Aaron Anstett's second collection, No Accident, won the 2005 Balcones Poetry Prize. A new collection, tenatively titled Each Place the Body's, is forthcoming in 2007 from Ghost Road Press.
 

Mackenzie Carignan is a poet and teacher at University of Illinois, Chicago where she teaches both writing and literature classes and is dissertating for her PhD in Creative Writing.  She has recent publications in Fourteen Hills, Briar Cliff Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Chaffin Journal (Pushcart Prize Nomination), Liberty Hill Poetry Review, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Sniper Logic, Square One, and bluesky review as well as upcoming poems in ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Alligator Juniper, Wicked Alice, and RIEN’s Evening of Odds.  Recent honors include the Chicago Bar Association Charles Goodnow Memorial Award, Near South poetry award, and she was named a finalist by Anne Waldman in the 2003 Poetry Center’s Juried Reading. She was also named an AWP Intro Award recipient in 2001, a finalist in the 2003 Paumanok Poetry Award Competition, and won 1st place in the Jovanovich Awards for her manuscript Red Field in 2002.  She is planning a move to Broomfield, Colorado with her husband and son in the fall of 2006 where she will desperately search for a teaching job.

Originally from New England, Susana Gardner now lives in Switzerland, where she writes and edits Dusie. Her first chapbook, To Stand To Sea was published this year by the Tangent Press.

Scott Glassman lives in Palmyra, NJ and works as a medical test development associate.  His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Iowa Review, Sentence, Coconut, MiPoesias, Ocho, South Carolina Review, Free Verse, and others.  He also curates the INVERSE Reading Series in Philadelphia. More of his work can be found on his blog at http://scottglassman.blogspot.com

Amy King is the author of "Antidotes for an Alibi" and "The People Instruments."  She teaches English and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College/SUNY and is the managing editor for miPOesias.  Please visit www.amyking.org for more.

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Sarah Mangold is the author of Household Mechanics (New Issues) and the chapbooks Boxer Rebellion (g o n g) and Blood Substitutes (Potes & Poets). New work is forthcoming in The Denver Quarterly and Coconut. She lives in Seattle where she publishes Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art (www.birddogmagazine.com).

Nicole Mauro was born in San Mateo, California, in 1970. Her work has appeared in 580 Split, Skanky Possum, Syllogism, Mungo Vs. Ranger, Outlet, Big Bridge, COMBO, Kiosk, Jacket, Milk, How2, and The Argotist Online, among others. She has work forthcoming in Outside Voices’ Anthology of Younger Poets (eds. John Sakkis and Jessica Smith) due out in 2008, and is currently co-editing an interdisciplinary book about sidewalks titled Transience with Marci Nelligan, due out spring 2007 from Chain as part of its Chain Links book series. Dispatch, also in collaboration with Marci Nelligan, is her second chapbook. Her first chapbook, Odes, in homage to New York School Poets, was published in 2003 by Sardines Press. In addition to poetry, she also writes book reviews for Jacket. She teaches rhetoric and writing at the University of San Francisco, and lives in the Bay Area with her husband, Patrick, and daughter, Nina. They are expecting their second child in October.

Kaia Sand is the author of interval (Edge Books) and co-editor of the Tangent. She lives in Portland, OR  USA

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Rick Snyder is the author of Flown Season (Portable Press, 2004), Forecast Memorial (Duration, 2002), Blueprint (811 Books, 1999), and Double Ear (811 Books, 1999). His translations of Catullus’ poems 1-30 were published as This Charming New Chapbook (Situations, 2003). He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at USC.

Boyd Spahr's work, including excerpts from another chapbook, The Julias, appears in recent issues of Alice Blue, Shampoo, mark(s), and Fascicle.

Jared Stanley lives and works in Northern California. His poetry has appeared often alongside Catherine and Lauren's poems. His poems have been in Conduit, Gutcult, Mustachioed, and Mrs. Maybe. There's also a chapbook, called Measuring Daylight With a Stick.

Catherine's poems can be found in Fence, GutCult, MAKE Magazine, Northwest Review, Court Review and Mrs. Maybe. She is also the author of the chapbook, The Maybook, published by Your Beeswax Press.

(vol. 1  no. 4)
ISSN 1661-6685