Contributor Notes
Johannes Göransson was born and grew up in Sweden but has lived in the US for nearly 20 years. He has poems in recent or upcoming issues of Double Room, Octopus, Hotel Amerika, and Denver Quarterly.
James Grinwis’ work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Mississippi Review, Conduit, and others. A book length collection of his poems can be found in Skidrow Penthouse #5.
Michael Heffernan teaches poetry in the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas. His seventh book of poems, The Night Breeze Off the Ocean, will appear in 2005 from Eastern Washington University Press. He has new work in Octopus, The Kenyon Review, and forthcoming in New Orleans Review, and Hotel Amerika.
Jnana Hodson now sees that shuffling papers – everything from bills to manuscripts – is one of his hobbies. It’s like gardening, which is really mostly weeding. All the same, over time, the practice is all part of making some good things happen.
Tom Horacek’s poems have appeared in such journals as Fence and Octopus, and a collection of his cartoons will be published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2005.
Kent Johnson has edited Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada (Roof, 1998), as well as Also, with My Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords: Araki Yasusada's Letters in English, forthcoming from Combo Books. He has also translated (with Alexandra Papaditsas) The Miseries of Poetry: Traductions from the Greek (Skanky Possum, 2003) and (with Forrest Gander) Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz (California UP, 2002), which was a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation selection. He teaches at Highland Community College and was named the State of Illinois Teacher of the Year for 2004 by the Illinois Community College Trustees Association. Kent's recent contribution to a roundtable discussion on the "politics and sociology" of the American post-avant can be read here.
John Latta's first collection, Rubbing Torsos, appeared in 1979 (Ithaca House). A book titled Breeze, winner of the 2003 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, is recently out (University of Notre Dame Press). New poems are in or forthcoming in Chicago Review, Xantippe, Bird Dog, Octopus, Parakeet, Electronic Poetry Review, No: A Journal of the Arts, New American Writing, Jacket, Boston Review, Gam, LIT, and elsewhere. Rather newly resident in Blogland, he lives at Hotel Point.
Lyn Lifshin's most recent prizewinning book, (Paterson poetry award) Before It's Light, was published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997. She has published more than 100 books of poetry, including Marilyn Monroe and Blue Tattoo, won awards for her non fiction and edited 4 anthologies of women's writing including Tangled Vines, Ariadne's Thread, and Lips Unsealed. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject of an award winning documentary film, Lyn Lifshin: Not Made Of Glass, available from Women Make Movies.For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web site is www.lynlifshin.com.
Carolina Maugeri lives in Rhode Island. Agitato in C Major is the first of twenty-four preludes. Other preludes can be read in GutCult and Chicago Review.
Andrew Mister lives and works in Oakland, CA. His poems are forthcoming in Fence and New York Nights. He is co-editor of the poetry journal The Asthmatic.
Thorpe Moeckel lives in North Carolina and just saw a crow out the window. He is the author of Odd Botany and Meltlines.
Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino has a degree in philosophy from Fordham University. His poetry has appeared in Barrow Street, The Germ, jubilat, Washington Review, Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics and online at BlazeVOX, can we have our ball back?, GutCult, hutt, In Posse Review, Rattapallax--FuseBox and Word For/Word. He lives in New York City where he edits the online journal eratio postmodern poetry.
Anca Vlasopolos published No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement (Columbia University Press, 2000), for which she was awarded the YMCA Writer’s Voice Grant for Creative Non-Fiction in 2001, the Wayne State University Board of Governors Award and the Arts Achievement Award in 2002; a poetry collection entitled Through the Straits, at Large; a chapbook of poetry entitled The Evidence of Spring; and a detective novel entitled Missing Members; as well as short stories and over two hundred poems in literary magazines such as Porcupine, Poetry International, Branches Quarterly, Barrow Street, Nidus, Full Circle Journal, Short Story, Natural Bridge, Center, Evansville Review, Santa Barbara Review, River Styx, Spoon River Poetry Quarterly, Weber Review, and Lynx Eye.
Max Winter's poems have recently appeared or will appear soon in Volt, The Canary, and the Denver Quarterly. He is a Poetry Editor of Fence.
Thomas Wooten’s fiction and poetry have appeared in various journals, including The Georgia Review, The Quarterly, Snow Monkey, the Birmingham Poetry Review, Rattle, elimae, Poem, and the Apalachee Review. Currently he contributes to The Ravenna Hotel: a Virtual Entertainment. He lives in the American South. His email address is limeworks50@hotmail.com.