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Contributing Editors to The Volta

Susan Briante is the author of Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press 2007) and Utopia Minus (Ahsahta Press 2011). She is an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her chapbook, The Market is a Parasite that Looks like a Nest, part of an on-going lyric investigation of the stock market, was recently published by Dancing Girl Press.

Laynie Browne’s most recent books include Roseate, Points of Gold (Dusie 2011); The Desires of Letters (Counterpath 2010); and The Scented Fox (Wave 2007). She is coeditor of I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues, 2012). She currently teaches at University of Arizona.

Julie Carr is the author of four books of poetry: Mead: An Epithalamion; Equivocal; 100 Notes on Violence (winner of the 2009 Sawtooth Award); and Sarah-Of Fragments and Lines (a 2010 National Poetry Series selection). Her critical study of Victorian poetry, Surface Tension: Ruptured Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry, is forthcoming in 2012 from Dalkey Archive. She is the recipient of a 2010-11 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and is the co-publisher with Tim Roberts of Counterpath Press. She teaches at the University of Colorado in Boulder and lives in Denver where, with Tim, she runs a small bookstore/gallery/performance space called Counterpath.

Don Mee Choi grew up in Seoul and Hong Kong, then came to the U.S. to study art. Her first book of poems is The Morning News is Exciting (Action Books, 2010). She has recently received a Whiting Writer's Award. Her translations include All the Garbage of the World, Unite! (Action Books, 2011), Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Action Books, 2008), Anxiety of Words (Zephyr, 2006), and When the Plug Gets Unplugged (Tinfish, 2005). She also has translations of Kim Hyesoon's essays forthcoming from Tinfish Retro Chapbook Series.

Noah Eli Gordon is Head Reviews Editor and the author of several books, including The Source (Futurepoem, 2011), and Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007). Gordon is the co-publisher of Letter Machine Editions, and an assistant professor in the MFA program in Creative Writing at The University of Colorado–Boulder.

John Keene is the author of Annotations (New Directions), and with artist Christopher Stackhouse, of Seismosis (1913 Press). His poetry, fiction, essays, and translations have appeared widely. He teaches at Northwestern University and will join the faculty at Rutgers University-Newark in Fall 2012.

Sara Renee Marshall has lived all over the western United States. She worked with young writers at 826 Valencia in San Francisco and taught English in Kiryu, Gunma, Japan. Currently, she is an editor for Subito Press, Timber Journal, and a teacher for University of Colorado’s Creative Writing Outreach. She holds degrees in Political Science and History, and is completing an MFA in Poetry at the University of Colorado. She lives and writes in Denver.

Dawn Lundy Martin is the author of DISCIPLINE (Nighboat Books 2011); Candy (Albion Books 2011); A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (2007); and The Morning Hour (2003). She is a founding member of the Black Took Collective, a group of experimental black poets, and an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

Poet, essayist and librettist, J. Michael Martinez´s writings have appeared in New American Writing and on NPR. Recipient of the 2006 Five Fingers Review Poetry Prize, his collection Heredities was selected by Juan Felipe Herrera for the Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award, and is published by Louisiana State University Press. He can be found here.

Farid Matuk's first full-length collection, This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine, 2010), was a finalist for the Norma Farber Prize, earned honorable mention in the Arab-American Book Award, and was chosen by Geoffrey G. O'Brien for inclusion in the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets series. He is the author of the chapbooks Riverside (Longhouse, 2011) and Is It the King? (Effing, 2006). Matuk is a contributor to the volume Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums: Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada (Shearsman, 2012)

Sawako Nakayasu's recent books include Mouth: Eats Color (Rogue Factorial), Texture Notes (Letter Machine Editions), and Hurry Home Honey (Burning Deck). More information about her is available here.

Chris Nealon is the author of The Joyous Age (2004), and Plummet (2009), as well as two books of criticism: Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (2001), and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century (2011). He lives in Washington, DC.

Brandon Shimoda is the author of O Bon (Litmus Press, 2011), The Girl Without Arms (Black Ocean, 2011), and The Alps (Flim Forum, 2008)—among other solo and collaborative works of various sizes and shapes. He was born in California, and has lived most recently in Maine, Taiwan, and Arizona.

Cedar Sigo is a poet and sometime teacher, active in the art and literary worlds since 1999. He studied writing and poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of seven books and pamphlets of poetry, including two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005) Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008) and most recently Stranger In Town (City Lights, 2010). His poems have been included in many magazines and anthologies, and he has published poetry books and magazines under the Old Gold imprint. He participated in “Coordinates: Indigenous Writing Now,” a conference at California College of the Arts. Currently, he is guest editing the second issue of The Can, a journal devoted to writing on poetics. He lives in San Francisco.

Johanna Skibsrud is most recently the author of a collection of short fiction, This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories (Norton, 2012). She is also the author of two books of poetry and the 2010 Giller prize-winning novel, The Sentimentalists. Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, she currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Catherine Wagner's books include Miss America (2000), Macular Hole (2004), and My New Job (2009), all from Fence, and Nervous Device (forthcoming in 2012 from City Lights). Some of her performances are archived at PennSound and Archive of the Now. She lives in Oxford, Ohio, and teaches at Miami University.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Selenography, featuring Polaroids by Tim Rutili (Sidebrow Books, 2010). He has edited two anthologies: Poets on Teaching (featuring 101 poets' essays) and, with Christina Mengert, 12x12: Conversations in 21^st Century Poetry & Poetics (both from University of Iowa Press). With Solan Jensen, he directed the film Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape, a tour documentary about Califone (IndiePix 2011). He lives in Tucson, where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Arizona.

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Contributing Editors to EVENING WILL COME

Rosa Alcalá is the author of a poetry collection, Undocumentaries (Shearsman Books, 2010), and two chapbooks, Some Maritime Disasters This Century (Belladonna, 2003) and Undocumentary (Dos Press, 2008). Her most recent translations include Lila Zemborain’s Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press, 2009), and poems for The Oxford Book of Latin America Poetry (2009). She teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Nathan Brown lives in Oakland and is Assistant Professor of English at UC Davis, where he also teaches in the Critical Theory and Science & Technology Studies Programs. He has published essays on poetry and philosophy in Qui Parle, How2, Radical Philosophy, Parallax, and The Speculative Turn (re.press 2011). His current book projects are The Materials—Technoscience and Poetry at the Limits of Fabrication and Absent Blue Wax: Rationalist Empiricism in Contemporary French Philosophy.

Brian Foley is the author of the chapbooks The Constitution (Horseless Press), The Black Eye (Brave Men Press ), and The Tornado is not a Surrealist (Greying Ghost). He curates The Deep Moat Reading Series and co-runs Brave Men Press.

Tim Johnson owns and operates the Marfa Book Company and Gallery in Marfa, Texas.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of Black Life and AWE, both out from Wave Books. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). She currently researches creativity at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in New York City.

Summer Robinson owns and operates Pilot Books, a small press bookstore in Seattle, Washington. You can track her progress here.

Evie Shockley is the author of two poetry collections, the new black (Wesleyan, 2011) and a half-red sea (Carolina Wren Press, 2006). From 2007-2011, she co-edited the poetry journal jubilat. Her work also includes a critical study: Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (Iowa, 2011). She is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she teaches African American literature and creative writing.

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Contributing Reviews Editors to FRIDAY FEATURE

John Melillo is a writer and musician in Tucson, AZ. He teaches literature at the University of Arizona.

Daniel Moysaenko is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, home of the late Harvey Pekar and the first potato chip factory. His work has appeared in elimae, Cadence, BBP, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago, where he studies poetry and works for the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute.

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Contributing Video Editors to MEDIUM

Julia Cohen is the author of Triggermoon Triggermoon (Black Lawrence Press, 2011) and her poems appear in places like jubilat, 6x6, Colorado Review, and Octopus. She is the Associate Editor of the Denver Quarterly and the co-editor of Saltgrass.

Patrick Culliton lives and works in Chicago. He is Associate Editor for Conduit and co-host for the Talus, Or Scree podcast. His chapbook, Hornet Homily, is available from Octopus Books.

Kate Greenstreet's books are case sensitive and The Last 4 Things, both from Ahsahta Press. The Last 4 Things comes with a DVD (two films, about half an hour of viewing). Some of Kate's newer videos can be seen here. Ahsahta will publish her third book, Young Tambling, in 2013. Her website is here.

Max Greenstreet is not a poet. He has recently sworn off reading books of any kind. He would much rather hear poems spoken by their authors or, whenever possible, see poetry transformed into unusual short videos. He is married to Kate Greenstreet.

Laura Mullen is a Professor at Louisiana State University. She is the author of six books: The Surface, After I Was Dead, Subject and Dark Archive (University of California Press, 2011), The Tales of Horror, and Murmur. Her work has been widely anthologized and is included in American Hybrid (Norton), and forthcoming in I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. Her seventh book is forthcoming from Otis Editions in June 2012. (Photo by Ryan Gibbs)

Mathias Svalina is the author of one poetry collection, Destruction Myth (CSU Poetry Center) and the novella, I Am A Very Productive Entrepreneur (Mud Luscious Press), along with numerous chapbooks. With Zachary Schomburg, he co-edits the online journal Octopus Magazine & the small press Octopus Books. He lives in Denver.

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Contributing NEWS Editors

Oren Silverman lives in Denver. He is a graduate student and instructor at University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Contributing Interview Editor to TREMOLO

Andy Fitch's forthcoming books include Not Smart. But Intelligent Rethinking Joe Brainard (Dalkey Archive Press) and Sixty Morning Walks (Ugly Duckling Presse). In 2013, Ugly Duckling will publish his Mirror Staged: Sixty Interviews with Contemporary Poets. Fitch teaches in the University of Wyoming’s MFA program.