- 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.
CUPID + PSYCHE
