Karen Leona Anderson grew up in Connecticut, the daughter of a linguist and a botanist. She has an MFA from the Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and is the recipient of a Rotary Scholarship to New Zealand. She has had work published in jubilat, Verse, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, The New Republic, Fence, Sycamore Review, Pleiades, Third Coast, Columbia, Volt, Colorado Review, Sonora Review, and Poetry Ireland Review. She is currently writing a dissertation on poetry and science in Ithaca, New York, where she co-curates the SOON reading series.
Joshua Clover is the author of two books of poems, The Totality for Kids (University of California Press, 2006), and Madonna anno domini (1997), which received the 1996 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He is also a widely published critic and journalist, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. His contribution to the Modern Classics series for the British Film Institute, The Matrix, was published in 2005. He is an associate professor of English literature at the University of California, Davis.
Dolores Dorantes’s books include sexoPUROsexoVELOZ (2004), Lola (cartas cortas) (2002), Para Bernardo: un eco (2000) and Poemas para niños (1999). She is founding director of the border arts collective Compañía Frugal, based in Ciudad Juárez, where she has lived for twenty years. Translations of her poems into English have been published in 1913; Action, Yes; kenning; Tampa Review; and War and Peace, as a Seeing Eye chapbook, and in the anthology Sin puertas visibles (ed. and trans. Jen Hofer, 2003). A translation of sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and septiembre, books two and three of Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes, will be published by Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions in fall 2007.
Gabriel Gudding is the author of two books, A Defense of Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series, 2002), and Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, 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 as 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.
Jen Hofer’s books include lip wolf, a translation of lobo de labio by Laura Solórzano (Action Books, 2007), sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and septiembre, a translation of books two and three of Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2007), The Route, an epistolary and poetic collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008), and a book-length series of anti-war-poem-manifestos, titled one (Palm Press, 2008). She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a member of the Little Fakers collective which creates and produces Sunset Chronicles, a neighborhood-based serial episodic drama populated entirely by hand-made marionettes inhabiting lost, abandoned and ghost spaces in Los Angeles (www.sunsetchronicles.com).
Charles Légère lives in Oakland and studies and teaches at Berkeley.
Ange Mlinko is the author of Starred Wire (Coffee House).
Jennifer Moxley’s bio can be found at the Electronic Poetry Center: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/moxley.
Jennifer Scappettone is the author of Beauty [Is the New Absurdity], Err-Residence, and Abluvion Almanac[k], chapbooks out in 2007. Her first book, From Dame Quickly, will be out from Litmus Press in 2008; Exit 43, a verse-archaeology of the landfill and opera of pop-ups, commissioned by Atelos Press, is in progress. She has translated extensively from the Italian poetry of Amelia Rosselli, and is guest-editing the next issue of Aufgabe, devoted to contemporary Italian experiment. Her prose critical and otherwise appears in Chicago Review, Chain, The Brooklyn Rail, Boston Review, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
Rod Smith’s latest collection, Deed, will be published by the University of Iowa Press in the fall of 2007. He is the author of Music or Honesty, Poèmes de l'araignée (France), In Memory of My Theories, The Boy Poems, Protective Immediacy, and New Mannerist Tricycle with Lisa Jarnot and Bill Luoma. A CD, Fear the Sky, came out from Narrow House Recordings in 2005. Smith's work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Anthology of New (American) Poets, The Baffler, The Gertrude Stein Awards, Java, New American Writing, Open City, Poésie, Poetics Journal, Shenandoah, and The Washington Review. He edits Aerial magazine, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. Smith is also editing, with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris, The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley, for the University of California Press.
Suzanne Stein lives in Oakland. Works, talks, performance: Bay Poetics, Encylopedia, Both/Both, Commonweal, Small Town, Refusalon Gallery, the Berkeley Art Center, New Langton Arts, and elsewhere. She is editor and publisher of the small press TAXT, committed to making visible the works of poets, writers, and artists previously under-represented in publication.
David Weiss’s first novel, The Mensch, came out in 1998. He is a poet whose work has recently appeared in Literary Imagination and Narrative Theory. The first chapter of his novel Cry Baby was in Ploughshares last winter. GNOMON, a book-length poem, is forthcoming from Wolf at the Door Press. He teaches at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where he edits Seneca Review.
Allyssa Wolf is the author of Vaudeville (Seismicity Editions/Otis Books, 2006) and recipient of a Gertrude Stein Award (PIP Gertrude Stein Anthology, Green Integer, 2007). Her poems, essays, and videoworks have been published internationally in literary journals including Ribot, Versal, Poesia en Azione, Fence, LIT, Fascicle, Octopus, Soft Targets, The Continental Review, and The New Review of Literature, as well as being featured in the 2001 Venice Biennale.
Mia You is a doctoral student in English Literature at UC Berkeley. “YOU," an art book of her poems produced by Thorsten Kiefer, has been exhibited in various galleries. Her first chapbook, "Objective Practice," will be in print this fall. She has yet to pay her bill from Harvard University Libraries and hopes that her next work will not be titled "Collections."
