CONTRIBUTORS

24.1: Candylands

Guest Poetry Editor: Michael Farrell

Kevin Killian is a San Francisco novelist, poet, art writer, critic and playwright. His books include Bedrooms Have Windows, Shy, Little Men, Arctic Summer, Argento Series and I Cry Like a Baby. His newest book, edited by Brent Cunningham, is his Selected Amazon Reviews (Hooke Press).

Stephen Ratcliffe's books of poetry include Portraits & Repetition (The Post-Apollo Press) and SOUND/(system) (Green Integer). REAL is forthcoming from Avenue B this fall. Listening to Reading, a collection of essays on contemporary experimental poetry, was published by SUNY Press. He lives in Bolinas, California, and teaches at Mills College in Oakland.

Del Ray Cross has a book out this fall from Pressed Wafer. He resides in San Francisco and edits SHAMPOO.

Devin Johnston lives in St Louis, Missouri, USA. His most recent book of poems is called Aversions.

Judith Bishop is a linguist, poet and translator. She currently lives in Sydney.

John Tipton is the author of SURFACES (Flood Editions, 2004). His translation of Sophocles' Ajax is forthcoming from Flood. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Stephanie, and his son, Levi.

Srikanth Reddy's first collection of poetry, "Facts for Visitors," received the Asian American Literary Award for Poetry in 2005. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including APR, Fence, Grand Street, jubilat, and Volt. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and doctoral candidate at Harvard University, Reddy is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago.

Roberto Harrison was born in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1962, to Panamanian parents. A few months after his birth, he and his family moved back to Panama, where they lived until he was seven. In 1969, he and his family moved to Delaware. His first language was Spanish, and he did not begin learning English until arriving in Delaware. He has lived in various places throughout the United States including Boston, Bloomington, Indiana and San Francisco. He now lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he works as a Systems Librarian. He edits Crayon with Andrew Levy, and the Bronze Skull Press chapbook series. His work has appeared in Talisman, Jacket, New American Writing, Mandorla, Salt (UK), Antennae, and many other journals.

Stacy Szymaszek is the author of Emptied of All Ships (Litmus Press, 2005) and the serial poem "hyper glossia." The next installment is forthcoming from Hot Whiskey Press. She lives in New York where she is the Program Coordinator of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.

Michael O'Leary is the founding editor of LVNG and, with Devin Johnston, co-editor of Flood Editions. He is currently at work on a PhD in materials engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Mary Jo Bang is the author of four books of poetry, including Louise in Love, and The Eye Like a Strange Balloon (Grove 2004). Individual poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Fence, Paris Review, Yale Review, Bomb, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at Washington University in St. Louis where she is an Associate Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program.