defeat of the Howard Government in Australia. His publishing history:
* 1966 and 1967: Editor of a poetry magazine, "The Willie". Published by Manic Press.
* 1968: "The Cockroach Hotel," a book of poems on life in Chicago's South Side, with introductions by Doug Blazek and Charles Bukowski. Published by Tom Kryss, Black Rabbit Press.
* 1969: "Stubble Poems," a book of haikus based on life in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. Published by Ben Hiatt, Grande Ronde Press. From 1971 to 1982, he bummed around the globe, living in Asia and Europe. He settled in Victoria, British Columbia, where he met his wife, an Australian. They moved to Melbourne in 1989.