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 here

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

ALISON STRUB is currently pursuing her M.F.A. at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She is the Managing Editor of So to Speak: A Feminist Literary Journal, and likes dogs, artists’ books and novelty candy. In her free time, she makes jewelry and art out of found objects, viewable here

AMBER NELSON is the co-founder and editor of alice blue. Her chapbook This Ride is in Double Exposure is available at H_NGM_N and her chapbook Your Trouble is Balloning is forthcoming from Publishing Genius. She likes blueberries, roller coasters and absolutely adores you

ARKAVA DAS is from Kolkata, India. After getting his postgraduate degree in marketing management, Arkava worked in a life insurance firm for a year and now runs wild through the city streets and bazaars. Some of his recent work has featured in Moria and ditch. Some work is forthcoming in Otoliths and the Spring BlazeVOX . Blogs here

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. Januševičius 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. Januševičius lives and works in Vilnius

BRENT HOUSE has lived most of his life in Necaise, Mississippi. His poetry has appeared in the Colorado Review, Cream City Review, Denver Quarterly, Third Coast and elsewhere. Slash Pine Press published his first chapbook, The Saw Year Prophecies. He was previously an assistant editor for Arts & Letters, and is currently a contributing editor for The Tusculum Review

CHRISTIAN BÖK is a Canadian poet, sound poet, conceptual artist and professor at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Crystallography (1994) and Eunoia (2002), and the winner of the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize for Eunoia. His work has been featured in the lyrics of Norwegian artist Ulver's "A Quick Fix of Melancholy EP" (2003) and on science-fiction television, where Bök has designed artificial languages for fictional aliens. Among other projects, he has performed an extremely condensed version of "Die Ursonate" by Kurt Schwitters, made artist books from Rubik's Cubes and LEGO bricks, and is currently working on a genetically engineered poem entitled The Xenotext Experiment

CLAYTON T. MICHAELS is a Pushcart-nominated poet and author of Watermark, which won the 2010 qarrtsiluni chapbook contest and was published by Phonecia Press in August 2010. He has been a featured poet at the online journal Anti-, and his poems have appeared in The Prism Review, >kill author, Makeout Creek, Slipstream and The Chiron Review, among others. He currently teaches composition, creative writing and comic book-related courses at Indiana University South Bend. You can find him online here

CRAIG FOLTZ is a writer and multimedia artist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including Octopus, Chicago Review, Ninth Letter, and Harp & Altar among others. A book of poetry is available from Ugly Duckling Presse. He lives and works in New Zealand, where the short-armed man is king. More here

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 here

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, go here

DAVID BERRIDGE is a writer based in London. He curates VerySmallKitchen, whose projects include WRITING /  EXHIBITION /  PUBLICATION at London's The Pigeon Wing and the DEPARTMENT OF MICRO-POETICS at the AC Institute, New York. He makes language works for exhibition, performance, print and online publication. Chapbooks include THE MOTH IS MOTH THIS MONEY NIGHT MOTH (The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press) and KAFKA THINKING STATIONS (The Arthur Shilling Press). DOG MAN’S WEEK OF THE 10,000 STORIES was installed in London as part of NierghtravAOnWint'sIf A Teller: a book in 8 chapters and 4 dimensions, at the Gooden Gallery's 24 / 7 vitrine

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 here

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--"

DESMOND KON ZHICHENG-MINGDÉ is an interdisciplinary artist based in Singapore, dividing his time between his art and teaching creative writing. A recipient of the Singapore Internationale Grant and Dr Hiew Siew Nam Academic Award, he has edited more than 10 books and co-produced 3 audio books, several pro bono for non-profit organizations. Trained in book publishing at Stanford, with a theology masters in world religions from Harvard and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Notre Dame, he has recent or forthcoming work in Barnstorm, Ceriph, Escape Into Life, Fence, Oral Tradition, Qarrtsiluni, Red Lion Square, and Whale Sound. Also working in clay, Desmond sculpts commemorative ceramic pieces for his Potter Poetics Collection, these works housed in museums and private collections in India, the Netherlands, the UK and the US

DUSAN ČOLOVIĆ was born 1934 in Orasac. He has graduated from the Belgrade’s Saint Sava school and lives and works in Belgrade. Colovic has published 15 books of poetry, the most recent being The gates of light, 2009 and To the Sons of the Celestial Secret, 2010. Colovic is also known for his anthologies of Serbian patriotic poetry. He is actively involved in the literary scene of Serbia, and critics emphasize his crystallized precision and haiku-like, epigrammatic, condensed expression

ED CURTIS received his M.F.A. in Poetry from The New School in May 2009 after earning his B.F.A. in Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington. His poems appear in Counterexample Poetics, Breadcrumb Scabs, The Tower Journal and are forthcoming in Sex and Murder Magazine

FELICIA SHENKER is a visual artist and writer. Her current focus is on poetry, essays and poem/essay hybrids. Poems have appeared in Vallum and Word for/Word. She lives in Montreal

FLORENCIA VARELA’s poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as Diagram, Drunken Boat, Gulf Coast, Washington Square Journal, and Western Humanities Review. Her chapbook Outside of Sleep is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. She was born in Buenos Aires and currently lives in Brooklyn

GARRY THOMAS MORSE is the author of four books, Transversals for Orpheus (2006), Streams (2007), Death in Vancouver (2009) and After Jack (2010)

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

HENRY FINCH is an MFA student in poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is co-author of the chapbook Luxury Arcana (2010), and author of the forthcoming New Music, both with Human 500. His music is available for streaming and download on SoundCloud

J MICHAEL WAHLGREN is an editor/publisher for Gold Wake Press. He is also a poet & author of Silent Actor (Bewrite, 2008) & Valency (BlazeVox, 2010) as well as numerous chapbooks: Credo (forthcoming from Greying Ghost), Chariots of Flame & Pre-Elixir (Maverick Duck Press). J Michael resides around Boston, Ma

J ROSE lives and writes in the Lake District of Rainy England. These pieces are taken from 'Lithium Clockwork', Rose's poetry and prose. He drinks and smokes and plays experimental jazz on acoustic guitar. His work up to now can be found spread among journals such as 'The Journal'

J/J HASTAIN lives in Colorado, USA with hir beloved. j/j is the author of numerous full-length, cross-genre works such as asymptotic lover // thermodynamic vents (BlazeVox Books), our bodies as beauty inducers (Rebel Satori Press), we in my Trans (JMS Books LLC) and autobiography of my gender (Moria), as well as many chapbooks and artist’s books. j/j’s writing has appeared in numerous journals including Sextures, Trickhouse, Vlak, Unlikely Stories, The Offending Adam, Eccolinguistics and Kelsey. j/j is an Elective Affinities participant, a member of Dusie kollektiv and a regular contributor to Sous Les Paves. j/j’s manuscript extant shamanisms won the Pavement Saw poetry award. In 2011 j/j’s book we in my Trans was nominated for the Stonewall Book Award

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 here 

JANE LEWTY is a lecturer in English literature and creative writing at the University of Amsterdam. She publishes essays, reviews and poetry in Europe and the U.S. Currently, she is on the editorial board of Vlak magazine

JEMMA BAILEY is a Welsh visual artist and curator, who has exhibited widely throughout the UK. She started her training with a foundation course at Oxford Brookes and continued on to a B.A.(hons) at Nottingham Trent. In 2009, Bailey relocated to Cardiff where she currently interns at g39. Her multidisciplinary practice springs from a curiosity into people and communication, and her projects are the results of lines of enquiry sprouting from daily observations. Bailey produces drawings, lists, sculpture, happenings and web-based activities and you can visit her at her website

JEN HYDE (海德简) is the founding editor of Small Anchor Press and co-founder of the presShoppe. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Agriculture Reader, No, Dear Magazine and Paperbag. She lived briefly in Sichuan and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York

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

JOSEPH COOPER is currently writing and teaching in Princeton, WV. He is the author of the full-length books TOUCH ME (BlazeVox 2009)and Autobiography of a Stutterer (BlazeVox 2007), as well as chapbooks such as Here Come the Groovies co-authored with Andrew K. Peterson. He is the 2009 winner of the Equinox Chapbook Award from Fact-Simile Editions with his chapbook, Point of Intersection. In addition, his work has appeared in numerous journals including most recently The Ash Anthology, BlazeVox11, Counterexample poetics: Assemblage of Experimental Artistry, Bombay Gin, Brown Bagazine, Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, Sex and Murder, and Sous Rature

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

JULIUS KALAMARZ has published poetry with Opium, The Los Angeles Review, Ninth Letter and others. Piroulette (an automatic last words generator) is currently showing in apexart's "Let it end like this," curated by Todd Zuniga. Avenir (a poetry/art project based on the work of Yves Klein) is forthcoming from the Zimzalla Avant Object series

KAZ MASLANKA received his BFA in Sculpture from Wichita State University in 1980 where he also studied music, mathematics and physics. He currently lives in San Diego California and works as an aerospace engineering consultant for a technology company where he leads a group of engineers creating computer modeling techniques for aerospace manufacturing. Maslanka serves on the board of directors for the San Diego based Sonic Arts Studio, a group of composers and musicians devoted to the development and proliferation of microtonal music, as well as on the advisory board of the Bronowski Art and Science Forum in Del Mar, California. His work can be seen on his blog “Mathematical Poetry” or his website

KELLY BOYKER lives in Seattle, Washington and wishes it really would rain every day, as the myth goes. Her work has appeared in such places as Opium Magazine, Wicked Alice, The Dirty Napkin, The Sacramento Review and Mannequin Envy. More is currently appearing or soon forthcoming in PANK, Prick of the Spindle, Vinyl Poetry, Sein Und Werden (online journal) and Sein Und Werden (special print monster-themed edition), Scythe and FriGG. She has an e-chapbook forthcoming from IMS Press in 2012. She is a co-editor here. She thanks you for reading her work

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 was born in Poland in 1973 and currently lives in New York City. Her work has appeared in Agni, Field, World Literature Today, Stand, Quarterly West, and Two Lines, but also Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Peace Review, and Humanimalia. She teaches contemporary philosophy at Goucher College, trying to map the ways that culture, power, sex and meaning are co-constitutive, and is currently finishing a manuscript about internet pornography. Her work as a vocalist and lyricist may be found here and here

MARIO PETRUCCI is a poet, ecologist and PhD physicist who combines linguistic innovation with a 'human' aspect. He has been resident at the Imperial War Museum and with BBC Radio 3, and received awards from the National Poetry Competition, the London Writers competition, the Bridport Prize, the Arts Council England Writers' Award and the New London Writers Award. His debut secured a PBS Recommendation, while his Arvon-winning collection Heavy Water: a poem for Chernobyl was made into an internationally award-winning film by Seventh Art Productions. His most recent collection, i tulips, draws from Rilke, Wallace Stevens and the Black Mountain poets. Petrucci has generated a variety of resources linking science and the arts here

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

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

MICHAEL A OLIVER is a poet and stage performer born and based in Cardiff, Wales. He has read at various venues across England and Wales under the stage name of the poet Mao, and has co-written and performed in the sell-out show Four Readings and a Funeral, plus many others. Michael has published in Nu Fiction and Stuff, Pinback, and holds a poetic residency with Blown magazine in which he publishes regularly. A collection of his work (Ten of the Best) will be released through Parthian books this summer

MICHAEL SIKKEMA lives and works in Grand Rapids, MI. He is the author of Futuring (Blazevox) and most recently the chapbooks I Could Jump Through the Keyhole in Your Door (Horse Less) and Saying Things as an Engine Would (H N G M N). Also, the collaborative chapbook Autogeography, written with Jen Tynes, recently appeared in Black Warrior Review. He often performs sound poems in his kitchen and has visual poems forthcoming in Word for/Word

MOLLY LYNCH writes fiction and poetry. She received her BA in English and Religious Studies from Concordia University in Montreal. She is now doing her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Toronto. She has recently finished her first novel

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 here

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

NAVA FADER is the author of All the Jawing Jackdaw (2009), which uses other poets' first lines as titles and taking-off points, as well as the chapbooks Stone Soup and The Plath Poems. She has just finished a collection of fake translations from Dante's Inferno

PATRICK WILLIAMSON is an English poet who lives near Paris. His most recent poetry collection is Three Rivers/Trois-Rivières (Harmattan, France, 2010). He has translated, among others, Tunisian poet Tahar Bekri and Quebecois poet Gilles Cyr, and edited Quarante et un poètes de la Grande-Bretagne (2003). In 1995 and 2003, he was an invited poet at the Festival International de Poésie at Trois-Rivières in Québec. Recent work in Upstairs in Duroc, Poetry Wales, and with Transignum and La Traductiere

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 here

REBECCA LAMARRE is a Canadian artist who moves frequently. Her work deals with the materiality of language; how it affects a person’s ability to express their subjectivity, and how it can limit or expand an understanding of experience. She is especially interested in finding areas of evasion, negotiation and revision within such structures. She is also a classically trained pianist and teaches music lessons mixed with art theory. She will be attending Goldsmiths, University of London in September to begin her MFA in Art Writing. Visit her here

SANDRA HUBER curates Dear Sir,. She was born and raised in Canada and works on projects of poetry and fiction

SARA LEFSYK currently lives in Boulder, Colorado where she writes pamphlets on cat menstruation, makes miniature books about Kant and Darwin, is working on the christ hairnet fish library, and does some other stuff as well. She has upcoming and previous publications in Bateau, Phoebe, The Greensboro Review, et cetera

SARAH LEVINE is pursuing her MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. Work is forthcoming in Ghost Town and Westchester Review. She teaches seventh grade creative writing in Queens and enjoys people watching on the subway

SETH MCKELVEY recently graduated summa cum laude with Highest Honors with degrees in English and journalism from the University of Georgia. Lately, his work has appeared at In Stereo Press, Cricket Online Review, La Fovea, and Super Arrow. He currently lives in London with his wife

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

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

THOMAS DENIS GIBNEY invites you to follow his organic novel and works of poetry here

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

TRAVIS MACDONALD's first book, The O Mission Repo (2008) is available from Fact-Simile Editions and his second collection, N7ostradamus, was released by BlazeVox Books in late 2010. Basho's Phonebook, an e-chap of his experimental translations can be found at E-ratio. He currently lives, works and writes in Philadelphia, PA