Jake Levine is a recipient of a 2010-2011 Fulbright Scholarship to Lithuania, the author of a chapbook The Threshold of Erasure (2010 Sporkpress), became an editor and is editor at Spork Press under Richard Siken, is on the board of directors at POG (poetry in action Tucson), is editor-in-chief at Sonora Review, has taught, teaches, and will teach poetry for The University of Arizona, Vilnius University, CHAX press, and has lectured and given talks to people in public spaces. He just recently started to eat meat again and generally likes to think of himself as somewhat of a magician or a unicorn when he is not doing poetry or is in a meeting. He also has a brother. He is working on several manuscripts at this time, all of which share the title Future History: The Rhyme and Retrobution. His work is heavily indebted to Fauvism, Abstract Expressionism, Literary Postmodernism, Hedonism, a slew of other isms, but also Leadbelly.

Kim Gek Lin Short is the author of THE BUGGING WATCH & OTHER EXHIBITS and the chapbook RUN. Visit her website http://www.kimgeklinshort.com/

Andrew Zornoza is the author of the novel Where I Stay. His short fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as, Gastronomica, Sleepingfish, Confrontation, and CapGun, among many others. Born in Houston, Texas, he has taught at Gotham Writers’ Workshop and in Parsons Design & Technology MFA program. He is a contributing editor to the arts journal Helping Orphans Worldwide (H.O.W.). He currently lives in New York City.

Gordon Massman attempts to reveal with relative objectivity his innermost urges, motivations, fantasies, and fears in hopes of touching upon something universal, to nail the unspeakable as graphically and realistically as he can. Given that beauty also resides in raw irreverent statement, perhaps, you as listener will hear a perverse unexpected beauty in his writing. Mr. Massman’s most recent book, “The Essential Numbers”, was published by Tarpaulin Sky Press. Spork Press will publish a chapbook of his work this month and next year The New York Quarterly Press will publish his next full-length collection.

Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-born American poet from New York City. His poetry books include Iterature and The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza, which employs characters such as MC Squared, Peepeesaurus, the Begriffon and, of course, DJ Spinoza, to explore the shortcomings of axiomatic systems with the insouciance and energy of Saturday-morning cartoons. He has edited an English-language anthology of Russian absurdist writings of the 1930s by such authors as Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms. His PhD dissertation was on the history of zero. He teaches at New York University.

Carolina Maugeri: Transcription, auto-correction, revision, & improvisation, & the personal-to-cultural tensions & histrionics that arise from such activities, make up her main poetic preoccupations. In addition to writing, she likes to make music, surveys, sketches, &
explores sound & textures through vocal phonic utterances, typewriter taps, multi-instrumental manipulations within interrupted songscapes. She lives in Philadelphia, where she teaches writing & literature to visual artists at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Kyle Conner is a poet who works and lives in Philadelphia with his keeshond Sam. His chapbooks are: Songs for South St. Bridge (1996), The Pulverized Thing of Doubt (2002), Toward Belief (2005) and breaths for f l e s h (2008). He has been involved with the Philadelphia literary scene for over 15 years and has given numerous readings in various venues. He co-curated the Highwire Reading Series from 1998-2000 and is the nominal spokesman for the theory of “Oughtism” (because you Ought to know), which makes the obvious explicit: that art is never more or less than an extension of the way one chooses to live one’s life.