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Tarpaulin Sky Contributors

Born and raised in Paterson, NJ, Rosa Alcalá is the author of Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna, 2003). Forthcoming are translations for the Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry. Alcalá’s poems and translations can also be found in a variety of publications, including Barrow Street, Brooklyn Rail, and Mandorla. She is currently Assistant Professor in the University of Texas at El Paso’s Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program.

CHRIS ABANI'S prose includes The Virgin of Flames (Penguin, 2007) GraceLand (FSG, 2004/Picador 2005), Masters of the Board (Delta, 1985) and the novellas, Becoming Abigail (Akashic, 2006) and Song For Night (Akashic, 2007). His poetry collections are Hands Washing Water (Copper Canyon, 2006), Dog Woman (Red Hen, 2004), Daphne’s Lot (Red Hen, 2003), and Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001). He is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award & the PEN Hemingway Book Prize.

JESÚS AGUADO, b. 1961, Spain, is the author of Los amores imposibles [Impossible Loves] (Hiperión Prize, 1990, Madrid); Libro de Homenajes [Book of Homage] (Hiperión Press, Madrid, 1993), El fugitivo [The Fugitive] (Pre-Textos, Valencia, 1998); Los poemas de Vikram Babu (Hiperión, 2000) [under consideration for English ed. as Like the Oar that Cuts the Current: The Poems of Vikram Babu, co-translated by Electa Arenal & BeatrixGates]; Lo que dices de mí [What You Say About Me] (Pre-Textos, 2002); Heridas [Wounds] (Renacimiento, Seville, 2004); and La astucia del vacío. Cuadernos de Benarés 1986-2004 [The Cunning of the Void: Benares Notebooks 1987-2004] (Ediciones Narila, Málaga, 2005); among other books.

Samuel Amadon has published poems recently in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Modern Review, New Review of Literature, VOLT and elsewhere.

BETH ANDERSON is the author of The Habitable World (Instance Press) and Overboard. Recent work appears in New American Writing, 26, and Five Fingers Review. Her poems are included in The Best American Poetry 2003 (Scribner) and An Anthology of New (American) Poets (Talisman House). She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Lucy Anderton lives in the south of France where she was the writer-in-residence for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2005 and 2006. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, American Letters & Commentary, Rattapallax Magazine, AGNI Online, and Forklift, Ohio, amongst others, and are forthcoming in Born Magazine and Poem, Revised. She is finishing her first book of poems, entitled Check the Number on My Collar.

JESSICA ANTHONY'S stories appear in CutBank, New American Writing, Rattapallax, Mid-American Review and elsewhere. She has won the fiction fellowship to Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia, and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Portland, Maine.

ELECTA ARENAL'S published work includes translations of Leon Felipe, Vicente Huidobro, Claribel Alegria, Gioconda Belli, Angel Rama and the critical edition and translation, co-authored with Amanda Powell, of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's, The Answer/La Respuesta, Including a Selection of Poetry. Co-translators Electa Arenal and Beatrix Gates were awarded the 2003 Witter Bynner Translation Residency at the Sante Fe Art Institute to collaborate on selected works of contemporary Spanish poet Jesus Aguado; they produced a translation of the book-length poem, what you say about me. An earlier co-translation from Aguado's Like the Oar That Cuts the Current: Poems of Vikram Babu appeared in Sam Hamill’s Poets Against the War.

ROBYN ART'S recent poems have appeared in Slope, The Hat, Conduit, Slipstream, Gulf Coast, The New Delta Review, Wicked Alice, The Burnside Review, and canwehaveourballback.com. She received Pushcart Finalist honors in 2003, and has received grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Jentel Arts Foundation. She is the author of the poetry manuscript, The Stunt Double In Winter, which was selected as a Finalist for the 2004 Kore Press First Book Award and the 2005 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Degrees of Being There, was released by Boneworld Press in May 2003. A second chapbook, No Longer A Blonde, is forthcoming from Boneworld Press in 2006. Her book-length poem, Vestigial Portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls, will be published in 2006 by Dancing Girl Press as part of a limited-edition chapbook series. Currently she lives in Brooklyn and teaches English, Literature, and Creative Writing at Montclair State University, New Jersey City University, and Felician College.

Caroline Ashby graduated Hunter College, where she won the David Stevenson Award for Shakespeare Studies, Harvey Minkoff Award for Linguistics, Audre Lorde Award, and Mary McElligott Gloster Award. Though born on (and with) that Long Island Sound, she now lives in New York City with her "assorted foliage," Marceau and Marcel. She plans to enter graduate school when reading for fun gets boring.

Tama Baldwin’s poems and essays have appeared recently in journals such as Gulf Coast, Poetry International, Best New Poets 2005, River Teeth, and Heliotrope. A chapbook of her poems, Garden, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2006.

Claire Becker lives in Oakland and teaches at the California School for the Blind. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Octopus Magazine, Typo, H_NGM_N, 580 Split, the tiny, and The Alembic. She holds an MFA from Saint Mary’s College and is the author of the chapbook Untoward, forthcoming from Lame House Press.

AIMEE BENDER is the author of 2 books, The Girl In The Flammable Skirt which was a NY Times Notable book of 1998, and An Invisible Sign of My Own, an L.A. Times Pick for 2000. She's had short fiction published in Harper's, GQ, Granta, Paris Review, and is currently in McSweeney's. She lives in L.A. and teaches at U.S.C.

JEN BENKA'S collection of one poem for each of the 52 words in the Preamble to the US Constitution, A Box of Longing With Fifty Drawers, will be published by Soft Skull Press in 2005. Jen is the managing director of Poets & Writers and lives in New York City.

Cara Benson currently believes in the vagaries of boundary. Her work appears in 88, pom2, HOW2, EOAGH, Sentence, and BoogCity. Her wee-e-chapbook, Bound, is forthcoming from Dusie. She is editing a collection of writing for Chain, and her “Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation” is available from BookThug (www.bookthug.ca). In addition to teaching for Skidmore College, Benson makes poems every Tuesday with male inmates at Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility in upstate NY.

Ilya Bernstein’s poems and translations have appeared in Ars Interpres, Best American Poetry 2006, Circumference, and elsewhere. He is the author of one book of poems, Attention and Man (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003), and the editor of Osip Mandelstam: New Translations (UDP, 2006).

JENNY BOULLY'S book The Body was published in 2002 by Slope Editions. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2002, The Next American Essay, and Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present. She is a contributing editor for Maisonneuve.

MICHAEL C. BOYKO'S work appears or is forthcoming in the Denver Quarterly, SleepingFish, Chain, Web Conjunctions, Pinstripe Fedora, Pom2, and Harness. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

Joseph Bradshaw is the author of the chapbooks The Way Birds Become (Weather Press, 2007) and This Ocean (Cannibal Press, forthcoming in 2008). His poetry and reviews have recently appeared in Cannibal, Cultural Society, Denver Quarterly, Jacket, and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel—2nd Floor. He currently lives in Iowa City.

Popahna Brandes lives in Providence and New York. She teaches lyrical fiction at Pratt Institute. Recent work in fiction and translation can be found in Encyclopedia Vol. 1, A-E.

Daniel Brenner currently lives and writes in NJ. His first book of poetry, The Stupefying Flashbulbs, is available from FenceBooks/UPNE.

Lily Brown holds an MFA from Saint Mary’s College and currently lives in San Francisco. She has poems appearing or forthcoming in Octopus, Typo, Coconut, Cannibal, Fence, and Handsome. Octopus Books published her chapbook, The Renaissance Sheet, in early 2007.

REBECCA BROWN'S eleventh book, The Last Time I Saw You, was published by City Lights in 2006. Brown is also the author of Woman in Ill-Fitting Wig, a collaboration with painter Nancy Kiefer available at pistilbooks.net. Brown’s memoir, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, was published by Granta Books, (UK), University of Wisconsin Press (USA), and Asahi Shimbun, Japan. Among her other books are the memoir-in-essays, The End of Youth and the fictions, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, Annie Oakley's Girl, and The Terrible Girls all with City Lights, and The Gifts of the Body, (HarperCollins).

Benjamin Buchholz is an Army officer currently serving in Iraq. His recent work explores the process of alienation, change and growth, of becoming unordinary, that soldiers must endure. His work been featured in Tryst and in Identity Theory. Other credits include The Wisconsin Academy Review, The 2River View, Jack, Harness, Gambara, Action/Yes, Opium, Antimuse, Hiss Quarterly, Drunken Boat, and others. He has a first collection of short fiction and poetry called New Animals forthcoming through PulpBits. Visit Benjamin's website here.

AL CAMP was raised in Tacoma, graduated from Stadium High School and served in the Air Force 1969-73 (two tours in Southeast Asia). He holds both Cinematography (BA) and Physical Science (BS) degrees from Washington State University. He also has AAS and ALA degrees from Tacoma Community College. His newspaper photos have won numerous awards, both regionally and nationally. He¹s been in group shows at Gallery 76 in Wenatchee, Larson Gallery in Yakima and Confluence Gallery in Twisp. His photos are in collections, including Washington State Museum of Natural History and Sun Mountain Lodge. He¹s taught several photo classes at Wenatchee Valley College-North. Publications include American Cowboy, Photo District News, Washington, American West, Alaska, National Enquirer and Woman¹s World. View many more of Al Camp's photos at www.seeinglight.com

Julie Carr’s books of poetry are Mead: An Epithalamion (UGA Press) and Equivocal (Alice James Books). She is working on a critical book about Victorian Poetry titled “Surface Tension: Desire and Time in Late-Victorian Poetry.” Her poems have appeared recently in journals and anthologies such as Verse, Volt, New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review and Best American Poetry 2007. She is the co-editor, with Tim Roberts, of Counterpath Press and teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her work appears in Tarpaulin Sky V2n2-3 and V3n3-4, along with her most recent appearance in Tarpaulin Sky Print Issue #1.

CHARLES DURNING CARROLL was born in New York City, and raised in Japan, France and England. He studied philosophy at Vassar and received an MFA in Poetry from Emerson College. He is now a student in the Ph.D. program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Meredith Carruthers is an artist living in Montreal. In 2004 Meredith completed her MFA at Concordia University, where her studies included the exchange program to The Glasgow School of Art. In recent projects she has constructed a life-sized crepe paper swan and created a velour archipelagos for tinfoil cats. Meredith has participated in exhibitions in Montreal, Vancouver and New York.

Laura Carter is a PhD student in Atlanta, GA.

DAN CHELOTTI is currently pursuing his MFA at UMASS-Amherst. He has worked as an Assistant Managing Editor at Verse Press for the past three years. He lives in Easthampton, MA.

Marianne Choi, originally from New Jersey, currently resides in NYC. This Fall, she will be starting her senior year at Hunter College, where she has won a Mary McGelligott Gloster Award and is pursuing a BA in Creative Writing.

Jon Christensen is a life-long Brooklyn resident and a graduate of Brooklyn College. He teaches high school English in NYC. He thanks his wife (Tanya) and daughter (Felicidad) for their love and patience through all his endeavors. His work appears in both Tarpaulin Sky Summer 06 and Tarpaulin Sky Print Issue #1.

Heather Christle lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Some of her poems appear in Boston Review , LIT, Octopus and Third Coast. She occasionally writes for the Kenyon Review blog, and frequently she is the assistant editor at jubilat.

JAN CLAUSEN is the author of nine books, including poetry, novels, and the memoir Apples and Oranges. The recipient of fellowships from the NEA and NYFA, she teaches in the Goddard College MFA in Writing Program and at Eugene Lang College.

ADAM CLAY lives in Northwest Arkansas, co-edits Typo Magazine and is a co-director of Arkansas' Writers in the Schools program. His poems are forthcoming or can be found in can we have our ball back? Octopus, and storySouth.

JOSHUA COREY is the author of Selah (Barrow Street Press, 2003) and Fourier Series (Spineless Books, 2005). He lives in Ithaca, New York, where he is writing a dissertation on modernist pastoral and keeps a blog, Cahiers de Corey. His work appears in Tarpaulin Sky V2n1 and V3n3-4.

LUCY CORIN'S novel, Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls was published by FC2 in 2004. Her collection of short stories, The Entire Predicament, is forthcoming in October from Tin House Books. Her short stories have been published in numerous journals, including Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, the Mid-American Review, and Conjunctions, and was anthologized in The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Narrative (Iowa University Press, 1994) and New Stories for the South: The Year’s Best (Algonquin Books, 1997 and 2003). Currently, she teaches English at the University of California, Davis.

MICHAEL COSTELLO lives in Saratoga Springs, where he works as a copywriter for Palio Communications. He has been published in CROWD, eye-rhyme, DelSol Review, swankwriting, MiPo, Columbia Poetry Review, La Petite Zine, Unpleasant Event Schedule, and Best American Poetry 2004.

John Cotter is the poetry editor for Open Letters Monthly. His poems appear or are forthcoming from Volt, Goodfoot, Hanging Loose, Coconut, Unpleasant Event Schedule, and others. His collaborations with Shafer Hall have been published in MiPOesias, Shampoo, and Failbetter.

STEVEN CRAMER is the author of four poetry collections: The Eye that Desires to Look Upward (1987), The World Book (1992), Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand (1997), and Goodbye to the Orchard, to be published in 2004 by Sarabande Books. His poems and criticism have appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, and Triquarterly; as well as in The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002.

Patrick Culliton lives in Chicago. His work has appeared, or will soon, in Backwards City Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Cranky, jubilat, The Journal, and elsewhere. He has slain many beasts.

MARK CUNNINGHAM received an MFA from the University of Virginia, and he still lives in the Charlottesville area. Poems have appeared in Rhino, Paragraph, and Tarpaulin Sky Spring 04; a larger selection, of poems on parts of the body, is on the Mudlark website.

CHAD DAVIDSON'S poems have appeared or are forthcoming in  DoubleTake, Notre Dame Review, The Paris Review, Pequod, Seneca Review, and others. His first collection of poems, Consolation Miracle, was recently selected by Rodney Jones as the winner of the 2002 Crab Orchard Prize, and will be published in fall 2003 with Southern Illinois University Press. He is a past recipient of a year-long Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to the University of Perugia, Italy, and is currently finishing Ph.D. studies in English at Binghamton University. He lives with his wife, Gwen, in Binghamton, New York.

LUCILLE LANG DAY is the author of four poetry collections: Infinities (Cedar Hill Publications), Wild One (Scarlet Tanager Books), Fire in the Garden (Mother's Hen), and Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope (Berkeley Poets' Workshop and Press), which was selected by Robert Pinsky for the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature. She also has a chapbook in the Greatest Hits series from Pudding House Publications, and her poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including The Chattahoochee Review, The Hawaii Pacific Review, The Hudson Review, The New York Times Magazine, Threepenny Review, September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (Etruscan Press), Mother Songs (W.W. Norton), and A More Perfect Union: Poems and Stories About the Modern Wedding (St. Martin's). Upcoming anthologies in which her work will appear include The California Legacy Anthology of Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present (Heyday Books) and Addison Street Anthology, a collection of about 100 poems that will be embedded in the sidewalk on Addison Street in Berkeley.

BARBARA DeCESARE has had poems published in over 45 journals nationwide, including The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Birmingham Poetry Review, River Styx and Gargoyle. She has been featured at hundreds of venues including the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The New School in New York City and The Baltimore Museum of Art. She is the book review editor of Wordhouse, the Baltimore Writers' Alliance (BWA) literary guide, and an an at-large member of the BWA executive board. The (Baltimore) Sun has called her work "what thunder looks like in writing." She serves as The 98 Rock Poet Laureate (WIYY 97.9 Baltimore) where monthly she supplants/combines fart jokes with poetry during the morning drive time. She is a single mom of three kids and works as a legal assistant for one of the best ambulance chasers in Maryland. She enjoys reading autopsy reports. Visit Barbara DeCesare's website at www.emster.com/barbara

John Deming is a native of New Hampshire but currently lives in New York City where he teaches English at Baruch College, works for Plum TV, and serves as an Editor-in-Chief for the poetry review journal coldfront (coldfrontmag.com). He holds an MFA from The New School and a BA from the University of New Hampshire.

Shira Dentz's poems, stories, and reviews have appeared in various journals and anthologies including Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Field, American Letters & Commentary, Electronic Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Chelsea, Seneca Review, Salt Hill Journal, Barrow Street, How2, The Journal, Diner, Luna, Cimarron Review, Web del Sol, Big Bridge, Outsider Ink, and can we have our ball back?. She's the recipient of Poetry Society of America awards, Electronic Poetry Review’s Discovery Award, and Painted Bride Quarterly’s Poetry Prize. Her poetry has aired on National Public Radio and been featured on Poetry Daily. In addition, she has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, Squaw Valley Writers’ Community, and the MacDowell Arts Colony.

Geoffrey Detrani is a writer, artist and teacher. His artist's books are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 1999/2000 he was an artist in residence at the former World Trade Center with a studio on the 91st floor. His writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Crowd, Canary, Fence, Fourteen Hills, 6x6, Drunken Boat, Massachusetts Review, New Orleans Review, Black Warrior Review, and other publications. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn, New York.

BARBARA WESTWOOD DIEHL is editor of The Baltimore Review. Her poems and stories have appeared in Antietam Review, Crescent Review, Thema, Negative Capability, Maryland Poetry Review, and a variety of other publications.

WILLIAM DORESKI'S work has most recently appeared in Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, and Birmingham Poetry Review. He has published a critical study entitled Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors (Ohio University Press, 1999) and a collection of poetry, Suburban Light (Cedar Hill, 1999). He is currently teaching literature and creative writing at Keene State College in New Hampshire.

Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of ten books including The Blue City (2007 Marick Press) and Broken Hallelujahs (2007 BOA Editions). He is currently traveling the world in search of the White City.

Julie Doxsee, born in London, Ontario, holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is now a PhD student at the University of Denver. Other recent work appears or is forthcoming in Aufgabe, Retort Magazine, 42opus, Spork, La Petite Zine, H_NGM_N, Slope, Eratio Postmodern Poetry, Word For/Word, can we have our ball back?, Elimae, Coconut Poetry, Conduit, Typo, Fourteen Hills, Shampoo, Action Yes, and other journals. Read her blog here.

WILLIAM E. DUDLEY received his MA in Information Science from the University of Arizona and has poetry published or arriving in Hayden's Ferry, Painted Bride Quarterly, & New York Quarterly. He recently studied with Norman Dubie—was homeless.

Author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison (Red Hen Press 2006), CAMILLE DUNGY has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave Canem, and the American Antiquarian Society. She is assistant editor of Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Dungy is currently Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.

JAMEY DUNHAM'S prose poems have appeared in Sentence, Paragraph, Key Satch (el), Fence, Boston Review, and ACM, among other journals. His poem “An American Story” was included in the anthology Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Sinclair Community College, where he edits the journal Flights. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife and son.

DANIELLE DUTTON is the author of Attempts at a Life (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007) and SPRAWL (Clear Cut Press, forthcoming 2008). From California, she lives in Illinois. Her work appears in Tarpaulin Sky Winter 03/04 and Tarpaulin Sky Print Issue #1.

KARI EDWARDS is author of obedience (Factory School, 2005); iduna, (O Books, 2003), a day in the life of p. (subpress collective, 2002), a diary of lies - Belladonna #27 (Belladonna Books, 2002), and post/(pink) (Scarlet Press, 2000). edwards' work can also be found in Scribner's Best American Poetry (2004), Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, (Coffee House Press, 2004), Biting the Error: writers explore narrative, (Coach House, Toronto, 2004), Aufgabe, Tinfish, Mirage/Period(ical), Van Gogh's Ear, Amerikan Hotel, Boog City, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Narrativity, Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, Pom2, Shearsman, and Submodern Fiction.

Born and raised in Connecticut, KELLY ELAYNE is currently immersed in the Los Angeles world of music video and commercial production. Her background includes script coverage for major Hollywood directors and freelance script doctoring. She makes the ultimate soy brownies and sounds like Whitney Houston ca. 1985 in the shower. "See Jane" is her debut published work of fiction.

JEFF ENCKE has recently published Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse, a deck of playing cards featuring excerpts of love letters written to Saddam Hussein and other war criminals, available at www.matlub.net. His poetry has recently appeared in Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Octopus, Salt Hill, 3rd Bed, and Quarterly West, among others.

TONY EPRILE is the author of Temporary Sojourner and Other South African Stories and will be Writer-in-Residence at Skidmore College in spring, '03. He lives with his family in Bennington, Vermont.

BRIAN EVENSON is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) which was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by Time Out New York and is a finalist for the Edgar Award. He directs the Literary Arts Program at Brown University and is a Senior Editor for Conjunctions magazine.

ERIC FALCI is currently working on a PhD in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is originally from Syracuse, NY. His work has recently appeared in The Adirondack Review.

JOAN FISET is a psychotherapist in private practice. As a PTSD Contractor with the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs she has worked with Vietnam veterans diagnosed with Post-traumatic stress disorder. Her book of memoir prose poems, Now The Day is Over, Blue Begonia 1997, won the King County Publication Award. Her poems and prose have appeared in Under the Sun, Raven Chronicles, Crab Creek Review, Cranky, and Switched-on Gutenberg. She collaborated with Xuan Ngoc Nguyen and Yusef Komunyaka on Washing Clothes in Moonlight: The War Stories of Xuan Ngoc Nguyen, a manuscript currently under consideration for publication.

SANDY FLORIAN is the author of Telescope (Action Books) and 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky Press). “The Time is Near” is an excerpt from The Tree of No (forthcoming with Action Books). Other excerpts appear in /nor, Bird Dog, and How2. Her work appears in Tarpaulin Sky Fall/Winter 05/06 and Tarpaulin Sky Print Issue #1.

Having spent most of his life bouncing around places as varied as New Orleans, Maine, Madrid, and Paris, THAD FOWLER is enjoying settling down in the city by the Bay. He is working on his MFA at San Francisco State University.

A writer who teaches at the Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette, SKIP FOX has written a number of chapbooks including Adventures of Max and Maxine (2003) and Wallet (1997) as well as What Of (Potes & Poets, 2002), the first volume of an untitled work of epical length, if nothing else. Recent work in or forthcoming from ambit, moria, Exquisite Corpse, Pavement Saw, eratio, Word For/Word, Black Box, and Gestalten.

JEFF FRIEDMAN'S poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Antioch Review, The Missouri Review, Manoa, New England Review, 5 AM, and New Virginia Review. His third collection of poetry, Taking Down the Angel, has recently been published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.

JAMEY GALLAGHER lives in New Jersey

BEATRIX GATES' third book of poetry, In the Open, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. She has been a fellow in poetry at the MacDowell Colony and VCCA, and as publisher of Granite Press, she published Ixok Amargo: Central American Women Poets for Peace ed. by Zoe Angelsey. Co-translators Electa Arenal and Beatrix Gates were awarded the 2003 Witter Bynner Translation Residency at the Sante Fe Art Institute to collaborate on selected works of contemporary Spanish poet Jesus Aguado; they produced a translation of the book-length poem, what you say about me. An earlier co-translation from Aguado's Like the Oar That Cuts the Current: Poems of Vikram Babu appeared in Sam Hamill’s Poets Against the War.

ELENA GEORGIOU'S first book of poetry, mercy mercy me, won a Lambda Literary Award for poetry, was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award, and was reissued by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2003. She is also co-editor (with Michael Lassell) of the poetry anthology, The World In Us (St. Martin’s Press). Her work appears or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, BOMB, MiPoesia, Lumina, Spoon River Review, Cream City Review, and Gargoyle.

BARRY GIFFORD'S most recent books are The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader and American Falls: The Collected Short Stories of Barry Gifford. His books of poetry include Replies to Wang Wei, Flaubert at Key West, Ghosts No Horse Can Carry, Giotto's Circle, Beautiful Phantoms and others. Recent nonfiction works include Bordertown and The Phantom Father. Gifford co-wrote with David Lynch the screenplay for Lost Highway. Gifford's novels include Wyoming, The Sinaloa Story, Arise and Walk, Night People, Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango, Port Tropique and others. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. Visit Barry Gifford's website at www.barrygifford.com

Robert Glück is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including the two novels, Margery Kempe (1994) and Jack the Modernist (1995), a book of poems and short prose, Reader (1989), and a collection of stories, Denny Smith (2004). He lives in San Francisco and teaches at San Francisco State University, where he is an editor of the online journal Narrativity. In 2005, Coach House Press published Biting the Error: Writers on Narrative, an anthology edited by Glück, Camille Roy, Mary Berger and Gail Scott.

REBECCA GOPOIAN lives in Queens, New York. Her work has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Taint Magazine, The Avatar Review, Bombay Gin and VeRT.

MICHAEL GOTTLIEB is the author of more than a dozen titles, including Lost and Found (Segue, 2004). His other recent books include Gorgeous Plunge (also from Segue) Careering Obloquy (Other Publications/Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and More Than All (Tongue To Boot), a collaboration with Ted Greenwald. One of the central first-generation Language poets, Gottlieb helped edit the seminal Roof magazine through the 80s. He presently lives in Northwest Connecticut with his wife and two children.

Hillary Gravendyk’s poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Colorado Review, 1913: A journal of forms, The Eleventh Muse, Fourteen Hills, The Bellingham Review, and other publications. Her manuscript, The Sensible Horizon, was awarded the 2006 Eisner Prize in Poetry. 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 Northwest, she and her husband now live in Oakland.

Carolyn Guinzio is the author of West Pullman, winner of the 2004 Bordighera Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, 42opus, New American Writing, Octopus, Gutcult, Typo, No Tell Motel, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. A Chicago native, she lives in Fayetteville, AR.

Annie Guthrie is a writer and jeweler living in Tucson. She is currently working on her third manuscript. She lived between Tucson and Italy for many years and continues to pursue her love of language and translation. She is co-owner of “The Jewel Smithery” on South Park in the Lost Barrio and works for the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

Shafer Hall’s first full-length collection of poems, Never Cry Woof, has just been published by No Tell Books. Originally from Texas, he’s a senior poetry editor for Painted Bride Quarterly. His collaborations with John Cotter have been published in Absent, Can We Have Our Ball Back? and Snow Monkey.

AMY HALLORAN has written for Salon, The Seattle Weekly, and the American Book Review. Her short stories have been published in a variety of online sites, such as McSweeney’s and Pindeldyboz, as well as printed in Gargoyle and Alimentum. Currently she writes opinion pieces for The Times Union and The Daily Gazette, and is working on a novel and a comic book about urban removals in upstate New York, where she lives with her family.

ANNALYNN HAMMOND'S first book, Dirty Birth, was the winner of Sundress Publications' Book Contest. A group of her poems also won the 2004 Marc Penka Poetry Award. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Slipstream, Gargoyle, can we have our ball back? DIAGRAM, Failbetter, Spork, Aught, The Glut, Shampoo, Word For/Word, Sidereality and elsewhere. She lives in Wisconsin.

Paul Hardacre is the Managing Editor of papertiger media, publishers of the papertiger: new world poetry CDROM, hutt poetry ezine, anything i like art ezine, and the soi 3 modern poets imprint. His first collection of poetry, The Year Nothing, was published by HeadworX (Wellington, New Zealand) in 2003. He currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

JOSEPH HARRINGTON is the author of Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern US Poetics (Wesleyan, 2002). He is currently at work on a mixed-genre and mixed-media account of his mother's life and times, entitled Things Come On. In 2005, he will be the Walt Whitman Chair in American Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Matt Hart is the editor of Forklift Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety. His work has appeared in many print and online journals, including The Canary, Lungfull!, Ploughshares, and Octopus. His chapbook is Revelated (Hollyridge Press, 2005), and his book-book is Who's Who Vivid, (Slope Editions, 2006). In addition, a new chapbook, SONNET, is forthcoming from H_NGM_N B_ _KS. He teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and remains as surprised as anyone.

Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000). Her third book of poems, Modern Life is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2007. Her first children's book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel, is forthcoming from Soft Skull. Matthea is a contributing editor to jubilat and BOMB. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn.

AMY HAVEL'S stories have appeared in Conjunctions, Failbetter, and Pindeldyboz, and are anthologized in The Way Life Should Be: Contemporary Stories by Maine Writers, and Consumed: Women on Excess. She has written for Rain Taxi, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Portland Press Herald, and American Book Review, among other publications.

Brent Hendricks’ Thaumatrope is forthcoming from Action Books this fall.

SOJOURNER HODGES writes: "I am 17 years old, a dual-enrolled student at Florida State University, and living in rural southern Georgia with my parents and other animals, namely cats, dogs, and horses. Besides everything else, I am mainly a musician. My poems have recently been published or are forthcoming in Poems Niederngasse, Snow Monkey, Promise Magazine, Alba, and The Wolf (UK)."

A two-time National Poetry Series finalist, Anna Maria Hong has published poems in many journals including Black Clock, Fairy Tale Review, Cue, Painted Bride Quarterly, ARCADE, Puerto del Sol, Fence, and Quarterly West. Her non-fiction appears in publications such as American Book Review, Poets & Writers, poetryfoundation.org, Seattle Magazine, The Stranger, and The International Examiner. She teaches creative writing and literature at UCLA’s Writers’ Program and at DigiPen Institute of Technology where she is an Assistant Professor.

JOANNA HOWARD'S work has appeared in Conjunctions, Chicago Review, Unsaid, Quarterly West, Fourteen Hills, Western Humanities Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Her chapbook In the Colorless Round, with artwork by Riki Ducornet, is available from Noemi Press. She lives in Providence, RI where she edits for The Encyclopedia Project, and teaches part-time at Brown.

Laird Hunt is the author of three novels, The Impossibly, Indiana, Indiana and The Exquisite. His writings and translations have appeared in, among other places, Bomb, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Conjunctions, Grand Street, Fence, Brick, Inculte and Zoum Zoum. A former United Nations press officer and faculty member of Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, he currently teaches fiction and literature at the University of Denver.

JASON HUNTZINGER moved to Duluth from Utah in 1999. He now splits his time between the two places. Huntzinger received a BFA from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2002. Huntzinger received a Career Development Grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council in 2003 to exhibit the body of work featured in this issue. Photographic subjects include Duluth, rural Utah, skies and vapor trails and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake. Huntzinger's images can be found at www.zenithphotography.com

A graduate of the English Department at the University of Maine (Orono), John Hyland is currently doing work in Cultural Production at Brandeis University. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Modern Review, horse less review, Dusie, Puppy Flowers, and H_NGM_N.

Cynthia Ona Innis received a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Rutgers University in New Jersey. Her paintings can be seen in the permanent collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Microsoft Collection, the Capital Group Collection, and the Imagery Estate Winery Collection. Among awards she has received are the 2005 James D. Phelan Award for Printmaking, a 2005 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a 2003 Kala Fellowship, and a 1991 James D. Phelan Award in Painting. Innis exhibits nationally and is currently teaching painting at UC Berkeley. Please visit here website at http://www.cynthiaonainnis.com

Lucy Ives lives in New York.

LOUIS JENKINS lives in Duluth, Minnesota. His poems have been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies, including Kenyon Review, Paris Review and American Poetry Review. His books of poetry include An Almost Human Gesture (Eighties Press and Ally Press, 1987), All Tangled Up With the Living (Nineties Press, 1991), Nice Fish: New and Selected Prose Poems (Holy Cow! Press, 1995, Just Above Water (Holy Cow! Press, 1997) and The Winter Road (Holy Cow! Press, 2000. Two of his prose poems were published in The Best American Poetry 1999 (Scribner, 1999) A new book of his prose poems, Sea Smoke, will be published by Holy Cow! Press in fall 2004.

DANIEL KANE is the author of All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s (University of California Press, 2003) and What Is Poetry: Conversations with the American Avant-garde (Teachers & Writers, 2003). His poems, interviews, and essays appear in in Fence, Exquisite Corpse, the Denver Quarterly, and other journals.

SUZANNE KARPILOVSKY has a B.A. in English and Philosophy from UCLA. After graduation, she spent a year in Paris attending the Sorbonne under a Rotary Scholarship.

KIRSTEN KASCHOCK'S first book of poetry, Unfathoms, is available from Slope Editions. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Georgia. Kirsten holds MFAs in Choreography from the University of Iowa and in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Iowa Review, La Petite Zine, Octopus, Pleiades, Slope, Volt, and other fine publications.

Karla Kelsey is author of two chapbooks, Little Dividing Doors in the Mind (Noemi Press) and Iterations (Pilot Press, forthcoming) and two full-length books, Knowledge, Forms, the Aviary (Ahsahta Press) and Iteration Nets (Ahsahta Press, forthcoming) from which poems in this issue are drawn. 9.1 pulls lines from Laura (Riding) Jackson, William Shakespeare, Aaron Shurin, and Charlotte Smith and mutates them via loose homophonic translation, drawing them into prose in 9.2 and erasing them to leave the fragments of 9.3.

JAKE KENNEDY'S poems, prose works, and visuals have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of literary journals including COMBO, Queen Street Quarterly, Chain, Hunger Magazine, and DIAGRAM. For his manuscript, Hazard, which explores some of the more uncanny biographical details of a number of artists and writers, Kennedy has received a Works-in-Progress grant from the Ontario Arts Council.

NANCY KIEFER'S paintings have been exhibited widely in the Northwest, including the Tacoma Art Museum, Kittredge Gallery at the University of Puget Sound. In collaboration with writer Rebecca Brown she provided the images for Woman in Ill-Fitting Wig. Her visual work has been included in Tarpaulin Sky and Cranky. She is currently working on a book of poems for children to be published in 2008 and on “Flying Heads”, a project through a grant from The Drachen Kite Foundation. Born in Rock Island, Illinois, only eight blocks from the Mississippi River, she currently resides in Seattle where she works as a librarian.

AMY KING'S work has appeared or is forthcoming in Femme Magazine, Riding the Meridian, Spork and Word For/Word. Her book, The People Instruments, is available from Pavement Saw Press and Small Press Distribution. Amy currently teaches English at Nassau Community College. Please visit her website at www.amyking.org

Brian Kiteley is the author of two novels, Still Life With Insects and I Know Many Songs, But I Cannot Sing. His collection of fiction exercises, The 3 A.M. Epiphany, was published in 2005 by Writer's Digest Books, and his fictions have also been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Four-Way Reader. He has received Guggenheim, Whiting, and NEA fellowships, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Millay, Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has taught at the American University in Cairo, Ohio University, and is presently the Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Denver. He has recently completed a novel, The River Gods, a 400-year history of the town he grew up in, Northampton, Massachusetts. Website: http://www.du.edu/~bkiteley/

JULIE KIZERSHOT lives in Boulder Colorado with Jazz and Cello, two black cats spared from the fires of Medieval witch hunts and on perhaps their seventh lives. She does graduate work at the University of Colorado and teaches modern literature there. She coordinated the Summer Writing Program at Naropa for many years. She has been published in Bird Dog, Paterson Literary Review, Sonora Review, Shampoo and in other locations online and in print.

GINGER KNOWLTON lives north of Boulder, Colorado. Recent work has appeared in Double Room, 5_Trope, Chimera, and The Evansville Review. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets and Rocky Mountain Women's Institute. A few of her paintings are held in private collections across the country. She shares an art studio with two potters on an old farm outside Longmont, Colorado, where she is rearranging a prose poem sequence into a novel/novella called The Evanescence of Harry Wait.

MARY A. KONCEL is the author of You Can Tell the Horse Anything (Tupelo Press, 2004) and the chapbook Closer to Day (Quale Press, 1999). Her work has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including The Massachusetts Review, Denver Quarterly, The Journal, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, and No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets.

Chris Kraus is the author of the novels Torpor, Aliens & Anorexia, and a collection of essays about the Los Angeles art world, Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness. She has written on art, poetics, and theory for academic anthologies and art magazines. Kraus is the founding editor of Semiotext(e)’s Native Agents imprint.

ROBERT KRUT'S poetry has appeared in Barrow Street, Salt Hill, Hayden's Ferry Review, and others. Currently, he lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Justin Lacour's work has appeared in LIT, YAWP, Soft Targets, WebConjunctions and jubilat. He looks like Vincent Price.

Steve Langan is the author of a collection of poems, Freezing, and a chapbook, Notes on Exile & Other Poems. His poems are in recent issues of Zoland Poetry, Drunken Boat, and Beloit Poetry Journal. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and teaches in the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing Program.

JOAN LARKIN'S poetry collections include Housework, A Long Sound, Sor Juana's Love Poems (co-translated with Jaime Manrique), and Cold River. Twice winner of the Lambda Literary award for poetry, she co-founded the independent press Out & Out Books and co-edited the ground-breaking anthologies Amazon Poetry and Lesbian Poetry (with Ellly Bulkin) and Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (with Carl Morse) in the 70's and 80's. Her anthology of coming-out stories, A Woman Like That, was nominated for Publishing Triangle and Lambda awards for nonfiction in 2000. Her awards include fellowships in poetry and playwriting from the NEA, NYFA, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

JEFFREY LEVINE'S first book, Mortal, Everlasting, won the 2000 Transcontinental Poetry Award from Pavement Saw Press and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His second book, Sanctuaries, is due out in the fall from Red Hen Press. Individual poems and groups of poems have won the Larry Levis Prize from the Missouri Review, the first annual James Hearst Award from North American Review, the 2001 Kestrel Prize and most recently, the 2001 Mississippi Review Poetry Award. His work appears in Ploughshares, Antioch Review, Poetry International, Virginia Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Barrow Street, Yankee Magazine, and The Journal, among others. Jeffrey Levine is Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press, an independent literary press located in Dorset, Vermont.

0SWALD LeWINTËR is a 72 year old American poet living in Lisbon. After a thirty-year-plus hiatus, he is again sending his work to journals. In the sixties and earlier, his work appeared in Shenandoah, Sewanee, Contact, New Mexico Quarterly, Epoch, Hudson Review, Paris Review, Chelsea, the Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, Argonaut and elsewhere.

ADA LIMÓN is originally from Sonoma, California. She received her MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from New York University. She has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. Her work appears in numerous magazines, including the The Iowa Review, Slate, Watchword, Poetry Daily, LIT, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. She co-curates Pete’s Big Salmon in Brooklyn and her first book lucky wreck is forthcoming by Autumn House Press in February of 2006. Her work appears in Tarpaulin Sky V3n1 and V3n3-4.

NORMAN LOCK'S collection of linked fictions, A History of the Imagination will be published in August 2004 by Fiction Collective 2. Joseph Cornell’s Operas and Émigrés, originally published by elimae books, were brought out by an Istanbul publisher in March 2004 as part of its New World Writing Series. A novella, Marco Knauff’s Universe, was published in 2003 by Ravenna Press. Recent fiction appears in 3rd Bed #9. Lock's plays have been staged internationally. The Los Angeles Times voted The House of Correction among the best of 1988 and 1994, for its revival. It was called the best new play of the 1996 Edinburgh Theatre Festival. He is also the author of a film, The Body Shop, produced by The American Film Institute. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Helen. They have two children.

CARLOS M. LUIS is an artist and visual poet from Miami. He has exhibited his work in a number of galleries around the country and world, and his work has appeared in numerous publications including Word For/Word, SleepingFish, Zunai (Brazil), TSE TSE (Argentina), and Manglar (France). Recent publications include Walls for Finnegans & Palimpsests for Beckett (Anabasis press), Dysfunctional Texts (Luna Bisonte Press), and O, Vozque Pulp (Calamari Press).

DEANNE LUNDIN lives and writes in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she co-directs the Work-in-Progress Reading Series at Crazy Wisdom Bookstore, occasionally emcees at Shaman Drum Bookshop, and has taught for several years at the University of Michigan. The Ginseng Hunter's Notebook was published by New Issues Press (1999). Her work-in-progress includes a new collection of poetry, a novel, and essays on religious subjectivity in American women poets.

DAN MACHLIN is the author of 6X7 poems (Ugly Duckling Presse 2005), This Side Facing You (Heart Hammer), and In Rem (@ Press). His work has recently appeared in Fence, The Brooklyn Rail, Cy Press, Antennae, Crayon and The Portable Boog Reader. He has also collaborated on a full length Audio-CD with cellist/singer Serena Jost (Immanent Audio) and contributed companion text to several visual art exhibitions in New York City and Germany. He is the founder and editor of Futurepoem Books and a current curator at The Segue reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.

Director, actor and playwright, MICKLE MAHER has worked in Chicago for most of the last twelve years. In addition to being a cofounder of Theater Oobleck, he's worked closely with (to name a few) Theater for the Age of Gold, Redmoon Theater, and the Curious Theater Branch. His work as a playwright has been produced by Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, Links Hall, 6 Odum and many others; texts and productions of his have been mounted across the country, from the Steppenwolf theater in Chicago, to the Dress Shop and Public Theaters of New York City. Most recently, his plays An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening and The Hunchback Variations were published by Hope and Nonthings. He currently teaches Theater History at Columbia College in Chicago.

Barbara Maloutas won the New Issues first book in poetry competition for In a Combination of Practices (2004). She was the winner of New Michigan Press/Diagram Chapbook Contest for Practices (2003). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Aufgabe, FreeVerse, Segue, Tarpaulin Sky, Good Foot, The New Review of Literature, Bird Dog, Dusie, JAB and Greatcoat. Her work is anthologized in Intersections: Innovative Poets of Southern California (Green Integer, 2005), and the 5th Anniversary Issue of Segue (2006), the online journal from Miami University-Middletown. Beard of Bees will publish a chapbook, Coffee Hazily, in 2007. She teaches book structures in Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Her work appears in Tarpaulin Sky Fall 03 and Tarpaulin Sky Print Issue #1.

Sarah Mangold is the author of Household Mechanics (New Issues), Blood Substitutes (Potes & Poets), Boxer Rebellion (g o n g), Picture of the Basket (Dusie e/chap) and Parlor (Dusie e/chap). She lives in Seattle where she publishes Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art and co-edits a small chapbook press with Maryrose Larkin, Flash+Card.

Justin Marks’ latest chapbook is [Summer insular] (Horse Less Press , 2007). His poems and reviews appear in recent issues of Octopus, Soft Targets, and Word for/ Word, and are forthcoming from Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel—Second Floor, Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets, and Cannibal. He is the founder and Editor of Kitchen Press Chapbooks, and lives in New York City.

Peter Markus is the author of three short books of short fiction, Good, Brother, The Moon is a Lighthouse, and The Singing Fish. His stories have appeared in 3rd Bed, Post Road, Massachusetts Review, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, Northwest Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Third Coast, Willow Springs, Seattle Review, Sleeping Fish, and Unsaid, as well as online at 5_Trope, Pindeldyboz, elimae, failbetter, and taint.

JACK MARSHALL'S tenth book, Gorgeous Chaos; New & Selected Poems, 1965-2001 was published in November 2002 by Coffee House Press. He has lived in the Bay Area since moving there from New York in 1968.

DOUGLAS A. MARTIN'S most recent books are Branwell, a novel of the Bronte brother, and a collection of stories, They Change the Subject. His first novel, Outline of My Lover, was named an International Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement by Colm Toibin. He is also the author of two collections of poetry and a co-author of The Haiku Year.

GORDON MASSMAN has published in numerous journals across the US, Canada, and the UK (Harvard Review, Antioch Review, Prism International, Windsor Review, Fire, Georgia Review); his third small press book, The Numbers, is available from Pavement Saw Press. Gronk: Selected Poems by Gordon Massman will be published by Six Gallery Press in 2004.

Clay Matthews’ work is published (or will be) in Black Warrior Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Drunken Boat, H_NGM_N, CrossConnect, New Orleans Review, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Muffler, is out from H_NGM_N B_ _KS.

Kristi Maxwell lives and writes in Tucson, Ariz. Her manuscript Realm Sixty-Four will be published by Ahsahta Press in March 2008. In September, she begins doctoral study at the University of Cincinnati, which is nearer her native Tennessee than she's lived in years.

PAUL McCORMICK'S recent work appears or is forthcoming in the Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, Iowa Review, Verse, Fence, Conduit, Barrow Street, Word for/Word, and DIAGRAM, as well as in two issues of Tarpaulin Sky: V2n4 and V3n3-4.

FRANCES McCUE is a writer and arts instigator living in Seattle. She was the founding director of Richard Hugo House and left on her tenth anniversary to devote more time to writing. She has a book of poems, The Stenographer’s Breakfast, from Beacon Press.

LAURA McCULLOUGH is on the faculty of the English Dept. at Brookdale Community College in NJ where she Chairs the Visiting Writers Series. She has an MFA from Goddard College, has won a NJ State Arts Council Fellowship, and recently was awarded a Dodge Foundation Scholarship to attend the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Paterson Literary Review, Exquisite Corpse, Poetry Motel, Faultline, The Journal of Art and Literature, In Posse, Slant Review, SteelPoint, and others.

JOYELLE McSWEENEY is the author of Nylund, the Sarcographer (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007), as well as The Red Bird and The Commandrine and Other Poems, both from Fence Books. She is a co-founder and co-editor of Action Books and Action, Yes, a press and web quarterly for international writing and hybrid forms. She writes regular reviews for Rain Taxi, The Constant Critic, and other venues and teaches in the MFA Program at Notre Dame. Her next book will be the science fiction novel Flet, forthcoming from Fence in late 2007. Her work appears in Tarpaulin Sky Spring/Summer 05 and Tarpaulin Sky Fall 05.

Teresa K. Miller received her MFA from Mills College and has taught English in the Peralta Community College District of the East Bay and at Columbia College Chicago. She currently runs a tutoring center for at-risk youth living in a south Seattle public housing community. Her work has appeared in MiPOesias, ZYZZYVA, Shampoo, and others. Basic Skills is an unpublished full-length manuscript dealing with the discourse issues that arise in open-enrollment classrooms, the im/possibilities of communication across “academic” and “nonacademic” dialects.

THORPE MOECKEL lives in North Carolina. He is the author of Odd Botany (Silverfish Review Press, 2002) and a chapbook, Meltlines (Van Doren & Co., 2001).

Erinn Moran is from Watertown, NY and is a senior at Hunter College.

PETER MORRIS has twice received the Sunday Times Playwriting Prize in London, and has twice attended the O'Neill Playwrights Conference in the USA. His play The Age of Consent was staged at the Bush Theatre, London, in January 2002. It has since been staged in Rome, Berlin, Reykjavik and Tokyo, and is published in the UK by Methuen.

FRED MURATORI'S poetry collections are The Possible and Despite Repeated Warnings. His poems and prose-poems appear in New American Writing, LIT, Denver Quarterly, and Rattle, among others, and he regularly contributes poetry criticism to American Book Review, Boston Review, and Rain Taxi. He is the Bibliographer for Anglo-American and Comparative Literature at the Cornell University Library.

AMANDA NADELBERG'S first book, Isa the Truck Named Isadore, was chosen by Lisa Jarnot as winner of the 4th Annual Slope Editions Book Prize and will be published Spring 2006. Other poems are forthcoming in Octopus, Conduit, Jubilat and No: a journal of the arts. She lives in Minneapolis.

Jefferson Navicky teaches writing at Southern Maine Community College and curates the Vermillion Performance & Reading Series in Portland, Maine. Map of the Second Person was published by Black Lodge Press in 2006. His interests range from his grandfather’s opthamology tools to barns in Vermont.

DANIEL NESTER is the author of God Save My Queen and God Save My Queen II, both collections on his obsession with the rock band Queen, as well as The History of My World Tonight (BlazeVOX, 2006). He edits the online journal Unpleasant Event Schedule and is Assistant Web Editor for Sestinas for McSweeney’s. He teaches writing at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. Find him online at danielnester.com.

Bryson Newhart’s writing has recently appeared or will soon appear in elimae, The Dream People, Caketrain, and 5_trope.

GREGORY ALAN NORTON is the author of There Ain't No Justice, Just Us. His short stories may be found in The Princeton Arts Review, The Rockford Review, George and Mertie's Place, Nebo, The Missing Spoke Press Anthology, Struggle, The Oyez Review, Writer's Corner, Short Story Bimonthly, Slugfest, America Laid Off: Literature of a Downsized Nation (anthology), Mobius, and a Dallas literary magazine, Jack the Daw. "Insubordination Blues" is part of a larger collection of short stories on which he is currently working and is entitled, The Infinity of Days in the Psychotic Atomik Empire.

Nadia Nurhussein is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her poetry has appeared in the Harvard Review, 580 Split, and elsewhere.

KAYA OAKES is a native of Oakland, California. Her poems have appeared in Volt, Spinning Jenny, Conduit, 6ix, Rooms, and numerous other journals. They can also be found online at Taint. She teaches writing at UC Berkeley and is the literature and creative writing editor for Kitchen Sink magazine. Her manuscript, "A Series of Near Escapes", is currently homeless, but she is not.

Thomas O’Connell is a librarian living in the mountains of southwestern Virginia with his wife and a couple of swell daughters. His prose poems have appeared previously in Cranky, Sleepingfish, and Mad Hatters’ Review, as well as other print and online journals. His work appears in both Tarpaulin Sky Fall 04 and Tarpaulin Sky Print Issue #1.

SUZANNE OLIVER won the Wesley Orton Prize for speculative poetry for her first book Circle of Daisies, published in 2003 by Wylde Solander Press. Her work has also appeared in numerous places, including Jarymanice: A Journal of the Arts, Two Part Inventions, Geneoddities, and The Fernando Pessoa Newsletter. For ten years, Suzanne played bass with the rock band Sr. Sidewalk. She lives in the West.

MARK O'NEIL lives with his family just outside of Saratoga Springs, NY. His work has appeared in 5_Trope, 3rd Bed, Ducky Magazine, The Cortland Review, Eyeshot.net, Parenthetical Note, The Journal of Modern Post, as well as in Tarpaulin Sky V3n1 and V3n3-4.

EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY'S recent work appears in Jubilat and elsewhere. His chapbook The Off-Centaur was published by Germ Folios/Poetic Research Bloc. He lives in Brooklyn and is currently translating the poetry of 1930s Russian absurdism.

Caryl Pagel, originally from Chicago, is currently a Provost Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa. She works for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and her poems have recently appeared in Coconut, Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review, and Parcel.

CHERYL PALLANT'S books include Into Stillness and Uncommon Grammar Cloth, both published by Station Hill Press (NY), and the chapbook, Spontaneities, from Belladonna Books (NY). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous print and online journals such as How2, Moria, lyric, and Confrontation. She is also a dancer and the co-editor of the dance magazine Contact Quarterly. She teaches classes in creative writing, dance, and a blend of the two at the University of Richmond.

Ethan Paquin is the author of The Violence (Ahsahta Press, 2005), Accumulus (Salt, 2003), and The Makeshift (UK: Stride, 2001). His next book, My Thieves, is forthcoming (Salt, 2007). He edits Slope and Slope Editions and teaches in Buffalo, NY.

AIMEE PARKISON'S story collection, Van Windows recently won a book prize judged by novelist Cris Mazza and will be published in the spring of 2004 by Starcherone Press. Hers stories have appeared in Other Voices, Fiction International, Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, River City, American Literary Review and elsewhere. Parkison also recently won a Writers at Work fiction fellowship, which was judged by Carol Anshaw, and the wining story is scheduled to appear in an upcoming issue of Quarterly West. Parkison currently teaches writing classes at Cornell University and is at work on her first novel.

PAUL PEKIN is a veteran writer who is still at it.  His work has appeared in Best American Sports Writing of l991 (Houghton Mifflin), The Chicago Tribune Magazine, the Chicago Reader, The New York Press, The Kansas Quarterly, Sou'wester, Other Voices, Farmer's Market, Sideshow, The MacGuffin, The South Dakota Review, Furious Fictions, The Santa Clara Review, The Bridge, The Widener Review, Passager, Cavalier, Swank and many others.  His story "Extended Care," published in the Chicago Reader, won a 1991 Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club.

VIC PERRY will be performing at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in September, 2003. He's the prose editor at house-taken-over.com Send him something. His work has appeared at Monkey Bicycle and "other, you know, places."

LANCE PHILLIPS' recent work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Fence, Aufgabe, The Gig, Slope, GutCult, Chimera Review and the mini mag. His first book, Corpus Socius, was brought out by Ahsahta Press in May 2002 and his second, Cur aliquid vidi, is due December 2004 from the same. He lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife, son and daughter where he edits the interview blog Here Comes Everybody.

JOHN PHILPIN, one of the first independent criminal profilers in the United States, is a retired forensic psychologist with an international reputation as an expert on violent behavior. For twenty-five years, Philpin's advice has been sought by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Published work includes: Beyond Murder (with John Donnelly, NAL/Dutton, 1994), the inside story of the Gainesville student murders. Stalemate (Bantam, 1997), a true story of child abduction and murder in the San Francisco Bay Area — which was featured on the ABC series Vanished in February, 2002. The Prettiest Feathers (with Patricia Sierra, Bantam, 1997; Ullstein, 1998; Albin Michel, 1999), a psychological thriller. Tunnel of Night (with Patricia Sierra, Bantam, 1999; Ullstein 1999; Albin Michel, 2000), a sequel to The Prettiest Feathers. Dreams in the Key of Blue (Bantam, 2000), a novel. The Murder Channel (Bantam, 2001), a novel. JD (with Patricia Sierra, an e-book to be available in December 2002), a novel. Philpin's forensic work was featured in Philip Ginsburg's book, Shadow of Death. He has appeared on Unsolved Mysteries, The Geoff Metcalf Show, Inside Edition, The Jim Bohannon Show, America's Most Wanted, Chronicle, Northwest Afternoon, 20/20 Downtown, the CBC's As It Happens, and served as guest commentator on Court TV's Prime Time Justice. The recipient of numerous awards recognizing his contributions to murder investigations, Philpin holds degrees in English, clinical psychology, and forensic psychology from Harvard, Goddard, and Columbia Pacific. Visit his website at http://www.silkwurm.com/johnphilpin/

KELLY PILGRIM lives in Perth, Western Australia. She has a BA Arts (Creative Writing) from Curtin University. Her poetry has been published in Hecate, Idiom 23, Muse, Blast, Pixel Papers, Australian Writer’s Journal, Centoria and several US and UK anthologies. Her first collection of poetry, People from bones was released in the UK and Australia in June 2002 (publisher, Ragged Raven Press, UK) and is available through the publisher online or Amazon UK. Kelly’s fiction has appeared in Blithe House Quarterly (USA), Australasian Anthology of Short Stories, Piping Shrike and online sites.

BOB POKORNEY writes: Since receiving my BA in art history from Colorado College in 1999, I have been working as a bicycle-and kayak-tour guide, spending most of my time outside in compelling landscape. Most of my paintings work with the memories of those landscapes, especially those here, of Lake Superior, where I live. I recently won a 2003 McKnight/Minnesota State Legislature Career Development Grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council in Duluth to paint in New Mexico, and will begin pursuing a Master's Degree in French from Middlebury College this summer.

Nate Pritts is the author of Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVOX); his new collection, Honorary Astronaut, will be published by Ghost Roads Press, fall 2008. “Spring Psalter” is an eponymous part of a longer piece that will be published as a chapbook insert in Cannibal #3 (Spring 2008). The editor of the online journal H_NGM_N, Nate lives in Natchitoches, LA, with his family. He works in advertising.

Bin Ramke has published eight previous books of poems, including Massacre of the Innocents (Iowa 1995), Wake (Iowa 1999), and one of the first Kuhl House Poets books, Airs, Waters, Places (Iowa 2001). His ninth book, Tendril, will be published in the fall of 2007. The editor of the Denver Quarterly, he teaches creative writing at the University of Denver and at the Art Institute of Chicago.

KATHRYN RANTALA'S work appears, among other places, in New Orleans Review, Iowa Review, Notre Dame Review and many places on the web including archipelago, elimae, poems niederngasse, Eleven Bulls, Failbetter, Locus Novus. Her book, Missing Pieces, is available from the publisher, Ocean View Press, or via her website: http://www.ravennapress.com/snowmonkey

FRANCIS RAVEN'S first novel, Inverted Curvatures, was published this fall by Spuyten Duyvil. Poems of his have been published in Mudlark, Conundrum, Untitled, Pindeldyboz, Big Bridge, La Petite Zine, and Can We Have Our Ball Back? Essays and articles of his have been published in Jacket, Clamor, In These Times, The Fulcrum Annual, Rain Taxi, Sauce, and Pavement Saw. He lives with his wife in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Coralie Reed is a freelance writer living in North Carolina. Recent work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Seneca Review, Sonora Review, Salt Hill, The Greensboro Review, and Fourteen Hills. Other poems from the "Fashion Shows" sequence are currently in Colorado Review and Slope #22.

ROBERT REICHERT began photographing at the age of fourteen while growing up on Long Island, NY. He studied photography at St. John's University, where he received a BFA. He went on to teach there upon graduation. He has also taught at the International Center of Photography and Parsons School of Design. His work has appeared in Life, Time, The New York Times, Psychology Today, Forbes, Business Week, Parade, and many international publications. He has been commissioned by numerous Fortune 500 corporations to photograph their operations throughout the world to produce advertising campaigns and images for their publications and annual reports. He has won many awards for his work.

Michael Rerick lives in Tucson but will soon move to Cincinnati to begin Ph D work. The last tarp he used was blue. His poems have or will appear at Bathhouse, Cue, Diagram, Fence, Nidus, No Tell Motel, Shampoo, Word For/Word, and Words on Walls.

Eléna Rivera is the author of Mistakes, Accidents, and a Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), Suggestions at Every Turn (Seeing Eye Books, 2005), Unknowne Land (Kelsey St. Press, 2000), and a recent pamphlet entitled Disturbances in the Ocean of Air (Phylum Press, 2006). Recent work appears in Five Fingers Review, The Poker, and the Poetry Salzburg Review.

ANDREW MICHAEL ROBERTS is earning his MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work appears in The Seattle Review, The Iowa Review, Pool, Quick Fiction, Double Room, Sentence and Cue, among others. In a prior life he was poetry editor for The Portland Review, and he dearly misses scanning the Pacific Northwest woodlands for signs of Bigfoot.

Sarah Roberts, originally from Phoenix, AZ, lives in Brooklyn and is a junior at Brooklyn College.

TIM ROBERTS is an editor at Stanford University Press. His manuscript, The Beauty of the Caregiver, was a finalist for the 2006 Fence Modern Poets Series.

Born in Toronto, poet and essayist Lisa Robertson lived and worked for many years in Vancouver, B.C., where she maintained the Office for Soft Architecture as an apparatus for lyrical research, constructing propositions and documents for the advancement of a natural history of civic surface. Additionally, Lisa is the author of The Apothecary (1991, reissued 2001, Tsunami Editions), XEclogue (1993, Tsunami Editions, reissued by New Star, 1999), Debbie: An Epic (1997, New Star [canada], Reality Street [uk]), The Weather (2001, New Star [canada], Reality Street [uk]), and Rousseau's Boat (2004, Nomados). She is currently poet in residence at UC Berkeley and has recently released a new book of poems, The Men (Toronto: BookThug [www.bookthug.ca]). She now lives in France.

ANTHONY ROBINSON teaches writing at the University of Oregon, and is a poetry editor with the Northwest Review, and the new journal The Canary. Recent work appears in: Xconnect: Writers of the Information Age, Chase Park, Spinning Jenny, parlorgames, Salt River River, Snow Monkey, Fourteen Hills and other journals.

Elizabeth Robinson is recently the author of Apostrophe (Apogee Press), Under That Silky Roof (Burning Deck Press), and The Golem (a chapbook published by Phylum Press). She is a co-editor of Instance Press and EtherDome Chapbooks.

Elizabeth Rollins has previously published in The New England Review, GW Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, PMS, The Philadelphia Citypaper, Washington College Magazine, and The Redwood Coast Review. She is the author of The Sin Eater, a chapbook [Corvid Press, 2004]. She received a NJ Prose Fellowship in 2003, and was a 2006 Pushcart Prize nominee. She is the founder of the Curiosity Symposium and Traveling Reading Series for the Curious. She has recently completed a novel, Origin.

After a brief stint as a Federal Investigator, ROBIN ROMM now attends San Francisco State University where she's pursuing an MFA. You can find other stories of hers in Threepenny Review, The Nebraska Review, Carriage House Review, and Fourteen Hills.

LYLE D ROSDAHL publishes his work (writing, paintings, and photos) through his Dead Rats Press. His poetry has appeared in Rio Grande Review, and the San Antonio Public Library owns copies of his chapbook La Loteria: A Mystery.

KENNETH ROSEN is a widely published American poet with a profound interest in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He has taught modern literature and lectured on American poetry in Bulgaria, Turkey and Egypt. His books of poetry include Whole Horse, No Snake, No Paradise and most recently, The Origins of Tragedy, published by CavanKerry Press. His work appears regularly in The Paris Review. He lives in Portland, Maine and is Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine.

EMILY ROSKO is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. A recipient of the 2002 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, her work has appeared widely in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, The Beloit Poetry Journal, and Octopus.

F. Daniel Rzicznek’s first book of poems is Neck of the World, winner the 2007 May Swenson Poetry Award, published by Utah State University Press. He is also the author of the chapbook Cloud Tablets (Kent State University Press, 2006). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, The New Republic, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, AGNI, and Mississippi Review. He currently teaches English composition at Bowling Green State University.

Noah Saterstrom has recently exhibited paintings and drawings in New Orleans, Louisiana and Glasgow, Scotland. Memory[Memory], an installation of screenprinted aluminum panels, opened in 2006 at a homeless shelter in Glasgow. www.noahsaterstrom.com

SELAH SATERSTROM (earlier work and interviews in TSky here and here) is the author of The Meat & Spirit Plan (Coffee House Press, Fall 2007) and The Pink Institution (Coffee House Press, 2004). Her work has recently appeared in Cranbrook Magazine, 14 Hills, Tarpaulin Sky, The American Book Review, and other places. She currently lives in Denver where she is on faculty in the University of Denver’s Creative Writing Program.

ZACHARY SCHOMBURG has recent poems in Ducky, Good Foot, Mid-American Review, and Forklift Ohio. He co-edits Octopus and has one wife and two cats.

JUDITH D. SCHWARTZ, of Bennington, VT, has written a memoir about training as a psycho-therapist called, The Therapist's New Clothes.

BRIAN TORREY SCOTT is most often an experimental theater artist. He has created work in Chicago for the Neo-Futurists, Lucky Pierre, and the Curious Theater Branch, and is currently an artist-in-residence at Chicago’s Links Hall. He has created ten performances since 2001. His writing has been published in Preling, Telophase, and in a book of audition monologues for student actors. He teaches composition, speech, avant-garde theater history, and Ridiculousness at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College and St. Augustine College.

Ramsey Scott is a Ph.D. Candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Teaching Fellow at Brooklyn College. He likes to write prose, and his work may be found in Seneca Review, Brooklyn Review, you are here: the journal of creative geography, and online at XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics.

Spencer Selby’s most recent book is Twist of Address (Shearsman, 2007). Forthcoming is a new compilation of visual work titled Flush Contour, from Otoliths Press, Australia. Also in the works is a new book on film noir.

Brandon Shimoda was born suddenly in California. Poems from O Bon—some of which are appearing here—can be seen in Colorado Review, Free Verse, Handsome, Play No/Play, Alice Blue Review, TYPO and elsewhere, as well as in book projects forthcoming from Corollary Press and Flim Forum Press. He has lived and worked most recently in Mexico, New York and North Carolina, though he currently lives in Montana.

MATTHEW SHINDELL is the author of a chapbook, Were something to happen it would be both funny and interesting, published by Galom Press in the Type Kitchen of the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Recent poems appear in Fence, Jubilat, and Black Warrior Review. Shindell lives and writes in Phoenix, Arizona.

PETER JAY SHIPPY is the author of Theives' Latin (University of Iowa Press). His new work will appear in American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, and Verse, among others. Other sections from the Alphaville suite can found online in 42Opus, eratio, and Word For/Word. He teaches at Emerson College in Boston.

Eleni Sikelianos is the author of one book of nonfiction and five books of poetry. Most recent titles are The California Poem (Coffee House Press) and The Book of Jon (Nonfiction/Hybrid, City Lights). Her poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Catalan, German, Arabic, Romanian, Croatian, Slovenian, and Serbian. A book of selected poems is currently being translated into French; also appearing next year is her translation of Jacques Roubaud’s Exchanges on Light. She currently lives in Colorado with the novelist Laird Hunt and their daughter Eva Grace.

MARTHA SILANO is the author of What the Truth Tastes Like (Nightshade, 1999). Her work has appeared widely, in such places as The Paris Review, Green Mountains Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and on Poetry Daily. She lives in Seattle, where she teaches English at Edmonds Community College.

LAURA SIMS is the winner of the 2005 Fence Books Alberta Prize. Her manuscript, Practice, Restraint, was published by Fence Books in October 2005. Her poems have appeared or will soon appear in the journals, First Intensity, La Petite Zine, How2, 6X6, and 26, among others. She lives in Madi