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bio: Josey Foo

JOSEY FOO grew up in Malaysia. She received an AB from Vassar College, an MFA from Brown University, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author […]

bio: Caroline Bergvall

Caroline Bergvall is a writer of French-Norwegian origins based in London. She works across art-forms, media and languages; outputs alternate between books, collaborative performances and lan­guage installations. Award winning poet […]

bio: Brenda Iijima

Brenda Iijima’s involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of poetry, research movement, visual arts, floral and faunal studies and ecological sociology. Her current work focuses submerged and occluded histories, […]

bio: Édouard Glissant

Poet, philosopher and writer, Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) introduced the notion of antillanité as a way of reconsidering the world as archipelago. A Martinican thinker of the creolization of cultures and the […]

bio: Laura Moriarty

Laura Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Northern California. She attended the University of California at Berkeley. She was the Director […]

bio: Bruce Boone

Bruce Boone’s published work includes– Karate Flower (1973), My Walk With Bob (1979 & reissued in 2006), Century of Clouds (1980 & reissued in 2009), and with Robert Glück, La Fontaine (1981), The Truth About Ted (1984), and a variety […]

bio: Fanny Howe

Fanny Howe grew up in Boston. She raised her three children in New England and traveled between there and California for many years, teaching both poetry and fiction. She has written […]

bio: Ariel Goldberg

Ariel Goldberg’s publications include The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015). Goldberg’s writing has most recently appeared in Afterimage, e-flux, Artforum, and Art in America. […]

bio: Brian Blanchfield

Brian Blanchfield is the author of two books of poetry, Not Even Then and A Several World, which received the 2014 James Laughlin Award and was a longlist finalist for the National Book Award. His […]

bio: Felix Bernstein

Felix Bernstein debuted on YouTube with his satirically real high-school coming-out video in 2008; going on to play Amy Winehouse, Leopold Brant, and Lamb Chop. Bernstein’s writings have appeared in BOMB, The Believer, Hyperallergic, The […]

bio: Kevin Killian

Kevin Killian (1952-2019) was a San Francisco–based poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and art writer.

bio: Dodie Bellamy

Dodie Bellamy’s latest book is When the Sick Rule the World. She teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and California College of the Arts.