CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES

Joshua Beckman is the author of Things Are Happening (APR, 1998) and Something I Expected to Be Different (Verse Press, 2001). He lives in Staten Island and is the poetry editor of Radical Society.

No biographical information is available for Paul Chan. His fonts can be downloaded at www.nationalphilistine.com/alternumerics.

Alicia Erian's first collection of short stories, The Brutal Language of Love, was published by Villard in April 2001. Her work has appeared most recently in Playboy, Zoetrope, and Nerve. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Martin Fawkes, a translator, died of cancer at age thirty.

Daniel Greene is an elementary school teacher, justice of the peace, graduate of Yale Divinity School, and musician in the band The Butterflies of Love. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Steve Healey lives in Minneapolis and teaches writing to traditional students at community colleges and prisoners at state correctional facilities. He has poems in recent or forthcoming issues of American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, Fence, Jubilat, Lit, and Verse.

Hellin Kay is a photographer and filmmaker living in New York City. She emigrated from Russia with her mother in 1979 and has a B.A. and M.F.A. from Bard College. She has been working on a book of photographs of Moscow for the past seven years.

Moe Kleiman was born in 1923 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In World War II he served in the infantry in the European Theatre of Operations (E.T.O.) and was there during the Battle of the Bulge. Just before his discharge Moe and Shirley were married. After discharge he returned to the University of Michigan and earned his B.B.A. Moe and Shirley then moved back to Grand Rapids where they are presently retired. They have one son, one daughter, and two grandsons.

Heidi Kujac wrote her first poem at age five. Originally from Oregon, she has lived in New York City for the past twelve years.

James Lasdun's collection of stories, Besieged (the title story of which was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci), was published in 2000. His first novel, The Horned Man, will be published this year by W.W. Norton. He teaches at Princeton.

Giuseppe O. Longo holds degrees in electronic engineering and mathematics and a Ph.D. in cybernetics and information theory. He is a professor of information theory at the University of Trieste. Longo has translated fifteen books from English and German and in 1991 was awarded the Monselice Prize for scientific translation. He has published four collections of short stories and three novels, and several of his plays have been produced. He was recently awarded a fellowship by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.

Cameron Martin is an artist who lives in Brooklyn. He is represented by Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York City.

Maurer United Architects (MUA) is premised on the close collaboration of Marc Maurer and Nicole Maurer, architects who have received several awards and nominations for their work. Seeking to combine architectural theory and building technology, their design concepts also take account of social change. Besides architecture, this response has generated solutions in other design fields including graphic design, interactive media, and furniture. Their first monograph, entitled Play, will be published this May by 010 Publishers, Rotterdam.

Philip Metres' poems and translations have been published in numerous journals, Best American Poetry 2002, and In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era (Zephyr Press, 1999). His manuscript, A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky, is forthcoming. He is a professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland.

Daniel Nester's poems have appeared in Cream City Review, Nerve, Minnesota Review, and others. He is editor of the online journal La Petite Zine, curates karaoke poetry readings near his home in Brooklyn, and is working on God Save My Queen, a prose poem-ish memoir on the rock band Queen.

Paul Quinones is a writer currently living in Los Angeles.

Rebecca Reynolds was born and grew up in Washington, D.C. She has been the recipient of a Hopwood Award, a New Jersey State Council on the Arts grant, and the 1998 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America for Daughter of the Hangnail (New Issues Press, 1997). Her second book, The Bovine Two-Step, is forthcoming from New Issues Press this fall. She works at Douglass College, the women's college of Rutgers University, as an assistant dean.

Born in 1947, Lev Rubinshtein studied philology at Moscow State University and worked as a librarian while he took part in the literary underground. Rubinshtein's central importance to the Russian avant-garde and his artistic links to the American Language School poetics, make him an essential figure both in Russian and international poetry. He has been widely published and anthologized in The Third Wave (1992), New Russian Writing (1995) and Crossing Centuries: The New Russian Poetry (2000). This translation project is supported by the National Endowment of the Arts (2001).

Tomaz Salamun, a Slovenian, has published extensively since his first book, Poker (1966), appeared in samizdat. His last two books translated into English are Feast (Harcourt, 2000), edited by Charles Simic and introduced by Edward Hirsch, and A Ballad for Metka Krasovec (Twisted Spoon Press, Prague, 2001). “VI.” and “VII.” are from a longer poem called “Things.”

Sandra Scolnik is a painter living in Brooklyn. She is represented by CRG Gallery in New York City.

space3, based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and founded in 1995, is a  graphic design collective who invade, enrich, and confuse the over-commercialized public space with space3 stickers and poster art.

Tatiana Tulchinsky, a longtime translator who has translated and published numerous works into Russian and English, is currently completing The Anthology of Russian Verse, 18th–20th Century with Gwenan Wilbur for Yale University Press. In 1998, she was awarded the AATTSEEL Prize for Best Translation from a Slavic or East European Language for her work with Marvin Kantor on Leo Tolstoy's Plays in Three Volumes (Northwestern University Press).

Lara Vapnyar came to New York from Moscow in 1994. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the City University of New York. This is her first published story.

Dean Wareham lives in New York City. He writes and performs with the band Luna, whose sixth studio album Romantica is available on Jetset Records. From 1987 to 1991 he was the singer and guitarist for Galaxie 500.

Amine Wefali's book, Westchester Buring: Portrait of a Marriage, will be published by Dial Press in June. Excerpts from the book previously appeared in Open City #8.

Jocko Weyland is an artist and writer living in New York City. “The Elk and the Skateboarder” is an excerpt from his book, The Answer Is Never: A Skateboarder's History of the World, forthcoming from Grove Press in September.