Eric Baus is the author of The To Sound (Wave Books) and Tuned Droves (Octopus Books). He edits Minus House chapbooks and lives in Denver.
The son of white trash asphyxiation, CAConrad is the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press) and (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press). Forthcoming books include The Book of Frank (Chax Press), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press). He’s at www.CAConrad.blogspot.com.
Jessica deCourcy Hinds has written for Ms., Newsweek, Teachers & Writers, and Seventeen, which awarded her a fiction prize for an earlier version of “The Riser.” Hinds is a teacher and librarian at Bard Early College in Queens, NY.
Johannes Göransson is the co-editor of Action Books and the online journal Action, Yes. He is the author of several books, “Dear Ra” (Starcherone Books) most recently. He has translated several Swedish and Finland Swedish poets, including Aase Berg, Henry Parland and Johan Jönsson.
Kate Greenstreet’s first book, case sensitive, was published by Ahsahta Press in 2006. Her second, The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta in 2009. Her new chapbook is This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press). Other new work is forthcoming in Practice, Hotel Amerika, and jubilat.
Brenda Iijima’s forthcoming books include Rabbit Lesson (Fewer & Further Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press). These days she is conducting a steady dirt dialogue with CAConrad and spelunking retro emergence as evidenced in homo sapien roots, cave
people, burials, excavations, quaking underlayers, body sensing and incarceration, etc. by filtering through the concept of revolution with all its varied implications.
Kristi Maxwell currently lives and writes in Cincinnati. She’s the author of Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta, 2008), Elsewhere & Wise (Dancing Girl, 2008), and Hush Sessions (Saturnalia, forthcoming 2009).
Sawako Nakayasu lives in California and Asia. Her most recent book is a translation of Takashi Hiraide’s For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (New Directions), and forthcoming books include Hurry Home Honey (from Burning Deck) and Texture Notes (Letter Machine).
Keith Newton edits the online magazine Harp & Altar. His poems and essays have appeared in Harvard Review, Cannibal, and Octopus, among other journals, and a chapbook of his work is forthcoming this year from Cannibal Books. He lives in Brooklyn.
Joshua Poteat has published one book of poems, Ornithologies (Anhinga Poetry Prize, 2006), a chapbook, Meditations (Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Award, 2004), and his second book, Illustrating the Machine that Makes the World, is forthcoming from University of Georgia Press/Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 2009). Poteat lives in Richmond, VA, where he works as an editor of assorted texts, including art history monographs, junk mail, and TV/radio scripts. For more information, go to www.joshuapoteat.com.
Joy Rhoades writes and works in Manhattan. She has an MFA from the New School and has been published in the Bellevue Literary Review and the MacGuffin. She is (still) working on a novel.
Ken Rumble is the author of Key Bridge (Carolina Wren Press, 2007) and President Letters (Scantily Clad Press, forthcoming). His poems have appeared in the tiny, One Less Magazine, The Hat, Talisman, Shampoo, and others. He lives in Greensboro, NC, motherfucker.
Matt Sumell grew up on the south shore of Long Island, New York. A graduate of UC Irvine’s MFA program, his work has thus far appeared in Faultline, Book Glutton and the Brooklyn Review, and is forthcoming in NOON. He is currently finishing up his first collection of short stories, tentatively titled Making Nice. He has never punched a lady.
Chris Tonelli is the author of three chapbooks: For People Who Like Gravity and Other People (Rope-A-Dope Press, forthcoming), A Mule-Shaped Cloud (w/ Sarah Bartlett, horse less press, 2008), and WIDE TREE: Short Poems (Kitchen Press, 2006). He teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.
Mike Young co-edits NOÖ Journal. His stories and poems have appeared widely: MiPOesias, Coconut, BlazeVOX, RealPoetik, Alice Blue and more. A chapbook, MC Oroville’s Answering Machine, is forthcoming from Transmission Press. He’s taking a Southern pilgrimage in late December. Give him a holler: http://noojournal.com/blog.
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