Mary Burger:
Mary Burger is the author of A Partial Handbook for Navigators (Interbirth Books) and Sonny (Leon Works), a meditative fiction about the Manhattan Project and the disappearance of the American agrarian family. She edits Second Story Books, featuring cross-genre writing that explores relationship to place, time, and knowing. She lives in Oakland, California, where she is currently studying landscape architecture. You can learn more about Mary's work at www.maryburger.com.
David Hadbawnik:
David Hadbawnik is a poet currently living with his wife Tina Zigon in Buffalo, New York, where he studies and teaches at SUNY. He publishes Habenicht Press (habinichtpress.com). His recent publications include essays in Big Bridge and Chicago Review and poems in the Marlboro Review, Damn the Caesars, and Exquisite Corpse. His books include The Downwinders (Modest Proposal), SF Spleen (Skanky Possum), and Ovid in Exile (Interbirth Books). His chapbook Translations from Creeley is forthcoming from Sardines Press.
Hoa Nguyen:
Born in Vinh Long, near Saigon, Hoa Nguyen grew up in the Washington D.C. area and studied poetry at the New College of California in San Francisco. She now lives in Austin, Texas where she co-edits Skanky Possum, a book imprint and journal, and curates a monthly reading series in Austin with her husband, the poet Dale Smith. Her poems have been published in various journals and in An Anthology of New (American) Poets (Talisman House, 1989); Time Being (Bootstrap); Not for Mothers Only (Fence); and Black Dog, Black Night (Milkweed). She is the author of Dark (1998), Parrot Drum (Leroy, 2000), Your Ancient See Through (Sub Press, 2002), Red Juice (Effing, 2005), and Poems (Dos, 2007). Her new collection is forthcoming from Hot Whiskey Press.
Richard Owens:
Richard Owens's writing has appeared in Aufgabe, BlazeVOX, Cipher Journal, O Poss, Jacket, Rain Taxi, Skanky Possum, and elsewhere. Forthcoming work will appear in First Intensity and Shearsman. He lives in Buffalo, NY where he edits Damn the Caesars, participates in the SUNY Poetics Program, and sorts through the Jargon Society archive at the Poetry Collection. His book Embankments is forthcoming from Interbirth Books.
Erin Pringle:Erin Pringle's work has appeared in pacificREVIEW, Dark Recesses Press, Ugly Accent, Quay, SUB-LIT, Project for a New Mythology, Bonfire: An International Conflaguration, Lake Effect, Porcupine, Barrelhouse, The Circle, Drunk Duck, Indiana English, Snow*vigate, Quarter After Eight, Downstate Story, Pagitica in Toronto, The Adirondack Review, and Whistling Shade. Her story "The Only Child" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and named a Best American Notable Non-Required Reading of 2007. She currently has work forthcoming in New York Tyrant, Etchings, Big Pulp, and Electric Velocipede. For more information about Erin Pringle, visit www.myspace.com/erinpringle.
Clifton Riley:
Design extraordinaire at Interbirth Books and a member of the Roving Artists Collective Ars Ipsa, Clifton Riley's work has been shown on multiple occasions in both Austin and San Marcos, Texas. He lives in San Marcos, TX where he is the Teaching Assistant and Studio Manager for the Printmaking Area of the Department of Art and Design at Texas State University. Most recently, he served as Artist in Residence at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia in Venice, Italy. For more information, please contact Clif at clifton.riley@yahoo.com.
Kyle Schlesinger:
Kyle Schlesinger lives in Brooklyn, NY where he is the proprietor of Cuneiform Press and the Monday Night Coordinator at St. Mark's Poetry Project. He also publishes and lectures on topics related to poetics, visual communication, and artists' books. His recent books of poetry include The Pink and Hello Helicopter. You can learn more about Kyle at www.kyleschlesinger.com.
Amy Trachtenberg:
Amy Trachtenberg’s work as a visual artist explores space, light, and materiality. For over two decades, Trachtenberg’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group shows. Projects and collaborations with architects, poets, playwrights, and composers include design for plays by Leslie Scalapino and Carla Harryman and operas by Bartok, Mozart, and Victor Ullman performed in the Bay Area and in France. Her commissions of public artworks are integrated into a library, a hospital, and a transit system. She received a BA in French and Liberal Studies from California State University Sonoma and the Diplôme d'Art Plastique from L’école Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. She lives and works in San Francisco where she is represented by Brian Gross Fine Art. You can learn more about Amy at www.amytrachtenberg.com.
Sharon Yablon:
Sharon Yablon's plays include I Like Meat; Up a Tree (semi-finalist, National Ten-Minute Play Contest); Earthquakes Bring People Closer; The Curse of the Basque Bloodline; Reunion; Viscera (honorable mention for playwriting, Writer's Digest); Peep Show; The First Good Day (LA Weekly "Pick of the Week"; nominated for the LA Weekly Theater Award for Playwriting); My Husband's Friend; The Party; Beach; and The Empty Bed (finalist, Juliard; semi-finalist, Grace Kelly Playwriting Award). Her works have appeared in numerous journals; are included in the anthology Los Angeles Under the Influence: 20 LA Writers, Their Influences and Their Work (Double Wide Press); have been aired on KKLU; and will be performed at Overtone Industries in 2008. She directs site-specific plays in Los Angeles as creator/producer of The Farm and as an active contributor to Pharmacy's quarterly performace in Chinatown. She also participates in Luther's Garage (a web-based reading series) and is a member of Padua Playwrites.