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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 |
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ALEXANDRA SASHE is a Paris based writer. She was born in 1976 in Moscow, where she studied linguistics and literature. She publishes her poetry in various literary reviews and magazines in the UK and Europe |
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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 |
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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 at www.retoldstory.com |
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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 |
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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 at www.asmotheringrock.blogspot.com |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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--" |
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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 |
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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 |
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GARRY THOMAS MORSE is the author of four books, Transversals for Orpheus (2006), Streams (2007), Death in Vancouver (2009) and After Jack (2010) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 http://www.kazmaslanka.com |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 at www.mariopetrucci.com/science.htm |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 at www.rebecca-lamarre.blogspot.com |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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