Demosthenes Agrafiotis (Greece) is an experimentalist who deftly combines poetry, painting, photography, multimedia, and performance with the written poem. He has authored more than 13 books of poetry and essays and exhibited his photography, paintings, drawings, and installations internationally.

Stephanie Anderson's work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Spinning Jenny, and Tin House, among others.  Her chapbook, In the Particular Particular, won the 2006 DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest. She lives and teaches in New York City.

STAN APPS is a poet and essayist currently living in Tampa, Florida.  His books of poems include soft hands (Ugly Duckling Presse), Princess of the World in Love (Cy Press), Info Ration (Make Now Press) and God's Livestock Policy (Les Figues Press).  New work is available in Critiphoria, in The Physical Poets Vol. 2 from Lil Norton, and sporadically on his blog at www.nonprovocativeurl.blogspot.com

Cynthia Arrieu-King is a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati and an echocardiographer. Her chapbook The Small Anything City won the 2006 Dream Horse Press National Chapbook Prize. Poems are forthcoming in New Orleans Review and H_ngm_n. "I Have Made Myself a Bureacrat, Whatever That Means" takes some phrases straight from the e-mails of Jesseca Cornelson, genius.

Nathan Bartel lives in Newton, KS, & teaches at Bethel College. 

Claire Becker is the author of the chapbook Untoward, published in late 2007 by Lame House Press.  Currently moving from Oakland to San Francisco, she has lived in Spain, Bolivia, Paraguay, Mexico, Claremont, California and Kansas City.  Her poems are forthcoming in Mrs. Maybe and at the Cultural Society.

Geoff Bouvier is the author of Living Room, winner of the 2005 APR/Honickman Prize. In 2009, he will be the Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley.

Jessica Bozek's first book, The Bodyfeel Lexicon, is forthcoming from Switchback. Her chapbook, cor·re·spond·ence, a collaboration with Eli Queen, came out this past summer as part of the Dusi/e-chap kollektiv. When she isn't correcting comma splices in 80-odd student essays, she sews things or watches cop shows set in Baltimore. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jason Bredle is the author of Pain Fantasy (Red Morning Press, 2007), Standing in Line for the Beast (New Issues, 2007), and A Twelve Step Guide (New Michigan Press, 2004). New poems are forthcoming in Redivider, Low Rent, and H-NGM-N. He lives in Chicago.

David Carillo lives with his wife and dog in Pittsburgh where he is working on his MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh.  He also freelances for the Department of Transportation/Engineering counting the city’s bridges each day – once at dusk and once at dawn – to maintain an accurate account of how many have disappeared or appeared during the night. 

Juliet Cook is a poet and the editor of Blood Pudding Press. A few of her newest publication credits are Sein Und Werden, Diagram, and blossombones. The poems ‘Planchette’ and ‘Cataract’ are from her latest chapbook, Planchette, which is available now from Blood Pudding Press.

Phil Cordelli really hit his stride a couple of years ago, poetry-wise. He's done nothing but bang 'em out ever since. Keep rockin' homeboy! ILY! LOL!

Daniel Coudriet lives with his wife and son in Richmond, Virginia, and in Carcarañá, Argentina.  His poems can be found in a number of journals, including recent appearances in Verse, Denver Quarterly, and American Letters & Commentary.  His manuscript, Say Sand, was named a finalist in both the 2007 National Poetry Series and the 2007 Open Reading for Octopus Books.  His translations of the Argentinean poet Oliverio Girondo have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Fascicle, and elsewhere.

Susan Cronin has studied at Rutgers University, Sarah Lawrence College, and The New School.  Her poetry has appeared in Mid-American Review, PMS: poemmemoirstory, Wicked Alice, and Mannequin Envy and is forthcoming in RHINO.  

Cynthia Cruz is the author of RUIN, a collection of poems published by Alice James Books. Her poems have been published in many journals including the American Poetry Review, AGNI, GRAND STREET, Boston Review, Paris Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly and others. Her Cinderella poems published in this issue of Octopus are from her second collection, JUNK, a series of poems written from the point of view of homeless teenage punk kids in the 80s.

Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (2000) and Blood and Soap (2004), four books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (2003), American Tatts (2005), Borderless Bodies (2006) and Jam Alerts (2007), with a novel, Love Like Hate, scheduled to be released in 2008. His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, Best American Poetry 2004, Best American Poetry 2007 and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among other places. He keeps a regularly updated blog called Detainees. 

JEFF DOWNEY’S poems have appeared in Handsome and RealPoetik. He currently works at the University of Nebraska on a grant digitizing historic newspapers like the Omaha Bee and The Custer County Republican, but not the Norden Borealis.  That one didn't make the cut.

Grace Egbert, a recent graduate of the University of Montana MFA in Creative Writing, continues to write in Missoula. She also plays at making functional/non-functional ceramics, cooking, waitressing, and making experimental documentaries. Her favorite word is petrichor, which makes sense since she was born in the desert.

Erica Ehrenberg's poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in Goodfoot, jubilat, The New Republic, The St. Ann’s Review, Unpleasant Event Schedule, the Center for Book Arts broadside series, and in the anthology Dancing with Joy: 99 Poems (Crown, 2007).  Currently, she is at work on completing her first collection of poetry, and on a graphic novel loosely based on the gangs of 19^th century New York.

Paul Fattaruso is the author of Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf, The Submariner's Waltz , and Bicycle. He lives in Massachusetts.

CRAIG FOLTZ’S work has appeared in numerous journals including 14 Hills, Ninth Letter, Hayden's Ferry, Denver Quarterly among others. A book of poetry is has recently been released on the inimitable Ugly Duckling Presse. He lives and works in New Zealand, pressed to the organic silica rocks embedded in the landscape. Peruse. Purse. Parse. Parsed. Pursue.

MICHAEL FLATT is a native of Upstate New York and currently lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.

Sandy Florian is the author of Telescope (Action Books), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky Press), and The Tree of No (forthcoming with Action Books), of which “In the Beginning” is an excerpt.  Other excerpts appear in bird dog, /nor, how2, and Tarpaulin Sky.  She lives in Paris, France, where she teaches at the American University of Paris and WICE Institute for Continuing Education.

CRAIG FOLTZ’S poetry is has recently been released on the inimitable Ugly Duckling Presse. He lives and works in New Zealand, pressed to the organic silica rocks embedded in the landscape. Peruse. Purse. Parse. Parsed. Pursue.

Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon. Recent work is forthcoming from Word For/Word, La Petite Zine, Spinning Jenny, Bat City Review, Horse Less Press, and The Portland Review.

Lara Glenum is the author of The Hounds of No (Action Books 2005). Her second book, Maximum Gaga, is due out from Action Books in Fall 2008. She lives and teaches in Athens, GA.

Hillary Gravendyk’s poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Tarpaulin Sky, American Letters & Commentary, 1913: A journal of forms, and other publications. The complete “Diorama” series can be found in her chapbook, The Naturalist, available from Achiote Press in February of 2008.  She is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also the co-curator of The Holloway Series in Poetry and Poems Against War. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she and her husband now live in Oakland.

Heather Green has work appearing in Barrow Street, Pebble Lake Review, and Phoebe.  These poems are from her forthcoming chapbook, The Match Array, which will be published by Dancing Girl Press in the Fall of 2008.  They were created by erasure from a non-fiction piece called "The Interpreter" a written by John Colapinto.

Anthony Hawley is the author of two collections of poetry and four chapbooks, most recently Forget Reading (Shearsman Books, 2008) and Autobiography/Oughtabiography (Counterpath Press, 2007) and Record-Breakers (Ori is the New Apple Press, 2007).

Brian Henry's most recent book is In the Unlikely Event of a Water (Equipage). His translation of Tomaz Salamun's Woods and Chalices is forthcoming from Harcourt.

Claire Hero's poems have recently appeared in or are forthcoming from Coconut, A Public Space, Cab/Net, Foursquare, Parcel, and elsewhere.  She has two chapbooks forthcoming: Cabinet (dancing girl press, 2008) and afterpastures, winner of the 2007 Caketrain chapbook contest.  She lives in New Zealand.

Brenda Hillman is the author of seven collections of poetry, the most recent of which are Cascadia (2001) and Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005). She is Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at  St. Mary’s College of California, and is also working against war with CodePink, a social justice group.

Dan Hoy lives in Brooklyn and is an editor for Soft Targets. His poetry chapbook, Outtakes, was published by Lame House Press in Spring of 2007.

Radu Ioanid was born in Bucharest, Romania. He is the author of several books on Romanian history and the Holocaust, including Sword of the Archangel (East European Monographs, 1990), The Holocaust in Romania (Ivan R. Dee, 2000) and The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel (Ivan R. Dee, 2005). He works as Director of International Archival Programs Division at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Michael Ives is a writer and musician living in the Hudson Valley.  His collection of short prose, The External Combustion Engine, is available from Futurepoem books.  He teaches at Bard College.

The work of Eugen Jebeleanu (1911-1991), one of Romania's most important 20th century poets, is virtually unknown in the West. He published over 12 collections of poems, received numerous prestigious European literary awards (including the Italian Taormina Prize, and the Austrian Herder Prize), and in the 1970's was nominated by the Romanian Academy for the Nobel Prize. These translations from his final collection, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu (forthcoming from Coffee House Press in early 2008), are the first appearance of his work in English.  

LESLEY JENIKE is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cincinnati. Her poems have appeared or will appear soon in Verse, POOL, Court Green, Washington Square, Gulf Coast, Forklift, Ohio, Fairy Tale Review, and others. Her first book of poems, Ghost of Fashion is forthcoming from CustomWords.

KARLA KELSEY is author of Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary (Ahsahta Press 2006) and Iteration Nets (Ahshata Press, forthcoming). You can see her bookarts projects online at www.imprintpress.wordpress.com.

Caroline Knox's sixth book, Quaker Guns, will appear from Wave Books in April 2008.

Steve Langan is the author of a collection of poems, Freezing, from New Issues Press, and a chapbook, Notes on Exile & Other Poems, which received the Weldon Kees Award from Backwaters Press. He lives in Omaha, where he's the director of a non-profit health agency. Additionally, he teaches in the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing program.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007).  Her poems have also appeared in Boston Review, Phoebe, Skein, 6x6, Crowd, and jubilat, among others. Recent work is forthcoming in Coconut, Small Town, APlod, A Public Space, Absent, and other places.  Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she researches creativity and education.  Videos of some of her poetry readings can be found on www.birdinsnow.com .

Ada Limón’s first book, lucky wreck, was the winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize and her second book, This Big Fake World, was the winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize. With an MFA from NYU in creative writing, she’s won the Chicago Literary Award and fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the Copy Director for GQ Magazine and teaches a Master Class for Columbia University’s MFA program. She is particularly fond of rivers and is at work on a third book of poems as well as a novel.  

Michael Loughran was born in New Hope, Pennsylvania and later received an MFA from the University of Florida. His poems have appeared in Tin House, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Harvard Review, jubilat, Lit, CAB/NET, and Subtropics. He lives in Philadelphia.  

Shane McCrae went to school at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Harvard Law. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in: African American Review, New Orleans Review, Colorado Review, Anglican Theological Review and others, as well as in Octopus #5. He lives in Iowa City with his wife and son.

Karyna McGlynn is the author of two chapbooks: Scorpionica (New Michigan Press, 2007) and Alabama Steve (Destructible Heart Press, 2008). Her poems & reviews have recently appeared in LIT, Denver Quarterly, ACM, CutBank, Fence and Quarterly West. Karyna currently holds the Zell Postgraduate Writing Fellowship at the University of Michigan where she received her MFA. Her website is www.karynamcglynn.com. 

Laura Mullen teaches at Louisiana State University. Her most recent book is Murmur (futurepoem 2007). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Van Gogh's Ear, 1913, New American Writing, and the Denver Quarterly. An essay on Sylvia Plath appears in the Spring 2008 issue of Court Green.

WILL OLDHAM (a.k.a. Bonnie 'Prince Billy') is an American singer, songwriter and actor. Prior to adopting his current moniker, he performed and recorded under various permutations of the Palace name, including Palace Brothers, Palace Songs and Palace Music (1993-1997). Ask Forgiveness, a recent EP recording of cover songs, was released by Drag City in late Fall of 2007.

Cecily Parks is the author of Field Folly Snow, which will be published by the University of Georgia Press/VQR Poetry Series in 2008.  Her chapbook Cold Work won the 2005 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship.  She lives in New York and is currently a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.  The titles of her poems in this issue come from The Notebooks of Robert Frost .

CATE PEEBLES was born in Pittsburgh, and has lived in Portland, OR, Paris, and New York.  Her work has appeared in Tin House, La Petite Zine, and MiPOesias, among others. She has work forthcoming in Tight and Capgun. She co-edits the soon to be launched on-line poetry magazine, Fou.

D. A. Powell's fourth collection of poems is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in March of 2009. His recent work appears in Virginia Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Jacket and Best American Poetry 2008. He teaches in the English Department at University of San Francisco.

Brett Price is from Cincinnati, OH and is an assistant editor of Forklift, OH: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, and Light Industrial Safety. He is working toward an MFA at Bard College.  His writing can be found in such journals as H_NGM_N, The Incliner, and Milkmoney.  He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Chad Reynolds was born in Oklahoma and lives in Boston. More poems from his series, Lines, can be found in Redivider, RealPoetik, Sawbuck, Verse Daily, and Open Letters Monthly; other work has recently appeared in absent magazine and Diagram. His chapbook, Victor in the New World, is just out from Rope-a-Dope Press.

Martha Ronk's most recent books include Vertigo, a National Poetry Series selection published by Coffee House Press 2007, and In a landscape of having to repeat, published by Omnidawn and winner of the PEN USA best poetry book 2005. She has received a 2007 NEA Fellowship. These poems are from a manuscript influenced by the language of the 17th century essayist, Sir Thomas Browne.

KATHLEEN ROONEY is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading with Oprah. Her collaborative collection, That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness, with Elisa Gabbert is forthcoming from Otoliths Books in the spring and her first poetry collection, Oneiromance (an epithalamion), is forthcoming from Switchback Books in the fall.

Angelos Sakkis: born in Pireus, Greece. Studied design at the Athens Technological Institute. Worked for a time as an assistant to the painter Spyros Vassiliou, and collected the material for a monograph on Vassiliou’s work, published 1969. Immigrated to U.S 1970. BFA San Francisco Art Institute 1989. He lives in Oakland, California.

John Sakkis is the author of Rude Girl (Duration) and The Moveable Ones (Transmission). Forthcoming chapbooks include Gary Gygax (Cy Gist) and post-bulletin (Taxt). He curates the BOTH BOTH reading series in his apartment in the Lower Haight, San Francisco.

Tomaz Salamun has published over 30 books in Slovenian. His tenth book in English, Woods and Chalices, will appear from Harcourt in spring 2008. He is currently Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Richmond in Virginia.

Christopher Salerno’s first book of poetry is Whirligig, published by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing House, NY, NY. Other poems can be found or are forthcoming in: Verse, The Colorado Review, Jubilat, The Laurel Review, Jacket, The Tiny, The New Hampshire Review, Coconut, and in the anthologies, The Bedside Guide To No Tell Motel (2007) and the forthcoming, Outside Voices (2008). Currently, he teaches in the English Department at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

Robyn Schiff's second collection, Revolver, is coming out from the Kuhl House Poets series of the University of Iowa Press in autumn 2008. She is also the author of Worth, and currently teaches as Northwestern University.

Rob Schlegel is co-host, with Brandon Shimoda, of New Lakes Poetry, a weekly radio show in Missoula, MT.  His poems and reviews appear or are forthcoming in the Boston Review, Colorado Review, VOLT, Barrowstreet, AGNI, 42opus and Pleiades.

Peter Jay Shippy’s third book is the verse novella How to Build the Ghost in Your Attic (Rose Metal Press, 2007). Publishers Weekly says: “This is ambitious work that manages to be frequently dynamic.” Thieves’ Latin (University of Iowa Press) won the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize. A selection from his second book, Alphaville (BlazeVOX Books), won a Gertrude Stein Award. Shippy has received fellowships in drama and poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems, plays, and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, and Ploughshares. He teaches literature and writing at Emerson College in Boston.

Laura Sims's second book, Stranger, is forthcoming from Fence Books in fall of 2008.

Laura Solomon was born in Alabama in 1976. She is the author of Blue and Red Things (Ugly Duckling Presse 2007) and Bivouac (Slope Editions 2002), and a co-translator from the French with Sika Fakambi of Haïku des Pierres / Haiku of Stones by Jacques Poullaouec (Apogée Presse, 2006). She has lived most recently in Philadelphia and Paris, and now resides in Verona, Italy with singer-songwriter Nicola Battisti.

Stephanie Strickland lives in New York. Her fifth book of poems, Zone : Zero, will appear from Ahsahta in 2008.  She also makes collaborative hypermedia works. The most recent is slippingglimpse, introduced at e-Poetry 2007 in Paris in May. http://stephaniestrickland.com

Bronwen Tate is the author of Souvenirs (Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv, 2007). She received an MFA from Brown University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where she knits in class and edits Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, and Translation. Other poems from this project have appeared or are forthcoming in LIT, CapGun, Foursquare, The Cultural Society , The Concher and The Laurel Review. A chapbook of them is forthcoming from Cannibal.

Robbie Q. TELFER is a touring performance poet, having been a featured performer in dozens of venues across North America.   His previous work appears in the poetry anthologies High Desert Voices, Poems from the Big Muddy, and From Page to Stage and Back Again, as well as the American Book Review and a forthcoming cream city review.  He lives in Chicago where he performs in Marc Smith's Speak'Easy Poetry Ensemble and is the Performances Manager for Young Chicago Authors, a not-for-profit that gives creative writing opportunities and mentorship to Chicago teens.  In August 2007, he placed 8^th individually at the National Poetry Slam in Austin, TX.

Allison Titus lives in Richmond,VA. Her chapbook, Instructions from the Narwhal, is available from Bateau Press. Recent poems appear in Crazyhorse and Makeout Creek and she has a story forthcoming in Ninth Letter.

KC Trommer’s poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from AGNI Online, The Antioch Review, Bateau, The Concher, and MARGIE. A 2007 graduate of the MFA program at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, KC has been the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize, as well as fellowships from the Maine Summer Arts Program, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Prague Summer Program. She lives in New York with novelist Justin Courter.

Sara Veglahn is the author of three chapbooks: Another Random Heart (Margin to Margin, 2002); Falling Forward (Braincase Press, 2003); and Closed Histories (Noemi Press, forthcoming January 2008). She is also the co-author of That We Come to a Consensus (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005), a collaborative chapbook with Noah Eli Gordon. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, 26 Magazine, Fence, POM2, Sleepingfish, and elsewhere.

Karen Volkman's first book, Crash’s Law, was selected for the National Poetry Series and published by Norton in 1996. Her second book, Spar, received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2002 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. A third book, Nomina, will be published by BOA Editions in Spring 2008.

Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including The Origin of the World, Ted's Favorite Skirt and Touch of the Whip. He is editor and publisher of United Artists Books and director of the MFA program at Long Island University in Brooklyn. A new book, Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 is forthcoming from Granary.

JOSHUA MARIE WILKINSON’S interview with Danielle Dutton is here, with NEG is here & with Hoa Nguyen is here. New interviews with Nathalie Stephens and Karen Volkman forthcoming.

Jane Wong is currently a Fulbright Fellow in Hong Kong.  She is the recipient of awards and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, and Naropa's Summer Writing Program.  Her prose and poetry has been featured in Bombay Gin and Unpleasant Event Schedule.

Bethany Wright is a poet, performance artist, teacher, and independent curator/editor who has made her home in Brooklyn, Portland, Valley Falls, and Iowa City, and now Portland again since growing up in Langhorne, PA.  Versions of her solo video-vocal-performance-installation piece, Hark the Harbingers, have been enacted at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, PS122, Zieher-Smith Galley, and Nocturnal Gallery (pdx).  Wright has collaborated on operatic works, public interventions, sound and video pieces, book arts, and textiles & has authored 4 chapbooks, including Indeed, Insist (a mystery) [Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005] & the forthcoming From Whence Undone [Cosa Nostra Editions, 2008].  Currently on faculty at Pacific Northwest College of Art, she's reinvigorated by issues surrounding irrevocability, specifically in regards to books as instruments of divination.

Greta Wrolstad, a poet and artist, passed away on August 9, 2005, in Missoula, Montana, where she was pursuing an MFA at the University of Montana. While in the program at Montana, Greta was awarded a Poetry Fellowship, served as the poetry co-editor of CutBank and attended the 2005 Summer Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia, on a scholarship awarded by Fence Books; the Greta Wrolstad Scholarship for Young Poets was subsequently created in her honor. Poems from her manuscript, Notes on Sea and Shore, some of which have been included here, have appeared in A Public Space, The Canary, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere, and have been featured in the Best New Poets 2007 and Pushcart Prize XXXII 2008 anthologies. Greta was born on April 26th, 1981.

Matvei Yankelevich edited and translated Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook, 2007). He is a co-translator of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (2006). His translation of the poem "Cloud in Pants" is included in Night Wraps the Sky: Writings By and About Mayakovsky (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008). He is the author of a long poem, The Present Work (Palm Press, 2006). His writing has appeared in various journals. He teaches Russian Literature at Hunter College in NYC and edits the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse. He's currently working on the following full-length features: "PhD at CUNY" and "a house in the country" (with Anna Moschovakis).

PETER YUMI is a multi-media artist. More work can be viewed at www.peteryumi.wordpress.com.

Matthew Zapruder is the author of two collections of poetry: American Linden (Tupelo Press, 2002) and The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, 2006), selected by Tony Hoagland as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. He is also the co-translator of Secret Weapon, the final collection by the late Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu (Coffee House Press, 2007). He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the New School and works as an Editor for Wave Books. In Fall 2007 he was a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa, Texas. He lives in New York City.

Vincent Zompa lives in Brooklyn.  His chapbook Jacket of the Straits was published by New Michigan Press and his work has appeared recently in They Are Flying Planes.