Contributors’ Notes

Hadara Bar-Nadav’s book of poetry A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (MARGIE/IntuiT House, 2007) was chosen by Kim Addonizio as the winner of the 2005 MARGIE Book Prize. Recent publications appear or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Journal, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Verse, and other journals. Born in New York, she currently is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. More information can be found at www.hadarabarnadav.com.

Nathan Bartel lives in Newton, Kansas, & teaches at Bethel College.

Claire Becker holds an MFA from St. Mary's College and teaches at the California School for the Blind. Her poems are forthcoming in H_ngm_n and Typo Magazine, and her chapbook, Untoward, is forthcoming from Lame House Press.

Hugh Behm-Steinberg's poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from such places as Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Slope, Zeek, Aught, Swerve, Fence and Cue. He teaches in the writing program at California College of the Arts, where he edits the journal 1111. His first book, Shy Green Fields, is forthcoming from No Tell Books in Fall, 2007.

Geoff Bouvier's first book, Living Room, was selected by Heather McHugh as the winner of the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize. His writings have appeared in American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, New American Writing, Western Humanities Review, and VOLT. He received an MFA from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 1997. He lives in San Diego, where he waits tables at Tapenade Restaurant, and publishes journalistic prose for The San Diego Reader.

Lily Brown holds an MFA from Saint Mary's College and currently lives in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Typo, Octopus, Fence, Coconut, Tarpaulin Sky and Cannibal, among other journals.

Sommer Browning writes poems and draws comix in Brooklyn, New York. Her poems can be found in spork, The New York Quarterly, Forklift, Ohio, word for/word and elsewhere. Visit her comix at Asthma Chronicles www.asthmachronicles.blogspot.com and, if you're ever in Brooklyn, the poetry reading series she hosts at Pete's Candy Store.

Julia Cohen writes bios upon request. See Z. Schomburg and M. Svalina for references.

Kathryn Cowles is a doctoral student in creative writing at the University of Utah. She has poems forthcoming in Colorado Review and Pleiades.

DJ Dolack is currently at work on some new poems. Some of his work can be found by using the almighty Google. He is an editor at Eye For An Iris Press, teaches writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and handles art in NYC during the summer. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

John Ebersole lives with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia and will soon begin teaching at Temple University.

James Engelhardt's poems have appeared in Lilies and Cannonballs Review, Natural Bridge, Touchstone, Petroglyph (now Isotope), Oxford Magazine, Poem, Cold Mountain Review, and others. Originally from Western North Carolina, he is now in Lincoln, NE pursuing a PhD in poetry.

Anna Eyre lives in her hometown where she teaches English composition, creative writing and culinary arts at UNM-Taos. She has served as the assistant editor and reviews editor for Traffic. Her chapbook, Metaplasmic was published by effing press in 2004.

Elisa Gabbert holds degrees from Rice University and Emerson College. She is a reader for Ploughshares and an editor of Absent. Recent work appears or will appear in journals including Pleiades and LIT. A chapbook, Thanks for Sending the Engine, is available from Kitchen Press.

Matthew M. Gagnon grew up in northeastern Massachusetts and has since lived in Vermont, Colorado, and western Massachusetts. He is currently a student at the University of Massachusetts MFA Program for Poets & Writers in Amherst.

Ian Ganassi's poetry, prose and translations have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including The Paris Review, The Yale Review and American Letters & Commentary . New work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Boulevard, New England Review, Elixir and Skidrow Penthouse , among others.

Noah Eli Gordon’s forthcoming books include: Novel Pictorial Noise (selected by John Ashbery for the 2006 National Poetry Series) and Figures for a Darkroom Voice (Tarpaulin Sky press; in collaboration with poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson and artist Noah Saterstrom). His book A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow was published in March of this year by New Issues. His other books include: Inbox (BlazeVOX, 2006); The Area of Sound Called the Subtone (Ahsahta Press, 2004); and The Frequencies (Tougher Disguises, 2003). His reviews and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including: Boston Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and the forthcoming book Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics, where the essay in this issue will appear. He writes a column on chapbooks for Rain Taxi: Review of Books and teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is also The Predator.

Dean Gorman lives in Portland, Oregon, and is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA Program in Writing. His writing has appeared in or in forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio; The Portland Mercury; No Tell Motel; Oregon Humanities; Caffeine Destiny; Typo; Unpleasant Event Schedule; Music Liberation Project; and The Bedside Guide to the No Tell Motel: Second Floor. He is co-editor of Pilot Magazine & Books (www.pilotpoetry.com) and plays in the band Gas Lanyard.

Heather Green has poems published or forthcoming in Pilot, Boxcar and Realpoetik. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, but she's not there much.

Gabriel Gudding is the author of two books, A Defense of Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series, 2002) and Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, Nov 2007), a book he wrote in his car. His work appears in numerous periodicals and such anthologies as Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner) and as translator in such anthologies The Oxford Anthology of Latin American Poetry, Poems for the Millennium, and The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of California Press). He teaches creative writing, literature, and poetics at Illinois State University.

Anthony Hawley is the author of The Concerto Form (Shearsman Books, 2006) and three chapbooks of poetry Vocative (Phylum Press, 2004), Afield (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004) and Record-breakers (Ori is the New Apple Press, 2007). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in web Conjunctions, the tiny, Verse, 1913, and 26. His chapbook Autobiography/Oughtabiography is forthcoming from Counterpath Press this fall.

Anne Heide edits the poetry journal CAB/NET out of Denver. Her poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Notre Dame Review, Shampoo, Coconut, Ur Vox, the tiny, and No Tell Motel, among others. Her reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Jacket, First Intensity, Xantippe and Rain Taxi. She is currently working towards a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.

Alisa Heinzman is an editorial assistant for Octopus. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with two cats.

Dan Hoy lives in Brooklyn and is coeditor of Soft Targets. His poetry chapbook, Outtakes, was published by Lame House Press in Spring 2007. More poems, videos, movie reviews, etc: www.sinlechuga.com.

Melanie Hubbard is working on a scholarly book about Emily Dickinson and a variety of popular semiotics in the American 19th century. Poems are online at Typo, Swink, and horse less review. Gibli Winco Swags will be out through the Cannibal Chapbook Series in very late 2007.

Karla Kelsey is author of two books of poetry: Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary (Ahsahta Press, 2006) and Iteration Nets (Ahsahta Press, forthcoming).

Gina Myers is the author of the poetry chapbooks Fear of the Knee Bending Backwards (H_NGM_N 2006) and Stanzas in Imitations (New School University 2007). She lives in Brooklyn where she co-edits the tiny with Gabriella Torres.

Keith Newton's poems are forthcoming in Harvard Review and Cannibal. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he edits the online magazine Harp & Altar.

Craig Santos Perez, a native Chamoru of the Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam), has lived in California since 1995. He is the co-founder of Achiote Press, and he blogs at blindelephant.blogspot.com. His reviews have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, Traffic, Rain Taxi, Jacket, Slope, and Galatea Resurrects, among others.

Adam Peterson has work forthcoming in Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Handsome, and other journals. A story he co-wrote won the Mid-American Review's 2006 Sherwood Anderson Award. He lives with Heather Green and their dogs in Nebraska.

Brett Price is from Cincinnati, Ohio where he is assistant editor of Forklift, Ohio and co-curator of the Clay Poetry reading series. He is a student at Bard College. If you say his name fast and whispery, BRETT PRICE!, it sounds like two racecars driving by.

Nate Pritts is the author of Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVOX), as well as the forthcoming chapbook (sonnets for the fall) (Parcel). His work has recently appeared in Conduit, Alice Blue, Court Green & Gulf Coast. He is the editor of H_NGM_N, an online journal of poetry & poetics.

Zachary Schomburg emerged from a pear tree three decades ago covered in millipedes and cobwebs. He learned to write with red berries and birch bark on a lagoon facing the marsh we all want to call home. He showed us how. He's bringing us there.

When he twists the elk-horns that hang from the pear tree, small foxes shed their fur and touch their cool noses to the driftwood that lounges in the lagoon. He shoots his poems off into the eddies, but they never get sucked down. They climb into your mailbox and row you back for pear-pie

Oh, pear-pie and thistle tea.

Brandon Shimoda was born in Tarzana, California. His poems and critical writings have appeared or will soon in Colorado Review, Washington Square, Aufgabe, Verse, GutCult, Handsome, Xantippe, Practice, Harp & Altar, and elsewhere, as well as in book projects forthcoming from both Corollary Press and Flim Forum Press. He resides in Missoula, Montana, where he mows lawns and curates the New Lakes reading and performance series.

Sampson Starkweather was born in Pittsboro , NC . Some of his poems are recently published or forthcoming from: jubilat; LIT; RealPoetik; Open Letters Monthly; Absent; New York Quarterly and Sink Review. He is writing a book of Transcontemporations based on the work of Cesar Vallejo, Max Jacob, Marina Tsvetaeva, J.V. Foix, Henri Michaux, Thomas Bernhard, and others. He lives in the woods.

Raised in a treehouse, Mathias Svalina slept on mossed floors & cut his knees on boars' teeth. When he rutted poems into tree trunks & branches, the words would fill with sap & amber. Jars of glowing frog eggs rolled behind him over roots & vines. In the darkest dirt of the forest, his poems opened into post-historic megafauna, the only kind you'll ever see. And though you might want to skitter away, fold a wing around your cheek, you shouldn't—they will chew ferns into fans that will cool your face when no one else can bring your temperature down.

Amish Trivedi lives in Iowa City, where he is presently available to read at children's parties while dancing a waltz. His poems can be found in La Petite Zine, Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, and Kulture Vulture. The Trivedi Chronicles are a footnoting mechanism.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s newest book is Figures for a Darkroom Voice is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky Press in October 2007. Another chapbook, The Book of Flashlights, Clover, & Milk, is forthcoming in July, with art work by Cecilia Johnson, from Pilot Books.