THE ODYSSEY

• Emily Abendroth lives and works in Philadelphia. Less sea-girted and deep-girdled than she might wish, she was grateful for this reason to nuzzle snout with such waterlogged sequences - amongst the most pleasing embarking "when I had glutted myself with rolling about."

• Ida Dewey Acton is a lover, not a writer, wait… I mean fighter. Lover of the epic, the steady, the human and the inevitable.

• Justin Audia lives in Philadelphia. He learned everything he knows about sailors from Kenneth Anger, Herman Melville, and Guy Maddin.

• Ari Banias studies poetry in the MFA program at Hunter College, where he also teaches creative writing. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

• Bill Basquin is an award-winning filmmaker who also likes to garden and ride his bicycle. He's currently working on Soiled--a documentary about urban agriculture.

• Julia Bloch is the winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and the William Carlos Williams Prize for Poetry. Find recent work in Bay Poetics (Faux Press).

• Lizzy Bonaventura is a painter and animator who lives in New York City.

• Popahna Brandes wrote from French village filled with books and surrounded by boars.

• CAConrad's book Deviant Propulsion was just published by Soft Skull Press. He recently co-authored The B. Franklin Basement Tapes with Frank Sherlock. For correspondence, please write to CAConrad13@AOL.com

• Anita Chao is a NYC video editor. She was thrilled to do this collaboration with her roommate from grad school days, Liz, and looks forward to many more!

• Jason Coyle: See Jimsen.

• Paula Cronan is an artist, filmmaker, and musician who has performed and shown her work in cities throughout the U.S., Europe, and in Mexico. She lives in San Diego.

• Cybele (AKA Suzette Rochat) was born in NYC, lives in Cotati, CA. beside a vernal pond. Her current fascination is listening to stones and trying to put their slow wisdom into words.

• courtney dailey works and lives in philadelphia. she makes things, curates, and organizes projects, people, and objects with the projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, Space 1026, and the Year of Queer (days of gays).

• Amanda Davidson’s work has appeared in the Marjorie Wood Gallery and Baby, Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing.

• steve dolph: fiction writer and translator living in philadelphia, enrolled in the creative writing masters program at temple university, and creator of philadelphia's fiction blog, the stylus.
  

• Ryan Eckes is a poet who lives in Philadelphia.

• Tonya Foster’s poetry, fiction, and essays have been published in journals such as Callaloo and Western Humanities Review. Author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna Press, 2002) and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art, she teaches at Cooper Union and Bard College.

• Cathy Halley is a writer and collage artist who lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. She's just started a novel set in WWII Greece.

• Kara Hearn is a video and installation artist whose work has shown nationally and internationally. She lives in Berkeley and is pursuing an MFA in art practice.

• Gretchen Hildebran is a filmmaker living in Los Angeles. In "Chapter 3," she is helping launch the careers of America's next megastars.

• michael hyde is a transphysical person who lives and dreams in Philadelphia. He makes videos, sounds and songs, and enjoys djing and "how-to" manuals.

• Xylor Jane was born on the longest night of the year. Artist and number lover, baking big plans (recipe exchange). Ingredients: time, cats galore and growing food. Goats?

• Laura Jaramillo is a native of New York City. She currently lives and writes in Philadelphia, where she is acquiring her Masters in Creative Writing at Temple University. She can be contacted at laura.jmillo@gmail.com.

• Laska Jimsen and Jason Coyle are film and video makers who currently reside in Pennsylvania.

• Judith Jordan's poems, stories, and essays have appeared in the Lodestar Quarterly, The Abolitionist, and Desire in Transition. She was a resident performer at the Jon Sims Center (SF) in 2005.

• Andrea Lawlor lives in Philadelphia, edits the Pocket Myths series, and is working on a collection of short stories.
  

• Jennifer Lee lives in a skinny house at the top of a hill with a cat and a yard full of birds. She teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh.

• Rebecca Lee is an artist and woodworker who designs exhibits for the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

• Robin Coste Lewis is a writer who lives in San Francisco. She is at work on a poetry collection titled Shake It, But Don't Break It.

• Time-based artist kara lynch lives en exilio in upstate NY. She retains a storage space in western Mass and love for the Pacific Ocean. She's a gemini monkey born in 1968.

• Laura Mays: See Yaffe.

• Mary McDermott is a writer and filmmaker living in Media, PA. She'll receive her MFA in film from Temple University in the spring of 2007.

• Bernadine Mellis is a filmmaker in Philadelphia. Her films include Born, The Golden Pheasant, farm-in-the-city (a collaboration with EE Miller), and The Forest for the Trees.

• Delia Mellis is a historian and martial artist who lives with two parakeets by the river in Athens, NY.

• Miranda F. Mellis is the author of the novellas Restless (BeeHive, 2003), and Cutaway (Calamari Press, forthcoming). She is an editor at The Encyclopedia Project.

• Dori Midnight is an interdiscplinary artist, interfaith minister, and interbeing lover (especially now that she has a crush on Hermes.) For consults, rituals and magic, visit www.reverendmidnight.org.

• EE Miller curated the CD of sounds for Pocket Myths #3: Orpheus. Chapter 17 is the third film she's made using footage by Aimee Worms Hirshberg (1907-1973). EE's writing can be found in the Encyclopedia Project's Volume 1 (A-E). EE produces a radio show in Florence, MA.

• Megan Milks is a fiction writer and cultural critic who lives in Philadelphia. She writes for PopMatters.com and co-edits Mildred Pierce, a zine of cultural criticism.

• lamby morreale is a filmmaker from Brooklyn, New York. She is currently in pre-production with martinis and calamari, and lives in San Diego with her dog, jackson.

• Eileen Myles is a poet/novelist who lives in San Diego and New York. She just finished The Inferno/a poet's novel soon in a bookstore near you. 2007 i hope.

• Christian Nagler lives in San Francisco where he writes and makes outdoor performances.

• Maggie Nelson's most recent book is Jane: A Murder. Forthcoming book projects include a nonfiction work about her family & criminal & social justice, a critical book about women, poetry, painting, & abstraction, and a new collection of poems. She currently teaches at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles.

• Miranda Pierce aspires to act in soap operas but currently works for Catholic nuns. In 2005 she drew little pictures of mostly everything she ate. She hails from Massachusetts and presently resides in San Francisco, CA with her boyfriend, an insistently leaky bathtub, and a backyard overflowing with nasturtiums.

• Mendal Polish is a filmmaker, teacher, and force of nature in Philadelphia.

• Corinna Press lives in the Bay Area. Currently, she is taking the long way around.

• Ariana Reines's first book, The Cow, is forthcoming from FenceBooks.

• Irit Reinheimer lives in West Philadelphia and co-author of Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be… a coloring book, and co-director of the documentary Young, Jewish and Left.

• Frances Richard's book of poems, See Through, was published by Four Way Books in 2003. She writes frequently about contemporary art, teaches at Barnard College and the Rhode Island School of Design, and lives in Brooklyn.

• Rachel Robbins is a visual artist from West Philly whose works have included community organizing, social justice activism, and art for social change.

• sara seinberg is a writer and visual artist living in San Francisco with her friend gus, who is a handsome dog with flawless eyeliner.

• Davina Semo is a writer, filmmaker, and mixed-media artist. Her work explores the disappointments and desires of young women, their friends, and the changing and scary world they live in.

• Juliana Snapper is an opera singer and intermedia artist with a thing for the sounds of feminine monstrousness, virtuosity, and embarrassment.

• Miraim Klein Stahl is a gardener, artist, teacher and troublemaker.

• Senseney Lea Stokes is a versatile artist and designer currently based in the Pacific Northwest. Her recent work includes photography, video, and multimedia installation.

• Zoe Strauss is a woman who lives in Philadelphia!

• Samuael Topiary is a video artist and performer living in NYC. She lived in SF for most of the 90's. Currently, she teaches at School for Visual Art and is working on a documentary about Sister Spit and an epic video poem about Icarus.

• Laurie Weeks, writer from Idaho and the Lower East Side, currently living in San Diego.

• Jen Welch hails from Irving and Denton, Texas. Many people know her as Ada Leigh. She lives, writes and sometimes draws comics in Philadelphia.

• David West, poet and old school chum of Homer, lives in San Francisco and has a great view of the River Styx.

• Lena Wolff is a San Francisco-based artist working in drawing, painting, installation and community projects. She is the recent recipient of a grant from the Kittredge Fund and a residency at Blue Mountain Center in New York.

• Rebecca Yaffe and Laura Mays are furniture makers and live on the west coast of Ireland.

ORPHEUS

• Southern California-based artists Ron Athey and Juliana Snapper began singing together in the Spring of 2004. Their opera The Judas Cradle was commissioned by the UK Fierce! Festival, and premiered in the UK and in Los Angeles, CA in 2005.

• Ari Banias writes poetry and draws and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

• Julia Bloch recently flew three thousand miles east to study poetics and bulk up on warm clothing. Her work has appeared recently in Five Fingers Review, Bird Dog and Mirage/Period(ical).
  

• Greta Byrum was born under the "Trenton Makes, the World Takes" bridge. She has worked in public, private, and pirate radio from Iowa to Thuringia. She currently records books in Manhattan.

• Christopher Davis lives and teaches in Charlotte, North Carolina. His third collection of poetry, A History of the Only War, is published by Four Way Books.

• Cathy Halley is a closet poet and collage artist who lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, in a big apartment with Echo.

• Sara Jaffe wrote the song "Doesn't Deserve" several years ago and was very pleased when she discovered that Eurydice was supposed to sing it. She is a one-time Northeast expat who spent some years becoming Californian and is now getting re-rooted in Western Massachusetts.

• Jennie C. Jones attended Rutgers University where she received her MFA in 1996 and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her BFA in 1991. She has participated in numerous residencies including Liguria Study Center, in Genoa, Italy and Cité Internationale des Arts-Paris, France. Recent exhibitions include "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970", at The Houston Contemporary Art Museum, TX and "Low Life" at Kustera-Tilton Gallery in New York

• Miriam Klein Stahl is an active member of the shabbat brigade and another country free press. when not teaching in the arts and humanities academy at Berkeley high school, she likes to make gardens and art.

• Andrea Lawlor lives in Philadelphia now, continues to work on the Pocket Myths series, and attends the graduate program in Creative Writing at Temple.

• Robin Coste Lewis is currently working on a poetry manuscript titled Slaps and Embraces.

• Bernadine Mellis would like to be in a country band and call it O Pioneers! She is also a filmmaker. She is working on the next zine in the Pocket Myths series with Andrea Lawlor, a [collection of stories art and poetry that comes with] a DVD of 24 short films by 24 filmmakers, each based on a different chapter of THE ODYSSEY. You can learn about Bernadine's other films at www.redbirdfilms.com.

• Dori Midnight lives in a secret garden where she makes art, honey, and conjures spells for a different world.

• EE Miller curated the CD for Orpheus in between batches of pickles and jam. She collaborates with the dead and the living to make sounds for film and radio. emilyeliotmiller@yahoo.com

• My Invisible is comprised of Popahna Brandes (cello), Carolina Maugeri (violin, organ), & Miranda Mellis (guitar). Influences include telepathic games, Queen Himiko, Konrad Lorenz, Charter 77, Kaija Saariaho, Ruby Bridges, uncontaminated water, Bela Bartok, Sisyphus, large dogs, Buckminster Fuller, apparati, the planet Chiron, phantoms, Mary Shelley, & botanical aesthetics. The songs "Duplicity" & "Receptivity" make up two songs in an ongoing cycle of conceits.

• Eileen Myles is a poet living in NY/San Diego. She sometimes walks her dog Rosie in a park in the morning in California and has discovered an innovative method of scoring a poem: cellphone.

• Cynthia Nelson releases her second solo album, Homemade Map, this fall on a new cooperative record label, Nonstop. This is her first collaboration with Rocketship, also in full effect this fall with Here Comes...Rocketship, on Nonstop as well.

• Blake Riley lives in San Francisco where he is working on "Five Trees", a chapbook memorial inspired by Bernadine Mellis' new documentary on Judi Bari, The Forest For The Trees.

• Jean Smith is the singer in Mecca Normal -- a dynamic guitar and voice duo who present an inspiring lecture and art exhibit called "How Art & Music Can Change the World". Jean lives in Vancouver, where she is working on her fourth novel F.L.O.W. vs. P.L.A.N.
  

• Cat Tyc is a writer/video artist recently transplanted to Portland from New York. She is the founding editor of Painted Lady Press.

• Laurie Weeks is a wealthy writer who divides her time between San Diego and New York City.

• Born 1954, David West has published 5 books of poems and edited a sixth, the selected poems of Eli Coppola. His next book of poems is taking forever, which may be a good thing. If he knew how to write anything else, he would.

• Carmen White, a musician and cook, is currently making noise in her hot new band, SINHORN. she loves to live in san francisco and will see you there soon to be sure.

• Matthew Wills writes and birdwatches in Brooklyn. Some of his recent work may be found in Poetry and Asphodel; older things via Google.

• Lena Wolff is a San Francisco based artist with an MFA in Printmaking from San Francisco State University. She exhibits her work nationally and participates in interdisciplinary public/community art projects on a regular basis.

CUPID + PSYCHE

• Ida Dewey Acton is a hard-working insomniac with a dilettante complex. idacton@aol.com.

• Veronica De Jesus “8 places I’ve moved until 8 yrs old—17 cities before I was 15, and I moved within 3 places til I was an adult. I seem to love to draw on found paper and cardboard material.”

• Lis Goldschmidt is a visual artist from the South with a dayjob at an old-time San Francisco worker-owned cooperative.

• Kevin Killian is the author of several novels and collections of short stories. For the San Francisco Poets Theater he has written more than 30 plays. “Cupid and Psyche” is from the libretto he wrote for the San Francisco composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky.

• Andrea Lawlor is writing a collection of stories based on the Greek myths, making zines, and working in a bookstore in San Francisco.

• Bernadine Mellis is a filmmaker who also makes children’s books. Look for her documentary about labor organizer and Earth First!er Judi Bari, The Forest for the Trees.

• Miranda F. Mellis is a third child, born in three hours, on the third day of the week, when her mother was thirty-three. She is presently reading Rey Chow’s The Protestant Work Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism. She teaches, writes, plays in a band, listens to the radio, and coedits Encyclopedia.

• Dori Midnight is a writer, artist, and performer and has made her own deck of divination called Dirty Tarot which she reads for the people, as well as makes charms.
  

• Cynthia Nelson just made a pot of potatoes. She is from California but she lives in New York. Her work has appeared in magazines, and her books are available if you look hard enough. Information about the music she makes is at www.thesophiedrinker.com. Last night she dreamed she was late for a plane to Italy.

• Corinna Press is all heart. You can find her botanical drawings in calendars and books. She lives in Oakland, CA and dreams of a city farm called Another Country.

PERSEPHONE

• Julia Bloch won the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award. Her work has appeared recently in Near South, Mirage/Period(ical), and 26: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics. She lives in San Francisco, working as an editor and writing epistolary poems to Kelly Clarkson, the winner of last year’s American Idol TV series.

• XYLORJane loves the numbers, specifically the 60 that repeat in the ones column of the fibonacci series. the ongoing calendar project remarries time to the circle to assist humans to resist the linear digital time that is always running out. make it count

• Andrea Lawlor lives in San Francisco where it’s spring all year round.

• Bernadine Mellis is a filmmaker. She lives in Philadelphia and San Francisco. She is currently making a documentary about Earth First! activist/labor organizer Judi Bari.
  

• Miranda F. Mellis is from San Francisco and is currently half way through the MFA writing program at Brown University. Her novella Restless was published by BeeHive in 2002. Her work can be found in several anthologies as well as H2s04, Nerve Lantern, Cabinet, and Fence. She sings in the Providence based pop-noir band Television Astronaut. She's working on a collection of stories called Dead City.

• dori midnight and signe mae olson are time travelling criminals who sometimes live in SF and make art wherever they go.

• EE Miller is currently working on a soundtrack for super8 footage, mostly of birds, shot by her Grandmother in the 1960s. Fall is her favorite season, and she's grateful for the particular harvests of September and October.