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Peter Abbs: Peter Abbs was born and grew up on the North Norfolk coast in England. He has written and lectured widely on the nature of creativity and the poetics of culture. In 2004 he was Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, Arkansas. He is the Poetry Editor of Resurgence and Editor of Earth Songs, the first Anglo-American anthology of contemporary eco-verse. He has published six volumes of poetry including Icons of Time, Personae and Love After Sappho. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Sussex.
Sascha Aurora Akhtar: Sascha Aurora Akhtar was born in Pakistan. Since that was obviously a mistake, she fled as soon as possible to an environment where women could be wacky. What was born was a hydra. Each head a different medium, via which to transmit her wyrd and whimsical witchery. She graduated from Bennington College in 1999. She has written all too many poems, out of which some have managed to become titled collections. Her films include Ana-el-Haqq (2002) and The Sea and Medusa (2006). In 2003 she received a fellowship from the Creative Writing department at UMASS Amherst where she worked with James Tate, Sabina Murray and Peter Gizzi. In 2005 and 2006, she performed in Butoh-based dance pieces at Chisenhale Dance Space in London. She recently was part of a year-long initiative by the International Museum of Women in San Francisco, exhibiting work by women artists from around the globe. Her photographic work was on display at Gallery 27 on Cork Street in September 2007 and an exhibition of her works is upcoming in Spring 2008 at The Commune in Karachi, Pakistan. She spends her time in London and Pakistan and is the co-producer of the successful La Langoustine Est Morte reading series.
Ali Alizadeh: Ali Alizadeh is an award-winning Iranian-born Australian poet. He migrated to Australia after living through the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War, and is a writer of poetry, criticism and plays. The major themes of his works are history, dissent and the dilemmas of religion and spirituality. He holds a PhD in writing from Deakin University Melbourne, and this is his second book. He is currently living and teaching writing in China.
Tim Allen: Tim Allen lives in Plymouth, he is the editor of Terrible Work a major poetry reviews magazine. Allen is the author of two pamphlets, ‘Texts For A Holy Saturday’ (Phlebas ’96) and ‘The Cruising Duct’ (Maquette ’98) and his poetry has been featured in mags such as First Offense, Oasis and Shearsman. His essays have appeared in ‘Binary Myths’ (Stride) and Eratica magazine.
Bruce Andrews: Bruce Andrews is “a performance artist and poet whose texts are some of the most radical of the Language school; his poetry tries to cast doubt on each and every ‘natural’ construction of language” (The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English). Andrews is a founding editor of the legendary journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, which catalyzed the eponymous poetry movement that emerged in the 1970s and ’80s. His many books include Lip Service, Give ’Em Enough Rope, Designated Heartbeat, Ex Why Zee, Tizzy Boost, and I Don’t Have Any Paper So Shut Up (or, Social Romanticism).
Robert Archambeau: Robert Archambeau was born in the USA but grew up in Canada. He studied literature at the University of Manitoba and the University of Notre Dame and has taught at Notre Dame and Lund University (Sweden). He currently teaches at Lake Forest. A chapbook of poetry and a study of postmodern Irish poetry, Another Ireland, were published by Wild Honey Press. He has also edited two books, Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias and Vectors: New Poetics. He is the editor of the international poetry review Samizdat.
Louis Armand: Louis Armand lives in Prague where he directs the InterCultural Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University. His collections of poetry include Inexorable Weather (Arc, 2001), Land Partition (Textbase, 2001) and Malice in Underland (Textbase, 2001). He is also the author of several volumes of criticism including Solicitations: Essays on Criticism and Culture (Litteraria, 2005), Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other (Karolinum, 2005) and Techne (Karolinum, 2003). He is the editor of Contemporary Poetics (Northwestern), JoyceMedia (Litteraria) and Mind Factory (Litteraria).
Ellen Arnold: Ellen L. Arnold teaches courses in Native American and Ethnic American literatures at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She has published critical essays on Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Hogan, Carter Revard, and Allison Hedge Coke, and edited Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko (University Press of Mississippi, 2000).
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