CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

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GEOFFREY BABBITT

Born: Boise, ID 1981.

Current Location: Salt Lake City, UT.

Publications: Colorado Review, Confrontation, West Wind Review, The Eleventh Muse.

Other Facts: Bob Dylan aficionado.

Email: geoffrey.babbitt@utah.edu

JILL BEAUCHESNE

Born: Fairfax, Virginia 1978, The Year of the Horse.

Current Location: Missoula, MT.

Publications: Gargoyle, nthposition.

Other Facts: Likes chunky salsa, smooth guacamole, and powder puff football.

Email: jillyjmb@hotmail.com Blog: www.beauchesnejmb.blogspot.com

ETHAN BULL

Born: Boston, Massachusettes 1980

Current Location: Ilford, East London, UK

Publications: None

Other Facts: Currently teaches secondary school in England. Educated at The University of Michigan and Indiana University.

Email: esbull@indiana.edu

BILL CASSIDY

Born: Albany, NY

Current Location: Ridgewood Queens, NY
Publications: Fence, Le Petite Zine

Other Facts: Ulcer

Email: bansheeontweek@hotmail.com

HEATHER CHRISTLE
Born: Wolfeboro, NH 1980
Current Location: Wolfeboro, NH
Publications: Unpleasant Event Schedule
Other Facts:  I'm looking after a rabbit, which means there's rather a lot of hay on my bedroom floor.  Also, I have a new car.  Neither of these things has ever happened to me before.
Email: heather_christle@hotmail.com

JOE FLETCHER

Born: Okemos, MI 1976.

Current Location: Carrboro, NC.

Publications: Jubilat.

Email: maintenantjevais@yahoo.com

BRIAN HOWE
Born: July 21, 1979
Current Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Publications: GutCult, Eratio

Other Facts: Freelances for Pitchforkmedia.com and Paste Magazine. Lives with girlfriend named Jennifer, an orange cat named Blue. Celebrity that strangers like to tell him he resembles: Edward Norton. Women's pants size: 4 to 6, depending on manufacturer and desired bulge.

Blogs at: moistworks.com/and slatherpuss.blogspot.com/

DANIEL KHALASTCHI
Born: WDM, IA

Current Location: Iowa City, IA

Publications: Working on that.

Other Facts: Received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop in May, and is teaching Composition (and apparently Hebrew School) in the fall.

Email: daniel.khalastchi@gmail.com

FARAH MARKLEVITS

Born: Red Wing, MN

Current Location: Cortland, NY

Publications: Cimarron Review, Born Magazine, Diagram

Other Facts: Writes: right-handed. Team: Poetry. Farah signed with the marriage francise two years ago. She is managed by two cats and a noisy red refrigerator.

Email: fbmarkle@yahoo.com

ANDREW MCCARRON
Born: Poughkeepsie, NY 1976
Current Location: New York City
Publications: Colorado Review; Hudson Review
Other Facts: Loves Poland
Email: andrewmccarron222@hotmail.com

ALESSANDRO NIERO
Born: Verona, Italy, 1968
Current Location: On a train somewhere north of Bologna, Italy

Publications: Donna (Edizioni Pulcinoelefante, 1996), Tendente a 1 (Colpo di Fulmine Edizioni, 1996), Ritratti da private serrature (Lietocollelibri, 1997), Colloqui con le creditrici (VLU, 1998), Il cuoio della voce (Voland, 2004)
Other Facts: Has a nice beard and glasses (both real).

CARYL PAGEL

Born: Iowa
Current Location: Chicago
Publications: Elixir, Diagram
Other Facts: Attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently works at the Illinois Arts Council and reads for Another Chicago Magazine.
Email: carylpagel@gmail.com

MICHAEL QUATTRONE
Born: Concord, MA 1977
Current Location: Sleepy Hollow, NY
Publications: None
Email: michaelquattrone@earthlink.net

ERIC SWEET
Born: For the most part; Moscow, ID
Current Location: San Diego, CA
Publications: Fascicle (forthcoming)
Other Facts: Longs for a picture frame made of human fingernails and prefers ice milk to ice cream.
Email: arksweet@gmail.com

BETSY WHEELER

Born:  Dallas, WI 1976

Current Location: Lewisburg, PA

Publications: Brooklyn Review, GutCult, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Ligature, Bedside Guide to the No Tell Motel.

Other Facts: Holds the Stadler Fellowship at Bucknell University, where she lives in the Poet's Cottage with an imaginary cat named Nora. She is a co-editor at Flat City Press.

Email: bettywheel@yahoo.com

RANDALL WILLIAMS
Born: Nashville, TN 1977
Current Location: Hillsborough, NC

Publications: McSweeney's, Salon, Carolina Quarterly, Displayer, Word/for Word
Other Facts: Will go three-wide into a turn. Member of Lucifer Poetics Group
Email: erw5@duke.edu

OTHER CONTRIBUTORS

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Brad Flis can't get toronto in properly. His work barrel races in Skein, 1913 journal, & Effing magazine.

Johannes Goransson’s Dear-Ra poems can be found in Typo, Skidrow Penthouse, Double Room, In-Posse and Octopus. He’s working on translations from Swedish avant-garde poets from the 1920’s to current times. He is co-founder and editor, along with Joyelle McSweeney, of Action Books.

Matt Hart is a co-founder and editor of Forklift Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety.  His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Butcher Shop, The Canary, and Lungfull!, among other journals, and can be seen online in such journals as Diagram, H_NGM_N, and Typo. His first book of poems, Who's Who Vivid, is forthcoming from Slope Editions. He teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Stan Mir has published work in previous issues of Colorado Review, Free Verse, and Octopus.

Kathleen Ossip is the author of The Search Engine , which won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including The Best American Poetry, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, the Washington Post, Fence, and Poetry Review (London). She teaches poetry workshops at The New School, where she serves as Editor at Large for LIT.

Brandon Shimoda was born in Tarzana, California. His poems, reviews, and pictures have appeared or will appear soon in Typo, Barrow Street, Pool, Word for/Word, The Bedside Guide to the No Tell Motel, and elsewhere, as well as in galleries in Vermont and New York. He is one-half of The Pines, an ongoing series of poems and projects with Phil Cordelli. A former resident of the northeast, northwest, southeast, and the west coast, he now lives in none of the above.

Allyssa Wolf's poems have appeared in Ribot, Fence, Poesia en Azione (Italy), Gut Cult, No Tell Motel, Versal (The Netherlands), and are forthcoming in The New Review of Literature & Soft Targets. Her first book, Vaudeville, is forthcoming from Seismicity Editions in Winter 2006. She is the editor of Gateway Songbooks, a chapbook series.