AISHA SASHA JOHN is a writer and performer living in Toronto. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in such places as The Danforth Review, Exile Quarterly, CV2, Carousel and TOK 3: Writing the New Toronto. Aisha recently completed her final year of the University of Guelph’s M.F.A. in Creative Writing program as well as a stint in the 2008/2009 Obsidian Theatre Company Playwrights Unit. Currently, she is happily putting finishing touches to her poetry manuscript, Self-portrait with. Visit her at hugetime.tumblr.com   ALFRED NOYES is a poet and translator. His Compression Sonnets was published by Bookthug in 2006, and his translation of Ramon Fernandez’s Quixote Variations in 2008. He lives in Point Roberts, USA   BENEDIKTAS JANUŠEVIČIUS was born in 1973 in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is a poet and translator and has been a member of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union since 1995. Among his seven published books of poetry are 0+6: eilėraščiai/daiktai (2006), a book of “object” poems and most recently Kiškis kiškiškai kiškena (2008), which includes a CD of sound poetry. Benediktas has worked for various pulications in Lithuania, including the cultural weekly “Art and Literature,” publishing interviews, reviews and essays, and has organized and participated in many cultural events and performances where poetry is combined with sound and visuals. His poetry has been translated into Belarusian, Latvian, Polish and English. Benediktas lives and works in Vilnius   CM EVANS is a Chicago based cartoonist and writer whose work has appeared widely, both online and off. Lately he has been contributing regularly to McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern as well as to Opium Magazine, where he is cartoon-editor-at-large. To see more of his cartoon work, either close your eyes and rub them hard, or go to http://cmevans.magic-servers.com/main.asp   DAVID AYERS lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a co-editor for Avatar Review and current president of the IBPC, the InterBoard Poetry Community. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in MiPOesias, DINER, Elixir, Arch, and can we have our ball back? For more information, visit: www.dummy.rentedroom.com   DAVID BRENNAN is a poet and collage artist who lives in the mountains of the eastern U.S. He is the author of Whiskerhead Dreams the Dread Chicken (BlazeVOX Books), an ebook, which can be read at http://www.blazevox.org/ebook.htm   DEREK HENDERSON is currently alive and well in Salt Lake City where he is completing his doctoral studies at the University of Utah. His work has been published in Fence, Colorado Review, Barrow Street, E ratio, DIAGRAM, Cream City Review, and elsewhere. qInconsequentia, a book-length poem co-authored with Derek Pollard, is due out from BlazeVOX [Books] this fall. At the moment, his favorite quote is from Emily Dickinson: "I dwell in Possibility-- / A fairer House than Prose--"   GARRY THOMAS MORSE is the author of three books, Transversals for Orpheus (2006), Streams (2007), and Death in Vancouver (2009)   GLORIA PERSONNE is an essayist and architectural critic. She divides her time between Paris and New York. A section of her Autobiography was recently published in memewar   GREGOR RUNGE was born in 1981 in Neubrandenburg in the GDR. He graduated from the Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig (DLL), and studied at the Television and Film School Munich (program: documentary filmmaking and screenwriting). He has published in magazines and anthologies, works as a writer / translator, and lives in Berlin   GREGORY VINCENT ST. THOMASINO’s poetry and prose have appeared in print in OCHO, Barrow Street, jubilat and in Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics and online at SOFTBLOW, Onedit, EOAGH, GAMMM and at Xcp: Streetnotes. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Doctor of Arts in Leadership program at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. In his spare time he edits the online poetry journal, E-ratio   JACEK PODSIADŁO belongs to the generation of Polish poets whose work emerged after 1989. Born in 1964, he has worked in a shipyard, in construction and in Polish radio. In the 1980s, he worked with the Polish pacifist and ecological movement Freedom and Peace, and since 1991 has been associated with the ‘bruLion’ generation, named after the magazine that published new poets from 1987 to 1997. Podsiadło has published more than ten volumes of poems, two large volumes of collected works, and won numerous national awards and contests. His prose work includes an extensive body of political editorials written for Tygodnik Powszechny from 2000 to 2007, when he found himself being censored, and a book about Pippi Longstocking (Pippi, a Strange Child, 2007). Today his editorials appear in Znak, and his most recent prose work, The Life and Especially the Death of Angelika de Sance (2008), is a tribute to Brautigan. The piece included in issue 3 of Dear Sir, is a chapter from that work   JADON REMPEL prefers to be Googled. He has a chapbook forthcoming with Red Nettle Press and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Award. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada   JAMES WILKES was born in 1980. He initially studied psychology and philosophy, and is now in his first year of a PhD at the London Consortium. His poetry has been published in Tears in the Fence, Intercapillary Space, The Archive of the Now and Great Works, and in anthologies including Generation Txt. He also reviews contemporary art and writes for radio and theatre, and is working on a radio drama about brain imaging technologies. His website is www.renscombepress.co.uk   JOHN MOORE WILLIAMS is a poet working in visual and verbal strains. He has authored three chapbooks so far: I discover i is an android (Trainwreck Press, 2008), writ10 (VUGG Books, 2008) and, with Matina L. Stamatakis, Xenophoria (forthcoming, 2009). Poems have appeared in such journals as Shampoo, Otoliths, BlazeVox, Turntable + Blue Light, The New Post-Literate and ditch, among others   JONATHAN GARFINKEL is the author of the book of poetry Glass Psalms (Turnstone, 2005) and the plays Walking to Russia and The Trials of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret (Playwrights Canada Press 2005). His most recent play, House of Many Tongues, is about a divided house in Jerusalem, and premiered at the Tarragon theatre in Toronto and Bochum Schauspielhaus in Germany in 2008-2009. Jonathan’s first book of prose, Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide, was published in five countries. He also is a contributor to Walrus Magazine and the Globe and Mail. Currently he resides in Budapest where he is working on a novel   JULIAN JASON HALADYN is a Canadian writer living in London, Ontario. His poems have appeared in, among others, Elimae, Ditch, Istanbul Literature Review, Laika Poetry Review, and Otoliths, as well as the collection Nuit Blanche: Poetry for Late Nights (Toronto: Royal Sarcophagus Society Press, 2007). Julian's poetry book 17/13 was published by Blue Medium in 2007 and his chapbook Convulsive Hotel Poems was published by Trainwreck Press in 2008   KANE X. FAUCHER is an instructor at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of over 500 works in both literary and academic domains, including 8 books. A portion of his writing practice has been in exploring, via conceptual inspiration from Deleuze and Guattari, a new mode of poetics based on de-composition (lysicology)   KIMBERLY GREY was born in 1985 in Paterson, NJ. She received a B.A. in Literature from The Richard Stockton College of NJ and an MFA in Poetry from Adelphi University, where she was the recipient of the 2008 and the 2009 Donald Everett Axinn Award in Poetry. She has taught creative writing workshops for students in both New York and New Jersey. Her first manuscript, entitled The Opposite of Robot is Light, is near completion   MARGRET GREBOWICZ is a feminist theorist, translator, and vocalist based in New York City. Her translations from Polish have appeared in numerous journals, including Agni, Poetry International, Field, Two Lines, and World Literature Today, and she is the editor of three collections, including one on the poetry and political essays of June Jordan. She is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Goucher College in Baltimore, but will spend 2009-10 on a research fellowship in Scotland, writing a book about internet pornography and poststructuralism. She also sings. And listens   MATTHEW MULLANE is a musician, writer and student of aesthetics currently working out of Cleveland, Ohio. In a process that reconstitutes text based on the frequencies of field recordings, his poems are conceived by pen and paper but composed by sound. Recent work has been based around extensive writings and recordings made in Japan and the Netherlands, and organized in an attempt to reconcile the expressive written word with a heard reality. His recent sound works and compositions may be found on his website, www.matthewmullane.com   MEDEINĖ TRIBINEVIČIUS is a Canadian writer and translator of Lithuanian literature. Her poetry and prose (in English) has been published in journals and magazines including The Walrus, Steppe, Room Magazine, Misunderstandings Magazine and The Shore. Her translation work has appeared in journals and anthologies including the PEN International Magazine, The Vilnius Review, and Six Lithuanian Poets (ARC Publications). Current projects include co-translating e.e. cummings into Lithuanian with poet Benediktas Januševičius, and translating Tūla, a novel by Jurgis Kunčinas, into English. Obsessions include lichen, abandoned buildings and the post-Soviet behemoth   NATE PRITTS is the author of The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon) as well as two previous books of poems - Sensational Spectacular & Honorary Astronaut. The founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N, Nate teaches poetry at the Downtown Writers Center/YMCA in Syracuse, NY. Find him online at http://www.natepritts.com   NATHAN HOROWITZ was born and raised in Michigan, and currently lives in Vienna, Austria. He is a poet, teacher, copy editor and doctoral student of Linguistics   PAUL A. TOTH lives in Sarasota, Florida. He is the author of three novels. The majority of his short fiction and other works, as well as information on ordering his novels, can be accessed from www.netpt.tv   SANDRA HUBER curates Dear Sir, and currently resides in Lausanne, Switzerland where she is working on a project of poetry in collaboration with the Centre for Integrative Genomics. She was born and raised in Canada and recently finished her first novel   SZIDÓNIA SZÉP is an Hungarian fashion designer working between Vienna and Budapest. She holds a diploma in artistic and experimental textile design, has graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and has held numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. Her piece (featured in issue 2) wasn't initially meant to be a work of literature per se, but rather stands in the place of photograhs for her existing Fall 07 | Winter 08 fashion collection   STEPHEN COLLIS is a poet and critic. His third book of poetry, The Commons, was published by Talonbooks in 2008, and a new book, 4 x 4, will be published in 2010. He lives in Vancouver and teaches at Simon Fraser University   TRAVIS CEBULA currently resides with his wife, Shannon, in Colorado—where he is just finishing the MFA program in Writing and Poetics at Naropa University. He has published poems, photographs, essays and stories in various print and on-line journals. His first solo collection of poetry and photographs, Some Exits, has recently been released from Monkey Puzzle Press