STEPHANIE BARBER is a multi media artist who creates meticulously crafted, odd and imaginative writing, films and videos as well as performance pieces which incorporate music, literature and video. Her poems and essays have been published by Publishing Genius Press, Bronze Skull Press and Crayon among others. Her films and videos have screened at MoMA, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Tate, London and others. She currently resides in the USA.

MARY-CATHERINE JONES' writing has appeared in Poetry International, elimae, Scapegoat Review and WebDelSol. She has been awarded residencies by the Burnt Norton Abbey and The Apple Hill Chamber Players, in Nelson, NH, 2009. She curates the Datum:Earth reading series at the Starving Artist in Keene, NH. Her commercial work for clients like Target, Aveda and Southwest Airlines has appeared in numerous awards shows and design annuals like Communication Arts, How and Print.

KATHLEEN MILLER is a poet and social worker who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing has been featured in journals such as Shampoo, Matrix Magazine, Jacket, Bay Poetics and How2.

STACY SZYMASZEK was born in Milwaukee, WI. She is the author of the books Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press, 2005) and Hyperglossia (Litmus Press, 2009), as well as numerous chapbooks, including Orizaba: A Voyage with Hart Crane (Faux Press, 2008), Stacy S.: Autoportraits (OMG, 2008), and from Hart Island (Albion Books, 2009). From 1999 to 2005, she worked at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood. In 2005 she moved to New York City where she is the current Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.