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		Matthew Abess Writer raised and living in Miami Beach. Curatorial research assistant at The Wolfsonian-FIU. Published work on concrete poetry, digital artifacts and blurbs. Curatorial work includes Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You (University of Pennsylvania Libraries) and Audio Selections from the Sackner Archive (UbuWeb). Symposia include Suddenly Everyone Began Reading Aloud and The Topography of Testimony (both at Kelly Writers House). Course on Holocaust testimony and witness-bearing taught at the University of Pennsylvania. Writing recently appeared in Jai-Alai Magazine # 10.
		Stan Apps Currently a law student at NYU. His newest paper book, The World as Phone Bill, is a collection of essays on contemporary poetry, eternal verities, assorted universals and a particular or three. His newest e-book, This Club Will Have Anyone, is available as a download or randomized website from Gauss PDF. Other books are available from Slack Buddha, Make Now, or Les Figues Press.
		Kacee Belcher Owns a cemetery plot in Venice, FL but would rather be cremated and have her ashes tossed during a hurricane party somewhere near Miami. She is currently pursuing an MFA at Florida International University where she writes in all the genres. Previous publications include or are forthcoming at Two Hawks Quarterly, The Florida Book Review, BORDERLANDS: Texas Poetry Review, and Voices de la Luna.
		Eliza Bishop Consented to Walt Whitman's invitation to know the Origin of All Poems and thus enjoys the riotous awakening which has alerted her to the ecstatic potentials of her Being. The essence of poetry is pre-language. It is a medium through which the spirits' presence can be transmitted. This love-script is the matrix of her heart's compass and for four years Eliza has created a yogini, nomadic way of life, in which she makes organic land art, living poetry, breathing sculptures, handmade books, and one-of-a-kind love-gifts for a global community in Germany, the Czech Republic, America, England, and India. Presently, she is rooting in Switzerland with her Beloved. If you wish to co-create, receive a love gift, or have her appear send an e-mail to: elizabishop@gmail.com
		Jonah Bokaer An international choreographer, media artist, artist space developer and social entrepreneur. His work integrates choreography with digital media, resulting from cross-disciplinary collaborations with artists and architects. Bokaer’s choreography has been produced in Belgium, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, India, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2008-2009 Bokaer became the first dance artist to be appointed a Young Leader of the French American Foundation. He led a group of choreographers in the formation of Chez Bushwick (2002). He later founded CPR – Center for Performance Research, a 4,000 square foot arts facility in Williamsburg, in collaboration with John Jasperse (2008). Bokaer is a current choreographer for the operas of Robert Wilson. For more information, please visit www.jonahbokaer.net.
		Adam Bradley A scholar of African American literature and a writer on black popular music and culture. His writing and commentary has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post as well as on PBS, NPR, and C-SPAN. He is the author of Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop and Ralph Ellison in Progress and the co-editor of The Anthology of Rap and Ralph Ellison’s unfinished second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting... He is presently working with Common on his forthcoming memoir, One Day It'll All Make Sense.
Photo by Alan Magayne-Roshak		Liam Callanan The creator and executive producer of POETRY EVERYWHERE, an animated series of over 30 short films featuring a wide variety of contemporary poetry. The author of two novels, The Cloud Atlas and All Saints, he's currently the chair of the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
		Gabrielle Calvocoressi The author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea. 2005) and Apocalyptic Swing (Persea. 2009), which was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer's Award and a fellowship to Civitella di Ranieri in Umbria. Her poems have been featured in the Washington Post,on Garrison Keillor's Poet's Almanac and in numerous journals. She also writes the Sports Desk column for >>>The Best American Poetry blog and is the Virtual Editor for Broadsided Press. She tweets >>>@gabbat, @broadsidedpress and may be writing her third book @caracaraoriole. She is on the advisory board of >>>The Rumpus' Poetry Book Club. She lives in Los Angeles.
		Amalia Caputo Venezuelan/American artist and photographer. She holds a Bachelors in Art and Art History from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. In 1995 she received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Art Theory at New York University and the International Center of Photography. She is devoted to her career as a photo/video based artist, which she combines with her editing, writing and coordinating exhibitions career. Important exhibitions include the Bienal de Cuenca in 2004, and a solo Exhibition at Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas, 2006. In 2009 she joined Talking Head Transmitters because of her interest in the radio format as a tool to establish art dialogues, and building perspectives through the spoken voice. She has lived and worked in Miami since 2003.
		Anne Carson Classics scholar and the author of eight books of poetry, essays, and translation, including The Beauty of the Husband, Autobiography of Red, Plainwater, Glass, Irony and God, If Not, Winter: Fragment of Sappho, Decreation, and Nox. Carson was the 2008 Lillian Vernon Writer-in-Residence at the NYU Creative Writing Program.
		Adrian Castro Poet, performer, and interdisciplinary artist. Born in Miami, a place which has provided fertile ground for the rhythmic Afro-Latino style in which he writes and performs. Articulating the search for a cohesive Afro-Caribbean-American identity, Castro honors myth on one hand and history on the other. He addresses the migratory experience from Africa to the Caribbean to North America, and the eventual clash of cultures. Castro creates a circular motion of theme, tone, subject matter, style, and cultural history, giving rise to a fresh illuminating archetypal poetry. These themes reach their climax in their declamacion – the call-and-response rhythm of performance with a whole lot of tun-tun ka-ka pulse. He is the author of to Cantos to Blood & Honey,(Coffee House Press, 1997), Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time,(Coffee House Press, 2005), and Handling Destiny (Coffee House Press, 2009). Castro is also a Babalawo and herbalist.
		Angel Cuadra Born in Havana, Cuba, he graduated with a Doctorate in Law from the University of Havana. He also co-founded the Grupo Literario Renuevo in 1957. He was a lawyer until 1967, when he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for counter-revolutionary activities. In October of 1980, the PEN Club of Sweden named him "Member of Honor." In March 1981, Amnesty International named him "Conscientious Prisoner of the Month." An exile in the United States since 1985, he became an adjunct professor in the department of modern languages at FIU. Among his many published books of poetry, La Voz Inevitable (1994), Diez Sonetos Ocultos (2000), and De los Resumenes y el Tiempo (2003), have been published in the United States.
		KC Culver Teaches writing at the University of Miami, where she serves as Managing Editor of the literary journal Mangrove and acts as Assistant Director of the Writing Center. Her poems are forthcoming in Lamplighter Review and have recently been published in The Driftwood Review, word river, and Gulf Stream. She was a featured reader at the 2008 and 2009 Miami Book Fairs. She holds degrees from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Auburn University, and the University of South Carolina.
		Robert Currie An artist working in New York and Ann Arbor, MI.
		Lucia della Paolera Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated in 2010 from the University of Pennsylvania where she read English and Music, and now works as Editorial Assistant at the journal.
		Denise Duhamel The author, most recently, of Ka-Ching! (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005) and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001). A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is a professor at Florida International University in Miami.
		Craig Dworkin The author, most recently, of Strand (Roof, 2005), Parse (Atelos, 2008), The Perverse Library (Information As Material, 2010), and Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, co-edited with Kenneth Goldsmith (Northwestern UP, 2011). He curates the digital archive Eclipse.
Photo: Alma Rodríguez Ayala El Universal		Carla Faesler Author of the books: Catábasis Exvoto, (poetry and photopoetry) (Ed.Bonobos, 2010) Anábasis Maqueta (Editorial Diamantina, 2004, “National Prize of Literature Gilberto Owen”), No Tú sino la Piedra (Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia 1999), Ríos sagrados que la herejía navega (plaquette, Ediciones Mixcóatl, 1996) and Lola Álvarez Bravo, cazadora de imágenes (SM Ediciones, 2006). Her poetry has been reviewed and published in most leading Mexican newspapers and magazines and has been translated into English and French. She co-founded MotínPoeta (2003-2010) a collective initiative that promoted interdisciplinary projects in which poetry was the starting point. With MotinPoeta she co-produced Urbe probeta (2004) and Personae (2007), two CD’s that reunite the collaborative work of poets, music producers and sound artists, among other poetry collective initiatives.
		Abel Folgar Born in Caracas, Venezuela and currently resides in Miami, FL. His work has appeared in Hinchas de Poesia, La Fovea, Sliver of Stone, Poets & Artists and the Cent Journal Series.
		Neil de la Flor Publications include Sinead O'Connor and her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds (Firewheel Editions, 2011), co-authored with Maureen Seaton and winner of the Sentence Book Award, Almost Dorothy (Marsh Hawk Press, 2010), winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, and Facial Geometry (NeoPepper Press, 2006), co-authored with Maureen Seaton and Kristine Snodgrass. His work, both solo and collaborative, appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Barrow Street, TriQuarterly Review, Pank, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Court Green, among other journals. He teaches writing and literature at Barry University, Miami Dade College, Saint Thomas University and Nova Southeastern University. He writes for Knight Arts and Art Burst Miami. Reach him at >>>www.neildelaflor.com.
		James Franco Actor, writer, artist, and filmmaker. His debut collection of short stories, Palo Alto, was published in 2010 by Scribner.
		Billy Friebele Artist whose work examines the intersection of new media and public space. Friebele has a forthcoming exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art. He has exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as in Sarajevo, New York, Colorado, St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, DC among other places. He teaches as an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
		Matt Gajewski A native of Madison, Wisconsin, has lived in Miami since 2002. He is the creator of the 90.5 WVUM radio program Pure Imagination, which features short stories and improvised narratives set to music by Miami-based composers.
		Forrest Gander Author of more than a dozen books, including the novel As A Friend (2008); the poetry collections Eye Against Eye (with photographs by Sally Mann), and Science & Steepleflower; and the essay collection, Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory & Transcendence. Core Samples from the World, a book of poems, haibun, and collaborations with photographers Graciela Iturbide, Raymond Meeks, and Lucas Foglia, will be released by New Directions in 2011. Translations include Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho, and, with Kent Johnson, The Night by Jaime Saenz. Watchword, a translation of the book by Mexican poet Pura Lopez Colome, and Spectacle & Pigsty, a co-translation with Kyoko Yoshida of poems by contemporary Japanese poet Kiwao Nomura, will be released from Wesleyan and OmniDawn Press, Spring 2011.
		Christy Gast Exhibited at museums and galleries internationally, including Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich; Centro Cultural Matucana 100 in Santiago, Chile; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and High Desert Test Sites in California, Artist’s Space, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and Harris Lieberman Gallery in New York; and Gallery Diet, Miami Art Museum and the Bass Museum of Art in Miami. Her project Herbert Hoover Dyke opened at the De La Cruz Collection in Miami in December, 2010, and her installation Untitled (Emptied Signifiers) will be on view at Pulse Contemporary Art Fair during Art Basel Miami Beach. Gast resides in Miami, FL, where she is represented by Gallery Diet in Miami.
		Pachi Giustinian Born in Buenos Aires, 1981. Pachi Giustinian obtained her BFA from the National University of Visual Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since then, her work has gone through numerous stages becoming a multidisciplinary artist drawn to the matters of color, light and sensations. Now she is living in Miami, being part of a Legal Art residency program. Pachi participated in several group exhibitions, many in which she was prized. Her works are part of private and public collections.
		Ben Greenman Editor at the New Yorker and the author of several acclaimed books of fiction, including Superbad, Superworse, and A Circle is a Balloon and Compass Both: Stories About Human Love. His fiction, essays, and journalism have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Paris Review, Zoetrope: All Story, McSweeneys, and Opium, and he has been widely anthologized.
		Maggie Hasspacher Based in Los Angeles, Maggie Hasspacher is an actively performing bassist/vocalist originally from the Detroit area. She holds a bachelors degree from the University of Michigan where she studied classical bass and voice, in addition to pursuing interests in folk, jazz and modern music. Currently she's earning her Master's in Double Bass Performance with David Moore at the University of Southern California. With her restless creative energy, Maggie has commissioned and performed pieces by composers Anna Mikhailova and Matthew Kline. Her most recent commission from Timo Andres will further expand her contemporary bassist/vocal repertoire. Her next project, One Bass One Voice, seeks to commission new pieces for bass and voice.
		Kate Hedeen Her work as a literary translator has appeared in some of the most prestigious and well-known journals in America. Among her most recent publications is The Infinite's Ash/ Ceniza de infinito (London: Arc Publications, 2008), a selection of Víctor Rodríguez Núñez's early poetry, which she translated and introduced. In collaboration with Rodríguez-Núñez, she is Co-Editor of the Earthworks Series, Latin American Poetry in Translation for Salt Publishing, UK, and has published book-length translations in English of the notable Spanish American poets Juan Gelman, Ida Vitale and Juan Calzadilla. Hedeen is a recent recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship: Translation Project, for 2009-10.
		Michael Hettich His most recent book, Like Happiness, was published by Anhinga Press this past October. A new book, The Animals Beyond Us, is forthcoming in 2011. He has published widely in journals and anthologies.
		Dennis Hinrichsen His full-length collections of poetry include Kurosawa’s Dog (2008 FIELD Poetry Prize), Cage of Water, Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights (1999 Akron Poetry Prize), The Rain that Falls This Far, and The Attraction of Heavenly Bodies. He has also published a chapbook, Message to Be Spoken into the Left Ear of God. His awards include an NEA grant, two grants from the State of Michigan, as well as awards from Poetry Northwest and Carolina Quarterly. He currently teaches at Lansing Community College.
© Dorothy Alexander		Tony Hoagland The author of three volumes of poetry: Sweet Ruin, winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry; Donkey Gospel, winner of the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets; and What Narcissism Means to Me, as well as a collection of essays about poetry, Real Sofistakashun, all from Graywolf Press. His newest collection, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, was released in January 2010. His poems and critical essays have appeared widely in journals and anthologies such as American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and Ploughshares.
		Thomas Hummel Author of three chapbooks: Stands as Mediation, Point and Line to Plane, and Autumn it gestures. His poems and reviews have appeared in 1913: A Journal of Forms, The Believer, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Fence, A Public Space, VOLT, and elsewhere. He co-edits Hand Held Editions and Projective Industries, and lives in Indiana.
		Ximena Izquierdo Born in 1992 in Lima, Peru and moved with her family to Miami in 2000. She graduated from the Design and Architecture Senior High School and is currently attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as a BFA candidate and will graduate in the summer of 2014. Ximena is a part of the Miami Poetry Collective and worked as an intern with the University of Wynwood in the very beginnings of O, Miami. Presently, she is focusing her might in very performative-based work regarding the labor of language as well as continuing writing poetry and intending to be actively engaged in her immediate as well as extended community.
Photo: Jon Cross		Jen Karetnick Author of two chapbooks of poetry, Necessary Salt (Pudding House Publications) and Bud Break at Mango House (Portlandia Press), which won the Portlandia Chapbook Award in 2008, as well as the forthcoming Romancing the Mango: Recipes from the Obsessed (University Press of Florida, 2013) and the play How Does It Taste, Dear? A Marital Farce Performed in Six Restaurants, which goes into local production in the summer of 2011. Her poems have appeared in publications including Carpe Articulum, Cimarron Review, Greensboro Review, North American Review, River Styx and Valparaiso Poetry Review. She writes food-and-travel articles regularly for Florida Travel & Life, MIAMI Magazine, Southern Living and Vegas Player, and she is also the Creative Writing Director for Miami Arts Charter, a middle and high school for the performing, visual and expressive arts. Plus, she is exhausted.
		Anna Knoebel From 2004-2008, Anna was the Managing Editor of zingmagazine, a project-based contemporary art magazine. Anna graduated from Barnard College with a combined degree in English and Film. Her first job out of school was at MGM Studios in Los Angeles. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.
		Tess Knoebel Attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn to study fashion design and graduated with a degree in Art History and Philosophy from Hunter College. Tess has worked at Daryl K, J Mendel, Araks, and Cynthia Rowley. Tess lives in Brooklyn with her fiance and her unruly miniature Golden Retriever, Ollie-Gator.
		Stuart Krimko A poet whose two books have been published by the Key West-based independent publisher Sand Paper Press. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Fence, Maggy, the Poetry Foundation website, Post Road, and Vanitas. He is currently at work on translating the work of a number of contemporary Argentinian writers, including a novella by Osvaldo Lamborghini. In addition to his literary activities, he has worked for many years in the art world, holding directorial positions with Max Protetch Gallery in New York and David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles.
		Fernanda Laguna Poet, novelist, visual artist, publisher, and curator. Along with Cecilia Pavón, she founded and directed the multi-media art/publishing endeavor Belleza y Felicidad in Buenos Aires from 1999 through 2007. Belleza, as it is known, completely renovated the literary and art scenes in Buenos Aires, bringing together youth culture, counterculture, and high culture in a do-it-yourself style: guerilla exhibitions were held, photocopied editions (sometimes by major literary figures) were printed quickly and cheaply, and artistic disciplines were mined for all their social potential. Laguna's novels (written under the pseudonym Dalia Rosetti and published by Mansalva) have been highly acclaimed in Argentina and abroad, and are poised to make her an internationally known figure.
		Dave Landsberger In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight, Let those who worship evil’s might, Beware my power…Dave Landsberger’s light!
		Brett Fletcher Lauer The managing director of the Poetry Society of America and the poetry editor of A Public Space. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Bomb, Harper’s, and elsewhere. He has co-edited several poetry anthologies including Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Wave Books) and Poetry from Coast to Coast: 120 poems from Subways and Buses (W.W. Norton, 2003). He lives in Brooklyn and co-edits >>>Ships that Pass.
		Lucia Leao Brazilian writer and a full-time translator who has been living in Florida for 17 years. Her first collection of short stories, Ensaios a Dois, was published in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2001. She is also the co-author of O Primeiro Beijo, a book for young adults that was published in Brazil in 2005. Leao holds a master’s degree in Brazilian literature from UERJ (Universidade do Rio de Janeiro) and a master’s degree in print journalism from University of Miami, Florida.
		Katherine Leyton Founder of >>>How Pedestrian. She likes to read poetry. She also likes to write it. She lives in Toronto. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in The Malahat Review, The Feathertale Review, and Room.
		Jonathan Lizcano Born November 25 1989 in Los Angeles, California. Raised in Miami in a household with two older sisters, one younger sister and both parents. Is currently 21 years old (obviously), and a third year student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston working on a Bachelors in Fine Arts degree (BFA) in joint affiliation with Tufts University. Is of Mexican heritage, first generation Mexican-American, identifies as male, and has been studying art for the past 10 years. Went to Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH) in downtown Miami and majored in film studies for three years. Areas of focus in art as of now include performance art and electronics/sound sculptures.
		Jessica Machado Born in Miami, Florida, Jessica is a member of the Miami Poetry Collective, a teacher, and translator. She has been published in the Tigertail Annual, Gulf Stream Magazine, and Hinchas de Poesia.
		Adrian Matejka Born in Nuremberg, Germany but grew up in California and Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His first collection of poems, The Devil’s Garden, won the 2002 Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books. His second collection, Mixology, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books in 2009. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2010. He teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he serves as Poetry Editor for Sou’wester and co-directs the River Styx at Duff’s Reading Series.
© Bob Maloney		Jill McDonough Pushcart prize winning author of Habeas Corpus (Salt 2008). Jill McDonough is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford’s Stegner program, she has taught incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education program since 1999.
		Campbell McGrath Author of eight books of poetry, most recently Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Ecco, 2009). A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, among many other awards, he teaches in the MFA program at FIU, where he is the Philip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing.
Photo: Shabda Kahn		W.S. Merwin The Poet Laureate of the United States. In a career spanning five decades, W.S. Merwin, poet, translator, and >>>environmental activist, has become one of the most widely read poets in America. The son of a Presbyterian minister, for whom he began writing hymns at the age of five, Merwin went to Europe as a young man and developed a love of languages that led to work as a literary translator. W.S. Merwin’s recent poetry is perhaps his most personal, arising from his deeply held beliefs. He is not only profoundly anti-imperialist, pacifist, and environmentalist, but also possessed by an intimate feeling for landscape and language and the ways in which land and language interflow.
		Rashaun Mitchell Born in Stamford, Connecticut, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he started dancing at Concord Academy in Massachusetts and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2000 when he received the Viola Farber-Slayton Memorial Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. He has danced with Pam Tanowitz, Chantal Yzermans, Donna Uchizono, Risa Jaroslow, Sara Rudner, Rebecca Lazier, and Richard Colton. He joined Merce Cunningham Dance Company in January 2004 and is currently on faculty at the Cunningham Studio. His own choreography has been presented at Princeton University, Wellesley College and the University of Minnesota, in New York at the Skirball Center, the La Mama Theater, Mt. Tremper Arts and The Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston. He continues to collaborate with Silas Riener on new projects. For more info, visit >>>www.rashaunmitchell.com.
		Cecilia Pavón Poet and translator from English, German and Portuguese whose work has been published widely in South America, North America and Europe. She has been awarded prizes and grants from the city of Buenos Aires, the Fundación Atorcha, and the Goethe Institut. With Fernanda Laguna, she was a co-founder and director of Belleza y Felicidad. Her cultural criticism has appeared in major magazines and newspapers, including Clarín and Página 12, and she teaches courses in creative writing and translation at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas at the University of Buenos Aires. Her blog, Once Sur, is an ongoing source of new poetry, cultural criticism, and daily commentary.
		Yaddyra Peralta Poet and writer, born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and currently living in Miami, FL. Her work has appeared in Tigertail Poetry Annual, Hinchas de Poesia, the Cent journal series and in Poems and Lies, a poetry supplement to the first in a series of Tabloids accompanying Miami Art Museum's New Work Miami 2010 exhibition. She is a proud member of the Miami Poetry Collective.
		Parker Phillips A Brooklyn and Miami-based writer. S/he is pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Florida International University, and is a member of the Miami Poetry Collective.
		a.rawlings Canadian poet, multidisciplinary artist, and recipient of the bpNichol Award for Distinction in Writing (2001). She co-edited Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury, 2005). Her first book, Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), received an Alcuin Award and was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. Wide slumber was translated from page to stage for Harbourfront Centre's Hatch: Emerging Performance Projects. She lives in Toronto.
		Silas Riener Grew up in Washington DC. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Comparative Literature. He has worked with Takehiro Ueyama, Christopher Williams, Jonah Bokaer, and Rebecca Lazier's TERRAIN. He premiered NOX, a collaboration with poet Anne Carson and choreographer Rashaun Mitchell in 2010, with whom he continues to develop new projects. He became a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance company in November 2007. While performing with MCDC, Riener completed his MFA in Dance at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
		Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez One of Cuba's most noteworthy contemporary writers. He has published eleven books of poetry, many of them recipients of literary awards, including the David Prize (Cuba, 1980), the Plural Prize (Mexico, 1983), the EDUCA Prize (Costa Rica, 1995), the Renacimiento Prize (Spain, 2000), the Fray Luis de León Prize (Spain, 2005) and the Leonor Prize (Spain, 2006). His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Mid-American Review, Chelsea, New York Quarterly, The Literary Review, New England Review, Circumference, Salt Hill, and many others internationally. He is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College.
		Craig Saper Professor of Texts & Technology (a doctoral program) at the University of Central Florida and the author of Networked Art and Artificial Mythologies. He has edited and written afterwards for Bob Brown's Words and The Readies (both in 2009 with Rice University's Digital Press), and he edited special issues of Visible Language (1988) and Style (2001). His curatorial projects include exhibits on "Assemblings" (1997), "Noigandres: Concrete Poetry in Brazil" (1988), "TypeBound" (2008), and "folkvine.org" (2003-6). He has published two artists' books, On Being Read (1985) and Raw Material (2008), and he is presently writing a biography of a poet-publisher-impresario-writer, Bob Brown, who invented a reading machine. Saper built a simulation machine: http://www.readies.org Email him at: csaper@mail.ucf.edu
		Maureen Seaton Publications include Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), winner of the Lambda Literary Award; and Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen (Carnegie Mellon, 2009), her sixth solo poetry collection. A collaboration with Neil de la Flor, Sinéad O’Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds (Firewheel Editions), winner of the Sentence Book Award, is due in March, 2011. She writes “Glit Lit” monthly for Neil’s mag, Almost Dorothy and teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Miami. You can find her at www.maureenseaton.com.
Photo: Tina Chang		Tracy K. Smith Received degrees in English and Creative Writing from Harvard College and Columbia University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University from 1997-99. Her first collection of poems, The Body's Question, was awarded the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize by Kevin Young, and published in 2003 by Graywolf Press. She is the recipient of a 2004 Rona Jaffe Writers Award, and a 2005 Whiting Award. Her second collection, Duende, received the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and was published by Graywolf Press in 2007. Her third book, Life on Mars, will be published in May 2011. She has taught at the City University of New York, University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University.
		Heather Taylor Owner and director of Taylor De Cordoba (2006) a contemporary art gallery located in the Culver City Arts District of Los Angeles, CA. Taylor De Cordoba exhibits emerging and mid-career artists working within a variety of media. The gallery and its artists have been featured in myriad publications including Frieze, Artforum, V Magazine, Vanity Fair, W Magazine and C Magazine among others. In addition to running the gallery, Heather has been a longtime contributor to various lifestyle publications including Daily Candy, LA Confidential and the Huffington Post, where she writes the bi-monthly column "Chef Speak," featuring LA's chefs of the moment. She also maintains the blog L.A. in Bloom, where she highlights the best sights, fashion trends, and tastes of Los Angeles. Heather is widely regarded as a "tastemaker" and interviews with her have appeared in national magazines including Elle, Marie Claire and Lucky.
		Carol Todaro An artist and writer who combines both activities by making artists' books. The Bibliothèque nationale de France, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, the Library of Congress, the Jaffe Collection at Florida Atlantic University, the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Miami-Dade Public Library have collected her work. She teaches at the New World School of the Arts in downtown Miami.
		Emma Trelles The author of Tropicalia, published this year by the University of Notre Dame Press and winner of the 2010 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. She is also the author of the chapbook Little Spells (GOSS183). The recipient of a Green Eyeshade award for art criticism, and a Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry, she has been a featured reader at the Miami Book Fair International and at the Palabra Pura reading series at the Guild Literary Complex in Chicago. Her work has appeared in publications such as Verse Daily, 3 AM Magazine, Gulf Stream, OCHO, MiPOesias, Poets and Artists Magazine, Newsday, the Miami Herald, the Palm Beach ArtsPaper, and Organica. She received her MFA in creative writing from Florida International University and is a regular contributor to the >>>Best American Poetry blog. For more, visit >>>www.emmatrelles.com.
©Kim Buchheit		Brian Turner A soldier-poet whose debut book of poems, Here, Bullet, won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the New York Times “Editor's Choice” selection, the 2006 Pen Center USA "Best in the West" award, and the 2007 Poets Prize, among others. Turner served seven years in the US Army, including one year as an infantry team leader in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division. Turner's poetry has been published in Poetry Daily, The Georgia Review, and other journals, and in the Voices in Wartime Anthology published in conjunction with the feature-length documentary film of the same name. He earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and has lived abroad in South Korea. Turner was selected as one of 50 United States Artists Fellows for 2009. His second book, Phantom Noise, was released by Alice James in the Spring of 2010.
		Nick Vagnoni Born and raised in Key West. He teaches writing at Florida International University, and is a founding member of the Miami Poetry Collective.
		Eugenia Vargas-Pereira Born in Chillan, Chile, a photographer, video and performance artist as well as Talking Head Transmitters' founding member. Her performance and photo work has been exhibited at many venues around the world, including the Prague Bienal, Performance Festival, Budapest, The Havana Bienale, Photography Bienale, Rotterdam, Photography Bienale , Mexico D.F. The Venice Bienale, Aperto, The Venice Bienale, 2003, Photo America Santiago, Chile. Being part of collective projects such as THT, is a way of supporting our individual works, considering radio as a powerful tool to make art and to create a bridge to reach out to the community.
Photo: Sarah Brideau		Andrew Whiteman Andrew Whiteman came to poetry working in the bindery at The Coach House Press in Toronto in the 80s. Currently a member of Friends of N.A.P. ("new american poetry" = Don Allen's 1960 anthology that redefined american poetics). His day job is playing guitar in the 'indie rock' band from kanada, Broken Social Scene. He is currently writing a book about this, entitled Tourism. He is also member of the BookThug nation: http://www.bookthug.ca.
		Sam Winston Through his explorations of language Sam Winston creates sculpture, drawings and books that question our understanding of words, both as a carriers of messages and as information itself. He started writing stories and selling artist books through London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts and can now be found in many special collections in the UK and the US, including – MoMA New York, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, the Tate Galleries London, and Victoria & Albert Museum. He has exhibited internationally and worked on various commissions including COMME des GARCONS Guerrilla Store (Hong Kong) and The New York Times. His work is currently on show in the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
		Agustina Woodgate An interdisciplinary artist based in Miami, FL since 2005 (b. 1981, Buenos Aires). She earned her BFA from the National University of Visual Arts in Buenos Aires. Ms. Woodgate is an active member of the Miami art community and culture. She has exhibited and performed her work nationally and internationally. Usually combining many disciplines and often collaborating with other artists of many fields, Agustina works inclusively and socially, finding new access points for communication to create public, intensive, and process-oriented works.
		Andrew Yeomanson AKA DJ Le Spam. A Miami resident since 1990. He has spent the past 21 years performing in a variety of bands, including Spam Allstars which he formed in 1994. He has also created music for dance theatre (Giovanni Luquini, Teo Castellanos) and film (Rakontur’s “Square Grouper”).
		Raúl Zurita Winner of the Chilean National Poetry Prize, he is arguably the most powerful poetic voice in Latin America today. His compelling rhythms combine epic and lyric tones, public and most intimate themes, grief and joy. Despite having been arrested and tortured under the Pinochet dictatorship, Zurita’s prevailing attitude in his Dantesque trilogy Purgatoi (Purgatory), Anteparaíso (Anteparadise), and La Vida Nueva (The New Life) is a deep love for everything and everybody in the world. His work is part of a revolution in poetic language that began in the 1970s and sought to find new forms of expression, radically different from those of Pablo Neruda. The challenge was to confront the contemporary epoch, with its particular forms of violence, including violence done to language. His newest book of poetry entitled, Song for the Disappeared Love, translated by Daniel Borzutzky, was released in 2010 by Action Books.