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LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is a writer and musician and the author of TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Jubilat, Fence, Rattapallax, Nocturnes, and LA Review. She has received awards including Cave Canem, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a native of Harlem.

Lynn Melnick

Lynn Melnick’s  If I Should Say Have Hope was published earlier this year by YesYes Books.  Her poetry has appeared in Antioch Review, BOMB, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Narrative, Paris Review, Poetry Daily, A Public Space, and elsewhere. One of her poems was included in Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Wave Books, 2004) and another on a postcard for the O’ Miami Poetry Festival.  Anticipated Stranger published a chapbook of her poems in summer 2012. Her fiction has appeared in Opium and Forklift, Ohio and she has written essays and book reviews for Boston Review, Coldfront, LA Review of Books, Poetry Daily, and VIDAweb, among others.

Rachel Levitsky

Rachel Levitsky is the author of a novel, The Story of My Accident is Ours (Futurepoem, 2013), two books of poetry, Under the Sun (Futurepoem, 2003) NEIGHBOR (UDP, 2009) and a number of chapbooks including Renoemos (Delete, 2010). She is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist avant-garde hub for interventions in writing, reading, engaged discourse and activism. In 2010 with Christian Hawkey, she started The Office of Recuperative Strategies (OoRS.net), a mobile research unit variously located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boulder, Brooklyn, Cambridge, NYC and Leipzig. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Pratt Institute.

Kathleen Rooney

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, composers of typewritten poetry on demand. She is the author of six books of poetry and nonfiction including, most recently, the novel in poems Robinson Alone,  the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs and the art modeling memoir Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object. Her debut novel, O Democracy!, is forthcoming in Spring 2014.

Lee Ann Roripaugh

Lee Ann Roripaugh’s fourth volume of poetry, Dandarians, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2014.  She is the author of three other volumes: On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (SIU Press, 2009), Year of the Snake (SIU Press, 2004), and Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin, 1999). She is currently a Professor of English at the University of South Dakota, where she serves as Director of Creative Writing and Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review.

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AMY Lawless is the author of two collections of poetry: My Dead (Octopus Books, 2013) and Noctis Licentia (Black Maze Books, 2008). She received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2011. Poems are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2013 and The Bakery. Recent prose has appeared in Delirious Hem, HTML Giant, and The Rumpus. Amy keeps a blog at amylawless.blogspot.com.

JAMES Gendron was born in Portland, Maine, and lives in Portland, Oregon.

LEOPOLDINE  Core was born and raised in Manhattan. Her poems and fiction have appeared in Open City, The Literarian, Drunken Boat, The Brooklyn Rail, Agriculture Reader, No, Dear and others. She is a 2012 Fellow at The Center for Fiction and The Fine Arts Work Center.

NADXIELI Nieto is the managing editor of NOON and the former editor of Salt Hill Journal. Her writing has appeared in The New York Tyrant, West Wind Review, Washington Square Review, Clamor, and Durty Dirty Diary, among others.

James Capozzi was born in West Milford, NJ.  His first book, Country Album, won the New Measure Poetry Prize and is published by Parlor Press.  He lives in Richmond, VA.

Hannah Gamble is the author of Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast, selected by Bernadette Mayer for the 2011 National Poetry Series. She has received writing and teaching fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inprint Inc., The University of Houston, and Rice University. Her poems and interviews appear in APR, jubilat, Indiana Review, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere.

Adam Giannelli’s poetry and translations have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Iowa Review, New American Writing, Field, Pleiades, and other journals. He is the editor of a book of literary criticism, High Lonesome: On the Poetry of Charles Wright (Oberlin College Press, 2005), and the translator of a book of prose poems by Uruguayan Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA, 2012). He is currently is a Brown-Neff Fellow in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah. He will be reading some his recent translations of di Giorgio’s surreal, garden poems.

Leigh Stein is the author of the novel THE FALLBACK PLAN, which New York Magazine called “a masterwork of the post-collegiate babysitting genre,” and a book of poems, DISPATCH FROM THE FUTURE, which Publishers Weekly picked for their Best Summer Books of 2012.

Leah Umansky’s first collection of poems, Domestic Uncertainties, is available now from BlazeVOX Books.  She is also the host/curator of the COUPLET Reading Series.  She received her BA in English/Creative Writing from SUNY Binghamton, her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College.  She has been a contributing writer for BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG, a poetry reviewer for The Rumpus, and a guest blogger/live twitterer  for The Best American Poetry Blog. 

Todd Colby has published four books of poetry: Ripsnort, Cush, Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Writings, and Tremble & Shine, all published by Soft Skull Press. Colby’s poems have been read on NPR for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. Colby has given readings at The Poetry Project, The Rubin Museum, New York University, The New School for Social Research, Brooklyn Public Library, Cornell University, The Kingston Writers Conference, The Whitney Museum of American Art, PS 122, and more. He posts new work on gleefarm.blogspot.com.

Shanna Compton’s books include For Girls & Others (Bloof, 2007),Down Spooky (Winnow, 2005), Gamers (Soft Skull, 2004), and several chapbooks. Her third and fourth poetry books are forthcoming from Bloof Books as a two-volume project; a collection called Brink in fall 2012, and a book-length speculative poem called The Seam in spring 2013. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poem-A-Day/PoemFlow by the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Daily, the Awl, Eoagh, No Tell Motel, Black Warrior Review, the Equalizer, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Barrelhouse, Open Letters Monthly, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the New School, where she also served as the editor-in-chief of LIT. Her poems and essays have appeared in dozens of publications and several anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2005, Poet’s Bookshelf II, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, Bowery Women, Digerati, and the Poetry Foundation website. For more, please visit http://www.shannacompton.com.

Jennifer L. Knox’s new book of poems, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, is available from Bloof Books. Her other books, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, are also available through Bloof. Jennifer was born in Lancaster, California—home to Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Space Shuttle. She received her B.A. from the University of Iowa, and her M.F.A. in poetry writing from New York University. She has taught poetry writing at Hunter College and New York University. Her poems have appeared in the Best American Poetry 1997, 2003 and 2006, and will appear in the 2011 volume—as well as the anthologies Best American Erotic Poems, Great American Prose Poems: From Poet to Present, and Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books. Her work has also appeared in numerous publications such as The New Yorker, American Poetry Review and Ploughshares. She is currently at work on her first novel. For more, please visit http://www.jenniferlknox.com.

Sandra Simonds grew up in Los Angeles, California. She earned a B.A. in Psychology and Creative Writing at U.C.L.A and an M.F.A. from the University of Montana, where she received a poetry fellowship. In 2010, she earned a PhD in Literature from Florida State University. Her second book of poems, Mother was a Tragic Girl, was published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2012. She is also the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2009), which was a finalist for numerous prizes including the National Poetry Series. Her third book of poetry, House of Ions, is forthcoming from Bloof Books in 2014. She is also the author of several chapbooks including Used White Wife (Grey Book Press, 2009) and The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington, Written from Land & Sea (Cy Gist, 2006). Her poems have been published in many journals including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Believer, the Colorado Review, Fence, the Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Volt, the New Orleans Review and Lana Turner. Her Creative Nonfiction has been published in Post Road and other literary journals. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida with her partner, two children and two dogs and is an Assistant Professor of English at Thomas University in beautiful, rural Southern Georgia. Find out more about Sandra here. Follow her on twitter @SandmanSimonds or visit sandrasimonds.wordpress.com.

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Farrah Field is the author of Rising (Four Way Books), Parents (Immaculate Disciples Press), and the newly released Wolf and Pilot (Four Way Books). She is co-owner of Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop and lives in Brooklyn.

Carol Guess is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, including Tinderbox Lawn, Doll Studies: Forensics, and Index of Placebo Effects. She is Professor of English at Western Washington University, where she teaches Queer Studies and Creative Writing. Follow her here: www.carolguess.blogspot.com

Elaine Kahn is the author of three chapbooks: A Voluptuous Dream During An Eclipse(forthcoming from Poor Claudia), Customer (Ecstatic Peace! Library) and Radiant Bottle Caps(Glasseye).  Recent work has appeared in Jubilat, Boog City, La Petite Zine, and Sea Ranch. She performs music under the name Horsebladder and co-edits the small poetry press Flowers & Cream.  For slightly more information please visit scrappaperplates.weebly.com

Tanya Larkin was born in Montebelluna, Italy and raised in Pennsylvania. She attended Columbia University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and is a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts and teaches at The New England Institute of Art. Her poems have appeared in Conduit, Quarterly West, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

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Melissa Broder is the author of two poetry collections, most recently MEAT HEART. Poems appear in Guernica, The Missouri Review, Redivider, Court Green, et al. She edits La Petite Zine.

Christopher DeWeese is the author of The Black Forest (Octopus Books, 2012). His poems have appeared inBoston Review, jubilat, and Tin House. He teaches at Smith College.

Douglas Piccinnini is the author of SOFT (The Cultural Society), CRYSTAL HARD-ON (Minutes Books) and, with Cynthia Gray and Camilo Roldán the forthcoming bilingual text, ∆ (Minutes Books / TPR Press). His first full-length book will appear with The Cultural Society in spring 2013. Recent work can be found inThe Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare ⎯ ed. Paul Legualt and Sharmila Cohen (Nightboat Books, 2012), Lana Turner, Solicitations (American Books, 2012), The Writing Machine with Cynthia Gray, The Cultural Society, Judah Rubin’s The Death and Life of American Cities, as well as new prose in Folklore and a collaboration with artist Jenna Ransom forthcoming in Diner Journal.

Leigh Stein is the author of the novel THE FALLBACK PLAN, which New York Magazine called “a masterwork of the post-collegiate babysitting genre,” and a book of poems, DISPATCH FROM THE FUTURE, which was a Publishers Weekly pick for Best Summer Books of 2012. Her non-fiction has appeared in Allure and Bookforum. Follow her @rhymeswithbee

Jordan Stempleman‘s most recent collections of poetry are No, Not Today (Magic Helicopter Press, 2012) and Doubled Over (BlazeVOX Books, 2009). He co-editsThe Continental Review, teaches writing and literature at the Kansas City Art Institute, and curates A Common Sense Reading Series.

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Sandra Liu‘s work can be found in 1913, Hoboeye, and the Beloit Poetry Journal. She currently provides guidance for science & arts grantees at the poles and in New York City. Her debut chapbook, On Poems On, was recently released by Ugly Duckling Presse.

Dolan Morgan lives and writes in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. You can find his work in The Believer, Armchair/Shotgun, Field and TRNSFR, among others. His work mythologizing airplane hijackings has been featured in the documentary project, Fortnight Journal. More at www.dolanmorgan.com

Niina Pollari wrote two chapbooks, Fabulous Essential and Book Four. A translation from the Finnish of the poetry of Tytti Heikkinen is forthcoming from Action Books in the fall. With Judy Berman, she is editing an anthology called It’s Complicated: Feminists Write about the Misogynist Art We Love.

Jacqueline Waters‘ One Sleeps the Other Doesn’t was recently published by Ugly Duckling Presse. She is the author of one previous collection, A Minute without Danger (Adventures in Poetry), and edits The Physiocrats, a pamphlet press.

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Loren Erdrich is a mixed-media visual artist working primarily in drawing, sculpture, performance and video.  She has exhibited nationally and internationally, both individually and as part of CultureLab Collective. A 2011 show at the Joan Cole Mitte Gallery in Texas featured her work alongside that of Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith and Félix González-Torres. Loren completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving a BA and BFA respectively. She received her MFA in 2007 from the Burren College of Art and the National University of Ireland. She currently lives in Brooklyn.

Christine Hamm is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Drew University. She won the MiPoesias First Annual Chapbook Competition with her manuscript, Children Having Trouble with Meat. Her poetry has been published in Orbis, Pebble Lake Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Rattle, Dark Sky, and many others. She has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize, and she teaches English at CUNY. Echo Park, her third book of poems, came out from Blazevox last fall. Christine was a runner-up to the Poet Laureate of Queens.

Aubrie Marrin’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Western Humanities Review, Guernica, Harp & Altar, Sink Review, NOÖ Journal, The Literary Review, Ilk, and Colorado Review. She received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University in 2005, and was also a finalist for the 2012 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. Born and raised in upstate New York, she currently lives and works in Brooklyn.  

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Lisa Ciccarello is the author of three chapbooks: At night (Scantily Clad Press, 2009), At night, the dead (Blood Pudding Press, 2009) & the upcoming Sometimes there are travails (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2012). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Handsome, Clock, Tin House, Sixth Finch, H_NGM_N, Interrupture, Poor Claudia, & Corduroy Mtn., among others.

Born in San Francisco, Jim Goar has lived in Tucson, Arizona; Changsha, China; Boulder, Colorado; Bangkok, Thailand; Seoul, South Korea; Norwich, England; and in Brevard, North Carolina. He is the author of two full length collections, The Louisiana Purchase (Rose Metal Press, 2011) and Seoul Bus Poems (Reality Street, 2010) as well as the chapbook, Whole Milk (Effing Press, 2006).

Born 1973 in a family of Balkan Wars refugees, Nikola Madzirov’s poetry has already been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Remnants of Another Age is his first full-length American collection and carries a foreword by Carolyn Forché who writes, “Nikola Madzirov’s Remnants of Another Age is aptly titled, as these poems seem to spring from elsewhere in time, reflective of a preternaturally wise and attentive sensibility. As we read these poems, they begin to inhabit us, and we are the better for having opened ourselves to them. Madzirov is a rare soul and a true poet.”

Janaka Stucky is the Publisher of Black Ocean, and its literary journal, Handsome. He is the author of Your Name Is the Only Freedom (Brave Men Press 2009) and The World Will Deny It For You (Ahsahta Press 2012), and his poems have appeared in publications such as Denver Quarterly, Fence, North American Review, and Volt. In 2010 he was voted “Boston’s Best Poet” in the Boston Phoenix.

Wendy Xu is the author of The Hero Poems, a chapbook from H_NGM_N BKS. Recent poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in CutBank, The American Poetry Journal, Columbia Poetry Review, Diagram, MAKE, La Petite Zine, NOO, Third Coast, and elsewhere. She co-edits iO: A Journal of New American Poetry / iO Books, and lives in Northampton, MA. (http://extrahumanarchitecture.tumblr.com)

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Lindsey Boldt is a poet and itinerant culture worker in training. Her first book, Overboard, is forthcoming from Publication Studios.

Joanna Penn Cooper’s creative and critical work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals, including Poetry International, Opium, Supermachine, Pleiades, elimae, and Boog City. Her second chapbook of poetry and short prose pieces, Mesmer, was published in April 2010 by Dancing Girl Press. Joanna’s full-length poetry collection, How We Mostly Were, was a finalist for the Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books in December 2010. Currently working on a book of prose poems and essays tentatively titled Vita, Joanna lives in Brooklyn and has a blog at joannapenncooper.blogspot.com.

Tyler Flynn Dorholt’s most recent chapbooks are What I Cannot Recall (Greying Ghost) and from Monster: a Glottochronology, with Thomas Cook (alice blue). He publishes and curates the film/writing series On the Escape (www.ontheescape.com) and is co-editor of the print journal Tim (née, Tammy …www.thetjournal.com).He lives in Manhattan, where he works for a communications firm and is the Managing Consultant of The A.N.D Project (www.theandproject.com).

Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE, Black Life, and the forthcoming Thunderbird, all from Wave Books. She can be found online at http://www.birdinsnow.com.

Steve Orth lives in Oakland, CA where he writes poems and poem-like things. He publishes the magazine ‘Where Eagles Dare’. With Lindsey Boldt, he runs Summer BF Press. He’s puts out his own chapbooks & the next will most likely be ‘Slur The Point’.

J. Hope Stein is the author of the chapbooks [Talking Doll]: (Dancing Girl Press), Corner Office (H_NGM_N BKS) and [Mary]: (Hyacinth Girl Press). Her full length manuscript The Inventor’s Last Breath was a finalist in the Alice James Books 2011 Kinereth Awards and her chapbook Light’s Golden Jubilee was a finalist in the 2011 Ahsahta Chapbook Contest. J. Hope Stein is also the author of poetry/humor site eecattings.com, editor of poetrycrush.com. Her short film, The Inventor’s Last Breath, based on her full-length manuscript about Thomas Edison, was screened at the 2011 Cinepoetry Festival at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur and will be screened in several venues in 2012.

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