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ContributorsAdam Berlin is the author of the
novels Belmondo Style (St. Martin’s Press, 2004)
and Headlock (Algonquin Books, 2000). His stories and poetry
have appeared in numerous journals. He is an Assistant Professor
of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Erica Bernheim’s poems
and reviews have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast,
Volt, The Canary, and Bridge, among others. She teaches
poetry and literature in Chicago, and is working on a PhD. Tom Chalkley is a freelance
cartoonist and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. His best work appears
in the Baltimore City Paper and the Chicago Reader,
but he had two cartoons published in The New Yorker in
1999 and hopes to get back there someday. Peter S. Conrad’s work has
appeared in many publications, including TooMuchCoffeeMan, Kitchen
Sink, The Berkeley Daily Planet, and several alternative news
weeklies. His work also appears in the anthologies True Porn,
Big Dumb Fun, Swell, SPX 2003, and others. He has been publishing
mini-comics such as Attempted Not Known since 1994. Born
in New York City, he is currently serving exile in California. Cory Doctorow is the Campbell-
and Locus-award-winning author of the novels Down and Out in
the Magic Kingdom and Eastern Standard Tribe, as well
as the short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More,
which were simultaneously published on the web as free downloads
and by Tor Books. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing
Boing (boingboing.net), a columnist for MAKE and Popular Science
magazines, and a contributing writer at Wired Magazine. He resides
in London, where he is the European Affairs Coordinator for the
legal group Electronic Frontier Foundation. Johannes Goransson is the co-editor of Action Books. His work, either original poems or translations (Aase Berg, Henry Parland), is set to appear in upcoming issues of Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Hanging Loose, and Octopus. Arielle Greenberg is the author
of Given (Verse Press, 2002) and Fa(r)ther Down: Songs
from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan Press) and co-editor
(with David Trinidad and Tony Trigilio) of a new poetry annual,
Court Green. Her poems will appear in Best American
Poetry 2004, Conjunctions, The Laurel Review, Spoon River,
and other journals. She teaches in the poetry program at Columbia
College Chicago. Gabriel Gudding’s first
book, A Defense Of Poetry, was published in the Pitt Poetry
Series in November 2002. He teaches literature and creative writing
at Illinois State University. Recent work appears in New American
Writing, Mandorla, and LIT. Paul Guest’s poems have appeared
in numerous journals, including Iowa Review, The Greensboro
Review, Slate, and Third Coast. His first book of poems, The
Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded
the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. He is currently teaching in Chattanooga,
Tennessee. Kristin Hall lives in Iowa City with two handsome cats. Her chapbook, Power Weapons in the Basement, is forthcoming in 2005 from Rhyming Orange Press. Kent Johnson has edited Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada (Roof, 1998), as well as Also, with My Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords: Araki Yasusada’s Letters in English, forthcoming from Combo Books. He has also translated (with Alexandra Papaditsas) The Miseries of Poetry: Traductions from the Greek (Skanky Possum, 2003) and (with Forrest Gander) Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz (California UP, 2002), which was a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation selection. A second book of Saenz’s work, The Night, is forthcoming. Recepient of a 2004 NEA Literature Fellowship, he teaches at Highland Community College and was named the State of Illinois Teacher of the Year for 2004 by the Illinois Community College Trustees Association. Stephen Kuusisto is the author
of Planet of the Blind: A Memoir and Only Bread, Only
Light (poems), and has a forthcoming book, The Art of Listening,
soon to be published by W.W. Norton. He is editor of The Poet’s
Notebook: Selected Journals of American Poets and a contributing
editor at the Seneca Review. Kuusisto’s poems and
essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s,
Poetry, and Partisan Review. He is a frequent commentator
on National Public Radio and lectures widely on disability and public
policy. John Latta is the author of two collections
of poetry: Rubbing Torsos (Ithaca House, 1979) and Breeze
(University of Notre Dame Press). “Gadabout” and “Umbrage”
are part of his recently completed Some Alphabets, five
abecedarian arrangements, other pieces of which are appearing in
Epoch, Jacket, Boston Review, Verse, and elsewhere. He
currently lives and works in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sarah Manguso is the author of
The Captain Lands in Paradise (Alice James, 2002) and Siste
Viator (Four Way, 2006). She teaches at the Pratt Institute
and in the New School’s MFA program, and lives in Brooklyn. Joyelle McSweeney’s
The Commandrine and Other Poems will be appearing this
fall from FenceBooks. Her first book, The Red Bird, won
the Fence Modern Poets Series prize and was also brought out by
Fence. Her work has appeared in the Boston Review, The Canary,
Monkey Puzzle, and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in Tuscaloosa,
Alabama. She has recently co-founded Action Books with her husband,
Johannes Goransson. K. Silem Mohammad is the author of
hovercraft (Kenning Editions, 2000), Deer Head Nation
(Tougher Disguises, 2003), and A Thousand Devils (Combo
Books, 2004). He lives and teaches in Ashland, Oregon. Ander Monson lives in Michigan where
he edits the magazine DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press.
Two books are forthcoming in May 2005: Vacationland (poems,
Tupelo Press) and Other Electricities (fiction, Sarabande
Books). Alix Ohlin teaches creative writing
at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Her first novel, The
Missing Person, will be published by Knopf in May 2005. Michael Parker is the author of
four works of fiction including, most recently, Virginia Lovers.
His stories have appeared in Five Points, The Georgia Review,
Shenandoah, and The Oxford American, and have been
anthologized in The Pushcart, New Stories from the South,
and O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies. A new novel and
a collection of stories are forthcoming from Algonquin Books. He
has raced several triathlons in the Novice Male category, and he
writes, swims, bikes, and runs in Greensboro, North Carolina. Karri Harrison Paul lives and teaches in Baltimore. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and winner of a Pushcart Prize, her poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Fence, and other journals. Jim Rugg’s work can be found at
the Web site for his ongoing comic series Street Angel,
where you can also find previews of the Street Angel issues
available for purchase via the Slave Labor Graphics online store
at www.slavelabor.com. Mary Beth Sanders received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1999. Afterwards she began pursuing other interests by running off to New Mexico for a brief spell. Her work during this period reflects a melding of painting and archaeology. Currently working in an artist’s bookmaking studio in Chattanooga, she has found a happy medium in the art and science of paper and bookmaking. Mark Bradley Shoup received his BFA in painting from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and has recently acquired his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work has been exhibited throughout the southeast, and has been featured in New American Paintings issues 34 and 52. He currently lives in Chattanooga with his wife, Kelli, and son, Oliver. Marcus Slease is a native of Portadown,
N. Ireland, who currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, where
he writes and is a member of the Lucipo poetry collective. Recent
poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Conduit, Columbia Poetry
Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Spork, Typo, Octopus, DIAGRAM,
Gut Cult, Milk, and Shampoo. Tony Tost wrote Invisible Bride
(LSU, 2004), which won the 2003 Walt Whitman Award. He’s almost
done with his new manuscript, Sex Hat. New work can be
found in Verse, The Hat, Jacket, Typo, and Cue. Kurt Vonnegut needs no introduction. Greg Williamson’s
second book of poems, Errors in the Script, was runner-up
for the 2003 Poet’s Prize. In 2004, he received an Academy
Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |
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