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Adelman, Suzanne
Ahn, Eugene
Andrews, Dawn
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 Suzanne Adelman is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She received an MFA from CalArts in '01 and is currently showing work at Raid Projects, Los Angeles. In March 2002, she participated in Fluxus re-enactment performances at Roth Horowitz Anderson in West Hollywood.
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 Eugene Ahn has traveled the Pacific Rim extensively for his documentary, editorial, and commercial photography. He received support from the Rockerfeller Foundation while conducting literacy-promoting photography workshops for children in California, Australia and the province of Pampanga in the Philippines. He has also served as a consultant to the Getty Research Institute implementing photography with web publishing in arts education. He lives in Los Angeles.
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 Dawn Andrews was born in London and spent a large percentage of her early life in India. On returning to the U.K. she completed a fine-art degree and an M.A. in Art History, and has tutored at various art colleges throughout Britain. Her poetry and short stories have been published over the past five years by magazines in Britain and America, including Intimacy, AND, Texture, Juxta, Nemonymous, Psychotrope, and Butterfly. Andrews is currently working on a novel, and a thesis on experimental film-makers.
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Bakunin, Jasper
Baumblatt, Geri Lynn
Beachy-Quick, Dan
Bell, Marvin
Block, Elizabeth
Boyce, Emalie
Brennan, Karen
Brinkley, Elizabeth
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 Geri Lynn Baumblatt's work has appeared in journals such as the Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, VOLT, Denver Quarterly, and Far Gone, and is forthcoming in Many Mountains Moving. She received her MA in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Denver, where she was also the Managing Editor of the Denver Quarterly.
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 Marvin Bell has published seventeen books of poetry and essays, the latest of which is Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000 (Copper Canyon Press), just reissued in paperback. He teaches at the Writers' Workshop of the University of Iowa, and in 2000 was named Iowa's first Poet Laureate. He also leads an annual Teachers Workshop for the urban after-school soccer and poetry program for 8-12 year olds known as America Scores. In April he'll join Stephen King, Dave Barry, Amy Tan and others in the writers band known as the Rock Bottom Remainders as they tour the West Coast to raise funds for America Scores. Bell lives in Iowa City, Iowa; Sag Harbor, New York; and Port Townsend, Washington. His writing has been called "ambitious without pretension," and he himself has been referred to in print as "a maverick" and "an insider who thinks like an outsider."
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Jasper Bakunin is a writer and teacher who lives in New Mexico. He recently completed a collection of short stories, Borderlands.
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 Dan Beachy-Quick teaches at the School of the Art Insititute of Chicago. His first book, North True South Bright, will be appearing in May 2003 from Alice James Books. The manuscript from which these poems come, entitled Spell, will be out from Ahsahta Press in Spring 2004.
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 Elizabeth Block recently completed her first novel, A Gesture Through Time, which was a finalist in the Heekin Foundation national novel competition. While working on this novel, she was awarded a sponsorship from Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, as well a Djerassi Resident Artists Program fellowship. Ms. Block received her MFA in Writing from California College of Arts and Crafts. Her poetry, drama, fiction and essays have appeared in ONTHEBUS, TDR, alt-x.com, Camerawork and CCAC Review.
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 Emalie Boyce is currently in the MFA program at New Mexico State University. Her work recently appeared in American Literary.
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 Karen Brennan is a professor in the creative writing program at the University of Utah. "Paradise" is from her new story collection The Garden in Which I Walk. Her most recent book, a memoir, Being With Rachel was published by Norton in 2002.
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 Elizabeth Brinkley is a writer who lives in Seattle. She is currently working on her first novel.
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Carney, Meggan
Chenoweth, Kahty
Corey, Joshua
Cray, Penelope
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Meggan Carney is a recent graduate of Western Michigan University's MFA program, and a recent winner of the AWP intro awards in nonfiction. Currently she teaches at a community college in northern Michigan.
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Kahty Chenoweth is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is as likely to be seen on a subway train, a hiking trail, or a supermarket as a gallery or museum. She was a 2002 artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada; was a selected for the 2001 Digital Arts Workshop at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, and received the 2000 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. Ms. Chenoweth has lectured at Otis College of Art and Design, UCLA, Pomona College, and Northwestern University, and her work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artext, and Frieze. She has lived in Los Angeles since earning her MFA at CalArts in 1988.
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 Joshua Corey's first book, Selah, is forthcoming from Barrow Street Press. His poems have appeared LIT, VOLT, Conduit, Fence, Boston Review, Fourteen Hills, slope, Colorado Review, and other journals. He grew up in New Jersey and has spent serious amounts of time in New Orleans, Montana, and the San Francisco Bay Area; he now lives in Ithaca, New York where he is working on a PhD in English at Cornell. Visit his weblog at: joshcorey.blogspot.com. |
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 Penelope Jane Cray is an MFA in Poetry student at the New School and the editorial intern at American Letters & Commentary. She is originally from Perth, Western Australia.
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Dubie, Norman
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 Norman Dubie was born in Barre, Vermont, in April 1945. He received a B.A. from Goddard College in Vermont, and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including The Mercy Seat: Collected & New Poems 1967-2001 (Copper Canyon, 2001), Selected and New Poems (1986), and The Clouds of Magellan (1992). Dubie has received the Bess Hokin Award of the Modern Poetry Association, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Antaeus, The Antioch Review, Field, and Poetry. In 14 months the paperback edition of Norman Dubie's Mercy Seat: Collected & New Poems, 1967-2000 (Copper Canyon Press) will be published along with his new collection of lyrics, Ordinary Mornings of a Coliseum.
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edwards, kari
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 kari edwards was the recipient of the New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature (2002), author of Iduna, O Books (Fall, 2003), a day in the life of p., subpress collective (2002) and, a diary of lies - Belladonna #27 by Belladonna Books (2002.) edwards' work can also be found in: Aufgabe, Belight Fiction, Mirage/Period(ical), Van Gogh's Ear, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Narrativity, Bathhouse, BlazeVox 2k3, and 5 Trope.
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Garfinkle, Gwynne
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 Gwynne Garfinkle lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in such publications as Big Bridge, Exquisite Corpse, Shampoo, papertiger, Fish Drum, and Scarlet Letters.
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Harvey, Phil
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 Phil Harvey is a holographer living in Los Angeles. He holds a doctorate in electrical engineering.
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Keelan, Claudia
Kelsey, Karla
Kiteley, Brian
Knowlton, Ginger
Kobylarz, Phil
Koeppel, Fredric
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 Claudia Keelan has published three prize-winning collections of poetry. Her first book, Refinery, won the Cleveland State University Poetry Prize in 1994. The Secularist was a winner in the 1997 Contemporary Poetry Series from the University of Georgia Press and her recently published Utopic won the 2000 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books. Ms. Keelan's poetry has been anthologized in What Will Suffice:Contemporary Poets On The Ars Poetica, the 1997 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry and The Body Electric from Norton. She is the editor of Interim, the literary journal at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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 Karla Kelsey holds degrees from UCLA and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Denver.
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Brian Kiteley has published two novels, Still Life With Insects and I Know Many Songs, But I Cannot Sing. He recently finished two books: a collection of fiction exercises, Sleight of Hand; and a novel, The River Gods, a 400-year history of the town he grew up in, Northampton, Massachusetts. Kiteley has received Guggenheim, Whiting, and NEA fellowships, and had residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Millay, Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Four-Way Reader. He studied at Carleton College and at City College of New York (with Donald Barthelme, Grace Paley, Mark Mirsky, and Frederic Tuten). He is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.
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 Ginger Knowlton's work has appeared in such journals as 5_trope, SEGUE, swerve, and The Evansville Review. She has won awards from the Academy of American Poets and Rocky Mountain Women's Institute. Her paintings and drawings are held in private collections throughout the United States. She was awarded a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Denver, and she teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Currently, Knowlton is revising a novel-length prose poem called _the evanescence of Harry Wait_.
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 Philip Kobylarz graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work appears in such reviews as The Paris Review, Pleiades, Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, New American Writing 2001, and has appeared in Best American Poetry 1997.
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Fredric Koeppel has published a chapbook, October (1987) and a limited edition artist's book, Romance (1992) and had a poem last year in Ten Poets from Wing & Wheel Press, which will issue a chapbook, Wounded Beauty, in 2003. He has had poems recently in Mississippi Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, North Stone Review and Many Mountains Moving. He is book review editor for The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis.
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Lincourt, Carrie
Lowe, Heather
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 Carrie Lincourt's recent video installations incorporate fractured narratives, which meditate on the relationships between the individual, common spaces and landscape. Her work is being included in the forthcoming video compilation Little #3. A recipient of the Distinguished Achievement in Creative Activity award and the Marilyn Werby grant, she received her MFA in Intermedia and Sculpture from CSULB.
to view more work by Carrie Lincourt:
freewaves.org
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 Heather Lowe lives in Los Angeles. She is a painter and has recently developed an interest in stereo work, including stereo photography. She has exhibited her work throughout California, in New York City, Japan and Barcelona, Spain. She studied at Santa Monica City College, UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco City College. For more information see http://www.geocities.com/heatherjlowe
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Manopoulos, Monique
Merrill, Christopher
McKinney, Joshua
Murhpy, Sheila
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 Monique Manopoulos was born in Marseille, France. After graduating from the Universite de Provence with a degree in English, she received a Ph.D in French Literature from the University of Iowa in 1994. She is presently doing research in the field of Postcolonial French Literature and is working on a monograph about Ahmed Zitouni.
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 Joshua McKinney is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Permutations of the Gallery (winner of the 1996 Pavement Saw Chapbook Contest) and Saunter (Primitive Publications, 1998). His work has appeared widely in magazines such as American Letters & Commentary, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, International Quarterly, Poetry International, and many others. He was born on an Iowa farm and grew up in the mountains and high desert of northern California where he worked seasonally as a fire fighter for the United States Forest Service. He has also lived in Japan where he earned a black belt in kendo and taught English as a Second Language. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Denver. Currently, he teaches at California State University, Sacramento.
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 Christopher Merrill's books include four collections of poetry, Brilliant Water, Workbook, Fevers & Tides, and Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; translations of Ale Debeljak's Anxious Moments and The City and the Child; several edited volumes, among them, The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature and From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon; and three books of nonfiction, The Grass of Another Country: A Journey Through the World of Soccer, The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee, and Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars. His work has been translated into ten languages. He has held the William H. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross, and now directs the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa.
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 Sheila E. Murphy's Letters to Unfinished J. is scheduled to appear from Green Integer Press. The manuscript won a Contemporary Authors award from Sun & Moon Press. Other forthcoming books include Incessant Seeds (Pavement Saw Press) and Green Tea with Ginger (Potes & Poets Press). Her home is in Phoenix.
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Newman, Denise
Naiman, Carolyn
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 Denise Newman is a poet and translator living in San Francisco. Her poetry collection, Human Forest, was published by Apogee press and her translation of The Painted Room by the Danish poet Inger Christensen was published by The Harvill Press, U.K. She is the author of two chapbooks, Why Pear? (Em Press) and Of Later Things Yet to Happen (Meow Press). Her poems have appeared in Volt, apex of the M, Chain, and Five Fingers Review, where she is a staff editor. She has been a Djerassi Resident Artist, and she teaches creative writing at the California College of Arts and Crafts and at Mills College.
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 Carolyn Naiman is a painter. She graduated from NYU in 1992, and continued her studies at Otis School of Design from 1999-2001. Her work has been displayed in local galleries and cafes in both Colorado and Los Angeles.
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Paddock, Laura
Penn, Douglas
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 Laura Paddock is a painter who also works on designing indie films. She moved to Los Angeles from her native New York ten years ago in order to receive her MFA and be closer to Mexico. She is interested in narrative, texture, beauty and the sensual, and the range from heaviness to weightlessness. Paddock's work has been exhibited in NYC at ART, Inc., and in LA, most recently at Coleman Gallery and Storage, both now defunct (not her fault). Two years ago she attended a residency in Pakistan. Currently her work is on view at the San Jose Museum of Art (through 3/23/03) and online at: http://home.earthlink.net/~lapaddock.
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 Douglas Penn is a visual artist and poet who lives in San Diego, California.
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Rabinowitz, Anna
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 Anna Rabinowitz's volumes of poetry include Darkling, a book-length acrostic poem which was a finalist for ForeWord Magazine's Best Poetry Book of 2001 Award, and At the Site of Inside Out, winner of the Juniper Prize.
A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow for 2001, Ms. Rabinowitz is the editor of American Letters & Commentary and has published widely in such journals as Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Southwest Review, Denver Quarterly, Sulfur, LIT, VOLT, Verse, and Doubletake. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies, The Best American Poetry 1989, edited by Donald Hall, Life on the Line: Selections on Words and Healing, The KGB Bar Reader, The International Millennium Anthology, and Poetry After 9/11, and is forthcoming in The Poets' Grimm and A Brief History of the Paradelle.
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Savard, Jeannine
Stéfan, Jude
Steinberg, Hugh
Swensen, Cole
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 Jeannine Savard teaches poetry workshops in the MFA program at Arizona State University. She has published two volumes of poetry: Snow Water Cove and Trumpeter. Savard was awarded the Jerome J. Shestack Prize for poetry from The American Poetry Review, the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Prize, and has published poems in a number of journals such as The North American Review, Ploughshares, Hayden's Ferry Review, The American Poetry Review, Manoa, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Bennington Review, The Antioch Review, Quarterly West and Washington Square.
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 Jude Stéfan was born in Pont-Audemer in 1930. After studying law, literature, and philosophy he became a professor of Classics. His first book Cyprès was published in 1967; he has since published several books of poetry and prose, among which Laures won the Prix Max Jacob in 1985.
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Hugh Steinberg has had work published in Grand Street, VeRt, Fourteen Hills, and American Poetry Review, among others. He earned an MFA from the University of Arizona, and recently completed a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. He teaches writing at California College of Arts and Crafts, and is a 2001-2002 NEA Creative Writing Fellow.
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 Cole Swensen's most recent book is Such Rich Hour (2001). A new collection titled Goest will come out from Alice James Books in 2004. Her awards include the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and divides her time among Iowa, Washington DC, and Paris.
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Thompson, Aidan
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 Aidan Thompson's recent work has appeared in Five Fingers Review, the Coffeehouse Poetry Collection, FEMSPEC, The East Village, in*tense, St. Mary's Magazine, Moria Poetry Journal, Poethia, Sidereality, and 26. She is the author of Particle and Probability (Potes & Poets Press, 2002)
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Vucci, Sergio
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 Sergio Vucci grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently resides in Chicago.
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Walsh, Keith
Weinstein, Rebekka
Wood, Eve
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 Keith Walsh is a visual and performing artist living in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include Chicago Project Room (2001), and London Project Space (2002). 2002 Los Angeles performances include “Fluxus Necessarius” at Roth Horowitz Anderson Gallery, “May Day 2.3 Mile Action,” Chinatown, “Fortera HL Warhol Rejuvenation Action” at MOCA, and “Threshold of Perception Reification Action” at LAtch Gallery. He also is The Keith Walsh Experience, a one man band that rocks the underground Los Angeles music scene. Walsh earned an MFA degree from Tufts University and a BFA from the University of Hartford. He currently teaches art history at Woodbury University, Burbank California.
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 Rebekka Weinstein graduated from Brown University in May 2001, and is a resident of Mar Vista, California.
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 Eve Wood's book of poems, Love's Funeral will be published this spring by Cherrygrove Collections. Wood is the author of a chapbook entitled Paper Frankenstein published by Beyond Baroque Press and Correspondence (Gegensatze Press, Austria) Her work has appeared in numerous journals including The Best American Poetry 1997, The New Republic, Triquarterly, Poetry, Witness, The Wisconsin Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Greensboro Review, Exquisite Corpse, The Florida Review, The Antioch Review, and many others. She is the recipient of a Jacob Javits fellowship and a Brody grant in writing. Wood has written art criticism for Tema Celeste, Artext, Artweek, and Artnet.com. 10 x 10, etc.
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