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Ana Božičević moved to NYC from Croatia in 1997. She’s the author of chapbooks
Document (Octopus Books, 2007) and
Morning News (Kitchen Press, 2006). Look for her recent work in
Denver Quarterly, Saltgrass, Hotel Amerika, absent, The New York Quarterly, Bat City Review, MiPOesias, Octopus Magazine and
The Portable Boog Reader 2: An Anthology of NYC Poetry. Ana co-edits
RealPoetik.
John Coletti is the author of
The New Normalcy (BoogLit 2002),
Physical Kind (Yo-Yo-Labs 2005), and
Street Debris (Fell Swoop 2005), a collaboration with poet Greg Fuchs with whom he also co-edits Open 24 Hours Press. He currently is the editor of
The Poetry Project Newsletter.
Kate Greenstreet is the author of
case sensitive (Ahsahta Press, 2006) and three chapbooks,
Learning the Language (Etherdome Press, 2005),
Rushes (above/ground press, 2007), and
This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, April 2008). Her second book,
The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta in 2009. Her poems can be found in journals like
Cannibal,
Fascicle, and
Handsome. New work is forthcoming in
Filling Station,
Practice, and
The Columbia Review.
Sarah Gridley is Poet in Residence and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana in 2000, where she was a Richard Hugo scholar and won the 1999 Merriam Frontier Award for excellence in creative writing. The University of California Press published her book
Weather Eye Open in 2005. She has recently completed a new poetry manuscript, whose poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
Fourteen Hills,
NEO,
Harp & Altar,
Crazy Horse,
jubilat,
Denver Quarterly,
New American Writing, and
Chicago Review.
Katy Henriksen was born and raised in the Arkansas Ozarks. She is the design editor of the poetry journal
Cannibal, which she creates with her husband Matt Henriksen in their tiny railroad apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She also helps run The Burning Chair Readings. Her music and culture writing may be found in
Venus Zine,
The Brooklyn Rail,
Paste,
Publishers Weekly,
Puremusic.com,
Rust Buckle, and elsewhere. Four of her poems are forthcoming in
Tight.
Shannon Jonas is the author of Compathy (Cannibal Books, 2007) and lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Jennifer Kronovet is the author of
Awayward (BOA Editions, 2009), selected by Jean Valentine as the winner of the Poulin Prize. Kronovet is the co-founder and co-editor of
CIRCUMFERENCE, a journal of poetry in translation. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
Colorado Review,
Harp & Altar,
Ploughshares,
A Public Space, and other journals. She was born and raised in New York City, and has lived in Chicago, St. Louis, and Beijing.
Mark Lamoureux is a poet, critic and translator who lives in Astoria, NY. His work has appeared in numerous publications, both in print and online. He is an associate editor for
Fulcrum Annual. He is the author of three chapbooks:
City/Temple (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003),
29 Cheeseburgers (Pressed Wafer, 2004) and
Film Poems (Katalanche Press, 2005).
Timothy Liu is the author of six books of poems, most recently
For Dust Thou Art. Two new books are forthcoming,
Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse (Talisman House, 2008) and
Polytheogamy (Saturnalia Press, 2009). His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. Liu is currently an Associate Professor at William Paterson University and on the Core Faculty at Bennington College’s Writing Seminars; he lives in Manhattan.
Chris Martin is the author of
American Music. His new book,
Becoming Weather, is trying to become published. His newer book,
On Song, is an ongoing investigation of song’s ontological use from the Caveman Days until Tonight. He is the editor of
Puppy Flowers, an online magazine of the arts, and resides near the Prospect Park Zoo with a beautiful lady and her cat.
Jess Mynes is the author of
Birds for Example,
Coltsfoot Insularity (a collaboration with Aaron Tieger),
In(ex)teriors, and
Full on Jabber (a collaboration with Christopher Rizzo). He is the editor of Fewer & Further Press. In 2008, his
If and When (Katalanche Press),
Sky Brightly Picked (Skysill Press),
Recently Clouds, and a second edition of
In(ex)teriors (Anchorite Press) will be published. He lives in Wendell, MA where he co curates a reading series, All Small Caps. His poems have appeared in numerous publications.
Cate Peebles lives in Brooklyn and works at the literary agency, Sobel Weber Associates, in Manhattan. Her poems have appeared in, or are forthcoming from,
Tin House, Octopus, La Petite Zine, MiPOesias, Capgun, and others. She co-edits the on-line poetry magazine,
Fou.
Christopher Rizzo is a writer and publisher who lives in New York. Over the years, his work has appeared in
Art New England,
The Cultural Society,
Cannibal,
Dusie,
H_NGM_N, and
Spell among other magazines. Christopher has also authored several chapbooks, such as
Claire Obscure (Katalanche Press, 2005),
Zing (Carve Editions, 2006), and
The Breaks (Fewer & Further Press, 2006).
Full on Jabber, a collaborative work written with poet Jess Mynes, was released by Martian Press in 2007. Christopher also edits Anchorite Press, an independent poetry publisher of innovative work. He is a doctoral candidate in English at the University at Albany.
Matthew Rohrer is the author of five books of poetry, most recently
RISE UP, published by Wave Books. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.
Frank Sherlock is the co-author of the newly released
Ready-to-Eat Individual with Brett Evans.
Joanna Sondheim’s chapbooks,
The Fit and
Thaumatrope, were published by Sona Books in 2004 and 2007, respectively. Recent work appears in
Unsaid magazine.
Shanxing Wang was born in Jinzhong, Shanxi province, China, in 1965. He moved to the U.S. in 1991 to pursue a PhD in mechanical engineering at University of California at Berkeley. While an assistant professor of engineering at Rutgers University, he began taking writing courses at Rutgers and later the Poetry Project, and subsequently received a Zora Neale Hurston Scholarship to attend the summer writing program at Naropa University in Colorado in 2003. His first book
Mad Science in Imperial City (Futurepoem Books, 2005) won the 2006 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. His current thinking and struggling focuses on intersections of poetry/poetics with physics/mathematics, history, visual arts, and continental philosophy. He is also a competitive table tennis player and a table tennis coach. He lives and writes in Queens and he has a blog:
shanxingwang.blogspot.com.
Rebecca Wolff is the author of
Manderley,
Figment, and
The King (forthcoming 2009). She is the publisher and editor of
Fence, Fence Books, and
The Constant Critic, and is a fellow of the New York State Writers Institute, with which
Fence is affiliated. She lives in Athens, New York.
