Julie Doxsee’s forthcoming publications include a book, Undersleep (Octopus Books, Fall/Winter 2007/2008), and three chapbooks: Fog Quartets (horse less press, June 2007), You Will Build a City Out of Rags (Whole Coconut, Fall 2007), and New Body a Seafloor Body (Seeing Eye Books, March 2008). A chapbook, The Knife-Grasses, is now available from Octopus Books. New poems will soon appear in Cranky, CutBank, Handsome, Copper Nickel,Unpleasant Event Schedule, Good Foot, LIT and other journals.
Noah Falck’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Word For/Word, Bat City Review, Good Foot, BlazeVOX, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel – Second Floor, melancholia's tremulous dreadlocks , and elsewhere. Currently, he teaches Language and Thought in Dayton , Ohio.
John Gallaher is the author of the books of poetry Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (SD, 2001) and The Little Book of Guesses (Four Way Books, 2007), chosen by Henri Cole as the winner of the Levis Poetry Prize. Recent poems appear in jubilat, Colorado Review, West Branch, and Denver Quarterly. He lives in rural Missouri and co-edits The Laurel Review.
Heather Green's work has been published in The Cupboard pamphlet, albeit anonymously, and a few of her poems are currently being adapted to art songs in a classical music project at UCLA.
Matt Hart is the author of Who’s Who Vivid (Slope Editions, 2006) and two chapbooks, Revelated (Hollyridge Press, 2005) and Sonnet (H_NGM_N Books, 2006). His work has appeared in many print and online journals, including Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, Lungfull!, and Octopus. A co-founder and editor of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety, he teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.
Anne Heide edits CAB/NET out of Denver. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Glitterpony, The Tiny, Cranky, Coconut, and Ur Vox, among others. She is currently working towards a doctorate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.
Nathan Hoks’ work has recently appeared in several journals, including Octopus, Lit, Verse, Spinning Jenny, Crazyhorse and Conduit. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he’s working on a Ph.D. in comparative literature at UW. Last summer he was a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center.
Noelle Kocot is the author of three books of poetry, 4 (Four Way Books, 2001), The Raving Fortune (Four Way, 2004), and Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems (WAVE Books, 2006). In 2001, she received grants from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Fund for Poetry, and previously, she received awards from The Academy of American Poets and The American Poetry Review. Widow of composer Damon Tomblin, she lives in Brooklyn, where she was born and raised.
Sueyeun Juliette Lee currently lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she edits the chapbook series Corollary Press (www.corollarypress.blogspot.com). Her work has appeared in journals such as Chain, 26, Gutcult, MiPo, Skein, and Glitterpony. Her new book, That Gorgeous Feeling, is forthcoming from Coconut Books next spring. You can reach her at s.juliette.lee@gmail.com
Kim Lohse holds degrees from Hunter College and Vermont College in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in Margie, and Cæsura and in 2006, she won an Iowa Source Poetry prize. In addition writing poetry, Kim translates early French surrealist poetry and essays. For Poetry Center San Jose and Squaw Valley Writers Conference, she works as a programming director. In Palo Alto, California, she teaches English and Creative Writing. She has a four-year-old daughter and lives in Redwood City, California.
Clay Matthews work is published (or will be) in Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast , Court Green, LIT, Forklift, Ohio , No Tell Motel, H_NGM_N, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Muffler, is recently out from H_NGM_N B_ _KS.
Sierra K. Nelson received her M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Washington, and her poems can be found in Painted Bride Quarterly, Cranky, Swivel, Diagram, Mare Nostrum, on King County Metro busses, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Seattle and is accepting submissions (any medium) for the annual spring meeting of the Cephalopod Appreciation Society.
Jennifer Tolo Pierce is a writer, designer, and art director living in a perpetual state of flux and inspired momentum. She resides in San Francisco with her husband and two sons in a space smaller than your garage. This is her first poetry publication.
Nate Pritts is the author of SENSATIONAL SPECTACULAR (BlazeVOX) and is the editor of H_NGM_N, an online journal of poetry & poetics.
Brandon Shimoda’s other writings have appeared or will soon in Verse, the tiny, Aufgabe, Wildlife and elsewhere.
Mathias Svalina & Julia Cohen are partially the editors of Octopus & Saltgrass . They are the authors of the chapbooks If Fire, Arrival; Why I Am White; Creation Myths & Ruby's Bell. The collaborative poems published here are from a larger collection, When We Broke the Microscope.
Justin Taylor is the editor of The Apocalypse Reader (Thunder's Mouth Press, May 2007). He has written for The Believer, Opium, and numerous other online and print publications. Visit him at http://www.justindtaylor.net/
