Lauren Shufran received her MFA from San Francisco State University, and is actively involved in Small Press Traffic, San Francisco's longest-running non-profit literary organization. Burrow was published by Hooke Press in 2006; recent work has appeared in Try!, P-Queue, Yellow Edenwald Field, and War and Peace.

• Interview w Taylor Brady

Taylor Brady lives in San Francisco, where he is active in the Nonsite Collective. His published work includes Microclimates (Krupskaya, 2001), Yesterday's News (Factory School, 2005), Occupational Treatment (Atelos, 2006), and Snow Sensitive Skin, written in collaboration with Rob Halpern (Atticus/Finch, 2007; expanded second edition forthcoming from Displaced Books in 2011).

• Interview w Brian Whitener

Brian Whitener works in a project called Displaced Press. 

• Interview w Erika Staiti

Ariel Goldberg is an artist and writer living in the Bay Area. Her book Picture Cameras from NoNo Press came out in 2010. The Estrangement Principal, a performance-essay on the State of Queer Arts is forthcoming from Ragtag’s poets writing criticism chapbook series in Fall 2011.

• Interview w Susan Gevirtz

Erika Staiti is a poet living in Oakland. In addition to her Trafficker chapbook, she has published Verse/Switch and Stop-Motion, and a documentation project of what people said. She is currently examining parts of the Oakland landscape with her video camera and embarking on a collaborative writing project inspired by RW Fassbinder.

• Interview w Ariel Goldberg

Susan Gevirtz lives and teaches in San Francisco. Her recent books include Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger, forthcoming Kelsey Street, 2009; Thrall, Post Apollo, 2007; Hourglass Transcripts, Burning Deck, 2001.

• Interview w Bhanu Kapil

E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Helen: A Fugue (Belladonna Books Elder Series #1 with Leslie Scalapino, 2008), Some Clear Souvenir (O Books 2006) and Music or Forgetting (O Books 2001), as well as the limited edition chapbooks Humoresque (Dusi/e-chap kollectiv, 2008), Hell and Lower Evil (Lyre Lyre Pants on Fire Press, 2008), Quadriga, a collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson (gong chapbooks, 2006), Of the Frame (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2004), and Harmonics (Melodeon Poetry Systems, 2000). She has taught creative writing at Brown University and Pratt Institute, and expository writing at Hunter College and other New York City universities. Since 2001, she has edited Litmus Press and its annual journal of poetry and translation, Aufgabe. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

• Interview w Bhanu Kapil

Jared Stanley's The Outer Bay is 23 poems written in Merced, California in the SUMMER. The Outer Bay is a real estate term for Merced, realtors looking at forms of the Real. In these poems, the Real makes blisters and wrinkles.  Its nature, trains that blare; its mind, a head of the town that gets kicked in. Political poems in a landscape of sensuous garage sales and actual trees. The dirty west of nostalgia, rope burns on the eyes: a mental music lush and troubling. Like water rationing, this is for the benefit of every California citizen. —Lauren Levin

• Interview w Bhanu Kapil

Dear _________filled,

Who else but humans invent the counterfeit fossil. I’m convinced we’ll infest this or this one. I’ll learn you, he says, my jaw dislodging like a sink from the wall. Unboyfriendable, the online dating service tells my friend’s friend. These days our bodies upholster the couch, the table, whatever furniture we may soil. As Seidel wrote, “I believe in nothing I do / believe in you...”

Yours,
__________filled

• Interview w Bhanu Kapil