ROSA ALCALÁ is a poet and translator originally from Paterson, NJ. Her latest translation is Guardians of the Secret by Lila Zemborain (Noemi Press, 2009). Her translations also appear in The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry (2009). Undocumentaries, a collection of poems, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books. She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.

STAN APPS is a poet and essayist living in Tampa, Florida. His books include Info Ration from Make Now and God’s Livestock Policy from Les Figues. A chapbook of Sonnets is forthcoming in the g.e. series from Books and Bookshelves, and a big brick of essays is soon to come from Combo Books. Stan’s blog is at nonprovocativeurl.blogspot.com.

CARA BENSON has two poem books, (made) and Protean Parade, forthcoming from BookThug and Black Radish respectively and edits the online journal Sous Rature (www.necessetics.com/sousrature.html). “Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation” (BookThug) co-won the bpNichol Prize. Other work includes: Belladonna Elders Series #7 with Anne Waldman and Jayne Cortez (Belladonna), “UP” (Dusie), and “Spell/ing ( ) Bound” with Kai Fierle-Hedrick and Kathrin Schaeppi (ellectrique press). Benson edited the interdisciplinary book Predictions now out with Chain. She is an active committee member of the PEN Prison Writing Program and teaches poetry in a NY State Correctional Facility for males.

DAVID BRAZIL was born in New York and lives in California. With Sara Larsen he edits TRY!, a biweekly

xerox publication. His books include The Book Called Spring (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs) and Spy Wednesday (forthcoming from TAXT Press). Send mail to 3107 Ellis St., Berkeley, CA 94703.

LAYNIE BROWNE is the author of seven collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent books are The Scented Fox (Wave 2007) and Daily Sonnets (Counterpath 2007). She has two collections forthcoming: Roseate, Points of Gold (Dusie) and The Desires of Letters (Counterpath).

CACONRAD is the recipient of THE GIL OTT BOOK AWARD for The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a forthcoming collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Books, 2010). CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He invites you to visit him online at http://CAConrad.blogspot.com and also with his friends at http://PhillySound.blogspot.com

CORINA COPP's recent work has appeared in Aufgabe, Antennae, Puppy Flowers, 6x6, Denver Quarterly, Poets on Painters, and elsewhere. A staged reading of her performance text, "OK" was produced in Dec. 2008 by Theatreworks at NYCCT/Voorhees Theater; and her play "A Week of Kindness" appeared in the 2007 Tiny Theater Festival at the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator/Brick Theater. She is the author of the e-book Carpeted (Faux Press 2004), and chapbooks Play Air (Belladonna* 2005) and Sometimes Inspired by Marguerite (Open 24 Hours 2003). She is currently studying playwriting with Mac Wellman at Brooklyn College, and is the editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.

MICHAEL CROSS edits Atticus/Finch Chapbooks and co-edits ON: Contemporary Practice. His chapbooks include Throne (Dos Books) and Cede (Vigilance Society), and his most recent book-length project, In Felt Treeling, was published by Chax. Haecceities is forthcoming in 2010 from Cuneiform Press. He is finishing a dissertation on the work of Louis Zukofsky, and he edited a collection of talks on the work of George Oppen which may or may not see the world soon.

ROBERT DEWHURST edits the small poetry magazine Satellite Telephone, and co-edits, with Sean Reynolds WILD ORCHIDS, a journal of affective literary criticism. He currently lives in Buffalo, NY, where he is studying literature and feelings.

THOM DONOVAN coedits ON: Contemporary Practice, edits Wild Horses of Fire blog, and curates for the SEGUE reading series in NYC. His critical writings and poetry have appeared variously online and in print. “In the dirt of the line” is part of a book-length project about cultural translation and geopolitical disruption across recent poetries and visual art.

PATRICK JAMES DUNAGAN lives and works in San Francisco. An essay on Creeley and Stevens is expected in Fulcrum 7. Recent books include: From Chansonniers (Blue Press, 2008) and Easy Eden w/ Micah Ballard (PUSH, 2009).

JOEL FELIX edits LVNG Magazine with Michael O’Leary and Peter O’Leary. His work has appeared in chapbooks from Answer Tag Home Press, Bronze Skull, and Chicago Poetry Project, and in the journals Chain, Ecopoetics, and Cultural Society.

BRENDA IIJIMA is the author of Around Sea (O Books) and Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press). Two forthcoming titles include revv. you’ll—ution (Displaced Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press). Presently she is working on a project that loosely resembles an encyclopedia chronicling animals used as surrogates by humans. She’s also researching all the women that were murdered in her hometown of North Adams, Massachusetts. Iijima runs Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs in Brooklyn, NY.

CHRIS MARTIN is the author of American Music, recipient of the Hayden Carruth Award. His most recent chapbook is The Small Dance, published online by Scantily Clad Press. An unpublished collaboration with the late poet kari edwards will be surfacing soon and the web journal he edited, Puppy Flowers, just finished its eleven issue run this summer. More of his critical work can be found in Yeti, Slash, The Poetry Project Newsletter, and Poiesis: Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

C.J. MARTIN lives in Lockhart, TX, where he co-edits Dos Press with Julia Drescher. He’s also a contributing editor for Little Red Leaves (www.littleredleaves.com) & LRL e-editions. His chapbooks include WIW?3: Hold me tight. Make me happy (Delete Press, 2009), Lo, Bittern (Atticus/Finch, 2008) and CITY (Vigilance Society, 2007). Work is recent and forthcoming in Antennae, Broke (w/Julia Drescher), Try! (w/Julia Drescher), P-Queue, Damn the Caesars, & elsewhere.

LAURA MORIARTY’s A Semblance: Selected & New Poetry 1975-2007 came out from Omnidawn Publishing in 2007, as did An Air Force, a chapbook from Hooke Press. Her long essay poem A Tonalist is forthcoming from Nightboat Books next spring. Other recent books are Ultravioleta, a novel, from Atelos and Self-Destruction, a book of poetry, from Post-Apollo Press. She has taught at Mills College and Naropa University among other places & is currently Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution. She is findable on-line at A Tonalist Notes and related blogs.

RICH OWENS edits Punch Press and Damn the Caesars, a journal of contemporary poetry and poetics. Delaware Memoranda, a book-length poem, was published by BlazeVOX. Embankments is forthcoming from Interbirth Books.

EVELYN REILLY’s most recent book, Styrofoam, was published by Roof Books in 2009. She is currently working on Material Science, an exploration of the language of siteless architectural forms. Other works also include Fervent Remnants of Reflective Surfaces from Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs and Hiatus from Barrow Street Books.

MICHELLE TARANSKY’s first book, Barn Burned, Then, was selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize. Taransky lives in Philadelphia where she works at Kelly Writers House and teaches poetry at Temple University.

DAN THOMAS-GLASS recently published 880, a poetry and photography intermedia project on the freeway, with Deep Oakland Editions. He is the editor and lead spraypainter for With + Stand. Poems and essays have appeared in Tarpaulin Sky and Jacket and elsewhere. He lives with his wife Kate and daughter Sonia one block from the 580/80 split, in Albany.

ROBIN TREMBLAY-McGAW lives in San Francisco where she edits www.xpoetics.blogspot.com. Her work has appeared in HOW2, Crayon, Mirage, Digital Artifact Magazine, POM2, Narrativity, Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Coach House Books, 2004) and elsewhere. She has two chapbooks—after a grand collage (Dyad Press) and making mARKs (a+bend press)—and is currently at work on a full length manuscript.

BRIAN WHITENER is a writer, researcher, translator, and member of the collective project La Lleca, an artistic-social intervention into the prison system of Mexico City. His most recent books include a translation of Colectivo Situaciones’ Genocide in the Barrio forthcoming from ChainLinks, Como hacemos lo que hacemos with the artistic collective La Lleca, a translation of Maurizio Lazzarato’s Politics of the Event and Haciendo tiempo: Arte/politica desde 1999 from la Universidad Autónoma de la Cuidad de México. He is an editor at Displaced Press (http://displacedpress.blogspot.com), and since 2005 he has been investigating new political and artistic movements in Latin America and autonomist political theory. His writings and translations have appeared in many U.S. journals, and he has edited a special issue of the online magazine Moria and is involved in an on-going collaborative translation project of contemporary Latin American poetry that is currently appearing in Aufgabe.

TYRONE WILLIAMS teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of two books of poetry, c.c.(Krupskaya Books, 2002) and On Spec (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008). He also has several chapbooks out, including AAB (Slack Buddha Press, 2004), Futures, Elections (Dos Madres Press, 2004) and Musique Noir (Overhere Press, 2006). A new book of poems, the Hero Project of the Century, is forthcoming in 2009 from The Backwaters Press. He recently completed a manuscript of poetry commissioned by Atelos Books.