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.