Ish Klein is a Philadelphia poet who also makes puppets and films. Her online TV show THE BOO SHOW can be seen here on youtube, and a recent interview with Ish about her work can be seen here.

Jenn McCreary lives in Philadelphia where she co-edits ixnay press and works for the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. She is the author of two chapbooks, errata stigmata and four o'clock pocket chiming, and of a doctrine of signatures. Her work has appeared in many publications including Combo, How2, Lungfull!, POM2, and The Tangent. Her first full-length collection, ab ovo, is forthcoming this summer from Dusie Press.

Frank Sherlock is a native Philadelphian and author of Ready-To-Eat Individual, a collaboration written with Brett Evans about New Orleans in the Year 1 A.K.(After Katrina). His recent chapbooks include Over Here, Daybook of Perversities & Main Events and Wounds in an Imaginary Nature Show. He is currently conducting poetry workshops with at-risk youth to address violence and explore its alternatives.

Chris McCreary is the co-editor of ixnay press & the author of two books of poems, Dismembers and The Effacements. A recent e-chap, "The Black Book," was recently published by Scantily Clad Press.

Pattie McCarthy is the author of bk of (h)rs and Verso, both from Apogee Press. The poems included in Fanzine are from her recently completed book, Table Alphabetical of Hard Words. She teaches at Temple University and lives in Philadelphia.

Dorothea Lasky's first book of poems, AWE, came out in the fall of 2007 from Wave Books. She is also the author of Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker's Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005) and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004). She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she is pursuing a doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Cathleen Miller spends her days processing manuscript collections, which inspire her poems. Her ideas are informed by eighteenth-century script and twenty-first century disjunction. Her work explores gender and sexuality, exposure and concealment, rootedness in place and a sense of drifting displacement. She holds a master's in creative writing from Temple, and has been published most recently in EOAGH. Her chapbook Cut and Shoot, a collaboration with Deborah Richards, was published by MAN Press.

Kevin Varrone is the author of g-point Almanac (ixnay press 2000) and g-point Almanac: id est (Instance Press, 2007). His poems have appeared in numerous journals, most recently in Big Bridge and Cross Connect. He lives and works in Philadelphia.

Ryan Eckes lives in South Philadelphia. His chapbook when i come here (Plan B Press) was recently published. Other work can be found in XConnect, Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, Exquisite Corpse, Pocket Myths #4: The Odyssey, and elsewhere. He has an MA in creative writing from Temple University, where he currently teaches part-time. He also hosts the Chapter & Verse reading series at the Chapterhouse Cafe in Philadelphia.

Mytili Jagannathan lives in Philadelphia and currently works at the Asian Arts Initiative. She is the author of Acts, a chapbook from Habenicht Press, and her poems have appeared in EOAGH, Rattapallax, Combo, Interlope, Mirage#4/Period[ical], and Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics. She’s given many readings across Philadelphia, as well as in New York, D.C, and San Francisco. She is the recipient of an Emerging Artist grant from the Leeway Foundation and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. "republic" and "Nineteen Nocturnal Steps in Mechanical Dawn" were previously published in Mirage #4/Period[ical]. "On Your Honor", "Documentary" and "Focus" were originally commissioned by the Rosenbach Museum as part of a project inviting poets to respond to the exhibition Enchanted Tableaus: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Collection of Maurice Sendak.

CAConrad, the son of white trash asphyxiation, is the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull, 2006), The Book of Frank (Chax, 2008), and most recently (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX, 2008). He has a monthly (Soma)tic Poetry Exercise page, and some of his poems and books can be found here.