Joshua Clover has published two books of poems: Madonna anno domini (Louisiana State University Press, 1997) and The Totality for Kids (University of California Press, 2006). His contribution to the Modern Classics series for the British Film Institute, The Matrix, was published in 2005. He is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at University of California, Davis, a contributor to The New York Times, and the poetry editor for the Village Voice Literary Supplement.

Stacy Doris' books written in English include Conference (Potes & Poets, 2001), Paramour (Krupskaya, 2000), and Kildare (Roof, 1995). Written semi-anonymously in French are La vie de Chester Steven Wiener écrite par sa femme (P.O.L, 1998), and Uneannée à New York avec Chester (P.O.L, 2000). In addition she has edited a dossier of new American writing in French for Java, and co-edited the following collections of French poetry translated by American poets: with Chet Wiener, Christophe Tarkos: Ma Langue est Poétique--Selected Work (Roof, 2001); with Norma Cole: Twenty-two New (to North America) French Poets (Raddle Moon, 1997); with Emmanuel Hocquard: Violence of the White Page, Contemporary French Poetry in Translation  (Pederal, 1992). She is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.

Peter Gizzi grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Outernationale (Wesleyan University Press, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan University Press, 2007), Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), and Periplum and Other Poems 1987–1992 (Salt Publishing, 2004). He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. His work has been anthologized both here and abroad and has been translated into numerous languages. Gizzi’s honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets (1994) and fellowships from The Howard Foundation (1998), The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts (1999), and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005). His editing projects have included o•blek: a journal of language arts (1987–1993), The Exact Change Yearbook (Carcanet, 1995), and The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan University Press). He teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. More can be found at http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/gizzi.

Kenneth Goldsmith's writing has been called some of the most "exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry" by Publishers Weekly. The author of seven books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb (http://ubu.com), and the editor of "I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews," Goldsmith is also the host of a weekly radio show on New York City's WFMU. He teaches writing at The University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive. More about Goldsmith can be found on his author's page at the University of Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith.

Myung Mi Kim is the author of Commons, published by University of California Press.  Kim’s other books include Dura (Sun & Moon), The Bounty (Chax Press), and Under Flag (Kelsey St. Press).  Her work has been anthologized in Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, Premonitions: Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, Making More Waves:  New Writing by Asian American Women as well as other collections. Currently, Kim is Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo.

Mark Levine was born in New York City in 1965, grew up in Toronto, and attended Brown University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His books are: Debt (1993), Enola Gay (2000) and The Wilds (2006). He has also written journalistic nonfiction for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Outside, and many other magazines. He has received a Whiting Writers' Award and a fellowship from the NEA, and has taught at University of Montana and, since 1999, at the University of Iowa, where he is an Associate Professor. He lives in Iowa City and Brooklyn.

Tracie Morris has worked in multiple media: printed text, theater, dance, music and film. She has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. Her work has also been featured in commissioned pieces for several organizations including Aaron Davis Hall, the International Festival for the Arts, The Kitchen Performance Space, Franklin Furnace, Yale Repertory Theater for choreographer Ralph Lemon, the Whitney Biennial and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Awards include: NYFA Fellowship, Creative Capital Fellowship, the National Haiku Slam Championship and an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship. She is the author of two poetry collections, Intermission and Chap-T-her Won. Tracie Morris holds multiple degrees from Hunter College, CUNY and New York University.

Mark Nowak is author of Revenants and Shut Up Shut Down (afterword by Amiri Baraka) as well as co-editor (with Diane Glancy) of Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings after the Detours, all from Coffee House Press. He is the editor of XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics and the director of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers (http://www.urww.org). His essay on gothic-industrial music and deindustrialization in the rust belt is forthcoming in Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke University Press). Nowak is currently teaching a creative writing workshop for autoworkers at the St. Paul Ford plant, slated for closing in June 2008 as part of Ford’s “Way Forward” plan.

D. A. Powell is Assistant Professor of English at University of San Francisco. His most recent book, Cocktails (Graywolf, 2004) was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle and the Lambda Book Awards. His other books are Tea (Wesleyan, 1998) and Lunch (Wesleyan, 2000).

Juliana Spahr was born in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1966. Her books include This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (University of California Press, 2005), Fuck You – Aloha – I Love You (Wesleyan University Press, 2001), Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (University of Alabama Press, 2001), and Response (Sun & Moon Press, 1996). She co-edits the journal Chain with Jena Osman (archive at http://www.temple.edu/chain) and she frequently self-publishes her work (archive at http://people.mills.edu/jspahr).

Karen Volkman is the author of Crash's Law (Norton, 1996) and Spar (Iowa, 2002), which received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the James Laughlin Award. Recipient of awards and fellowships from the NEA, Poetry Society of America, and Akademie Schloss Solitude, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Montana.

Susan Wheeler is the author of four collections of poetry, Bag ‘o’ Diamonds (University

of Georgia Press, 1993), Smokes (Four Way Books, 1998), Source Codes (Salt Publishing, 2001), and Ledger (University of Iowa Press, 2005); and of Record Palace, a novel (Graywolf Press, 2005). Her awards include the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, two Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in eight editions of the Scribner anthology Best American Poetry, as well as in The Paris Review, London Review of Books, Verse, Talisman, The New Yorker and many other journals. On the creative writing faculties at Princeton University and the New School’s graduate program, she has also taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Rutgers, and New York University. She was born in Pittsburgh, PA and lives in the New York area.

Kevin Young is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Black Maria, a film noir in verse, and Jelly Roll: A Blues, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His first book Most Way Home was a National Poetry Series selection and winner of the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. Young is also the editor of Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers, Library of America’s John Berryman: Selected Poems, and Everyman’s Pocket Poets series volumes Blues Poems and Jazz Poems. The recent recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Young is currently Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing and Curator of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.