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JAMES A. DAVENPORT is from Powell, Ohio. Currently he studies Anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He enjoys Mesoamerican archaeology, space exploration, and playing the ukulele.
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TRACE ESTES, the Managing Editor of Alsop Review, lives in the shadows and likes the view. For thirty-five years, he has been forced to write by a pissed-off demon with a trident. He has been recently published in Tilt, WORM #34, Avatar Review, Literary Bohemian, Sigurd Journal, kaleidowhirl; had five poems in the premiere of Centrifugal Eye. His work has also been included in the print anthologies Mind Mutations, Bone and Tissue and Slow Dancing to Invisible Music.
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HANNAH GETZ has performed as an actor, singer and model, but since the age of eleven, has always had a camera at her side. Trained as a black and white photographer she has, in recent years, embraced Polaroid, digital photography, medium format color, and disposable cameras as new tools to access a familiar medium. Hannah is currently a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.
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ALEX GOMEZ is from Minnesota, a place where he learned to swim. But his family left the waters of Shoreview in 2006, so he swam to Hispañola. His family rocks their new city, Chicago, while he attends Tufts University, where he is finishing his second year.
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RYAN BAKER GREEN was born in the City of Brotherly Love to parents Mike and Linda on February 28th, the year of our Lord 1986. As a baby he was quiet and easy-going, rarely making a fuss. At a young age he took a liking to basketball and dreamed of being an NBA star some day, but these aspirations were forgotten several years later, though he was a deft ball handler.
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ELLIE HOROWITZ lives & writes near the Hudson River, attending to both its geometry & geography in her poetry. She shares a birthday with Doug E. Fresh and William Carlos Williams. Her work can be seen in Diagram.
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RICKEY LAURENTIIS is originally from New Orleans but now studies as an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. A Cave Canem fellow, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mythium, DIAGRAM, At-Large Magazine, Swell Zine, Thieves Jargon, and other journals. He is an Aquarius.
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Having grown up in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania and later having attended the University at Buffalo, where he received his BA in English & Film Studies, MFA in Poetics and MA in Comparative Literature CHANDLER LEWIS is now unable to live further than an hour away from New York City.
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MARK MIRETSKY’s toes remain planted at home in San Francisco, CA, no matter where the rest of him grows to. Lately a surprise traveler and soon to return comfortably numb to his roots, he was hoping to find his skills peak somewhere between Ghana and Latvia, but recently accepted that no matter the country you’ll find him in he is not meant to do anything too well. He studies now in Prague. His course of study is memorization of cobblestone patterns. Last night he went to be early.
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MAGGIE MURPHY is currently studying, among other things, theatre at Sarah Lawrence College. Often times, Ms. Murphy solves any crime by dinner time. She is excited to be apart of Paradise?.
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MAGGIE H. MURPHY should not be confused with the Maggie Murphy above. This Ms. Murphy hails from Belmar, NJ, graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2007, and after spending some time in Egypt, found a job working for a children’s book publisher somewhere on the island of Manhattan.
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MEGHANN PLUNKETT studies at Sarah Lawrence College. While abroad in Ireland her work appeared in two literary journals, The SHOp Magazine and Southword Press. Throughout her college career she has worked with an arts-in-education program called Community Word Project.
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COREY POLUK—well he does art I guess, I mean he started out doing, what do they call it now, “visual art,” you know, paintings, drawings, that shit. Then he went to an art school in Vancouver BC called Emily Carr University of Art and Design and has since changed mediums. His work is now more Media oriented (whatever that means). He likes movies so he makes shorts films and takes pictures. One day he will become a big filmmaker… or a rock star, but he hasn’t decided yet.
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DAVID RUELAS calls San Diego, California home, and enjoys skateboard art, Mexican food and a good IPA. He is currently a student at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.
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KATE SCHAPIRA lives in Providence, RI, where she runs the Publicly Complex Reading Series. She’s the author of several chapbooks, including The Saint’s Notebook (forthcoming from Flying Guillotine Press), Heroes & Monsters (forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), The Love of Freak Millways and Tango Wax (Cy Gist Press) and Case Fbdy. (Rope-A-Dope Press). She teaches writing at Brown and the University of Rhode Island, and works as a visiting writer in the Providence public schools.
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LIZ WACHTLER currently attends Sarah Lawrence College, where she is pursuing a concentration in the Creative Process. She has always been aware of a pull at the back of her bellybutton, a persistent and annoying tug that has only ever been satiated by three things: skinny dipping in cold mountain lakes after a long hike, black pen on squared paper, and the smell of men’s deodorant.
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JAMES WALTON was born in New York in 1978. He studied at The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and has had work shown at various shows in Texas and New York. His website is www.blankland.com.
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Disc jockey, actor, and writer AARON NEWQUIST WEISS was born in Park Forest, Illinois on January 12th, 1990, and currently resides there. He has been published in literary arts magazines U-High Renaissance and Allegheny College’s Overkill. Contrary to popular belief, he is not selling his 2001 Dodge Caravan. Yet.
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DAVID WINTER’s fiction recently appeared in the online magazine Spindle Magazine. He facilitates a writing workshop for prison inmates.
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ANNA YIN was born in China, immigrated to Canada in 1999 and has more than 50 poems published internationally. In 2005, Anna received the Ted Plantos Memorial Award and her poem “Toronto, No More Weeping” was aired on CBC Radio. Anna is a member of The Ontario Poetry Society and is a Director of the Chinese Cultural Federation of North America. Anna’s poems and ten translation works were selected for the textbook of Canada Study for international students by Humber College in 2007. She has three poetry chapbooks. Her website is http://anna.88just.com.
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