Joel Bettridge’s first book of poems is forthcoming from The Cultural Society Press, and he is currently editing a collection of essays on Ronald Johnson for the National Poetry Foundation’s Life and Work series. He teaches at Portland State University.
Susan Briante is a poet and translator. Pioneers in the Study of Motion, her first full-length collection of poems, will be published by Ahsahta Press in March 2007. She coedits the journal Superflux with poets Chris Murray and Hoa Nguyen. She lives in Dallas, Texas.
Julie Carr is the author of Mead: An Epithalamion (Georgia, 2004) and Equivocal (Alice James Books, forthcoming). She is the copublisher of Counterpath Press and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Matthew Cooperman is the author of two full-length collections, Daze (Salt Publishing, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), as well as two chapbooks, Words About James (Phylum Press, 2005), and Surge, winner of the Wick Chapbook Prize (Kent State, 1998). A former Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as a founding editor of Quarter After Eight magazine, Cooperman has taught at Harvard University, Ohio University, University of Colorado, and Cornell College. He currently teaches poetry and poetics at Colorado State University. More information may be found at: http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/English/faculty/cooperman.htm
Simon Cutts is a poet, artist, and editor, who has developed Coracle Press over the last thirty years in its many publicational forms. His own concern is with the book and its mechanisms as a manifestation of the poem itself. He lives in Ireland with Erica Van Horn. http://www.coracle.ie/index.html
Richard Deming is a poet and critic whose poems have appeared in Field, Sulfur, Mirage Period(ical) #4, Quarter After Eight, Indiana Review, Word for Word and other magazines, as well as in the anthology Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, edited by David Lehman. He is the author of Somewhere Hereabouts, published in the A.bacus series by Potes and Poets Press. Currently he is a lecturer for the English Department at Yale University. A conversation between Deming and Roberto Tejada on poetics is available as part of the Rust Talks series at http://epc.buffalo.edu/ezines/rust/rustIII.pdf
Cathy Eisenhower lives and works as a librarian in Washington, DC. Her chapbook, Language of the Dog-heads, was published by Phylum Press in 2001, and clearing without reversal is forthcoming from Edge Books.
Cameron K. Gearen is the author of Night, Relative to Day, a chapbook published by the Aldrich Museum. Her poetry has appeared in Fence, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, The Bellingham Review, River Styx, Quarterly West, Another Chicago Magazine, Northwest Review and elsewhere.
Anthony Hawley is the author of The Concerto Form (Shearsman Books, http://www.shearsman.com and the chapbooks Vocative (Phylum Press, www.phylumpress.com) and Afield (Ugly Duckling Presse). Recent poems have appeared/are forthcoming in Forklift, Ohio, Jacket, Lungfull, Verse, and 26 magazine. He currently teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Suzanne Heyd’s work appears in recent and forthcoming issues of jubilat, Sonora Review, New Orleans Review, Nimrod International, Southern Poetry Review, Porcupine, and Gulf Stream, and other journals. She lives in Connecticut where, among other gigs, she teaches creative writing at a psychiatric hospital for children and runs the literary program at Arts + Literature Laboratory (www.allgallery.org).
Cynthia Hogue has published five collections of poetry, most recently Flux (2002) and The Incognito Body (2006). She coedited Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews and The Sword Went Out to Sea, by H.D. (first edition), both forthcoming in 2007. She is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. www.cynthiahogue.com
Nancy Kuhl’s first full-length collection of poetry, The Wife of the Left Hand, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books (http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2007/kuhl.html) in 2007. Her chapbook, In the Arbor, was winner of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Kent State University Press. She is coeditor with Richard Deming of Phylum Press. www.phylumpress.com
Jean Lieske lives and works in San Francisco.
Kathryn Lynch is a poet and sculptor; she lives in Los Angeles.
Allison McElroy is a painter and sculptor; she lives in Alabama.
Rachel Melis is Assistant Professor of Visual Communication in the Art Department at Kansas State University. http://www.k-state.edu/art/faculty/bios/melis_r/index.html
Rachel Moritz's poetry chapbook, The Winchester Monologues, won the 2005 New Michigan Press Competition. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Colorado Review, Court Green, Denver Quarterly, HOW2, Indiana Review, typo, and 26. She edits WinteRed Press, a micropress publisher of poetry chaplets and broadsides.
Ryan Murphy is the author of "Down with the Ship" (Otis Books / Seismicity Editions). He lives in New York.
Juliet Patterson's first book, The Truant Lover, was selected by Jean Valentine as the 2004 winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and was recently published by Nightboat Books. Her work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Bellingham Review, Bloom, Conduit, Haydens Ferry Review, The Journal, New Orleans Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, typo, Washington Square, Verse, and other magazines. She edits poetry for Konundrum Engine Literary Review with Rachel Moritz, and teaches at the College of Saint Catherine and Hamline University. For additional information, please visit www.julietpatterson.com.
Karen “the extruder” Randall is the printer/publisher of Propolis Press (http://www.propolispress.com) & is neither strictly cromlech nor strictly albatross.
Sarah Riggs is the author of Word Sightings: Visual Media and the American Poet; she is a poet, painter, and photographer and lives in Paris and Provence.
Elizabeth Robinson is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Apostrophe (Apogee Press) and Under That Silky Roof (Burning Deck Press). Robinson has been a winner of the National Poetry Series and the Fence Modern Poets Prize. She coedits EtherDome Chapbooks and Instance Press.
Jae Jennifer Rossman is a painter and book artist; she is the Curator of the Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University Library.
Ravi Shankar is Assistant Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Central Connecticut State University. He is the founding editor of the online journal of the arts Drunken Boat. He is the author of Instrumentality, a collection of poetry.
Brian Sorg has had numerous exhibitions of his photography, mostly in the Chicago area. He holds a BFA from Columbia College, Chicago.
Nicole Stefanko lives and works in San Francisco.
Mark Stricker cocurates the Word of Mouth reading series at the Arts and Literature Laboratory gallery in New Haven, Conn. His poems have appeared in Sidereality, Muse Apprentice Guild, Tin Lustre Mobile, Word/For Word, Fell Swoop, Royal Vagrant Review, and Perihelion. He received his MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh. He lives in Hamden, Conn.
Katie Yates lives near New Haven, Conn. with her family and teaches art appreciation at Colorado Technical University Online. http://homepage.mac.com/kdyates/juliette/Personal182.html
