Contributors

Brooklyn Copeland was born in Indianapolis in 1984. She is the founding editor of Taiga Press. Chapbooks of her poetry appear electronically with Scantily Clad Press and Ungovernable Press; print chapbooks are forthcoming with Greying Ghost Press, Spooky Girlfriend Press, Further Adventures Press, Dancing Girl Press, and Wyrd Tree Press.

Tytti Heikkinen's first book, Täytetyn eläimen lämpö, was published by poEsia in 2008. Her second book is forthcoming in 2009.

Patrick Kosiewicz has just published his first book, The Geoglyph, and is currently working on a book about rebellion, of which "Assassins" is a part. He has permanently left the enterprise of war and lives only for poetry.

Sari Krosinsky received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Journal, Arsenic Lobster, Pebble Lake Review, Poetica, Verse Daily and others. She edits Fickle Muses, an online journal of mythic poetry and fiction.

Joy Ladin's first two books, Alternatives to History and The Book of Anna, were published by Sheep Meadow Press; her third, Transmigration, is due out in 2009. Her poems and essays have appeared in many periodicals, including Parnassus, to which she is a regular contributor. Joy holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College of Yeshiva University, and is currently completing a new collection of poetry, Coming to Life, and a collection of autobiographical reflections, Inside Out: Confessions of a Woman Caught in the Act of Becoming.

Rickey Laurentiis is a native of New Orleans and current undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College. His poetry has appeared in Thieves Jargon, Shakespeare's Monkey Revue, Swell Zine and others. He enjoys being Aquarius and reading on black queer studies. Find him here.

Cortney Philip is a Chicago writer who enjoys flying kites and jumping in lakes, although she'll settle for a river in a pinch. She does publicity for Ice Box Press and team-blogs about the burrito scene in Chicago here. Her work has appeared in At-Large, elimae, and Feathertale, and is forthcoming in The First Line.

Margarita Shalina was born in Leningrad and raised on New York's Lower East Side. Her poetry has appeared in Poems for the Retired Nihilist V. 2 (Fortune Teller Press, UK), 3:AM Magazine, EvergreenReview.com, New York Nights, and as a broadside for Poetry Motel. She has written essays for ZEEK Magazine and Three Percent, the website that accompanies Open Letter Press. She was a contributing translator to Contemporary Russian Poetry (Dalkey Archive Press) and is the Independent Press Buyer for St. Marks Bookshop. She writes and lives in New York. Her favorite color is mauve.

Gary Taxali is an award-winning illustrator and fine artist who has worked for such clients as Rolling Stone, Time, Esquire and The New York Times. He is a Founding Member of IPA (The Illustrators' Partnership of America) and sits on the Advisory Board of 3x3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration. He shows in various galleries and art fairs including Miami Basel, The Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York City and Messenhallen Zurich. Gary is working on his next mass production toy figure, "Totally Repugnant" which will be produced by his company, Chump Toys. His various vinyl figures can be found at retail stores and galleries all over the world including The Whitney Museum of American Art. This Is Silly", a children's book he wrote and illustrated is being published by Scholastic and slated for a Spring 2010 release. Gary lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Samuel-Christophe Tedjasukmana enjoys photography: the execution, the spectacle, the ownership, its assistance in remembering the nights before. He also enjoys parentheses, palindromes, eye candy, country capitals, and traveling. His contribution to this issue was rather easy as he travels frequently (less than he would like, but more than his means let him). He grew up flying out of South Bend (SBN), loves traveling to Paris (CDG), Hong Kong (HKG), and Chicago (ORD). He hopes the next visit to the airport will allow him to abscond to Romania (OTP), Dhaka (DAC), Rio (GIG) or anywhere he gets upgraded to fly in business or first class (not).