XI Contributors' Notes

Sarah Levine is currently pursuing my MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She received her BA in English and Specialization in Creative Writing at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Poems are published and forthcoming in Mastodon Dentist and Westchester Review.

Matthew Johnstone has writings in, or about to be in, Shampoo, Otoliths, and GlitterPony. His first collection of poetry, Let's be close Rope to Mast, you Old Light, has just been published by Blue & Yellow Dog Press. He tries not to insult people who love Billy Collins at http://hemouthsmewrong.blogspot.com.

Sasha Geffen just drove from Boston to Chicago in one 18 hour session despite the snow. She suspects she does these things because she's a little stupid. Nevertheless, they let her go to school at the University of Chicago, where she studies creative writing and visual arts. She enjoys sun bears the most for the way they roll about on the ground.

Michelle Reale is an academic librarian at a university in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Her work has been published in a wide variety of venues and she is the author of the fiction chapbook Natural Habitat by Burning River Press.

RC Miller lives in Metuchen, New Jersey. He is author of the poetry chapbooks Windex We Can (Wheelchair Party), A Large Retailer (Ronin Press), GORE (Calliope Nerve Media), and maintains a blog via VISION BLUES.

Ben Spivey is the author of the novel Flowing in the Gossamer Fold (Blue Square Press 2010). He lives in Atlanta and blogs at www.yourbrainsblackbox.blogspot.com

Francis Raven's books include the volumes of poetry, Architectonic Conjectures (Silenced Press, 2010), Provisions (Interbirth, 2009), Shifting the Question More Complicated (Otoliths, 2007) and Taste: Gastronomic Poems (Blazevox, 2005) as well as the novel, Inverted Curvatures (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005). Poems have been published in Bath House, Chain, Big Bridge, Bird Dog, Mudlark, Caffeine Destiny, and Spindrift among others. Critical work can be found in Jacket, Logos, Clamor, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Electronic Book Review, The Emergency Almanac, The Morning News, The Brooklyn Rail, 5 Trope, In These Times, The Fulcrum Annual, Rain Taxi, and Flak.

Paul Cunningham is the founding editor of Radioactive Moat and the author of an e-chapbook, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Pangur Ban Party, 2010). His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Shampoo, DIAGRAM, Open Thread Quarterly, H_NGM_N, and Titular. He likes any bear that escapes from a zoo.

Jennifer H. Fortin loves & lives in Syracuse. Her first full-length book of poems, Mined Muzzle Velocity, will be published in October 2011 by Lowbrow Press. Dancing Girl Press has just released her chapbook If Made Into a Law; Nicole C. (Apartment 4), another chapbook was published earlier this year as part of the Dusie Kollektiv. Poor Claudia will put out another one this year. With three other poets, she edits LEVELER.

Vaughan Simons lives in London with a prosthetic leg. It stops him falling sideways. He exercises and exorcises his vivid but frequently unfortunate imagination at An Unreliable Witness, and formerly edited the "writing about writing" site Writers' Bloc. He would like to sleep with a grizzly bear, but only in a platonic way: no tongues.

Peter Schwartz's poetry has been featured in The Collagist, The Columbia Review, Diagram, and Opium Magazine. His latest collection Old Men, Girls, and Monsters is part of the Achilles Chapbook Series. He’s an interviewer for the PRATE Interview Series, a regular contributor to The Nervous Breakdown, and the art editor for DOGZPLOT.

Gregory Sherl is the author of the chapbook I Have Touched You (DSM, 2011). He has two novellas forthcoming from Mud Luscious Press: The Oregon Trail Is the Oregon Trail (2012) and Swallow (2013). He co-edits the online poetry journal Vinyl and blogs at http://gregorysherl.com/.

Diana Salier's writings have appeared or are forthcoming on Camroc Press Review, Opium Poetry 2.0, WTF PWM, Blazevox, Writers At Work, Spooky Boyfriend and Spoken War. She lives in San Francisco. She eats lots of Raisin Bran.

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