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Issue #02, Winter 2009

Matt Bell is the author of two chapbooks, How the Broken Lead the Blind (Willows Wept Press) and The Collectors (Caketrain), and has appeared in magazines such as Conjunctions, Meridian, Barrelhouse, Monkeybicycle, and Keyhole. He is a web editor for Hobart and can be found online at <www.mdbell.com>.

David Erlewine’s stories appear (or soon will) in Pedestal Magazine, Keyhole Magazine, Mud Luscious, Dogzplot, Word Riot, and others. He is a fiction editor for Dogzplot <www.dogzplot.com>, and he blogs at <www.whizbyfiction.blogspot.com>.

Rodolfo Franco is an anthropologist by formation, graphic designer by profession, and poet by vocation, also with the pretension to become a magician. He was born in Brazil but has lived in Spain since 1989, where he published, among other things, the visual poetry books 22 Corazones and Album de Cromos and co-edited the magazine Delta Nueve. He collaborated with several other magazines, collective books, catalogs, websites, exhibitions, encounters and festivals, meetings and conspirations. He has participated in over 300 artistic events and publications across fourteen countries. As a poet, he works on several fronts: classical, haiku, concrete, visual, and performance. He is also a writer of songs and practices ludolinguistic procedures with palindromes and anagrams. He is also a member of the band, Comando Macondo, and a cultural agitator.

Frances Gapper’s stories have been filmed in Barcelona, made into art in Manchester, and displayed in a festival tent in Saskatoon. Her story collection Absent Kisses was published in 2002 by Diva Books.

Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of six poetry chapbooks, most recently Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology. His next chapbook, Love Is a UFO, will be published by Pudding House later this year. He blogs at <apocalypsemambo.blogspot.com/>.

John Greiner is an American poet, playwright and short fiction writer living in Paris, France. His poetry and prose has appeared in numerous international magazines. His theatrical pieces have enjoyed successful runs in New York, Chicago and in Massachusetts. More of John’s poetry can be found at <baronandcrow.blogspot.com> in collaboration with photographer Carrie Crow.

Martin Heavisides’ most recent publications are a flash fiction piece, “It Just Massively Multiplies the Difficulty,” in Dog Oil Press, a study of the work of Peter Barnes, “I AM BEING EVERYBODY THEY CRIED” and a full length play, “EMPTY BOWL,” both in The Linnet’s Wings. Other publications include “Cubist Torso” in Mad Hatter’s Review, “Courtly Love, a tail” in Gambara, “New Earth and Heaven” in Black Cat Review, “Serpentine” (a one sentence story) in MonkeyBicycle (an improbable transportation device), “3 Vignettes of Life in the City” and other columns in Metro, and “Homeless Project” in AdBusters. He also publishes two blogs, The Evitable <theevitable.blogspot.com> and one on Open Salon.

Kyle Hemmings holds one of those MFA thingies and in his spare time, he likes to cook, bake, and tries hard not to burn food. He also wishes he could play surf guitar and and sing like Brian Wilson. He is still waiting for an endless summer.

Dmitri Hochstatter was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. He moved to Colorado, obtained his BFA at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and studied fine arts at Santa Chiara School for the Arts in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. He is currently working and residing in San Francisco, CA where he has his studio at the Art Explosion Gallery 17th street, Mission District. His website is <www.dmitrihochstatter.com>.

Laura Hruska is a northwest Indiana native and senior photography major at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

Nathan Logan was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, where anything with wheels is raced. He is a MFA candidate at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Some of his work has appeared in/is forthcoming from: Literary Tonic, No Posit, The Scrambler, and Sir!

Chris Major has been lucky enough to have poetry in many print/online mags. His E-chapbook Concrete & Calligram is free to download at <www.whyvandalism.com>

Camille Martin, a poet and collage artist, moved from New Orleans shortly after Katrina to settle in Toronto. She is the author of Codes of Public Sleep (Toronto: BookThug, 2007) in addition to several earlier chapbooks. Recent work is published or forthcoming in The Literary Review of Canada, PRECIPICe, The Walrus, West Coast Line, This Magazine, White Wall Review, Rampike, W Magazine, and Chicago Review. In 2008, she received a grant from the Ontario Arts Council to complete a book of sonnets. She earned an MFA in Poetry at the University of New Orleans and a Ph.D. in English at Louisiana State University. Currently she teaches writing and literature at Ryerson University.

Ander Monson is the author of a host of paraphernalia including a decoder wheel, several chapbooks and limited edition letterpress collaborations, a website <www.otherelectricities.com>, and three books: Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, Other Electricities, and Vacationland. In 2010 Sarabande Books will publish The Available World, a poetry collection, and Graywolf Books will publish a nonfiction project, Vanishing Point. He edits the magazine DIAGRAM <thediagram.com> and the New Michigan Press.

Nathan Neely is a graduate student of Creative Writing. His work has been published in elimae and other places. He spends his free time working on a new Bio in case he is ever again published.

Suzanne Nielsen, a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, teaches writing at Metropolitan State University. Her poetry, fiction and essays appear in literary journals nationally and internationally; some of these include The Comstock Review, The Copperfield Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, Foliate Oak, Identity Theory, The Pedestal, Word Riot and 580 Split. So’ham Books released her first collection of poetry titled East of the River, in December 2005, a collection of short fiction titled The Moon Behind the 8-Ball & Other Stories, in 2007, and will release her new collection of poetry titled I Thought You Should Know, in 2008. Nielsen holds a doctorate in Education from Hamline University.

Aleksandr Pasevin was born in the Ukraine in 1985, less than a year before the Chernobyl disaster. He moved to Lithuania when he was almost a year old. He has lived, worked and studied there ever since. Today, he lives in Kaunas – the second biggest city in Lithuania. He loves living in “old town,” at the center of the city. He has studied informatics technology at Kaunas Technic University, but he felt that it wasn’t a good fit. Still, he claims that the few years he spent there were useful. Pasevin’s latest work can be seen on Flickr at <www.flickr.com/photos/27958373@N03/>. His portfolio is located online at <www.pasevin.com>.

Brad Pickard was born in Aylmer, Ontario, a small town that boasts more coffee shops than traffic lights.He obtained a degree in Technical Illustration in 2001and currently resides in Toronto, Ontario where he works as a digital artist. In his spare time, he likes to go back to his roots by slathering paint onto boards. Brad’s work has shown in galleries in both Toronto and New York City. See more of Brad’s work on his website: <www.ourskyhasfallen.com>.

David Prisk is a California native who teaches high school English in the San Francisco Bay area. He considers himself an accidental wordsmith, a graduate of Cal State Long Beach, a husband and a father of 2 (unless we start counting poems). His poems have appeared in various publications, most recently in the online publications 3Lights Gallery, Read This Magazine, Snow Monkey and Clearfield Review. He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively entitled Six Ways to Hear Goodbye. He can be reached by e-mail at kaminarihako@aol.com.

James Sanders lives in Atlanta, GA where he has been involved in a writing collective called the Atlanta Poets Group for several years. He helps the APG edit a couple magazines: aslongasittakes <www.aslongasittakes.org> and Spaltung <spaltungmag.blogspot.com>. His favorite candy is Starburst. His favorite Santa Claus contains no green, just red black and white.

Peter Schwartz has more styles than a Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon. He’s been published in Arsenic Lobster, Epicenters, Media Cake, 5 Trope, Verdad and VOX. He’s currently working on his fourth chapbook, Postcards to the Sun. See the extent of his shenanigans at: <www.sitrahahra.com>.

C. Shoup is a visual artist, writer and musician who currently earns his living as a public school teacher in Illinois.

Born and raised in New York City, Meg Sturiano is a high school teacher and theater director. Her play “One for More Options” was recently produced at the Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Atlantic Writers’ Workshop, and the PEN American Center, for which she is a mentor in the Prison Writing Program. Meg currently teaches and directs at Hunter College High School in Manhattan and at Acting Manitou in Maine.

mercedes villanueva lives in Ontario, Canada. Although it goes against her daily headaches, back aches, and constant desire to drink coffee, she is not thirty; in fact – she is merely fifteen years old. She never writes her name using a capital letter and often describes herself as a fruit cup for being a mix of seven different ethnic groups. She enjoys intimidating people and will one day rule the world.

Ernest Williamson III is a 32 year old polymath who has published poetry and visual art in over 195 online and print journals. He is a self-taught pianist and painter. His poetry has been nominated twice for the Best of the Net Anthology. He holds the B.A. and the M.A. in English/Creative Writing/Literature from the University of Memphis. Ernest is an Adjunct Professor at New Jersey City University and an English Professor at Essex County College. Williamson is also a Ph.D. Candidate at Seton Hall University in the field of Higher Education, and a member of The International High IQ Society based in New York City. Williamson is also a chess expert with an internet rating in the 2000-2200 range. Currently he is rated 2010. View Professor Williamson’s listing in Poets & Writers Directory <www.pw.org/content/ernest_williamson_iii>.

Stephanie Williamson is a photographer and writer. Her photography has been exhibited nationally, has graced a few album covers, and has been published recently in The Sun. She teaches photography at City College of San Francisco. Her writing has been published in Literary Mama, Common Ties, and Word Riot. A former New Yorker, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two sons. You can also see her work on her blog Photo Journal <swphoto.blogspot.com/>.

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