Contributor’s Notes

Julianna Baggott is the author of sixteen books, novels mostly but also three collections of poetry. Most recently, she’s published Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees (poems), The Ever Breath (for younger readers), and The Pretend Wife (under her pen name Bridget Asher). Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and on NPR.org. Visit www.juliannabaggott.com.(vol. 1)

JoAnn Balingit is the author of Your Heart and How it Works (Spire Press, 2009). Her work has appeared in Harpur Palate, Salt Hill, Smartish Pace, DIAGRAM.2, Best New Poets, and on Verse Daily. She serves as Delaware’s poet laureate and teaches in schools and community organizations throughout the state. Visit joannbalingit.org.(vol. 1)

Kristy Bowen is a writer and visual artist She runs dancing girl press & studio, which publishes a chapbook series for women poets, produces the online lit zine wicked alice, and hosts an online shop, dulcet, featuring a variety of books, art, and paper goods. She is the author of in the bird museum (Dusie Press, 2008) and the fever almanac (Ghost Road Press, 2006) as well as several chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Western Humanities Review, New South, Diagram, and elsewhere.(vol. 1)

Melissa Broder is the author of When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother (Ampersand Books, February 2010). She is the chief editor of La Petite Zine and curates the Polestar Poetry Series. By day she is a publicity manager at Penguin. Her poems appear, or are forthcoming in: Opium, PANK, Swink, Shampoo, Five Dials and elsewhere.(vol. 1)

Andrea Cohen is the author of the poetry collections Long Division, The Cartographer’s Vacation, and Kentucky Derby (forthcoming from Salmon Poetry). Her poems and stories have appeared in journals such as The Atlantic Monthly, The Threepenny Review, Glimmer Train, and Poetry. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts.(vol. 1)

Sasha Fletcher is the author of the novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL THE STREETS & WE WILL NOT HEAR THEM BECAUSE WE WILL BE UPSTAIRS IN THE CLOUDS [mud luscious press, 2010]. He is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Columbia University, New York.(vol. 1)

Matt Hart is the author of two books of poetry, Who’s Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and YOU ARE MIST (2009) with a third book, WOLF FACE, due from H_NGM_N Books in the Fall of 2010. Additionally, he is the author of several chapbooks, including The Hours (Cinematheque Press, 2010), FEELINGS, Assoc. (Hubcap Art, 2010), which he wrote in collaboration with Nate Pritts, and Late Makeup Years and Decline (1979-1983) (Hell Yes! Press, 2010), which he wrote in collaboration with Dobby Gibson. A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety, he lives in Cincinnati where he teaches at the Art Academy.(vol. 1)

Bob Hicok’s seventh collection, Elegy Owed, is forthcoming from Copper
Canyon. He recently released the chapbook Speaking American as part of
Frequencies, Volume 1: A Chapbook and Music Anthology (YesYes Books).
This Clumsy Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007) will be offered
in a German translation by Luxbooks in 2013.(vol. 1)(vol. 2)(vol. 7)

Thomas Patrick Levy abandoned his studies at Antioch University to work for a automotive towing and repossession agency. His work can be found in various journals and publications via thomaspatricklevy.com.(vol. 1)

Rob MacDonald lives in Boston and is the editor of the online journal Sixth Finch. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Octopus, Hanging Loose, Anti-, elimae, Diode, Free Verse, The Raleigh Quarterly, H_NGM_N, No Tell Motel and New CollAge. Last New Death, a chapbook, was recently published by Scantily Clad Press.(vol. 1)

Jeff Mann grew up in Covington, Virginia, and Hinton, West Virginia, receiving degrees in English and forestry from West Virginia University. His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in many publications, including The Spoon River Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Laurel Review, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, Crab Orchard Review, Bloom, and Appalachian Heritage. He has published three award-winning poetry chapbooks, Bliss, Mountain Fireflies, and Flint Shards from Sussex; two full-length books of poetry, Bones Washed with Wine and On the Tongue; a collection of personal essays, Edge: Travels of an Appalachian Leather Bear; a novella, Devoured, included in Masters of Midnight: Erotic Tales of the Vampire; a book of poetry and memoir, Loving Mountains, Loving Men; and a volume of short fiction, A History of Barbed Wire, which won a Lambda Literary Award. Binding the God, his second collection of personal essays, is forthcoming from Lethe Press. He teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.(vol. 1)

Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books) and Mixology (Penguin Books), which was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. He teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he is the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professor and Poetry Editor of Sou’wester. Visit his website at www.adrianmatejka.com. (vol. 1)

Ben Mirov has writing in, or forthcoming from: Did I Shit Me (I & II), The Agriculture Reader, Lungfull!, Verse Daily, The Best American Poetry Blog, and We Are Champion. He is the author of Collected Ghost (H_NGM_N, 2009), I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2009) and Ghost Machine (Caketrain, 2010). He is general editor of pax americana. He is also poetry editor of LIT Magazine. He blogs at isaghost.blogspot.com.(vol. 1)

Sam Pink is a chicago writer with soul. he’s got so much soul. he can be found doing dishes. he is satan’s right hand man and he plays blast beat air-drum fills.(vol. 1)

Anne Marie Rooney was born and raised in NYC, and just completed MFA study at Cornell, where she is now a lecturer of English. She won the 2009 Iowa Review Award for Poetry & the 2010 Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, and her book was a finalist for the Dorset Prize. Her work can be found in recent issues of Narrative, Columbia, and Pleiades, and in 2008’s Best New Poets anthology.(vol. 1)

Nate Slawson designs books for Cinematheque Press. He is the author of the chapbooks a mixtape called Zooey Deschanel (Line4, 2009) and The Tiny Jukebox (H_NGM_N Books, 2009). Recent work has appeared in Salt Hill, Cannibal, horse less review, Forklift, Ohio, DIAGRAM, Typo, and other places.(vol. 1)

Franz Wright’s most recent book of poems is Wheeling Motel (Knopf, 2009) and his next book, due out in fall 2011, is Forecast, a book of experimentation with lyrical prose.(vol. 1)

Joseph Young lives in Baltimore. His microfiction has appeared widely online and in print, and in December 2009 his book of microfictions, Easter Rabbit, was released by Publishing Genius. He also enjoys working with visual artists and has collaborated on a number of art gallery shows. Visit his blogs at verysmalldogs.blogspot.com and easterrabbit.blogspot.com.(vol. 1)