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.