Suss: another literary journal

Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz’s work can be found in McSweeney’s Internet Tendancies, Rattle, Pank, Barrelhouse, Monkeybicycle, and decomP, among oth­ers. She is the author of the non-fiction book Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam (Soft Skull Press, 2008) as well as five books of poetry, most recently Everything is Everything (Write Bloody Press, 2010). When not on tour, she can be found loi­ter­ing at NYC’s Bowery Poetry Club, where she helps run the Tuesday night poetry slam series, NYC-Urbana, and dates the surly bar­keep, poet Shappy Seasholtz. For more infor­ma­tion, please visit her web­site.

Kathleen Balma is a poet-librarian trapped in the body of a lan­guage teacher. She is also a Fulbright Fellow and an alum­nus of Indiana University’s MFA and MLS pro­grams. Her poems have appeared in sev­eral mag­a­zines end­ing with the word review and one that ends in foot. Her heart is not yet con­vinced that the rest of her has returned to her home coun­try, again. She enjoys a good nose-flute solo.

Quan Barry is the author of Asylum and Controvertibles, both pub­lished by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She cur­rently teaches at the University of Wisconsin.

Simeon Berry lives in Boston, where he is a poetry and fic­tion reader for Ploughshares. He has won a Career Chapter Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters, the Dana Award for Poetry, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant. Recent work appears in Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, and Colorado Review, and is forth­com­ing in Another Chicago Magazine, 5 AM, and DIAGRAM.

Russell Bittner lives and writes on a small island off the East Coast. The island is called “Long” and his bor­ough is called “Brooklyn.” Like Hobbes, he believes that “life is short, brutish and nasty.” He also believes, how­ever, that — like this tiny clod of an island — art is long; and, with Donne, that no man is one, entire of itself — either an island or a work of art. Russell’s prose, poetry and pho­tog­ra­phy have been widely pub­lished both in print and on the Net. His first col­lec­tion of short sto­ries (Stories in the Key of C. Minor.) will be pub­lished by Faraway Journal Publishing in September 2009.

CL Bledsoe is the author of two poetry col­lec­tions, _____(Want/Need) and Anthem. A third col­lec­tion, Riceland, is forth­com­ing this fall. A chap­book, Goodbye to Noise, is avail­able at Right Hand Pointing. A mini-chap, “Texas,” is forth­com­ing from Mud Luscious Press. He has fic­tion recently in The Pedestal, Pendeldeyboz, and Hobart. His story “Leaving the Garden,” pub­lished in Wheelhouse, was selected as a Notable Story of 2008 by Story South’s Million Writer’s Award. He’s an edi­tor for Ghoti Magazine. He blogs at Murder Your Darlings.

Jerrod E. Bohn is fin­ish­ing up his MFA in poetry at Colorado University (man­u­script title Goat Speak). His work has appeared in Touchstone and May Day mag­a­zines. When not writ­ing poetry, Jerrod is cook­ing or hik­ing or brew­ing beer.

J. Bradley invented revenge in the year 103 CE. He loves like an empty wal­let on a first date. His first col­lec­tion of poetry, Dodging Traffic, comes out Fall 2009 through Ampersand Books. Lust for him at Failure Loves Company.

David Brennan’s work has appeared and is forth­com­ing in Action Yes, Pank, H_NGM_N, Parthenon West Review, Beeswax and else­where. His first book of poetry, The White Visitation, is forth­com­ing from BlazeVOX books. He lives and teaches in Virginia.

D.V. Chatfield has lived in (in order, rep­e­ti­tions deleted) Montgomery, Alabama; Greenville, Alabama; Selma, Alabama; Langhorne, Pennsylvania; Holland, Pennsylvania; California, Pennsylvania (really); Yellow Springs, Ohio; New York, New York; Durham, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Seattle, Washington; Richmond, Virginia; Mountain View, California; Athens, Ohio (great farm­ers mar­ket, by the way); Syracuse, New York; Bloomington, Indiana; Florence (the one in Italy, not Alabama); a thing in Umbria that they called a town but which was too small to even have a bar, which makes sense given that the house was actu­ally in an Italian national park and so out from mem­ory goes that name, despite hav­ing spent eight cold, scorpion-filled months there; Grafton, Ontario (there was a minia­ture don­key); and Brooklyn, New York.

Doug Cox got born and raised in Fresno, California one year before punk rock hit the air­waves. His most recent work has appeared or is forth­com­ing in Apalachee Review, Chiron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Eclipse, and Rio Grande Review. He recently moved to Pennsylvania where he teaches lit­er­a­ture and com­po­si­tion at Kutztown University.

Kirk Curnutt’s books have been read in the hundreds—literally! Nevertheless, the eleven of them include the thriller Dixie Noir (out 11÷18÷09); Coffee with Hemingway (2007), an entry in Duncan Baird’s series of imag­i­nary con­ver­sa­tions with great his­tor­i­cal fig­ures; and the story col­lec­tion Baby, Let’s Make a Baby (2003). His first novel, Breathing Out the Ghost, was named Best Fiction in the Indiana Center for the Book’s 2008 Best Books of Indiana Competition. A pas­sion­ate devo­tee of all things F. Scott Fitzgerald, he is vice-president of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and a board mem­ber of the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. Check out his web­site.

Brad Davis was laid off in August. He now coor­di­nates edu­ca­tional pro­gram­ming for Sylvester Manor, a 350 year old fam­ily estate and organic farm on Shelter Island, NY. (Seriously: check it out.) His poems have been pub­lished in places like DoubleTake, Image, Poetry, Paris Review, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily, Connecticut Review, yada-yada-yada. Two are forth­com­ing in Chautauqua. He has four books from Antrim House, and a chap­book that won the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. Brad and esposa Deb live (for now) in Pomfret, Connecticut. They have one son who has one wive who together live in Brooklyn, New York. All with gratitude.

Daniel W. Davis cur­rently resides in Central Illinois, where he attends grad­u­ate school. He spends most of his time read­ing and writ­ing, and gen­er­ally avoid­ing the respon­si­bil­i­ties of higher education.

Janann Dawkins assists in edit­ing the eclec­tic lit­er­ary jour­nal Third Wednesday. Her work has been fea­tured recently or is upcom­ing in The Ambassador Poetry Project, Anastomoo, Bolts of Silk, Blinking Cursor, Blue Fifth Review, Calliope Nerve, The Daedalus Review, decomP, Existere, Gloom Cupboard, Gutter Eloquence, a hand­ful of stones, Oak Bend Review, The Orange Room Review, right hand point­ing, Shoots and Vines, and The Stray Branch, among oth­ers. Her chap­book, Micropleasure, was pub­lished by Leadfoot Press in 2008. A grad­u­ate of Grinnell College with a B.A. in American Studies, she now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Deirdre Coman Donahue was raised by wolves (Canis lupus famil­iaris or dogs, really) and now con­sid­ers her­self a Southern Californian. She has been obsessed with books since Max and the Wild Things stole her ten­der young heart. She is cur­rently writ­ing a mem­oir about her bifur­cated child­hood amongst freaks and straights; “Carnations” is one essay from that collection.

William Doreski teaches at Keene State College in New Hampshire. His most recent col­lec­tion of poetry is Waiting for the Angel (2009). He has pub­lished three crit­i­cal stud­ies, includ­ing Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in many jour­nals, includ­ing Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, The Alembic, New England Quarterly, Harvard Review, Modern Philology, Antioch Review, and Natural Bridge.

Denise Duhamel’s most recent poetry titles are Ka-Ching! (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009); Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005); Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); and The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999). A recip­i­ent of a National Endowment for the Arts fel­low­ship, she is an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor at Florida International University in Miami.

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Michelle Filippini’s poetry and cre­ative non­fic­tion have been pub­lished in Kanilehua (one of her poems took the their 1^st place poetry prize), the Sierra Nevada Review, Two Hawks Quarterly, and on LanguageandCulture​.net. Upcoming pub­li­ca­tions include prose pieces in the anthol­ogy A Generation Defining Itself: In Our Own Words, Volume 8.

A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Amy Forgue is pur­su­ing an MFA in fic­tion from Colorado State University, where she teaches in the English depart­ment. She lives in Fort Collins.

Elizabeth Whitmore Funk is a writer, edi­tor, and pro­fes­sor in Washington, DC. She cur­rently serves on the English fac­ulty of Marymount University. Her web­site is www​.eliz​a​beth​whit​more​.com.

Timothy Gager is the author of eight books of poetry and fic­tion. His lat­est, Treating A Sick Animal, was released in November 2009 from Cervena Barva Press. He lives at www​.tim​o​th​y​gager​.com.

Barry Goldensohn has pub­lished five col­lec­tions of poems. He is now assem­bling a New and Selected.

Twice nom­i­nated for the Pushcart Prize, Sharon Goldner’s sto­ries have appeared in: Word Riot; Lunch Hour Stories; Dispatch Litareview; Snarf; The Baltimore Review; Eight Stone Press; Southpaw Journal; Wordwrights; and Soundings/Whidbey Island Writers. Several of these pub­li­ca­tions have pub­lished mul­ti­ple sto­ries. Her first play was pro­duced in May 2009 by Run of the Mill Theater in Baltimore.

Peter Golub is a Moscow born poet and trans­la­tor. His trans­la­tions and/or orig­i­nal work can be found in Absinthe: New European Poetry, Asheville Poetry Review, Aufgabe, Caketrain, Cimarron Review, Circumference, Diagram, Interim, Jacket Magazine, Rhino, St. Peterburg Review, Taiga, Text Only, Vozdukh, Words Without Borders, Zoland, and Zone for None. He is the edi­tor of Jacket Magazine’s New Russian Poetry Anthology (issue 36). A bilin­gual edi­tion of his poems, My Imagined Funeral (2007), was pub­lished in Russia by Argo-Risk Press.

Howie Good, a jour­nal­ism pro­fes­sor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of nine poetry chap­books, most recently Visiting the Dead (2009) from Flutter Press.

Joseph Goosey has man­aged to pro­duce four chap­books. Two of them are the kind you can hold in your hand and the other two are not. He dis­likes liv­ing in Jacksonville, Florida.

Sarah E. Harris has lived a lot of places, but she cur­rently lives and works in Tucson, Arizona, where she’s writ­ing, teach­ing writ­ing, and pur­su­ing a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English. She’s been pub­lished most recently in Quarter After Eight, and you can see her CV and some links she likes at her web­site, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Bob Hicok is the author of Insomnia Diary, Animal Soul (a final­ist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Plus Shipping, and The Legend of Light. A recent recip­i­ent of both National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Fellowships, he teaches at Virginia Tech.

B.J. Hollars is an MFA can­di­date at the University of Alabama where he’s served as non­fic­tion edi­tor and assis­tant fic­tion edi­tor for Black Warrior Review. He is also the edi­tor of You Must Be This Tall To Ride, pub­lished by Writer’s Digest Books. He’s pub­lished or has work forth­com­ing in Barrelhouse, Mid-American Review, DIAGRAM, Fugue, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Puerto del Sol, Hobart, among oth­ers and has twice been nom­i­nated for a Pushcart Prize. Visit: www​.YouMustBeThisTallToRide​.net.

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Bridgett Jensen is a grad­u­ate of Spalding University’s MFA in Writing pro­gram. She lives in Olney, Illinois, with her four chil­dren, her hus­band, two rats, a dog, and a cat. She is a poetry activist and believes that read­ing, talk­ing about, and writ­ing poetry has the poten­tial to change the world.

Jason Joyce just grad­u­ated from the University of Wyoming with a bach­e­lors in Business Administration and a minor in Creative Writing. He is pur­su­ing a career in event pro­mo­tion and enter­tain­ment man­age­ment. He plays bass for the Cheyenne, WY based band Save My Hero. Jason is cur­rently work­ing on his first full-length col­lec­tion of poems. You can find out more about his writ­ing on his blog.

K. A. Keener is a high school English teacher in the Bronx. Before mov­ing to New York, she was a Peace Corps vol­un­teer in Zimbabwe and com­pleted her MFA at Indiana University.

Ian Khadan was born on August 21^st, 1986 in Georgetown, Guyana. He was raised by a sea­wall, a cricket bat, and two pup­pies. At the age of 9 he moved to the United States with his fam­ily. He is a recent grad­u­ate of Rutgers University with a Bachelor’s degree in English. He now spends most of his time read­ing Jorge Luis Borges and writ­ing about the Atlantic.

N.S. Köenings is the author of The Blue Taxi and Theft, pub­lished by Little, Brown and Company. She spends much of her time think­ing about money, love, evil, empire, and the con­cept of ‘the nation.’ In addi­tion to writ­ing fic­tion, she makes dolls who are either angry about some­thing very impor­tant or des­per­ate for sweet­ness. She lives in Massachusetts.

Krystal Languell is com­plet­ing her MFA at New Mexico State University where she is an assis­tant edi­tor for Puerto del Sol and senior edi­tor with Noemi Press. She is the author of a forth­com­ing chap­book from Tilt Press enti­tled The Mean Particle. Other work has appeared in Eleven Eleven, DIAGRAM, Santa Clara Review and elsewhere.

After a twenty-five year strug­gle, Amanda LaPergola suc­cess­fully escaped South Jersey to fol­low her New York City dreams. Fortunately, the dreams involved var­i­ous Queens neigh­bor­hoods and employ­ment in the food ser­vice indus­try. When not clear­ing place set­tings, Amanda can be seen at some of the city’s finest non-union open call audi­tions or in var­i­ous stand-up clubs hon­ing her mad com­edy skillz (with a “z”, even). You can read about her var­i­ous non-adventures at ¡Viva La Lala!.

Rachel Lim is an under­grad­u­ate stu­dent at the University of Virginia, where she interns at the University of Virginia Press and writes a weekly book col­umn for the school news­pa­per. She plans on double-majoring in English and East Asian Studies.

Micah Ling lives in Bloomington, Indiana dur­ing the aca­d­e­mic year and teaches at Indiana University and at DePauw University. During the sum­mer she and her hus­band and their pet boxer live in south-central Montana. Micah’s first full-length col­lec­tion of poems, Three Islands, is recently out from Sunnyoutside Press.

Currently employed as a vis­it­ing assis­tant pro­fes­sor of poetry at Hampshire College and as the man­ag­ing edi­tor of Salamander at Suffolk University, Heather M. Madden has taught cre­ative writ­ing work­shops in col­lege, uni­ver­sity, K-12, and com­mu­nity arts cen­ter set­tings. She is a prac­tic­ing poet and a recent recip­i­ent of an Emerging Artist’s Award from the Saint Botolph Club Foundation.

Corey Mesler has pub­lished in numer­ous jour­nals and antholo­gies. He has pub­lished two nov­els, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue (2002) and We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (2006). His first full length poetry col­lec­tion, Some Identity Problems (2008), is out from Foothills Publishing and his book of short sto­ries, Listen: 29 Short Conversations, appeared in March 2009. He also has two nov­els set to be pub­lished in the next year, The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores (Bronx River Press, 2009) and Following Richard Brautigan (Livingston Press, 2010). He has been nom­i­nated for the Pushcart Prize numer­ous times, and one of his poems was cho­sen for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. He has two chil­dren, Toby, (1988), and Chloe, (1995). With his wife, he runs Burke’s Book Store, one of the country’s old­est (1875) and best inde­pen­dent book­stores. He can be found at www​.coreymesler​.com.

Alyce Miller’s most recent book, Water, won the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, and was pub­lished in 2008. her work has won the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence, the Lawrence Prize, and numer­ous dis­tin­guished cita­tions in Best American (both sto­ries and essays), O’Henry Prize Stories, and Pushcart antholo­gies. More than 150 sto­ries, poems, and essays have appeared in mag­a­zines like Iowa Review, StoryQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, Permafrost, poem/memoir/story, Fourth Genre, and Ploughshares. She teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington and works part-time as a pro bono attor­ney for ani­mal rights.

Jeff Mock is the author of a chap­book, Evening Travelers (Volans Press, 1994), a guide­book for begin­ning writ­ers, You Can Write Poetry (Writer’s Digest Books, 1998), and Ruthless (win­ner of the Three Candles Press Open Book Award, to be pub­lished December 2009). His poems appear in The Atlantic Monthly, Cincinnati Review, Connecticut Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, The Georgia Review, The Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, LOCUSPOINT, New England Review, The North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, Shenandoah, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and else­where. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife, Margot Schilpp, and their daugh­ters, Paula and Leah.

R.B. Moreno teaches writ­ing at the Colorado State University English Department in Fort Collins. A for­mer pro­ducer for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, his report­ing most recently won hon­ors at the 2009 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. It appears online, among other places, at RBMoreno​.com.

Kenneth Nichols stud­ies fic­tion in the Creative Writing Program at The Ohio State University, where he also teaches in the English Department.

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J.R. Pearson played “Jonny B. Goode” in 1^st grade with an audi­ence of 15 peo­ple. Once, I seen him eat a whole case of Elmer’s Glue. He was ter­ri­ble at fin­ger paint­ing but he’s proud of these poems. Read his stuff in A Capella Zoo, Sage Trail, Word Riot, Ghoti, Weave, Boxcar Review, and Tipton. What more do you really need? Contact him at pearson.​poet@​gmail.​com.

Justin Petropoulos lives in Brooklyn, New York, where he works in non­profit com­mu­ni­ca­tions. His poems have appeared in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, and MiPOesias. He was a final­ist for the 2009 Sawtooth Poetry Prize and has poems forth­com­ing in Anemone Sidecar and Columbia Poetry Review.

Aleksey Porvin is a con­tem­po­rary Russian poet. His first col­lec­tion of poems was pub­lished in Moscow by Argo-Risk Press ear­lier this year.

Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D., is an award-winning writer and the author of five books and hun­dreds of poems, essays, and sto­ries on the themes of moth­er­ing, cre­ativ­ity, heal­ing and the nat­ural world. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where she teaches cre­ativ­ity work­shops and teaches indi­vid­u­als how to use writ­ing to achieve empow­er­ment and wis­dom. Her web­site is www​.cassiepre​mosteele​.com.

Christopher Prewitt is a life­long res­i­dent of Southeastern Kentucky. A mul­ti­ple time recip­i­ent of the Billie & Curtis Owens prize in poetry, Prewitt has also pre­vi­ously pub­lished poetry in uni­ver­sity journals.

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Tony Rickaby has shown his con­cep­tual works, instal­la­tions and paint­ings, usu­ally deal­ing with such issues as ide­o­log­i­cal and polit­i­cal power and urban sur­vival, through­out Europe and the US, includ­ing solo exhi­bi­tions at Franklin Furnace and Printed Matter in New York, at Central Space and the Standpoint Gallery in London and Colette in Paris. His cur­rent work con­cerns his­tor­i­cal and auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal reflec­tions on the1940s. Recently he has pro­duced works specif­i­cally for the web, includ­ing Drunken Boat, Locus Novus, (B)EAST, London Poetry Systems and Streecake, as well as for his own site. He lives in London.

Jon Sands is a recip­i­ent of the 2009 New York City-LouderARTS fel­low­ship grant. His work has appeared in DecomP, Spindle Magazine, The November 3^rd Club, and oth­ers. He is the Director of Poetry and Arts Education Programming at the Positive Health Project, a nee­dle exchange cen­ter located in Midtown Manhattan, and has rep­re­sented New York City mul­ti­ple times at the National Poetry Slam, sub­se­quently becom­ing an NPS final­ist. Jon lives in New York City, where he cooks bet­ter tuna salad than any­one you know.

Aisha Sharif holds an MFA in poetry from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her poetry has been pub­lished in Callaloo, Poemmemoirstory, Touchstone, and MuslimWakeUp! She is also Michael Jackson’s #1 fan.

Gregory Sherl pre­sented these poems to his poetry work­shop. Consensus: they lacked ‘any sort of con­crete images’. He apol­o­gizes for that. Gregory’s poetry has recently appeared or is forth­com­ing in New York Quarterly, Gargoyle, Bryant Literary Review, Roanoke Review, Night Train, PANK, and else­where. He can be reached at jesuis.​gregory@​gmail.​com.

David Shumate is the author of High Water Mark (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004), win­ner of the 2003 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and The Floating Bridge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.) His poetry has appeared widely in lit­er­ary jour­nals and has been anthol­o­gized in The Writer’s Almanac, Good Poems for Hard Times and The Best American Poetry 2007. He is the recip­i­ent of a 2009 NEA Poetry Fellowship. He teaches at Marian University in Indianapolis and lives in Zionsville, Indiana.

Mark Staniforth lives in a small vil­lage in North Yorkshire, England. It does not have a shop or a church, and he likes it that way. His fic­tion is pub­lished or forth­com­ing in Night Train, Eclectica, and Southpaw, among others.

Lee Stern lives in Los Angeles. He lives on three milk­shakes a day.

Julia Story was raised in Indiana and now lives in Somerville, MA. Her first book, Post Moxie, will be pub­lished by Sarabande Books in May 2010.

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Former col­lege pres­i­dent Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler has pub­lished widely in aca­d­e­mics and cre­ative writ­ing. Editor, poet, fiction/creative non­fic­tion writer, and play­wright, she has pub­lished four chap­books; has two more and a full-length col­lec­tion in press; and won The Pittsburgh Quarterly’s Hay Prize, the Poetry Society of America’s Hemley Award, and Asphodel’s Poetry Contest and tied for first place in Kalliope’s Elkind Contest. One story appears in Del Sol’s Best of 2004 Butler Prize Anthology; another, about Patrick Swayze, won the 2006 Abroad Writers Contest/Fellowship (France). A novel will soon join her novella and short-story col­lec­tion, and she was named 2007 Writer of the Year by California’s eliza­Press. She won the 2009 over­all award (poetry and fic­tion) of the San Diego City College National Writer’s Contest and City Works Journal. A play on Frost was a Pinter Review Prize for Drama Silver Medalist, and she won the 2008 Pearson Award at Wayne State for Second-Time-Around, a play on the Iraq wars. She has trav­eled around the world five times, writ­ing all the way, and now works full-time as a cre­ative writer and an editor.

William Walsh is the author of Questionstruck (Keyhole, 2009) and Without Wax (Casperian Books, 2008). His sto­ries and derived texts have appeared in Annalemma, Caketrain, New York Tyrant, Rosebud, Lit, Juked, Quarterly West, The Outlet, Kill Author, Quick Fiction, and other jour­nals. A short story col­lec­tion titled Ampersand, Mass. is forth­com­ing from Keyhole Press in 2010.

Wesleyan University Press pub­lished Joe Wenderoth’s first two books of poetry, Disfortune and It Is If I Speak, and Wave Books pub­lished his lat­est book of poems, No Real Light. Wave Books has also pub­lished his novel, Letters To Wendy’s, and The Holy Spirit Of Life: Essays Written For John Ashcroft’s Secret Self. His films can be seen on YouTube. Wenderoth is Professor of English and teaches in the grad­u­ate Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Davis.

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Changming Yuan grew up in rural China, authored sev­eral books before mov­ing to Canada, and cur­rently teaches writ­ing in Vancouver. Yuan’s poems (are to) appear in Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry (2009), The Cortland Review, Exquisite Corpse, The London Magazine and nearly 200 other lit­er­ary pub­li­ca­tions world­wide; his first full length col­lec­tion, Chansons of a Chinaman, has recently been released by Leaf Garden Press.

Aida Zilelian is a NYC teacher. Her work has been fea­tured in Pen Pusher (UK), SN Review, Visions, the most recent issue of Slushpile, and the upcom­ing issue of Wilderness House Literary Review. She has writ­ten two nov­els and is cur­rently look­ing for representation.