CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES
Rosa Alcalá, originally from Paterson, New Jersey, has translated Cecilia Vicuña’s El Templo (Situations Press, 2001), Cloud-Net (Art in General, 1999), and Word & Thread (Morning Star Publications, 1996). Her own poems have recently appeared in Chain and The World. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English at SUNY-Buffalo, where she co-curates ñ: poesía, crítica, y arte, the university’s non-unilingual reading series.
Louise Belcourt is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn. She most recently showed at Artemis • Greenberg Van Doren • Gallery in New York City, and Galerie 5ème Étage in Paris.
Dodie Bellamy’s books include Feminine Hijinx (Hanuman, 1990), Real (with Sam D’Allesandro, Talisman House, 1990), and The Letters of Mina Harker (Hard Press, 1998). Cunt-Ups is her newest publication (Tender Buttons, 2001).
Nico Baumbach is a writer living in Manhattan. This is his first published story.
Anselm Berrigan is the author of Integrity & Dramatic Life and the forthcoming Zero Star Hotel, both from Edge Books. "Something like ten million . . ." was written for a Poetry Project reading on October 3, 2001, entitled "New Poems to End Greed, Imperialism, Opportunism, and Terrorism."
Hakim Bey is the author of T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (Autonomedia).
Michael Brownstein is the author of three novels, Country Cousins, Self-Reliance, and The Touch, as well as several collections of stories and poetry. His next book, World on Fire, will be published by Open City Books in May 2002.
Craig Chester was born in the late mid-1960s. As an actor, he has appeared in ten independent films, including Swoon, I Shot Andy Warhol, and Kiss Me, Guido, and has also written two screenplays, Save Me and Drama Kings. His adventures traversing the homophobic waters of Hollywood as an openly gay actor have led to a regular column in Instinct, which then led to a book deal with St. Martin’s Press. His first collection of essays, Why the Long Face?, will be published in June 2002.
Brenda Coultas is the author of Early Films and A Summer Newsreel. She has a book forthcoming from Coffeehouse Press in 2003. She is currently writing about the Bowery.
Peter Culley lives in South Wellington, British Columbia. His books include The Climax Forest and Natural History. His writings on visual art have appeared in numerous publications worldwide.
René Daniëls was born in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 1950. He had major solo exhibitions at Metro Pictures in New York, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Basel Kunsthalle. He was also included in Documenta Seven (1982), and Nine (1992). Considered one of the most important postwar Dutch painters, he characterized his work as: "A search for the no-man’s land between literature, art, and life." A stroke suffered in 1987 has prevented him from painting since then. He lives in Eindhoven.
Stacy Doris’s books include Paramour (Krupskaya, 2000), Kildare (Roof, 1995), and La vie de Chester Steven Wiener écrite par sa femme (P.O.L., 1998), Chroniques New Yorkaises, (P.O.L., 2000). Just out from Potes & Poets is Conference, from which "Flight" is excerpted.
Elizabeth Grove is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She did work in a psychoanalytic training institute, but not in the basement.
Noy Holland’s first book of stories, The Spectacle of the Body, was published by Knopf. She is married to the writer Sam Michel; they live in a small hill town with their two children.
Amy Hill is a painter living in New York.
Lisa Jarnot is the author of Some Other Kind of Mission and Ring of Fire. She lives in New York City and is writing a biography of Robert Duncan.
Stephen Graham Jones has published stories in Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Black Warrior Review, B&A, Cutbank, Flyway, Georgetown Review, Iconoclast, Quarterly West, South Dakota Quarterly, and Sundog, among other journals. His first novel, The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, was published by FC2 in 2000. He lives in Shallowater, Texas.
John Körmeling was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1951. An architect and artist, his major works include a house built on top of the customs office in Rotterdam, a drive-in ferris wheel in Utrecht, and a neon chandelier in the Schipol airport terminal. These drawings are from Een Goed Book (A Good Book), which was originally published by Centraal Museum Utrecht; a new edition will soon be released by Plug-In Gallery in Winnipeg, Canada.
Harryette Mullen is the author of four poetry books, most recently Muse & Drudge (Singing Horse, 1995). Two more books are forthcoming in February 2002: Blues Baby: Early Poems (Bucknell University Press), and Sleeping With the Dictionary (University of California Press). She teaches courses in American poetry, African-American literature, and creative writing at UCLA.
Maggie Nelson is the author of Shiner, a book of poems recently out from Hanging Loose Press (2001).
Cynthia Nelson doesn’t live anywhere she stays, but she does go around. Try Louisville, Kentucky, the island Manhattan, or Northern California. Music she makes as she goes, with herself, Retsin, and The Naysayer. She has recorded and released six or seven albums. Her books of poetry with Soft Skull Press include Raven Days (1994) and The Kentucky Rules (1998). She is a cofounder of the Fort Necessity literary magazine.
Michiko Okubo is Japanese by birth. She grew up in Kyushu, the south of Japan, majored in French at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and went on to study in England and France. She has lived in New York City and Hong Kong, and now lives in Tokyo. She finds it liberating to write in a second language.
Sarah Porter was born in Michigan in 1969. She has lived an unsettled life, including spending a few years abroad in Budapest and Berlin. She came to Brooklyn looking for stability–she now works as an artists’ model and has a small jewelry design business. She writes unpublished novels.
Ken Schles’s new book, The Geometry of Innocence, is a haunting visual journey through contemporary urban life. His first book, Invisible City, was a New York Times Book Review selection of the year. He is challenged by the idea that we can transform the world into images that work as a reference point between individuals and he doesn’t know anyone who would even think of sending him mail tainted with anthrax.
Rod Smith is the author of In Memory of My Theories (O Books), Protective Immediacy (Roof), and, with Lisa Jarnot and Bill Luoma, New Mannerist Tricycle (Beautiful Swimmer). The Good House, a long poem, was recently published by Spectacular Books. He edits Aerial magazine, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC.
Brian Kim Stefans’s books include Free Space Comix, Gulf and Angry Penguins. Fashionable Noise: Digital Poetics is forthcoming from Atelos Press. Several of his Web poems, including "The Dreamlife of Letters" and "The Truth Interview" (with Kim Rosenfield), can be found at ubu.com. He is a frequent contributor to The Boston Review and other publications.
Cecilia Vicuña, Chilean poet and performer, lives between Chile and New York. Her most recent books are El Templo, translated by Rosa Alcala, (Situations, 2001), Cloud-Net, translated by Rosa Alcalá (Art in General, 1999), and QUIPOem, translated by Esther Allen (Wesleyan University Press, 1997).