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Julie Christman has her M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New York City, in a charming neighborhood called Inwood, where she shares her office with her medically involved dog. She is the Director for The Teacher Academy at Brooklyn College and teaches English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In whatever time is left, she lives and breathes the history of the bathroom for her most current book project, Privy: The Curious History of My Bathroom.
Stephen M. Clark grew up in a northwest Indiana suburb of Chicago, and studied Philosophy and Classics at New College of Florida in Sarasota. Currently suffering from a bad bout of writer’s block, he keeps his aesthetic muscles sinewy though cell phone photo-documentation of New York City’s notable sights. Phoebe Damrosch holds a BA from Barnard College and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of Service Included, which was released in September 2007 by William Morrow. It was called a "charming debut" by Publisher's Weekly and was selected by the New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year.
Oriane Gabrielle Delfosse was raised in Virginia, though she has lived in Wyoming, Croatia, and now, Brooklyn. She has a B.A. from the University of Virginia, where she was an Echols Scholar, and an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. Her fiction was recently published in Best New American Voices 2008. Melissa Febos lives and writes in Brooklyn. She teaches both college and high school students and co-curates the Mixer Reading and Music Series in Manhattan. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bitch Magazine, Smut Magazine, Artisan, Italics Mine, The Southeast Review, and Lostwriters. She is finishing a book-length memoir.
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of three poetry chapbooks, Death of the Frog Prince (2004) and Heartland (2007), both from FootHills Publishing, and Strangers & Angels (2007) from Scintillating Publications. He was recently nominated for the second time for a Pushcart Prize. David Hollander published a novel, L.I.E., back at the turn of the century. Since then he's placed a handful of stories and essays in fine and reputable magazines, but these small successes have not eased the pain of his larger failures. He lives (if you can call it living) in Brooklyn, among young literary darlings inhabiting multi-million dollar brownstones.
Eric Jost received his BA in anthropology from American University in Washington, DC and recently completed his MPH from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He worked as a contributing writer for the Sydney queer newsmagazine, SX, and will soon appear in the online anthology, Beyond Masculinity: Essays by Queer Men on Mike Lewis is a published journalist, music blogger, technical writer, Web developer, and media and tech junkie. His day job takes place at a media/information company. His night job is accomplishing whatever he cannot during the day, like side Web projects, reading, and practicing his photography and DJ skills. He can often be found enjoying many of New York's fine music venues, eating pizza at 33, or reading The Nation on The Subway. He currently tracks 222 RSS feeds. |
Cameron McPherson is an artist living and working in New York City. He is currently enrolled at School of Visual Arts in the Master of Fine Arts program. His work can be viewed online at cameronmcpherson.com.
Maya Pindyck is the author of the chapbook, Locket, Maste, which won a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship in 2006. Her poems have recently appeared in Bellingham Review, Mississippi Review, RealPoetik, and Sycamore Review. She holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, where she is a New York City Teaching Fellow. Maya is also a visual artist and co-founder of Project Voice, a website documenting women's experiences with abortion. Nils Peterson taught in the English and Humanities Departments at San Jose State University from 1963 to 1999. He was Coordinator of the Creative Writing Emphasis for more than 20 years, and served as Coordinator of the Creative Arts and Chair of the Humanities Department. He was chosen as Professor of the Year by the Student Honor Society.
He has published poems in many journals, has written science fiction, as well as articles on subjects as varying as golf and Shakespeare. A chapbook of poems entitled Here Is No Ordinary Rejoicing was published by No Deadlines Press, a collection of poems entitled The Comedy of Desire with an introduction by Robert Bly was published by the Blue Sofa Press and a collection of poems entitled Driving a Herd of Moose to Durango appeared in 2005. He was poetry consultant for San Jose State Studies and was an editor for Discover America, a collection of poems celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of the USA, and contributing editor to The Blue Sofa Review and Americas Review. Nelly Reifler is the author of See Through, a collection of stories. Her work has been published by magazines and journals such as McSweeney's, Bomb, Black Book, and Jubilat. Her ongoing column about faith, God and mortality can be found at www.nextbook.org, and her own lazily updated website is www.nellyreifler.net. Nelly teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Pratt Institute. She has also worked as a baker, personal assistant, art school model, theater ticket clerk, and windup toy salesperson.
Karen Schubert is a graduate student in creative writing at Cleveland State and editor of Whiskey Island. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Water~Stone Review, diode poetry journal, pacific REVIEW, Lunarosity, Apple Valley Review and others. Her chapbook The Geography of Lost Houses is forthcoming from Pudding House Press. She has been nominated for Best of the 'Net and a Pushcart Prize. Isuru Senevi loves to travel and take photos. He fancies himself an anthropologist and you can generally find him on the dance floor. Sri Lanka, Western Massachusetts and New York City represent! [www.isurusen.com] Laura Spero is a writer, radio producer, and director of EVA Nepal, Inc. Since 2002 she has volunteered and periodically lived in rural Nepal, where she founded the Kaskikot Oral Health Care Project. Laura has worked as a facilitator for StoryCorps, a national oral history project with excerpts airing on NPR, and is still living in New York City, where she is studying to become a black belt in taekwondo. |