Laura Mullen is a Professor at Louisiana State University. She is the author of five books: three collections of poetry and two hybrid texts. Her most recent book is the hybrid text murder mystery,
Murmur (futurepoem 2007). Prizes for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, and she has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
Octopus, 1913, New American Writing, the Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. Recent prose has been collected in
Civil Disobediences: Poetics & Politics in Action (Coffeehouse Press), and
Paraspheres (Omnidawn). An essay on Sylvia Plath appears in the Spring 2008 issue of
Court Green.
Megan A. Volpert is a performance poet from Chicago who has settled in Atlanta with her partner, Mindy. Volpert holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University, and currently teaches High School English.
the desense of nonfense is her second full-length book of poems, forthcoming from BlazeVOX Books in 2009. She published two collections in 2007:
face blindness also with BlazeVOX and
domestic transmission, a chapbook with MetroMania Press. Her other publications credits include
columbia poetry review,
coconut and
MiPOesias Magazine.
This self-proclaimed love child of Joan Jett and Tina Fey has shared microphones with a wide range of poets: from Christian Bök, Andrei Codrescu, and Alice Notley, to Laura Mullen, Collin Kelley and Buddy Wakefield. Volpert has been in competition at the National Poetry Slam, and is a board member of Poetry Atlanta Inc.
Rooted in confessionalism and surrealism, her work has a strong interest in the performative and is also influenced by second-generation New York School poetry.
Deborah Poe is the author of Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008) as well as chapbooks from Furniture_Press and Stockport Flats Press.
Deborah’s poems have appeared in
Denver Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Many Mountains Moving, Drunken Boat, MiPOesias, Caesura, and other journals as well as in the anthologies
Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora and A Sing Economy. Two of her poems were nominated for Pushcart Prizes in 2005 and 2006.
Deborah’s current projects include finding a publisher for
Elements—her poetry collection based on the periodic table—and completing a short fiction collection entitled Event Landmarks.
Deborah was born a military brat in Del Rio, Texas and has lived throughout the United States and abroad. After her undergraduate studies, she worked for almost ten years in businesses including hostel clerk and bartender in Paris, environmental activist in Austin, a waitress in Taos, engineering assistant at Oregon Steel Mill in Portland, editor and international program manager in Seattle, and educator in Washington state and New York. Deborah Poe currently teaches at Binghamton University where she will receive her doctoral degree in May 2008. Her Master of Arts is from Western Washington University.
Rauan (Ron) Klassnik was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. After moving to Dallas and then dropping out of college he traded sports and gaming cards, beanie babies, pogs and memorabilia. He now spends most of his time down in Mexico with his wife Edith where, besides writing, he plays around with the family birds and dogs. His poems have appeared in many print and on-line journals including The Mississippi Review, The
