BIOS

Chris Vitiello lives in Durham, NC and works with teachers and parents on literacy. His book Irresponsibility (Ahsahta Books) came out in 2008, but his earlier Nouns Swarm A Verb is out of print. His blog languishes for unforgivable lengths of time at http://attentionwithoutame.blogspot.com/

Ken Rumble is the author of Key Bridge (Carolina Wren Press, 2007) and President Letters (Scantily Clad Press, 2008). His poems have appeared in Talisman, Parakeet, Cold Drill, the tiny, Octopus, and others.

Tessa Joseph Nicholas' poems have appeared in journals such as Sulfur, Talisman, minor/american, Cold Mountain Review, and the Seneca Review. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University and a PhD in American literature from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she teaches in the departments of English and Computer Science. Tessa lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, with her husband and son.

David Need is an Ohio/Massachusetts boy who has lived in the South since 1989. Current projects include scholarly work on Kerouac and Olsen, Rilke, translations from Tibetan and Vedic poetry, and several long poem projects, including "St. John's Rose Slumber", "Offshore St, Mark" and "Places I Have Lived".

Magdalena Zurawski was born in 1972 to Polish immigrants in New Jersey, where she attended Catholic School for twelve years before escaping north to Rhode Island to study literature. Currently, she lives in Durham, North Carolina. The Bruise is her first book.

Dianne Timblin lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Phoebe, So to Speak, Rivendell, minor/american, Foursquare, and other journals.

Joseph Donahue has lived in New York City and Seattle, and now lives in Durham, North Carolina. His published books include Before Creation, World Well Broken, and Incidental Eclipse. Talisman will publish the first volume of an ongoing work, Terra Lucida, in 2009.

kathryn l. pringle's first book, RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY, is forthcoming from Factory School/Heretical Text Series. She is the author of The Stills (Duration Press) and Temper & Felicity are Lovers (TAXT). Her poems can be read in The Denver Quarterly, Fence, Dusie, 14 hills, and 580 Split, among others. She edits the literary magazine minor/american, and curates the minor/american reading series in Durham, N.C. and she blogs at ::END PUNKTURE:: (http://kathrynlpringle.blogspot.com/)

Patrick Herron (http://patrickherron.com) is a poet, artist and information scientist from Chapel Hill, NC, USA. His doll Lester is the author of Be Somebody (2008, Effing Press) while Patrick is the author of several books of poetry including The American Godwar Complex (2004, BlazeVox) as well as a recent book on text mining and scientific discovery (2008, Verlag Dr. Mueller). He is working on a new volume of poetry tentatively entitled Embedded. Patrick's work has appeared in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and his proximate.org is part of the permanent collection of the New Museum for Contemporary Art. You may find some of Patrick's poems and essays in print and online journals such as The Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Fulcrum, A Chide's Alphabet, and Talisman. He is the founder of the Carrboro International Poetry Festival, a member of the board of Carolina Wren Press, winner of the 2005 Triangle Arts Award from The Independent (Durham NC), and a former Carrboro NC Poet Laureate. Patrick teaches new media studies, develops serious games (http://virtualpeace.org), and creates advanced analytical tools for the Jenkins Chair at Duke University.

Rodrigo Garcia Lopes (born in Londrina, Brazil, in 1965) is a poet, translator, journalist, and composer. He teaches Portuguese at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has a book of translations of Sylvia Plath, the anonymous The Seafarer, Laura Riding, Arthur Rimbaud, and Guillaume Apollinaire. He has twelve published books (poetry, interviews, and translations). He is currently writing his first novel, a detective story. After releasing the independent CD Polivox (music & poetry), he is preparing a new one for 2009, together with Quatuor, which gathers his previous volumes. His work has appeared in several anthologies of contemporary Brazilian poetry abroad and in Brazil, particularly The Best Brazilian Poems of the Twentieth Century. In 2005, his translation of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass was published for the first time in Brazil, and since 2002 he has edited the literary and art magazine Coyote.

Tony Tost is the author of Complex Sleep (Iowa 2007), World Jelly (Effing 2005) and Invisible Bride (LSU 2004).

Tanya Olson lives in Durham. Her work has appeared in Cairn, Bad Subjects, Main Street Rag, Pedestal Magazine, Elysian Fields, and Southern Cultures. She is a recipient of an Emerging Artist Grant from the Durham Arts Council and is the 2008 Fortner Award winner. She helps co-ordinate Durham's Third Friday, is a member of the Black Socks poetry group, and serves on the board of the Carolina Wren Press. She's completed a chapbook that needs a home, Absolutely A Particle, Absolutely A Wave and is working on a full-length book of poetry, Mapping Disappearance, and a collection of essays, Queer Time: Arts, Athletics, Academics and the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.

Brian Howe's arts and entertainment journalism appears regularly in Pitchfork Media, North Carolina's The Independent Weekly, The Fanzine, and Paste Magazine, where he is a Senior Contributing Editor. His poems and sound art have appeared in many print and online journals, including Fascicle, Soft Targets, Cannibal, Octopus, Effing, and MiPOesias. He is the author of three chapbooks: Guitar Smash (3rdness Press; 2006), Foreign Letter (Beard of Bees; 2008), and This is the Motherfucking Remix (Scantily Clad; forthcoming), which was written in collaboration with Marcus Slease. Howe is a member of the Lucifer Poetics Group, a blogger at the collective mp3 blog Moistworks.com, and the creator of the multimedia Glossolalia project (http://glossolalia-blacksail.blogspot.com/).