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DANIEL BECKER is 55, married, with two kids, 21 & 17: son plays jazz guitar, daughter paints, wife thinks she needs another horse. He practices general medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia. While working towards an MFA at Warren Wilson College, he wrote a longer essay on Frank O'Hara & Robert Lowell.
ADRIAN BLEVINS' THE BRASS GIRL BROUHAHA was published by Ausable Press in 2003 and won the 2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is also the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers' Foundation Award for poetry, the Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction, & a Bright Hill Press chapbook award for THE MAN WHO WENT OUT FOR CIGARETTES (1996). Her poems & essays have appeared in UTNE READER, THE SOUTHERN REVIEW, THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW, THE DRUNKEN BOAT, SALON.COM, & many other magazines and journals. She teaches at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
ADAM CLAY lives in Northwest Arkansas & co-edits TYPO MAGAZINE.
J. L. CONRAD's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL, FROSTPROOF REVIEW, PHOEBE, BROOKLYN REVIEW, FOLIO & CREAM CITY REVIEW, among others. Her first collection of poetry, A CARTOGRAPHY OF BIRDS, was published in 2002 by LSU Press. A chapbook, SPECIES OF LIGHT, was published in 2004 by Bellywater Press. She currently lives in upstate New York.
MIKE DOCKINS lives in Atlanta, where he is poetry editor of TERMINUS MAGAZINE. He is also a founding editor of REDACTIONS: POETRY & POETICS. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in THE GETTYSBURG REVIEW, CRAZYHORSE, INDIANA REVIEW, QUARTERLY WEST, JUBILAT, & many other journals, & they have also been featured on POETRY DAILY & VERSE DAILY. A Pushcart nominee, Mike received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is unapologetically a New York Yankees fan.
MATT DUBE currently teaches at Grand Valley State University. "Lenin's Shapka" is one anomalous page from his short story collection, Tell Hello to the Angels. He is currently working on a novel starring the ghost of Marie Curie.
TOM DVORSKE teaches at the University of West Georgia. His work has appeared in numerous journals including the TEXAS REVIEW, SPORK, PUERTO DEL SOL, TERMINUS, & elsewhere. He is the winner of the 2002 Taras Schevchenko Award for Writing given by Lazy Frog Press who pubished his chapbook, WHAT YOU KNOW, in the same year. Some of these poems appear in that chap.
KEITH GAMACHE grew up in Massachusetts, but has lived in New York for the past 14 years. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Michelle & keeps a studio in Long Island City, Queens. His work has been exhibited in solo & group shows in NYC & Long Island & has been reviewed in the NY TIMES & been published in NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS. His work can also be viewed at www. neoimages. net.
MATT HART is a co-founder & editor of FORKLIFT, OHIO: A JOURNAL OF POETRY, COOKING, & LIGHT INDUSTRIAL SAFETY. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in THE CANARY, PLOUGHSHARES, & SALT HILL, among other journals. Recent work can be seen online at DIAGRAM, OCTOPUS, and TYPO. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference & the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. His first book of poems, WHO'S WHO VIVID, will be published by Slope Editions in 2006. He teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
TOM HORACEK's collection of gag cartoons will be published by Drawn & Quarterly this fall.
CLAY MATTHEWS' recent publications include GOOD FOOT, MELIC REVIEW, DIAGRAM, MUDLARK, STORYSOUTH, MiPO & elsewhere. He currently serves as associate editor for the CIMARRON REVIEW while pursuing a Ph. D. at Oklahoma State University.
DAVID SAFFO spends his time translating & re-writing billboards, sitcoms, movies, novels, poems to address his phenomenological relationship with the world. No. David Saffo is now writing his bio for H_NGM_N #3. He is getting up from the computer
JIM SIMMERMAN is the author of four full-length poetry collections, most recently MOON GO AWAY, I DON'T LOVE YOU NO MORE and KINGDOM COME (both from Miami Univ. Press); & co-editor of DOG MUSIC: POETRY ABOUT DOGS (St. Martin's). A new collection, AMERICAN CHILDREN, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in May of 2005. He is Regents' Professor of English at Northern Arizona Univ. & lives in Flagstaff, AZ.
TONY TOST is the author of INVISIBLE BRIDE (LSU Press 2004). A chapbook, WORLD JELLY, forthcoming from Effing Press this year. Poems & essays can be found in recent issues of THE HAT, JACKET, VERSE, TYPO & TITANIC OPERAS.
THOM WARD is Editor of BOA Editions. His poetry collections include SMALL BOATS WITH OARS OF DIFFERENT SIZE AND VARIOUS ORBITS (Carnegie Mellon University Press). He lives with his wife & three children, two dogs & one fish in upstate New York.
JOE WENDEROTH grew up near Baltimore. His books are: DISFORTUNE (1995), IT IS IF I SPEAK (2000), LETTERS TO WENDY'S (2000), THE HOLY SPIRIT OF LIFE: TEXTS CONSTRUCTED FOR JOHN ASHCROFT'S SECRET SELF (forthcoming), & AGONY: A PROPOSAL (forthcoming). He is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, where he lives with his wife & daughter.
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