January 2008

Mike Young is the co-editor of NOÖ Journal, a free literary/political magazine. His work has or will appear in MiPOesias, Backwards City Review, realpoetik, Juked, elimae, BlazeVOX, 3:AM and elsewhere. A chapbook of his work is forthcoming from Transmission Press. He sleeps most of the time in Massachusetts.


William Stobb is the author of Nervous Systems, a 2006 National Poetry Series selection and For Better Night Vision, a limited edition chapbook produced by the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, American Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, and online at MiPOesias, Three Candles, Cricket Online Review, and nthposition. Stobb hosts the monthly audio column on poetry and poetics, "Hard to Say," on miporadio. With David Krump, he co-curates the reading series at the Pump House Regional Arts Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Stobb is Associate Professor of English at Viterbo University.


Tao Lin is the author a poetry-collection, you are a little bit happier than i am (Action Books, 2006), a story-collection, Bed (Melville House, 2007), and a novel, Eeeee Eee Eeee (Melville House, 2007). Melville House is publishing his second poetry-collection, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, in 2008. His web site is called Reader of Depressing Books.